ARMS RISING AND FALLING - SUGGESTIBILITY TEST

Permissive test of imagination

You have a good imagination, don't you?

Good!

Then l'd like to do a process to see how weIl you can use your imagination.

If you would, please stand.

Could you step back just a bit?

Good! Thank you.

Let your arms hang loosely at your side. That's it.

Just relax and let your arms hang loosely at your side.

Now, l'd like you to please close your eyes.

If you will, raise your arms forward and upward to shoulder level.

Good!

Please turn your left hand so that your left palm faces the ceiling.

Now, extend your right thumb so that your right thumb faces the ceiling.

Good!

This is a process in imagination, so what I would like you to do now is to please imagine,

visualize if you can, even pretend if you have to, that in your left palm you have a very heavy book.

Imagine that you have the World Book Encyclopedia in your left palm.

At the same time, imagine attached to your right thumb is a string.

The string is attached to a large, red, helium balloon.

Helium being a gas that rises, it causes your right hand to go up, up, up.

Left hand down, down, down.

Right hand up, up, up.

Left hand going down, down, down.

Right hand going up, up, up.

Left hand falling.

Right hand rising.

Now, please open your eres.

Did you notice that your left hand went down and your right hand went up ?

That's very good. You do have a very good imagination.

HAND CLASP - SUGGESTIBlLITY TEST

Authoritative test of imagination

This test should be applied if you find your client not responding well with the permissive tests.

It is also an excellent method to use when demonstrating suggestibility testing with groups.

Demonstrate on Group -(sitting or standing)

Note: At the beginning of this test, make sure your clients take off any rings that may interfere.

At the conclusion, ask for feedback from your client. VERY IMPORTANT- start this test in a normal

speaking voice and change the tone to a more forceful authoritative manner.

Put everything down and face me. ..extend hands, lock them together with your

elbows locked ...push your hands out as though you are pushing them through the

wall in front of you ...

Focus your attention on the uppermost knuckle, the one closest to you ...

Imagine your hands are in a vise and the vise is beginning to close. ..your hands

are getting tighter and tighter together ...your knuckles are getting whiter and

whiter. ..your hands are stuck like glue. ..

In a moment I'll ask you to try to pull your hands apart but you will not be able to do

so ...they will be stuck, stuck like glue. ..the harder you try the more difficult it will

become. ..but don't try until I ask you to ...

In a moment I’ll count from one to three, at the count of three you'll try to open your

hands but will not be able to ...

One, stuck like glue,

Two, completely stuck, tighter and tighter,

Three, Try to pull your hands apart, you cannot,
Try, you cannot,

Try, you cannot –

Now stop trying – relax and allow your hands to just come apart.