Differences between Hypnosis and Meditation

Many go confused with the terms meditation and Hypnosis. Let us have a closer look at these two related terms that differs in the relaxation techniques and methods. Meditation is one thing that helps you to focus your mind on to certain thing. Many find difficult to keep up their mind in their control and such people find helpful in meditating. Gradually when they start their journey in meditating, they experience a relaxed state of mind where they experience positive thoughts and a power to attain it. It is certain state of mind that lets us to improve concentration and gain of knowledge about a particular thing.

Hypnosis is basically divided into self Hypnosis and the hypnosis that is administered by a secondary person. It is also a state of mind which is reached to attain for some purpose. For example: hypnosis sometimes becomes the part of certain kind of therapy and it is needed so as to explore and know the hidden facts or memories that are left in the subconscious mind. It helps user to bring back them once again and to frame the mind by means of repetitive motion of certain key phrases. Those key phrases are known as ‘affirmative statements’.

It is also conducted certain sessions with guidelines where a professional will be giving required instructions that make a person to reach a trance state. This mainly diminishes the separation between the process of hypnosis and meditation even though those sessions does not include affirmative type of statements. The rational mind only can recognize the affirmative form of statements where as the meditative mantras seems to be meaningless most of the times and hence a person likely do not get distracted with it.

Finally, we can conclude saying that exact meditation involves complete involvement of the mind to know the better understanding of the soul. A professional may go for mantras for the sake of it, it is required to train a fresh person and may not be required for an advanced practitioner. On the other hand, hypnosis needs active participation of images and thoughts that are visualized by the participant to achieve an exact state of mind associated with a specific target or a goal like to lose weight, to give up smoking etc. The repetitive actions and phrases are no way comparable with the mantras employed in hypnotism.

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2 Comments on “Differences between Hypnosis and Meditation”

  • Sherri wrote on 2 February, 2010, 21:17

    Very well put! I like to say that hypnosis is meditation with a purpose. That purpose is decided before you begin …you can create or change your beliefs.

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  • Arun wrote on 27 July, 2010, 1:13

    Differeffnce between meditation and hypnotism

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