FAQ on Meditation 031
What is the difference between meditation and self-hypnotism?
Meditation is the natural process of mental development. Self-hypnotism is an artificial process of conditioning your memory, so that some form of behaviour, feeling or sensation will be changed according to the conditions. A distinguishing feature of self-hypnosis is that it produces a loss of self-awareness, because the object of concentration used for hypnosis is external to the body. In true meditation, the object of concentration is inside the body and the more you meditate, the more the self-awareness increases.
Meditation is the natural process of mental development. Self-hypnotism is an artificial process of conditioning your memory, so that some form of behaviour, feeling or sensation will be changed according to the conditions. A distinguishing feature of self-hypnosis is that it produces a loss of self-awareness, because the object of concentration used for hypnosis is external to the body. In true meditation, the object of concentration is inside the body and the more you meditate, the more the self-awareness increases.