Can You Use Hypnosis Techniques To Improve Creativity

Researchers have studied patients in a hypnotic state and have discovered that there are no significant physical changes in the bodies of their subjects. The patients bodies only seem to be relaxed and slowed down all throughout the hypnotic process. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to measure their brain waves, doctors found a change in the rhythms of electrical voltage. Their findings suggest that the brain waves of the patients under the trance state are similar to those in a deep sleep state, which are of course different from the normal waking state. It has been concluded from these studies that the subconscious mind takes over the normal conscious one during hypnotherapy sessions.

The activities in the cerebral cortex during hypnosis were also studied. It was noted that the activities in the left hemisphere of the cortex were less compared to the activities that happened in the right side. It has been well documented that according to neurologists the left hemisphere controls one’s logic, deduction and reasoning while the right hemisphere takes charge of a person’s imagination and creativity. For the duration of the hypnotic state researchers accept the fact that the right brain dominates the left brain because the subconscious mind is being accessed.

Based on reports from stage hypnotists, their subjects often act like children when they are under hypnosis and they become creative and playful. They sometimes also perform or do odd things, probably because they do not have any inhibitions during the process. During this process it has also been noted that the subjects actions generally do not oppose their values as a person. Subjects that accept the hypnotist's challenges under hypnosis carry out the suggested actions, and this is thought to be because when they are under hypnosis their minds are free from negative thoughts, and this brings their creative side through stronger because of right brain domination under hypnosis.

Emotions, negative thoughts and different circumstances in life can often hinder a person’s natural creativity. By careful use of hypnotherapy one can become more able to handle the fear of failure and self-criticism, making a person more open to fantasies, more relaxed and playful. This can open up a person to follow their own instincts and channel this freedom into his or her own creativity, possibly helping them to create things more easily than they would normally be too inhibited to do.