This video has been watched by over a quarter of a million people on YouTube alone. It is what you see.
The full story was Mike – the Victim – was bet by Andy a fellow attendee at a class I run in Wolverhampton when camcorder were still called video cameras and had a handle to turn on the side… – that he could be hypnotised even if he didn’t want to be…..
Mike took the challenge, said he could ‘resist me’ and the game was on!
Initially of course for the rest of the morning coffee break I was using the simple persuasion and influence techniques I teach in the Svengali System so preparing the way as it were and I’d built amazing Awe rapport with Mike.
Now remembering that hypnosis is the acceptance of suggestion Mike’s barrier is broken by the simple direction to “Sit’n Relax.” I then use a pattern interrupt, that’s anything that throws the conscious off balance, by looking at the class and announcing, “See? Got him!” That is a not embedded command to his subconscious. The rest is very easy.
Basically all I have to do after that is stare at him and wait for him to go under. I do silently ‘suggest’ his eyes closing by closing mine slowly instead of blinking. However he begins to giggle as he feels himself entering hypnosis for two reasons, the main one being he knew he was losing his bet, the other was he simply enjoys being zapped!
I ignore this and he stops and goes into a total state of gone out fascination just staring at me but that is crap for the camera so I said something like, “That’s right, sleep!” And tap him on the forehead, that’s when he drops his head forward and again laughs.
Anyone who tells you that a hypnotised person shouldn’t laugh or cry or even burst into song if they feel like that hasn’t hypnotised enough people!
Tomorrow I’ll put up the video most people don’t go on to watch, especially the ones who have said this is fake and that I am a fraud. You’ll see Mike is an excellent somnambulist and a damn good hypnotist to boot.
That evening, the first on the training, he went out before dinner with two other guys in the class, Andy an Army Nurse, and Max, who was from Russia and swore he was a lawyer but we all KNEW he was KGB! Any way they went into a pub and hypnotised two young ladies they’d never met before in that noisy environment using the methods they had learnt that day.
I just love it when a plan comes together!
Make today an awesome day!
Smiles
JonC
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Where was the video clip then?
Suzane,
The video clip is embeded youtube at the top of the post however if you are looking on a phone, or on a browser with Java script turned off, you will not be able to see it so here is the direct link to the you tube video.
I don’t understand why you call him a victim. Victim is suggesting you are a predator. Good technique, but the video could have continued past the induction.
Hi Carol. The word victim is partially a cunning plan to get people to watch by exciting pattern they have, and partially a joke between Mike – who if you knew him you would never call a victim. The video does continue and here it is on the latest blog post.
I am puzzled…hypnosis is not a game or a trick, it is a tool to help people change habitual patterns and heal wounds. In my practice suffering patients come for help, not for playful tricks. Ron Soderquist, Ph.D.
I too am surprised Ron. I don’t see how demonstrating a technique can distinguish the use it’s then put too. This was a class and a demonstration of an induction. I assure you it was not a trick and it certainly wasn’t cheap. I’m pleased you use hypnosis the way you do and would be happy if you said you used it to amuse and amaze as well.
I’m puzzled how anyone, ever, can say what hypnosis is or what it is a tool for other than yourself. And don’t throw religion and morals at me – who’s the hypnotist there? Jon, please email details of your next course, I’d love to learn how to develop my fascination with the power of the subconcious as a tool for influence. We’ll start with playful tricks if you will…
I’m always amazed by people who think hypnosis is anything other than what the bloody word was used to describe. The delivery and acceptance of suggestion. It is what it is my friend, and I can and do prove that.
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Why do some people just want to grandstand, moralise and find fault?
I like the methods you teach Jon. The fact that the lessons are done with humour (and good intention) have got to make it more interesting and easier for the students to learn. Evidence shows that people learn better when they enjoy what they are learning. Can people REALLY not see that this is a demonstraion which, is meant to be adapted to a ‘realword’ situation?
Julies,
No, it was never meant to be applied to real world situation. Like street hypnosis it is pure egotistical showing off and I would never ever use it outside of demonstration personally.
I also wish the clip went passed the induction and showed that the participant was in a state to have hypnotic phenomena happen. I have found at times, a person is compliant with a direct order (like “sleep” and the forehead-finger tap) and knows what to do, but he is unable to experience hypnotic pnenomena to a degree that convinces him he was hypnotized (changework occurs or hands raise by themselves or forgetting a number, etc)
Check this post out Anthony this is what happened next.
http://www.jonathanchase.com/beyond-the-silent-hypnosis-induction/