Some of the Science Behind Hypnosis

Our brains produce electromagnetic waves as it performs work.  Our brains are the command center of our nervous system, and therefore operate in many different states, depending on inputs from and outputs to the peripheral nervous system.

All sensory input, from the things we see with our eyes, to the those we taste with our tongue, to what we hear with our ears, to what we feel on our skin is all data our brain has to interpret and respond to in some way at all times.  The work it does (electrical-chemical in nature) produces electromagnetic waves.

So for example, let's say our eyes see the form of a giant cat, our ears hear a growl, and our nose smell something like a wild animal from a zoo, our brain interprets all of that information to form a perception of reality.  In that case, perhaps there is a dangerous predator nearby.

Under most circumstances, evolutionary programming and learnt social conditioning has made it so that if we perceive a dangerous predator nearby, we should be fearful.

Our brain kicks once it forms the perception of danger and activates something known as the "fight-flight response" (through our sympathetic nervous system), which immediately wakes us up and prepares us to fight, run, or hide.

In this state, every anatomical system responsible for short term survival kicks in, while every system responsible for long term survival turns off.

In the millennia prior to advances in agriculture, when human civilization were hunter-gatherer in nature, our nervous and endocrine (hormonal) systems evolved to assure our survival by responding to periodic periods of extreme stress, followed by prolonged periods of rest and repair.

Rest and repair is the state our brain enters into when it perceives either enough safety that it can shut off most systems in the body to allow it to go through preventative maintenance against illness or repair from injury.

This is what allows us to fall asleep at night.

When our mind is free from troubled thoughts about potential dangers.

Hypnosis is simply the process of guiding a subject into that state of mind, where their conscious mind is no longer focused on anything other than what the hypnotist is guiding it towards.

At the same time, the hypnotist is also communicating directly with the subconscious of the subject.

What is important to understand about this is understanding conscious mind.

The conscious mind is the source of mental functions like logic, will power, and critical thought.

It also requires enormous amounts of energy to operate.

When the conscious mind is most active, it produces high levels of gamma and beta frequency brainwaves.

When the conscious mind is least active, it produces high levels theta and delta frequency brainwaves.

In those states of low conscious activity, the subconscious mind is most active and assumes control of most of a person's thinking processes.

This is the desired state of a subject under hypnosis.

The subconscious mind is very powerful.  It's most powerful function is imagination: the ability to create thoughts that do not exist.

The subconscious mind, however, has a very serious limitation.  That being that it has the reasoning skills of a very young child.

Around 5-6 years of age, children begin to form something called the "Critical Factor."

This is a mental process that allows a child to be skeptical of information presented to them.  Prior to forming the Critical Factor, a child will believe almost anything they can imagine is real.

Ideas like Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy only exist because very young children can be easily persuaded into believing they are real.

In hypnosis, a hypnotist uses various communication techniques to hold the attention of the conscious mind of the subject, while persuading their subconscious mind in the same way a grown up might persuade their small child Santa is coming at Christmas to give them presents.

The subconscious allows this, because their Critical Factor is temporarily distracted by the conscious hyperfocused on information from the hypnotist.

If there is a trust relationship between the subject and the hypnotist, and if there is a clear channel of communication between them, the hypnotist can then plant post-hypnotic commands into the subconscious of their subject that their conscious mind will not prevent the subconscious from acting on.

They also can guide the subject into a state of mind where their conscious mind allows their subconscious mind to control their actions.

At the same time, the hypnotist has influence over the subject's subconscious in the same way a parent would over a small child.

Why this is interesting is because when a person is in this state, they age regress their thinking processes, which controls their anatomical processes (including movement, speech, touch, sight and smell).

They in turn start to produce more subconscious queues that they only would produce when they are in a calm, relaxed state.  In particular, queues that age regress them potentially all the way back to their childhood or infancy, prior to forming their critical factor.

When Sammie and I were married, there was a slide show with a picture of her as a young girl, holding an apple in Vietnam.  She was a beautiful little girl.

Over my desk, I have 5 photos of her between when she was in high school and before we were married.  She was a really hot teenager and even hotter in University.

Even though some of those pictures are over 2 decades old, when I look at the photos and videos of Sammie during our hypnosis sessions - she looks even more beautiful now than when she did in those photos.

It is because when she is under hypnosis, she age regresses.

In lighter trances, she age-regresses to herself during her mid-20's.

In deeper trances, she age-regresses to herself when she was a teenager or even a little girl.

In the deepest of trances, where she is sound asleep, she age-regresses to herself when she was a baby.

In future articles I'll share with you some insights for how you can hypnotize your wife or girlfriend to do the same, because once you see her like that, you'll never look at another woman again.

I certainly don't.

For now, please let me know in the comments or DM me if you have any questions.

I hope that made sense, let me know if it didn't!

Thanks,

Nick