I have no experience with hypnosis, but I do know that hypnosis and meditation are definately not the same.
They might even be described as two opposites !
The key is conciousness.
With meditation you reach deeper states of brainwaves that usually only occur during sleep, while still being concious.
Hypnosis is inducing a trance like state that resembles sleep, tricking the person into thinking that he still is concious and to a certain degree he is, however by altering their reality, they actually are unconcious.
I have no doubt that hypnosis can produce certain brainwave states, and can indeed be very helpfull and benificiary, please understand me correctly, I am just trying to point out the difference between the states of "meditative state" and "hypnosis state".
The key I think is control.
A meditator has control over himself and his actions. He is able to "snap out of" his meditative state should something happen that forces him to get up and move, like for instance someone ringing the doorbell.
You open your eyes, get up, and walk to the door, meditative state ended.
You can go back to your meditative state reasonably easy, because it is still fresh in your brain's memory, but if you decide to end meditation, you easily forget about it.
With hypnosis, especially deep ones, it's not that simple. Even tho you can be forced to "wake up" suddenly, the hypnosis and it's effects can stay with you for days after that, like for instance using hypnosis to trick you into believing that you don't smoke.
Your hypnosis session has ended days ago, but you are still convinced that you don't smoke, even tho you know in the back of your head that this is not true.
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