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Can you have too many whiteboards?

I now have… count ‘em… SIX white boards mounted in my house. Two big 3′x4′ white boards, one medium one, and 3 small ones. Frankly, I’m running out of things to write on them. I have a white board for “to get” things (groceries, etc)… I have a white board for my action items, I have a white [...]

Hypnotic trends in your social circle

There’s something funny about the phenomenon of rapport. Once we have rapport, we tend to want to follow what other people are doing, and they in turn follow us. The stronger the rapport, the greater the degree of the effect. With me, I have a strong group of friends. And my friends tend to pick up [...]

The Poker Without Cards book

Since I explained to Nathan in my interview with him how I got my nickname, I’ve had a lot of requests for the book that I talk about. I really like it, it’s not something for everybody but it struck a chord with me and I ran with it. I actually own a physical copy [...]

New Interview with Nathan Thomas

Nathan Thomas of the Keys to the Mind blog interviewed me the other night. We covered how to walk up to people on the street, language patterns, how I chose my name, and lots of great tips and tricks. I recommend you listen to it, it’s really great. Check it out here: Taylor Sherman Interview

Whatsonmybrain.com Hypnosis Blog Article

I wrote an article for Josh of Whatsonmybrain.com the other day. It’s about motivating yourself to learn hypnosis easier and quicker, and maybe I’ll do an audio version of it soon Check it out here: Putting Lots of Excitement Into Your Hypnosis Today @ Whatsonmybrain

Why Loud Music in Bars Increases Alcohol Consumption

Today’s post title comes from PsyBlog and their article of the same name. More than 12 newspapers around the world also reported. Nicolas Guéguen and others, in a now-famous study, found that loud music in bars makes people drink more: Several experimental studies carried out in natural settings have shown that different environmental music and structural components [...]

International Association of Teenage Hypnotists Site Launch

Two of the rising names in the teenage hypnotist community, Nathan Thomas and Leo Gopal, have created a great new association site. It’s called the IATH, or International Association of Teenage Hypnotists. Since the number of young hypnotists has increased dramatically recently, this launch is well timed and is riding the wave where the hypnosis community [...]

Bill Clinton Congruency Clip

Check out this clip of Bill Clinton responding to a heckler. Notice his congruency. I love it. 0:05 - Clinton: “That’s not true!” (this is perfect. he interrupts it right as it comes in.) 0:11 - Heckler: “You know it’s true!” 0:14 - Clinton stretches out his arm slowly, with his palm facing down, [...]

Are crowds suggestible?

I was reading a Psyblog post talking about the myths of crowd psychology. One of the common claims is that crowds are suggestible. From Psyblog: 2. Crowds are suggestible The idea that people in crowds have heightened suggestibility is also a relatively common myth. People are said to copy each other, looking for a leader, being open to [...]

Books I want to buy

For the loyal readers of my blog and forums, I decided to type up a list of everything I have bookmarked for future reading. Note that on this list is -only- books that have been recommended to me. Here’s a tip for anyone who dares to implement — ONLY read books/articles/seminars that are personally recommended to [...]
 

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Hometown:
Washington, DC
Hypnosis Experience:
Full Time Practice
About Me:
I'm a 24-year-old Certified Hypnotist -- I've been learning hypnosis for over 6 years now, practicing professionally for 2-3 years, and it has been a blast.

I have instructed over 20 events and seminars on topics such as instant inductions, language patterns, influence, rapport, the field of NLP, tonality, inner game, and other high-profile hypnosis topics.

I'm also the administrator of the TrancedOUT forums, one of the highest rated hypnosis forums on the internet, where we dispense more quality information per inch than anyone else.

I'm currently in the process of building a powerful coaching business, and I am recruiting highly motivated hypnotists and life coaches in the DC area. Are you one of the few who truly wants to be the best in the business? Shoot me a message.
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Modeling the Master Hypnotists

So, I considered not posting this but you guys deserve to know what’s out there.

Most of you that learn hypnosis, you think you are learning the best and the greatest tricks and techniques. "Oh, now I know instants! Wow!"

And I have to laugh because it’s such a superficial level of development. Not to be offensive, because everybody’s got to start somewhere, but there’s definitely greater and better things to be learned.

Like hypnosis in conversation. But even that is simplified and dummy-proofed and you generally only learn the basics. I’ve largely stopped listening to what people say and I look at their behavior instead. I look at how they explain concepts. The pre-talk is a great example of this – newbie hypnotists spend no time learning how to give a good pre-talk because they’re basically in it for ego. And, I hate to tell it to them, but they’ll never learn how to become great like that.

A person who is able to get people to accept what they are saying as true, or to shift someone’s reality so thoroughly that they can’t go back to the way they were before… THAT is the power of "hypnosis."

After I listened to one course, my whole life started to become unraveled. It was amazing just how much he stirred stuff up in me. He’s incredibly skilled at it. It was MANY levels beyond simple "embedded commands" or suggestions. To think that most people have trouble with the simple stuff, shows you just how incompetent most hypnotists are.

That guy, of course, studied with Dobson among other people, who studied with Erickson, who essentially learned his trade by modeling others and asking useful questions at a professional level of reality. Each of them have their own unique contributions.

But, if we were to teach what really works, we would have a bunch of teenagers ripping off our stuff and going to try it as their first technique without learning the basics.

People ask me, “Taylor, when are you going to have a training with your most powerful techniques?” and I laugh… Because it will NEVER happen, there’s no way. It would only ever be in a closed-door, off-camera training where I’d probably have to hand-pick the participants. Even then, I have serious reservations about it.

You want to learn how to do instants? Fine. You want to learn how to embed commands, and anchor things to yourself, and how to use language to confuse people and in a tricky way? Cool, you can get there.

But…What if you were to focus, all of your power, all of your congruency, and your energy, to be able to get to the place where someone makes changes?

What if you took all those limiter switches off yourself and you started to communicate much more freely?

So let me give you an idea of what I have studied, and the types of things I consider to be REAL hypnosis.

I have studied all of the “greats” that I know of. I did research on Napolean, Alexander the Great, Henry Kissinger, Winston Churchill... I read about Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Christopher Hyatt (who wrote a very powerful book called Undoing Yourself), Franz Bardon, Aleister Crowley… I dissected the techniques of ritual magick and military training practices.

I went back and read the sources cited in Greene's 48 laws of power and replicated some of Cialdini's experiments.

Of course I had to trace NLP back to its roots: Erickson, Bateson, Mead, Korzybski, and so on.

I studied religious practices, and the differences in affect that exist in tradition versus conviction. I went to all of the churches, temples, mosques in the area and I TOOK NOTES. I noted what happened when someone spoke -> what was the chain of command? I wrote down every presupposition I could find in the environment. What was happening with the body, what was happening with the mind, what was happening with the spirit?

I spent a couple months traveling and going to cult meetings to get a feel for how the whole thing was accomplished. I attended alternative medicine groups and "meditation centers." I went to Moonie gatherings and watched Rev Sun Moon being broadcast on TV and given awards by congress. I sat in on the meetings of Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses. I’ve even met a few scientologists!
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Next on the menu is dissecting EFT and merdians, and gearing my language so that it is DOWN RIGHT simple.

I came out of all of this with an undeniable understanding of how people become convinced.

And, I lost my objectivity at just about every step. That’s why I don’t care if you go do it, because chances are you’ll go join a cult and the experience itself will act as an ethics filter :)

So if you wish to believe that you are somehow intimately protected by the critical factor and that it is always on until you voluntarily assume hypnosis…

Well, I’ll be here laughing the next time you watch a commercial and find yourself driven to buy it, the next time you respond to social cues, the next time you feel yourself having to be nice to people, to make eye contact and talk in coherent sentences, standing the right distance away from them, or dressing a certain way…

My main intent in this post is to have you all wake up and realize that you don’t know anything yet.

I’m not saying that I am the world’s most powerful hypnotist.

But, what I am saying is that you are more powerful than you realize. You have abilities that are beyond how you know things now. As Marianne said, It is not our darkness that scares us the most, it is our light.

Comments?

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Creating Your Dreams List

When you think about where you want to be in twenty years, are the images full of detail? Can you hear the sounds and feel the feelings? If those images lack clarity, you're not the only one. Most people have put very little thought and energy into how their lives will come together in the future. Can you imagine going through your life with no clear direction, with no set feelings about what you'll be doing the next year? That is what most people will… Continue

Posted on June 1, 2008 at 7:10pm —

Taylor Sherman

9 Ways to Stick to Your Goals

Here are some things I do to ensure I stick to my goals:
  1. Think about your goals all of the time. Wake up and think about them. Think about them drinking your coffee. Think about them driving. Think about them everywhere and whenever you have a spare minute. This is your JOB, to dream up just how good you want it to be. Think about what you want.
  2. Make lists. One of the things I fill out every night now is an excel spreadsheet that when printed o
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Posted on June 1, 2008 at 7:00pm —

Taylor Sherman

How to Get Good at Hypnosis

I have a friend who is very interested in hypnosis but she doesn't know where to begin. She says she doesn't have enough information and nobody to practice on. What is the problem here? I seem to have almost too much information. I have many books that I haven't read, and every time I go out is an opportunity to practice. As a result, I have become one of the best hypnotists in my area. But most people don't know how to get there. They have no idea where to start, and they aren't aware of how t… Continue

Posted on June 1, 2008 at 7:00pm —

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At 8:07am on December 2, 2008, Daniel said…
I enjoy reading your thoughts. Thanks for sharing.
At 7:16pm on November 25, 2008, Lorraine said…
Hi Taylor, looked at your street induction on utoob, now I get your profile pic.Thanks for the friend invite.
At 7:33am on November 25, 2008, Michelle Braun said…
Hey Taylor, thanks for the add.
At 1:29am on November 21, 2008, Darren Altman said…
Hey Taylor,

thanks for finding me mate! I've been checking out your vids on youtube, very good indeed but you need to stick some more up!! I've also got to get round to listening to your interview with Nathan which I'm looking forward to hearing.

I hope all's well with you..... SLEEP!

x
At 2:50pm on November 18, 2008, Darren Griffin CCH said…
Hi Taylor,
Thanks for the friend request. Your research is intriguing, well done.
Darren
At 2:39pm on November 18, 2008, Calvin Munro said…
Hi Taylor. Good to hear from you. Look forward to looking closer at what you have to say. Take care.
At 12:04pm on November 18, 2008, Ken Dubner, C.Ht. said…
Taylor
I enjoy your Youtube stuff. You are one of the young lions of hypnosis. Enjoy the ride.
Ken
At 11:49am on November 18, 2008, TOMAS VASQUEZ said…
I just read your page about how you've researched everything and everyone that has to do with the mind and your closing comment:
Next on the menu is dissecting EFT and merdians, and gearing my language so that it is DOWN RIGHT simple. Since I practice EFT and also work on energy meridians I'd like to know what you think or discover about it that might sound like a form of hypnosis. I agree that there are many sources of DVDs on rapid induction etc. so what would be your suggestion to me on a good way to start in learning hypnosis? Thank you, TOMAS
At 6:59am on November 12, 2008, sherri said…
hey
so u like my age lol. i dont know why its like that and i cant change it. so where abouts in the states do u live? i live in san diego for a couple of years and i loved it!!
At 5:56am on November 10, 2008, Grace Bradley said…
Hi, Nice to meet you too.
I am impressed with how sure of yourself you are!
Gary Craig has a newsletter in case you haven't found it emofree.com
Grace
 
 

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