I have received a ton of feedback on how to hypnotize a person. This technique besides using hypnosis also uses an NLP anchoring technique so you can return to this state. Almost everyone really enjoyed this exercise and had great results. Congratulations.
Some people, having never been in a purposeful trance, wanted to know whether or not they were truly hypnotized. They just weren’t sure if it had an affect or not. Hypnosis can also be thought of as focusing on one thought at a time, oblivious to all else going on.
Knowing for sure is a limiting factor in some people’s hypnosis. They keep running through their mind “Am I hypnotized?” “Am I doing this right?” “Is this working?” The answer is yes, and no. Yes it is working. No, now it’s not because rather than going on your mind is racing through the above questions and that becomes your focus.
So, here is the solution if you are not sure whether or not you are hypnotized. Pretend that you are. Pretend you are doing it right. Pretend it is working. Pretend you are hypnotized.
HUH?
The magic of the subconscious mind is that it cannot tell the difference between reality and make believe. If you make believe enough, your subconscious quits pretending and makes it happen. Here is an interesting fact.
Olympic athletes were hooked up to an array of measuring devices while they performed their event. Everything was recorded, brain function, heart rate, oxygen saturation, nerves firing, and everything else you can imagine. This data was collected. Then, the athletes were told to imagine doing their event. Just go through it in their mind, step by step. See themselves doing everything they do when they actually are performing their event. This data was collected and compared to when they actually did the action.
The result? Almost ZERO noticeable difference between the two. The more they ran it through in their minds, the less difference between actually doing it. Heart race increased, same muscles fired, same nerve impulses, same brain function.
So, the moral of the story? Fake it till you make it. It all works. With this ind mind, visit again how to hypnotize a person.
January 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I read about a similar study wherein the author claimed that a violinist benefited more from imagining practice while hypnotized than they did from actual practice while not hypnotized.