How does hypnosis work?

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now as far as hypnosis is concerned how does that happen? hypnosis basically means that we have in modern psychology we talk of the conscious mind and the subconscious mind we could say that we could basically refer to it as the intelligence or conscious awareness let’s not conflate the two models but basically normally I control my mind or rather I act according to my intelligence say right now you are sitting here you will get up and you will go for prasadam or whatever so now we have a conscious aspect of our mind which chooses and then acts during hypnosis this decision making aspect of the mind that is silenced and then the other person starts making decisions for us so what happens is normally we evaluate somebody going to sleep do I want to sleep or do I not want to sleep but during hypnosis the deliberator the decider deciding aspect of our mind that is calmed down that is silenced and then that person takes control of us so now at one level anybody can hypnotize anybody you could say even a very powerful public speech at one level one kind of hypnotization there are some people who are great orators and they can drip up emotions in people people might of course some orators can do negative use, people just come for a talk and then at the end of the talk given a passionate talk, people may be frenzied they may go on riots so what has happened they are not thinking themselves their thinking has been taken over by someone so basically when another person influences us we use the word hypnotizing oh the talk was hypnotizing we get captivated by it, we get influenced by it that is in a generic sense so we can say that in a generic sense where one person influences another with the other person’s critical faculty going off and that person is subjecting oneself to the other person’s control, that is hypnosis that can be generically called hypnosis specifically when A works on B and now there is A who has a particular mind by mind I mean a subtle body B has a subtle body and there is an interface between the two so there are some people are more hypnotizable than others that means some people their critical awareness is very high so if their critical awareness is very high even if somebody hypnotizes it will not work or it will take a long time to work some people their critical awareness is very low conversely some people’s capacity to hypnotize is also low that means they speak, they act they talk, they think, they gesticulate in a particular way the other person gets captivated so hypnosis basically means that one person takes over the control of the other person’s mind but how much that can be done that will depend on both that person’s particular by their own karma some people may be more hypnotizable than others that means that’s the weakness and by their own karma some people may be capable of more hypnotizing than others of hypnotizing others more so that’s how hypnosis works so we still have our free will we still have our intelligence by which we can evaluate but our intelligence is temporarily silenced and we act according to other person’s desire