Often I hear objections people have in regard to hypnosis, usually these are very short phrases that are given with very little thought, but with a great stored amount of cynicism and curiosity behind the words they chose. Today I thought I would delve into some of these objections and hopefully shed a little light upon the truth behind these limiting thoughts and beliefs.
1.”I have a friend who went to a hypnotists to stop smoking and he didn’t quit. If it didn’t work for him, why would it work for me?”
There are a lot of reasons that a course of sessions could possibly have little to no effect for a client. Hypnotism is an exacting science that requires not only the practitioner to be proficient in their chosen vocation but also is requires the client be an active participant in the changes they wish to effect in their lives. If neither of these things is present the effectiveness of the change work that can be expected can vary, like any other form of therapy. The most important thing to remember about hypnosis and achieving change is this; hypnosis is not a magic exercise that you just do once and suddenly your whole life changes. It is more accurate to say that on average you experience 3 or more sessions and find that a habit or problem you find is no longer the same, thus loses importance in your world and continues to become more insignificant over time, until the problem is completely gone. Often dramatic results can and do happen in one visit, but will still require at least one subsequent visit to follow up to ensure the change has been achieved and if any further assistance is needed to ensure the change blends seamlessly into the clients daily life. (I could elaborate further about this very question and get very in depth about the various ways success can be achieved through hypnosis, but I digress because it could fill many pages.)
2.)”Hypnosis won’t work for me, I can’t be hypnotized because I had too strong of a will.”
This assumes that hypnotism is something that is done against your will, or that it is a form of brain washing that is applied to reprogram ones mind in order to achieve results. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hypnosis is a natural state that we all achieve on average at least 13 times per day without realizing we are even doing it. Secondly free will is always present even when you are in trance you have the option to either accept or refuse suggestions you are presented at any time. Willpower is an act of self control we use to restrain ourselves from doing things we feel we need to abstain from, usually my reply to this statement is something like this; “Wow, that’s a lot of self control! May I ask how is it that your need for control has gotten so out of control that you unable to exercise control over your own free will long enough to make much needed changes in your life now?”
3.)”I saw a stage hypnotist once and he wasn’t able to hypnotize me, so I can’t be hypnotized.”
Stage Hypnosis is a statistical process in witch a stage hypnotist actually sorts the most suggestible members of the audience and then hypnotizes them for entertainment. The actually number is roughly 60% of people in any given audience are suggestible enough to go into profound states of trance at the moment the hypnotist is putting on his show and the stage hypnotist use a series of tests that appear to the crowd as a display of how hypnotism works, but in truth they are actually watching to see who responds best to the suggestions given. Then when they ask for volunteers they pick the audience members that had the best reactions to their previous suggestions. In clinical hypnosis our clients require individual attention, it is then up to the hypnotist to find the best way to help the client go into trance. This is done by listening to the client closely, and paying attention to the details the client expresses in everything they say. Additionally clinical hypnotists do use the same tests that stage hypnotists use to determine how suggestive a client is, but they do explain the purposes of the tests. So if you went to a stage hypnotist and he couldn’t hypnotize you, chances are you just didn’t respond well to suggestion at that time for their purposes. Everyone both responds to suggestion and does not respond easily to suggestion depending on the circumstances of their experience at the time they saw a hypnotist.
4.)”Hypnosis is too expensive, I can not afford it.”
Truthfully being that I have 7 children, I understand the value of a dollar. But when you consider the cost of seeing a hypnotist, you truly have to consider the cost of the problem you are having, be it in cash, emotional self torment, relationships, or even just the amount of energy it takes out of you to keep a problem going in your life. All of these things and more, and when you truly look at it you will find the cost of not seeing a hypnotist can be far greater than the cost of seeing a hypnotist. I can tell you that if someone comes to me with a problem and truly wants help but can not afford it, I will take payments, and in some cases work at no cost simply because I think that happiness and being able to live your life has more value than any amount of money.
5.)”Hypnosis won’t work for me, it only works for other people.”
When I hear this I can not resist asking” who are these other people, and why are you not allowed to benefit from this amazingly powerful experience that has helped billions from as far recorded history as ancientEgypt
These are just some of the most common objections I hear consistently from prospective client, I wrote them out here because, in my own life I find my own reasons for not doing things to be very elusive. But it all boils down to the conscious need to retain something in our lives even if its extremely harmful to us, just because its what were used to or it’s a habit we learned when we were young, or we believe we can not live with out, what ever the reasons we have for limiting ourselves, when you look at it from an outside perspective they are all reasons that have a very poor foundation at best and will crumble when we see them as they are, just another excuse in to avoid the fear of not knowing who we would be if we were free of the limitations we have learned that keep us from getting the very things in life we truly want. After all where would you be if you woke up tomorrow and found everything in your life is going exactly the way you would like? That is an idea most people have an incredibly hard time even imagining simply because somewhere we learned that was how life works, you cant have everything you want, you can only have a few small victories now and again, but surely not everything. But what if you could get everything you want? I mean who would you be if your wildest dreams came true?
For those of you who can't imagine it...
Just try; really picture it for one moment...
Where would you be? What would you be doing? How happy would you be? What would you be seeing? Hearing? Tasting? Smelling? Is it day or night? Who are you with or are you alone? If you answer these questions you will have a good picture of what it would be like to have everything you want inside your mind.
And if you can do that...now I’m sure if you think about it, you will also see what it would take to actually reach that place you see in your mind. Like GI JOE said, "now you know, and knowing is half the battle."
I tell people all of the time, you are the person that has the power to change anything you want, only you have that ability.
That my friend is THE POWER OF ONE.
1.”I have a friend who went to a hypnotists to stop smoking and he didn’t quit. If it didn’t work for him, why would it work for me?”
There are a lot of reasons that a course of sessions could possibly have little to no effect for a client. Hypnotism is an exacting science that requires not only the practitioner to be proficient in their chosen vocation but also is requires the client be an active participant in the changes they wish to effect in their lives. If neither of these things is present the effectiveness of the change work that can be expected can vary, like any other form of therapy. The most important thing to remember about hypnosis and achieving change is this; hypnosis is not a magic exercise that you just do once and suddenly your whole life changes. It is more accurate to say that on average you experience 3 or more sessions and find that a habit or problem you find is no longer the same, thus loses importance in your world and continues to become more insignificant over time, until the problem is completely gone. Often dramatic results can and do happen in one visit, but will still require at least one subsequent visit to follow up to ensure the change has been achieved and if any further assistance is needed to ensure the change blends seamlessly into the clients daily life. (I could elaborate further about this very question and get very in depth about the various ways success can be achieved through hypnosis, but I digress because it could fill many pages.)
2.)”Hypnosis won’t work for me, I can’t be hypnotized because I had too strong of a will.”
This assumes that hypnotism is something that is done against your will, or that it is a form of brain washing that is applied to reprogram ones mind in order to achieve results. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hypnosis is a natural state that we all achieve on average at least 13 times per day without realizing we are even doing it. Secondly free will is always present even when you are in trance you have the option to either accept or refuse suggestions you are presented at any time. Willpower is an act of self control we use to restrain ourselves from doing things we feel we need to abstain from, usually my reply to this statement is something like this; “Wow, that’s a lot of self control! May I ask how is it that your need for control has gotten so out of control that you unable to exercise control over your own free will long enough to make much needed changes in your life now?”
3.)”I saw a stage hypnotist once and he wasn’t able to hypnotize me, so I can’t be hypnotized.”
Stage Hypnosis is a statistical process in witch a stage hypnotist actually sorts the most suggestible members of the audience and then hypnotizes them for entertainment. The actually number is roughly 60% of people in any given audience are suggestible enough to go into profound states of trance at the moment the hypnotist is putting on his show and the stage hypnotist use a series of tests that appear to the crowd as a display of how hypnotism works, but in truth they are actually watching to see who responds best to the suggestions given. Then when they ask for volunteers they pick the audience members that had the best reactions to their previous suggestions. In clinical hypnosis our clients require individual attention, it is then up to the hypnotist to find the best way to help the client go into trance. This is done by listening to the client closely, and paying attention to the details the client expresses in everything they say. Additionally clinical hypnotists do use the same tests that stage hypnotists use to determine how suggestive a client is, but they do explain the purposes of the tests. So if you went to a stage hypnotist and he couldn’t hypnotize you, chances are you just didn’t respond well to suggestion at that time for their purposes. Everyone both responds to suggestion and does not respond easily to suggestion depending on the circumstances of their experience at the time they saw a hypnotist.
4.)”Hypnosis is too expensive, I can not afford it.”
Truthfully being that I have 7 children, I understand the value of a dollar. But when you consider the cost of seeing a hypnotist, you truly have to consider the cost of the problem you are having, be it in cash, emotional self torment, relationships, or even just the amount of energy it takes out of you to keep a problem going in your life. All of these things and more, and when you truly look at it you will find the cost of not seeing a hypnotist can be far greater than the cost of seeing a hypnotist. I can tell you that if someone comes to me with a problem and truly wants help but can not afford it, I will take payments, and in some cases work at no cost simply because I think that happiness and being able to live your life has more value than any amount of money.
5.)”Hypnosis won’t work for me, it only works for other people.”
When I hear this I can not resist asking” who are these other people, and why are you not allowed to benefit from this amazingly powerful experience that has helped billions from as far recorded history as ancient
These are just some of the most common objections I hear consistently from prospective client, I wrote them out here because, in my own life I find my own reasons for not doing things to be very elusive. But it all boils down to the conscious need to retain something in our lives even if its extremely harmful to us, just because its what were used to or it’s a habit we learned when we were young, or we believe we can not live with out, what ever the reasons we have for limiting ourselves, when you look at it from an outside perspective they are all reasons that have a very poor foundation at best and will crumble when we see them as they are, just another excuse in to avoid the fear of not knowing who we would be if we were free of the limitations we have learned that keep us from getting the very things in life we truly want. After all where would you be if you woke up tomorrow and found everything in your life is going exactly the way you would like? That is an idea most people have an incredibly hard time even imagining simply because somewhere we learned that was how life works, you cant have everything you want, you can only have a few small victories now and again, but surely not everything. But what if you could get everything you want? I mean who would you be if your wildest dreams came true?
For those of you who can't imagine it...
Just try; really picture it for one moment...
Where would you be? What would you be doing? How happy would you be? What would you be seeing? Hearing? Tasting? Smelling? Is it day or night? Who are you with or are you alone? If you answer these questions you will have a good picture of what it would be like to have everything you want inside your mind.
And if you can do that...now I’m sure if you think about it, you will also see what it would take to actually reach that place you see in your mind. Like GI JOE said, "now you know, and knowing is half the battle."
I tell people all of the time, you are the person that has the power to change anything you want, only you have that ability.
That my friend is THE POWER OF ONE.
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