What Is Hypnosis?
Everything you have learned is stored in the subconscious. If you have already learned to drive your skill is stored in your subconscious. As you start your journey you get in the car and drive onto the motorway to reach a consistent speed. Now your conscious mind is free. This is because the knowledge for driving exists in your subconscious, and your conscious mind drifts off. When your attention is needed to change lanes, or avoid something, or stop, you conscious mind starts working again. You may even arrive at your destination and wonder how you got there so quickly. Driving is only one automatic activity. Whenever you do anything automatic, your conscious mind is diverted to your subconscious and you go into a trance. These activities like driving are stored in your subconscious.
Generally speaking, when you are in a trance state you are receptive to hypnotic suggestion, sleepiness and relaxed muscles. Your attention will be narrowed. One client described a feeling of his mind floating above his physical body. A second client said "my body felt as if it were warm and bendable plastic that I could mould and shape".