Because you can’t hold your index finger raised for long without it dropping you are adding reinforcement. As you go deeper and deeper your finger will slowly lower itself, all the way down”. “Raise your right index finger and hold it there. Set up a feedback to help deepen the trance. that’s it….” Let out your own exhale of breath gently. If the breathing slows then you encourage it with “Slowly, ….
That’s it….Just let it go”, keep encouraging. If their eye-lids drop then you encourage it :- “That’s it.
Someone who is in a trance or nearing one may close their eyes and getting them to close eyes is a help top getting a trance. Now, here’s where you need some practice knowing what to do next because you need to observe some physical clues. You have to deliver it at a slightly slower pace than you normally speak and lower in tone. For a moment find that place and nod when you you are there” “I imagine there’s a place where you feel, warm, comfortable and relaxed. Putting aside a direct method I’d start with something like:. What you want to do is take that as the bootstrap and then deepen it. The “cheat” is that they have to go into a trance in order to imagine it. There are many ways a conversation could go.Ī “cheat” would be to ask them to “Imagine what it would be like to be in a trance”. Let me start by talking about inducing a trance in someone else who has agreed that they are happy for you to do this.
The idea of inducing a trance is to take your mind to another place other than this room and now. A substitute is “Think of a time when…….” If I ask you to “Imagine you were so tired, laying on a lounger in the garden, the wine starting to take effect and the warmth of the sun on your face….” You will remember that experience (assuming you have it) and be there instead of here, if only for a moment. I guarantee that at least 80% of you re-experienced at least one of those situations and started to trance a bit. I could take any of those three scenarios and put you in a trance. You know you are in bed but the dream is more interesting than getting up.
#Hypnotize someone how to
Like riding a bike or ice-skating you don’t forget how to do it.Ī trance is a bit like being asleep but being awake to the room and sofa on which you are seated. I can do it but I haven’t bothered with it for years. By talking to a subject and watching for trance clues he would get someone into a hypnotic state whereby suggestions and changes could be made. More important than getting into a trance is knowing how to get someone out of it.Įver since I learnt about Ericksonian Hypnosis and my own experiences with self-hypnosis I have been fascinated in how easy it is to achieve a hypnotic state.Įricksonian Hypnosis, developed by Milton Erickson, is a passive, conversational hypnosis. Use it to help someone relax and feel good, maybe to calm them. Don’t use it to treat anyone because you aren’t qualified to deal with any problems arising. I warn you to try any of this with caution.