Have you ever wondered about a situation where your actions and thoughts are not your own? Or do you ever feared being controlled by others using hypnosis? People have always a very strong desire to know more about hypnosis mainly because of the main questions above. One reason is the fear of the unknown. The second underlying reason is the desire to avoid such circumstances.



The area of discussion here is actually about subliminal hypnosis. Subliminal comes from the Latin word "Limen" which means threshold. Thus, the word Subliminal is defined as a mental state just below the threshold of consciousness. During this stage, the conscious cannot perceive any messages and only the sub-conscious mind is acutely aware of these subliminal messages being implanted.

The process initially calls for putting a person under hypnotism. While under trance, the sub conscious mind is being targeted. AT this stage, the hypnotist will subtlety implant subliminal messages into the recipient sub conscious mind. By doing so respectively, the hypnotist will be able to imprint these "messages" into the recipient mind. There, these messages will lay dormant until a "trigger" in a form of a signal or command awakens these messages into the conscious mind. If all these are done voluntarily, there is no problem. The problem only arises when these actions are not voluntary and are planted by those with ulterior motives.

A drawback of the process is that the human brain may at times execute automatically the hypnotic state. Example of this can be given through the demonstration of hearing of one single voice when in a noisy crowd. Your subconscious cuts off all other sounds enabling you to listen to that one single voice that you want to hear. Focusing on that one particular sound or voice your subconscious is actually neglecting all the other voices. This is an instance of automatic execution of the hypnotic state.

Subliminal hypnosis has always been an area of great interest to the commercial world. The potential benefits that can be reaped by these corporations are indescribable. Imagine a situation where through advertisements, these marketing companies can actually persuade the consumers to mould their buying habits to suit these companies? In fact, these companies to plant subliminal messages into the print and broadcast media are spending huge sums of monies.

We do not actually know how effective or powerful subliminal hypnosis is when used in this manner. The truth is, it will never hurt to know more about subliminal hypnosis so that we can understand the process better. With the additional knowledge, we can be better prepared ourselves from attempts to control our subconscious mind. Beside this, there is always the therapeutic value that we can embrace from learning more about subliminal hypnosis.