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The Power and Potential of Hypnosis: From Entertainment to Clinical Applications
TLDR Hypnosis involves focusing and absorbing the individual, making their mind more malleable and suggestible. While it can be used for entertainment purposes, scientists are researching its potential to help with anxiety, pain, and weight loss in a clinical setting.
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A hypnotist performs a show at a casino, making people do crazy things under hypnosis.
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Scientists are researching the potential of hypnosis to help with anxiety, pain, and weight loss.
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Hypnosis is not just about faking it, there is something weird going on and it can be used in a clinical setting to help patients.
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Hypnosis involves focusing and absorbing the individual, making their mind more malleable and suggestible, and brain studies have shown that hypnotized individuals can experience pain and hear things that aren't actually there.
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Hypnotisability falls into a spectrum, with most people in the middle, 10-15% being hypnotisable, and very few being highly hypnotisable, and there are tests to determine if someone can be hypnotised.
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Over half of the highly hypnotizable people in a study reported seeing a stranger when looking in the mirror, indicating that hypnosis can push some individuals to perceive themselves as someone else.
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The CIA concluded that it is extremely doubtful that hypnosis can make someone do something they don't want to do, and a study found that hypnotized people were unable to consistently follow through with tasks they were instructed to do.
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Hypnosis has been found to be helpful in managing pain and certain types of anxiety, but its effectiveness in quitting smoking or losing weight is more mixed.
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The power of hypnosis lies in the ability to focus and tune in to the words being spoken, allowing everything else to fade away.
