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Suggestibility

Your response to hypnosis (and its efficacy) will largely be determined by your suggestibility. The exercises below measure your receptivity and responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions. Read the exercise to familiarize yourself with it and then perform it, noting your reaction to the suggestions. It may be useful to assign a score from 1 to 10 to indicate how noticeable your reaction to the verbal suggestions was.

The Hand Clasp exercise

Clasp your hands together tightly in front of you. Squeeze them together as hard as you can, imagining that your hands are powerful magnets, magnets so powerful that their irresistible force makes it impossible to separate your hands. Your hands are squeezing together tighter and tighter, merging into one solid mass. They are stuck together so very very tightly that you realize the futility of trying to pull them apart. On the count of three, you will try to pull them apart but the harder you try, the stronger the magnets join them together. With every number, they stick together more strongly. One...two...three.

The Helium Balloon and Rock exercise

Stretch your arms out in front of you. Close your eyes and imagine that a helium balloon is being tied to your right arm with a light piece of string. The balloon is floating, easily supporting your right arm, tugging at it gently as it bobs higher and higher, pulling it up, up, up. Your right arm becomes lighter and lighter as the balloon supports it, drifting higher and higher.  Now imagine that a heavy rope with a rock attached to it is being tied to your left arm. Immediately you start to feel the weight of it dragging your left arm lower and lower, pulling it down despite your best efforts to resist it. Your left arm becomes heavier and heavier as it vainly tries to hold the rock in place. Open your eyes, and observe how far apart your arms have moved.

The next step

Excellent, now that you have determined your suggestibility, it is time to look at the induction.

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