Having control over your tone of voice and body language is not enough. If you are in a good trance with another person the breathing rate is synced and when you are anxious your breathing rate is going to chance and the other person breathing rate is also going to change accordingly.
What makes someone decently hypnotizeable?
The ability to let go of control is useful. Unfortunately, the average rationalist is bad at letting go of mental control.
Ability to visualize well inside one’s own mind indicates good suggestibility.
Any important advice you’d give or pitfalls to avoid?
When doing hypnosis in a form where there’s no direct verbal feedback it’s useful to be able to read body language to see whether a suggestion gets accepted or whether it doesn’t and you have to try something different.
A good basis to noticing what the body of someone else is doing is to be able to notice what one’s own body is doing.
Having control over your tone of voice and body language is not enough. If you are in a good trance with another person the breathing rate is synced and when you are anxious your breathing rate is going to chance and the other person breathing rate is also going to change accordingly.
The ability to let go of control is useful. Unfortunately, the average rationalist is bad at letting go of mental control. Ability to visualize well inside one’s own mind indicates good suggestibility.
When doing hypnosis in a form where there’s no direct verbal feedback it’s useful to be able to read body language to see whether a suggestion gets accepted or whether it doesn’t and you have to try something different.
A good basis to noticing what the body of someone else is doing is to be able to notice what one’s own body is doing.