Hypnosis Forum

Guest · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:05 pm Post subject:

Meditation is a technique to relaxed yourself where you are conscious about the things whereas hypnosis is a technique where one is unconscious about the things and he don't what is happening around him.

Guest · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:06 am Post subject:

Is it true that the smarter you are, the easier you are to hypnotize? I hear that all the time and am just wondering.

CheLucero · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 10

In fact hypnosis and meditation are different states. Although Wendi is correct that some meditations attempt to clear your mind of thoughts (whether this is even a goal that makes sense neurologically is debatable), there are many meditative states that attempt to increase mindfulness and even bodily awareness. For instance, [url=http://chelucero.com/meditation/110-hours-of-meditation-in-10-days-what-i-learned/Vipassana[/url] meditation includes attentive and focused scanning of the body. No elimination of thought is presented as a goal.

Having done hundreds of hours of both meditation and hypnosis, my experience is that hypnosis and meditation are two very different disciplines representing and utilizing entirely different states of mind.
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dan1 · Joined: 30 Nov 2011 Posts: 8

Both are great tolls to calm the mind.