Hypnosis can't put you into any place than these areas of cycle per second brain activity. For most people, hypnosis is a mid-alpha range activity and although you are definitely in hypnosis, you remain fully conscious of everything that is going on around you. Hypnosis is a matter of setting aside your conscious mind and narrowing your attention span down to one thing, just as you do when you are beginning to go to sleep. It is an altered state of consciousness and a state of hyper-suggestibility. Because of this suggestibility in the alpha and theta levels, positive programming is extremely effective in helping to create positive change.
Hypnosis is a perfectly safe technique that anyone who can concentrate for a few moments can learn.
People with very low IQ's, neurotics and very young children are not good subjects, for they have short attention spans. If such a suggestion were given, you would either refuse to comply or would wake up. The ego cannot be detached under hypnosis, so secrets would not come out while you are in a trance, and you would not do anything you would not normally do if you felt relaxed about the situation. The best hypnotic subjects are not unintelligent people. The more strong-willed, intelligent and imaginative an individual is, the better subject he usually is.