Hypnosis and manipulation tend to be linked intentionally and incorrectly. In this article I'll tell you what nobody tells you about this very subject, since as a specialist in the field, I believe it should be shared.
The interpretation of hypnosis is relative, but in itself it means "the great synapse, or the supreme connection that awakens." By its phonetics and etymology: hip (awake), imno (supreme), nosis (the non-isis, or non-separation, the synapse).
Synapse. Bioelectric and biochemical connections. Neurosis. A condition in which neurons refuse to do their job, and where the system's synapse remains stuck in a systemic biochemical pattern. Neuron. From Neo, creating new gap (bioelectric) connections.
Intelligence agencies have used the principle of hypnosis to induce the formation of neurotic patterns, perverting its true purpose through the abuse of Psychotronic science. One example of this perversion is the most famous social-engineering system ever built... television. What this invention does is enable the electromagnetic transmission of persuasive plots that grab the receiver's attention, inducing a false trance, and using that state to record specific information in their mind, but implicitly. Many know this under the concept of negative priming, but beyond that, it's very important to be clear that this trance is false, because no true hypnosis is happening — it's only psychotronic manipulation, or mechanical manipulation of the mental functions of dreamlike consciousness. Now you'll understand it well.
To put it briefly, what happens during true hypnosis is a psychedelic state under autonomy, resulting from the endogenous DMT produced by over-stimulation of the pineal gland during deep meditative states. This allows new electrical connections to form that break the base chemistry of neurosis, reducing our noise and facilitating self-listening. This great connection between what we believe we are and what creates what we are will keep improving its fidelity with discipline, which requires, among other things, deep meditation practices. During hypnosis, a brain desynchronization should occur, and at the same time, a super-activation that science calls homeostatic plasticity. Under those circumstances, the brain is optimally positioned to be trained neurofunctionally, oriented toward pure consciousness, achieving the release of DNA's genetic information, which translates into electromotive potential. There are no patterns or conditionings intervening in this trance state, and of course, we're talking about optimization of emotional quotient — ergo, intelligence.
By contrast, fake or neurotic hypnosis isn't aimed at supraconsciousness, but at manipulation to robotize brain responses. And as perverse as it sounds, this manipulation is just part of the game of showing up in this system we call the world.
Read the following carefully: when your brain focuses on something specific and external, it fully commits to it, but under the functional condition that characterizes you — meaning that although it might seem like there's full attention, you're actually distracted by something, because our baseline potential doesn't exceed 10%, and that means the brain doesn't have the capacity for real focus. Because of this, when you take in information you do it in a biased way, without epistemological associative capacity, and above all, leaving certain flanks uncovered for lack of potential — so the brain becomes permeable to information that isn't consciously recognized, as if that information were entering your house through the back door. You end up unconsciously absorbing things that later condition your responses, distorting your traits and creating personalities. These personalities are nothing more than electrical alterations with mechanical impediments that condition the current, and which in psychological terms is called EGO. The worst part is that you won't notice this neural automaticity, and if over time you do, you won't know why you respond that way or how you got there, and even less how to get out of it. In computer terminology, a human's neural matrix under these conditions would be like riskware, or a risky program, susceptible to malware infections. So, circumstantially, one can become unfamiliar with oneself, or experience anxiety, depression, and endless pathologies that, while multifactorial, will carry significant weight from this implicit informational manipulation, because through it your neural matrix is being shaped, partly in hiding, partly in plain sight. In other words, if you don't train to shape yourself, someone else will do it for you, and however much you protest, that's just how the game works — in fact, this very article could be persuasive and manipulative. Use your discernment, but without conditioning.
So, this sensitivity to implicit information can be partially or fully reduced if trained for, precisely through self-hypnosis, or with specialized therapeutic assistance that facilitates self-hypnosis in the patient. This should be a basic universal principle, and how to do it is then a personal matter each person adjusts for themselves. Remember that this practice fully activates the brain, since it desynchronizes it, makes it vibrate at theta frequencies, and electrochemistry flows under homeostatic plasticity. The result… true, real focus. On a pedagogical level, you could say one becomes less prejudiced, more observant, more reflective, and with clearer, fairer judgment... order. That said, within the discipline I call Neo Yoga Sutra, this is only part of the first of the three Master Sutras, and all three need to be trained simultaneously.