Hypnosis Do's and Dont's

There are certain things you should not do, at least at
the start. After three or four weeks have gone by, you can
forget these don'ts: Don't try to hypnotize your wife, or
members of your family, or friends you see socially; these
people know you are studying hypnosis, and will put up an
instinctive objection to becoming your guinea pigs. Don't
try to hypnotize people who "defy" you to put them into the
state; hypnosis is a consent state and, obviously, the person
who defies does not consent. Don't try to prove the value of
hypnosis to a skeptic; at this early stage, you will be arguing
from a position of weakness. Later on, when you know
enough about hypnosis, you can argue from a position of
strength.
It is also very important that you don't treat the subject
of hypnosis as a joke or a parlor game. Hypnosis is a scien-
tific study when it's properly conducted, and if you respect
hypnosis as you should, you will not use it for parlor tricks.
It has a great value in medicine. You must intend to use it
that way if you-and your patients-are to get the maximum
benefit from it.

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