Monday, August 19, 2013

How to Perform Stage Hypnotism

By Richard Barker


Ding! Ding! Ding! Your husband starts giggling wildly every time a bell rings. Another person in the crowd crawls around and barks like a dog. The bunch is in a uproar while watching these ordinary people do all kinds of mad things. This is stage hypnotism, and anybody can do it.

First, make the topic feel nicely relaxed. The requirement is that she or he must feel exceedingly comfortable. This is done to release all the stress inside the individual. A clear head is crucial to successfully hypnotizing a subject. The subject's level of relaxation can be checked by studying his breathing patterns. Respiring should be deep, and all breaths should be equal. Next, check the subject's muscles. They should not be tense, and the topic shouldn't be fidgeting. Understanding even the tiniest details in this process and training properly will help you become a good stage hypnotist.

Second, spur the subject to daydream about relaxing subjects. This is important to further relax his mind and make your subject extremely receptive to the things which you are saying. Next, ask the topic to relive his experiences from the past few days. Steer him in creating a mental image but let him do all of the work. Once the internal image has been settled, tell him to let those memories go. After that, tell the topic to picture a craving in his mind, particularly a yearning for a particular food. He must visualise it, smell it, and taste it. Help him do this by inspiring his imaginings that the food is essentially in the room with him. At about that point, test your subject again. Let him know to fantasize a ruler, and allow him to rate himself from one to 12; one being absolutely awake while 12 being almost asleep. If their range is lower than nine, repeat the last three steps to prompt total relaxation in preparation for correct stage hypnotism.

Trust is your strongest weapon. Foster trust this by telling the topic that he is in control. Tell him that what he is going to do under hypnosis is the right thing to do. Just say anything that you think will build up his trust and confidence in you to guide him. Once you are aware the subject trusts you, try making him to stand up. If he does, then you know that you have him. But you should be patient at times as there are times when it'll take him a really long time to do. A way to make this hypnotic state come faster is to make a story out of the experience. Build up to a second in the action of the tale where you are able to say what you want the topic to do, and then add it into the story. This is a very effective way to command the subject to do something under hypnosis without making it a real command. It is a much better technique.

At the end of the act, guide the topic gently toward waking up from the hypnotic state. An easy way to do this is to let them relax and stretch before waking them. Remember, the topic may not remember what he probably did under hypnosis. Point out this fact to make the performance far more engaging for your audience.




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