by m0lsx » Dec 27th, '14, 11:33
When I learnt hypnosis, I was told..
1. Never tell someone that they are going to be hypnotised unless you want to make your own life harder for your self.
2. If you can do a suggestibility test, how much do you really need hypnosis?
3. Hypnosis is a con. The real skill is in knowing how to help someone change their thought patterns, not how to relax them.
And by the previous my teacher meant that hypnosis is about the hypnotist & their ability, not just the hypnosis it's self. If you can stick someone's hands together or make a hand slowly levitate, is that person so un-suggestive, that they (or you) need a special state to achieve anything?? And are you as a hypnotist so poor at the actual art of talking to someone that you cannot make them WANT to change or do something when they are already suggestive, willing & cooperative?? If you really need the extra help from hypnosis that much, should you really be charging for your service??
He always said hypnosis was the coathanger that we used to hang the real skills from. It helped us. But it was not a substitute for a good hypnotist.
My teacher always said that a successful suggestibility test to a good hypnotist should be like a locksmith being asked to gain entry to a building where the door was wide open. Learning how to utilise a willing mind effectively was the hard part not hypnotising someone.
And never tell someone I am NOW going to hypnotise you, as even if someone has willingly come to you for hypnosis, it is easier to show someone how to relax very deeply, or how to induce self hypnosis than work around any fear of hypnosis or fear of not being 100% in control that the person has.
I worked in practice with my teacher for several years & we never gave more than three treatments, we never took a client on until we had spoken to them & made ourselves satisfied that they wanted to change & we never took any money until the final visit & only then if they felt we had succeeded in doing what we said we would.
We always got paid.