Big Phenomena via the Hypnotic Ladder

People have been asking me if you can get ‘big phenomena’ with the HWT approach.  The answer is YES!  Please watch the negative hallucination video, then watch this one.

Negative Hallucination!

A brief clip showing negative hallucination (invisibility) obtained using the Hypnosis Without Trance method. This is an excerpt from a longer HWT session, and was built to using the principle of the ‘hypnotic ladder’.

The Hypnosis Without Trance Live Workshop!

OK, after so many requests and enquiries, I have decided that I will do it – the Hypnosis Without Trance live workshop!

Before I tell you about it, I’d like to say how much I appreciate all the positive feedback and encouragement I have received by email and by ‘phone as well as here on the blog – I hoped that people would like it but I could never have guessed just how well received it has been.  Thank you to everyone who has jumped on board!

The workshop is going to be a little experimental (but very cool!) because it will be the first time I have taught this stuff to a live group, and for this reason I have decided to limit both the number of attendees and the price!

So if you are up for it, and if you move fast enough you are going to get yourself a true bargain – but you need to move fast because it is happening soon:

Saturday 5th December in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire UK.

Yes, that is a little less than 3 weeks time! If you want to find out more, please visit:

http://www.hypnosiswithouttrance.com/hypnosis_without_trance_training.htm

If you know you want a place already, I recommend that you get in and book ASAP; in the 3 weeks since launching the blog, I have had over 350 sign ups and a ton of people requesting this training and I am only be admitting 20 people!

So do act now if you want one of the places.

http://www.hypnosiswithouttrance.com/hypnosis_without_trance_training.htm

Many thanks once again, and I am looking forward to meeting you!

All the very best

James

http://www.hypnosiswithouttrance.com/hypnosis_without_trance_training.htm

Overt Vs. Covert Hypnosis

I know a lot of people are as much interested in covert or conversational hypnosis as they are the ‘overt’ stuff that I have been showing on the blog.  In this video I will discuss the two in contrast and let you know the advantages of each.

 

Exiting Hypnosis

I need to say a quick something about ending the hypnosis session.  In classic ‘trance based’ hypnosis there is a whole ‘wake up’ procedure that really needs to be followed in bringing people ‘back’.  With the ‘no-trance’ approach, there is no need to bring people back, because they haven’t been anywhere!

But we do need to release the subject from the loops we have set up, and hand control 100% back to them.

Here’s how I do it:

I get them to take a really big breath in and then release it and as they do I issue instructions for them to return to normality.  So lets imagine you wan’t to unstick a hand and return them to ‘normal’, it’s going to sound a little like this:

“O.K., go ahead and take a really big breath in (wait for them to take it), and just let that go, and as you let that go your hand can unstick and return to normal, so you can move it fully, 100% back to normal, and feeling wonderful in every way… and how was that?”

And that is just about it!

Afterwards I always let the person know that it was their own mind that created that shift in their reality, because “you have that power within you, and what you might not realise yet is that you can use that power now, in your everyday life to get more of the things that you want for both yourself and the people who are important to you.” 

This is just leaving the subject with a little gift – something that they can feel good about.  I like to do this!

James

 

Practising on Friends and Family

A tempting choice, but beware the pitfalls and know how to frame it!

When Things Go ‘Wrong’ – Flexibility and Utilisation

The truth is, there is no wrong!  There is only what is happening, so take it and use it.  This video should help you get back on track regardless of what happens.

Amnesia – ‘Submodalities’ Name Steal

Someone asked me today whether my ‘without trance’ method could do anything other than stick people to things.  It can and it does!

I actually use this method most with my NLP and Hypnosis Change Work clients (and with them, it is much more about becoming un-stuck )

But in all fairness, sticking is all we have really looked at so far, so I have edited up this video showing a ‘name steal’ (just for fun!).  The subject is Adam, the cameraman for the Nick Davies interview, who turned out to be game for a little hypnosis himself.

I hope that you enjoy it.

The Set Up – Video!

This video expands on the previous post about setting up hypnosis.

The Set Up

This morning I posted on NLP Connections a little something about how I set up a hypnosis session, and t occurred to me that it would be useful to put it up here on the blog.

First things first, there are a number of frames that you can put around hypnosis (magic, energy, trance etc.) that do not require you to ever mention hypnosis by name.  Right here I am talking about doing hypnosis under the banner of hypnosis.

When doing overt hypnosis, I like to set it up so that the subject really wants it to happen.  For this reason I will often (but not always) begin by seeding the idea of hypnosis without suggesting that I especially intend to do any. The reason I do this is because I ideally want the prospective subject’s curiosity to start driving the interaction – I want it to be about them wanting it from me rather than me wanting to do it to them.

Now this will often work to get them asking questions about hypnosis, which you can answer in the most helpful way possible! I tend to explain that hypnosis is about the power of the inner mind, and that people have within them all kinds of wonderful capabilities that they are unaware of, and that hypnosis is about bringing those capabilities out!

So during this phase I am starting to ’sell’ hypnosis to the subject – albeit a soft sell.

And at some point they may well ask to be hypnotised, in which case you are almost ready to go. If they do ask, I will usually say:

“Sure, we can do a little something right now, just to give you a sense…”

and I’ll often add:

“it’s not really hypnosis but it will give you a sense as to how hypnosis works”

This is a killer line, because it takes of all the pressure of “being hypnotised” (whatever you say about hypnosis, people will still carry their preconceptions to some degree), while presupposing that hypnosis works and what you are about to do will show you how it works (and therefor, by presupposition works also). Trust me, this line is awesome!

Then I ask:

“Would you say that you are an imaginative person?”

A “yes” is ideal here! “Sometimes” will work – I’ll say, “sometimes… “sometimes is good! Are you happy to use your imagination right now?”

I want a clear an emphatic ‘yes’ right now! I am looking for what I call ‘buy in’, so I want an emphatic yes. If I don’t get one I will investigate that and be creative in engineering it. If I don’t get it, I may well not proceed (depends on how reckless I am feeling). Or I may well ask “would you like to be?” It depends on what I feel they were communicating with their “no” (it could be self doubt about their capability, or it could be reluctance to partake in the process – you need to use your intuition here!).

Next I will ask:

“How about concentration? Can you concentrate?” 

Whatever the answer I will follow up with the most appropriate variation on:

“I need you to be able to concentrate right now, can you do that?”

Again, I am looking for that emphatic “yes” to indicate ‘buy-in’.

From here I issue a few procedural instructions to monitor compliance (such a dirty word) and segway straight into my opener (which could be the hand stick, or something else).

Just to be clear, this is one way I might do it. None of these steps are essential by any means, and nothing has to be worded as I word it. What I am  always looking to generate/stimulate, however I go about it is:

1. The subjects curiosity about it.
2. The subjects desire to experience it.
3. The subjects ‘buy-in’ to doing the actual process right now.

I don’t like classic ‘pre-talks’ because they so often seem to be about selling hypnosis to the subject for the benefit of the hypnotitst. A friend of my recently described my approach as being much more like seduction than persuasion!

James

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