What is the difference between hypnosis and trance?

why and how so for this?

Thanks for your answers!

Hello

Hypnosis is an induced trance state.

Sadhara

Trance denotes a variety of processes, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
The term "trance" may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer. It may also be related to the earlier generic term, altered states of consciousness, which is no longer used in "Consciousness Studies" discourse.

Hypnosis is a wakeful state of focused attention[1] and heightened suggestibility,[2] with diminished peripheral awareness.[3]
According to the American Psychological Association's Division 30, hypnosis may bring about "...changes in subjective experience, alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought or behavior."[6] The hypnotic state may also facilitate change in the body: it has been successfully used as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome,[7] as an alternative to chemical anaesthesia,[8][9][10] and it has been studied as a way to soothe skin ailments.[11]
Skeptics point out the difficulty distinguishing between hypnosis and the placebo effect, proposing that the state called hypnosis is
"so heavily reliant upon the effects of suggestion and belief that it would be hard to imagine how a credible placebo control could ever be devised for a hypnotism study.[12]"
Self-hypnosis is popularly used by people who want to quit smoking[13] and reduce stress,[14] while stage hypnosis can be used to persuade people to perform unusual public feats.

Trance is the state of altered awareness brought about by hypnosis.This is the state where the subject can accept suggestions without conscious blocks. Learn more on how hypnosis works at:http://hubpages.com/hub/How-does-hypnosi...

Hypnosis seeks to induce a trance state.

Regards,
Glenn
www.hypnosispioneer.com