Start with the end in mind – why do you want to learn how to hypnotise ?

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By HowToHypnotise, August 13, 2009 2:32 am

We’ve already briefly explored two ideas that are corner stones for learning to hypnotize somebody in the posts “The first thing you need to know about hypnosis is …“  and “Want to learn how to hypnotize someone ?“. If you take-to-heart these two ideas you will be well ahead of the field. Many beginning hypnotists (and even quite a few who have gone through some form of training) never really get these ideas … so I’ll repeat them:

Hypnosis is not something you do to people – it is something that they do to themselves.

Know what it is like to experience hypnosis yourself.

Another important thing you need to keep in mind is that hypnosis is not an end in itself – actually, if you learn how to hypnotise without understanding that it is just a tool then you won’t find it that interesting. Learning how to hypnotise isn’t that difficult, in fact you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to assist someone in producing the hypnotic state within themselves – but then what?

Let’s list some of the uses that hypnosis can be put to:

  • Learning to relax
  • Stopping a habit
  • Remembering forgotten facts
  • To control an autonomic response (e.g. gaining access to body functions that are normally not accessible consciously)
  • Pain control
  • To change feelings about events
  • Forensic retrieval of suppressed details
  • Generation of wild and unusual states and perceptions (anyone want a trip)
  • To access creativity
  • To work with symbolic themes or access dreams
  • To reprogram thought patterns
  • To implant an idea
  • To enhance someone’s feelings (seduction anyone?)
  • To regress into ‘past lives’
  • To regress to childhood
  • To heal
  • To entertain (stage hypnosis)
  • To meditate

And that’s just a start. And here’s the real point I’m trying to make with this post – learning how to hypnotise is just part of the game … if you know nothing about repressed memories and abreactions let’s say, and you start messing around with memory … you might be in for more than you or the other person bargained. Each of those uses I listed is an area of learning in and of itself. Hypnosis is a tool – the use of the tool is where the art and science is.

So if you want to learn hypnosis, my suggestion is to always start with an end mind – it will make the journey a much more worthwhile endeavor.

Have a great trip!

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Want to learn how to hypnotize someone?

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By HowToHypnotise, August 11, 2009 11:06 am

So you want to learn how to hypnotize someone eh? … Well, ok, here goes …

It’s both more complex and simpler than you might think. Remember my other post “The first thing you need to know about hypnosis is …“! As it suggests, learning to hypnotize someone is more the art of letting them give permission to themselves to ‘let go’ or ‘shift state’ than it is about anything else – you see, it’s about them not you.

A slight correction, it’s about them and it’s about you. Now you see, in order to learn to hypnotize someone you need to (IMHO) experience it yourself. I mean, how could you ‘lead someone’ to experience the hypnotic state if you don’t know what it is firsthand?

So this is the next thing you need to know in order to learn to hypnotize anyone inf fact:

Know what it is like to experience hypnosis yourself

And how do you go about doing this? Well, there a gazillion audio and video files out there that you can stream or download – a lot of them for free (Warning: never experiment with any of this trance stuff when operating machinery or a vehicle of any kind). You can pay for and download eBooks, order CD’s or DVD’s. You can go to the bookstore and get ‘guided visualizations’, meditations or trancey music. You can even go to a hypnotist or hypnotherapist if you want.

You may form opinions about what it is and what it isn’t once you’ve experienced it – and we’ll explore my take on it as well – but in the meantime, in order to learn to hypnotize someone I believe you need to first learn to hypnotize yourself!

Have a great trip!

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The first thing you need to know about how to do hypnosis is …

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By HowToHypnotise, August 10, 2009 10:07 am

You know, I first learned how to do hypnosis more than 25 years ago. There I was in the technical library, studying hard for my engineering papers and looking to take a break … and I stumbled across an old dusty book on hypnosis and devoured it over the weekend. I spent the next couple of years trying to hypnotize all my friends and work colleagues. I had some success (as I considered it then) and some failures and it was mostly for fun – a trick to do at parties, a great conversation starter with the girls!

The thing is, and I realize this now, is that I really knew nothing about hypnosis back then. And after spending 25 years exploring what you would consider some pretty unusual applications of hypnosis I still feel I’ve got so much yet to discover … hmmmm

So you want to learn to hypnotize do you?

We could start where a majority of the courses and products start – and focus mainly on technique – … or we could explore some basic principles that if you take to heart will jump-start your understanding of how to do hypnosis. Perhaps it will take years off the learning curve as you go forward and explore the wonderful and sometimes weird world of hypnosis.

So let’s start with something that you MUST get right:

Hypnosis is not something you do to people – it is something that they do to themselves.

This is one of the biggest misconceptions there is out there. The person being hypnotized is doing all the magic! Sure, you might be a great guide, an artist even, in helping people open their internal doors that allow the ‘hypnotic state’ to occur. But they are ultimate master and author of their experience – not you! And this is where trust comes into things … the more comfortable someone is with you the more they may open up. And the more congruent you are in your behavior – the better the experience for the other person. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Check out some of the other articles, entries and comments on this site. If you want to learn how to do hypnosis you can start here and see where the journey takes you.

Have a great trip …

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