Good / Bad Hypnosis Subjects

      So, can everyone be hypnotized?  Are there good and bad subjects?  The answer is no, and yes.  I was trained that anyone with an IQ of seventy and over can be hypnotized if they want to be.  I’ve worked with the young and old and have even worked with children, children respond very well to hypnosis.  They usually drop like a rock - works great.  But…

      If a person has a fear of what you’re going to do or a misconception of what hypnosis is they won’t allow it to happen.  If they don’t know that you’re about to hypnotize them it probably won’t work, they’ll just look at you funny and ask you what the heck you’re doing.  Some people have that mile-a-minute syndrome.  They think and think, always thinking about something.  I had two of these just last week!  If a mile-a-minute person follows my simple instructions the whole process works very well.   If they don’t there isn’t much that I can do.  If they are thinking it’s as if they are interrupting me while I’m speaking to them, they are thinking over my verbiage and not listening.  My instructions to every client are very simple.  "Don’t think, don’t try, and when I ask you questions don’t think of the answer.  I want the very first thought, the very first impression that pops into your mind when I ask questions.  If you think of the answer it destroys the whole process.  If I were to ask you what your favorite color is and you blurt out kangaroo, then if kangaroo was your first thought, kangaroo is the right answer."

      So what can end up happening at times is that a mile-a minute client is in deep hypnosis but as I’m counting down for a regression and getting to the last number …  they don’t see anything or go anywhere.  "Are you inside or outside?"  They might say, "I think I’m inside."  I told you not to think!  Or they might say, "I don’t see anything."  A lot of people will think the very moment you give them the instructions.  "In a moment I’m going to lift your arm and drop it.  When it drops you’ll be six years old, and drop."  While you’re giving these instructions they will be cycling through old photographs in their mind trying to remember what they looked like or trying to remember where they lived when they were six years old.   Of course the regression fails because they’ve activated their conscious mind.

       Sometimes people have to learn to relax their minds.  I often give self-hypnosis CDs to clients who have this mile-a-minute syndrome and tell them to come back after they have listened to it for a week.  Most of the time they come back and go into deep hypnosis, they stop thinking through everything and we get the job done.  I want to talk to the feeling level mind not the analytical mind.  I want them to respond off of feelings, intuition, or having a hunch as if using their sixth sense.  I find that older people tend to not listen as well to instructions, older males in particular.  I’ve worked with ADD (ADHD) people as well and for them it’s actually not a deficiency in attention, it’s just that all noises and distractions hit them with the same attention value.  These things can be overcome and greatly improved if they are willing to do the work and if they are willing to do what you tell them to do.  Some people simply cannot follow directions.  For the most part this is a very small percentage of people and I have only failed once when trying on several occasions to hypnotize a particular person.  So pretty much everyone can be hypnotized but once in hypnosis it’s a matter of if they will follow directions from that point on and keep their mind quiet.

      In general hypnosis is a great tool for the masses.  Young and old, children and adults, most everyone can benefit greatly from this buried treasure called hypnosis.  If they truly want the change they are coming to me for, if they can follow simple directions and don’t think about the answer before answering, then hypnotherapy is incredible for curing or greatly helping most people.

Author Tim Bartley Excerpt from the book Hypno Healing by Tim Bartley http://ThoughtBecomesReality.com