You have become extremely suggestibleto conscious or unconscious stimuli which are definitely affecting your ability to respond.
Self-hypnosis is a highly suggestible state wherein the individual can direct suggestions to himself.
My contention is that we are all suggestible and, therefore, being hypnotized or hypnotizing ourselves is just a matter of increasing the suggestibility that we already possess.
Suppose you still maintain and insist that you are not suggestible and wonder if you will ever respond to hypnosis.
Should you want to prove to yourself that you are suggestible with your eyes open, practice the technique every day for a week or two.
He who is suggestible by one man may not be so by another; or he may be more suggestible in the line of his prejudices than against them.
The specially suggestibleperson is easily thrown into this state of exclusive attention, as if hypnotised.
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It is easy to point out to the suggestible mind that there is a wonderful enrichment of life in variety, and that uniformity must therefore be something ugly and discouraging and unworthy.
In reality it is, of course, a stimulus by which she becomes more suggestible and by which accordingly her sensitiveness to the slight signs which her mother and sister give her becomes increased.
But the chief factor in making us suggestible is the method by which the idea of action is proposed, and in psychology we speak of suggestion whenever an action is proposed by methods which make the mind yielding.
The human material on which the demonstration has been made has so far been rather limited and, in part at least, eccentric, consisting of unusually suggestible hypnotic subjects, and of hysteric patients.
Mankind is susceptible and suggestible in opposite directions, and the rivalry of influences is unsleeping.
Over-suggestible people run after every craze, are impressed with each new religion, or are tremendously excited with each new friend and think of each new experience: "Ah!
Highly suggestiblepeople give curiously misleading histories because they become obsessed with the idea that they have some terrible disease.
The man who is not suggestible is the person with a monomania, who can see nothing but his own view, is stupidly attached to one set of ideas and so cannot learn.
If we do, we can make a patient of a very suggestible type of mind say anything.
Even outside of the hypnoidal state, these cases are more suggestible than the general run of people.
Our opinion as dictated at this time was that the girl was physically and mentally all right, but that she showed a decidedly childish reaction towards the world and was very suggestible and unreliable.
At times he impressed one by his mode of reaction to various daily occurrences as being as naïve as a child and suggestible to a very marked degree.
This understanding of the part played by the Subjective Mind in controlling and affecting physical conditions and activities, together with its suggestible qualities and nature, gives us a key to the whole question of the "Why?
The action of the heart, also the movements of the digestive organs particularly, and of the organs of elimination, are almost directly affected in suggestible persons by that change in their brains which accompanies certain ideas.
It must be that she has become so suggestible that every sitter's mind governs her.
While in a suggestible condition we are credulous, responsive, and impulsive.
While in a suggestible condition, we place our orders freely and promptly.
We thus see why pleasure renders us more suggestible and hence makes us more apt to purchase proffered merchandise or to respond to the suggestions of our foreman or our executive.
The merchant who can please his customers and bring them to a suggestible mood before he displays his wares, therefore, has done much to secure generous sales.
The conditions which cause a receptive attitude of body cause also a suggestiblestate of mind.
The effect of the suggestible attitude of the body, as produced by pleasure, is increased by certain other effects which pleasure produces on the body.
A man is said to be suggestible when he comes to conclusions or acts without due deliberation.
These conditions produced by increase of muscular strength and bodily volume contribute to the general suggestible condition described above.
Pleasure and a particular attitude of body are indissolubly united, and when these two are present, a suggestible condition of mind seems of necessity to follow.
These diverse points are easy to verify; the state of abstraction, incoherence, of disaggregation, in a word, of suggestible individuals has often been pointed out.
I need hardly say, that experimenters who are so suggestible are not good elements: in purely scientific researches they should be reduced to a minimum.
When it reaches this maximum development, the personification manifests a remarkable autonomy, and appears to be much less suggestible than in the intermediate stages of its evolution.
Not knowing facts to the contrary, the suggestible mind accepts the proposition.
It is always suggestible people who are likely to have premonitions.
Our newspapers make their readers eminently suggestible because they constantly furnish suggestions, and nothing so strengthens a function of any kind as exercise of it.
They are merely normal side-effects of the bodily disease, accentuated perhaps by a suggestible temperament.
The suggestible witness believes himself to have seen and heard what the lawyer suggests.
The easily suggestible person cannot be protected by any interdict; he may catch suggestions everywhere, any advertisement in the newspaper and any display in the shop-window may overrun his own intentions.
When out of a despondent mood in a suggestible brain an absorbing emotion of confidence breaks through, a completely new equilibrium of the psychophysical system may indeed result.
These shamans are excitable persons with epileptic tendencies, or at least over-suggestible men or women who by autosuggestion and imitation can bring themselves into ecstatic convulsions.
Many of the most suggestible persons believe firmly that they are superior to any suggestive influence.
The non-suggestible mind is only to a slight degree influenced by any of these proposed forms of suggestion as long as the suggestibility itself is not heightened.
In a more suggestible mind even the direct sense impressions may be overwhelmed by the proposition for an untrue belief and the strongest desires may yield to the new propositions of action.
On the whole, we might say that such suggestions given to the subject in his normal state are effective only when the subject is by nature a suggestible being.
The minister, who necessarily has his spiritual aim in mind, cannot even become aware of all the involuntary influences which reach the mind in its most suggestible state.
To be sure, the question whether the person issuggestible by nature or not cannot be settled simply by his own impression.
To be suggestible means thus to be provided with a psychophysical apparatus in which new propositions for actions close easily the channels for antagonistic activity.
In very suggestible persons the sexual appetite may be easily led astray by sensory impressions created by perverse images.
In this way the erotic imagination of a very suggestible boy, excited indirectly by another boy, may even make the latter the object of his sexual desire.
Here we observe the effects of the routine and suggestible character of feminine psychology, of the tendency of woman to become the slave of habit and custom, as well as of her perseverance when her determined will pursues a definite end.
In somnambulists, who are the most suggestible people, we can produce or suppress amnesia at will by a single word, and make them forget or remember what has passed.
Hence the hysteric becomes very suggestible and all kinds of fantastic symptoms may be produced.
That readiness only makes them the moresuggestible and renders valueless their opinion as to the truth of what he says.
Some chance talk with a disciple plants the seed, or some stray book comes to the hand of a baffled seeker at the moment when his soul is in a suggestible state, and lo!
As many as six people at a time, myself among them, have seen the same thing, and not one of the six was of suggestible type or had had any hallucinations.
I have each time tried my best to help, making my mind as passive as I could; for I was sure that if a suggestible stage could be reached, some troublesome heart symptoms and insomnia could be alleviated.
When she has had wider experience she finds that almost any known physical disorder can be unconsciously imitated by the suggestible patient, whose sympathetic nervous system causes physical reactions to respond to the feelings of a sick mind.
A suggestible person, learning that his grandfather died of an organic heart, conceives the idea that he has inherited the trouble, and begins to suffer cardiac pains; and as long as the idea persists the pain is felt.
The first line is short, the second longer, the third longer still, the rest all of the same length, but the more suggestible individual keeps on making each succeeding line longer.
