PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. Both meditation and hypnosis can lead to an altered state of consciousness. A relaxed and focused state can be achieved without drugs through guidance or suggestion. Hypnosis is often used to stop unhealthy behaviors, and meditation is used to increase awareness by focusing attention.

Detailed explanation-2: -"An altered state of consciousness (ASC) may be defined as a temporary change in the overall pattern of subjective experience, such that the individual believes that his or her mental functioning is distinctly different from certain general norms for his or her normal waking state of consciousness".

Detailed explanation-3: -Physical and physiological. One the most common ways to achieve an altered state of consciousness is sleep, where we dream and dissociate from reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -Conditions such as being knocked unconscious or being in a coma are not altered states of consciousness as the person involved has no control over their reality. Altered states of consciousness can occur from any of the following: Psychoactive drug/substance use.