Hypnotism, and magnetism, mesmerism, suggestive ... - Awaken Video

44 HYPNOTISM.generally comes suddenly.The eyes close quickly,deep breathing takes place, and subject issound asleep. You can now proceed to induceSuggested Catalepsy and Somnambulism orTrance condition, as given in Method One.Hypnosis is induced by this method by fixationof gaze, combined with suggestion. The strainedposition of the eyes, and the slight convergentstrabismus which results, pro'duces a tired conditionof the brain, and causes sleep, four or fiveminutes generally sufficing todevelop completeHypnosis. (This being a psychological explanationfor those who wish it.) The exact objectheld before the subject's eyes matters little. Itmay be the operator's fingers, or a disc held beforethe subject about a foot from the eyes,placed insuch a position that when looking atit the gaze will be strained upward, it being absolutelynecessary that the subject concentratehis mind and whole attention as well as his eyeson the object, and tHink only of watching theobject held in the operator's hand.