Your biggest failure in hypnosis. Try to draw some conclusions

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Permalink Reply by Ian Collins on October 1, 2011 at 1:05pm

What a great statement!
Isn't it sometimes the MAIN problem, that we as hypnotists expect people to follow us and do exactly what we want them to do, and if they don't we start to believe we failed or even worse... "they" failed?
Isn't hypnosis more like Aikido? Adjusting to your "enemy"?

Does the subject have to follow the hypnotist or it is more like that, that the hypnotist follows the "subject" and ulitises whatever happens?


Marc Carlin said:

Christina,

Ricky is right on in his assessment.  Everything that you learned in your workshop is probably correct, well most anyway, but what they probably failed to tell you was that all of that is just a framework from which to begin learning.  And you just learned that some people don't respond just the way you want them to at the beginning.  It doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't hypnotized or can't achieve trance.

In the case of your girlfriend's mother, she might have spontaneously achieved catalepsy without you suggesting it.  It doesn't matter.  Utilization as Ricky suggests will help her to go to a more profound level of trance.  Just accept that they are already in trance, supply the suggestions that you think will benefit them and let them enjoy where they are and bring them out of trance feeling better.

 

Christina Cole said:

Last month I completed my hypnotherapy workshop.  I was very excited with all my new skills and eager to use them.  THE night I completed the course, I went to my friends house.  Her mom asked me if I could hypnotize her, and of course I said yes, lets give it a try.  What a buzz kill!  Sadly, my first subject happened to be someone so wound up I couldn't even get her to relax her arm so I could drop it on her lap.  When I let go, it just stayed up in the air, and as I suggested that it felt heavy like a lead weight, she forcefully slammed her hand down.  I threw everything at her.  EFT, progressive relaxation, a deepening story, etc. 

Now this is a woman who has a history of pill popping and drinking to calm herself down.  She has difficulty falling asleep at night and staying asleep, has an odd work schedule where she works night shifts.  She drinks sodas all day, poor diet, etc.

 

Now, if anyone has some insight on how to help my friend's mom, please, I am open ears.

 

I suggested massage, exercise, meditation CD's, diet change, etc.  She came up with excuses.  I can't help anyone who can't help them selves.

 

Meanwhile, I have had some extraordinary sessions since then.  Very successful.  I really am loving this.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Collins on October 1, 2011 at 1:07pm

Oh. Scary but true situation.

Of course there was a risk involved of being sued or whatever.
Really scary story. But it happens.

Good conclusion- better to ask twice and introduce as much safety as possible.
Never enough of safety.

Antoine Pruyssers said:

Hypnotizing someone who has epilepsy.

He started having convulsions, and I ended up bringing him to the hospital.

Conclusion: I will never hypnotize anyone before I ask wether they have a medical history, or medication.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Sanders on October 1, 2011 at 7:44pm

I tried handshake induction on my son, didnt work, he laughed at me and I laughed, we tried another time, but again no go.......I know my confidence in "doing" the induction was quite void....I can facilitate his trance experience by many other inductions...just non of the "rapid induction methods.

 

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Permalink Reply by Ian Collins on October 2, 2011 at 11:32am

This is actually funny- because the most difficult subject is first... the member of your family:))
I know this pain haha:)

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