What can I do if I feel, that it might be difficult for me to be hypnotised?
- laureniveau
- Dec 12, 2025
- 4 min read
Regression Hypnosis is one of the most beautiful, deep and potent therapeutic techniques one can experience, and it requires adequate preparation to it, in order to enabling access to a profound and life changing experience. 1 - It’s very important to book with a practitioner you feel comfortable with.
I highly recommend to thoroughly do your research before booking. Check the hypnotherapists’ website (most of them have one), feel their vibes: Do their website and their photo are agreeable to you? Do they make you feel comfortable? Do their ethics, philosophy, knowledge, etc, speak to you? Contact them: some practitioner offer a free call (I do)... Take it! This is a great way for you to meet and discuss, ask all the questions you may have, and feel if this practitioner suits you.
2 – It’s crucial to prepare yourself before the session.
Knowing that you may have a "protective wall" (see my previous post: Can anyone be hypnotised?) or a strong analytical mind, allow yourself extra time to relax and go inward before the session.
The key during this preparation time is to stop synthetic stimulation (coming from the outside) and to turn inward. Put your phone, Tv and any stimulation away 2 to 3 hours before your session.
- BREATHE. This is the most direct and potent way to relax, to calm the outside noise, to feel calm and to naturally turn inward. Do some Heart Coherence Breathing, this online guidance is very nice: https://youtu.be/JJfYqWSAMCg?si=PAof9cLH_J-uiAkC, you may even want to do HCB daily as it is instantly very nice and it has been scientifically proven to create many health benefits including better management of stress and anxiety, emotional rebalancing, reinforcement of the immune system, and more. Or just sit somewhere in a peaceful and quiet space, make yourself comfortable, close your eyes and slow down your breathing. Just do that. Slow down your breathing and make sure you are breathing through your nose (mouth closed) and your exhales are longer that your inhales – that is because it stimulates your parasympathetic neuro pathways, which sends the signal to your body and mind that you are safe and allowed to relax - Just breathe like this, calmly, eyes closed, through the nose, longer exhales than inhales, for at least 5 minutes and feel the shift in you.
You can practise mindfulness, which is, in fact, easy to put in place (I didn’t say easy to achieve but easy to put in place) as it is simply doing one task at a time and in full awareness (no side track distraction like music, TV or listening to a podcast):
Go for a walk, in nature if you can, to allow yourself to move out your energy and to ground and reconnect with nature. That is one of the best natural therapeutic relaxing technique. No phone, no music. Just you and Mother Nature.
Meditate (there are plenty of free guided meditation online or do it in silence if you can). Allow yourself to do it, even if you think you can’t because your mind doesn’t turn quiet, that’s alright. Do it anyway, it will still be a time of “undoing”. Try.
Put your phone, Tv and any stimulation away 2 to 3 hours before your session. Give yourself this time in silence, walking in nature, reading, meditating, doing coherent breathing (okay, you may need your phone for this one… but just for this one :)) or calm breathing.
You could even cook, do some gardening or a manual or artistic activity you like – these are grounding activities – as long as they are done quietly and in full awareness (focussed on the task and not distracted by stimulations: music, TV, podcasts, being on the phone) –
Mention to your hypnotherapist of choice your thoughts about your worries of not being able to easily go into trance, you can even send them an email prior to your session, to allow them to be prepared and adapt the session to your needs – some extra time, and specific techniques, could be required to induce you into your hypnotic trance –
3 – It could require several sessions for you to drift into your hypnotic trance and that would be perfectly normal.
The more sessions you will have, the easier it will be for you, to let go and allow – Like learning a new skill -
Conclusion: Regression Hypnosis is natural and is potent, yet this is not an everyday therapeutic occurrence, in the sense that we are not used to be guided into deep hypnosis, in order to quiet our conscious mind, and access our unconscious and superconscious mind. Regression Hypnosis is one of the most beautiful, deep and potent therapeutic techniques one can experience, and it requires adequate preparation to it, in order to enabling access to a profound and life changing experience.
With much care and esteem.
