Posted by blake
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I don't think many people understand what hypnosis is. It has nothing to do with how strong or weak one’s mental energies are. Hypnosis is a natural process of the brainwaves slowing down until we enter a state of unconscious sleep. If a person can not be hypnotized, then they cannot fall asleep.
Singing is the ability to create pitch or notes with one’s vocal chords, and string those notes into a melody. Many people say they can’t sing. They actually mean they don’t sing well. Some of us sing well without any special training, and some of us need a lot of training to sing a simple melody; but we all can sing, just like we all can walk, unless there is some physical issue such as deafness, or damage to the vocal chords for singing, and damage to the muscles, nerves or bones for walking. In the case of hypnosis, the issue would brain damage.
Only a small percentage of the population is talented, with natural hypnotic ability, to get on stage, without any training, and perform for the hypnotist as they do. What percentage of people can sit down and play a piano by ear without any training?
In a clinical setting, just like the “white coat syndrome” in a doctor’s office of having higher blood pressure that one actually has because of nervousness, humans can interfere with the natural process of relaxing the brainwaves because of various stress factors. There are many reason why after several tries, one therapist could not help you into a hypnotic state. Because you did not enter an overt hypnotic state is not evidence that suggests you can’t be hypnotized. I assure you, you can be hypnotized, or you wouldn’t be so eloquent with your writing. Also, hypnotists vary with their skills and talent, and with client rapport.
But then again, one can decide not to be hypnotized and usually they can guard it from happening unless the hypnotist quickly does something known as a shock induction, that quickly by passes the mental guard. It is a process that I have seen many times, and experienced myself. But this post is already getting too long. But if you have interest, I can write a little more about it later. An interesting book to read is called, “Secret Don’t Tell.”
So many hypnotists are trained to believe, and tell their clients that they cannot be hypnotized to do anything against one’s will. This is true that the odds are, that in just a few sessions the hypnotist wouldn’t be able to hypnotize you to do things against your will. But with time put in to training a subject hypnotically, just like the time needed for an Olympian swimmer, anyone can be hypnotized to be a killer on command. But not by the local clinical hypnotist/ therapist helping you to stop smoking. Hypnosis deals with the mind, and the mind is very deep, very powerful, and mysterious; and so is hypnosis when you go beyond the surface of most weekend trained practitioners.