All hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis. A hypnotic trance is a state of consciousness when an individual's focus of awareness allows them to become greatly absorbed in the experience and sensations of their ideas. For in a daydream, you are aware of where you are and what you are doing, but at the same time you are very absorbed in the experience and sensations of your thoughts, ideas, and images of that daydream. In other words, hypnotic trance and a daydream are the same process. Most daydreams might begin when we are bored or little to actively think about.
Hypnosis includes many different ways to set that daydream-like state of mind or trance into being.
These include what we call induction techniques, imagery methods, focusing concentration, and forms of passive relaxation and meditation. If you think of a daydream as a trance, then you have experienced trance-state throughout your life every day in many ways. For once you discover how to achieve the results you want, you have also taught that achievement to your body and mind, and you own those abilities for as long as you practice them for yourself. Overcoming anxiety on an airplane, relaxing smooth muscle of the intestines for more comfortable digestion, relieving pain or producing one's own anesthesia, improving sleep patterns, changing habits, improving concentration skills, alleviating nausea associated with chemotherapy, to mention only a few. What Trance is Not .