Are certain personality types more likely to be hypnotized?
Yes. Some people have much more of a talent for hypnosis than others, but in my experience, every person in the world is hypnotizable. Whats funny, is that the people who think they can’t be hypnotized very often make the best subjects. Why would you not go into hypnosis? Well, you might not yet feel safe with the hypnotherapist, so you dont allow it to happen. Or you might have unanswered fears. There could be any number of reasons. . What if I’m not hypnotizable? As I said above, everyone is hypnotizable. However, some people are more hypnotizable than others. As with so many other things in life, it works on the Bell curve. About 20% of the population has a huge talent for hypnosis. Some people have such a talent for hypnosis that they can go into surgery under hypnosiswith no other anesthesia. Thats one side of the curve. Then theres the biggest part of the curve, where about 60% of the population lies. I have to work a little harder with them, but they respond to suggestion very w
