Hypnosis the Great Pretender

Let’s pretend. Let’s pretend that our leg won’t move, or pretend that our arm is rigged or that our hand is floating toward our face or that our eyelids are locked.

Hypnosis is the use, application and manipulation of our capacity to pretend, to imagine, to create reality. That manipulation is caused by directing the imagination.

That’s it really, it’s all pretending. It’s all imagination.

Hardly surprising really when most of the way we perceive and respond to the world is pure pretence, sorry, imagination, sorry subconsciously. A phobia isn’t triggered by what is happening, neither is a panic attack or an anxiety state which are all the same body wearing a different coat. The phobic reaction is triggered by what we believe, what we imagine to come next.

Okay so in the hypnotic world simple procedures like pretending are wrapped up in all sorts of ‘models’ and dogma. Metaphor is just pretending one thing is another. Hallucination, I don’t believe it helps to say negative or positive as they are the same coin looked at from different sides. All hallucination is Pretending with a capital ‘P’ and big exclamation at the end! It is still just make believe.

Meta Models, Embedded Belief Systems, or my favourite Emotional Patterns, are all just other ways of describing an imagined reality, or rather pretending.

On my Hypnotist radio show last Sunday, in the chat room was a guy for whom hypnosis was difficult so he just played along, imagined, pretended he was hypnotised. Then a remarkable thing happened, the hypnosis became ‘real’. At least he believed it was real, and that’s what makes most of our stuff real, that belief. Which of course is just another word for pretending.

I like the way my good friend Reg Blackwood from New Zealand puts it.

“Hypnosis happens when you focus so well and imagine something so vividly that it becomes real to you.”

In that quote the hypnosis could be transposed with the word belief and ‘imagine’ could just as easily become pretend.

The thing with the subconscious or the Mind is that unlike the Brain – which has to work by logic being a physically limited machine, albeit a biological one – the Mind like stuff simple.

When I’m using my preferred induction, a slight variation on Elman’s eye closure, I’ve noticed that saying, “Pretend your eyes are closed,” Get’s a much faster and higher success than just saying imagine.

So a hypnotised person is without doubt the greatest of all pretenders whether that be pretending they’re Rudolf Nureyev or someone who doesn’t smoke. If they are doing it intently and focused enough then for them that pretending becomes their reality.

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Scriptnosis, Hypnosis Painting by Numbers

Hypnosis is an art. If it were a science then I am sure it would be taught in medical schools and universities.

The ‘research’ on the subject over the years would have brought about a definitive ‘truth’ as to how and why it works and you would be able to walk out on stage, do the script for it, and hypnotise the whole audience.

A dream of every stage hypnotist would be to bang them all under, wake them up a couple of hours later and tell them what a wonderful show they had just watched.

The truth is that like any art the result relies entirely on the skill of the artist in manipulating the medium to create the desired result. It also means that it requires a certain natural aptitude to apply it successfully and to create great works.

Anyone can paint. Even Chimpanzees can hold a brush and spatter some oil, acrylic or pigment suffused water on to a canvas or piece of paper. It isn’t hard to grasp the basics but does being able to do something mean you are doing it well?

I suppose you can say that hypnosis is different in as much as the medium you are manipulating has got its own ‘mind’ and can choose how it wants to go. If you are just scribbling by giving some advice down the pub sure. But that is just subconscious graffiti.

A true master would want to prepare, plan, and then when the basics are in place to allow the medium to flow whilst deciding where that flow should go. The true artist is then free to follow both their own preparation and more importantly to follow the ebb and flow of the feedback from their imagination and what that is causing in their emotions.

Most great paintings under xray show several different versions and ideas being applied on the way to the final result.

That’s something you won’t find in cold science. The flexibility to create on the fly.

Hypnosis is an art, it requires, at least in my book, a huge degree of flexibility and creativity and if you use a script written by someone who neither knows you or the person you are dealing with.

Then what you will end up with is nothing more than a Scriptnotist, not a Hypnotist.

And let’s face it, you won’t see a painting by numbers hanging in the Louvré.

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The Hypnotist Radio show

This week we interview Hugh Lennon the only Hypnotist we know to turn a dog into a swinging watch!

Hugh’s long stage career of nearly half a century started with lunch – with a lion!

From there it’s gone all over the world and he tells us he’s only ever used a single induction, although Hypnodog has tried out several dozen!

On the rest of the show….

Celebrity co-host Reg Blackwood will be presenting the weekly Reg’s Rant, I will be answering the BIG question and running the live “Sleep with Strangers” phone in which will win someone a signed copy of my new book, “How to Make Friends With Yourself and Influence People” available from Amazon, and the lovely Jane will be moderating the chat room on

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Go On… You Know You Want To!

There are without doubt 2 mental process’s at work, one is called the conscious and the other the subconscious. I think the easiest way to think of them, and to get a handle on what they do and how they interact is to think of them like this.

Mind, the part of your mental process that is emotional, creative, playful, childlike, irrational, capricious, illogical.

Brain, the part of your mental process that is unemotional, objective, serious, adult, rational, analytical, logical.

Now it doesn’t matter whether we consider the Mind as a Separate entity or some kind of attached energy or Soul or whether we see it as product of the Physical brain. Whichever you prefer as both suffice.

The Brain however we know for sure is a physical biological computer. It handles the nervous system and our judgements and calculates all the stuff we need to pick up a spoon right through to working out why E=Mc2

The Mind does and makes us do, everything else.

All the evidence points towards there being two separate process’s that sometimes work in harmony but more often work independantly or worse, in conflict with each other.

The fact is that science is only able to speculate as to what your subconscious may or may not be. Logic seems to suggest that if the mind is a product of the brain then it’s an absolute sign of inbuilt design fault as emotions are largely unneeded and retaining a playful and spiritual immaturity is counter productive to maintaining a social status.

On the other hand it could just be that the Brain is simply a tool of the driving Mind. Which appears to be the case as regardless of logic and objective reason we are way more likely to do what the Mind wants. Emilé Coué said “If there is conflict between the Intellect and the Imagination the Imagination will always win.”

The other notable thing of course is that even when the brain is at rest and not much is being thought the Mind continues to create, desire, feel, play. Doesn’t matter if that’s in sleep, trance or coma.

So my take is that the Mind is the driver and the Brain is the pedal, steering wheel and control system of the body – vehicle.

Before presupposition the French had a term for it which pre-dates presupposition by about a hundred years first appearing around 1845 in a history of a Franco army triumph.

The term?

Fait Accompli – which means ‘the deed is done’.That roughly means to suppose that something has already happened.

Creating a reality as if it has already happened, even though it will happen in the future, is what hypnotists have been doing as a matter of course for a few hundreds of years and what subconscious minds have been doing for ever.

“When I wake you you HAVE forgotten your name.” The presupposition there is you Have forgotten it even though that hasn’t happened yet.

What you DO with it is to act as if the result is a thing of the present rather than a thing of the future.

For instance to get someone to shut the door you could say, “You found closing the door to be pleasant.”

Don’t hide it, there is no need. Their brain won’t understand it as it has no future nor past and becoming confused will give over control to the mind. Their mind will just believe it and to make it so and fell ‘pleasant’ it Has To Shut The Door. What will happen is they will look at you with a frown or even say “What?” and then they will close the door to ‘feel pleasant’.

Of course you could just say, “Please shut the door,” but that isn’t anywhere near as much fun as playing the mind game!

So to use a presupposition move your imagination into a place where Fait Accompli! And act and talk as if it is.

Jon Chase explains how to get the best from your Auto Self Suggestion System – ‘Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM Tracks’.

It’s so easy.

Download the track and burn it to a CD or better still to an MP3 player.

Working with one track and one situation at a time, just play.
Your mind will repeat what it hears regardless of what your conscious mind is doing.

Listen to the tracks either:
3 times a day for 30 days
or
30 times a day for 3 days
or
Constantly in the background.

You know the suggestions are taking effect when you start to think the way you need to automatically.

AUTO – automatic . . . the system works without you ‘doing’ anything except be able hear it.

What’s in a phobia?

In this fascinating video, Jonathan Chase discusses fear can be a very limiting factor for many people. As we know, fear often holds us back from things we want in our lives. Many of these fears, as Jon explains, are “inappropriate.” They have been taught to us at some point in our lives, but there is no reason to hold on to them.

However, these fears can be easily changed. Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM is a fantastic tool for releasing fears and phobias through changing our minds.

Boo!
Lynn (Jon’s press agent)

Getting clean and clear from substances. Jon Chase says that the problem with substances is that although we know these substances do harm, but our minds want to get the “wow” factor.

If you have been damaging your body it typically takes awhile for your body to rebalance itself. The trick is to change your desire for the substances. Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM will change your mind so that you no longer desire substances. Watch this video, and learn the phrase Jonathan says is one of his favorite phrases… I found this phrase very helpful.

Signing off for now-

Lynn

Have you ever noticed that confident people seem to have all the “luck?” If you up your level of confidence, there is no reason why this sort of luck cannot be yours as well. After all, it isn’t really luck. It is just these people are living in a state of confidence and truly don’t believe they will fail.

In this video, Jonathan Chase talks about how to achieve more confidence in your life through Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM. Jonathan expounds on his belief that the true meaning of confidence is “lack of self doubt.” If you can release feelings of doubt in your life, confidence will come to you as a direct result. Jonathan also discusses how there is a difference between confidence and arrogance. If you are interested in becoming more confident and reaping the benefits of being a completely confidence person, check out this video.

Signing off for now-
Lynn (Jonathan’s Press Agent)

FREE I Can Change (Change your mind and life) : 4:00
To get the best from any change technique you first have to get your subconscious mind to want to change. The easy way to do this is through the swift solution of Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM tracks.
We know your conscious brain wants to change, you’re reading this! Once your mind agrees there’s no stopping you.

You start the process here. As with all these tracks play this until it ‘sticks’ and you find yourself repeating it even when it isn’t playing. You can listen to the full MP3 track FREE from the Jonathan Chase main site or just watch this uplifting fun video.

Listen to 1 track for a MINIMUM of 3 times a day for 30 days. OR. 30 times a day for 3 days. Or as often as it takes for the thought to stick, then every now and then as a back up for when you feel you need a boost.