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Every person goes
through the state of “hypnosis” naturally several
times a day including right before falling asleep at night
and awakening in the morning.
When you are wide
awake your brain waves function at “beta” waves.
You are fully conscious and awake, while your subconscious
mind handles all automatic activity, including all body, emotional,
and mental functioning, without your awareness.
As you begin to
relax, your brain waves slow to “alpha” waves.
Slightly relaxed, you are more focused and aware. Somewhat
suggestible, this is the brain state you are in while watching
TV or a movie, listening to music, or driving a car. (I bet
you've experienced this when you’ve passed your destination
because you weren’t paying “conscious” attention
to were you were going!)
As you relax deeper,
your brain waves slow to “theta” waves. Your conscious
awareness drifts to different thoughts and you become less
aware of your body, which may feel either very heavy or light,
somewhat like you are floating. You are still aware, although
you may not remember some of what you hear or think, and your
subconscious mind is highly suggestible.
Now sleep comes,
and as your brain waves slow to “delta” waves,
you have no conscious awareness at all and will not remember
sleeping. Your subconscious mind is fully in control, and
there is some question as to whether you are suggestible or
not.
“Alpha”
and “Theta” are the natural states of hypnosis.
“Alpha” is a light hypnosis and “Theta”
a deep hypnosis.
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