1) Artificially-induced sleep 2) Cause of some staring 3) Hypnotism 4) Kreskin specialty 5) Medical treatment 6) Mental state 7) Mesmeric ritual 8) Psychological state 9) Trance state resembling sleep 10) Trance-inducing practice
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1) Autosuggestion 2) Hypnotism
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state of extreme relaxation and inner focus in which a person is unusually responsive to suggestions made by the hypnotist. The modern practice has its roots in the idea of animal magnetism, or mesmerism, originated by Franz Mesmer. Mesmer's explanations were thoroughly discredited, and to this day there is no agreement amongst researchers whether ...
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Hypnosis is a psychological state, superficially resembling sleep and marked by a level of awareness different to the ordinary conscious state. Another description of the phenomenon is that of an altered mental state, while another links it to imaginative role-enactment. A person under hypnosis is said to have heightened focus and concentration wi...
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• (n.) Supervention of sleep. • (n.) The condition of being hypnotized.
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State like sleep in which the subject acts only on external suggestion.
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special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual ... [13 related articles]
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A trance-like state in which a person becomes more aware and focused and is more open to suggestion.
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An ASC involving a heightened degree of suggestibility. See also Mesmerism.
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An ASC involving a heightened degree of suggestibility. See also Mesmerism.
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Method used to transform a person into a trance-like state.
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<procedure> A state of heightened awareness and focused concentration that can be used to manipulate the perception of pain. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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(hip-no´sis) a state of altered consciousness, usually artificially induced, in which there is a focusing of attention and heightened responsiveness to suggestions and commands. Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not sleep but rather intense concentration, something like the familiar experience of being engrossed i...
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CAM
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Hyp·no'sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... sleep.]
(Medicine) Supervention of sleep.
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Hypnosis: A part of healing from ancient times. The induction of trance states and the use of therapeutic suggestion were a central feature of the early Greek healing temples, and variations of these techniques were practiced throughout the ancient world. Modern hypnosis began in the eighteenth century with Franz Anton Mesmer, who used what he call...
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Hypnosis was developed in 1843 by Braid, a surgeon of Manchester, from the study of mesmerism.
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It is a temporary condition of altered attention in an individual.
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hypnosis 1. A sleeplike condition usually induced by another person (or by oneself) in which the subject may experience forgotten or suppressed memories, hallucinations, and heightened suggestibility. 2. An artificially induced altered state of consciousness, characterized by heightened suggestibility and receptivity to direction.2. Hypnotism; a sl...
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(Gr. hypnos, sleep) A trance-like state characterized by an exaggerated suggestibility and an alteration of the normal functions of memory, of personality and perhaps also of perception. The state is ordinarily induced by another person, but may also be self-induced and then the phenomenon is called auto-hypnosis. -- L.W.
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Artificially induced state of relaxation or altered attention characterized by heightened suggestibility. There is evidence that, with susceptible persons, the sense of pain may be diminished, memory of past events enhanced, and illusions or hallucinations experienced. Posthypnotic amnesia (forgetting what happened during hypnosis) and posthypnotic...
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An altered state of awareness characterized by deep relaxation, susceptibility to suggestions, and changes in perception, memory, motivation, and self-control.
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an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion. · hypnotism.
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A procedure in which suggestions are made to a person.
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CAM technique that can be useful in turning a breech baby, in holding off premature labor, and in providing pain management during labor and delivery
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