by phuzzled » January 11th, 2008, 8:35 pm
Marjask,
Reasons why people choose not to enter trance (yes that's right, this is something you are doing to yourself) is because they either lack trust in the hypnotist, have fears and/or misunderstandings about hypnosis and what it is, or are using a poor induction.
I cant really offer concrete advice as you aren't in my office, though I myself found I had to go through different types of inductions before I found one that put my lights out. Progressive relaxation-based inductions are pleasant enough, though for the most part, will bore the living hell out of an analytical person, usually resulting in the falling into a natural sleep because of it (or looking at you like your a crossbred retarded spider monkey).
If a person works through the things I've mentioned above, whether in the form of self-study or visiting a good hypnotherapist, then there is no unhypnotisable person, just an uneducated fearful person.
I found it interesting that over your subsequent posts in this thread, you went from saying you were trying to now "I'm not trying or anything, just laying there". What you seem to be overlooking is fears and miseducation will often sit in the subconcious and be out of your concious awareness, thus, to you, you are doing everything and still nothing happens.
Incidently, I am a qualified clinical hypnotherapist who has helped well over 600-700 people successfully enter into deep hypnosis, in the time I've been practicising, the only people who haven't entered a deep (somnambulistic level) trance state, did so because of a fear they hadn't discussed.
The difference however is all those that enjoyed a deep hypnotic experience took the responsibility for their own mind, and with that went much deeper. Oh, and just to help your own understanding, you enter into altered states of conciousness daily, meaning without you even realising it, you've entered another variation of hypnosis every day of your life. (Got to love a bodies biorhythmic rate).
Hope this helps you on your journey,
Phuzzled