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Earliest references date back to ancient Egypt and Greece. Indeed hypnosis is the Greek word for sleep, although the actual state of hypnosis is very different from that of sleep.
Hypnosis was used to induce dreams which were then analysed to get to the root of the trouble or problem.
There are many references to hypnosis in early writings. In 2600BC the father of Chinese medicine, Wong Tai, documented hypnotic techniques and the Hindu Vedas written around 1500BC mention hypnotic procedures .
The definition of
hypnosis is “a state of relaxation and concentration at one with a state
of heightened awareness induced by suggestion”.