Hypnotize

Learning to Hypnotize Someone

Learning to hypnotize someone is not as difficult as it might at first seem. You can learn hypnosis in as little as a couple days provided you approach it properly and have a willing subject. You have to believe in what you are doing and be able to focus on the hypnosis very intently. If you are distracted even slightly then the person you are trying to hypnotize will be distracted as well. You would need to start all over again. Your subject also has to work with you on the hypnosis. If they don't want to be hypnotized or don't know what you are doing then it probably won't work.

Someone who is hypnotized is fully aware of everything that happens during hypnosis. They do not go to sleep or become unconscious in fact quite the opposite is true. It is a hyper aware state that allows access to deeper levels of consciousness. This trance state has several key bodily signs. The person is relaxed, facial muscles relaxed to the point of being slack, shoulders are slumped, breathing is slow and rhythmic. The subjects eyes will not really be focused on anything just sort of a deep distant stare. Your body language should almost parallel theirs to gain trust and reinforce the depth of their trance.

So how do you get your subject into this trance? As I said earlier, you can learn to do it fairly quickly but it takes developed experience before you can get the person into a deep trance. It is very much like having a good conversation with someone. It seems like a natural and easy thing when you have a really good conversation with someone but the truth is it draws on your entire life experience and all of your extensively developed vocabulary, body language, tone of voice and almost everything that makes up who you are. Hypnosis is a very special type of good conversation.

The methods and techniques for hypnosis are as varied as human conversation and you can't script it in advance. One of the techniques is very straightforward. Simply ask the person to produce the body language signs of trance noted above. Have them do it one step at a time and reinforce them by telling them they are doing a good job. Say "good" or "great" or "wonderful" or similar positive reinforcing words. After doing this on 2 or 3 separate occasions your subject will start getting into a trance state more easily. Another technique is to say 3 or 4 obviously true facts in a sentence followed by a fifth thing that you want to accomplish with the hypnosis. If you say 3 or 4 things that are obviously true the person is very likely to also accept the fifth thing as true too. Something like, "As you sit in your chair, feel yourself breathing, hear the sounds around you, let yourself relax deeply". After doing this for several minutes, the trance state in your subject deepens and you can start being more direct about what you want to accomplish. There are a multitude of other similar techniques but I think you get the idea how it works.

Not everyone can hypnotize people but with practice and training miraculous things can be accomplished with hypnosis.

Michael Russell Your Independent guide to Hypnosis.