Anxiety And Hypnosis Often At Odds

Since hypnosis is a method of achieving total relaxation and allowing others access to your subconscious thoughts, it would seem that anxiety and hypnosis would go well together with hypnosis being a natural help for anxiety. And while hypnosis can be used as therapy for anxiety, it can also be hindered by it as well.

Studies have shown that about 30 percent of the population can easily be placed into what is usually termed a hypnotic trance and another 20 percent will be extremely difficult to persuade. The remainder of the population can go either way, mostly depending on their mood at the moment and their level of anxiety and hypnosis may be easy.

Anxiety, however at the thought of giving up control of their mind to another person, may prevent hypnosis from being successful and the thought of someone else having control over the mind and what they may do while under hypnosis, brings on additional anxiety and hypnosis may not be possible.