He then at the age of 43 moved to Paris. Mesmer had great fame and success until a group of people one of which was Benjamin Franklin began to investigate him. The group concluded that the people who were cured had done so with the powers of their own imagination and that their cure had nothing to do with Franz Anton Mesmer and his magnets. By setting your blog up to be interactive, you can learn from others as well as allowing them to learn from you. This will give you basically a social networking site that gives everyone a chance to learn and grow with their journey through self hypnosis. As with anything else , having people to share ideas, successes and failures with allows for you to have a support system. I polled more people to get a better understanding from the view point of people as to why with so much skeptics surrounding hypnosis and even self hypnosis are hypnotists still able to receive a large number of new and repeat clients. Men and women both seemed to view this from the same standing. What I learned was that in the mind s of people this business is flourishing because despite skeptics people are willing to try anything to get what they want. People who can not be hypnotized are just making the choice not to be hypnotized. You have to choose to enter that state of mind no one can force you to. So if you make a conscious choice not to be hypnotized then you will not be hypnotized. This does not mean though that you can not be hypnotized. Myth #5-Hypnosis is unsafe Actually hypnosis is safe as it deals with a very natural state of the human mind. After all when we read a book we do become engrossed in the book and allow our minds to conjure up images that go with what we are reading. While reading a book you have conjured up the images and your emotions will also follow suit to fit the book. Researchers and scientist also show that watching a movie is also a form of self hypnosis. Jef Gazley has put together a great audio tape called Pain Reduction that can be used during a self hypnosis session. Jef Gazley is a certified hypnotherapist who has over 33 years of clinical experience. With the use of the books and the audio tape you will be able to advance through self hypnosis and have your pain under control.