Hypnosis Daily Info Blog

There is usually no serious reason for objecting to the presence of the subject's friends during a sitting. Quite the contrary, they often help to keep the patient's mind at ease. There are, in fact, persons (quite numerous, too) who feel a vague but strong apprehension that something might happen to them in the state of hypnotic "sleep." They commonly ask permission to bring a friend along, which request should be granted without hesitation. It happens occasionally that such visitors fall into a trance themselves, with no previous intention to be so influenced. This happens so frequently, in fact, that one concludes that the spectacle of hypnosis acts contagiously. For this reason, group sittings are generally quite successful, and the number of subjects, all hypnotized at once, is small handicap. These group sittings, however, should never be transformed into public demonstrations, unless there exists a special scientific purpose therefore. I shall describe, to begin with, a simple method which I found quite practicable and convenient, and then, if the reader wishes to modify it or to select some other technique successfully used by some authority in the field, he is welcome and free to do so. He knows best the circumstances under which he intends to work.