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Susceptibility To Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a fascination field of study – it’s a way of exploring the uncharted territories of our minds.
Hypnosis has been successfully used for medical, therapeutic, business and personal matters.
Just a couple of months ago, the Queen Fabiola of Belgium at the age of 80 years used hypnosis instead of drugs to undergo surgery without the use of anesthetic drugs. Medical doctors performed open heart surgery with patients successfully only by sedating them with hypnosis.
But different people have different kinds of hypnotic susceptibility. Some people can experience deep hypnotic trances very easily. Others seem almost “unhypnotizable”.
Research has shown that about 10% of the population is extremely hypnotizable. Then there is about 70-80% of the population who have medium hypnotizability. And then there are 10-20% of the population who have a very hard time to experience hypnotic states.
What is the reason for that? Well, just as each one of us has his or her own personality traits, his or her own fingerprint, each and every one of us also has his or her own way of going into trance.
This is specially true for those 10-20% who are seemingly “unhypnotizable”. These people go into hypnotic states in very different ways from the majority of the population. Trying to hypnotize them with the methods that work for the majority of the population is just not gonna do it. It’s like trying to open a lock with the wrong key. It won’t work. But that doesn’t mean that something is wrong with the lock – it’s just the key. If you have the right key, the lock will open.
Unfortunately, most hypnotists don’t have those “keys”. They learned the standard procedures with slight variations, and they are satisfied with that. They call those “unhypnotizable” clients resistant, and tell them: if you don’t really want to be hypnotized, then I can’t hypnotize you.
The sad part is that many of these people paid a lot of money because they wanted to be hypnotized. But they just can’t if the hypnotist doesn’t come up with a hypnotic induction that suits their mental blueprint.
Everybody is hypnotizable. It doesn’t matter if you’re left-brain or right-brain dominant. It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old. It doesn’t matter if you’re smart or dumb. It doesn’t matter if you’re this or that.
What matters is that you get the kind of hypnotic induction that suits you. That’s the problem with all those “hypnosis CDs”. They are done to suit “the majority”, but people with a different kind of hypnotic susceptibility won’t respond to that.
In fact, hypnotic susceptibility can change over time for each one of us. Research indicates that prolonged isolation and sensory deprivation lead to enhanced susceptibility.
It can also be “trained”, by exercising the mind in specific manners. If one extremely absorbs himself in imaginative activity, this has shown to enhance hypnotic susceptibility.
Michael Diamond reported about studies that tried to alter susceptibility by experimenting with music, psychedelic drugs, operant conditioning, relaxation training, biofeedback and other methods. These studies haven’t been scaled up to be confirmed, but on a small scale it worked.
If you want to experience hypnotic states of consciousness but are having trouble to let go of conscious control, the first thing you should do is relax. There is nothing wrong with your way of doing things. Finding a skilled hypnotist, learning more about the hypnotic process and exercising your mind are all things that you can do to enhance your hypnotic susceptibility.
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Hypnotic Visualization To Excel In Studies
As you read this article and grasp every word present here, you would be well aware of the facts of hypnotic visualization that can undoubtedly lead you to success. This technique is extremely helpful in the time of exams.
Its my genuine requests to you, read this article only if you have the strength and determination to follow otherwise its waste. The best rewards for a writer is when his reader follows or at least try to follow what the writer is trying to convey. I don’t want quantity readers rather I want quality readers. So, try to be the best because you cannot be the best unless you try…
Now, your hypnotic journey begins
All you have to do is to visualize both your study session and test taking. Every day as you practice your goal-getting exercise and visualize your goals and adjust your daily activities as per that goal, similarly you have to make sure that you visualize yourself doing extremely well in your exams and giving your best shot.
As you do it regularly, within no time you will find out that gone through that exam or target as you have visualized.
The hypnotic session has six stages. They are
1. Going into trance: This is the foremost stage of hypnosis. In this stage, a person goes into the state of trance.
2. Deepening trance: In this stage the state of deepened and the person goes into deep relaxed state.
3. Stage of Suggestions: This is the third stage of hypnotic session. In this hypnotic state, your subconscious mind is highly receptive to positive suggestions.
4. Visualization: This is the most important stage of hypnotic session. In this stage your mind visualizes the benefits that you will get after doing a particular task. In this hypnotic visualization stage, you visualize the thing, which has not yet happened. In other words you visualize your future, which in turn gives you the strength to achieve that future.
5. Triggers: This stage of hypnotic session is as important as the stage of visualization. In this stage, you will give a trigger action to all that have visualized. So that whenever you need that strength and power of your visualization, you get that at just a trigger of your fingers.
6. Coming out of hypnotic trance: This is the last stage of hypnotic session. In this session, you come out of the hypnotic state at a certain count. As soon as you come out of the hypnotic session, you will feel light, refreshed and relaxed.
Hypnotic visualization Exercise: This exercise, which I’m going to tell you, now, is one of the powerful hypnotic visualization exercises of its kind. Work out on this exercise to get the best outcome.
Practice Session: Practice this hypnotic visualization exercise at least twice or thrice a week. Make it a part of your daily routine and how it helps you to achieve your visualized goals.
Picture yourself in your selected study spot – feel the atmosphere around you – feel total calm and comfort around you – now visualize yourself lost in your studies with full concentration – no though disturbs you in this state – visualize yourself as actually enjoying studying – picture yourself as literally absorbing the knowledge.
Now visualize yourself getting great grades in your exams – imagine the benefit that you get after the little hard-work – visualize how proud your parents would feel of you – visualize how your life would you – feel the enthusiasm of being on top of the world – imagine how happy your friends would be – imagine how would you feel – simply visualize and let the thoughts flow….
Practice this hypnotic visualization exercise 2 to 3 times a week and see the difference (assured).
Make your life worthy for your loved ones (with hypnotic visualization) because they too have a share in your life…
Pradeep Aggarwal is a renowned Hypnosis & NLP guru with career spanning two and half decades He is also a much sought after speaker and peak performance consultant for Organizations and Sport Teams. Visit Hypnosis Global for free 6 part mini course to learn Self Hypnosis and Personal Transformation.
Losing Weight With Hypnosis
What if I were to tell you that there’s an affordable, easy way to lose weight that will actually make you desire healthy foods and exercise? You’d demand to know what this “weight loss secret” was, wouldn’t you? Well the secret it hypnosis and let me tell you how it works and who has been using it with great success.
Hypnosis may be one of the most misunderstood and underutilized tools of self improvement out there. But when it comes to weight loss there really is nothing quite like it. Even celebrities like Lily Allen and Courtney Love have admitted to using hypnosis to lose weight and they have both gushed about how helpful it has been.
How Does Weight Loss Hypnosis Work?
You may think that hypnosis is a very complex process but in reality it can be described very easily. A hypnotherapist will first begin with some friendly banter to relax their client before they begin the session. Then they will guide them into a state very similar to a deep relaxation. At no point are they unconscious or asleep, in fact most people usually remember everything said to them even when they’re in a deep hypnotic trance. At this point the mind is very open and receptive of beneficial suggestions, this is when the hypnotherapist will help the client to realise why and how they must lose weight. Once this has been completed the hypnotherapists will usually countdown from ten to one where the client will open their eyes and return to their natural state. Personal weight loss hypnosis programs like this typically take between three and five visits.
How Much Weight Can I Lose Using Hypnosis?
The answer to this question depends on how much you weigh. People who are a hundred pounds and really want to lose all that weight can do just that with the proper hypnotic suggestions. Similarly people who are just looking to slim down for the summer season can successfully achieve a smaller amount of weight loss, say six pounds.
It is important to note that hypnosis isn’t some sort of “magic wand” for weight loss. The weight loss you will achieve with hypnosis will be slow and steady. This is the healthiest way to lose weight as it won’t shock your system like many fad diets do which then leads to putting the weight straight back on.
What Is This Gastric Band Hypnosis I’ve Heard About?
Gastric Band Hypnosis is a relatively new technique in the field. Basically the hypnotherapists convinces the subconscious mind (this is the part of the mind which houses eating habits) that the client actually has a real gastric band fit inside of them. This results in a big reduction in appetite. There are pros and cons to this. While this can result in very fast weight loss, this is not the healthiest way to go about losing weight, however, if a person is severely overweight this could be a viable alternative to getting a dangerous surgery. In general though it is much better to stick to the more tradition form of hypnosis.
How Much Does Weight Loss Hypnosis Cost?
Weight loss hypnosis is actually very affordable now thanks to the advent of the internet. In fact it is much less expensive than less effective alternatives such as diet clubs, pills, formulas and so on. Now you can find great weight loss hypnosis sessions recorded by experienced hypnotherapists for less than $20 on CD or MP3. They are very easy to use, most require you to listen to them once a day for a few weeks and then once a month thereafter. This will change your eating habits and give you all the motivation you need to start losing weight.
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How To Use Hypnotic Conversation
Imagine you were able to get what you wanted by properly conveying your desires to others simply by speaking to them. Can you imagine if you had the Rasputin touch? Do you think that being able to impact your listeners to see things as you do through only your words would be a valuable asset to have in your personal arsenal? Do you think it would be beneficial to you to be able to use language in a way that really drives home your idea or the meaning that you are wishing to share with someone else?
Would you like to gain a greater influence over situations in your life that require some form of negotiation? Perhaps you would like to be more in control in your business relationships, social interactions or perhaps your love relationship could benefit from your ability to clearly and powerfully express your point in a way that is totally understood by the other party involved.
This article is going to introduce you to Hypnotic Language and how you can use it very effectively to tip the balance well in your favour in situations were any type of negotiation is needed. I am now going to teach you how to use a special language that speaks directly to the subconscious mind of your listener without them ever being aware of what you are doing.
Very clever hypnotists and NLP practitioners developed a way of manipulating common language words in order to fully relax their hypnotic subjects during hypnosis sessions. Through using hypnotic language in trance sequences and seeing how effective it was at influencing the listener NLP practioners and hypnotists took it a step further and developed hypnotic conversation that could be used in everyday situations. Hypnotic conversation is an extremely simple yet highly effective technique used to influence the listener subliminally to obey certain commands you give them. Hypnotists use this all the time however, it is begining to be used in the business world as more and more people want to gain that extra edge. This hypnotic language is extremely subtle and goes completely unnoticed by 99% of the population.
The technique itself is simple to perform but hard to explain. It starts with your tone of voice and it is your intonement of certain words that holds the power to influence. Firstly, you must place only the slightest amount of emphasis on the words in a sentence in order to change its meaning. For example you can change a spoken sentence that appears to be a question or proposal into a powerful command!
Let’s take a simple example with the following sentence that a hypnotist would use during a trance sequence, “maybe you want to relax completely or maybe you just want to chill out” – seems straight forward enough. Here the hypnotist seems to be offering his subject a choice – the suject can relax only if he/she wants to. However, in this example he has only given the subject two choices – he can either relax or “chill out”. This is powerful in itself but the power of this sentence is greatly amplified when hypnotic language is also incorporated.
So to manipulate the sentence, and the subject, even further with the use of hypnotic language we need to change the sentence from the proposals “maybe you want to relax completely” and “maybe you just want to chill out” to the commands “you want to relax completely” and “you just want to chill out”.
Doing this is quiet simple. However, before you can fully utilise this powerful technique it is wise to understand the reason why it is so effective.
The actual words you use are not as important as the way you convey them. Only 20 percent of the communication in any sentence you speak comes from what you are actually saying. Non-verbal communications, such as body language, tone of voice and gestures make up 80% of the meaning behind any message that you are trying to convey to people. This means regardless of the words you are using and what it is that you are actually saying, your body language, posture, eye movement, blood flow to the face and a myriad of other signals tells a person exactly what you are trying to communicate. Many time it is the unconscious cues that are the reason behind that sense you get that someone is lying to you even when what they are saying sounds reasonable and you have no reason to doubt them. Subconsciously we pick up on these non-verbal clues and “read” the situation as being different from how the person speaking is trying to convey it. Those people who can beat lie-detector machines can, either consciously or unconsciously, regulate these non-verbal communications to reflect the lies that they are telling – however, thankfully, they are very few in number.
In your communications the intonement you use in your everyday lanugage is a very important factor in all speech. Your tone of voice can convey messages to your subconscious mind that go unnoticed by your conscious, rational mind. It is through the use of your tone and the spacing of your words that you can literally hypnotize the person you are speaking to. By using hypnotic language techniques you can literally change any words within a sentence into powerful subliminal commands.
For instance in the above mentioned example the hypnotist would say the sentence in the following way, [slow and melodic] “maybe” [in a harder authoritative tone and with more emphasis "YOU WANT TO RELAX COMPLETELY", [slow and melodic] “or maybe” [again in a harder authoritative tone and with more emphasis] “YOU JUST WANT TO CHILL OUT”.
Ensure you fully understand that this effect is very subtle. Until your attention is brought to the technique you will be totally unaware that it is being used – it only becomes noticeable when it is pointed out to you. Sometimes, however, during a hypnosis session you can be consciously aware that the hypnotist is speaking in a strange manner but you have no clue as to what exactly is going on. While listening you tend to believe this is only some part of the trance induction and a part of hypnosis. In your everyday life, however, it is important to ensure your hypnotic language is even more subtle for, what should be, apparent reasons.
Let’s look at an example; you have developed a detailed proposal that you wish to present to some of your business associates and have scheduled a very important meeting to do this. It is important that you get your proposal accepted quickly and you therefore need to use anything that will tilt the balance of the decision in your favour. At this point you may decide to use hypnotic conversation to give you that added advantage. You may say something like the following, “perhaps if you give this some thought you may find that this is a good idea and one worth pursing now or maybe even in the future”. This is simple enough suggestion that on its own has little power. Now we are going to manipulate this very same statement by changing it into powerful subliminal commands.
Try saying this: “Perhaps if you give this some thought you may find that -”
[Pause for a millisecond longer than normal and change your tone only slightly]
“This is a good idea and one worth pursing now”
[Shorten the normal pause between the last word and the next]
“Or, maybe even in the future”.
This simple spoken statement has now become a very powerful subliminal command simply by using pacing and tone variations. While the listener is consciously unaware that anything is happening his/her subconscious mind picks-up the difference in pacing and tone and identifies the command within the sentence as follows – “perhaps if you give this some thought you may find that…. This Is A Good Idea And One Worth Pursuing Now….. or maybe even in the future”.
You should play with this use of hypnotic language and hypnotic conversation until you can use it with ease. Be warned though, if you perform it in a hasty or unrehearsed manner it can be blatantly apparent to everyone what you are doing! The experts at hypnotic language speak in such a way that their intentions go totally unnoticed by the conscious mind and people just find them to be very persuasive.
Listen to some of your hypnosis tapes or hypnotists while they are speaking and see if you can identify the subliminal commands they are using during the trance sequences. This will ensure you start to develop and refine these new skills and make you a master at using them in no time. However, do listen to a few because some hypnotists are better than others at this technique.
Before you try to use this skill in a real situation please practise it on someone you know well who will give you honest feedback. Speak a hypnotic command to them in several different ways and watch to see how their behaviour mimics your command than ask the person were they aware of anything different about your language. Ask the person if they could tell that your words were spoken differently than normal. If they identified any changes in your tone and pacing ask them did they realise exactly what you were doing. After some practise and some surprising outcomes you will soon be using hypnotic conversation daily!
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