Self Hypnosis Techniques

Hypnosis has been defined as a condition of increased suggestibility in which the subject is ready to uncritically accept ideas for self improvement and act on them reasonably. When a hypnotist hypnotizes his subject, it is commonly known as hetero-hypnosis. When an individual puts himself into a condition of hypnosis, it is often known as self-hypnosis. In every case, the subject has achieved a heightened state of suggestibility. Even in hetero-hypnosis, the subject really controls the response to recommendations. In actual fact all hypnosis is a matter of self-hypnosis. The subject enters into the hypnotic state when he's completely prepared to do so. This may need from one to several attempts before it is accomplished. Even if the subject insists that he would like to be hypnotised instantly, he could be resisting hypnosis subconsciously.

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In self-hypnosis a similar thing customarily occurs. The subject is anxious to attain self-hypnosis, but somehow the state eludes him. What's wrong? It may be that he is unknowingly resisting it, has not conditioned himself satisfactorily, or has achieved the hypnotic state and doesn't know he's in the state. This last statement could be surprising, but we will examine it in detail a while later on.

Most professionals agree that about ninety percent of the populace can be hypnotised. My feeling is that probably ninety nine percent can be hypnotised. Who among us is not influenced by suggestion? Are not we all, as we have seen, influenced by the ideas of advertising? Don't everyone has an inclination to believe what we read in the paper, hear on the radio or see on TV? Are not we all sure that a name-brand article trumps one that is not so well-known?

Suggestion plays a fantastically important role in our day-to-day lives. It starts from naming the baby with an acceptable name to securing an appropriate place for interment. I would like to call the reader's attention to an interesting book dealing with the comatose reasons why we do lots of the things which we do. You'll be charmed with each page of the book. It is named The concealed Persuaders by Vance Packard.

My contention is that we're all suggestible and, therefore , being hypnotised or hypnotizing ourselves is merely a matter of augmenting the suggestibility that we already possess. Doesn't the hypnotist begin by advising relaxation? Doesn't he customarily start by asking for the subject to fix his attention on a particular object? Next, he recommends to the subject that his eyes are becoming heavy and tired. As quickly as the subject closes his eyes, he recommends that he's going to be in a deep hypnotic state. I am absolutely certain you're familiar with this process. With every step, the hypnotist is guiding the subject along directed lines to make him accept further proposals without any question or doubt. [13] When the subject achieves the final state in this process, he has been hypnotised. He then accepts recommendations without equivocation.

Let us go on with this same thought. Suppose I say to you, "I'm going to stick you with this pin. It won't hurt." Would you let me stick you with the pin? Obviously not. Let us imagine you have been hypnotised and I repeat the same recommendation. What occurs then? You quickly accept the suggestion as being factual. Should I carry on to stick you with the pin, you don't even flinch. Actually you do not even feel the agony. Does this sound amazing? Isn't this exactly the same process that the dentist uses with his patient when he has hypnotised him for the purpose of pain-free dentistry?