eyes and awaken
feeling very refreshed. The feeling of the cool ocean breeze and smell
of the salt air will have vanished completely." At this point you count
to three and open your eyes.

Test No. 10 is the "handclasp" test. This is used frequently to test the
depth of hypnosis. You fold your hands with your fingers tightly
interlocked and place your palms together. You then give yourself a
hypnotic suggestion that at the count of three, it will be impossible
for you to unlock your hands. After you try and are unable to unlock
your hands, you continue counting to five, suggesting that you will be
able to do so when you reach the count of five. Incidentally, you should
remove any ring you may be wearing before trying this test. Here are the
suggestions you can follow:

"As I complete the count of three, I shall try to unlock my hands but
will be unable to do so until I count to five. One ... My hands are
locked tightly together. Two ... My fingers are locked tighter and
tighter. Three ... It is impossible for me to unlock my hands until I
count to five. Four ... As I reach the count of five, I shall be able to
unlock my hands very easily. Five ... I can now unlock my hands very
easily."

Test No. 11 is the "arm" test. Here is another test used frequently to
test the receptiveness to hypnosis. Make a tight fist and extend your
arm in front of you as far as possible. Visualize your arm as one solid
mass, as stiff and rigid as a bar of steel. After your arm is extended,
give yourself a hypnotic suggestion that you will be unable to bend your
arm when you complete the count of three. As you continue to count to
five, you will be able to bend your arm very easily. Here is a form of
suggestion you can use:

"As I reach the count of three, I shall try to bend my arm, but it will
be impossible to do so until I count to five. No matter how hard I try,
it will be absolutely impossible. One ... My arm is stiff and rigid as a
bar of steel. Two ... I can feel the rigidity in my arm. Three ... It is
impossible for me to bend my arm until I count to five. Four ... I can
feel the stiffness slowly leaving. Five ... I can now bend my arm easily
and it feels normal in every respect."

Test No. 12 is the "eye" test. This is probably the most widely used
test in hypnosis. Many subjects equate the inability to open the eyes
with hypnosis. Many assume that if they can open their eyes, they have
not been hypnotized. I must emphatically p