When you first started hypno......

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Permalink Reply by Synapse on July 16, 2008 at 9:47am

Find yourself a practice group, or even start one and practice, practice, practice!
I found out the hard way - the theory is the easiest bit to get!
(Theory without the confidence-building exercising it's next to worthless!)

Go out there and do it! Have fun and never lose that enthusiasm, it's your most useful, personal tool!

Good luck!
:o)

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Permalink Reply by Scott Sandland on July 16, 2008 at 11:12am

That's already really good advice. Practice as much as possible on as many different people as you can. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, just keep learning. Get lots of feedback and encourage people to be honest in their critiques.

Study with different instructors so that you learn multiple schools of thought. You will quickly find there are a lot of hypnotists with different style's and opinions, so expose yourself to them and find your own.

No need to narrow down into a specialty right away. Get a solid base of knowledge and experience and see what 'clicks' for you.

Have fun with it,
Scott Sandland

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Permalink Reply by Chris Witherspoon on July 16, 2008 at 12:42pm

Hi Leo,
This is a great question. I would tell you to learn as much as you can and the keep on learning and then be confident it what you know. The client come to you for your your knowledge and he really believes that you can help. Also even if you do make a minor goof your client will not will not notice. I have listened to tapes of people that are considered masters and they stumble on words from time to time so don't get all upset if you make mistakes, just learn from you mistake and keep going

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Ronning - www.StageHypnosisCenter.com on July 16, 2008 at 8:42pm

Leo,

Great question. I have two....

1) Mine would be my favorite quote... The first person you hypnotize is yourself.

2) Most hypnotists sadly do not financially succeed, and so I would get REAL clear on financial goals and to approach this as a real business. Most don't, they approach it as a passion and ignore the financial aspects. As a result, they pay the price. There are terrific resources available for that including several on this forum that standout.

The bottom line is that if you want to make a (advantageous) living from this you have to understand how to sell, how to create customers and satisfy them so that you keep them for life.

You are asking the right questions so I feel really good about your success, regardless your final career choice.

Geoff Ronning

PS. The marketing resource folks I would watch closely if I were you (that come to mind immediately) on this site are Craig Eubanks & Eric G. Schneider.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal on July 17, 2008 at 4:48am

also i have heard that confidence and intent is one of the main problems for new hypnotists especially their first few inductions, any advice? how was your FIRST induction?

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Permalink Reply by Paula Duncan Nongard on July 17, 2008 at 5:08am

You're quite right, and it is all about confidence.

I've heard story after story of stressed-out, worried want-to-be-hypnotists afraid to take that first leap and do the first induction.

Then, once they finally gather the nerve to just DO IT - they are amazed by how easy it was - both to speak the words, do the actions, and actually induce trance. And then they're off and rolling, hypnotizing everyone they can get to sit still for 30 seconds LOL

It's all in your mindset... What is the worse thing that could happen? Nothing, right?

So... Why not just do it, and make Something happen!

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal on July 17, 2008 at 5:23am

Thats amazingly true, however, in the past 3 days i have done 6 inductions on about 4 different people and none of them quite worked, they only mentioned urges but nothing other than what i had told them to do... what was your first induction like?

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal on July 17, 2008 at 5:46am

Thank u so much for your reply, i want to start hypnosis (morally ofcourse) as an entertainer first only to be able to pay for my course on hypnotherapy licencing in SA, so i need to know both sides, clients and "subjects" which is slightly more difficult...

thank u for ur reply

leo

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Permalink Reply by John Cerbone - The Trance-Master on July 17, 2008 at 6:23am

There are and there remain, no substitutes for practice and experiences.
Like constructing a building or hosting a stage show, everything builds on the previous.
All build confidence and adaptability.
Read, practice, play with your Hypnotic voice, run through inductions until it all becomes second nature. And just like playing an instrument, as your throat is your instrument, if you hit a klunker, (a messed up word, a missed number, a cough, a crack in your voice, etc.) keep right on going,
You just might want to stop worring about what worked and what didn't, as it's all working to improve and refine both you and your techniques.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal on July 17, 2008 at 6:29am

And The-Trance-Master does it again...

Thank you very much... for your reply, i will surely take all the advice i can get, THANKS...

Leo

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Permalink Reply by Mitta Vicki Wise on July 17, 2008 at 10:50pm

Believe you can help
Understand the business side and work it
Find one or two people to have regular practice ( and more of course) but a kind of hypnosis buddy/colleague to team up with regularly that is also practicing
Join the case histories group and other groups and learn from them

All the best!
Mitta

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Permalink Reply by Ernest frost on July 18, 2008 at 3:47am

Decide what you want to do with it. It takes a lot of time and practise. Don't be fooled by all the shows and perfect performances. It is not real life.

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