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People often ask me whether they need to be deeply hypnotized to benefit from hypnotic suggestion.

Well firstly how do you even know when you have been in a deep level of trance? Body stillness (catalepsy) - not moving much for a long time indicates you’ve been deep, as does amnesia - the feeling afterwards that there are whole reams of time that are not too clear (to your conscious) memory.

Sometimes when you’ve been deep you feel as if you’ve been asleep or your mind has been ’some place else.’ But these are all conscious checks, and if you have been consciously checking your level of trance, you’ll have been reducing how deep you go! It’s a classic catch-22.

Actually hypnotic change can happen in deep or even very light levels of trance. A lighter level would consist of a ‘drifting in and out’ sensation. It’s your unconscious mind that makes and sustains emotional changes. As the late great Dr Milton Erickson said: ‘In hypnosis you use your unconscious awareness because unconsciously you know a lot more than you do consciously.’

Many who use our sessions have great results even though they think they weren’t ‘put under’. Other people report being blown away by how deeply relaxed they become. It’s good to understand that the part of you that can make changes is pretty easily accessible, it’s just that hypnosis makes it more so.

Read, relax and enjoy because your unconscious mind is the most powerful part.

Mark Tyrrell