Hypnosis Glossary of Terms - M
- Magic 30 Minutes
- The last half-hour before sleep, when a person's mind is overloaded and is in a natural state of hypnosis. Something taken into the mind at this time goes into the precognitive stage of dreaming, instead of the venting stage.
- Maternalism
- A soft, gentle, lulling, rhythmic approach to hypnosis. A progressive relaxation uses the maternal approach.
- Mental Bank
- A tool used to reinforce many types of therapies and speed the progress in such areas as; procrastination, motivation, goal attainment, prosperity, weight loss, smoking, etc. It is a powerful means of affecting the subconscious mind using the synergistic approach of belief, daily reinforcement, scripting, time of day, and dreams.
- Message Units - Overloading
- All of the input sent to the brain by the environment, the physical body, and the conscious and subconscious minds. When too many message units are received (overloading), a state of anxiety results.
- Misdirection
- Appearing to be guiding someone into one area with the intention of directing him into another. It can be used effectively as a deepening technique in hypnosis.
- Modalities
- A hypnotic modality is anything that attempts to control or modify human behavior through the influence or creation of belief systems.