The famous Russian conductor, pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff fell into a state of deep depression when the age of twenty-one years of his first piano concerto fail. Though still achieved success as conductor and pianist, it could not repair his mood. While it is common that artists are emotionally very sensitive and depression is something that no one in particular is not surprising, Rachmaninoff was in such bad shape that his friends were seriously worried. They managed to persuade him to visit Dr. Nikolai Dahl who specializes in hypnotherapy. 

Although Rachmaninov was skeptical of the treatment is uncomfortable seat in the doctor’s chair, three months came in everyday, polsatne session. At these sessions, after the introductory instructions, the doctor repeated phrases such as “will begin work on a new Concerto and you will do with great ease.” 

In the case of hypnotic suggestion was very effective. Rahmanjinovljea depression is gone and he began to compose again at high speed. He had more and more ideas and create memorable melodies. When Rachmaninoff Concerto Number Two c minor for piano and orchestra finally ended when he in 1901. first performed in Moscow, Moscow Philharmonic, the Rachmaninoff was publicly thanked the doctor and the Dahl concerto dedicated to him. Concerto has seen great success, and today is one of the favorite works of the concert audience. 

Hypnotherapy and creativity 

Many psychoanalysts have used psychoanalysis in order to encourage creativity in their clients. 

So he asked his Raginsky hipnotiziranih patients to form different things out of clay, and then the descriptions and associations connected with them used in therapy. However, he noticed that the client’s reaction to the shape, color or smell of clay can also play a significant role in the therapeutic process. 

Margaret Bowers described the case of Walter, dvadesetčetvorogodišnjeg musician who was hospitalized for schizophrenia. He was extremely tense and anxious and could not work. No therapeutic method in his case have not helped. It was not until many months of therapy with the help of hypnosis has helped to reduce his anxiety and gradually returned to their jobs. 

McCord and Sherrill reported on his experiment with university professor of mathematics. 

After the professor was introduced into a hypnotic trance suggested to him that when he wakes up, get some math problems and you will be able to deal much more accurately and faster than it ever did before. After that, the professor brought out of trance, provided the mathematical tasks, instructing them in twenty minutes to solve as much as possible. 

Indeed, the professor at twenty minutes to solve the tasks that would normally be two hours. He was on time, skipping some steps in the mathematical process, counting in my head what I would normally write and writing, what he should say, faster than usual.Regardless of the increased speed, its accuracy can not be reduced. 

He said he enjoyed solving tasks and how he felt that his unconscious mind in this process involved more than usual. 

Experimental studies 

Susceptibility to hypnosis and creativity in children 

London has shown that children are more susceptible to hypnosis than adults. As the child grows, so his ability going into a hypnotic trance is decreasing. Similarly, and with creativity. Torrance has shown that the originality of the child decreases every time you leave one environment and into the second (kindergarten, first grade, fifth grade, middle school). In this case, attention is paid to the child’s adjustment to new circumstances, rather than creativity. 

As children grow, so they learn to perceive the world through the eyes of the culture in which they live, waive their personalities, they become less original, less open to new experiences and less fanciful. Most imaginative child will not only persist in their creative activities, but will best respond to hypnotic suggestion, were playing the role of the hypnotized person was thinking and feeling along with hipnotizerom.106 

Cognitive activity without awareness 

The phenomenon of illuminations is well known: a person who stops to think about a difficult problem suddenly came to his decision or to the idea (her son and broke her lamp). Tinnin tried to cause this phenomenon by using hypnosis. 

Three students have been introduced in a hypnotic trance and told them that when they wake up, get to solve some algebraic tasks, such as: “How many plus Y2 Z2? They also said that the exact value of Y and Z indirectly get awake before their set task. 

Value Y for one of the respondents was the second digit in the left column of the sheet of paper that he showed after waking up. The value of Z was the fifth digit in the right column. This subject during a hypnotic trance was told he would be able to automatically choose the right digit, when he wakes up. He will then also automatically, to calculate the exact result which will then appear in his conscious mind. 

None of the respondents were not told to remember the instructions. However, they all gave the correct answer! One of the respondents saw the answer in the form of visual hallucinations. Others have experienced a sudden flash. The answer is, simply, appeared by itself. 

Tinnin was concluded that cognitive activity can use the data without the full recognition of the fact that such activity may be parallel and not interfere with ongoing conscious activity. 

Cognitive activity and psychological defense 

Research shows that creative people have better access to fluid, yet undeveloped ideas, but non-creative, and have fewer psychological defenses than others. 

Patricia Bowers suggested that the hypnotic trance could temporarily reduce the defense and, therefore, suggested his hypnotized subjects that they can be creative if you allow yourself to take advantage of all their relevant experience. They also suggested that nekonvencijski perceive things in a way that reveals aspects of the problem they have not noticed, you can ignore the critics, to remember the creative moments in the past, and to believe in their success on tests of creativity. 

The same suggestion has been received and nehipnotiziranih group of subjects who participated in relaxation, which lasted just like a hypnotic induction in the group hipnotiziranih subjects. 

In tests of creativity of the two groups did not differ before the experiment. But after receiving suggestions (one in the hypnotized and the other in a relaxed state), the results of the tests of creativity were significantly increased in groups hipnotiziranih subjects. 

Bowers concluded that the suggestions in the hypnotic trance, increased creative thinking – at least as much as it can be measured. 

Celebrities and Hypnosis 

Alfred Tennyson repeated himself a name by using them as a hypnotic mantra in order to achieve a particular state of mind in which he comes to mind the whole song. (Who says it’s difficult to write songs!) 

Mozart was reportedly his famous opera Così fan tutte composed in a hypnotized state.Bad Guys said that even without hypnosis know how they are all the same. 

Rachmaninoff is one of his concerts he composed the following posthipnotičku suggestion. 

Goethe and Chopin attended classes hypnosis at the University of Strasbourg. 

Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein used trance-like state to develop their ideas. 

During the Second World War Winston Churchill was counting backwards in intervals of three seconds to remain awake during the night and prevent him tired climb. 

Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud learned and practiced hypnosis. 

Louis XVI, King of France, established a commission that should investigate the healing powers mesmerisma (as at that time called hypnosis). On the committee were Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, philosopher and physicist, Antoine Lavoisier, chemist, and Joseph Guillotine, a physician and inventor. 

Jackie Kennedy Onassis was hipnoterapiju used to reduce the influence of some tragic events in her life. 

Mark Knopfler from the band Dire Straits, said he has quit smoking using hypnosis. 

Personal hypnotherapist Kevin Costner was traveling with him to Hawaii in order to heal from seasickness during the filming of Waterworld. In the film operates cured. 

Andy Bryant, the famous hair care consultant, came to the headlines when in a state of hypnosis without anesthesia undergo vasectomy. Immediately after surgery he returned to work.