The Difference Between 'Suggestion' and Hypnosis.

What is the Difference between 'Suggestion' and Hypnosis?

Where does 'Suggestion' end and Hypnosis begin, or are they quite different?

Suggestion is an Integral part of every single piece of Day to Day communication...

If a Nobel prize winner dressed in a sober suit announced an amazing new technical breakthrough at a scientific conference, you would be more inclined to believe it than if you were told by a scruffy dressed stranger in a pub.
Your mind would be twisted further, If you were to later discover, that the same scruffy dressed pleasant chap you were drinking and talking with in the pub turned out to be a Nobel Prize Winner.
The Medium....is part of the Message.

In all communication...the tone of voice of the speaker, the things he said, and the manner in which he said them, the movement of his hands, his dress, your knowledge of his background(or lack of it)... all suggest information to you over and above the content of his message.
Sometimes the subconscious or subliminal impressions or suggestions reinforce your understanding or memory of the content upon which your 'conscious' attention is focused.
At other times subliminal or peripheral suggestions contradict the message....

Patricia Durovy of the American Society for Training and Development estimates that "90% of all communication is subconscious."
According to the Institute of Noetic Sciences, that could be an underestimate. I've read Anthony Robbins,Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra also echo that statistic.

Although suggestion works very powerfully indeed at the subconscious level, the conscious mind generally continues to act as a Censor.
It will normally reject suggestions that do not accord with our moral values, or with logic, or that threaten our sense of Identity,confidence and security.

The Key Difference between Suggestion and Hypnotism... is that Suggestion Can and Does bring the power of the subconscious to bear, but without relinquishing the censor role of the conscious mind. It can also effectively bring about and cause permanent changes in ability,behavior and sense of Identity.

Under Hypnotism you are Partially...relinquishing control of both your conscious and unconscious mind to someone else. Having many similar brain-wave patterns as those of sleep, and both involve reduced conscious control. That itself being the result of focusing on a Temporary State.
A Constriction of attention to a specific subject,topic or Idea...
Though, it can of course have excellent long-term therapeutic results, as in the Artful & effective Use of Hypno-Analysis.

Suggestion is much more effective in Creating,Re-creating and maintaining long-term measurable results.
An Oklahoma Anesthetist, Mrs. Jean Mabry, regularly waits until her patients are under anesthesia and whispers encouraging and positive instructions to them. Consultant Surgeons working with her report markedly improved recovery rates.

Imagination and Suggestion
Although it is easy to use the words imagination and suggestion interchangeably, there are important distinctions between them.
Imagination...can be described as "the ability to visualize to produce a mental impression of sights,sounds,smells,tastes, and memories of Touch".
You can use Imagination to create strong visual links between two ideas you are trying to remember...
Consciously Used in this way it is a Key to memory and Accelerated Learning.

However,imagination is also needed to create a Suggestion,and suggestion can bring about a permanent and far-reaching change in your sense of Identity,Behaviour,Capabilities and perception of our Environment.
Artfull,purpose-driven suggestion could be used to improve learning effectiveness and increase the speed of learning, as some Institutes have been able to Produce:
-A Japanese had learned English in 10 Days.
-Students at the university of Iowa had learned a Year of Spanish in 3 Months.
-Complete beginners had learned 900 words of French in 1 Day.

Genius...More Made than Born?
In 1800, a German Doctor decided to give his son,Karl Witte, a really rich educational environment.
Karl entered the University of Leipzig at 9 and gained his Ph.D at 14 years of age.
Lord Kelvin's Mother made the same decision. He became one of the 19Century's most successful Physicists.

In 1952, American Aaron Stern determined to give his daughter the best educational environment he could devise.
Classical Music was a continuous background, he talked to her in adult terms and showed her reading cards with numbers and animals on them.
Edith Stern...could talk in simple sentences as age 1, and had read an entire volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica by the age of 5.
She was reading 6 books a day by age 6. At 12 she enrolled in College and was teaching Higher Mathematics at Michigan State University at 15 years Old. She scored 200 on a scale where 155 is Genius.

In England, Ruth Lawrence, who passed her O level maths at 9 and A level at 10(normally 18), was accepted at Oxford University at 12 years of age.
She also was educated in an Intellectually rich environment by her parents.
Much in the same ways my Grandparents offered my Brothers and I.

Identifying Genius Indicators...Nature or Nurture?
The way in which the Brain actually develops enables us to, once and for all, dispose of the question of whether intelligence is a function of heredity(nature/dna) or Environment (Nurture).

The Answer is: Both are equally powerful influencing factors in Genius Production.

The Number of brain cells is a factor, but what is far more significant is the WAY those brain cells are stimulated to make rich connections and associations. Which is primarily an Environmental Factor.
While physical development of the brain is largely complete by age 5, there are further well-established intervals of intellectual developments at ages 6 to 8, 10 to 12, and 14 to 16.

Perhaps if our educational systems & stimuli were so developed and timed to coincide with these Natural periods of development?
It is Scientifically correct and proven to say that almost every normal child is born a potential Genius.
Even if innate intelligence is merely average, a rich intellectual environment during the period of the 2nd Brain Growth Spurt, with plenty of opportunities to learn, can ensure the development of a greater proportion of the Brain potential than would normally be expected
The Clinical &scientific Evidence for this in Humans is now overwhelming.

The Brain, as a Tool, allows us to unconsciously process somewhere around 2,000,000 pieces of information through our Senses, per SECOND, yet we can be aware of only 3,5 7... and the best of us... 9 things at any one present moment, in the here and Now.
The Brain further 'Refines' this raw information we obtained into our perceptions. 'Refine' is Key, as the Brain acts as a reducing valve.
Realize...that this makes our awareness highly selective...
As individuals we each construct a version of reality from within this narrow, subjective band of information.
Our Model of reality will also be Unique as to the meaning we give Our experiences.

While it is certainly an oversimplification to relate intelligence to brain capacity, it is, however interesting to present to you 3 Modern Statistical Facts:
1) The Average IQ is 100
2) The Genius Level is 160
3) The Average Human probably used closer to only 4 Percent of his Potential Brain Power.

Wrap Your Mind around that....