History of Hypnosis
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What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis has literally been around since earliest recorded history. 

Ancient Greeks and Egyptians had what were known as sleep temples.

These were places, some of them underground, where people would go and enter trance states.

Aristotle and Hypocrites believed in using these techniques to heal.

The use died out until late in the 1700's when Franz Anton Mesmer, a physician, began using it again.

 I know that you've heard of being mesmerized.

 Mesmer believed in what is called "animal magnetism" - a theory that said there is a kind of magnetic fluid inside each of us and that disease was caused by a disturbance in this fluid.

He concluded that as long as the fluid was flowing without any blockages that the person would be free of disease.

After some investigation about this, it was concluded that while there was no evidence of magnetic fluid in people that some of them who used mesmerization were getting well.

It was determined that the reason they were getting well was because of imagination and suggestion.

This is the basis - this is the goal - using your imagination to follow the suggestions given and to create the outcome you want!