When something suddenly interrupts an automated unit of behavior a strange but interesting thing occurs. There is a pause – a blank 1 or 2 seconds – where the brain doesn’t know what to do. The conscious mind hasn’t fully engaged again and there is essentially a blank slate as far as a hypnotist is concerned. If you give a suggestion in that pause – it is more likely than not that the brain will act on the suggestion.

If you then carry on as if nothing has occurred then quite often the person will have total amnesia of that 2 second pause. So here is the 2 second hypnosis secret in order.

1. blah blah blah blah (normal conversation)
2. pattern interrupt (just something unexpected during an automatic habitual action)
3. suggestion – in a different tone of voice if possible (you got 1 or 2 seconds)
4. blah blah blah (carry on with you conversation in the same tonality and pace as before the interrupt

That’s it folks. There is more to it than this, but this is the core underlying principle things such as the ‘handshake interrupt’. I teach this stuff in seminars on influence to business groups. It works. I just had a lady give our group some feedback … she interrupted a kiss from her boyfriend just before their lips touched by turning her head away and whispering that she wanted some sunflowers (this boyfriend had only bought her flowers twice in the last 4 years). A few days later he turns up with sunflowers. She asked him if he had just done this because she said so … and he flatly denied it. He had no recollection of her saying anything to him.

So, I’ve let the cat amongst the pigeons here in exposing the sneaky little 2 second hypnotic session. Have fun. Don’t do anything silly with this – and remember you can’t get anyone to do anything that goes against their core principles (contrary to what a lot of hype out there is suggesting). And this takes practice to get right. Good luck on your journey in learning how to hypnotise.

Happy trips

The Wandering Hypnotist

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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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