Let’s say that you were working with someone who didn’t go into trance particularly. How do you know that they didn’t? Just because the suggestibility didn’t work does not mean that the client will not go into trance.

Remember that your clients will tell you that they are not hypnotised. Of course the final piece is your belief. One aspect to check is whether you are convinced that they did not go into trance and maybe also that you were convinced in advance that they wouldn’t.

But I would say first of all is, change your beliefs. Secondly just because someone does not get zonked out does not mean that they are not in trance. Different people have different ways of expressing trance. As we produce the hypnotic phenomena, what you will learn is that different people have different ways of actualising trance. So you could have a client who felt no relaxation and who felt nothing different from normal and yet they might be very good at producing arm levitation or arm catalepsy and you might not have any idea that they are in trance until their arm is suspended in mid air.

Again as the hypnotherapist I would reserve judgement. It may be that you had a subject that didn’t want to go into trance. You nay of heard of people say “I can not go into trance” or “Hypnosis does not work with me”.

You have to think why would anyone be proud of not being able to go into trance. In fact in the early days of hypnosis they assumed that one who would go into trance was weak and of lesser intelligence, but studies in the last 20 years have absolutely proven that is takes a higher level of intelligence to go into trance. The people who do go into trance are actually very strong willed and are in the process of co-operating with the hypnotherapist.

There is any badge of honour about not going into trance. People who do go into trance make better hypnotherapist and the other element is of course is that we have a process of healing for ourselves and others.