According to many researchers, hypnosis is far more than just a party trick. In fact, it significantly changes how the brain works. Hypnosis can significantly affect activity in the part of the brain that is responsible for dealing with and responding to errors. As you can already see, there is a lot of potential in hypnosis, and it should not be taken lightly.
Ever wonder why under hypnosis, people can do extraordinary things that they normally wouldn't be able to if they were in a fully conscious state? It's because hypnosis effects the area of the brain that controls higher-level executive functions. To understand hypnosis you must first understand that our minds have more control over our bodies than most people think. Because of this recent research, they are developing ways to help cancer patients deal with painful treatments by way of hypnosis-now that's mind power.
There are still many clinical trials and tests to be completed before the world is ready to move onto the next steps of hypnosis, however. They are performing these clinical trials by using MRI's to study brain activity in hypnosis-induced people, and non-hypnosis-induced people and then having them perform certain functions. They then measure which parts of the brain are more active. Recent trials have indicated that when under hypnosis, the brain activity is more focused and is able to respond to errors and evaluate emotional outcomes much more efficiently than the one's that were not under hypnosis.
It seems as though the more hypnosis is practiced, the more our brains tend to act in that higher level more often on their own. With continuous practice, people can learn to harness mind power. Imagine curing a cold right away just by believing your body has the power to do so!
Here's an another example of how much control our mind has over our physical body. Under hypnosis, the doctor placed a COLD quarter on the skin of the patient. He told the patient it had just come out of a fire, and it was very, very hot. Almost immediately, the patient's skin began to blister and burn as though a hot quarter had been placed on their skin when in fact, the quarter was COLD. There's no possible way that the quarter could have burned them, and it didn't. The patient's mind put it all together, and actually did the burning.
Imagine if we could control our minds to that degree while NOT under hypnosis! I'm not talking about burning ourselves, I'm talking about curing disease, cancer, and and taking full control of our emotional well-being so that we never have to suffer from things such as depression, panic attacks, anxiety, etc.