By Christi Clemons Hoffman, Level 3 QHHT Practitioner
I received an email recently from a client saying that she felt she wasn't "hypnotized" in her session—that she could hear all the sounds in the building and outside the building and even hear me sipping water. She had tried to pop up a few times during the session, but I instructed her to close her eyes and lay back down. The client has just started the Level 1 class and wanted to have a session to experience QHHT for herself. She was disappointed, as her session did not match her expectation of hypnosis.
I replied that as practitioners we find that it truly doesn't matter how ‘deep’ someone is or feels that they are. Clients have profound sessions at whatever level they are comfortable with. In fact, I recently listened to Jesus and the Essenes, and in the introduction Dolores talks about this very thing. She also reiterated this in one of her recoded lectures.
Yes, you will hear everything that happens in your surroundings during a session. There is no way to turn off the sounds inside or outside the building and no way to turn off your ears! This is why there is a suggestion in the induction about any sounds that you hear fading and becoming part of the background. There are also suggestions we give during the session to disregard any noises. Most people understand and aren't bothered, but there are a handful who might be at first. Several months ago I had a client who had two sessions with Dolores herself. He said her office was a converted gas station near the highway and he could hear highway noises the whole time.
As the practitioner, we look for many signs of hypnosis in the client: changes in breath, relaxed muscles, changes in voice. The client who reached out had all those signs, plus emotion (which you cannot make up), time distortion, and Rapid Eye Movements--LOTS of them, and showing the white parts of her eyes. You cannot fake this. I've tried, just to see if it's possible!
We have so many preconceived notions of what hypnosis truly is or is supposed to be that it is difficult to understand what it really is, which is a naturally relaxed state. The client did try to fight it, but some people do—they even did with Dolores. The client who had two sessions with Dolores experienced this with her—literally. She told him, "We're not finished yet. Lay back down and close your eyes. You can do this.” He had great sessions with her.
When my client tried pop up during the session, her eyes were definitely altered, which I can't describe accurately except that I have seen that look in my daughter's eyes when she is sleepwalking and in other clients on occasion. It was clear she was not truly awake or fully conscious. After 8 years and more than 560 clients, I have only had three clients successfully fight me and refuse to relax and only three who did not remember anything, like Dolores' favorite subject, “Katie" (Jesus and the Essenes, A Soul Remembers Hiroshima). Everyone else is on a spectrum of awareness.
As practitioners, we also know that each session is unique to the client. A client will go to the depth of relaxation they feel comfortable with and have the experience their Subconscious (higher self) feels they need to have. The client in question received much healing and insight--and had several releases of pent up emotion with it.
In the QHHT practitioner’s forum there are hundreds of questions about the client "not feeling hypnotized" and twice as many answers about it. If you feel you are not “hypnotized” during your session with any practitioner, the best advice I can give is to listen to your recording. I think you will be amazed at what came out of you.
I received an email recently from a client saying that she felt she wasn't "hypnotized" in her session—that she could hear all the sounds in the building and outside the building and even hear me sipping water. She had tried to pop up a few times during the session, but I instructed her to close her eyes and lay back down. The client has just started the Level 1 class and wanted to have a session to experience QHHT for herself. She was disappointed, as her session did not match her expectation of hypnosis.
I replied that as practitioners we find that it truly doesn't matter how ‘deep’ someone is or feels that they are. Clients have profound sessions at whatever level they are comfortable with. In fact, I recently listened to Jesus and the Essenes, and in the introduction Dolores talks about this very thing. She also reiterated this in one of her recoded lectures.
Yes, you will hear everything that happens in your surroundings during a session. There is no way to turn off the sounds inside or outside the building and no way to turn off your ears! This is why there is a suggestion in the induction about any sounds that you hear fading and becoming part of the background. There are also suggestions we give during the session to disregard any noises. Most people understand and aren't bothered, but there are a handful who might be at first. Several months ago I had a client who had two sessions with Dolores herself. He said her office was a converted gas station near the highway and he could hear highway noises the whole time.
As the practitioner, we look for many signs of hypnosis in the client: changes in breath, relaxed muscles, changes in voice. The client who reached out had all those signs, plus emotion (which you cannot make up), time distortion, and Rapid Eye Movements--LOTS of them, and showing the white parts of her eyes. You cannot fake this. I've tried, just to see if it's possible!
We have so many preconceived notions of what hypnosis truly is or is supposed to be that it is difficult to understand what it really is, which is a naturally relaxed state. The client did try to fight it, but some people do—they even did with Dolores. The client who had two sessions with Dolores experienced this with her—literally. She told him, "We're not finished yet. Lay back down and close your eyes. You can do this.” He had great sessions with her.
When my client tried pop up during the session, her eyes were definitely altered, which I can't describe accurately except that I have seen that look in my daughter's eyes when she is sleepwalking and in other clients on occasion. It was clear she was not truly awake or fully conscious. After 8 years and more than 560 clients, I have only had three clients successfully fight me and refuse to relax and only three who did not remember anything, like Dolores' favorite subject, “Katie" (Jesus and the Essenes, A Soul Remembers Hiroshima). Everyone else is on a spectrum of awareness.
As practitioners, we also know that each session is unique to the client. A client will go to the depth of relaxation they feel comfortable with and have the experience their Subconscious (higher self) feels they need to have. The client in question received much healing and insight--and had several releases of pent up emotion with it.
In the QHHT practitioner’s forum there are hundreds of questions about the client "not feeling hypnotized" and twice as many answers about it. If you feel you are not “hypnotized” during your session with any practitioner, the best advice I can give is to listen to your recording. I think you will be amazed at what came out of you.
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