Most people know little about hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
This is understandable, of course, because most of what they know is inferred from what they see in demonstrations by stage hypnotists in nightclubs, colleges, old films and television talk shows. Watching these sorts of demonstrations results in a picture of hypnotism and hypnosis far removed from their reality. It is a state in which you always have complete and absolute control. This change of focus is much more akin to what happens in hypnosis. Everything in the foreground of our mind recedes into the background and everything in the background becomes fully present in the foreground of our mind.