by Pamela Wilson There are many misconceptions associated with hypnosis. A large number of people believe it to be some sort of an occult practice. But hypnosis has been found to have strong roots in science and reason, and a lot of psychologists use hypnosis training for healing purposes. Hypnosis is a practitioner’s controlled induction of a subject into an altered state of consciousness during which a patient becomes acutely responsive to new ideas that are infused in his mind by the prac