Just how long has hypnosis been around and is learning Self Hypnosis a viable health alternative? No one accurately tell just how long self hypnosis has been around, probably as long as Man has been able to daydream. Staring at the flickering flames of a fire can induce a hypnotic state. So, you could say hypnosis has been around at least as long as Man has sat in front of fire and told stories at night. To learn self hypnosis is to be in a natural state of hypnosis.

Did you know that hypnosis is not unique to humans. Animals go into hibernation through a form of hypnosis? By putting the body in a relaxed state of relaxation, energy is conserved, meaning the parasympathetic system can begin to repair systems and begin all those actions that are turned off when the sympathetic nervous system is active. The body has an innate healing system in place, we put it into duress with our thoughts and emotions – free will.

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It is easy to think or believe that if something invades the body from outside, another force from outside the body has to launch a counter-invasion to expel the first invaders – meaning that there have been times past and present doctors (perhaps in times of war or in the interest of saving a life) have been quick to cut into a person in order to heal them.

But prior to the 1400’s, when a person was sick it was thought to be a writ from the gods as punishment to man. It was believed the disease came from the mind. Hmmm, not so far off of what modern neuroscientists are finding with the afferent and efferent signals from the Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System.

Back then, to heal a person, rituals (or drugs) may have been used to get both the healer and patient into an altered state. In other words, to get both parties a state where the conscious mind was quieted and the subconscious mind accessed. The goal was to reach a desired mental state to effect change. The subconscious is susceptible to suggestion, it’s basic blueprint is health and harmony.

As far actual documents validating the use of hypnosis, documentation has been found to the use of hypnosis in ancient Egypt, 3rd Century BC.

In the Western World, hypnosis became popular through the work of Anton Mesmer, an 18th century Austrian doctor. He found that he could, or believed, he could heal people through animal magnetism, which was probably based on the principles of Orgone technololgy. He had some success with treatments. The idea was that the systems of the body could be regulated through magnetic force. This type of hypnosis was called Mesmerism, but unfortunately, his claims of magnetism for healing were unsubstantiated. It was believed that it was the suggestion, and not the magnetism the caused the healing.