How to Protect Yourself From “Street Hypnosis” and NLP
Set the scene. You are walking down the street, in the park or having a night out with your friends. A complete stranger walks up to you and before you know what’s happening the conversation has turned to hypnosis or maybe just to imagination and pretending.
Then twenty minutes later you find yourself standing there wondering where that time went while your compatriots are either guffawing or also looking
as stunned as you feel.
What’s happened?
Scene two is different, you are at an event and a person walks up to you, announces they are a professional hypnotist or magician hired as entertainment by the venue or event organisers and would you like to take part. You wake up ten minutes later with an audience applauding both you and your performing friend who offers to give you back the memory of astounding reality you’ve just experienced in the last few minutes.
I have no problem with scene two and neither should you. Forgetting any laws
or insurance neither of which would protect you from incompetence or for
that matter stupidity, in the second scenario you can be assured that the
hypnotist has two things to protect. Their reputation and their payment. If
you like their living.
Similarly if you are somewhere and hear someone discussing hypnosis who then
says they are a therapist, then if you ask and they hypnotise you then you
have instigated the thing and they will want you, and the people watching,
to take their card as a client base building exercise.
In both of the later scenes you have the security that the reason for the
hypnosis is one of professional demonstration as opposed to a simple ego
trip for the hypnotist.
Sadly that isn’t always the case. And when it isn’t you need to know how to
recognise and to avoid being effected by hypnosis in places you wouldn’t go
looking for it.
Unless it’s being done so quickly that it borders on assault, or so covertly
that the only way to really avoid it is to hum a tune in your head and not
talk to anyone you don’t know, the approach, setup and induction will almost
always follow a set procedure.
So what to look for?
Watch out for anyone who tries to break your pattern. That is they will hold
out their hand and as you go to shake it they will pull yours toward them or
pull it up towards your face.
They may just shake your hand and not letting go put their free hand on your
elbow or shoulder. While they do this they will either ask outright if you
have ever been hypnotised or much more powerfully they will ask if you have
ever felt “different” or “imagine yourself floating, or distracted, or day
dreaming”.
One of my favourite terms is very simple and gets most people into a
subconscious state instantly and that is, “Just Imagine.”
If they are a little less subtle they may ask you to stare at something,
anything, doesn’t really matter, although something bright or their own eyes
or your own finger are among the most popular.
Once they get past this point they are in your head and when that happens
they become your conscious and your conscience. That’s right they are the
ones making all the decisions and your subconscious hasn’t even been given
the suggestion that you will not do anything that goes against your morals
or your beliefs. This isn’t exactly right and is something which every
hypnotist should implant because when they don’t your morals and beliefs are
a very thin veneer and they are easily suggested away.
So now you are hypnotised and no longer in control of any but your very
basic actions what is the point? Well in a lot of cases of street hypnosis,
certainly when it’s covert, the intent is the gratification of the
hypnotists ego and as such your benefit is a cursory consideration because
they have nothing to loose. Not even in a court as it’s impossible even for
the best of us to prove hypnosis occurred.
So can you go out and buy an anti-hypnosis shield? Is their a tin foil hat
that will stop the hypnotic rays from entering your skull? Does your local
Radio Shack or Maplins stock a covert hypnotist detector? Sadly no. You have
two alternatives.
One is to visit a great hypnotist professionally and get them to install the
suggestion against any inappropriate hypnosis, or your entering an unwilling
hypnotic state at the suggestion of someone else.
Or you can learn how it’s done and then be in the place where if it’s
attempted with you, your subconscious can take over and reverse the
direction so the would be hypnotist becomes the hypnotised.
To learn how to turn the tables on anyone trying to hijack
control of your brain without permission, click here to
pick up a copy of my Svengali System online training.
Or you can own my new book “How to Make Friends With Yourself and Influence People” the transcript of the audio course available on Amazon or any other book seller.
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No show on Sunday this week. I’m installing how to do real hypnosis into 30 odd minds this weekend and that is all about focus. But we recorded a very special mastermind show with me,Jonathan Chase, Justin Tranz, Reg Blackwood and our guest British award winning hypno-magician James Brown. You can listen to the show from the BlogTalkRadio page or here as a Podcast from iTunes
What’s this? “Jon Chase Protector of Somnambulists?” LOL
Wow. That’s a scary picture of the world you’ve painted there Jon.
Some kind of post-apocalyptic vision, with gangs of marauding Hypnotists preying on poor, unsuspecting passers-by. And look out! These renegades don’t have a reputation or paycheck to protect!
Fortunately, out here in the real world, there are very few people with either the balls or the skill to do what you’re describing, which sounds more like Ambush Hypnosis than Street Hypnosis to me. Most Street Hypnotists out there are open about what they’re doing. They ask for consent and are often accompanied by a friend holding a camera.
Even then, there aren’t that many of THEM either!
Anyway, in my experience, those who seek to use Hypnosis for ill-gotten gains tend to be crap at it. Why is that? Maybe it’s because the intent is subconsciously communicated to the person being or about to be Hypnotized (Yes. Even the somnambulist) and so most of us already have a natural, inbuilt defense mechanism. One could describe it as an instinct, intuition or sixth sense.
I think that’s why when I do a “family” Stage Hypnosis show, I get, keep or ditch a completely different bunch of volunteers to when I do a more adult themed show.
Sure, aside from Hypnotists, there are clever con-artists, hustlers and grifters out there and there are lots of THEM around.
Some of them even use misdirection, shock, confusion and unconscious pattern interrupt in their attempts to rip you off. But to call them Hypnotists or their techniques Hypnotic is just plain wrong.
It’s like calling a mugger a masseur.
Reg Blackwood
The Street Hypnotist
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Hi, Jonathan,
I never knew that HYPNOSIS could be that dangerous! (;-)
The other day I read that it will also cause schizophrenia and cardial ischaemia, not to mention sexual disorders of any kind and colour.
Some preachers would not hesitate to name it a devil’s tool (while apparently using it themselves).
Svengali is top and I think of reactivating my idea of years ago: a workshop “how to save yourself from evil hypnosis” (or better: how to get saved….. )
Again: Svengali ist top!
Best wishes
from
Hans