In learning to hypnotize you must first learn to recognize suggestibility. As you gain experience you will develop an intuitive feeling about the suggestibility of the individual – but in the beginning of your career, you can give tests to discover your subject’s initial level of suggestibility. The subject must be somewhat relaxed and free… [Read More]
Changing Fixed Ideas
When an idea is presented to an adult mind it is screened against the accumulation of knowledge, experience and the interpretation which is stored in the “critical factor of the conscious mind.” It’s function is to act as a filtering screen, so that when ideas are presented we have a way of analyzing them. We… [Read More]
Suggestibility, Gullibility, and Goal Setting
A suggestion is an idea that reaches the mind through the five physical senses and/or the basic perceptions. When you read a book, you discover many ideas but they can become suggestions only when they begin to move into your internal mental system. When you begin to classify and identify and filter them as “Now,… [Read More]
The Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Many experts believe that there are only two main approaches to the induction of hypnosis; paternal and maternal, or authoritarian and permissive but that’s a meaningless concept which has no connection with this work as I teach it. The “Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy” is the title of a paper that was presented In the journal… [Read More]
Overcoming resistance to hypnosis
There is no such thing as a good subject or a bad subject. Everyone has a natural capacity for response and it is within our human nature to respond. However, there are differences in the response level and many call the difference “resistance”. Let’s create a scenario. You are in your office with a client… [Read More]
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