Hello everyone , I have a few beginner questions if i may...

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Permalink Reply by Don King on July 1, 2009 at 9:55am

Welcome to HypnoThoughs Tudor.

I see from your profile you are in Bucharest. Since you seem fluent in English, I'll suggest a website that you might find helpful.

http://www.hypno1.co.uk/index.htm Dr. Dylan Morgan's website. It has a lot of information, including a free e-book "Hypnosis for Beginners" direct link: http://www.hypno1.co.uk/BookHypnosisForBeginners.htm (I have no connection with this site, but found the e-book useful.)

I watched your video, it didn't have any sound that I could hear, but you seem to have learned some techniques, so I'm curious where you've learned the techniques you are using now.

Good Luck,

Don

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Permalink Reply by Borcescu Tudor on July 1, 2009 at 10:00am

Thank you for the link ! :)
I picked up the techniques from youtube clips , the video is in romanian anyway so sound isn't that important (only thing i was saying was "your getting sleepier sleepier , more relaxed and even sleepier" - all over again :) as i said i just started doing this and am honestly very attracted , too bad people do a very big age discrimination (at least where i'm from)

Don King said:

Welcome to HypnoThoughs Tudor.
I see from your profile you are in Bucharest. Since you seem fluent in English, I'll suggest a website that you might find helpful.
http://www.hypno1.co.uk/index.htm Dr. Dylan Morgan's website. It has a lot of information, including a free e-book "Hypnosis for Beginners" direct link: http://www.hypno1.co.uk/BookHypnosisForBeginners.htm (I have no connection with this site, but found the e-book useful.)

I watched your video, it didn't have any sound that I could hear, but you seem to have learned some techniques, so I'm curious where you've learned the techniques you are using now.

Good Luck,

Don

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on July 1, 2009 at 11:56am

Borcescu,

Believe me when I say I understand your fascination with hypnosis. Everyone on this site has that same fascination, that's why we're here.

What you are encountering with the "barricade" is the judgmental part of the mind. It acts like a watchdog to prevent us from automatically reacting to just any outside input. Trance is a natural part of how our mind works, it is what we use to multi-task, to do more than one thing at a time.

The part of the mind that you experience the world with (that some call the conscious mind) has many amazing abilities, and one surprising limitation. The limitation is that it can only do one thing at a time. You can test this out for yourself by trying to sing your favorite song out loud, while you are counting to ten in your head. You will find that you can jump back and forth between the two tasks very fast, but you can't do them both at the same time.

This is why we need trance, which allows us to automatically react as necessary to do stuff, so we can focus our conscious mind on other things at the same time. Hypnosis just takes advantage of our ability to use trance, by realizing that the outside input we automatically react to, can be in the form of a suggestion.

The key to purposeful hypnosis: is desire and permission. The subject has to want to be hypnotized, and then has to allow it to happen. We can pull ourselves out of trance if we need to, and we will if we feel our trust is being violated.

There is much to learn about hypnosis and trance. Confidence comes from understanding what you are doing, and experiencing successfully doing it.

If your desire to learn more is sincere, consider getting professional training.

I hope that helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Borcescu Tudor on July 1, 2009 at 12:10pm

Dear John thank you for your reply , yes i am 100% wanting but distance makes it a problem for me , I don't know of anyone teaching hypnosis over here(Bucharest) , I have ordered some DVD's (i don't know if im allowed to say from where or by who they're made so i won't untill someone will tell me i'm allowed to) so i hope i can get all the needed knowledge from them....

John Cleesattel said:

Borcescu,

Believe me when I say I understand your fascination with hypnosis. Everyone on this site has that same fascination, that's why we're here.

What you are encountering with the "barricade" is the judgmental part of the mind. It acts like a watchdog to prevent us from automatically reacting to just any outside input. Trance is a natural part of how our mind works, it is what we use to multi-task, to do more than one thing at a time.

The part of the mind that you experience the world with (that some call the conscious mind) has many amazing abilities, and one surprising limitation. The limitation is that it can only do one thing at a time. You can test this out for yourself by trying to sing your favorite song out loud, while you are counting to ten in your head. You will find that you can jump back and forth between the two tasks very fast, but you can't do them both at the same time.

This is why we need trance, which allows us to automatically react as necessary to do stuff, so we can focus our conscious mind on other things at the same time. Hypnosis just takes advantage of our ability to use trance, by realizing that the outside input we automatically react to, can be in the form of a suggestion.

The key to purposeful hypnosis: is desire and permission. The subject has to want to be hypnotized, and then has to allow it to happen. We can pull ourselves out of trance if we need to, and we will if we feel our trust is being violated.

There is much to learn about hypnosis and trance. Confidence comes from understanding what you are doing, and experiencing successfully doing it.

If your desire to learn more is sincere, consider getting professional training.

I hope that helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on July 1, 2009 at 2:46pm

You might check www.hypnoonline.net if you are interested in training and have none available locally.

John

Borcescu Tudor said:

Dear John thank you for your reply , yes i am 100% wanting but distance makes it a problem for me , I don't know of anyone teaching hypnosis over here(Bucharest) , I have ordered some DVD's (i don't know if im allowed to say from where or by who they're made so i won't untill someone will tell me i'm allowed to) so i hope i can get all the needed knowledge from them....

John Cleesattel said:

Borcescu,

Believe me when I say I understand your fascination with hypnosis. Everyone on this site has that same fascination, that's why we're here.

What you are encountering with the "barricade" is the judgmental part of the mind. It acts like a watchdog to prevent us from automatically reacting to just any outside input. Trance is a natural part of how our mind works, it is what we use to multi-task, to do more than one thing at a time.

The part of the mind that you experience the world with (that some call the conscious mind) has many amazing abilities, and one surprising limitation. The limitation is that it can only do one thing at a time. You can test this out for yourself by trying to sing your favorite song out loud, while you are counting to ten in your head. You will find that you can jump back and forth between the two tasks very fast, but you can't do them both at the same time.

This is why we need trance, which allows us to automatically react as necessary to do stuff, so we can focus our conscious mind on other things at the same time. Hypnosis just takes advantage of our ability to use trance, by realizing that the outside input we automatically react to, can be in the form of a suggestion.

The key to purposeful hypnosis: is desire and permission. The subject has to want to be hypnotized, and then has to allow it to happen. We can pull ourselves out of trance if we need to, and we will if we feel our trust is being violated.

There is much to learn about hypnosis and trance. Confidence comes from understanding what you are doing, and experiencing successfully doing it.

If your desire to learn more is sincere, consider getting professional training.

I hope that helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on July 1, 2009 at 3:44pm

HI Tudor,

You might like to look into the following inductions:

http://howtodoinductions.com/inductions/mfj

http://howtodoinductions.com/inductions/fake

http://howtodoinductions.com/inductions/fractionation

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Houghton on July 1, 2009 at 4:26pm

Hi Tudor,

I can relate with what your going through as it wasn't too long ago I was in the same boat. First off, remember that everyone was a newbie at one point. No one is born with the ability to hypnotize people. It's a skill, which in time you will get better and better at. The key in the beginning is to just study whatever you can in the beginning. Use the internet, youtube, this site, blogs and other items and just start reading everything you can. Eventually, as you learn more and more you will begin to understand the ideas and concepts better. Eventually you will be able to take what you like from what you learn and reject what you don't like.

I watched the video and for someone who claims to not have much experience you did quite well. The key is to just start to build a strong hypnotic foundation and you are doing that JUST by being here at this site. You will find nothing but support and gudience from the people here. Something to keep in mind so that you don't get confused is as follows. Everyone has a different model of hypnosis which comes from different backgrounds and different training. You may notice one persons definition of hypnosis varies from another and this is fine. Remember that each person has a different perception and that perception also makes it where everyone views hypnosis in a different light.

I saw this because you should take it all in when your starting out. If you have questions along the way, post them here and you'll then start building your foundation. While hypnosis may seem like as easy as saying sleep it contains steps, processes and other pieces which will all fit in time. Just keep at it and it will all make sense. Think of hypnosis as riding a bike. In the beginning you stumble, but eventually your riding into the wind.

As far as the fear of failure. It's a natural human response and I really love my good friend John's answer. One way I gained confidence in the beginning was to realize that you are an expert compared to most people who don't know nothing about hypnosis. The average person doesn't know how we do what we do most of the time. So if you fail how would the person know unless you told them. If you mess up try something else and keep going, keep pushing forward. Your confidence will build as you gain more knowledge and experience so all in due time. If a person says something smart to you just remember it comes from a place of "Not Knowing" most of the time or fear.

Use this as a chance to educate them, not preach, but educate them on hypnosis. You may want to say "You know, a lot of people think smart people can't be hypnotized, but in reality smart people seem to go into trance much easier because it takes the ability to concreate and focus which people with very low inteliigent have trouble doing sometimes.....you get the idea.

If you ever need anything you have come to the right place. If you need anything feel free to message me as well. I always enjoy helping new hypnotists. I started when I was 18 and now I'm 27 and I'm doing this full time as well as training, yet I started just like you as did many others. Just learn, practice, learn and practice.

To Your Success,
Josh Houghton

P.S. Nice Links Graham

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Permalink Reply by Joe K Fobes on July 1, 2009 at 5:35pm

Why would you want to get rid of the fear of failure?

Is it an irrational fear? Or might you indeed fail as bad as you fear you would and it's a rational fear?

If it's rational why get rid of it? Won't the fear drive you to study harder and seek the answers?

Joe

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Permalink Reply by Don King on July 1, 2009 at 8:54pm

There does appear to be a NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists) Certification course available in Romainia.
See: http://www.ngh.net/Countries/Romania.html

And of course, the NGH site is good too. See: http://www.ngh.net/

And if there is a NGH course, there are probably other, non-NGH, courses.

-- Don

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Permalink Reply by Don King on July 1, 2009 at 9:55pm

One thing many beginners don't understand is the importance of a "pre-talk."

See: http://www.whatsonmybrain.com/hypnosis/hypnosis-pretalk This is written by a fellow HypnoThoughs member by the name of Josh or Joshua, but I'm not sure of his last name. The web site is Joshua Houghton's, but I'm not SURE if the article is written by him. The site has articles written by several different people, including another Joshua, as well as several other members of HypnoThoughs. Help!

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Permalink Reply by Pattie Freeman CH.t, MST on July 1, 2009 at 9:59pm

Tudor,

Welcome..safety is so important when hypnotizing clients...and I would suggest you get some training so you can understand the purpose of what your doing. It's fun to hypnotize someone and get results but you should know why it happens and see how you can do it from all different techniques...if you get the chance try to study with a variety of hypnotist everyone is different and practice...practice....practice...

PS be careful of the neck of your volunteer....
hope this helps...
Pattie

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Permalink Reply by Joshua Houghton on July 1, 2009 at 10:06pm

Hi Don,

That Joshua would be me! It's nice to meet you Don and always a pleasure to meet a reader of my blog. Whatsonmybrain is my blog and the pre-talk article was written by me since you were wondering. The other Josh on the site you mention is Joshua Johnston who is also a member here as well. He was a guest writer.

Yeah, the pre-talk was the key for me because it put everything together. In the beginning years ago I could hypnotize people without a pre-talk, but my success was pretty low. It wasn't until I learned about the Pre-talk from Gerald Kein that it all started to come together for me. The pre-talk does many things including removing fears, building expectation and much more. Heck, sometimes the pre-talk will even hypnotize the person when done correctly :)

See, after just one post Tudor your receiving tons of great information which you can apply to your hypnotic foundation. Pre-talk, Safety, Confidence Building and a lot more.Search Pre-talk on this site and you'll get some great advice from different members.

Joshua Houghton

Don King said:

One thing many beginners don't understand is the importance of a "pre-talk."
See: http://www.whatsonmybrain.com/hypnosis/hypnosis-pretalk This is written by a fellow HypnoThoughs member by the name of Josh or Joshua, but I'm not sure of his last name. The web site is Joshua Houghton's, but I'm not SURE if the article is written by him. The site has articles written by several different people, including another Joshua, as well as several other members of HypnoThoughs. Help!

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