Hello! I am Alan B. Densky and I'd like to welcome you to my series on hypnotherapy and NLP. My goals in this series are to entertain you and to educate you about these modalities as well as to give you a set of tools that you can actually use to make rapid changes in your life and your lifestyle. This is Chapter Two in Hypnosis 101 Series. In Chapter One, we discussed exactly what Hypnosis is. Today's topic is the misconceptions about Hypnosis.
How many times that you heard someone say, 'I could never be hypnotized.' So it may interest you to know exactly who can be hypnotized. It's been found that all normal people are hypnotizable to a greater or lesser extent. People with less than a 70 I.Q. or even lower, generally are not hypnotizable. People who are in an active state of psychosis generally are not hypnotizable, and most senile people are difficult or impossible to hypnotize.
I have found in my own private practice dealing with a large number of retired people as old as 85 years of age, that hypnosis is a potent and beneficial method for most people. The person's motivation is the key to his or her success.
So for those of you who still insist that, you can't be hypnotized, which category would you feel fall into? Do you have a very low I.Q.? Are you actively psychotic, or are you just senile? Another common question that I hear from new clients is, 'Do I have to be a deep subject for success?
It's true, different people are able to go to different levels or depths of hypnosis, some are shallow subjects, some are able to go to a moderate depth of hypnosis, and some are able to go to a very deep level. While it's true that being able to go to a deep level hypnosis can be beneficial in some instances, for the therapeutic application of hypnosis, we most do often deal with, depth of any kind is not required. You could be the lightest possible subject and still receive all the benefits from the hypnotherapy that the deepest subjects will obtain.
I strongly feel that over the years, far too much importance has been placed on how deep a subject is, especially by traditional hypnotist whose therapy mainly consists of post-hypnotic suggestion, which has a very poor track record of success.
If the subject is deep, it could be beneficial. This, however, is not necessarily the case. Actually with the latest hypnotic techniques like Ericksonian Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and state of the art Neuro VISION, depth of hypnosis is one of the least important aspects which contribute to success. In the next chapter, Chapter Three, we will discuss the dangers of hypnosis and self-hypnosis, whether hypnosis is sleep, what it feels like to be hypnotized, and if the hypnotist can control you or make you give up your secrets.
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