THE DEFINITION OF SELF HYPNOSIS:

Hypnosis is a condition of hyper-suggestibility where the conscious mind and the unconscious mind dissociate. It is a state of mind where the subject is more likely to believe the operator’s suggestions.

You have been in hypnosis many times without even recognizing the state. If you have ever seen a sad television show and reacted with a tear in your eye,Hypnosis – Just What Is The Simple Truth? Articles you have been in a state of hypnosis. You entered a state of increased suggestibility where you uncritically accepted the idea of gloom on the TV screen and reacted with a sad emotion, your tear. In other words, your reasoning ability, which is contained in your conscious mind, was bypassed. You did not reason that the show was just a play; you accepted the action as being real. So you reacted with real passion and shed a tear.

WHO CAN BE HYPNOTIZED?

Hypnotists have discovered that all normal people are hypnotizable to a greater or lesser extent. Subjects with the I.Q. of the moron level of intelligence or lower generally are not hypnotizable. People who are in an active state of psychosis by and large are not hypnotizable www.thecollegeofnlp.com. Most senile people are impossible to hypnotize. I have found in my own hypnosis practice dealing with a large number of retired people up to 85 years of age, that hypnotherapy is a powerful and beneficial process for the majority of people. An individual’s personal motivation is the key to his or her success.

DO I HAVE TO BE A “DEEP” HYPNOTIC SUBJECT TO BE SUCCESSFUL?

For the therapeutic applications of hypnotherapy we most often deal with, hypnotic depth of any kind is not required. A subject can be the lightest possible subject and still receive all of the benefits from hypnotherapy that the deepest subjects will receive. I strongly feel that over the years, far too much importance has been placed on how deep a subject is. If the subject is deep, it could be beneficial. This however, may not necessarily be the case. Actually, with the latest hypnotic techniques like Ericksonian hypnotherapy and state of the art “NLP” (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), the depth of the hypnotic state is one of the least imperative aspects, which contribute to a successful outcome.

ARE THERE ANY DANGERS IN SELF HYPNOSIS?

There are fundamentally no dangers to the practice of hypnotherapy. It is not possible to “get stuck” in hypnotherapy. The worst thing that could happen while a client is in the hypnotic state is that she might fall into a natural state of sleep for twenty or thirty minutes. She would awaken rested and out of the state of self-hypnosis.

MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT A HYPNOTIC STATE:

There are many misnomers about hypnotherapy. Most of the misnomers are due to stage and television shows. As luck would have it, it is because of the fact that the television can hypnotize you that these misnomers are so strongly ingrained in people’s minds.