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 »

In the latest article, we talked about how to do covert hypnosis, and we also know it’s very hard to detect covert hypnosis. In this article, we will talk about how to detect whether you are covertly hypnotized.

Hypnosis has been with us since humans developed language. It was used in many ways with or without intention and is continued to be used regularly today.

But the main difference is that today the techniques have been developed to a much more precise and effective level. Practitioners have learned that although, for a hypnosis session to be successful, a full participation by the subject is needed, it isn’t necessary for the subject to be aware that he or she is actually being hypnotized… Read the rest of this entry »