hypnosis

No hypnotist can hypnotize me, tried it, failed.
Apparently I have "unconsciouss resistance to it" like I want to be hypnotized but actually don't, even when I think I want to....weird stuff.

I think it steems from my trust issues somehow.

But I have seen it working to other people, I would surely recommend anyone to give it a go.

 

You should be glad that you were not vulnerable enough to be hypnotized.

The modern practice of hypnotism receives a great heritage from a practice formerly called "mesmerism." The dictionary even makes mention of the man from whom this word comes:

Mesmer developed a theory of "animal magnetism," in which he supposed all nature, animate and inanimate alike, was affected by some force of nature akin to gravity. His "success" lay, not in the magnets that he used--he himself knew there was no actual power in the magnet to effect the cures he would attribute to it--but rather in the belief of the patient in his magnet.

He was later labeled a charlatan when his practices were found to be entirely without scientific evidence. For example, patients were said to receive healing when they would touch a "magnetized" tree--but then, when they would touch an ordinary tree, they were observed to be healed as well. There was no science behind it; he was a gifted actor.

There is still little more than hand-waving, smoke and mirrors to hypnotism today. Any actual "benefit" of it that may come comes from spiritualistic powers, not from anything benign.

I would encourage people to stay far, far away from it.

 

Hi all, I work in hypnotherapy so if you are interested I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. If you want I could even set up a little zoom group or call, I know it sounds surprising but it even works as a technique online. It can certainly help with addictions when the individual is truly motivated to stop. As far as being 'hypnotisable' or not, basically everyone is hypnotisable to some extent. Every time we sit down to watch a film at the cinema we allow ourselves to relax into a state of semi-acceptance, right? We know what is on the screen isn't real but we allow ourselves to become part of it for our own enjoyment. We choose to hypnotise ourselves, in effect.

Hypnosis is a very natural state, we flit into and out of it at will just by falling onto autopilot. What you are talking about typically in terms of 'not being hypnotisable' is a wish to retain control, a fear that if you let go all those demons that you've been hiding within for years will emerge and some poor therapist will see the true monster inside! But you know, everyone wears a mask. Some people wear that mask for such a long time that they forget who they really are beneath it, just how much more than the mask they truly are. We need to separate the behaviours, which are learned, from the person beneath who is just trying to be happy and free from pain at heart.

The greatest act of control is in letting go, and so rapport and trust between you and the hypnotherapist is crucial. You have probably seen the stage hypnotists weeding out the tougher individuals and going for the easy people on stage, they are jjust looking for the ones most eager to be hypnotised and act the fool on stage, in other words the exhibitionists. But in a therapeutic environment its very different. A hypnotherapist doesn't get to choose which patients he works with and which he sends back down into the crowd! So the first thing to do is to talk it all through until the client really wants to be in that comfortable state of hypnosis. Its a great state, truly. It opens your eyes and your heart to everything inside you, something I truly believe everyone can benefit from. It releases tension, you tend to sleep better, you relax and start to accept yourself as you truly are. Honestly, its a wonderful state.

 

haha goddamn.