He believed that all things in nature shared a common magnetic force, and disease could be cured through a magnetic field ( Hammond, 2013). Modern hypnosis could be traced back to Franz Mesmer’s (1734–1815) animal magnetism theory in the 1770s.
The treatment involved chanting, meditation, fasting, placing the patients into a trance-like or hypnotic state, and analyzing their dreams, etc. Many of them were psychological in nature. Sleep temples could heal a variety of ailments. Apart from China, the “Sleep Temples” in ancient Greek and Roma centuries were used to induce a sleep-like state ( Muthu, 1930), which can be regarded as the earliest hypnosis-like state. It mentioned a healing method called “Zhu You,” which appears to have many elements in common with hypnosis from a modern perspective ( Yao, 2010). In China, the earliest recorded text on hypnosis was in the Huangdi Neijing. Hypnosis is generally believed to have existed since ancient societies ( Hammond, 2013). Thus, evidence is provided in favor of the use of hypnosis in the sports industry.
In light of this, this essay firstly reviews the history of hypnosis before carrying out the methods of a literature review and a logical analysis to explore the applications of hypnosis in sports. Meanwhile, hypnosis is an effective psychological training method to be used in daily training and competitions. With the development of China’s economy and state power in the last decades, Chinese people were beginning to attach importance to the investment and development of the sports industry and realized that the psychological quality of the athletes is often a decisive factor in the success or failure of the competition. Therefore, people’s understanding and applications of hypnosis remain inadequate. A local form of traditional Chinese “hypnosis” appeared in Huangdi Neijing, but it has not received enough attention from Chinese people China’s modern hypnosis development is later than that of American and European countries. By the 20th century, scientists and psychologists had re-recognized and studied hypnosis and explored its applications in fields such as medicine, education, and military uses.
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