How inportant is relaxation in hypnosis?!
Question: Most hypnosis inductions use relaxation to access parts of the mind that are suppressed in normal daily life. But there are techniques that work with out relaxation at all. For example the Milton Erickson handshake induction uses an interrupt instead of relaxation. Another good example is Derren Brown using a public telephone to induce passers by into catatonic sleep. His method is a confusion overload of conflicting commands ending with something like "sleep now."
Answers: Most hypnosis inductions use relaxation to access parts of the mind that are suppressed in normal daily life. But there are techniques that work with out relaxation at all. For example the Milton Erickson handshake induction uses an interrupt instead of relaxation. Another good example is Derren Brown using a public telephone to induce passers by into catatonic sleep. His method is a confusion overload of conflicting commands ending with something like "sleep now."
very important.
hypnosis makes you go very relaxed
In the induction phase it is very useful to have a relaxed subject. Thereafter, less so, but still helpful. In neither is it essential. Towards the end of a session, hypnotherapists will invariably establish a relaxed state prior to that session's conclusion.
essentail. you cant have hypnosis without the relaxation. defeats the purpose really. especially if its self hypnosis.