Hypnotized With Your Eyes Open – Don’t Laugh You Do It Daily!

Waking hypnosis is a state of mind and there is no difference between being hypnotized, with the eyes open and the eyes shut. The state of mind is the same.

Waking hypnosis is a state of hyper-awareness or concentrated attention; as a result, there are not the distractions in waking hypnosis as in the conscious state. It can be used very effectively if efforts are concentrated on a single project.

For instance, if one has an intricate or exacting task to do, he may do it better by using waking hypnosis. This can mean playing a better game of golf, bowling a better game, studying with more retention and recall, or writing a letter, poem, story or scientific document.

Waking hypnosis can mean a greater command of mental and intellectual capacities at any given time with correct preparation and suggestion. Those who use it cover a wide swath of endeavor, from weight lifters to oral surgeons, from engravers to gymnasts, from real estate salesmen to lecturers and teachers, from billiard champions to actors.

Waking hypnosis means being tuned in and turned on to a specific project. As in the case of hypnosis generally, there seems as yet to be no clearly defined scientific explanation or study as to precisely how waking hypnosis works and how its mental alterations function.

We know that it can be a self-directed state, or one directed by a hypnotist but exactly what in the way of brainwave alteration or energy change takes place has yet to be scientifically studied and documented. There are persons, to, who do better than others in waking hypnosis.

Why is this?

Many have said that it is a sociological matter and is "human nature" that a fraction of a given group appears to be more intelligent or adaptive than the majority, but this answers nothing. Until psychology and medical research pool their efforts to undertake studies in hypnosis and the promising field of waking hypnosis, there can be no decisive answer to the logical question of how it works. We simply know from years of observation and participation that it DOES work.

The use of the electroencephalograph has not produced the enlightenment we would like; neither has bio-feedback equipment. And the Russian and Bulgarian investigations, while more extensive than ours, still leave the question of waking hypnosis scientifically unanswered. Science demands proof, evidence and substantive data.

In waking hypnosis we have the visible proof of its working, but not the confirmation through scientific examination and longitudinal study.

We cannot explain, for example, why a subject who in the conscious state can only do ten push-ups can consistently do fifteen in waking hypnosis. We cannot explain why it is that intuition, concentration and inner control of one's talents are increased and augmented with waking hypnosis. All we know is that it does work, but not "how" or Why."

In the early 1940's a Russian electrician invented a process of photography utilizing high frequency fields and developed what is now known as Kirlian photography, by which it is possible to photograph energy, or the "life aura" emanating from living organisms, including man.

Something approximating Kirlian photography may be required to understand and study hypnosis, especially waking hypnosis.

If mankind can develop such things as Kirlian photography and propel men to the moon, surely more sophisticated methods of exploring man's mind can also be found. But it is a fact that society's priorities determine funding, so until society (and that means you and me) decides to place a higher priority upon scientific research than upon playing games, the unfolding of the mysteries of man's mind will have to wait.

Waking hypnosis begs for scientific investigation and offers fascinating promise in the fields of behaviorism, perception and learning.

Surely the need for psychological research is obvious.