Magic Moments of Hypnosis and How Hypnotic Experience makes the difference.

Magic Moments of Hypnosis

There comes a point in everyday when the subconscious is open to suggestion. It isn’t trance in any sense of the word and it isn’t an ‘altered’ state. No more than being in any mood is an altered state.

As a hypnotist you can create these moments or you can just be observant and make use of them. Either way they are the times when a correctly formed suggestion can be easily given to elicit a planned response.

Hypnosis is often touted as being a natural state. A bit like the stuff you tread in visiting fields with cows, you are always in it, only the level varies.

This of course is true. There are times when your mind is more suggestible than others but that isn’t what they mean when they say hypnosis is natural. They are of course talking about the dream like state your mind enters as a symptom of being hypnotised.

Day dreaming is one, getting lost in book or turning off when driving a familiar route. All of these are touted as being states of hypnosis.

The truth is that none of these are magic moments of high suggestibility. In fact in experiments taking over any of the above and giving suggestions proves to be a complete waste of time as the mind is not focused on the suggestion but elsewhere.

It’s like comparing a puddle to the Pacific. I guess they are working on the good old if it looks the same it is the same. Which is sadly the mantra often used in hypnosis. If someone sits for several minutes with their eyes closed while you talk to them then hypnosis has happened, which of course is simply not true.

In the Svengali System I introduce the concept of hypnotic “Magic Moments”.

Magic moments occur when the mind takes over. You are not distracted nor otherwise focused. In fact the opposite is true, in hypnotic magic moments your focus and clarity of thinking is so lucid it’s as if for a second a veil has been lifted. But that is also the point where you are open to direct suggestion, which is basically what indirect hypnosis does.

It adds so much waffle around the direct suggestion it simply hides the fact that this is what’s happening.

Shock inductions create magic moments as does any intended action that breaks your pattern of attention or expectation.

So does being sacred or being angry or any event where you become fully emotive. The point of orgasm for instance is a perfect place to tell someone they want to make you a sandwich, or whatever it is you want to suggest.

Make use of Magic Moments and make your hypnosis work better.
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How Hypnotic Experience makes the difference.

I am a naturally talented hypnotist. I was getting results from hypnosis that people with way more knowledge would struggle with.

I don’t consider myself lucky although I guess I am gifted with the ability to follow the moment and get the hypnosis connection almost without trying.

I didn’t need to have loads of experience to do hypnosis well, mainly because my mentor was chapters ahead of me and the people who helped me in my career, either by their writing or by their stage work and lectures I attended, shared their experience with me.

If you like I borrowed the confidence their experience gave them and used it as if it were my own.

But, and it’s a twelve story but, it was their own personal experience. Not a second hand job.

In training, especially in hypnosis, I have found way too many people etching other people’s methods and experience as their own. Think of a seagull chick regurgitating their food to feed a smaller bird. The food has already been in the stomach of the parent, then the sibling then the next sibling and each time it’s passed on it gets digested a little more until eventually it has no nutritional value at all.

It’s what marketeers call ‘borrowed expertise’. That is simply taking what someone else has crafted and earned by dint of their own real world work and claiming it as your own. Then you get the situation where people who have no idea whether something is good or not, teaching other people the thing as if it were a time and experience proven thing. It may well have been but not by them.

I know, we live in a world where the marketeer has more power than the guru. So much so it’s hard to tell the two apart, so what to do?

Look for proof of experience. Success leaves trails outside of the market fed internet communities. Newspaper quotes. Actual book signings and or publication rather than the easy to do “Best selling ebook without even an ISBN number. TV appearances.

Experience is without doubt a great teacher, I didn’t start teaching until I’d got nearly 30 years under my belt, make sure your teacher has some. Otherwise you are being fed soft food theory with no value. You’d be better buying a book by the guy who taught the guy who taught the guy who taught them.

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