Hypnosis induction techniques have been used in many forms in order to help alleviate a variety of health conditions such as anxiety and depression. It is become a way of opening the mind to many possibilities and gaining freedom from the shackles of mundane and earthly matters.

While the primary purpose of employing hypnotic induction procedures is varied and unconventional, many doctors and psychologist have started to discover the potentials of its innovative application in tandem with Psychology and Psychiatry in order to effect a cure on the ailing mind.

Hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness or trance like state resembling sleep. Contemporary researchers suggest that a subject under hypnosis induction is fully awake but experiences a decrease in their peripheral awareness which in layman’s term is called “Abstraction”. It is like day dreaming with your eyes open or having one foot inside the threshold of sleep while the other foot is outside fully awake.

Under a state of dreamless sleep, the subject is physically relaxed and experiences a sense of peace and serenity that approximate the effect of meditation. In western countries, experts of hypnosis induction procedures who are also advocates of Buddhist meditation practices have started to integrate the healing aspects of meditation with the concept of psychological awareness and healing.

As a form of therapy, hypnosis induction and meditation both practice concentration as a way of directing the mind to focus on a single idea or thought and share similar techniques aimed at clearing the mind of complicated thoughts and relaxing the body. In terms of purpose however, they differ in the sense that hypnosis induction clears the mind so that new thoughts or ideas can be inserted and recalled at a later time while meditation simply aims to clear the mind as a way to achieve serenity and insight.