When wishing to place someone into a Stage Hypnosis trance there is also a set procedure to follow which is:

A) BELIEF and EXPECTANCY
B) DISORIENTATION and CONFUSION
C) SUGGESTION and REPETITION
D) RELAXATION and SLEEP

Step A means that if you instill into them a belief in your powers as a Hypnotist and as such they believe that you are able to place them under trance, Read the rest of this entry »

Boiled down to the basics, Stage Hypnosis is identacal to all other forms of Hypnosis. The only difference being the way in which it is presented and the speed at which the volunteers are placed into a DEEP hypnotic trance state. There are seven key points to follow for Stage Hypnosis and below I shall explain them and how they apply on stage.

SEVEN STEPS TO STAGE-HYPNOSIS

1) Obtain rapport (done through one liner jokes at start of act).

2) Induction of Hypnotic trance.
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#1 The Successful Stage Hypnosis Opening

The modern stage hypnosis show must get the audience laughing, gain the audiences trust, create excitement, expectation and introduce you as an hypnotic entertainer that is confident, skilled and personable.

If you fail to achieve your goals in the opening it will be a long, long, miserable show! It won’t be entertaining, you will have trouble getting volunteers, it will be slow, and you’ll end up doing a long induction, or worse, not hypnotizing anyone! Read the rest of this entry »

Let us imagine that a stage hypnosis is performing in your town or city. Posters are displayed advertising this hypnotist to be “The World’s Number One” and other exaggerated claims such as “Master Of The Mind”. In the eyes of the general public who don’t understand mind and crowd control, the hypnotist is a person with amazingly mysterious powers and skills. The stage hypnotist uses the ignorance of the masses to his advantage.

People are drawn to see the show with preconceived ideas. Their own susceptibility to suggestion already heightened, they are already in a level of trance. Stage hypnosis, or instantaneous hypnosis is then fairly easy to achieve by a skilled operator. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have heard about stage hypnosis or begin to learn stage hypnosis, you might think is stage hypnosis dangerous, especially after you watch many stage hypnosis shows. Ok, but I will tell here that stage hypnosis in itself is not dangerous. People hypnotized on a stage are not doing anything that is not already built into their own mental mechanisms. Stage hypnotists do not create anything new-we’re only building from what the volunteers already know and do. I have heard many rumors on certain dangers of hypnosis, but after further investigation, they turn out to be false or overly exaggerated.

The most frequent one that I have heard is the volunteer’s inability to come out of trance. This is simply not true. A person can come out of trance at any time he or she wants. It might be, though, that the person just is so relaxed or having so much fun or is liking the change of reality that he or she just doesn’t want to come out of trance. Read the rest of this entry »

Stage hypnosis is also known as covert mass hypnosis for entertainment; many willing participants are brought on stage and given specific instructions and commands which trigger the minds natural hypnotic response.

As far as I know, there are no full time schools for learning just stage hypnosis. Most stage hypnotist’s probably learned their skills from watching or working with another stage hypnotists along with reading various books. But I suggest that anyone wanting to learn stage hypnosis take classes and training in the basics of hypnosis including history, conscious vs. subconscious mind, trance levels, pre-induction, induction, suggestion, and hypnotic phenomena. Doing so will improve your knowledge and skills in hypnosis in general which will add more depth to your show. But keep in mind that a stage hypnotist is not necessarily skilled in hypnotherapy. (The other way around can also be true.) It behooves the stage hypnotist to stay away from hypnotherapy unless properly trained in the field. Read the rest of this entry »

A stage hypnotist is well aware of the fact that all people are susceptible to hypnotic suggestions and he bases his hypnotic activities upon this vivid understanding. He also possesses a successfully crafted advantage, even before he asks for the volunteers who are to be hypnotized.

For many people, their only contact with hypnosis is the stage performance, where the use of hypnotism is used to entertain and delight an audience. Stage performance can either be on tour, traveling throughout the country, or be on television shows, or both. Read the rest of this entry »

People have tried to understand hypnotism since the 1700’s, and even at this time stage hypnosis was sometimes used to entertain at parties. However, the reputation of hypnotism was eventually compromised by numerous fakes employing crude routines and paid stooges.

Early in the last century interest was revived with the success of an American stage hypnotist, Ormond McGill. As well as pioneering hypnosis as TV entertainment, McGill wrote what is now known as ‘The Bible’ of stage hypnosis, his 1947 book The Encyclopedia of Genuine Stage Hypnotism. Read the rest of this entry »