Hypnosis in the spirit of mentalism

From the reliable minds behind dictionary.com: Mentalism:noun

1.

a person who believes in or advocates mentalism.

2.

a person who believes that the mind and its functions are alegitimate area of psychological research.

3.

a mind reader, psychic, or fortuneteller.

Hypnosis is the usage of the power of suggestion to induce a subconscious state of concentration. There are many sources out there that have different opinions about hypnosis and whether its real or not. They make it out to be something more dramatic than it really is. Hypnosis is actually rather plausible. Say we are trying to Hypnotize an average guy named Frank? We've talked about Frank before and he will be appearing in this blog as our example. Frank is a guy in his 20's. He's skeptical about Hypnosis and has recently joined the FBI. As part of his FBI training Frank will need to be able to resist hypnosis. A glass sphere is placed in front of Frank's face and it is the only object he can see. He is sitting comfortably in a comfortable chair in a warm room. He is already somewhat tired as it is a Friday. These are the perfect conditions for hypnosis. Frank has been given a piece of information of which he must guard. He is told that he is to stay in the room until he has been hypnotized. The hypnotist who Frank can not see asks him to concentrate on the sphere and then begins using the power of suggestion. Its like when someone says not to think about chocolate bananas and the first thing you think about is chocolate bananas. This is the power of suggestion as it is planting the idea in a persons head. Hypnosis first requires using the power of suggestion to get the person in a certain mental state. Have you ever been tired and reading a book on a rainy day and stopped seeing the words? What about those first few seconds before you fall asleep? Or how about if you where made to stare at a blank wall for hours? What about when you zone out in class? We often go into this state when tired or relaxed. That is the state of hypnosis.
Using a combination of this being in this state and using the power of suggestion on a person whilst in this state it is possible to hypnotize someone. If the Hypnosis wants to get Frank to tell him the information. He has to get Frank into the state of hypnosis so Frank is concentrating on this and this only.
Part of the reason that hypnosis works so well is all the mystery about it. If you where to tell Frank before the Hypnosis it was impossible to resist than Frank even if he didn't believe you he would still have a nagging doubt in his head. Hypnotists often use techniques that sound similar to the ones used by people who lead meditations to get their subjects to slip into "That state of grey"