The difficulty most people have in accepting and practicing the powerful suggestive force available to them for self-help with self-hypnosis arises from the fact that during self-hypnosis they feel like "nothing happens."

They seem to be disappointed, even puzzled. If such power is available from self-hypnosis, they say, why don't they feel "knocked out" or "blacked out"? Why don't they "at least have a funny feeling"? Hypnosis is a natural phenomenon, not a major operation.

Professor Griffith W. Williams of Rutgers University, says in "Hypnosis in Perspective": "What happens regularly and frequently often remains unobserved or unrecognized, so that the trance states in daily life, especially light ones, occur, pass unnoticed and remain unrecorded.

"When a man is fishing, for example, there is little to distract him. The river washes over the rocks with a relaxing music. Gradually the water seems to swell and creep up, while vision becomes slightly blurred. Often at this point, he will be seen to make a slight jerky motion of the head and to change his stance. While such an experience is frequently mentioned, it is seldom recognized that the antecedent conditions are ideal for mild self-hypnosis."