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Hi Spudgun,

I have a few ideas for you.

Firstly I should say that I generally do two set piece exercises but three is fine too. Whatever exercise I finish with I make sure they have got their eyes closed - typically it is magnetic hands.

I will often tag on a few procedural instructions at this point and also get their agreement that they are ready to be hypnotised. For exmaple let's imagine you have explained magnetic hands got their arms out and they have closed their eyes. You run through the exercise and their hands are just about to touch, just keep the stream of words flowing as they are looking for cues from you about how to proceed, you can use this as an induction at this point without actually committing to it overtly by not using the word sleep or hypnosis.

So their hands are just about to touch 'thats right an inh to go and when they touch just let your hands drop down and your head drop forward and relax, just go inside. In a moment I am going to touch you on the shoulder and say 1,2 wide awake and your eyes will open and you will be ready for you next set of instruction/ready to be hypnotised. Nod your head if you understand. (Touch) one two wide awake.'

You can do that with magnetic fingers too before you do magnetic hands. This in my mind is essentaiyll using these exercises as an induction but not testing your work. Just using the opportunity to get them used to things and dishing out the odd bit of procedural instruction and of course observing them.

Anyway when they open their eyes after you touch and say 1,2 wide awake you have choices.

My preferred approach is to not even give them two seconds to re orientate themselves just simply say 'Excellent' stick out my hand as if to congratualte them and do a handshake induction. 'Look at your hand....'

or a eye to hand fixation 'Excellent, can I borrow your arm' Take thei arm and put it in front of their face. Then you are back into the handshake patter.

Alternatively and slightly more permissively you can congratulate them and then get into any other induction. If you watch the vid clip here you will see what I am talking about. I have just done magnetic fingers before this starts and did 10 -15 seconds of rocking his shoulder and deepening, again without really mentioning it was hypnosis. In the clip you will see me use magnetic hands as an unnanounced induction but not really test my work just familiarise him with it and then wake up and bosh straight in with the handshake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STzta20HRew

Know where you are going to go after the induction. Let us know how you get on.

Anthony

As I have grown in confidence I've even changed bits ti suit me. I still use set pieces but I only normally use two, and sometimes a third or fourth optional one when I mix and match as I please. I very rarely use magnetic fingers any more.

I even use 2 that Ant didn;t mention. I guess it just makes me feel more comfortable as it suits me!

A good one is getting them to think you are you, and getting them to think you are them...then you can see how people really think you act

And getting people to believe that they are invisible is also fun, as they try to take advantage of that fact!

With regards to where I go after the set piece personally, I do one of two things.

1) "Perfect! You ready to be put under? Lovely. Now take a look at your hand" and do the eye to hand fixation

2) I do a bit of "waking hypnosis", hand stuck to table, feet stuck to floor e.t.c. Then say "When I click my fingers your eyes will shut, you wont be able to open them, and you just completely let go and relax" *click* and they go straight under.

Easy as pie

wow thanks anthony and beardy thats brilliant stuff cheers guys

I received my book (and DVD! ) and am almost finished reading it. Props for the very fast shipping- the book arrived a day later than a different book I ordered from England almost a week before it.

Once I work up the confidence to try something, I'll let you all know how I go.

My lovely wife ordered me this... looking forward to this

May I say i met Anthony at the weekend at the Tab meeting, and was a bloody nice bloke, he was more than happy to answer my questions on his book etc and was a pleasure to talk to...If you still dont have this book, then I SUGGEST you buy it....Nice to meet you Mr Jacquin

Ok.
I've given this my first try and thought i'd add a new name to the list here.

Tried this out on an old friend last week, began with some standard mentalism routines, ending in a card location using ideomotor and a pendulum to get things warmed up, then magnetic hands set piece and direct to Jacquin Power Lift induction.

Spent a bit longer than strictly "impromptu" deepening, in fact if i'd spent another minute on loops and fractionation and so on the poor girl woulda slipped into a coma.

then after super suggestion i glued her hand to her leg and had her finding it hilarious.

moved on to making her completely forget her own name, which is just enormous fun.

finished with reverse mind reading, not sure about this, she was ready to swear on a stack of bibles that she wasnt playing along with me but she had an odd grin throughout.

finally as i knew she was mega stressed with student stuff i started rambling off about being in a perfect relaxing focussing garden and attempted, without much actual knowledge, to anchor the feeling in the garden to a hand gesture.
Whether any of that section was done right, is possible, or will last i have no idea but i thought i'd give it a go.

All in all a success i think and incredible fun.

I have bought the book on Sunday and I will be posting my thoughts soon, damn you TM for making me spend more of my money, however I am sure this will be money very well spent based on the reviews given here.

Chris

PS. Please would someone tell me what CUPS stands for, probably very obvious but I cannot work it out, thank you.

After taking some time off magic (and may other hobbies) since I devoted the very little free time that I had to our daughter (who just turned 1 year old last month) , I started lurking around the forum again and saw this thread and since I haven't bought anything for a lot time, CUPS in overpowering me , order placed a couple of hours ago.
But I have a feeling that it will be money really well spend.
I also must note Anthony's phenomenal customer pre sales support and assistance. Very friendly and he answered all my questions in no-time !
I will be in London for 10 days beginning of December for a business trip and now I know what I will be reading during the night (hopefully I will be sober enough from the pub visits )

Cheers to all !

PS for Chris : Compulsive Unneccesary Purchasing Syndrome.

Nightfall wrote:PS for Chris : Compulsive Unneccesary Purchasing Syndrome.

Almost, it's actually Uncontrollable as everything is necessary in magic, honest Guv !

Mandrake wrote:

Nightfall wrote:PS for Chris : Compulsive Unneccesary Purchasing Syndrome.

Almost, it's actually Uncontrollable as everything is necessary in magic, honest Guv !

Oops,my bad (and I've searched and copy pasted just to be sure and didn't notice that !)

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic8235.php (and just now I see the same remark you made there. I must have been in a hurry...)

If ever a demo were required of how sad I am, that was it !

CutToTheAce wrote:Ok.
I've given this my first try and thought i'd add a new name to the list here.

All in all a success i think and incredible fun.

Brilliant work Cuttotheace. You have achieved more than you could know.

Stay in touch with any questions.

Anthony

I tried using the Magnetic fingers/hands set pieces today and although they worked perfectly (even though one subject seemed to struggle against the 'pull'), for some reason they started to giggle, any ideas where I have gone wrong and what I might be able to do about it.

Chris

more often than not, the giggle is that they are fairly amazed that said occurence occurs without any conscious movement on their part.

Dont worry about it