Of course when you become hypnotised you don't actually Go anywhere.
I've induced thousands of people and every last one of them stayed exactly where I put them initially, in fact more so thankfully. It would be bloody inconvenient to have to follow them around the block while I gave them suggestions. So they don't go, they become, and they more often than not do that in 60 seconds - or less.
Nothing, not even light, is as fast as the speed of thought. It only takes a nano-second to think you are hypnotised and it's only because we use language to induce that thought that it takes any time at all to go from one mental state to another.
Hypnosis is possibly closer to a mood than any other mental state - I think it is an induced mood - and we all know how fast they can change.
The truth is that with hypnosis being about focus the hypnotee is so focused that they usually stop moving, twitching and fidgeting. Their focus becomes totally fixated on their inner reality and the hypnotist and so they are actually more there than they were before.
What has gone somewhere else is their conscious reasoning, logic and inhibition. That may take a long time to become useful to us at around the age of 9 but even that is subject to the speed of thought.
So, all hypnosis is instant as far as we can tell. You is or you isn't.
I've induced thousands of people and every last one of them stayed exactly where I put them initially, in fact more so thankfully. It would be bloody inconvenient to have to follow them around the block while I gave them suggestions. So they don't go, they become, and they more often than not do that in 60 seconds - or less.
Nothing, not even light, is as fast as the speed of thought. It only takes a nano-second to think you are hypnotised and it's only because we use language to induce that thought that it takes any time at all to go from one mental state to another.
Hypnosis is possibly closer to a mood than any other mental state - I think it is an induced mood - and we all know how fast they can change.
The truth is that with hypnosis being about focus the hypnotee is so focused that they usually stop moving, twitching and fidgeting. Their focus becomes totally fixated on their inner reality and the hypnotist and so they are actually more there than they were before.
What has gone somewhere else is their conscious reasoning, logic and inhibition. That may take a long time to become useful to us at around the age of 9 but even that is subject to the speed of thought.
So, all hypnosis is instant as far as we can tell. You is or you isn't.
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