One example of how humans are on the trance continuum all the time. Hypnosis or meditation helps you to wake up from a trance and see things as they are. So don’t worry if you can be hypnotized, because you already are. During the session we just change the focus for healing purposes.
Example of how anxiety is a deep trance:
Let’s explore a few everyday examples of trance states that underlie common problems to clarify this paradigm shift. Anxiety is a fear of the future. A client whose presenting problem is anxiety might be using a cluster of Deep Trance Phenomena to synthesize the sensation of anxiety. First comes pseudo-orientation in time as she imagines a catastrophic outcome
occurring in the future and therefore experiences fear. Next she uses posthypnotic suggestions (“It will never work out,” “I can’t cope with life,” “Nothing will help”) to articulate and differentiate the particulars of the negative outcome she is imagining. These are reinforced by negative hallucinations, which block her ability to see or acknowledge other resources, and perhaps vivified by positive hallucinations as she visualizes herself encountering an anxiety-provoking stimulus (such as a bill collector) that is not present in present time. All of this turmoil is likely to be further exacerbated by an experience of time distortion in which she has a breathless feeling that there is not enough time to find any kind of solution.