I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was originally posted on February 23, 2016)
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“I can hypnotize anyone.”
Has anyone ever told you this? Do/did you believe them?
As I have explained in previous blogs, each one of us is in a light
state of trance at least twice each day: for 30 minutes when we wake up in the
morning and 30 minutes before we drift off to sleep each night. Other examples
include environmental
hypnosis and even believing the negative self-talk (chatter) we sometimes
tell ourselves when we’re having a bad day.
The first thing I tell every new client is to reassure, “You can only be hypnotized if you want to be.”
When you contact me by phone or e-mail, I can be fairly confident that you are
interested in hypnotherapy as a way to help change an unwanted behavior because
other strategies to do so have not been as effective as you wanted them to be.
Or, perhaps you are curious about hypnosis and how it works. Maybe you just
want to give it a try because you heard it is very relaxing and it worked for a
friend to reduce anxiety or helped a relative quit smoking. Whatever the
situation happens to be, hypnotherapy is always a choice. If you don’t want to
be hypnotized, you won’t be. This is also why I include the suggestion that you
will only enter the hypnotic state “with
your permission and only your permission.”
Perhaps you have watched a hypnosis demonstration on a cruise or at a
magic show. The hypnotist randomly picks people from the audience and/or asks
for volunteers to take part in the performance. The individuals who ultimately
get selected to participate are not chosen by accident. Before the
demonstration begins, the hypnotist has already identified and recognized
physiological changes that indicate who is already “going in” to hypnosis.
These are the ones who are most likely to be suggestible to instructions given
during the performance. Someone who does not volunteer or is sitting in the
audience shaking his head, etc., will probably not get asked to join the act. That’s
okay, because he probably wouldn’t want to anyway.
The same principle applies in hypnotherapy. During my training to become
a certified hypnotherapist at the Hypnosis
Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California, I learned a variety of
techniques to hypnotize someone. I learned how a client’s suggestibility
(how you learn) would determine and direct the words and phrases I use to
induce hypnosis. For example, if the client has an emotional suggestibility,
metaphors and images such as “your eyelids are feeling heavy” would be the most
effective way to encourage the person to close his eyes. Conversely, a physical
suggestible client would respond better to the direct and literal suggestion of
“your eyelids are closing.” Sometimes, if a person is highly analytical, the
most effective hypnotic induction is the auto-dual
technique, wherein the client essentially hypnotizes him- or herself.
Regardless of the technique I use during the induction, I use my client’s own
words in the hypnotic to describe goals, motivations and reasons to change an
unwanted behavior and achieve a vocational or avocational self-improvement
goal.
Since we are all most suggestible to ourselves, ultimately, it is the hypnotherapy
client—the person sitting in that chair or recliner—who is hypnotizing him- or
herself. Claiming to be able to hypnotize “anyone” is a bit of an overgeneralization.
Ultimately, the person being “hypnotized” must be suggestible to you and
willing to enter a hypnotic trance in the first place.
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