The following two suggestibility tests are alternatives to the ten-question method to determine your level of suggestibility. The best way to conduct these tests is to have someone else read them to you while you use your imagination to follow the instructions. Make sure that the reader takes her time reading the suggestions and pauses wherever she sees the three dots (see the following tests).

Take the time to conduct both of these tests on yourself to decide whether you should use an analytical or nonanalytical session. Both tests should have the same results and will help you to make your decision. Your results from these two tests should also match the results from the ten-question test. If for any reason your results do not match then use the results from these physical suggestibility tests rather than the written one.

Sit comfortably in your chair and clasp your hands together, interlacing your fingers as if you were praying. Now place your index fingers straight up as if you were making goal posts with your fingers approximately 2 inches apart. Place your hands with your fingers pointing up directly in front of your face approximately 10 inches away. Now concentrate your vision between your two upright fingers, looking nowhere else in the room except between these two fingers. As you are concentrating on the space between your fingers, use your imagination and imagine that a thick rubber band is being placed around your fingertips … And you can imagine that rubber band pulling your fingers closer and closer together … closer and closer together until they eventually touch … and as soon as they touch you can put your hands down … (If they have not touched by now continue on with the test.) I'm now placing a second rubber band even thicker than the first one around your fingertips … you can feel it pulling your fingers closer and closer together … closer and closer until finally they touch.

As a result of the finger test, if your fingers came together and touched fairly easily, then you would be considered nonanalytical. They touched through the power of suggestion. Your strong subconscious mind believed there was a rubber band even though your conscious mind may have been rebelling against it slightly. If your fingers moved very little, however, and did not end up touching, then you are more toward the analytical side. If your fingers did not move at all, that would signify that you are either analytical or you were rebelling against the suggestions. Of course, you are the only one that can really answer that question.

Once again, have someone else read these instructions to you so that you can use your imagination.

Stand with your feet a comfortable distance apart. Place both of your arms extended straight out in front of you like a zombie. With your right hand, make a thumbs-up gesture. Turn your left hand so that your palm is facing toward the ceiling. Now close your eyes and use your imagination.

Imagine that I am tying the strings attached to twenty-five large helium balloons to your right wrist. As you know, helium is a gas that rises, and you can feel it pulling your right arm upward, light and weightless. Just imagine the colors of the balloons, how large they are, and even the reflections of the light bouncing off of them. Feel them pulling your right arm up, up, up.

Now imagine that on your left palm I am placing the handle connected to a solid steel bucket filled with wet, dirty, muddy water. It is very heavy as you feel it pulling your left arm down, down, down. The bucket is so very heavy that you can even notice the pain in your upper arm from the weight of holding it.

Your right arm is going up, up, up and your left arm is going down, down, down. Imagine now that I am holding a brick just above the bucket that you are holding in your left hand. In just a moment, on the count of three I am going to drop the brick inside the bucket and it will be very heavy. Ready? One … two … three! (At the precise moment that you count three, snap your fingers at the same time.)

Now keep your arms right where they are and open your eyes so you can see where your arms are. If your arms had moved in the direction they were suggested, then you would respond best to a nonanalytical session. If your arms did not move at all or very little, then you would respond best to an analytical session.