However, some people who interfere with subconscious response may need to be guided to deeper levels. This is rarely advisable in clinical hypnosis for therapy as it is the willingness of the conscious levels to accept what is being found in the subconscious levels that is important for healing transformation and change. Everyone has been hypnotized thousands of times. It happens automatically whenever the conscious mind is relaxed, bored, in a state of concentration, or is inwardly focused. Daydreaming is a hypnotic state.
Prayer can induce a hypnotic trance, as can meditation.
Activities such as running, reading, engaging in repetitive tasks, watching TV, listening to a sermon or lecture, can induce hypnotic states. When a person watching TV, for example, is aware of what is on the TV, but is oblivious to whatever else is going on in the room is in a state of hypnosis. What is important in hypnosis is what you are thinking and feeling. Some people are not visual. Trying to become visual is frustrating and unnecessary.