Clinical hypnosis, yoga practices and meditative states: the pathway to healing, awareness and higher consciousness in palliative care.

Definition of hypnosis: a state of inner absorption, concenration or focused attention which assists a client in altering some aspects of thought, emotion, behavior or perception. different responses to hypnosis altered state of consciousness. normal state of focused attention calm, relaxed, pleasant experience varied responsiveness to hypnosis inhibited by fears, concerns, common misconceptions (depictions of hypnosis in books, movies, television) (executive committee of the American Psychological Association Division of Psychological Hypnosis, 1993, fall. psychological hypnosis: a bulletin of Division 30, 2, p. 7.). What are yoga and meditative states? 'meditation of the self is contemplation, because the self consists of bliss, a knower of the self meditates by the self, upon the self, for ever.' (Darsana mala a garland of visions of the absolute viii. bhakti darsanam -vision by contemplation (verse 1). This workshop focuses on a review of scientific literature, about the use of clinical hypnosis and yoga practice, in palliative care, to relief pain and suffering.