Hypnosis is a relaxed state of altered awareness and increased suggestibility brought about by bypassing the critical factor.

Whoa ...sounds a little scary that ....state of altered awareness, increased suggestibility, critical factor...what does all that mean?

Well, let's start with the critical factor.

Basically the critical factor is the part of you that takes information coming into your awareness and compares it with things you already know and believe. 

If the new information doesn't fit in with what you know and know it rejects it, if it does matches it will accept it and then you act on the result of that process.

Increased Suggestibility is brought about when the critical factor is bypassed because the critical factor works in a very "black or white" way. It compares the current situation with past events, or similar events, and acts accordingly. It is like a computer program that "fires" a programmed set of steps. It finds a similar situation and reacts accordingly without questioning if that reaction is appropriate and we react to that situation how we have always done.

Bypassing the critical factor gives us more choice. Yes, we can react the old way if that is still appropriate but if it is no longer the right way to react we can choose to do something different and transform our life.

A state of altered awareness, or trance, is a naturally occurring state that we have all experienced at sometime or another. Examples are daydreaming, our thoughts drifting off somewhere when we are doing something boring, getting really involved in a film or book or driving past an exit on a road without realising it.

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