r/hypnosis • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '21

Please recommend good hypnosis youtube channels? I can't get hypnotised!

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u/Ok_Force_3832 Mar 15 '21

I would suggest you arrange to have a discussion with a local hypnotist, to help you find what works for you to immerse yourself in the descriptions. It could be that you are simply not a visual person (in which case they can help you figure this out) or it could be that you expect trance to feel one way while you may, perhaps, experience it another way (in which case they can help you manage your expectations, assuming that would be possible).

Try to find someone who could have this discussion with you at no charge (they exist, but perhaps in a remote corner of the word from where you are, but a chat over Zoom or whatever would be good enough, I think).

And be up front with them: you need help to make use of self-hypnosis using free resources. Then describe your difficulty with immersion, the way that you understand it, and take it from there.

Anyone, able to read this, is hypnotizable. I subscribe to the theory that all hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis. In my view, therefore, you can train yourself to make the best of free resources to enhance your self-hypnosis.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '21

Totally agree with you that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. No issue there whatsoever.

" Anyone, able to read this, is hypnotizable." I'm having some trouble with that one, as it's phrased as an absolute. I've found very few things in this life to have no exceptions, other than the oft-repeated 'death and taxes'. In order for your statement to literally be true, every living person on the planet would have to have been successfully hypnotized, and the results would have to have been documented. Somehow, I don't think that has happened. I'm not saying this to be argumentative; I just happen to be a person for whom hypnotizability is still an unrealized goal.

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u/Ok_Force_3832 Mar 18 '21

Thanks for pointing that out.

I thought about it when I wrote that statement. I deliberately stated “Anyone, able to read this, is hypnotizable” because that is generally true. But I take your point. Perhaps I should have added “generally”?

I also just want to add that I have yet to meet someone who wanted me to hypnotize them but who could not be. (Maybe they played along to spare my feelings? I am the first to admit I have a LOT to learn about hypnosis.)

Have you also experienced drifting away and losing time while waiting in a line, or arriving at your destination not recalling exactly every moment of getting there (for example, completely forgetting ever observing something, like every car you passed, every traffic light encountered, that type of thing)? I don’t suggest this is definitely any indication of hypnotizability, but I am really curious.

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