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What Is Hypnosis ...

"A trance-like state in which a person becomes more aware and focused and is more open to suggestion."
National Cancer Institute, US National Institutes of Health

"Hypnosis is a state of mind in which the individual is highly focused, relatively unaware of his or her surroundings, and possibly more able to accept and use therapeutic suggestions. People vary in their responsiveness, or susceptibility, while in hypnosis."
Clinical Trials, US National Institutes of Health

"(a) The bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind and (b) the establishment of acceptable selective thinking."
Department of Education, Human Services Division, USA 

"Hypnosis is a focused state of concentration."
Medical Encyclopedia, US National Library of Medicine

"Hypnosis puts you in a deeply-relaxed state that can help reduce discomfort and anxiety."
Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Cancer Institute

" 'Hypnosis' means a process by which one individual induces or assists another individual into a hypnotic state without the use of drugs or other substances and for the purpose of increasing motivation or to assist the individual to alter lifestyles or habits."
Mental Health Professional Practice Act, Utah

" 'Hypnosis' shall mean hypnosis, hypnotism, mesmerism, posthypnotic suggestion, or any similar act or process which produces or is intended to produce in any person any form of induced sleep or trance in which the susceptibility of the person's mind to suggestion or direction is increased or is intended to be increased, where such a condition is used or intended to be used in the treatment of any human ill, disease, injury, or for any other therapeutic purpose." 
The Florida Statutes

"Hypnosis is magnified relaxation or concentration, inducing an altered state of consciousness, thus enabling you to make acceptable changes through guided (or self-) suggestion."
Kishor , London Hypnotherapy Consultant, Consultant Editor, www.HypnotherapyFAQs.com