Abstract
Experimental successes have been achieved in enhancing creativity in drawing, playing piano, solving mathematical problems, performing attention tests, and learning the words of a foreign language through the use of a specific form of active hypnosis. What is learned while engaged in the activity in hypnosis persists afterwards through a kind of momentum (inertia) that begins in hypnosis but continues after awakening, without depending on posthypnotic suggestion. The method includes imagining by the hypnotized subject that he is an important historical person in the field of activity, such as a famous artist or pianist. The procedure mobilizes potentialities that may be unknown to the person. A theoretical account is given.

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