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Take comfort from the fact that the more you do it on the better the result will be.

You will probably get one or two who squeel after mag fingers 'oh it is because of your hands they do it naturally'. If so point out how astute they are and explain that there is no reason for hands to come together, they would just move down and do mag hands.

Anthony

I've been back on here for not even 24 hours and already you guys have got me wanting something already! Payday on the 30th, I bet time drags by....

There's not much on here that runs to 24 pages of praise!!

My baptism of fire is on hold anthony! I can't make this months burlesque night so I'm going to do it at the february one!

I was doing an Out To Lunch effect on my lunch today and thought for a bit of icing I'd use a handshake interrupt as presentation.
At the very last second whenI went to shake his hand I decided to do a handshake induction.

Worked a treat

nice one

Just got back from school. When my English teacher asked what my talk was on and I simply said Hypnosis, she just said "NO!" for some bizzare reason. Annoyingly, everyone seemed keen to do it, but she (my teacher) did not! I had to change my plans and do something else.
So, like every normal person does, I was carrying a deck of Bikes for such a reason as this. I just give a quick overview on the history of magic, then told them about Harry Green performing OOTW to Winston Churchill in the '40s, followed up my Paul Zenon's version from his Street Magic book. It all went rather well, and I did get a "B" grade. Slightly off topic, but I'm just annoyed that she said I couldn't talk about my chosen bl***y topic!
Evil woman!
(Or maybe had a bad past experience with Hypnosis.)

Fabian.

Fabian,

you actually managed to achieve plenty more by her not letting you do it. I am assuming everyone knows you were and are entirely capable of talking about the subject because you are something of an expert. Her reaction was likely born of either misguided fear from a misconception about hypnosis itself driven by urban myth or a poor personal exprience of either being hypnotized or seeing someone else. Equally it may be a she is a Christian who has partially or fully formed view that God does not like it. I believe there is some passage in the bible or christian theory that when someone is hypnotized it allows spirits that are floating about in limbo to take control, to possess your head.

Naturally if it is the latter you can make the assumption that they believe in hypnosis. This is nice

They also believe it is possible to get in someones head. This is nicer. Unless they decide to roadblock your presentation.




Move on and start zapping them. Eyes on creating a Teacher Pet.



Anthony

Something that I have noticed

At the start it was very fun...

but more recently I haven't enjoyed it that much...the "power" of control, to the extent that hypnosis achieves...I don't feel very good when I am entirely responsible for someone else's well-being.

Due to this, I have found that I have been half wishing that the participant doesn't get hypnotised...

I think this has come across on some people, as even people I have successfully inducted before aren't going under now.

Maybe due to my not liking the power that comes with it recently, I have developed a "hypnotist's block" of some sort.

I'm sure that I will soon miss it however, and come back full force

Jacquin wrote:Fabien. Eyes on creating a Teacher Pet.

Anthony

You spelt my name wrong
Anyway, do you mean hypnotising someone to believe they are the teacher's pet?

Fabian.

Maybe he means making the teacher your pet, and training/telling them what to do

"sit!"

Blapsing_Beard wrote:"sit!"

Precisely. You are getting past that block already

Ant

I had a similar experience when I was at school and inspired to learn about hypnosis by Paul McKenna (he was light entertainment in those days ) When experimenting with hypnotic scripts with my friend Gary one break time, we were found by the PE teacher. He immediately shook Gary awake and took me aside for a moment to warn me of the dire consequences of ever trying anything like this again.
I did...

Considering I only see her during the lessons as she "hides" in her office by the preparatory school, it would be quite hard to get her alone to hypnotise her, and the only chance would be during a lesson, by either:
1) The Handshake Induction when she walks throught the classroom door (but why would a student want to shake your hand?)
Or 2) Walk up to her desk in the lesson and do it.
However, whilst that is possible I would still have the dilemma of her remembering she was hypnotised and then telling another teacher, etc and me getting expelled. (Maybe that's a little too far, but still. )
Hypnotising other kids when teachers aren't looking is one thing, but trying it out on a teacher who seemingly finds the whole proccess scary, is an entirely different thing
I mean, even if I was to march up to her and do some instant induction from cold, I'd have to guarrentee that she wouldn't remember a THING.
I'm afraid I'll have to ask for any routine ideas that incorporate some form of amnesia, so I'll try it on other kids 1st, and then consider zapping Mrs. Robson

Thank you Anthony! (and others)
Fabian.

Alowing a student to have such an advantage over a member of staff would not only mean loss of status, it could also be misunderstood. Unless the teachers are willing to 'go under' I'd suggest you focus the 'fluence on other, less problematic victim, er, volunteers .

Yeah, guess you're right Mandrake.
Fabian.