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I got the book 'Reality is Plastic' for my Birthday, it was a really interesting read and I've had a small amount of success, considering I had absolutely no background in hypnotism (small hallucination, I made someone feel like they had a cord wrapped around their wrist)

I haven't had the opportunity to do a demonstration to anyone outside of my family, so when the opportunity does come I want to be prepared!

This is what I was thinking of doing as an overall routine:
-Pre-Talk
-Magnetic Palms
-Either Triple Handshake Induction, Rehearsal Induction or Hand-Eye fixation
-Deepening
-Make arm move to face, make it "funnier and funnier" (if you've seen any of Anthony's videos you will know what I mean)
-Stick hand to face or feet to floor
-Amnesia (Name or Number)
-Invisibility
-Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
-Full Wake Up

Does that seem like a good way to progress? Am I making things harder for myself, or could that routine be improved?

Cheers,
-Sam

I don't know if I'd have the guts yet to learn and try this in the field yet. They do say though, as you'd be aware, that it should be easier on people that aren't your friends and family because they just can't believe you could be a hypnotist because they know you, whereas randoms will more easily fall into the mindset that you can control them and do this stuff all the time. Good luck!

Hi Sam,

I wouldn't 'plan' anything as anything can happen as you go along, for example as you do the magnetic palms you can see if they're already taking suggestion, tell them that as their hands touch that their eyes will close and they will feel sleepy. You may find that their head rocks forward, in this case I would treat this as the induction and go straight to deepening. In other cases you may find the set pieces are being very rigid, here you may want to go into the rehearsal induction and follow it up with some fractioning to ensure they're under before deepening.

Check out all of Anthony's videos that you can, if that's the route you're learning from, but also try out as many other inductions and set pieces as possible to find something that suits you. Youtube is full of videos of instant/impromtu inductions, shock inductions, non-verbal inductions check them out and don't be scared to practice on anyone who is interested - but YOU have to believe in yourself enough that they will be convinced they will be hypnotised before you've even started.

Go for it!

Chris.

With hypnosis too much planning is a problem, because you are at the mercy of how people react. I have been doing impromptu hypnosis for a few months now, but I had a decade of solid stage hypnosis experience behind me. I began by having an out - if the hypnosis is not working, I move seamlessly into a routine. It looks as if it was all planned. I used an ID at first, now I use my own balloon routine.

I find now that if I pick the right subject the hypnosis works more often than it doesn't. But be perpared for the odd loss of face and failure in the beginning. Just keep at it.

Please, above all else, give your hypnotic subjects a genuinely positive experience.

Also have a look at James Tripp's 'hypnosis without trance'
You really don't need an induction to perform the hand sticking, amnesia and fun stuff.
'hypnosis without trance' feels so much safer, you feel more confident and they pick up on that confidence.
Because there is no trance, there is no 'epic fail' point.

For the same reason, I also like non-trance effects such as 'Cerebral Steal' by James Brown from professional opportunist.

You're asking your question as if hypnosis actually exists. You'll only create difficulties for yourself with that in your mind. There's nothing to it, it's all in other people's heads. With that, be confident; Confidence, that is to say- belief- is the real 'secret' of hypnosis.

My hypnosis improved rapidly once I stopped believing in it. Many professional hypnotists (maybe the majority, though that is a controversial issue) don't believe in it.

TonyB wrote:My hypnosis improved rapidly once I stopped believing in it. Many professional hypnotists (maybe the majority, though that is a controversial issue) don't believe in it.

Interesting point, but do you have to give them the impression that you believe in it - even though you don't ?

Tony. I think this is a cultural thing. I suspect strongly that there are far more UK hypnotists that disbelieve it than there are in North America where the majority of stage hypnotists I have met seem to believe in it. We British are a cynical people I am afraid. As for the Irish I have never met a single stage hypnotist in Ireland that believes in hypnotism. Not a single one. Of course there aren't too many hypnotists in that country but of the few I know not a single one believed in it. At one time I was daft enough to believe in it too until I finally realised it was a load of old baloney. Once it dawned on me what was really going on I made rapid progress in my studies.

The performer doesn't have to believe in Hypnosis as long as the subject does!

TonyB wrote:My hypnosis improved rapidly once I stopped believing in it. Many professional hypnotists (maybe the majority, though that is a controversial issue) don't believe in it.

A lot of teachers show you how to become "The Hypnotist" purely because if you believe it you come across as believable. Convince the subject that what's happening is real and beyond their conscious control they have no choice but to recognise it as reality. You don't need to believe it, but those little inflections an the confidence that authority and experience brings tend to help the subject go under.

I'm reasonably new to this hypno lark, but I'm intrigued into the whole "belief" question.

I understand that the hypnotee has to believe in both hypnosis and the hypnotist, and when this is the case they can easily become suggestable and will follow instruction, including altering reality. I would have thought that this is hypnosis and therefore it does exist?

Am I missing something?

interesting debate here:

http://psychology-forum.com/general-psy ... not-exist/

And there is another interesting debate on it here too. I cannot remember where the hell it is. Naturally I was the one causing all the trouble.