Many of you know, I have been studying and learning to speak Mandarin Chinese over the past year. To help me study, I have been watching Chinese films. Last night, I was going to go to bed early, but I stumbled on a new Chinese film called, “The Great Hypnotist” and I ended up [...]
We all know the stage hypnotist will work with 10-15 people, sometimes even more, and hypnotize the group. But does that work in clinical hypnosis? Can you do sessions with multiple people? What about couples? What about a large room full of people? The answer is of course yes, you can hypnotize groups of [...]
[Hypnotic Convincers] I hear from hypnotists that they really want to master hypnotic convincers. They wonder if at every session they should be doing an eye-lock test or using waking hypnosis techniques before a session such as “sticky hands” or something. All of this makes me ask the question: What is it you are [...]
Hypnosis Trance Depth Are you one of the many hypnotist who focus on achieving “trance depth” as the real key to “speaking” to the subconscious mind? In fact, for many hypnotists, the number one obstacle in their confidence to do effective hypnosis, is a fear that their client, “will not go deep enough.” I [...]
The question is: “How do I use headphones & microphone in hypnosis so my client can listen to background music and hear my voice at the same time?” Before I answer this question, let me tell you, it is entirely possible to do highly effective sessions without such a sound setup. Microphones, music, and [...]
Hypnosis in Movies The first Hollywood portrayals of hypnosis were horror films and tragedies. From Dracula using his hypnotic power over the opposite sex; to Svengali exercising all control over Trilby, hypnosis has been portrayed as dark or evil. In recent Hollywood portrayals, hypnosis has been relegated to comedy, like in the movie Office [...]
People contact me all the time wondering how to get new private practice hypnosis clients, and why the phone is not ringing. Running a hypnosis practice is just like any other business. Only in Hollywood does, “Built it and they will come” actually happen. The potential for online and social media marketing has made [...]
Contextual approaches to hypnosis are present-focused. They don’t search for a cause, but rather they train the client in a new skill, the skill of acceptance.[1] While many traditional approaches to hypnosis have dwelled on the past trauma, the foundation for Contextual Hypnotherapy is helping our clients to live fully in the present. Mindfulness [...]
I saw it again today on a hypnosis forum, a post saying “real hypnotists don’t use scripts.” This particular post even referred to it as “scriptnosis.” And while I agree, that going into a hypnosis session with little knowledge and just a script to read will yield few results, the reality is that real [...]
