Three Essentials for Successful Hypnosis:
1) Your consent to be hypnotized, either tacit or implied. You cannot be hypnotized against your will. You can however, be hypnotized without knowing it.
2) A comfortable communication between you and the hypnotist. It's not the hypnosis that creates the response, it's the rapport. Hypnotic Rapport is a meeting of the minds on the emotional level.
3) Freedom from fear on your part. Fear is the biggest limiting factor to the hypnotic process.
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How Hypnosis Works:
The mind is extremely suggestible and is being bombarded constantly with suggestive stimuli from the outside, and suggestive thoughts and ideas from the inside. A great deal of suffering is the consequence of the negative thoughts and impulses invading one's mind from subconscious recesses, referred to as "self talk" by Albert Ellis, and "automatic thoughts" by Aaron Beck. Past experiences, guilt feelings, and repudiated impulses and desires often push themselves into awareness, directly or in disguised forms, sabotaging one's happiness. This, over time, then becomes habitual behavior. Hypnosis creates a direct access to the storehouse of these negative messages, hence it helps give insight into their origin. It then offers the opportunity to replace them with positive ones.
