This is the personal blog based website of Adam Eason Hypnotherapist.
Am I Hypnotised or Just Pretending? Why Participation Matters
“If I’m helping it happen, surely I’m just pretending?” That belief can leave you dismissing a real change in your experience simply because you noticed yourself contributing to it. Hypnosis does not require you to become a passive spectator inside your own head. In...
Self-Hypnosis: Did You Move Your Finger – or Did it Feel Automatic?
“If I helped it happen, was I only pretending?” That question trips up plenty of people learning self-hypnosis. We often expect a response to happen entirely by itself—and then dismiss anything we knowingly contributed to. In this short guided exercise, we compare...
Am I hypnotised – or Just Pretending? The Crucial Difference
“If I knew I was helping it happen, surely it wasn’t real hypnosis?” That conclusion deserves a closer look. Your involvement doesn’t automatically make a hypnotic experience fake. Equally, simply doing what you’re told doesn’t prove hypnosis. In this short episode of...
Am I Hypnotised or Just Pretending?
Posing the question 'am I hypnotised or just pretending?' here today with a view to helping understand genuine hypnotic responses..... Imagine you are using self-hypnosis and experimenting with a simple hand-lifting suggestion. You focus on one hand. You imagine...
You Do NOT Need to Empty Your Mind for Hypnosis
Can you still experience hypnosis if thoughts keep entering your mind? Yes—and believing otherwise may be making hypnosis unnecessarily difficult. People are often told to “switch off”, “stop analysing” or “empty the conscious mind”. These phrases may be intended as...
Video: Your Mind Wandered During Hypnosis – Here’s What to Do
Your mind wandered during self-hypnosis. Did you ruin it? No. You noticed it—and that gives you the opportunity to practise one of the most useful self-hypnosis skills: deliberately returning your attention. In this one-minute exercise, I’ll show you how to work with...
Video: Your Mind Wandered During Hypnosis – Did You Ruin It?
Did your mind wander during self-hypnosis? Perhaps you thought about work, noticed a sound, started planning dinner or became preoccupied with whether hypnosis was actually working. That does not automatically mean you failed. In this short video, I explain why...
My Mind Wanders During Self-Hypnosis: Am I Doing It Wrong?
You begin listening to the hypnotist, guide yourself using self-hypnosis or start listening to a hypnosis audio recording. For the first minute or two, all seems well. You follow the words, notice your breathing and perhaps become pleasantly absorbed in a sensation of...
Video: Can’t Visualise? You Can Still Use Hypnosis
Do you struggle to “see” pictures in your mind? That does not mean you lack imagination—and it certainly does not prove that you cannot use hypnosis. Too many hypnosis sessions treat imagination and visualisation as though they are identical: “See the staircase.”...
Video: Can You Make Your Hand Feel Warmer Using Imagination?
Which mental strategy produces the strongest response for you: words, memory or direct attention to sensation? In this brief applied self-hypnosis experiment, you will explore the suggestion of warmth using three different approaches. There is no official “imagination...
