Find out A: How many people locally are looking for what you offer. B: Who and what the competition is doing.

With pain When doing research the best places are actually local newspapers, avoid Wiki it’s not very accurate, especially regarding hypnosis. Your main competition is drugs so I would find out how many people get hooked on painkillers and then sell your ‘natural’ approach.

Personally though I would go for Phobias, there’s no real big budget established drugs or medical competition there, or Tourette’s syndrome, or Irritable Bowel. A friend of mine specialises in MS clients.

In my experience it’s harder to sell solutions for which the client already has an easily obtainable and totally guaranteed cure. Pain killing drugs work for most people most of the time so it may be easy to do, but it’s hard to sell and if you are a full time professional hypno then you need to earn a living.

AVOID niches that cause long term disability or unemployment. Sadly these people can’t pay for your services. However you can keep the Kama going by charging well for those who can pay and doing freebies for those who can not.

Smiles
Jon

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

Please add this show to your favourites and rate us! On Blogtalk Radio and on iTunes Podcasts …
Go On… You Know You Want To!

I was asked a question on my Ask-Jon Teleseminar last night about my Hypnotic Symbolism™ method. So I thought I’d show you rather than go through a long winded explanation.

This video was shot at a 1 day Original Hypnosis Introduction. I’d spoken to Kate for about 2 minutes that morning but not about working with her. She had never been hypnotised before and there was no ‘set up’ apart from a polite hello and her telling me what she wanted to do.

During the post hypnosis I compounded that she would feel ‘normal’ and suggested that it had been a very successful session.

It appears that in the middle I ‘woke’ her up which of course is wrong. She’s hypnotised the whole time until I ‘officially’ terminate the process. We tested her right away.

This technique has been used for loads of behaviour change and has been called the Silver Bullet approach. Using this, especially combined with SUD scale (Wolpe, 1969), I don’t have to even know what their presenting situation is, and they don’t have to know either.

This is the simplest of all the approaches I have developed.

Enjoy.

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)

Did you know stress is only your reaction to the world around you? If you are like many people, you get caught up the hectic nature of day to day life, and you forget that you can just chill and take a break.

In this video, Jonathan discusses how to chill through Hypnosis Super Suggestion^TM. He talks about how often we think we need a special set of circumstances to relax, like a beach getaway or holiday. The fact of the matter is, we can chill anytime and pretty much anywhere.

Watch this video to learn more about how to turn off your stress and increase your ability to chill.

Happy Chilling!
Lynn (Jon’s press agent)