The Myth of the Unhypnotizable🌀
Caution: Words can resonate like echoes in a quiet mind. If you feel them pulling at old wounds or hidden doors, pause. You choose how far to follow the metaphor.
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Many say: “You can’t be hypnotized.” Some insist: “Try if you must, but you’ll never fall.” Is that true?
A quick search online tells us only 15 % of people truly cannot be hypnotized, usually for physical, neurological, or psychological reasons… or because the hypnotist fails.
For the rest of us mortals, good news:
10 % are highly suggestible.
The rest… somewhere in the middle, waiting for the right touch, the right words, the right rhythm.
Now, about the so-called “unhypnotizable.” First, rule out physical or psychological blocks. Once done, before declaring “You’re a bad subject. I don’t want you. Goodbye.”, let’s consider something many hypnotists forget:
Ah, dear hypnotists… when someone resists, it stabs like a personal insult. But is it really personal?
Some people, low in susceptibility, also carry fear or resistance. They won’t sink if all they’ve known of hypnosis are cartoons of mindless zombies, or overblown texts ending in chaos and corruption.
If their mind is dark, rigid, defensive, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. As “wanting is power,” so is not wanting… also valid. The mental universe has its own rules.
Maybe rapport is missing. In a live session, one must empathize, guide, read breaths, microgestures, subtle shifts. Not every hypnotist can do that. Recordings strip that away: no faces, no tiny cues, no adjustments. What could be a jazz of the mind becomes sterile, lifeless studio work.
And above all: hypnosis is a dance. It requires active participation. If the subject doesn’t move with you… only then are they truly “unhypnotizable.”
Remember: it’s only about 10 % of the population. In ten people, only one may resist.
Do not give up, hypnotists. And if you are the subject: you are probably suggestible. And if not… do not despair. Even that, too, can be learned.
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