Improve Your Hypnotizability for Powerful Results
Wendy Lapidus-Saltz
September 15, 2008
People who are more attuned to logic, facts, and figures than imagination, feelings, and possibilities often believe themselves to be difficult, or impossible, hypnotic subjects. They espouse pride about this, believing it protects them from being fooled, duped or overpowered by another´s will.
But they will likely feel cheated once they realize habitual left-brainedness cuts off valuable emotions and experiences, too.
Many left-brained smokers arrive at hypnosis appointments saying they want to quit the habit but cannot "imagine" life as a nonsmoker. Fortunately, once guided into the hypnotic state, they are able to imagine it in their own way and add "nonsmoker" to their identities, as "smoker" falls away.
Few of us are fully left- or right-brained. We are whole-brained, accessing abilities and talents from each side, although one sometimes dominates. And we can choose to enhance the side of the brain that has been under-exercised.
"Right-brained people" people have easy access to visual representations and/or emotions, even when something is not yet a reality.
Ask a right-brainer whose house has a red door to imagine it green, and he probably can. Ask him to hear our current president speaking with a French accent, and he probably can, though he may laugh. Ask him to feel a spider crawling up his arm, and he probably can, but may decline.
Because right-brainers can readily imagine pictures, sounds/vocalizations or feelings that are not yet real, they can invent, create and build.
Can you now imagine why right-brainers can be especially talented as participants in hypnosis sessions, able to benefit from all that hypnotism offers?
Left-brainers can too, if willing to create in their minds that-which-is-not-(yet)-so. Exploring the possibility of things not yet experienced lets them then employ their analytical abilities to weigh options and make choices.
And let´s not neglect their natural, inborn talents of taking apart, assessing, evaluating, and choosing one option over others, using logic and evidence. A left-brainer willing to pair fine analytical abilities with imagination has it all. So does a right-brainer willing to step away from his or her creation and assess its workability to create a superior solution.
And right-brainers with an overabundance of ideas, scenarios and fantasies can practice moving away from the multitudinous possibilities and focus on choosing, an action that employs the left brain fervently.
In a hypnosis session, clients express thoughts (left and right brains) and feelings (right brain), describe results they prefer (right and left brains) and how it will be of use in their lives (left), then follow my words into hypnosis (right) so their subconscious minds (mostly right) can accept suggestions (right and left) that are useful and life-affirming.
Post-hypnosis, I ask the client a question that probes the first thing he or she will do (right and left) to reinforce the new state.
Recently a new nonsmoker, who had already released her last cigarettes and matches at the start of the session, proposed cleaning her drapes to remove stale cigarette odors and buying fresh flowers as a sign of a new life. (These two reinforcing actions are the most commonly chosen by female, new nonsmokers!)
How to improve your hypnotizabilty?
Find a practitioner you trust, explain your issue or desire and its consequences in your life. Express what you would prefer: to enjoy networking events instead of avoiding them; to attract dates with single status and a job; to signal the shift from workday to leisure with a shower—not ice cream.
Follow the hypnotist´s instructions into trance, allowing yourself to be open and releasing your need to evaluate or assess what is said to you. If the hypnotist requests you to imagine something, imagine it in whatever way is natural.
For example: If asked to feel yourself free of cigarettes, you may see yourself running unencumbered; sense lightness in your body; or perhaps hear the wind whistling. Whatever shows up in your experience is perfect.
Don´t watch or judge—yourself, the hypnotist, hypnotism, the words used—during the session. Participate wholeheartedly. It may surprise you to realize that most hypnosis sessions are quite enjoyable and the results even more so. ©2008 by Wendy Lapidus-Saltz. All rights reserved
But they will likely feel cheated once they realize habitual left-brainedness cuts off valuable emotions and experiences, too.
Many left-brained smokers arrive at hypnosis appointments saying they want to quit the habit but cannot "imagine" life as a nonsmoker. Fortunately, once guided into the hypnotic state, they are able to imagine it in their own way and add "nonsmoker" to their identities, as "smoker" falls away.
Few of us are fully left- or right-brained. We are whole-brained, accessing abilities and talents from each side, although one sometimes dominates. And we can choose to enhance the side of the brain that has been under-exercised.
"Right-brained people" people have easy access to visual representations and/or emotions, even when something is not yet a reality.
Ask a right-brainer whose house has a red door to imagine it green, and he probably can. Ask him to hear our current president speaking with a French accent, and he probably can, though he may laugh. Ask him to feel a spider crawling up his arm, and he probably can, but may decline.
Because right-brainers can readily imagine pictures, sounds/vocalizations or feelings that are not yet real, they can invent, create and build.
Can you now imagine why right-brainers can be especially talented as participants in hypnosis sessions, able to benefit from all that hypnotism offers?
Left-brainers can too, if willing to create in their minds that-which-is-not-(yet)-so. Exploring the possibility of things not yet experienced lets them then employ their analytical abilities to weigh options and make choices.
And let´s not neglect their natural, inborn talents of taking apart, assessing, evaluating, and choosing one option over others, using logic and evidence. A left-brainer willing to pair fine analytical abilities with imagination has it all. So does a right-brainer willing to step away from his or her creation and assess its workability to create a superior solution.
And right-brainers with an overabundance of ideas, scenarios and fantasies can practice moving away from the multitudinous possibilities and focus on choosing, an action that employs the left brain fervently.
In a hypnosis session, clients express thoughts (left and right brains) and feelings (right brain), describe results they prefer (right and left brains) and how it will be of use in their lives (left), then follow my words into hypnosis (right) so their subconscious minds (mostly right) can accept suggestions (right and left) that are useful and life-affirming.
Post-hypnosis, I ask the client a question that probes the first thing he or she will do (right and left) to reinforce the new state.
Recently a new nonsmoker, who had already released her last cigarettes and matches at the start of the session, proposed cleaning her drapes to remove stale cigarette odors and buying fresh flowers as a sign of a new life. (These two reinforcing actions are the most commonly chosen by female, new nonsmokers!)
How to improve your hypnotizabilty?
Find a practitioner you trust, explain your issue or desire and its consequences in your life. Express what you would prefer: to enjoy networking events instead of avoiding them; to attract dates with single status and a job; to signal the shift from workday to leisure with a shower—not ice cream.
Follow the hypnotist´s instructions into trance, allowing yourself to be open and releasing your need to evaluate or assess what is said to you. If the hypnotist requests you to imagine something, imagine it in whatever way is natural.
For example: If asked to feel yourself free of cigarettes, you may see yourself running unencumbered; sense lightness in your body; or perhaps hear the wind whistling. Whatever shows up in your experience is perfect.
Don´t watch or judge—yourself, the hypnotist, hypnotism, the words used—during the session. Participate wholeheartedly. It may surprise you to realize that most hypnosis sessions are quite enjoyable and the results even more so. ©2008 by Wendy Lapidus-Saltz. All rights reserved
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