Everyone can be hypnotized so suggestibility tests work on everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Hypno hobbs on February 4, 2012 at 5:12pm

I think suggestibility tests show a few things such as for hypnotherapy if a direct approach can be used or an indirect one or for stage hypnosis who can be hypnotized quickly to make for a more entertaining show. Unless you have an IQ way below average as in retarded then hypnosis will not work for you. However maybe a retarded person can be conditioned for hypnosis as long as they can use their imagination and follow simply instructions. I am not a professional hypnotist, but I have been doing it for a few years as a hobby so these are merely the opinions of a lay person.

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Permalink Reply by Jesus Gonzalez on February 4, 2012 at 6:27pm

I could say that maybe if you take the person through a formal hypnotic proccess it may be different of what you say. Suggestibility test. Only crazy people would not go through this proccess.

Imagine you are walking through the street, and you stop anyone, and tell him, "Hey, renember me? ,, We spent our holidays , just last summer, all of us together... dont you renember?...."

- The other person is now "Processing.." this ?"suggestion"? and subconsciously thinks about his/her last summer holidays. Some people would call this TDS (TransDerivational(*) Search). Of course, the logical answer based on the experience is: "No, I didnt spend(i dont know the word, sorry) my holiday with you. I dont know you of anything", or whatever, but the person will stil have thought about her last holidays at least unconsciously to validate the experience logically, else, it's nonsense to go back and renember if you dont come now and validate/confirm logically or however the experience, renembered, imagined, whatever takes you through an unconscious process.

Then you would go: "Oh! Yes it's true, you are not X,Y,blabla". This could be done consciously, and depending on how you perform it, the person will be suggested in one or another way.

Of course, it could have happened to you that you confused the person with the one who you spent your holidays with, then it would have been a different situation. Im now focusing on the (TDS) "ericksonian" process  that the person go through depending on what you say, whether you are or not in a formal hypnotic session. 

I would say that everyone is "suggestible" anytime, it's just how the factors outside him influence or alter his "unconscious box"(*) :)

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on February 4, 2012 at 7:02pm

I use suggestibility tests to see who is resisting, not who is susceptible. But that's just me.

John

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Permalink Reply by Bernard Rapol on February 5, 2012 at 2:10am

I never use suggestibility tests. Waste of time I think. If they pass: that means I would have gotten them in hypnosis, so that's 10-15 minutes wasted. I not, they have a fear of some kind, which I have to address anyway if the induction doesn't work.

Greetings,

Bernard

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Permalink Reply by Barry Neale on February 5, 2012 at 5:58am

Hi

If you want to improve your success then the first thing is to stop calling them tests. Who wants to pass a "suggestibility" test? No one wants to think they are suggestible.

Call them concentration exercises and watch your success with them grow.

 

The set up is also important. Talk to them about the power of the imagination and these exercises are exercises in learning to use their imagination and if they really use their imagination or play make believe like they did when they were a kid then they will do really well.

 

As far as i am concerned the real use of these are not to determine who is suggestible, it's to start to build belief and expectation that they can use their mind to change their behavior/body.

 

barry

 

 

 

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