Pop culture often paints hypnosis as scary woo-woo stuff. But once I started training in clinical hypnosis, I realised that many of those ideas were myths.

The swinging pendulum, a dizzying spiral, looking at a point… That’s how we imagine hypnosis. But there are gentler ways. These are 5 cool induction techniques (ways of going into a trance):

Do you think hypnosis is mind control? Or at least coersion and manipulation? Sort of like a magic trick? I invite you to think again 💡

The first time I heard of hypnosis was in a tv show. An unsuspecting guy was made to ‘sleep’ and stay glued to the spot, unable to move till the hypnotist let him. To my 11 year old brain, this was a cool magic show. Many years later, I came across the term hypnosis in a medical text.