When someone has power or authority, he/she is able to give orders which the others should follow, but doesn’t have control over their feelings and thoughts.
This is where the Hypnosis comes in. When someone is hypnotized, he/she is forced to think and feel what the hypnotizer wants to. For example, a human under hypnosis can shiver like if it feels cold, or sweat from heat, even though it isn’t. He/she can go pale as if he/she is afraid, and even get the red cheeks like he/she is ashamed of something. However, this is nearly impossible if the person which is hypnotized doesn’t want to be.
This strange practice of affecting peoples’ feelings and thoughts is known to the mankind for a long time. Even the most primitive civilizations used this technique to heal the ill.
But today, we approach the hypnosis from a different angle, a scientific one. This professional view of the hypnosis was introduced in the second half of the 18th century by the German physician Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer, who tried the techniques of the hypnosis on his mentally ill patients in Vienna. He thought that the hypnosis is a force which he called it “animal magnetism”. Still, his experiments didn’t bring much of a success, and people soon discredited his work. Then, almost a hundred years later the English doctor James Braid put more effort into discovering what the hypnosis really is and actually he is the father of the terms “hypnotism” and “hypnosis” which become subject for many following scientists around the globe.
Mesmerizing, isn’t it!?
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