Hypnosis is not an uncommon thing; in fact, you experience this trance like state nearly everyday. It is characterized as a passive interaction with your environment-- such a reading a book, driving your car, or watching a movie. This state is notable for extreme suggestibility, relaxation, and heightened imagination. Many people would describe this as the feelings of daydreaming, and it there is much psychological evidence to suggest this state makes you very open to learning.

The first process in hypnosis is generally an induction, which is a relaxation technique to calm and subdue the conscious mind into a less active role in your thinking process. This shift in consciousness is often shown on EEGs as a decrease in left hemisphere activity. The left hemisphere is the area of the brain that controls logical processes and reasoning. Conversely, there is an increase in right brain activity, where impulsiveness and creativity are in control.

The conscious mind has the primary responsibility of filtering and relaying information, so impulses while being under hypnosis can be responded to automatically. The subconscious mind also regulates emotional feelings, impulses are responded to with sensations. For example, while you were under you were asked to feel the sensation of drinking a chocolate milkshake. You might respond with feelings of satisfaction and contentment as a result.

Hypnosis can be used to reprogram unconscious patterns to aid in habit reform (weight loss, stop smoking), mental conditioning (career gain, self-image, depression, anxiety), or relationships with others.

The purpose of this program is to assist in developing the ability to very tightly focus attention. The ability to focus attention is critical to deep hypnosis. In essence, hypnosis is the mind selectively focusing on one set of inputs and ignoring others.

As it turns out, the ability to selectively focus is largely a learned skill, as such, practice can develop it to a higher degree. In fact, it is possible to develop this skill to truly amazing levels. One impressive and commonly heard demonstration of this is the stories you hear of people skilled in mediation having significant me_^[l procedures performed without anesthetic. From personal experience, I can assure you this is quite true.

You have likely experienced this phenomenon if you have ever been reading a book and didn't notice that someone called your name. Your attention was tightly focused, so you did not process other information. This state shares many of the qualities of a hypnotic trance, developing one will help you develop the other.

WARNING
If you have Epilepsy or have a family history of Epilepsy, DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM.

Please read through all of the information before beginning. This program is much more complicated than it looks, and all the documentation is important.

HypnoTrainer is a program designed to assist with several areas of hypnosis training. The program has training functions ranging from attention focus training to actual hypnosis training. The features and use are described in this site.