the common everyday trance

Erickson spoke of the common everyday trance where we read a book, watch a movie, listen to music, gaze out the window ... and invited us to approach hypnosis as an extension of this common everyday experience.

From this perspective, we can assume that any individual has their own way of experiencing their own everyday trance, and so, their own individual capacity to experience hypnosis.

We can then invite anyone ... anyone ... into their experience as a respectful and familiar connection with their own experience of hypnosis.

This means that we don't need to "hypnotise" anyone. Instead we can invite anyone into their experience.

We are then not imposing something external on them, rather we are evoking their own experience.

Measuring somenone's "hypnotisability" becomes irrelevant, as does any concern about the "depth" of trance.

Experiment: If you're interested, you could begin to notice the way you or others experience a common, everyday trance, and be willing to be surprised at how often this occurs.