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You Do NOT Need to Empty Your Mind for Hypnosis
Can you still experience hypnosis if thoughts keep entering your mind? Yes—and believing otherwise may be making hypnosis unnecessarily difficult. People are often told to “switch off”, “stop analysing” or “empty the conscious mind”. These phrases may be intended as...
Video: Your Mind Wandered During Hypnosis – Here’s What to Do
Your mind wandered during self-hypnosis. Did you ruin it? No. You noticed it—and that gives you the opportunity to practise one of the most useful self-hypnosis skills: deliberately returning your attention. In this one-minute exercise, I’ll show you how to work with...
Video: Your Mind Wandered During Hypnosis – Did You Ruin It?
Perhaps you thought about work, noticed a sound, started planning dinner or became preoccupied with whether hypnosis was actually working. That does not automatically mean you failed. In this short video, I explain why attention naturally fluctuates, what to do the...
Video: Can’t Visualise? You Can Still Use Hypnosis
Do you struggle to “see” pictures in your mind? That does not mean you lack imagination—and it certainly does not prove that you cannot use hypnosis. Too many hypnosis sessions treat imagination and visualisation as though they are identical: “See the staircase.”...
Video: Can You Make Your Hand Feel Warmer Using Imagination?
Which mental strategy produces the strongest response for you: words, memory or direct attention to sensation? In this brief applied self-hypnosis experiment, you will explore the suggestion of warmth using three different approaches. There is no official “imagination...
Video: Can’t Visualise? Hypnosis Can Still Work For You
If you close your eyes, attempt to picture a tropical beach and see precisely nothing—does that mean hypnosis will not work for you? No. Visual I magery is only one way of using the imagination. Some people respond more readily to physical sensations, sounds,...
Video: Try This Self-Hypnosis Suggestion Two Different Ways
If a hypnotic suggestion produces no noticeable response, does that mean you cannot be hypnotised? Not necessarily. Sometimes the difficulty is not your ability to respond—it is the mental strategy you are using. In this brief self-hypnosis experiment, you will try...
Video: Why I Teach Self-Hypnosis as a Skill — Not a Mysterious Trance
Are you actively using self-hypnosis—or merely waiting for hypnosis to happen to you? In this video, I explain one of the central ideas underpinning my research, writing, audio programmes and teaching: self-hypnosis is best understood as an active skill. That means...
Video: “I’m Just Not Hypnotisable”—Is That Actually True?
Have you ever tried hypnosis once, felt that nothing much happened and concluded: “I’m just not hypnotisable”? That conclusion may be premature. People genuinely differ in hypnotic responsiveness—but your experience in one particular session can also be influenced by...
Video: The Biggest Misunderstanding About Hypnosis Audio Recordings
Most people approach hypnosis recordings as though something mysterious is about to happen to them. I don't think that's how hypnosis works. After decades as a clinical hypnotherapist, researcher, teacher and author, I've become increasingly convinced that hypnosis is...
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