It starts with relaxation. Soon every muscle is limp, the mind floating between awareness and sleep. And then the fun begins. Nineteen Lone Star College-Montgomery students clambered up on stage ...

Hypnosis has been around for centuries. The earliest references to hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. In Greek, the word “Hypnos” refers to the god of sleep. As time went on and into the ...

Group of eight people under the influence of a rotary mirror apparatus (after Luys), from ‘Hypnotism and the New Witchcraft’ by E.A. Hart (1893) (all images ...

Most people see hypnosis as a stage act where the performer brings audience members to the stage, puts them in a hypnotic trance, and manipulates them to execute silly acts in order to entertain the ...

Writing for The Conversation, David Acunzo, an assistant professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, examines when and why hypnosis may be used ...

Take out your magician’s hat and pocket watch – hypnosis is back in style. Though best remembered as a parlor trick or outdated therapy method popular in the early 1900s, hypnotherapy has been used to ...

Hypnosis is a genuine psychological therapy process. A trained hypnotist or hypnotherapist induces a state of intense concentration or focus to help you open up to therapeutic improvement. It’s often ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. If you want to amaze an ...

What’s your earliest memory of making a twat out of yourself? In mine, I’m nine years old, and delivering a hand-shaking, leg-quaking public speaking debut as Narrator Three in The Evacuees. I don’t ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.— The Loft at Heavenly Village is bringing a brand new hypnotist show with longtime local Juan Acosta to the stage at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18. Acosta, who has been practicing ...