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Hypnosis is a changed state of awareness and increased relaxation that allows for improved focus and concentration. It also is called hypnotherapy. During hypnosis, most people feel calm and relaxed. Hypnosis typically makes people more open to suggestions about behaviour changes. 

Although you're more open to suggestion during hypnosis, you don't lose control over your behaviour during a hypnosis session. 

No, because you don’t lose control over your behaviour. 

Hypnosis done by a trained health care provider is a safe, complementary and alternative medical treatment. However, hypnosis may not be safe for some people with severe mental illness. The use of hypnosis is generally not advisable for patients with borderline personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, or psychosis. 

Getting stuck in trance simply is not possible. 

Hypnosis can help you gain control over behaviours you'd like to change (bed wetting, smoking, overeating, etc). It may help you cope better with anxiety or pain. For people with cancer, it can be used to ease side effects from chemo and radiation treatment. 

Some people are more susceptible than others but everybody can get hypnotized as long as they have the will for that to happen. If you resist it, either consciously or unconsciously, it may not happen. 

Your brain slips into the Theta brainwaves. When you’re in that state, you remain awake but in a deep state of relaxation and your focus is fixed in a way that make you seem zoned out or in a trance. When you go to sleep, you reach this state after you relaxed but before you enter the deep sleep stage.