Hypnosis
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Hypnosis means putting someone (or yourself) into a trance and sending messages through to their brain while they are in this semi-conscious (half-aware) state.
[edit] History
There seem to be many ideas about how hypnosis started. The Hindus of India claim that they started the method and used it as a cure for health. This is one of the main uses of hypnosis today and is linked to psychology.
But the main hypnosis discoveries came in 1842 when James Braid started to learn more about its effects. He is often called the 'Father of Modern Hypnotism'. He did not think that mesmerism was the cause of hypnosis and in the end he thought that trances were only a 'nervous sleep'. In 1843 he wrote a book about this with the title Neurypnology.
Hypnosis has been used in many different cases since Braid.
