The Vertigo Induction

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on January 21, 2009 at 5:29am

Hi Tommy,
I have never spun anyone in a chair, I have used vertigo in an induction that involves staring at a spot on the ceiling and slowly walking around in a circle while listening to my voice, For kicks you can add in music or even the sound of a metronome. While vertigo is a component of it I think the disorientation is the bigger factor. Brian David Phillips showed me the basic induction a while ago and I have been playing with it ever since.

Hugh Cole
The pretty goodest hypnotist on the planet.

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Tenhagen on January 21, 2009 at 5:48am

Interested in reading more about the vertigo induction.....is there a film on youtube about it?

Greetings

Andreas

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Permalink Reply by Sean Michael Andrews on January 21, 2009 at 6:14am

Hi Tommy!
A client once told me about his experience with another hypnotist (not you!) who used the vertigo induction on him. He said he almost threw up! Obviously the other hypnotist wasn't doing it correctly. :-)

-Sean Michael Andrews
www.WorldsFastestHypnotist.com

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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Robinson on January 21, 2009 at 6:45am

I agree would love to hear more about this as well.

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig on January 21, 2009 at 6:47am

I learned the Vertigo Induction using a spinning chair in hypnosis class, where we pulled it from Ormond McGill's Hypnotherapy Encyclopedia. I've used it with several people and specifically bought a spinning chair for my office so that I can use it with clients. One of my best friends says it's her favorite induction to experience.

I've only had one person who didn't respond to it, but I think she was highly dubious about hypnosis in general. She insisted that she never felt as though she'd changed direction.

(And darn you for bringing this up. I was waiting for my camcorder to get fixed so I could make my fame by putting a video of this induction on YouTube! Doh!)

Good topic,

James

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on January 21, 2009 at 8:02am

to the best of my knowledge that induction was created by Robert Otto, I thought he won an award with the NGH for creating it.

James, you should definitely get a video of the vertigo induction up here, as it's a much less widely known technique.

Thanks for bringing it up Tommy, great idea.

Scott

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Tenhagen on January 21, 2009 at 8:10am

that would be really great James.

Also was interested how you do the spinning chair induction with children. (I guess it is also the so called "vertigo induction")

Greetings

Andreas

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Permalink Reply by Michael Zappellini on January 21, 2009 at 10:29am

I don't mean to be rude or criticize just curious so I have a question.
Do we really have the need in a clinical setting to use spectacular inductions?

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Permalink Reply by Seth on January 21, 2009 at 10:43am

Whirling is also used for magick and meditation purposes. Depending on the background of the client, the vertigo induction might be perfect for them. I have a friend who is into whirling for focusing on magick and he says it does produce quite the focused state and since it's a familiar activity for him I could see it inducing hypnosis easily since he is comfortable with it.
Any induction can be helpful, whether 'spectacular' or not. It's just another tool for the hypnotic toolbox.

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Permalink Reply by Andreas Tenhagen on January 21, 2009 at 10:48am

Hy Michael,

I also think, that my toolbox is big enough, but I m also interested in new ways to expand my knowledge.

Greetings

Andreas

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Permalink Reply by Hugh Cole on January 21, 2009 at 1:50pm

Micheal,
I am with you on this particular induction. Can't see myself putting a "significantly" over weight client in a spinning chair when there are so many less mechanistic ways to induce trance. I will however use anyone of my stage inductions for spectacular effect if it helps me build my clients belief system and gets them on the road to accomplishing thier goals. I have had "bodies on the floor" in my office a number of times.
I prefer to think of vertigo less as an induction or a tool and more of a building block for hypnotic state change effect. Dizziness and disorientation are used to great effect in some wonderful deepners. Manipulating someones head to make them dizzy is not an original idea of Sean Micheal Andrews, but it is a great technique he is passing on and he does it very well, For all the right reasons I have pulled clients into my body and then lead them into full body rotation with feet stuck to the floor. It is really about understanding the building blocks of trance and using them to best effect when the occassion arises.

Hugh Cole
The pretty goodest Hypnotist on the planet

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Permalink Reply by Chris Witherspoon on January 21, 2009 at 1:52pm

I would be one of those who tossed the cookies. I can't even turn around fat without feelin dizzy.

Chris

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