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Making Hypnosis Simple

Steven Hall MCOH MASC (NLP)

Making Hypnosis Simple

An introductory guide to Hypnotherapy

Steven Hall MCOH MASC (NLP)

First published in Great Britain in 2004 by

Mindworks UK

Unit 3

112 Abbey St

Nuneaton

CV11 5BX

England

IMPORTANT: Do not follow the induction techniques if you suffer from epilepsy or

clinical depression.

The author accepts no responsibility for the use of the material within this publication.

It is the sole responsibility of the reader to ensure that they adhere to local and

national restrictions and regulations that govern the use of hypnosis, hypnotherapy

and client confidentiality.

This book is sold as an introductory guide to hypnotherapy for information purposes

only, therapeutic work should not be completed without professional training and

prior consent from a suitably qualified medical professional.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or

otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s

prior written consent in any form of binding or cover.

No part of this book may be reproduced by any process, nor may it be stored in a

retrieval system, transmitted or otherwise copied for public or private use without the

prior written permission of the publisher.

Introduction

The biggest secret to hypnosis is that it is incredibly simple, yet so many people have

difficulty actually inducing trance in another. The reason for this book is to show you

how, step by step, you can become a hypnotist the easy way.

I have written many hypnosis ‘how to’ guides over the years and helped thousands of

people learn hypnosis. You may even have purchased a previous title of mine and had

a go yourself. What I am offering here is a new approach, a simple step by step guide

that covers what you need to get started successfully. This is by no means a

comprehensive guide to hypnosis; it is a quick-start introduction that has a very

specific goal…

…to turn you into a hypnotist… FAST!

In writing this publication I have stripped away the hype and left the history for you to

discover in your own time. I am taking hypnosis right back to basics. This is hypnosis,

plain and simple. What you do, why you do it and how it all works.

As you have probably noticed, this book is short, I have intentionally not padded it

out with information that you do not need at this stage. I want you to be comfortable

reading the whole thing in one or two sittings, and doing it often! You should have a

notepad with you as you read and use it to take notes throughout. There are exercises

that you are required to complete and suggestions that you should follow. Read

everything as many times as you need, learn the scripts, take notes and do the

exercises and you will be successful.

Before we begin, I want to tell you about two trance experiences that happened to me

when I was younger. When I was about 11 years old I had a very strange experience

in church. The whole congregation was bowed in prayer as the pastor read from the

bible. I was listening to the pastors’ words so intently that I very quickly lost

awareness of everything else. The pastor had a wonderfully hypnotic tone of voice

and the natural rhythm of his words seemed to compliment my deep breathing. As the

prayer came to a close the pastor made a suggestion that members of the congregation

join him at the front. When I opened my eyes I immediately walked to the front of the

congregation. It felt as though I had been programmed to do so, and could not even

consider an alternative. The next thing I knew I was leaving the church as the service

came to a close. I am unaware of what happened when I left my seat to join the pastor

at the front and, by my calculations, seemed to have lost around ten minutes.

Back then I was very confused, but now, with my knowledge of trance states, I

believe that I was inadvertently hypnotised by the pastor. Hypnosis is so simple to

achieve that you can even do it by accident.

My second childhood story happened a few years later, around the age of 14. This

time I was the hypnotist and it was completely intentional. I was at a friend’s house

and we had been playing memory games with a pack of playing cards. Our

conversation soon drifted to the power of the mind and my friend said that it would be

cool to be able to hypnotise somebody. I lied (something I was pretty good at when I

was little) and told him that I could do it. He was younger than me and very

impressionable so it was easy to make him believe that I had done it before. Once he

agreed to let me hypnotise him I gave him some rather crude instructions to relax and

commanded over and over that he was feeling sleepy. I had a small shiny washer tied

to the end of a length of cotton that I was using as a make-shift pocket watch. As he

stared at the washer, listening to my instructions, his eyes slowly closed. I carried on

giving him suggestions to ‘sleep’ and it seemed to be working. I did a few simple tests

using the cards, suggesting that he forget certain numbers and it worked!

I had complete faith that it would work as I had seen something similar on TV and

had somehow accepted that anyone could do it. My friend also believed it would

work, probably because I was so convincing when I told him that it would.

The reason I have shared these stories with you is to illustrate how easy it is to induce

trance in another person. I have no special abilities or qualities that make me any

more capable of hypnotising someone than you do. If you can speak you can

hypnotise.

Section one: All about trance

The simple truth

To suggest that you will be able to hypnotise another person is actually a little

misleading, as no one can hypnotise someone else. All hypnosis is self hypnosis, so

your job is to simply help a person to hypnotise themselves. There are many roles that

you can adopt to do this, some people like to act as a guide, others prefer to lead by

example and some opt for a more commanding role and simply order their subjects

into trance. You are going to learn a combination of all three, just to make sure!

The reason that so many people believe that hypnosis is difficult is because so many

hypnotists have said that it is! Hypnotists are a little like magicians, they learn very

simple secrets and guard them. I had the pleasure of living with a magician whilst at

university and believe me; magic is much more entertaining when you don’t know the

secrets! Now, when I watch a performance, I spend most of my time admiring the

simple ingenuity of the props, and ignoring the guy prancing around pulling levers.

Fortunately, the world of hypnosis is changing and hypnotists are much more willing

to share their wisdom today. Unfortunately, most of you reading this have already

been programmed to believe it’s difficult, as the hypnotists of yesteryear wanted you

to think they were somehow more powerful than the rest of us.

Hypnosis is all about communication, the only tools that you need are your mind and

your voice. It can be performed in almost any setting (keeping safety in mind

obviously!) and everybody can do it. It helps to have a good imagination but it is

certainly not a necessity.

You are going to learn hypnosis in stages; you will practise each stage until you are

comfortable with it, remember it and understand it. I have not included a huge script

for you to read out as I want you to become a hypnotist not a reader. I have, however,

included instructions that will enable you to create your own induction scripts. You

are expected to put some effort into this process, I don’t for a minute suggest that

someone will read this book once and suddenly be able to hypnotise (I have written a

book that does do that, but it’s not for you!) I expect you to read and re-read this book

many times, do the exercises and follow the suggestions. Why? Because I want you to

be a hypnotist. I want you to be able to use hypnosis productively and effectively. I

want you to be safe and confident in what you are doing. I want you to know

hypnosis, not just read it. If you have bought my previous books, read the inductions

to your friends and successfully hypnotised them, you are not a hypnotist, I am, but on

that occasion I was working through you. On this occasion it’s your turn, I think you

will agree that this way is much better.

Because all hypnosis is self hypnosis you will probably have guessed that the

hypnotic subject has a pretty important role to play. Not everyone is that good at

entering trance states. Some people are fantastic, and will need very little input from

you, most people need at least a few instructions to help them along and a few people

don’t seem to be able to ‘get it’ at all. The more you learn about hypnosis the more

you will be able to help people that find it difficult to enter trance. You will develop

strategies and techniques that will make you a more versatile hypnotist, meaning that

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