Hypnosis and meditation: what’s the difference?

Hypnosis and meditation are completely different states of consciousness.

In hypnosis, you are (in self hypnosis) or someone else (a hynotherapist) is making suggestions to another part of your mind (your unconscious) to change your life in some way. You may want to lose weight, stop smoking, become more self confident… In self hypnosis, you’re talking to yourself, to change yourself.

In meditation, none of that happens. You just ARE. Meditation is a state of being. You don’t want to change anything, in fact, you want to get yourself — what you consider to be “you”, your ego — out of the way completely.

Simply put, in hypnosis you have a goal you want to achieve. In meditation, you have no goals, other than to simply be. Meditation feels like coming home to your essential being.

Another way to explain these different states of consciousness is to say that in hypnosis you focus on someone’s words to the exclusion of anything else. In meditation, you just are: you’re one with everything.

Get wealthy now

Want to model the rich? Napoleon Hill’s 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, is the inspiration for Trance and Grow Rich, an audio program which teaches you the 13 steps to riches.