Hypnotise

Hypnosis is a very distinctive, often described as a trance-like mental state that is said to be induced by an organized pattern of suggestions, usually verbal in nature, beginning with the suggestion of relaxation. Although the long held popular view was that hypnosis is form of unconsciousness, the informed contemporary view is that it is actually a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness.The suggestions may be directly induced by a hypnotist in the presence of the subject, but may be also be self-induced (self-hypnosis or auto hypnosis/auto-suggestion). The word 'hypnosis' itself is the invention of 19th century Scottish physician James Braid.