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What is hypnotic trance?

Hypnotic trance is more like a state of being absent-minded or daydreaming. Every one has been in that state like when we drink a cup of tea but don't remember making it; or when we drive to a place and realize that we don't remember how we got there; another example is when we read a book or watch TV and someone is talking to us but we don't hear them, and need a "push" to notice what they are saying. Involuntarily we get to this state from time to time.

In a hypnotherapy session, the therapist deliberately induces this state of mind with the use of appropriate scripts and a specific tone of voice.

When in trance, the conscious mind enters a deep state of relaxation, so that the unconscious mind is let free to accommodate new ideas, but only if it finds them agreeable. Any suggestions that are in conflict with the unconscious mind will be rejected by it. The client is always in control of what is being done and conscious of the environment. There are no side effects of trance, it is totally safe.

The conscious mind is active when we are in our usual waking state and we use it to think and rationalize about things we do. It is critical and logical, judging all things constantly, a decision making mechanism. However it has a limited capacity of taking in new information at a time, so it becomes selective and prioritizes information according subjective motivation.

On the contrary, the unconscious mind has unlimited capacity of storing information which can be easily or not so easily accessed. The unconscious mind does not analyze facts, but it tends to read between the lines, it assumes and infers, it is creative and imaginative.

While is seems that the two parts of the mind are so different, they tend to work in tandem in forming decisions as often the conscious mind is not aware that it makes a decision influenced by the experiences, feelings, beliefs, etc, stored in the unconscious.

Quite often psychological problems and symptoms of illness are manifested when the conscious and the unconscious mind are in conflict about an issue (Yapko, 2003).