Welcome,
in this article I would like to explain to you what hypnotic susceptibility is and what impacts it. By hypnotic susceptibility we mean the natural endowment to access hypnotic trance. Most of the hypnotists believe that you can hypnotize majority of the world. How easily you will be hypnotized largely depends on emotional state you are in when you are getting hypnotized, but also from numerous other factors. Often the same individual can access a very deep trance, but another day he/she can only get into a very shallow one or can't access it at all.
However there are also opposite examples. We face unexpected changes in hypnotic susceptibility, one day certain individual can't get hypnotized no matter what and the other he is incredibly responsive. We have to also mention that people that get hypnotized are "learning" how to access deep trance, and thus it is getting easier and easier for them, to access it, every time they try. Of course there are exclusions to this rule. One of the most honored hypnotist(whose name I can't disclose) says, that only 5% of world is completely insensitive to hypnosis, and most of that 5% is only impermanently unhypnotizable. Studies executed on thousands of people presented that only 25% of world can enjoy the deepest state of hypnosis.
Some of the hypnotists appear to have a natural endowment to push people into deeper trance, it may be caused by better attitude than the others, but numerous hypnotists seem to agree that, the spot where the act of hypnotizing is taking spot plays an important part in the equation. One of the legendary hypnotists Bemheim said, that when he hypnotized his patients in hospital as much as 80% of them entered deep hypnotic trance, but in their private households he was able to push into deep trance only 20% of them.
Your susceptibility for hypnosis doesn't depend from factors like education or intelligence. It is rather a matter of ingredients like:
- age - young people in age section of 5 - 17, are much more responsive to hypnosis
- relation between hypnotists and patient(negative, neglecting frame of mind, towards hypnotist and/or hypnosis, will decrease efficiency of the therapy)
- not meeting the expectations of the patient as to what hypnosis therapy should look like
Studies confirm that people whose sleep is very deep, are very hard to wake you up, are usually much more susceptible to hypnosis and they access deep trance easier.
As you can see hypnotic susceptibility, despite what most of the people believe isn't something permanent in your mind. It depends on numerous factors that can easily change and with them, the way you react to hypnosis. So if you tried hypnosis in the past but it didn't work, maybe try to change environment in which it was performed or the way to think about it. Nonetheless, I wish you luck with your hypnotic adventure and satisfying results.
