An investigation of how the creative trance works across multiple domains in the arts, sciences, sports, and self-transformation.

This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions - Stephen Gilligan's generative trance. The first generation of trance work, the traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first 'knocking out' the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to programme the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person's own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and depotentiate it with confusion techniques.

In those moments when focus on creative work overrides input from the outside world, we are in a creative trance. This psychologically significant altered state of consciousness is inherent in everyone. It can take the form of daydreams generating scientific or creative ideas, hyperfocus in sports, visualizations that impact entire civilizations, life-changing audience experiences, or meditations for self-transformation that may access states beyond trance, becoming gateways to transcendence. Artist and psychologist Tobi Zausner shows how creative trance not only operates in scientific inventions and works of art in all media, but is also important in creating and recreating the self. Drawing on insights from cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology and post-materialist psychology, this book investigates the diversity of the creative trance ranging from non-industrial societies to digital urban life, and its presence in people from all backgrounds and abilities. Finally, Zausner investigates the future of trance in our rapidly changing world.

This book will help you learn how to get CREATIVE BLISS ‘organically’, nurture your creative and expressive spirit by using powerful states of Mind and tapping into your Intuition & also your sensual life force. We ALL have powerful creative energies within us and our authentic expression is waiting for an outlet. This book helps you open those inner channels. This container is for anyone who intends to connect with their creative & expressive powers, let go of inner resistance and fears in the context, seek solutions from ‘within’, be it personal or professional, feel confident about their creation, needs creative inspiration, understand and tap into Creative Trance organically and attain that bliss, learn how to tap into Flow and Intuition & also work with the structure to bring about holistic powerful outcomes, create various art forms, generate ideas, build powerful rapport with their intuition, connect with their sensuality, tap into powerful states of mind, seek newness and variety in way of life/perspective/approach towards work and lead a creatively fulfilling and joyfully expressive life with less of struggle and more of ease.