Hypnotherapy refers to a psychotherapy method that uses hypnosis to make the scope of the patient's consciousness extremely narrow, and uses suggestive language to eliminate pathological psychological and physical disorders. Through hypnosis, the person is induced into a special state of consciousness, and the doctor's words or actions are integrated into the patient's thinking and emotions, so as to produce a therapeutic effect. Hypnosis can well promote people's latent abilities, and some psychotherapy methods now use hypnosis to treat some of people's mental illnesses, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, bad habits, emotional problems, etc.

A psychotherapeutic method in which a person is placed in a sleep-like state (hypnotic state) through verbal suggestion or hypnosis, followed by suggestion or psychoanalysis. The suggestibility of the patient, as well as the patient's cooperative attitude and willingness to accept the treatment, are necessary conditions for the success of hypnotherapy.

Methods of hypnosis can be divided into direct (or natural) and indirect. The direct method is to use short words or gentle touches to bring the other person into a sleep-like state. The indirect method uses small bright objects or monotonous sound sources to make the patient stare, listen, or touch the head or limbs with a "hypnotic object", while the therapist repeatedly suggests that the patient is in a hypnotic state. The degree of hypnosis is generally divided into three levels: shallow hypnosis, moderate hypnosis, and dreamwalking. For therapeutic purposes, shallow hypnosis is sufficient. In this case, according to the patient's symptoms, it can be clearly pointed out to him in positive and positive terms that the symptoms will disappear, or psychoanalysis can be carried out to find out the psychological root cause of the disease. After treatment, the patient may be woken up or implied to wake up gradually.

Hypnosis techniques include verbal suggestion plus visual stimulation, verbal suggestion plus auditory stimulation, verbal suggestion plus skin sensory stimulation, drug hypnosis, and so on.

Verbal cues and visual stimuli, also known as gaze, are used to make the hypnotized person concentrate on staring at an object (a point of light, a rod, etc.) in front of them, and after a few minutes, the therapist begins to suggest in monotonous suggestive language. "Your eyes are starting to get tired...... You can't open your eyes anymore, close your eyes...... Your hands and legs are starting to relax...... My whole body was relaxed, my eyelids were heavy, and my mind was starting to blur...... You're going to sleep...... Go to sleep....... "If the seeker's suggestion is high, he or she will soon enter a hypnotic state, and if the seeker's eyes are not closed, the suggestion should be re-enforced and the gaze should be placed close to the seeker's eyes to strengthen the suggestion and make the eyelids heavy.

Verbal cues plus auditory stimuli, during hypnosis, let the patient close his eyes and relax, pay attention to the monotonous sound of the metronome or the sound of water droplets, and after a few minutes, give a verbal cue similar to the above, and at the same time add counting, such as: "One, a comfortable warm current flows through your body...... Two, your mind is blurred...... Three, you're getting sleepy...... Four...... Five....... ”

Verbal cues and skin sensation stimulation, the practitioner first washes, dries and warms his hands in front of the client, then asks the client to close his eyes and relax, slightly touch the surface of the client's skin with his hands, and move in the same direction repeatedly, slowly and evenly, from the forehead, cheeks to the hands, with verbal cues similar to the above. Sometimes, it can also be used without verbal cues, just inducing massage. This massage also achieves the purpose of inducing hypnotic massage by taking the method of not touching the skin of the patient, but only causing warm air fluctuations by moving the hands, giving the skin a warm feeling.

Drug hypnosis means that some patients who seek treatment can use 0.5 grams of 2.5% thiopentone or 5-10% amitopine if they are not suggestive and uncooperative, diluted and injected slowly intravenously, and then introduced into the hypnotic state when the patient enters a semi-sleepy state.

The performance of hypnotic state is divided into strong and weak, deep and shallow. Seekers in a state of shallow hypnosis feel tired, muscle relaxation, deep breathing, inability to open their eyes, and the ability to recall what happened during hypnosis after waking up. Patients in a moderately hypnotic state feel drowsy, stiff limbs, and wake up with only a partial memory of what happened during the hypnosis. In the state of deep hypnosis, the patient is basically unconscious, and even has no pain in the needle bayonet cut, except for the response to the patient's speech, and can undergo surgery.

There are two basic forms of hypnosis, that is, paternal hypnosis and maternal hypnosis. Paternal hypnosis is all about giving instructions in a commanding tone that makes you feel irresistible and have to surrender. In the process of hypnosis, different hypnosis methods are often used according to different objects, or the same object at different times, places, and conditions. The so-called maternal hypnosis is to use warmth to break through the psychological defense line of the recipient, which is also a kind of soft offensive.

Not all people can be hypnotized, and the degree of hypnosis will vary, which is mainly based on two conditions, one is that the quality and skills of the hypnotist should be high, and the other is the situation of the hypnotized person. If the hypnotized person is highly suggestive and trusts hypnosis, hypnosis can be performed.

In our country, it can be said that "hypnosis" has a long history and a long history, and it is also mentioned in the "Neijing" that the ancient "Zhu Youshu", some rituals in religion, such as "dancing gods", etc., all contain hypnotic ingredients, but at that time they were mostly used to deceive, or a superstitious activity.

"Stretch out your hands, straighten, palms facing each other, about fifteen centimeters apart, stay for five seconds, then put your hands to your side, wait, I will ask you to stretch out your hands again to do this pose, you will enter a wonderful hypnotic state in just a few seconds, would you like to?" Professor Li said in a soft tone, and his voice was slow.

Wu Lang nodded, and according to Professor Li's request, he straightened his hands and made movements one by one.

"Now, you close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, hold the air you breathe in for a few seconds, and then slowly exhale it out. Later, I want you to stretch out your hands as you did just now, and when I ask you to stretch out your hands, I will ask you to open your eyes as well, and follow my simple guidance, Now, continue to relax, and I want you to stretch out your hands, just like you did just now. Professor Li continued to whisper.

Wu Lang then slowly closed his eyes, followed Professor Li's words, breathed, and made body movements.

Professor Li placed his right index finger at a height parallel to Wu Lang's eyes, and said slowly: "Slowly open your eyes and follow my fingers to move your gaze." ”

Wu Lang slowly opened his eyes and looked at Professor Li's right index finger......

"Now, I want you to focus on my fingers, and I'll move them away later, but I want you to focus on where I just did. After Professor Li finished speaking, he quickly moved his right index finger between Wu Lang's hands.

"You're doing a great job, focusing on where my finger used to be, I'm going to count from three to one, and when I count to one, close my eyes. Three, your eyes are getting heavier and sleepy, Two, a little bit of tears are starting to get inside your eyes, One, your eyelids are very heavy, let them close and relax. Even with your eyes closed, you can still imagine that point between your hands, I touch your hands very gently now, and you'll notice that your hands start to get closer. Professor Li's voice became softer and softer.

Wu Lang was like a marionette, slowly moving with Professor Li's words.

"When your hands touch, your whole body will feel relaxed and soft, and you will enter a deep hypnotic state. You do a good job, your hands get closer and closer, closer and closer, and when your hands touch, your whole body relaxes and softens, and you go into a very special kind of sleep. Now it's almost there, it's almost time to let go, and the moment your hands touch, you fall into a very special kind of sleep. Professor Li finished speaking softly and slowly, and as Wu Lang's hands got closer and closer, he put his own hands on the outside of his hands, touched them slightly, and gently pushed his hands closer.

After a long time, Wu Lang was still sitting on the sofa, his eyes slightly closed, motionless.

Professor Li looked at Wu Lang's posture with a strange expression, and said softly, "How are you feeling now?"

"Not good, didn't fall asleep. Wu Lang opened his eyes and looked at Professor Li.

"How can this be? Impossible, my instantaneous hypnosis method has never failed, how can it be ineffective on you?" Professor Li looked at Wu Lang stunned.

Wu Lang shook his head and said, "Uncle, I don't know, anyway, I just can't sleep, I'm not sleepy, just follow your requirements, do some body movements, and my mind is still clear." ”