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Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Week
With Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Week upon us, we can't help but call to mind the early days of hypnosis (or, as it was originally known, mesmerism).
Franz Mesmer was the 18th-century German physician who believed the human body contained an intangible fluid subject to the laws of magnetism. This powerful force had the potential, according to Mesmer, to be activated by a magnetized object and then manipulated by a trained person in order to ensure its harmonious flow. In the late 18th century, Herr Doktor Mesmer devised a number of therapeutic techniques and enjoyed a certain amount of success in Vienna and Paris, where his mesmerizing ways found a number of fans.
Eventually, Mesmer's method fell from favor (in large part thanks to an investigative commission which included Benjamin Franklin), but his name lives on in the word mesmerism.
So where does the term hypnotism come from? From another physician, the Scottish-born James Braid. Half a century after Mesmer, Braid performed his own experiments, concluded there was no indiscernible fluid, and deduced that the suggestive state resembling sleep is induced by the fatigue that comes from concentrated staring at an inanimate object. He dubbed the state hypnosis after Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep.
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