THE HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS SHOW NOTES In this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast I am going to talk about the history of hypnosis. How and where it began and it’s evolution over the years. And I’m also going to be giving listeners a FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE! Stay tuned! INTRODUCTION What is up people? The Motor City Hypnotist Podcast is here in the Podcast Detroit Northville Studios. Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast. With me is my producer Matt Fox. FIND ME: My Website: https://motorcityhypnotist.com/podcast My social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/motorcityhypnotist/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjjLNcNvSYzfeX0uHqe3gA Twitter: https://twitter.com/motorcityhypno Instagram: motorcityhypno If you would like to contribute financially to the show, you can find me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/motorcityhypno?fan_landing=true FREE HYPNOSIS GUIDE https://detroithypnotist.convertri.com/podcast-free-hypnosis-guide Please also subscribe to the show and leave a review. Please also join me each week as I co-host the Psyched by MG podcast. (Stay with me as later in the podcast, I’ll be giving away a free gift to all listeners!) This episode of the Motor City Hypnotist Podcast is brought to you by Banner Season. Online marketing is saturated and people rarely open their emails. Are you in sales or does your business market to customers? How do you connect with family, friends, and clients? Banner Season takes your marketing into the “real world” by delivering kindness and thoughtfulness directly to your client’s physically. Imagine the excitement of your family, friends and customers as they receive personalized cards and gifts in their mailboxes. Go to bannerseason.com/fantastic and begin today to express kindness and make connections with others. https://bannerseason.com/FANTASTIC WINNER OF THE WEEK; Major League Baseball Sports fans rejoice! Baseball has returned! WINNER OF THE WEEK; Antonio, Amazon Driver https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3876/Amazon-Driver-Delivers-Package-To-Man-With-Cancer-Returns-With-Card-And-Flowers TOPIC INTRODUCTION Today I am going to share with you the History of Hypnosis. When and where did hypnosis actually start and how has it evolved over the years to become what it is today? *The earliest references to hypnosis date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. *In Greek mythology, Hypnos is the god/personification of sleep. His name is the origin of the word hypnosis * the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. (Somnambulist is a term for someone very susceptible to hypnosis. *Both cultures had religious centres where people came for help with their problems. *There are many references to trance and hypnosis in early writings. In 2600 BC the father of Chinese medicine, Wong Tai, wrote about techniques that involved incantations and passes of the hands. The Hindu Vedas written around 1500 BC mention hypnotic procedures. *Trance-like states occur in many shamanistic, druidic, voodoo, yogic and religious practices. *The modern father of Hypnosis was an Austrian physician, Franz Mesmer (1734 – 1815), from whose name the word ‘mesmerism’ is derived. (movie Mesmer starring Alan Rickman released in 1994). Mesmer was much maligned by the medical world of his day “Animal Magnetism” was coined by Mesmer. --the idea that diseases are the result of blockages in the flow of magnetic forces in the body. He believed he could store his animal magnetism in baths of iron filings and transfer it to patients with rods or by ‘mesmeric passes’. *Mesmer himself was very much a showman, conveying by his manner that something was going to happen to the patient. This form of indirect suggestion was very powerful (and is still used today). *Mesmer was also responsible for the popular image of the hypnotist as a man with magnetic eyes, a cape and goatee beard. *John Elliotson (1791 – 1868), a professor at London University,
