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, and they also expect to go under if you were to try it upon them, then they are in the correct state of mind to be very successfully and rapidly placed into a stage hypnosis trance state.
Step B means that once they are in the correct state of mind to be hypnotized you then use methods of disorientation and confusion to convince them they are starting to go into stage hypnosis trance, and that’s why they are feeling these strange effects. As such if they believe this to be the case then they will expect to go under deeper and as such they will, as in the end it’s all down to their personal state of mind.
Step C means that once these things are starting to convince them they are beginning to slip into stage hypnotic trance then you use methods of suggestion and repetition to confuse and disorientate them even further and also to convince them that they are going under more. If they believe this is the case and expect what you are doing to have an effect upon them, then indeed, in turn it most certainly will.
Step D is the end result of carrying out steps A, B & C and should be that if they believe what you have done to be Stage Hypnosis and expect it to work then this will have the result of relaxation and sleep. And as all Hypnosis really is, is deep relaxation they will then be in the Stage Hypnotic trance state.
So you see the secret to all induction’s of any kind whether Stage or Therapy and whether slow, rapid or instantaneous is that if the subject sincerely believes that what you are doing does work and they also sincerely believe and expect it to work on them, then the end result will always be that it works on them.
Basically, the key secret to all induction’s is to have instilled into the prospective subjects mind, the belief in your powers and the 100% expectancy that should you as the worlds greatest of great Stage and/or Therapeutic Hypnotists picks upon them to be Hypnotised then it will work and as such they will enter a trance.