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1. A hypnotized person does not go to sleep or lose touch with reality. They are aware of everything going on around them. Most people don’t recognize the state of hypnosis, expecting to become unconscious. Unless they are the one in ten who easily achieves the deep, or somnambulistic, level of hypnosis, this is not at all what the experience is like. They remain completely aware of everything going on around them. This does not mean that they weren’t hypnotized. It simply means that they are experiencing a hypnotic level somewhere between a light and medium state which, for purposes of behavior and habit modification, is generally more effective than deeper level hypnosis. 2. Directly proposed hypnotic suggestions cannot make a person do anything contrary to their morals, religion or self-preservation. If such a suggestion were given, the subject would either refuse to comply or would spontaneously terminate the hypnotic state. 3. The best hypnotic subjects are not unintelligent people. The more strong-willed, intelligent and imaginative an individual is, the better subject he or she tends to be. 4. Anyone can be hypnotized. Since, as we have seen, hypnosis is a naturally occurring phenomenon, which we all experience, there is no such thing as not being able to be hypnotized. Once an individual overcomes their initial apprehension through understanding the truth about hypnosis, it is an easy experience … one in which the subject will awaken feeling more relaxed, at ease and positively motivated than before going into hypnosis. 5. A person does not “get stuck” in a hypnotic state. If, for some reason, the subject chooses not to come out of hypnosis when instructed to do so, they will, in every case, do one of two things: 1) come out on their own in a very short time, or 2) fall into a natural sleep until they awaken naturally. 6. Hypnotized subjects are not dominated by the will of the hypnotist, they are in full control of themselves, fully aware of their environment and completely capable at all times of making decisions.
Source: Kaloski, Ph.D., Bruce E.: Clinical Hypnotherapy 2001. |
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