Is it true hypnonis only works on weak-minded people?
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Hypnosis works the best on people who have more ability to dissociate, that is, become detached from their surroundings. Both involve altered states of consciousness and have nothing to do with intelligence. Everyone has the ability to dissociate, but some people have more of the ability, perhaps because they have had more cause to become detached during their lives. Looking at it from a psychological angle, I would say your hypnotisability would have the most to do with your life experiences and consequently the way you react emotionally to different situations. No two people ever have the same experiences and view things in the same way, regardless of IQ.\n\nEdit: To put it more simply, daydreamers (who could be seen as having a "weaker" grip on reality) would likely be easier to hypnotise than more practical people.\n\nOr another way to classify the two groups (more hypnotisable versus less hypnotisable), thin boundary personalities versus thick boundary personalities, the terms being used in relation to dreams and susceptibility to nightmares:\n\n"What differentiates the the two boundary types is a separation between mental process, thoughts and functions. Those with thin boundary type tend to often merge thought with feeling, have a difficulty with focusing on one thing at a time, daydream or fantasize, experience forms of synaethesia, have more fluid sense of self and tend to "merge" more with those who are close to them. Those with thick boundaried personalities have much more separation between what is real and what is imaginary. They tend to have a distinct focus on one thing at a time, differentiate between thoughts and feelings, real and fantasy, self and others, lack strong memories from childhood, well organized and has a strong sense of self."\n\nAgain, nothing to do with intellect, more to do with psychological makeup and emotions.
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I am no doctor, but I personally believe that any mind-altering thing lessens one's ability to reason. Once reason is gone, the person is simply reactive. If they react faster, it is because they lack ability to think about, or weigh, their response. It may not necessarily be anger; it may be laughter, fear, sadness, anything. If the response came too fast (without thought, or reason) -then I  say "Yes", drugs made that person's fuse very short.
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Ichi THAT is BRILLIANT......I know that in the tangential thinking that often bests me 'thinkos are the weakest links, perhaps the 'savants' of my mind and truly the innocents. Perhaps they are what saves my butt altogether.\nAbsolutely Brill!!!! I am going to ask if I may have permission to use this in my writing for in my speaking & writing i have for the first time just spoken it aloud...thank for the new concept on somethng I have been doing, another thing to obssess on, fair play to you mate, brain food doesnt often ome through the screen like this. and it just did.\nNow does this include the frontal and temporal lobes? Will Kirlean Photograhy show this in action? Or is it a different part of the brain where the lost socks of our lives go to?\nTHIS is a cool quesion. I now possess a new word..and it is awesome..."THINKOS"..now THAT is HOT!!!
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Hi,\nHypnosis does really works if you want to learn something, such as stop smoking or have a good sleep.\n\nIn that way it can't help you to remember something, it only helps you to keep something in mind.\n\nI hope this will help you.
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Most of hypnosis is bunk.  Many claims of hypnotists have not been proven.  In fact, most research shows that many of its claims don't work.\n\nWhat would you like to treat with hypnosis?
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No.\n\nWould a person consistently do, say, or think higher or better things if they did not feel truth within their heart? That is, what would be the reward of competing with an imaginary concept? You don't understand people very well if you think that imaginary rewards from imaginary beings are enough to keep them "in line" for years upon years.\n\nBut let me just speak for myself. Imaginary rewards from imaginary beings with imaginary qualities are not enough to make me want to do better and be better. If I did not have evidence of God in my heart and soul, I would be a sloppy, self-centered, chronic-misdemeanor-committing, self-indulgent jackass. This is my nature. Trust me, I know. If this world was the only world there was, I would slather my incompetence and selfishness all over it, and I wouldn't care about any consequences except prison. And, no, I'm not kidding.\n\nIt takes more than an imaginary concept to make me want to be better. It takes more than imaginary incentive to make me want to rise above my small-minded nature. It takes true spiritual rewards from a living God who actually provides them. What the deal is, is that without God I have a dark heart and a murky mind. When I lived outside of God's grace, I was an utter and complete tool.\n\nThere was no human incentive good enough for me to change my heart and mind. Anything any of you people could have offered--money, prestige, personal glory, fame, or any of that hoo-ha--just wasn't good enough. All of it (at least the money, prestige, and personal glory, which I did have or think I had) did not change my dark heart and murky mind. It fed these things, in fact, and I craved more.\n\nMy problem was that there was nothing in this world that was satisfactory and whose promise did not wear off shortly after I attained it.\n\nIt was when I reached the point where I came to understand this for real, and I hated it, all of it, that I began searching for God in earnest.\n\nIt wasn't you, or him, or her that I was competing with, trying to satisfy, or holding up as a standard. All you people were as bad as or worse off than I was. Nobody had anything I wanted. And as for good behavior and good intentions--people who exhibited these things turned my stomach. I certainly didn't see that as an incentive either.\n\nI hope that this answers your question. To sum up: Only God could fill the chasm within myself, and he did fill it when I sought him. If it was all just a concept, it wouldn't have worked--because I have chased after many a concept, seized upon its claims, and turned up empty-handed in the end.\n\nGod lives, his promises are real, he provides, and all that is of him endures.
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My ex brother in-law wears one.  He thinks it works. So either it does work or it's a mental thing?
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It doesn't work with everyone.  It tends to work with people who believe it will work and it usually fails if the person does not.  Also, the trust that the person places in the hypnotist is important because who knows what someone will cause someone else to do when they are in a hypnotic state?
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I don't think so, but I have a friend who claims he has "counseled himself" and given himself "therapy" - and he says it worked. I suppose it's possible! It would certainly cost a lot less money...
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only if that person was very weak minded
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I believe that for hypnosis to work the person undertaking it has to want to get the end result. So if you really want to give up smoking it will work. I know of a couple of people that went for hypnosis to stop smoking, but they did not really want to give up - and as a result the process failed.
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hi, ive just posted a question about hypnotherapy. They provide cds at this place. Heres the site www.hynotherapy.ie, mail the guy and Im sure he can sort it out for you. (its an irish website)\n\nHope this has helped :)
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Hypnotism doesn't work unless you want it to work
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Yeah I have been using it. But unfortunately I have been having problems. It has work with some of my fears but not with others. But I been told it might not work coz I have brain chemical imbalance. But it does work very well and very quickly getting rid of bad emotions.
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If you want to know the essence of why Spells, affirmations and incantaions of many sorts CAN work, and why for so many people they don't work, watch the DVD 'The Secret'. \n\nhttp://www.thesecret.tv
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It really depends on the behaviour of the person not the syndrome Scizophrenia itself. So I say it depends. Could be yes. Could be no.