Learn How To Hypnotize People

Enough background. You want to know how to hypnotize a person. It is high time to throw theory to the wind and get your feet wet. Hold on and enjoy the ride.

It is now time to hypnotize a person. This person will be your best subject throughout your training. This must be a person that you know completely. You must know there ins and outs, their likes and dislikes, their wants and needs, and most importantly their fears and their strengths.

What we are going to do during our first trance with them is boost your self confidence and at the same time make them feel better for having been your guinea pig. The person you are going to hypnotize today is yourself.

Please remember, all hypnosis is self hypnosis. Your goal in this trance is to make yourself feel more relaxed. Now obviously, I am not there to guide you through this, and this is written, so, you will have to remember the steps or write them down on an index card. Either is fine. Light trance is still a trance. The more you hypnotize someone the better they will get at going into a deeper and deeper trance.

It is important that you know what a trance feels like, so when you are guiding someone there, you know the direction. Now, let’s get started.

First sit in a comfortable position with your feet on the floor and hands in a comfortable position on the arms of the chair or your lap.

Next I want you to take five very deep breaths, in through your nose, filling your lungs to their peak capacity. Hold the breath for a few seconds, then exhale slowly through your mouth.

As you exhale the first breath I want you to imagine all the stress from your head is being released. Imagine when you inhale your head is being filled with a solution that absorbs stress. The first breath in absorbs all the stress in your head face and neck. As you exhale that stress is released, slowly leaving your body through your mouth. As the stress leaves it leaves that part of your body completely relaxed.

Your second breath absorbs all the stress from your arms and upper body. All the stress leaves as you exhale, leaving you more relaxed.

Your third breath absorbs the lower abdomen. Completely relaxing it as you exhale.

Fourth breath, your pelvis to your knees. Just ignore the world around you while you focus on absorbing the stress, and completely releasing all tension as you exhale.

Your fifth breath, takes all the stress from your knees to the bottom of your feet and completely absorbs it. As you exhale, you feel any remnants of stress leave through the bottoms of your feet as you exhale.

You can now breath slightly deeper than usual at a relaxed rate. Knowing at any time you may wish to take a deeper breath to relax even more than you already are.

Once all of your stress is gone I would like you to picture yourself in a well lit grey room. You see an extremely comfortable overstuffed grey chair in the middle of the room. Have a seat in the chair and take a very deep breath exhaling slowly, knowing with this breath it is possible to relax twice as much as you already are.

Now, enjoy the complete relaxation that you feel. Imagine a ring on your thumb. Turn the ring on your thumb around with your other hand while you enjoy this completely relaxed state.

Take another very deep breath relaxing twice as much as you exhale. Twirl the imaginary thumb ring again as you enjoy this state.

Now slowly open your eyes and become of aware of the room you are in.

Feel better? Congratulations you just hypnotized yourself. You now know how to hypnotize a person.

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Before we learn how to hypnotize people, we need to dispel some of the myths surrounding hypnosis.

1. Learning how to hypnotize people is evil. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is little more than meditation which all religions encourage. There is nothing inherently bad about communicating directly with the subconscious mind.

2. People in hypnosis might never wake up. This is false. Unless you have become extremely skilled, and your subject is extremely skilled at going into trance, people remain in control. They are aware of their surroundings but choose not to react to them unless their subconscious tells them they are in danger.

3. You can control someone completely under hypnosis. Sorry, this is not going to happen. You will not be able to get someone to do anything against their morals whether under hypnosis or not. You will not get a stranger to give you all there worldly possessions. This requires brainwashing not hypnosis.

4. I will be able to hypnotize people against their will. Sorry, you will never hypnotize someone who does not want to be hypnotized. In order for it to work, you must have their permission or their subconscious will not listen to you.

5. Learning how to hypnotize people takes years of study and college to be able to do. You have been hypnotizing people your entire life. Once you learn how, it just takes a little practice. However, the more you learn about it and practice it, the better you will be at it.

6. Hypnotizing someone else is completely different from hypnotizing yourself. First of all, ALL hypnosis is self hypnosis. You will never hypnotize anyone; they will hypnotize themselves by following your directions. This is what makes it so safe. Your clients must make the decision to follow your suggestion in their own mind. This makes it their change not yours and gives it its power.

7. You have to be extremely careful not to go into trance while you are hypnotizing someone. It is almost impossible to hypnotize someone without going into a trance yourself. The best way to put someone into a trance is to show them where it is and explain how to get there. However you will be giving suggestions based on their needs and how they think. You may not want those changes for yourself, then again, you may want the choice for yourself.

8. Hypnosis gives you only one way to act under certain circumstances. The purpose of hypnosis is not to carry out commands given in trance. This will not work. Hypnosis is about giving someone a choice in how to react. Choice is empowering.

9. Hypnosis is only successful under very deep trance. While it may be slightly more effective under deep trance, most change can happen while mildly relaxed.

10. If I go into trance, someone can tell me to do stupid things, and I won’t remember doing it. When you are in a trance you remain fully alert and remember everything that happens. Again the primary purpose of your subconscious mind is to protect you from harm.

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Before we learn how to hypnotize people, we still need a little more background. Hypnosis is a natural state that we all spend some time in.  The key is recognizing it when we or someone else is in a trance.

You have been going in and out of trance all of your life. What’s more, you have been putting people in trance just as long.

Have you ever driven somewhere and suddenly realized you don’t remember driving. Your conscious mind wandered into other things and your subconscious mind took over driving for you. Don’t be alarmed, if there would have been a problem that required a conscious thought, your subconscious would have alarmed you, and you would have “snapped out of it.”

In fact the language of hypnosis is in many of our daily common phrases. Consider these;

“Snap out of it”

You walk into a room through the “EN-Trance”

“I zoned out”

“I was entranced by the movie”

“Be mindful of…” Meaning use your conscious mind

Trance is the structure of comedy. When someone tells a joke your mind follows the story to make sense of it. The punch line doesn’t follow your normal logic pattern; your mind quickly snaps out of it and understands it is the logic gap that makes it funny.

Have you ever laughed at a joke? Has someone else laughed at a joke that you told? If so, you have both been hypnotized and hypnotized someone else. And you thought you had to learn how to hypnotize people. You are already an expert. Now you just have to develop the ability and use it for you want.

Let’s dispel a common major myth behind hypnosis.

“If you learn how to hypnotize people, they will be completely in your control and will do things they wouldn’t normally do.”

Here is the fact. People won’t do anything against their values under hypnosis.

But what about the stage hypnotist that gets people to cluck like a chicken? Are these people really hypnotized, or is it completely staged?

Yes they are really hypnotized, but if you have seen one of these shows, you know the hypnotist takes volunteers. These are people not afraid to get up on stage and act the fool. So, while clucking like a chicken is not something they would normally do, being the clown and acting out in a crowd is not against their internal values.

You could not hypnotize someone into either being an atheist or suddenly believing in God. In fact all that would happen is they would come out of trance because your subconscious when send a danger warning. That is its job. It carries out mundane tasks and protects you.

In order to learn how to hypnotize people, you must understand its limits.

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Before we learn how to hypnotize people, let’s spend some time on what exactly is hypnosis.

The first question I’ll pose is have you ever been hypnotized? Most people will say no. The truth is we have all been hypnotized, and most of us are under hypnosis part of every day.

Hypnosis is loosely defined as an altered state of consciousness. Have you ever day dreamed? Have you ever been so “deep in thought” you ignore everything around you? Have you ever watched TV or a movie and obliterated the outside world? These are all examples of altered states of consciousness, or hypnosis if you will.

If you wish to learn how to hypnotize people, you must first understand it. Hypnosis is probably better defined as directly communicating with the subconscious mind. Your mind has two parts, your conscious mind and you subconscious mind.

Your conscious mind is what you think about. What you control. For instance it decides you want to read this article. Then your subconscious mind takes over. It tells your eyes to look at the first word, it converts what your eye sees into a picture in your mind so your conscious mind can understand it.

Your subconscious mind is where all the action is. It does the billions of mundane tasks for your conscious mind and your body. Here is another example. You can decide to now breath in through your nose and out through your mouth taking a deep long breath relaxing while you exhale, and continuing this while you’re on this site.

This task is accomplished by your conscious mind. In five minutes you will not however just quit breathing because your subconscious mind has put it on auto pilot.

If you want to walk into the kitchen and get a drink, you can. (Conscious mind) But your conscious mind does not have to tell every muscle when to move and in what order. You learned this as a baby, and your subconscious has been in charge of it ever since.

Without your subconscious mind you would never get anything done. Every little task would be a huge effort. The trick is to communicate effectively with the subconscious mind with the conscious minds approval and blessing. Then you learn. It becomes automatic.

If we can learn how someone’s subconscious has been hypnotized or trained in the past, we learn how to hypnotize people.

A little on what hypnosis is not.

It is not mind control. It can be very powerful, but it is not going to make someone do something they wouldn’t ordinarily do. You cannot hypnotize someone and tell them to kill a perfect stranger. It will never work unless they are a psychopath to begin with.

Don’t believe that when you learn how to hypnotize people, they will become a zombie and do your evil bidding (BaHaHaHa). Hypnosis is a tool of influence. It will help people “talk” themselves into something they believe won’t hurt them.

If you want to learn how to hypnotize people, we must start with a sound a foundation and build from there.

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