I need a party WOW suggestiblity test

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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on October 15, 2009 at 4:06pm

As a matter of fact... ;)

A technique that I use in a variety of settings is to give the group (or individual) a good mood.

This is prompted by saying "it only takes 30 seconds and you don't even have to close your eyes."

"Is that okay with you?"

First, I would like to ask you to search in your memory for what I like to refer to as a "Yippie" moment. It was when your team won, you got that job, you got that new car, or whatever it was to make you make a fist and pull it toward you while saying an emphatic "Yes!!"

We will use this as a bench mark, or a target to shoot for. Let me know when you have it.

Okay.

Next, I am going to ask you to visualize, using your mind's eye, to see a dial upon a wall. It looks kind of like a clock face with a scale of 1 - 10 and with an arrow pointing to one. Let me know when you have this.

Good. This is your mood meter. It shows how good of a mood you are in.

In a moment, I will ask you to move the arrow from the one to the two. When you do, you will immediately notice your mood improves a little. (For a crowd, have them all clap their hands at your signal to move the arrow). For each number we move up, you will notice your mood gets even better.

Are you ready?

Okay, move the arrow to a two.. NOW (snap fingers if individual, or clap hands if a group)

Feels pretty good eh? Are you ready to go on?

Okay, move the arrow to a 3 Now! (snap/clap)

to a 4 NOW!

to a 5 NOW!

How do you feel?

The dial goes up to 10, shall we keep going? I don't want you to start looking for your cheerleader outfit! LOL.

(keep going as high as they like. If they follow your instructions, they will get the result)

I hope this helps you
John

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on October 15, 2009 at 4:57pm

I'd go with eye catalepsy. It's easy, can be done anywhere, and is very effective. It also works with groups.

hope this helps,
Scott

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Permalink Reply by Sean Michael Andrews on October 15, 2009 at 5:10pm

Hi Scott!

I use finger magnets. It's not really a suggestibility test, but rather a test for resistance. People LOVE it. Here's the wording I use:
“I’d like for you to do a little exercise with me. Put you feet flat on the floor and extend your arms out in front of you like this with the palms pressed together tightly. Now interlock your fingers, but leave your index fingers extended like this. Now keep your palms pressed together tightly and look at the space between your index fingers. In a moment I’m going to count from one to three and you are going to feel a sensation as if there are strong magnets in the tips of your index fingers and they are being drawn very strongly toward one another. The attraction is very powerful. 1, 2, 3. Feel those fingers being drawn together as if by a very powerful magnetic force. It’s as if they are in a vice that is squeezing them together.” (Pretend to crank the vice.). Keep this up until the fingers touch. You can add in suggestions that the harder they try to keep the fingers apart, the more strongly they are pulled together.

Almost everyone’s fingers will touch. Congratulate them on their hypnotic ability and encourage them to do a hypnotic induction.

Also I'll use the hand clasp. Here's a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abuicrs5MiI

Best of luck to you!

Sean Michael Andrews
www.WorldsFastestHypnotist.com

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Permalink Reply by Fable Goodman on October 15, 2009 at 5:24pm

I don't (as a rule),
mention to people at parties,
or elsewhere socially that I am a hypnotherapist..

It is not usually relevant, and it saves a lot of silly questions/requests.afterwards.


I suggest saving the fact that you are a hypnotherapist, until someone calls you asking for your services.


Love and hugs,

Fable

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on October 15, 2009 at 5:30pm

Anthony jaquin has many, what he calls, "Set-pieces" on his DVD and book Reality is Plastic.
I also have many on my DVD 'mastering Hypnotic Power"

Among my favorite demonstrations are messed-up words, sticking hand together, sticking eyes shut and helping people undertand hypnosis by using speed-trance to create short entertainment routines, or empower simple change in public.

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Permalink Reply by Brian David Phillips on October 15, 2009 at 6:51pm

If it's an intimate affair and you want to leave 'em with a positive experience (does not need to be presented as a suggestibility "test" or anything to do with hypnosis but as a simple imagination exercise), then the Energizer is a wonderful bit to use. While I teach it on a couple of my DVD sets, here are a couple youtube clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvO7hfGILoY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1U5IRkUIbo.

I prefer to approach suggestibility as effects or imagination games rather than as "tests."

You might take a look at the long list with descriptions/directions I have compiled at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/suggestibility.html as well. If you or anyone else is interested, I explain and demonstrate the whole kit 'n caboodle on my Comprehensive Core Hypnosis Skills training DVD set at http://www.briandavidphillips.com/products/core.html, although the list does have instructions for those who feel they don't need more in depth training in the material.

Any of these will work fine. Some are more impressive than others. The stick-stuck-to-hand and drinking induction bits are always fun and are visually interesting as would be arm levitation (particularly if you do happy balloons the way I tend to do 'em). Finger magnets is quick and simple but tends to work on physiological response rather than pure suggestion (unless you do one of the non-clasp variations). Leg catalepsy is a hoot and a half.

I would strongly suggest you work on sequencing so that when you start with a fairly simple suggestibility effect you can recognize a person's responsiveness and then segue immediately into a sequence of effects that progress from simple to more advanced.

Here are a few video clips that demonstrate what I mean by suggestibility sequencing . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvbyGf5IUE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K677EiEHtK0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvczyWY-zI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVP4oGxstnI, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_y-wkQyFac, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA9INgE6VBQ. Obviously, your mileage will vary.

Keep in mind that suggestibility effects are actually inductions in and of themselves. Too many hypnotists miss their opportunity to move a person into higher responsiveness immediately by thinking that the "test" is just a test and not an induction proper.

I hope this has been helpful.

All the best,
Brian
http://www.briandavidphillips.com

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Permalink Reply by Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist on October 15, 2009 at 7:18pm

Hi Scott,
I often use a very similar demo to this one by Jamie Smart to demonstrate "how hypnosis works."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-m8eFnVYc
Guranteed to create a great reaction and even make skeptics think twice.
Reg
http://quicknotist.com/

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Permalink Reply by Graham Old on October 15, 2009 at 10:40pm

I often user a simple thumb-stare / arm-twist. I think you can find it on youtube; I'll post a link if I can find it.

It's particularly applicable to sports because of the implication that you subconscious can help your body do more than you thought.

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on October 16, 2009 at 6:18am

Thanks for the link! That would be a great little tool to start people thinking about just what they wish to change and how hypnosis might help them...


Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist said:

Hi Scott,
I often use a very similar demo to this one by Jamie Smart to demonstrate "how hypnosis works."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-m8eFnVYc
Guranteed to create a great reaction and even make skeptics think twice.
Reg
http://quicknotist.com/

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Permalink Reply by Scott Morgan on October 16, 2009 at 7:37am

WOW, thank you all for the advice.
Scott

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Permalink Reply by Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist on October 16, 2009 at 11:10am

Yes! I'm so happy you see the potential Kelley.
I have used it in so many situations: The clinic, on stage and in many other demonstrations. (Thanks Jamie Smart!)
What you don't see from the video is the vast majority of people have to admit it makes some amount of difference.
I usually explain it like this:
It's a combination of the repetition and the positive messages to the subconscious which help to make the change in perception so very quickly.
One can easily see the flipside: How negative patterns of behaviour are so quickly taken on too.
For me it's truly a WOW moment or at the very least an "Aha! Now I get it!" moment. An epiphany for many people which manages to demystify the whole process.

Reg
http://quicknotist.com/

Kelley Woods said:

Thanks for the link! That would be a great little tool to start people thinking about just what they wish to change and how hypnosis might help them...


Reg Blackwood - The Quicknotist said:

Hi Scott,
I often use a very similar demo to this one by Jamie Smart to demonstrate "how hypnosis works."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-m8eFnVYc
Guranteed to create a great reaction and even make skeptics think twice.
Reg
http://quicknotist.com/

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