Much like my subject who needed 10 sessions before he was able to exhibit trance phenomena, John you needed to practice meditating and Nick’s chaps might well have needed to go through the process a couple of times before they met the right teacher… I know that after more than a year of hypnosis practice, Parkey is at last starting to respond to suggestions that he doesn’t even remember being given…

It seems that some people need to “learn” how to do hypnosis and it can take just a little explanation (pre-talk) to over a year of practice to learn how to do it.

I have to agree with Nick here, from experience working with analytical people and even moreso from experience as myself being a very analytical subject.

Through much meditation practice I learned how to “shut off” my analytical mind and this is something I have to do if I am going to experience hypnosis. I do it because I desire to go into hypnosis. If I didn’t desire it, it wouldn’t work with *most* hypnotists. I say most, because I believe there are some out there who could hypnotise me outside of my awareness by either overloading my analytical mind or by “shutting it off” through some other means.

I used to believe that but people often alter the way they are, dependant on the context of what they’re doing, i.e. a friend of mine who is a microscope scientist, he studies, makes and repairs the lenses. He is very analytical the majority of the time, however when we’re out he becomes more child like and therefore easier to hypnotise.

My belief and experience (since my stage gig for the Army in Germany) is that “eveyone” can be hypnotised after hypnotising two “unhypnotisable” (based on 2 previous shows were they couldn’t be “put under”) subjects.

It’s all about the frame we set and being able to access the “Adaptable Child” to gain compliance and the “Free Child” to gain the performance.