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Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health

Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health
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Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health

Abstract

Hypnosis and meditation is a helpful treatment that can be used as a diagnostic tool. This can
be utilized by the therapeutic treatments’ practitioner in providing their clients with the
appropriate methods of alternative cure. These have been effectively used in reducing pain for
centuries in wars and in other situation that requires this kind of therapeutic management.
Various researchers have revealed the importance and the effectiveness of meditation and
hypnosis and its validity has been proven by the result of the data that they have gathered and
studied. As more researchers conducted studies on this alternative treatment, new discoveries of
the benefits of hypnosis and meditation are being uncovered. However, despite the increasing
appreciation of this clinical therapy, little is still known how this works in physiological level as
well as the physical level in treating disorders and other ailments.
This work has been written to provide the readers significant insight into hypnosis and
meditation. Putting an end to the controversies that surround these treatments, this manifesto
brings information of the scientific discipline to the clinical practice as well as limitations of
hypnosis and meditation. The challenge in this research is to develop a better concept and deeper
understanding of these alternative treatments in a fruitful as well as a methodical body of facts.
This research paper is designed to provide facts and other kinds of perception on how
hypnosis and meditation work in terms of eradicating the pains caused by health disorders as
well as other problems. Through the different researches that have been included in this paper, it
has also revealed the effectiveness and the positive outcome or result undergoing this kind of
treatment. This also tries to establish that these treatments efficiently assist in the rehabilitative
process not only to those who are in the healthcare like in the hospitals but also those who are
outside its premises such are those who are in jail. This only proves that this therapeutic process
of healing can be administered anywhere whenever one needs such treatment.
The paper’s outline is a unique work with relevant literature written with an in-depth guide
for the readers who have wide experiences in hypnosis and meditation and for those who don’t
have much experience of its nature of treatment. Facts included emphasize the importance of
hypnosis and meditation treatment. The purpose of this research is to provide the readers
compelling information that will educate them about hypnosis and meditation, its uses as
treatment, providing them simple but understandable definition of the two terms, discussing its
history and its evolution, its work, effects to health, the different methodologies, benefits, new
findings, and controversies. This also aims to spark the interest of the students and the readers
from the psychologists to physicians and other professions who are dealing with various kinds of
treatments of these alternative treatments for different types of illnesses. The highlight of this
research is to put emphasis on the competence of hypnosis and meditation in providing an
alternative treatment to those who seek for if not total, better wellness.

Hypnosis and Meditation Effect on Health

What is Hypnosis? Meditation?
Hypnosis, as well as meditation, is quite similar in one thing, these allow an individual block
out anything and focus on one thing and will enable you to become tranquil and destressed.
However, they differ on how they are performed (Base, 2015). True meditation is freeing one’s
mind from any negative thought and allows you to feel inner peace. It is a process where you are
made to step back and be able to see things in a more positive way and better perspective.
Hypnosis is mostly deemed practiced as somebody swinging a pendulum in front of an
individual’s face while intently looking at it until the person becomes sleepy (Base, 2015). It is a
state of getting engrossed in some activities and loses track of the time when being hypnotized.
A person who is in the state of hypnotic, the subject’s conscious mind is being suppressed and
what is revealed is the subconscious mind (Shah, 2017).
History of meditation and hypnotism
Meditation has been practiced way back in 5,000 and 3,500 B.C. Evidence of it has been
discovered by the archeologist in an art wall in Indus valley (Puff, R. 2013). The images that are
shown doing meditation are people who were on their meditation postures, sitting with crossed
legs on the ground, hands flat on the knees and eyes are slightly narrowed. These are also
described in the scriptures of Indians way back 3,000 years. As years passed, religions have
adopted this practice whom they believed as the most effective practice for spiritual
development. Though practicing it varies according to the culture, meditation has been
incorporated especially in the mystical branches. Yoga, as well as meditation was introduced by
an individual named Swami Vivekananda during the 20th century in United States (Puff, R.
2013). This practice was made popular by Paramehansa Yogananda. Maharishi Manesh Yogi
fueled the interest of the people in meditation during 1960’s by means of teaching the
Transcendental Meditation. Kabala is a meditative study used in Judaism. Their best meditation
pract...