THE BEGINNING OF HYPNOSIS   While there are historical precedents for the use of techniques similar to hypnosis used by the Egyptians in the so-called Dream Temple, would not be until the middle of the eighteenth century when it began the first systematic study of what was a psycho-physiological state that special subsequently became known as' hypnosis. Franz Anton Mesmer, (1.734-1.815) doctorate in medicine and philosophy to his 35 years in Vienna, wrote his doctoral thesis entitled "From Inlfuxu planetarium," influenced by the theories of Paracelsus on interelación between celestial bodies and human beings. Mesmer made the famous Theory of Animal Magnetism we came to say that every living radiates a similar type of energy like magnetism or other physical bodies and that can be passed around to other beings, to have a therapeutic application.   The Austrian doctor settled in Paris and with the passage of time, his influence was so great and so widespread his fame, he became a doctor of both the poor and dispossessed of the rich and powerful, including himself king of France . The issue came to the French Academy of Medicine, which found that there was no kind of influence or power in magnetic healing mesméricas. What actually occurred was that the cure?     Would be the disciples of Mesmer and later researchers who determined that the "miraculous" cures in hypnotic trances, called magnetic or mesmerism dreams until then, were produced by a condition called suggestion. A Scottish surgeon named James Braid (1.795-1.860) was the first to coin the term hypnosis a form stating that explained: "the steady gaze fixed, paralyzes the nerve centers of the eyes and its dependencies that altering the balance nervous system, the phenomenon "     STATE OR CATATÓNICO cataleptic The total muscle stiffness characterizes this state. Immediately after this, the will be induced to enter a stage of deep hypnosis quickly when it suggests the hipnólogo.       FREUD AND HYPNOSIS Sigmund Freud, as a medical hypnosis investigated in depth, being a disciple of the famous schools of La Salpêtrière with Dr. Charcot and the School of Nancy, with Dr. Bernheim. At first Freud used hypnosis in the treatment of neurosis, but later, confessing a bad hypnotist, left at which to formulate his theory of psychoanalysis.       WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? It is difficult to define what it means to summarize this term, but we venture to do so. Hypnosis is a technique with which we get a psycho-physiological state different from the normal waking state.   The electro-encephalogram of a hypnotized person is different from a person awake or asleep in natural sleep. This state is very suggestibility, what's this? that the person under hypnosis accepted as real suggestions that the hypnotist suggests.       Ecefalografía apparatus with which measured brain waves and frequencies   That is, if you hipnotiza another person and this falls into a deep trance, where he suggested that their heat will begin to feel like real clothes off and removed to alleviate, for example. Why is this happening? Because there is a separation between the conscious and the unconscious in our mental activity. So in hypnosis, especially where the individual operates unconsciously, which significantly reduces the ability of reasoning and self-consciousness, any suggestion by the hypnotist, will be admitted as a fact.     Is hypnosis dangerous?   Hypnosis is not dangerous, if it is done by a qualified person, and certainly enough to have the ethics not to subject his client to any practice that would not in vigil. Indeed, nobody can stay asleep forever if the hypnotist left us, because in that case, would sleep with a hypnotic sleep and natural despertaríamos normally. The only absolute contraindications of hypnosis are cases of suffering from epilepsy or schizophrenia. Epilepsy because it could happen in the day on a hypnotic trance seizure who have this disease, and schizophrenia, because some of it very difficult to hypnotize a schizophrenic could empeorararle his illness with hypnosis.       What is Hypnosis?   Apart from the performances to make ridiculous and sometimes embarrassing to see on TV, hypnosis is actually an application that is brilliant and practical aspect of the clinic is, or to cure diseases or improve the physical or mental people. For example, is well known application of hypnosis or sofrologia (very similar technique but with no loss of consciousness) for the extraction of teeth without pain. Also to treat all sorts of mental and psychological disorders: phobias, fears, trauma, depression, anxiety, nervousness, stress, eneuresis night, shyness, and so on. For example, it has been very useful in dermatology to cure almost instantly warts, eczema, and all kinds of rashes. In short, hypnosis is treatable with any of the so-called psychogenic or psychosomatic diseases, namely those with a home in an emotional or psychological conflict. In the field of addiction, is a remarkable success to leave snuff as well as deal with gambling, alcohol, etc.. In this case, the mere hypnotist becomes hipnólogo or person who uses hypnosis with a therapeutic purpose.   HYPNOSIS AND GRADE   The hypnotist (if we talk about the therapist) are not people who have a "power" special innate or acquired to subdue their will on others. Simply apply the techniques that lead to induced hypnotic state. This happens gradually shifting from a lighter or trance state in which the surface subject relaxes the muscles of your body in general is the state lethargic. Later, when the person is more relaxed and his body was abandoned and may reach a state of total stiffness, which can for example, make the person between two points of support, like a table, or come to a cataleptic state trance medium. And finally, the deep trance state that it sonambúlico in which the individual is able to open the eyes without leaving the hypnotic sleep, accepting all the suggestions to impose the hypnotist.     HYPNOSIS and parapsychology   Hypnosis itself is not a "paranormal." However hypnotic state is relatively easy to produce phenomena that are the subject of scientific study of parapsychology, which fall within the study of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). So hypnosis is relatively easy to produce telepathy, ie, a hypnotized can relatively easily grasp what they are thinking about a particular person, whether they are near or thousands of km. It is also easy to establish that the hypnotized state of health or illness of their own body or another person. And the cases are very curious memory strategy in which the brain can be hypnotized to remember past lives and even supposed to speak in languages that are supposed not known, this phenomenon is called xenoglosia. Throughout history have been known cases of individuals who have had a hypnotic state unusual ability to predict future events or recognize past and an unknown or precognitición Retrocognitions respectively. Why is this happening? Probably because in a state of hypnosis mind operates under different parameters of the commonly known as the space / time.   HYPNOSIS IN THE NEWS   Since Mesmer have been many who have investigated this disturbing reality that sometimes goes beyond the outlines of science education. Many have established their own models and variants of this technique. So we have recently to U.S. Dr. Milton Erickson, who worked with their patients by using metaphors or certain ways of talking to induce some psycho-emotional reactions to cure them of their mental illness without a classic or hypnosis involving the loss of awareness of the patient. Or for example Valencia doctor Antonio Escudero, who calls his technique Noesiología psychological or anesthesia, which operates fully awake to their patients without anesthesia and chemistry, and even chat with them during the surgery.         HYPNOSIS REGRESSION   One of the most interesting episodes of this technique is called regressive hypnosis of personality. Is "to bring" back in time to a person, or remember to revive its past deeds. We can even reach a prenatal stage or intra-uterine, ie remember the feelings we had before birth. But even if he was hypnotized suggests going even further, in many cases alleged recall previous identities. Even in some of these cases speak in a language that has not studied or known in his life (the phenomenon of xenoglosia that before-mentioned), but usually these archaic language and old forms. ¿Reincarnation?, Connection to other times and other minds? who knows ... item would be sufficiently large for another article. Anyone who subscribes investigated and found to have actually broken hypnosis schemes which scientific psychology today (usually cognitive-behavioral branch) known as "mind" just because this concept is so broad that we science fell short to define it.