These are the key points and issues that any hypnotist will need to learn or things that you will encounter.
All hypnosis begins with the induction. No matter if you are using hypnosis for therapy or for the stage, there are some basics that are the same for both. Stage hypnosis has a different presentation, a quicker induction and a deeper trance state than subjects for therapeutic hypnosis will undergo.
The seven basic steps to therapeutic hypnosis are:
•Speaking to the subject to establish rapport
•Hypnotic trance state induction
•The trance state is deepened
•Strengthen the hypnotic trance
•Implant suggestions
•Implant post-hypnotic suggestions
•Bring the client out of the trance state
The seven basic steps for a stage show are:
•Establish rapport with your group of subjects, usually through jokes, something to put them at ease
•Quick hypnotic trance induction
•The trance state is deepened
•Strengthen the hypnotic trance, usually by buttering them up and giving compliments about how well they are doing
•Perform the stag act
•Make post hypnotic suggestions – suggestions that ensure that all suggestions given to them during the act are cancelled, usually by putting them back into a sleep like trance to erase the suggestions
•Awaken them from the trance state
Although there are different methods of putting people into the hypnotic trance through an induction, the basics are the same for all methods.
•Expectancy and Belief – Confidence was mentioned in an earlier chapter and this stage of the induction is why your confidence is so important. They need to expect and believe that you are a hypnotist and can put them in a hypnotic trance. Their expectation and belief in your abilities make it easier for you to put them into a hypnotic trance. If you try to induce a hypnotic trance and you do not exude confidence, it will not work because the subject will never be able to get past the first stage of the hypnotic induction.
•Confusion and Disorientation – When somebody is confused and disorientated, it is easier to get their mind to turn control from the conscious to the unconscious. This stage allows you to begin to put them in the trance. Often, the hypnotist will describe physical sensations that will help them go into trance and because they expect to feel these sensations, and they will. Even a brief moment of confusion will help induce a hypnotic state.
•Repetition and Suggestion – Once you get them ready to be induced and they are entering the trance state you use repetition and suggestion to further trick their mind into going into the trance. This is the stage where the hypnotist will repeat often that they are going deeper into the trance; the subjects hear this and they will most likely go further into the trance because they are already entering a state where they are more suggestible.
•Relax and Sleep – This is the stage where the hypnotist puts the subjects into a relaxed state, and the sleep suggestion will put them into the trance fully.
No matter if you use instant inductions, slow inductions or rapid inductions, the four stages above are part of all of them.
The first stage sets the scene because if they do not believe that you can hypnotize them then you will not be able to. Even if you are not 100% confident in your abilities, you need to fake it until you are because without that, you will have more failures than successful inductions.
Does the speed of the induction matter? Sometimes, yes. If you put somebody into a trance using a quick induction, they will come out of the trance quicker.
If you use a slower induction, it will be a slower process to take them out of the trance. Street hypnotists use instant inductions but the subject can awaken very quickly out of the trance state. The quicker your induction, the more important it is to deepen their trance state to prevent them from exiting the trance state when you do not want them to.
When using instant inductions, confidence is even more important. Your demeanor should be demanding, commanding and confident to the point of almost being arrogant and when combined with the induction itself, you are guaranteed success.
Attitude is everything when you are putting anybody in a trance, and especially with instant hypnosis.
Instant methods are very appealing to stage hypnotists and street hypnotist because they are sudden, so sudden that it almost appears as if they were magically introduced into a trance.
Remember to deepen that trance though or they can come out of it very quickly.
As a hypnotist, you are responsible for the suggestions that you implant. You need to always be ethical.
All it takes is one bad apple to help hypnotists be painted with a bad reputation and because hypnosis has come a long way in the last few years, that would be very bad indeed. Here are some basic rules to follow:
•Always be confident in your skills and abilities. There is no room for doubt onstage or when performing therapeutic hypnosis.
•You need to not only be confident in yourself but you need to be so confident that everybody else has absolute confidence in your abilities and skills. They have to have zero doubt that you are confident and able to hypnotize them.
•Repetition of words and phrases are vital. You need to use repetition in your inductions, throughout all of the stages in order to make your induction work. All hypnosis is based on repetition.
•Your voice is what your subjects listen and respond to. Not only must you sound confident but also you have to have a commanding tone in your voice. Your voice needs to carry the feeling of authority. You cannot expect to use a wavering, small voice when hypnotizing, you need to speak clearly and with enough force that they focus on your words so that they listen.
•Practice makes perfect.
Think of hypnosis as if you are the director and your subjects are the actors. They expect to be hypnotized and so they are. Part of your act is that you make sure that they know that they can be hypnotized.
Your voice guides them through the induction but basically, their belief that they are being hypnotized makes it possible. Your suggestions are directing their actions.
Hypnosis is very easy to do, your induction relaxes them and through repeating words that invoke a feeling of sleepiness, heaviness, and relaxation which helps the induction process.
Quick or slow, your steps are going to be the same. At the forefront of your mind is that important first stage, that they expect you to be able to hypnotize them and they believe that you can.
Stage hypnotists and street hypnotists encounter some factors that those performing hypnosis for therapeutic reasons often do not. These factors can usually be used in your favor though.
Peer Pressure
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