The power of the mind is truly unyielding.  What makes one have the ability to create a state of being perfectly calm while on a rollercoaster while another person can be in a state of an enormous amount of shock?  What are the questions and suggestions that we ask ourselves prior to and during these events that continue to create the events?  Can someone achieve a sense of calmness in an instant?  Can a stage hypnotist take a total stranger and have them in a sleep like state in 3 minutes?   The answer is YES!!  The use of hypnosis is all around us and much can be learned from looking deeper into hypnosis and the practice of it.

What is hypnosis?  There are as many definitions of hypnosis as there are hypnotists practicing.   More than anything, hypnosis is a focused and altered state.  Everyone has been completely focused on a book or movie and have no real consciousness of the activities going on around them at the time.  This state is truly just a hypnotic state and we are often in this state throughout the day.   During this state of focused attention we are not aware of the fan making noise above our head or of the birds flying by outside.  We are simply focused on the interesting book or movie that we are taking in.  We are in a focused hypnotic state.  This blog will help to explore hypnosis and some of the travel that I, Gabriel Holmes, discovers while traveling mostly North America speaking doing both hypnosis shows and presentations. Check out hypnotistgabriel.com for some of the shows also in the future.