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Myth 10 – The Hypnotist Hypnotises the Subject |
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Hypnosis isn’t something that the hypnotist does to you. In a very real sense, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. In clinical situations and shows, the hypnotist is only a guide. That’s why it is so challenging to work with people who resist. Until they make the choice to put themselves into a trance, they will stay “awake”. However since much resistance is unconscious and the candidates often are willing to some degree to be hypnotised, it is possible to hypnotise people in a clinical situation, given time and even if they are at first resistant, but only by building sufficient rapport and trust that they finally do let themselves go into a trance.
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