The "induction" is the first part of the hypnosis process. It is a relaxed trance-like state, much like daydreaming or meditating. Have you ever been the middle of listening to someone and then drifted off to somewhere else? Or be engrossed in a book to the point where two hours have gone by without realizing it? It's that half-awake feeling as you drift to sleep. These are the altered states of mind or trance states
There are many misconceptions have about the power of hypnosis. Hypnotists that 'perform' on the stage are for entertainment only. You cannot be made to do anything, say anything, or behave in any way that you do not want to. Your sense of morality and judgment about right and wrong cannot be affected. You are always in control during a hypnotic trance. Just like you are in a fully wakeful state. You need to 'agree' to go into a hypnotic state. You can't be put there by coercion.
Induction prepares the mind and body to go to the next stage of the hypnotic process, a state of complete relaxation. To alter your awareness state, a combination of techniques may be used. Breathing, relaxation, visualizations, use of metaphors or bombarding the critical mind with an overload of information can all induce the mind to start to alter its state of awareness.
There are all sorts of gadgets that create moving shapes or noises, but they are just gimmicks. When it comes to listening to self-hypnosis audio recordings, there is no concrete evidence that using headphones with two different voices in stereo sound, overlaying of voices one on top of another, subliminal messages, or special sound effects, actually increases the success of the process at all, on the contrary, these effects can often be most annoying, and rather than allowing the listener to focus on the voice, they can actually create such a distraction that the process ceases to work.
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