Medical Hypnosis Recognized by AMA

In 1958, hypnosis was recognized by the American Medical Association as a legitimate, safe approach to medical and psychological problems.  Today more people recognize that the mind and body interact.  Mind and body are integrated parts of a whole being; a change in one part affects the other.

Hypnosis is a normal state of consciousness.  Hypnosis can be defined as concentrated and directed daydreaming.  A person in hypnosis does not lose control.  Whereas the word sleep is sometimes used to describe the trance state, the patient is far from being asleep.  A person in hypnosis is aware of his surroundings in a detached sort of way and is more receptive to acceptable suggestions.

There are many misconceptions about hypnosis.  Hypnosis is a natural state that we all have experienced.  An example of this is whenever it is really important for you to get up at an unusual time and you wake up ten minutes before the alarm goes off.  You are responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion.  A mother who sleeps through a thunderstorm, but awakens when her sick child moans, again, responds to a post-hypnotic suggestion.  Actually, all hypnosis is self hypnosis.  Anyone who wants to be hypnotized can be hypnotized.

A hypnotized person will not accept any idea or suggestion that is against his/her religion, upbringing, morality, or against "his grain".  The patient achieves his/her own hypnotic state.  The medical hypno-therapist is the guide.

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