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 metaphors, but they can create an impossible test: the moment a thought appears, the person assumes they have failed.
In this video, I explain:
• Why hypnosis does not require an empty mind
• The difference between selective and exclusive attention
• Why mind wandering, productive association and genuine disengagement are not the same thing
• How analytical people can use their thinking constructively
• What a skilled hypnotherapist should do instead of accusing a client of “resisting” Stay to the end, particularly if you have ever thought you were “too analytical” to be hypnotised.
Your mind is not necessarily the enemy—and it certainly does not need to be defeated.
Want a deeper dive into this topic, read this article: My Mind Wanders During Self-Hypnosis, Am I Doing it Wrong?
You can learn my official, structured approach to self-hypnosis by visiting this page of my college website and downloading the self-hypnosis roadmap: Learn Self-Hypnosis Here… And you can take a look at the full list of Hypnosis Audios I offer here.
