I have posted this video because it has a few good close-ups of a person who is deeply in hypnosis (somnambulistic state). For those learning hypnosis, use this as an example of some signs to look for when you are determining the level of hypnosis experienced by your client or volunteer (body stillness, glazed eyes, blank stare, eyelid flutter, facial expressions, etcetera).
________________________________
During my trip to England, I worked out at my friend’s gym in the mornings before touring London and other parts of England. The second day I was at the gym, I mentioned hypnosis to a few people and ended up hypnotizing a bodybuilder who later introduced me to the gym’s fitness manager, James, and suggested that I hypnotize him too. James asked me to visit him the next morning when he’d have more time to experience hypnosis.
I returned to the gym the next day and began working with James on motivational hypnosis. He had never been hypnotized before this session, which lasted nearly an hour and included approximately 35 minutes of motivational coaching. This video begins after approximately 10 minutes of hypnosis when I remembered I had my video camera in my bag. I filmed the rest of the session including the coaching section (not shown here), during which we worked on increasing gym product/services sales and other issues. By the time the video begins, James had already experienced the initial hypnotic induction, arm levitation, arm catalepsy and name/number amnesia induced by suggestion—he had entered a state of somnambulism. Once I turned on the camera, I quickly recapped the name amnesia and catalepsy demonstrations then began the motivational work. The clips shown here are portions of the session filmed before and after the motivational coaching section.
For those who are interested in seeing an example of motivational hypnosis or hypnotherapy, refer to my video titled “Sports Hypnosis: Example of a Client’s Hypnotherapy Session.”
Enjoy!
________________________________
Please be careful. Learn hypnosis ethics and safety before you hypnotize anyone.
CAVEAT:
It’s quite easy to learn how to hypnotize someone, so hypnosis can seem harmless. However, the danger of hypnosis(specifically recreational hypnosis) lies in not properly learning suggestion formation and the effects of hypnosis, being sloppy with suggestions (not knowing what to avoid doing), and not following strict ethics—to name just a few things.
Duration : 0:6:41
Thank you.
Thank you.
August 11th, 2009