Learn to hypnotise by going there first
I am going to share one of the secrets of hypnosis with you. Now, I could of course let you go out there and learn all sorts of great hypnotic techniques and buy lots of online products, even attend some real live training … and you would learn to hypnotise rather well … and only when you’ve ‘earned’ your medals (and bought lots of products of course) let you into the inner circle of hypnosis.
And then again, revealing this now may or may not have any impact whatsoever – at least not right away. But as you gain your hypnosis skills this one simple insight will transform your ability to work with a much wider group of people. There are layers to this secret. What you take away from it now will be different than what it means in 10 years time.
Are you ready?
The most powerful way to hypnotize someone is to go there first!
Richard Bandler repeats this point over and over (Richard is this amazing genius of human communication who co-invented NLP). I didn’t really understand it at first. However, now I do – and I am still staggered at the implications of this secret. But like any knowledge, I could give you the secret to the universe and it would be meaningless unless you claim it as your own – you need to go out and experience this information as directly experienced knowledge.
So what does it mean … you really need to go and test it to understand the implications … at its most basic level it means that if you can learn to ‘go into the right hypnotic state’ yourself, then it is much more likely that the person you are working with will ‘follow’ you.
When you stop and think about this it makes sense. When someone walks into the room who is really happy … everyone’s mood is lifted. If someone comes into the room all ‘doom & gloom’ … it impacts everyone. Same goes for excitement, laughter, anger … in fact any strong emotional state … that state ‘jumps’ from person to person. Hmmmmmm … does this work for other states … hypnotic states, meditative states, curious states?
I’ll leave you to ponder this hypnosis secret – and I’ll really encourage you to really go out and learn how to hypnotize yourself first … and then ‘play’ with the state in yourself and observe its impact on others.
Have a good trip …
The Wandering Hypnotist
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