Your Brain In Hypnosis

The brain, anatomically, is a giant blob of gray matter divided into three parts: the medulla oblongata, cerebellum, and cerebrum. The medulla oblongata has control over automatic body functions such as the heart beat. The cerebellum has control over coordination and the nervous system. The cerebrum controls all high levels of thinking and operating.

Aside from the science, most people consider there to be two parts of the brain, the right side and the left side. To any hypnotherapist, the brain, more specifically the cerebrum or thinking part of the brain is divided into the conscious and subconscious.

The conscious mind is the section of your mind that is aware and actively thinking about whatever is in front of you. The subconscious part of your mind in a type of repository for neural pathways, memories, and even thoughts that are continually recorded and cataloged.

The subconscious records every single activity as it happens, whether you are consciously aware of it happening or not. This is why you can have fuzzy recollections or ideas about something that has happened but do not really remember it or cannot explain a specific reason for it.

The conscious mind is made of what we do and decisions it makes during every waking moment. Behind it, is our unconscious mind, which advises the conscious mind when making decisions based on past habits and experiences. You can often get a glimpse of your subconscious mind at work through dreams, which is when your brain will organize all of its randomly occurring thoughts and memories.

During the process of organizing thoughts and memories, as well as recording them, some get lost in the mix of the neural pathways. This is where hypnosis either on your own or with a professional can be effective in controlling the subconscious mind and what it is thinking.

Hypnosis also can remove negative thoughts and neural patterns along with habits that have become embedded very deep in the subconscious mind.

Meditation is often locked with hypnosis, they are completely unique and independent from each other although they may overlap. This is actually proven to be true when measuring the brain during hypnosis and mediation using brain scans like an EKG.

The large difference lies in the outcome. Meditation focuses on relaxation and introspection whereas hypnosis tries to achieve a specific goal by utilising the hypnotic state coupled with the power of suggestion.