As many of us think hypnosis is not a magic or a state of sleep in which some body else take control of the person undergoing the hypnotic therapy. Though you will be asked by the hypnotists to sleep while he is inducing you to hypnosis, it will not take you to natural sleep. Natural sleep is a condition in which you forget every thing that is going on around you. But here in this process you will be able to feel every thing that is going on around you.

Many of us believe that focusing completely on some thing is hypnosis. In fact, it does not require total concentration on an object from the part of the person undergoing hypnotic therapy. For this reason itself it cannot be called as a trance state of mind in which you forget every thing except the thing or object on which you concentrate.

A person undergoing the hypnotic therapy will never fell in an unconscious state of mind in which he loses his control over his mind. He will still be in control of his thoughts and mind. If a person under this treatment wants to end up a session it will be possible for him to come out of it. If he does not like any suggestion or question from the part of the hypnotist he can record his objection in a hypnotic sleep by rejecting the question of the hypnotist.

It is a natural state of mind in which a person can naturally go in and come out safely. If you are not receptive to information or questions from the part of the hypnotist you will never be able to feel the condition or state of hypnosis.

Normally we all undergo a something like this when we sleep and sleeping is known as the natural state of hypnosis. If so we all are experiencing this state of mind in some way or another through out our life in varying degrees.

Hypnosis is nothing more than a person's ability to receptive to accept the suggestions of the hypnotist. More than that it is not something that is magical or a state in which a person transforms to a totally different identity.

This state of mind can be induced by a trained hypnotist or a person who is an expert to practise self hypnosis. More knowledge could be gained through proper practise and also from books and the internet to be the major source.