Instant Inductions

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on July 2, 2008 at 3:13pm

Dave Elman created them (if I'm not mistaken) because he was teaching physicians and dentists to use hypnosis in their practices. He realized that for it to be practical for them, it had to be fast. That's what I read anyway...in Dave Elman's book...lol.
Susan

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Permalink Reply by Janice Manson - MindClickPartners.com on July 2, 2008 at 3:45pm

Does anyone use the Expectation instant induction? I just found out about this one today.... Do you get good results with it?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on July 2, 2008 at 5:31pm

http://www.hypnothoughts.com/video/video/show?id=716892%3AVideo%3A5...
Janice, I posted a video here on Hypnothoughts last month of the "Expectancy Induction" (Cerbone and I also have one on youtube)
The video section of Hypnothoughts has many great resources for learning inductions.

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Permalink Reply by John Cerbone - The Trance-Master on July 3, 2008 at 8:11am

OK, I'm going to assume you mean my super-fast Inductions, AKA, Speed-Trance.
When I was first trained, there was never any mention of any induction process that took less than fifteen minutes.
If you asked me back in the day, that would be sometime during the. . . ahem, cough, cough, the 1980's, if it were real and possible to hypnotize somebody in a matter of a few seconds or even second or less, I would've said NO back then and thought that question was just a little bit crazy. That's not to say I hadn't seen something along the lines of a rapid or instant induction on TV -- at the time I would've thought they were pre-hypnotized.

As I got more exposure to other people, especially old-timers working in the profession, including my late friend and genius, Ormond McGill, I began to realize that it was possible to hypnotize somebody instantly or rapidly. Around the same time, I had been publishing earlier versions of my script book, Hypnotic Scripts That Work -- The Breakthrough Book -- A Hypnotic Script Encyclopedia. In it’s current version there are 153 session scripts, back then let's say there were about 60. I had been dwelling on the idea that I had written and published 60 sessions but I had yet to invent an induction.

So, I began to wonder what it would take, to invent something brand new, extremely fast, and highly effective. First I went at it logically sitting down while using my conscious mind, and looking into what it took to put together an induction process, including the three aspects of an induction: future tense, present tense, control.

As you can imagine and as I look back upon this from my present day perspective, it makes me smile to think that logic alone would have provided me what I've come up with.
I then began to realize the best of all possible solutions to this would have been a little bit of Self-Hypnosis and programming of my subconscious mind to reveal the information, the same way my suggestion scripts were being written for my sessions, and later on incorporated into my book. I also began to think, imagine, daydream, etc., about how the process of hypnotizing someone works, rather than simply emulating the ways other people before were doing this. In other words, rather than simply doing what I was taught, I began to think of how and why this worked as well as what would make this more effective, faster, better, and higher impact. For if you are going to do anything different and new, you have to think a bit outside the box.

So now, the true story how it all came together.
I was driving back home from New England having just taught at a major hypnosis conference. I was attempting to get off one highway onto another, as an overturned tractor trailer emergency had blocked my exit and sent all traffic continuing further south forcing me onto I 95 South.
Like most people driving a car, I was in the state of highway hypnosis with my imagination wandering. While approaching the exit for Mystic, Connecticut a random thought shot through my head. If I was to hold someone's wrist while bringing my fingers in close proximity to their eyes with a particular pattern, I could very instantly be able to induce trance in someone. This technique would very powerfully and concisely combine all of the different ways an individual is likely to be hypnotized: shock and overload, misdirection, eye fixation, confusion, etc.

I recall getting off at the Mystic exit, or as I call it now my Mystical Experience, and writing down my thoughts on the back of the yellow Wendy's Hamburger Restaurant napkin having stopped into the parking lot of a convenience store right near the exit. I went inside and got a soft drink and continued driving the rest of the way home. I had one day off followed the next day by a private session. I tried the technique on a female client, she keeled over onto her right side with a great big smile on her face, into a super instant deep, deep trance state. I then thought to myself, "Hey, I might be onto something here."
From then on, I began to look at other people's techniques and how to improve them while using my own first induction, or as I've come to call it, The Cerbone Butterfly Induction, which was some of you may have also come to have known as or have seen videos referred to as the Butterfly Fingers Induction.

Right around this point, I was also thinking, I have 60 or so scripts in the book, and have only one personally-developed super-fast induction. From a PR point of view, you've written X amount of scripts, and one induction. . . singular. That wasn't going to be enough. Not for me anyway.

Going forward using the same process of programming my subconscious to come up with ideas, and thinking about what we were doing rather than simply doing the same old things over again that many forbearer geniuses, many of whom now deceased, had come up with, it was time to kick things up a notch, as I've always been known for doing, in my life, in my shows, etc., to higher echelons.

Within less than a year, another process popped into my mind, so I used and developed that. After that all I needed to do, was repeat the Self-Hypnosis programming process and when the ideas came, be smart enough to jot them down. On a personal note, a great many of these come to me at weird hours of the morning between 2 and 5 AM, just like when I am writing a script for a session. If you don’t record them, they can vanish.

I also remember refining and speeding up other people's techniques around this time. Once, as a guest speaker at a hypnotist chapter meeting, after demonstrating various techniques of my own, I was asked by one of our colleagues, to perform someone else's induction, in the way I had rewritten, improved and made quicker. The volunteer subject dropped shoulders to knees in about a little less than three seconds, astounding our colleagues in the audience.
When I was done, the lady running the meeting said, "Oh, you left out a whole bunch of steps."
"What do you mean?" I questioned.
She responded, "What I mean is when this is traditionally taught, there are five or six other steps that are normally included in the process that you left out."
I responded, "If the person sitting here dropped shoulders to knees and into a deep trance state in less than three seconds, why would I need to perform five other steps to slow this down and to drag out the process, when this is supposed to be super-fast?" So a discussion ensued about extra steps in these processes, being added, dragging things out in order to take more time.

Flash forward -- Present Day -- I have now come up with a wide variety of Speed-Trance Inductions, I've even come up with another one as recently as last week.
Once the subconscious is clear and focused upon a particular issue, it will generally continue to work out those issues improving, refining, generating even more creative results.

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Permalink Reply by Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist on July 3, 2008 at 11:18am

Yes. I use it too.
Works very nicely for me, in this form.
http://www.hypnothoughts.com/video/video/show?id=716892%3AVideo%3A5...

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Permalink Reply by Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist on July 3, 2008 at 3:52pm

Great story John.
Excited to hear about a new induction. Any chance of a sneak preview?
:-)

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Permalink Reply by Brian David Phillips on July 3, 2008 at 5:13pm

Yes, use it quite a bit. It's also a component of most of the other inductions I use.

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Permalink Reply by Brian David Phillips on July 3, 2008 at 5:23pm

John's got the background for his super fast inductions. As to rapid and instant techniques on a whole, they first originated with traveling hucksters and presenters in the nineteenth century who were doing presentations and needed to develop techniques that would get people in and doing things reliably and effectively within minutes. Remember that while hypnosis had gained some repute in the medical establishment, it lost a lot due to it's connection to scandals and circular/sloppy thinking (the Elliotson scandal really hurt). Even the folks who were reputable using hypnosis in the medical establishment were using very lengthy processes. Braid's eye fixation was the most reliable but still took time. Esdaile had great success but his clinic in India had young men who took turns doing hand passes often for hours on end before a patient would succumb to trance and they could operate. The development of chemical anesthesia was the death knell for hypnosis in the medical profession of the day (it was fast and reliable and it was congruent to changes in the doctor-patient relationship occurring in the day in which doctors began treating patients as objects rather than as partners). See Mesmerized by Alison Winter, a wonderful book on the history of mesmerism in the period, as well as much of Foucault's work on power and culture of the day. Hypnosis passed to the traveling entertainer and itinerant snake oil salesmen . . . less repute but they perfected more effective techniques. Elman did not invent rapid inductions but he did modify a number of them for improved effectiveness. Now we're going full circle as hypnosis is returning to the medical professions . . . albeit, we've still a long ways to go and we have turf wars over who the authentic stewards of the profession should be considered.

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Permalink Reply by John Cerbone - The Trance-Master on July 5, 2008 at 10:41am

Sorry, no previews as yet, haven't shot any video, still too new.
One day in a class setting or a TV show maybe, thanks for asking!
John

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on July 6, 2008 at 6:33am

I may be way off base here but I don't think so. Dave Elman polished them up a bit., made them respectable (or should I say refined them) and preserved them on paper, but they had been around for some time as tools used by medicine men, faith healers, carnival hucksters and people of that ilk. Dave of course understood thier value for theraputic work and put them in a form physicans could easily use in thier practice. (Dave Elman only taught and wrote for medical professionals, Thanks to Gil Boyne and some forward commercial thinking we have those works available today to all who want to study them)

Hughj Cole
Texas Tranceman

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on July 6, 2008 at 6:46am

They work extremely well. However, the more things change, the more they remain the same. I believe it was Dave Elman who first introduced and demonstarted the " three puffs on my cigarette induction". It was of course "OK" for doctors to smoke back in those days. We are smarter now, and we make a lot of our income from helping people stop that nasty habit. So puffing cigerettes is a dumb way to do it. But changing the puffs to handshakes does not make it a "new" induction process. But as I said It still works great when properly executed.

Hugh Cole
Texas Tranceman

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Permalink Reply by Brian David Phillips on July 6, 2008 at 6:52am

Try the ol' "three kisses on the neck" induction. That's a LOT of fun . . . in appropriate contexts, of course. The bouncer at the local biker bar is likely to be less responsive to it than your appropriate significant other . . . then again, maybe you go to particularly friendly biker bars. :-)

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