Civilizations now belonging to the ancient past reveal that the primitive use of hypnosis was incorporated into the healing arts of the earliest civilizations.

Hypnosis can help you treat almost any patient. Divested of the mystery which it holds for the uninitiated, this long-known psychological phenomenon has a definite place in general medical practice.

One of the first considerations in undertaking hypnosis centers around the differentiation of the patient´s experience of having a trance induced from the experience of being in a trance state, that is, trance induction from the trance state. As an analogy, the train trip to the city is one order of experience; being in the city is another.

Since the most primitive times hypnosis has been employed almost universally in the practice of religious and medical rites to intensify belief in mysticism, magic, and medicine.

Ever since the first primitive medicine man attempted to use hypnosis in some form to treat his savage patients, there has persisted a general tendency to regard hypnosis, its techniques, its methods, and its applications as something beyond the ken of common man, as mysterious, magical, and occult, based upon and derived from special powers, a ritual of mystical passes and an abracadabra of verbal commands.