The Seven Day Self-Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a wakeful state of focused attention[1] and heightened suggestibility,[2] with diminished peripheral awareness.[3]

Asklepios, Greek god of medicine, healing, and hypnosis[4], was said to oversee the treatment of sick people in "dream healing temples[5]."According to the American Psychological Association's Division 30, hypnosis may bring about "...changes in subjective experience, alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought or behavior."[6] The hypnotic state may also facilitate change in the body: it has been successfully used as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome,[7] as an alternative to chemical anaesthesia,[8][9][10] and it has been studied as a way to soothe skin ailments.[11]

Skeptics point out the difficulty distinguishing between hypnosis and the placebo effect, proposing that the state called hypnosis is

"so heavily reliant upon the effects of suggestion and belief that it would be hard to imagine how a credible placebo control could ever be devised for a hypnotism study.[12]"

Self-hypnosis is popularly used by people who want to quit smoking[13] and reduce stress,[14] while stage hypnosis can be used to persuade people to perform unusual public feats.[15]

催眠術 The Seven Day Self-Hypnosis

催眠術（さいみんじゅつ Hypnotism）とは、

1. 催眠（Hypnosis）の元の言い方。　英国の医師、ジェイムズ・ブレイドの造語だとされる。催眠に携わる人の間では「催眠は魔術的なものではなく、科学であるから術をつけないでほしい」という主張もある。

2. 舞台催眠術 (Stage Hypnosis. いわゆるショウ催眠) のこと。いわゆる催眠商法も、これの応用を含むとされる。一般のほとんどの人が「催眠術」をTVなどでよく見る、いわゆる「ショウ催眠」としてしか認知していない為に「超能力」「魔術」などといったものと同一視し、誤解されがちであるが、催眠術は心理学を応用した「技術」である。

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