These are the people you can quickly hypnotize if they want to be. But in terms of hypnosis, a somnambulist is a certain type of person who processes information in a certain manner. If you looked it up in the dictionary, it'd probably talk about sleepwalking. There is a suggestibility type that we refer to as a somnambulist. ![]() Well, we have a term called suggestibility, and there are different types of suggestibility. Who are these people and how do they spot them? You've talked about stage hypnotists being trained to find the right people in an audience to create the illusion of hypnosis being mind control. When we're talking about using it as a therapeutic tool, that is an important part of it. So, again, hypnosis is what I like to refer to as a consent state, meaning you have to want to be hypnotized. If we went to a movie and kept telling ourselves 'this isn't real, these are just actors,' it'd ruin the whole experience. We know it's not real, so we go in with an intention to be entertained, to allow ourselves to be receptive to the information. We experience it when we go to a movie and suspend reality. It's a natural process between fully awake and present to a fully unconscious state. When we go to sleep at night, we go right through this state. In your car, you don't have to think about making certain turns that you make everyday to your home or your work because it becomes unconscious. But your mind is still taking in the surroundings, and if something happens in front of you, you snap into it right away. Because we are not not present, if you will, it's just that our critical thinking is focused on something else for a moment. ![]() It's interesting when you put it that way, because none of us are afraid of zoning out in traffic, not realizing that is a state of hypnosis. You can't make someone do something they don't want to do, that's the bottom line. So, the big myths are that they watch a stage show and they think someone is being controlled, but that's really an illusion. It's really not so much a question of 'Can someone be hypnotized?' It's more a matter of if you can use it as a therapeutic tool or not-that's really the only question. ![]() Still, there are thoughts that they're going to reveal something they don't want to reveal or that they might get stuck in this state. Obviously, with self-hypnosis that's not as present because they're doing it themselves. What myths still surround hypnosis that you'd like to dispel? Whether it's a thought or a feeling or an imagination of a change the person wants. Some people are using meditation for managing stress or trying to clear their mind, and self-hypnosis is very similar, but we're attempting to put information in, if you will, and create change through that information. Because self-hypnosis is a self-directed state where they're actually guiding it and in their head thinking, it tends to work better for that type of person. To put it in simple terms, self-hypnosis tends to work better for them because they have a hard time shutting off their minds and engaging in meditation. I would say that oftentimes they have a different purpose-especially for people who are more in their heads or thinkers. Looking at it that way, could we hypnotize ourselves into changing the way we think, and in turn, the way we act on our goals? GOOD spoke with seasoned hypnotherapist and HMI instructor John Melton about just that.Īre there instances in which self-hypnosis can be more effective than meditation? ![]() The self-hypnosis class I took was not only one of the most relaxing Wednesday nights I've had in recent memory, but it got me thinking about using self-hypnosis as a supercharged version of meditation. I've seen it countless times driving from Calabasas to Los Angeles on Highway 101-a sign that reads "HMI, College of Hypnotherapy" right before an exit for Tarzana.
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