Even though Meditation and hypnosis is the object of man's mind, they are different from the origin and the purpose of application. There's no different view that the origin and tradition of meditation was accomplished in the Orient. After 18 century...
Even though Meditation and hypnosis is the object of man's mind, they are different from the origin and the purpose of application. There's no different view that the origin and tradition of meditation was accomplished in the Orient. After 18 century, in the Western academic tradition of putting emphasis on scientific verification , hypnosis has been mainstreamed in science and study by strictly excluding mysterious elements for the purpose of therapy at the field of clinics.
The obvious recognition of commonality and difference can find it possible to maintain boundary between them and be complementary to practical use. The reason why such relation of meditation and hypnosis can be naturally drawn a conclusion is the background in the original similarity of the Western and Eastern culture and the difference of the historical development phase.
As a psychotherapy technique, the comparison of hypnosis from the West and meditation from a oriental vision of the universe can recognize similarity from each other and find phase of practical skills and usages. Through the fundamental similarity confirmation of Hypnosis and Meditation and the accurate understandings of hypnosis, the possibility of meditative application of hypnotic skill can be sought.