Hypnotism or more commonly known as hypnosis, is a mental state or set of attitudes usually caused by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is composed of a series of preceding instructions and suggestions. Hypnotic suggestions may be delivered by a hypnotist to a person or a subject (experiment), or may be self suggested (auto suggestion). In this article I’m going to share with you one of the methods used by hypnotists so that you can get to know how to learn hypnotism.

5 Steps Guide: How To Learn Hypnotism

1. Use a smooth talking voice. This won’t be your regular speaking voice but rather a tone you would use with a sleepy and tired child. The more relaxing and softer your voice, the faster you can hypnotize someone.

2. Have your subject take a deep breath, and slowly let it out. While she expels air, make her close her eyes. Then starting with the top of her body, talk to her silently so that you can bring her into a relaxed stage. For example, you can say, “Feel your shoulders. Relax your shoulders and feel them become heavier and heavier. They are loose. There is no tension in your shoulders.”

3. Praise your subject in a comfortable voice at every step as this is the most important part. Hypnotism can be pretty scary for people who don’t know what to expect next. Let your subject know everything is just fine and she’s doing everything right and correct as it will help her to stay relaxed.

4. Continue with the first three steps until you know she is hypnotized. You might have to make her relax her body parts several times as most people may take about 10 minutes to enter a hypnotic state. Signs of hypnosis are: loose, droopy muscles; slightly twitching arms or legs; changes in breathing; or eyelids that flutter.

5. Make suggestions when she is hypnotized (hypnotic suggestions). The suggestions can be serious or humorous. In this stage, please be ethical to ask something from her or someone as that person will be in a “hypnotic trance” and easier to influence. When you are ready to release her from the hypnotic state, simply say, “When I count to three, you will open your eyes and feel refreshed and active. One, two, three.”

Here’s more quick tips:

• Hypnotic suggestions are the most important part in the process of getting to know how to learn hypnotism.

• Make sure your subjects are relaxed and focused while you’re hypnotizing her or him.

• Don’t be harsh or pressure your subjects to do something while he or she is in a hypnotic trance.

• Hypnotism is also related with Hypnosis Mind Control, another powerful psychological method.

Susceptibility to hypnosis is the capacity of going into a hypnotic trance. Most hypnotists believe that the vast majority of the population can be hypnotized rather easily. It depends mainly on the emotional state of hypnosis subject and few other factors. Often the same person who enters into a deep trance very quickly have problems with getting hypnotized just few days later. It also works in opposite way. A person who has difficulty with getting relaxed lose them completely after their first hypnotic trance.

It should be noted that people who learn how to consciously enter into hypnotic trance enters it with less effort each time they use their hypnosis technique. Of course this is not a rule. One of the hypnotherapists states that about 5% of population cannot be hypnotized at all and just 25% can get in the deepest trance. According to him all the rest reaches different intermediate states of hypnosis. Other specialists and hypnotherapists achieves much better results which may be the result of a better approach to hypnotized person. For example Bernheim – claims that at the hospital 80% of the patients attained the state of deep hypnosis, while from the people hypnotized privately only 20%.

Susceptibility to hypnosis is not dependent on gender, education and intelligence. By contrast, it depends on:
- Age – from 5 to 17 years, somewhat higher than in other age groups
- The relationship between the hypnotist and hypnosis subjects (prejudices and animosities creates bad prognosis)
- Subject’s ideas on idea of hypnosis and value of the hypnotist.

It is worth noting that those who are somnambulists (sleeping deep, having difficulty distinguishing waking from sleep, walking in sleep) are very susceptible to hypnosis and easily fall in deep trance.

Required depth of trance.
Required depth of trance should be understood as the plan to implement suggestions structured according to the level of difficulty. This means that the command that are more difficult for hypnotized ought to be passed in the greater depth a trance. In addition, hypnotherapists use selected suggestions to determine the depth of trance. These are appropriately selected suggestions that are not too difficult to implement.

Two commonly used scales for the depth of trance.
- Descriptive Scale.

According to Forel hypnosis can be divided into three main stages:
- Light (i.e. somnolence sleepiness – is characterized by fatigue, and relaxation).
- Average (light sleep) – hypnotized subject can not open your eyes, but does not lose memory.
- Deep-(somnambulism, or deep sleep) – subject can open your eyes in a trance, speak and walk.

There are few easy ways to check how deep you can hypnotize yourself. See three basic hypnosis tests in hypnosis how to post which is continuation of this article.

If you want to learn hypnosis undoubtedly one of the most important points you need to understand fully is, how to recognise when a person is hypnotised. It’s easy to learn hypnosis, anyone can learn to become a good hypnotist. However, without a true understanding of the ’signs of hypnosis’ you will never become a successful hypnotist. Take time to learn hypnosis correctly and you will be amazed at what you can achieve.

What happens with many people who learn hypnosis is they never learn the signs of hypnosis, so their success as a hypnotist is in doubt every time they try to hypnotise a subject. After a while many of these people form the opinion hypnosis is unreliable so they slowly give up using it. Hypnosis is reliable, providing you learn hypnosis correctly. It is most unfortunate that many, many, hypnosis teachers/courses don’t understand hypnosis fully either, and therefore turn out poorly trained and informed hypnotists.

You can learn hypnosis and learn to hypnotise anybody providing the following 3 following basic requirements can be met…

1. There must be a channel of communication between the subject and the hypnotist. Obviously this is normally speech. However, a deaf person can still be communicated with so they are not excluded from being hypnotized. As a point of interest, it’s not necessary to have a person close their eyes to enter hypnosis so sign-language can be used to hypnotise a deaf person. Learn hypnosis in depth and you will learn that there is no way in which you cannot hypnotise a person.

2. The ability to follow instructions. The subject must be able to follow the simple instructions presented by the hypnotist.

3. Consent. Hypnosis is a consent state. Therefore a person can only be hypnotised if they give their consent.

Providing these 3 requirements are met a person can be hypnotised. Age, gender, or social skills make no difference. As you learn hypnosis you will quickly discover some people are more apt to accept suggestions quicker than others, and are therefore able to obtain a deep state of hypnosis in less time than others.

Hypnosis occurs when a subject’s critical factor is by passed and a selective thought is accepted by their mind. The critical factor of the mind is an aspect that develops during our forming years. Therefore children are extremely easy to hypnotise. In fact it’s likely that virtually every child has been hypnotised many times by the age of 5 years, and mostly by their mother.

If you think this sounds a little suspect ask yourself this question. “As a child did you ever hurt a finger and ask your mother to kiss it better, and when she kissed it the discomfort just disappeared?” This was a bypass of your critical factor, and by implication, the implanting of a selective thought. This would more correctly be refereed to as waking hypnosis. However, most hypnotists would not even recognise that the finger kiss is actually hypnosis. Learn hypnosis in depth and you will understand that much of our behaviour as an adult is due being hypnotised as a child.

NOTE: Since first writing this short article, many people have asked me if it’s possible to hypnotise a drunk person. The answer is simple, yes, if they can meet the 3 conditions above. BUT, they will still be drunk! Furthermore, you can’t sober them up any quicker by using hypnosis.

Steven Luzern.

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