Waking Hypnosis & Suggestibility Tests
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If you see someone yawn or imagine someone yawning, you probably will yawn. Lets say you’re sitting at a ball game and you’re really into it and feeling comfortable, then someone makes a comment like, “Boy, it is hot out here.” Right at that moment you feel the heat, “Wow it is hot!” You begin to sweat. Here’s one for the medical community. Imagine the guy who just had a heart attack and they’re wheeling him into the hospital where he then looks up to the doctor and asks, “Doc, am I going to make it?” The doctor looks down and says, “We’ll do the best we can.” The patient then thinks to himself, “Oh no, I’m going to die.” Why didn’t that doctor just say, “Your fine, this same thing happens in here every single day. You’ll be out of here by tomorrow or the next day, no worries.”
Even words can be waking hypnosis. A nurse asks you, “How is your pain today?” The word pain brings on pain. It’s a “Painted” word. Wouldn’t it be better to use the word discomfort? What if a person is unconscious and pulled out of a wrecked car then placed into the ambulance, “Oh, we’ve got a bleeder, this doesn’t look good, I hope we can save him.” Even if that person is unconscious it still goes into the subconscious and is interpreted by the inner mind. Waking hypnosis is a form of disguised hypnosis. Ghengis Kahn, Adolph Hitler, Chuck Swindol were all con men. Con men look for your weaknesses and bypass your critical factor. They fire in suggestions and the next thing you know you’re doing something you never intended to do.
Suggestibility
Suggestibility and suggestibility tests, what is this? These are tests given to people in order to “Size them up” before hypnosis. What the hypnotist wants to determine is whether the person can pretend or imagine. Can they follow simple directions? There are many of these types of tests so we’ll only go through a few of them. Hypnotists sometimes use these before a formal induction into hypnosis to see how the person will respond. He might use them in group settings to pick out the best candidate and the most suggestible, to come up to the stage for a demonstration.
Let’s say you are the hypnotist, you’re up in front of a group of people and you will later be picking out a person or two to hypnotize. You want to get the best subjects for the demonstration right? So you want to use a suggestibility test and here’s a good one… “Okay, everyone stand up. Place both of your arms out in front of you, palms up. Close your eyes and now imagine that you are holding two buckets, one in each hand. Imagine that the bucket in your right hand is very heavy, its filled half way with sand. The bucket in your left hand, however, is so light as if it is filled half way with feathers. Your right arm is getting so heavy – even heavier now as I pour water into that bucket. Imagine now that bucket is filled half way up with wet sand. Your left hand bucket is lighter though, it’s a breezy day and most of the feathers have blown out, it even feels as though the feathers are actually helping lift that bucket higher and higher. The bucket on the right is now extremely heavy as I pour even more sand in, all the way to the top, you can barely hold it up now…”
Another popular test is the hands clasped test. This one works much the same way as any other. You have the subject clasp their hands together and give many suggestions that their hands are so tight, their hands are just made from one solid block of wood. The hypnotist gives several suggestions that the hands are indeed one. Now the harder they try to pull them apart the more locked down they become! Of course some people will easily pull their hands apart and others will not be able to.
So if someone fails a suggestibility test does that make them un-hypnotizable? No it doesn’t. In fact I really don’t use these even when I am a guest speaker somewhere and will later be hypnotizing someone out of the crowd. Maybe that’s an error on my part but I’ve hypnotized so many people and very rarely have I failed at it. The people that fail at becoming hypnotized are the ones that are thinking too much or have fears about going into the state of hypnosis. I always dispel the fears before working with anyone but I occasionally run into someone who just won’t stop thinking. I dub these people with having the, “Mile-a-Minute Syndrome.” Most of these mile-a-minute subjects I can hypnotize but when I try to take them back in time, to regress them, it doesn’t work because they are thinking too much. Some are thinking so much that I can’t even hypnotize them! Let’s face it, all I’m doing is talking and if someone is mentally already talking over me there’s not much I can do. I don’t keep a mallet under the chair to knock them in the head even though sometimes I wish I did. My goal is to speak to the feeling level mind not the analytical mind.
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Author Tim Bartley Excerpt from the book Hypno Healing by Tim Bartley http://ThoughtBecomesReality.com
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