How to do hypnosis?

[Unregistered]

Hello, i am a 16 years old. I recently saw a tape of stage hypnosis and was fasinated! I have no money, so i can't buy anything. Ive tried online instructions, for example:

1. sit down, relax your mind and muscles.
2. breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth
3. now picture your breath as a color
4. now imagin your body filling up with milk, from your toes to your head.
5. on the count of three, your going to be asleep, 3......2.....1.....

This never works for me, i had my brother do it to me and i felt really good, but i was not in a trance.

My brother has some drug problems which i would like to try and fix, but i really would like to know how to hypnotize someone. Is there a quick step by step process or do you have to study it and learn a lot to make it work?

Thanks

[Terry (existing)]

Is there a quick step by step process?.....Yes

Or do you have to study a lot to make it work?..Yes

If you asked me how long it would take you to learn to paint, I might well say, about two or three hours. After that time, you might be able to paint a wall very well, or at least without leaving drips. However, you would then say, "but I want to paint a picture not a wall?...Well that is not what you asked is it? To learn to hypnotise can be done by following what you are doing now, but to be able to practise therapy of any kind, you will need to study for many years perhaps, studying many different subjects also, such as causes of the problems you hope to treat... If you want stage hypnosis you need to study under a competent practitioner of stage hypnosis. If you want to learn the Theraputic use of hypnosis you will need to study, take a course etc just as you do at school, then practise to become any good.....
Saying, I don't have money, so can you help me learn quickly and without cost, is not a smart request is it? Would you ask your teacher to teach you quickly, so that you don't need to stay in school for years, but be there for only one year???????

[Don]

You said that you were not in a trance. How did you know that? What do you think a hypnotic trance feels like? Maybe you were in a hypnotic trance but it just didn't fit what you think it might be.

As to learning hypnosis for free, while I agree with what Terry said, you can begin by going to the library and getting several books on the subject. You can get them at your public library and probably at your school library. If you're near a college or university, you can go over there and study books there, too.

I want to give another example to back up the one given by Terry. I used to work in a magic shop in San Diego. One day, a woman brought in her son. She wanted me to demonstrate a few inexpensive tricks that he could do. In magic, inexpensive does not mean bad. I began by showing a great trick that cost less than $5.00. The mother asked how long it would take for her son to learn to do the trick. "A couple of hours at most," I responded. But then she asked how long it would take him to learn to do it as good as I did it. "Twenty years," I said.

With magic, what you can do is based on your past experience. I can fool thousands of people with the same $5.00 trick that in the hands of a young performer wouldn't fool anyone. Likewise, using the same basic technique which you said you used I could deeply hypnotize a person.

So here's the secret: it's not the technique; it's how you work with the technique. And unfortunately, knowing how to work with a technique comes from practice and experience, not just following a pattern that was read somewhere.

But let me tell you something that's even better than that secret. If you start reading and practicing, you can become a great hypnotist. You can become as good or better than the hypnotist who did the show you saw and entertain thousands of people all over the world. But if you study in a different direction and consider going into hypnotherapy, you'll be able to help people with all sorts of problems, from losing weight to stopping smoking, from getting rid of fears that are so strong they stop a person from leaving their house or even talking with people. You can literally change the lives of people--you can even save lives.

So I hope you continue looking into hypnosis. Perhaps it will be a path for you to follow, perhaps not. But if you spend some time studying it you will find that your life will change for the better.

Good luck!

[TaffyE]

Nice post Don

[Merlin]

I can hand you a knife and teach you to cut.
It will serve you well at dinner time.
Will you be ready to do open heart sugery? No.

Hypnosis itself is easy.
Occomplishing something like: >My brother has some drug problems which i would like to try and fix...
is not easy.

Try this
close your eyes and pretend the eyelids are broken and won't open.
That's all the hypnosis you need.
But it really won't do much for you until you learn the other parts of the skillset that you need.

[Jack]

Hello Guest,

You have had some good advice, all of it useful if you choose to use it.

I understand that you might want to help your brother, that's natural, but drug addiction is not an easy treatment even for an experienced hypnotherapist. Could you surgically operate on your brother to remove a cancer? For complex problems hypnotherapy can be considered similar to surgery, but without the after effects. So if you did decide to try to help your bro with hypnotherapy it would be like you reading a few books, dragging out the kitchen knives and learning as you went. Of course the patient might die as you learnt. Or in the case of hypnotherapy his problems might get worse.

Now, I don't want to berate you for wanting to help your brother, but hypnotherapy is not a quick fix that can be done by anybody at anytime; if it were the world would no doubt be a better place and nobody would have to have years of training and experience to do it effectively.

I really think you ought to consider a professional for this job.

A thought just occurred: both you and your brother could learn how to do EFT which might help. The website is www.emofree.com (http://www.emofree.com) and there is a free manual which explains it all. You may need a session with a therapist to make it work properly.

Jack

[student_of_hypnosis]

Well I'm in a simliar situation as the guest here. Except I'm perhaps a step ahead of him. I saw a hypnotist show at the local fair 2 years ago then I saw another one about a year ago (I saw that one three times actually). Since I saw the show 2 years ago I have always been facinated with hypnosis, I've already read every book about hypnosis and similar in both my school and local library (just finished reading the new books they got in about it for this year today). My question is where to go from here I don't know of any classes at my age (15) that I can take on hypnosis but I am willing to invest money in it so is there any good instructional books (as most the books I've read are more about the state of hypnosis saying all the little detail like if the hypnotist left the person would not be in hypnosis forever and such) on how to actually perform hypnosis and some basic senarios that I could attempt to perform.

Thank's in advance.

[Merlin]

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