The 4 Stages Hypnosis Protocol

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Antonia

Hypnosis has been around for hundreds of years, although it never really hit the mainstream until the 1800’s. Most people thought of hypnosis as some kind of magic trick that worked well with illusionists for parties with the rich and famous until a Scottish neurosurgeon named James Baird coined the phrase and lent it scientific credibility.

Baird realized that there was an ability for anyone to be able to pick up hypnotism and be able to master it with practice. It was no longer something that mysterious performs did to impress people; instead, anyone could pick this ability up and master it.

In order to make hypnosis work for just about anyone, Baird came up with 4 stages that need attention to. The first stage is to Absorb Attention. This requires you to have a deep and focused concentration to gather the person into your focus so that they are following your language and suggestions. Once they are absorbed in you, then you can move to the next stage and Bypass the Critical Factor. If you do not bypass the critical factor, then the person’s conscious mind starts to tell them that none of this is possible and they won’t be able to go into the trance state.

Once you have succeed in bypassing that critical factor and are able to give your suggestions freely and without and complications, then you are ready to go to stage three, which is to activate an unconscious response. An unconscious response shows you that the person you are hypnotizing is in a suggestive trance and ready to listen to what you have to say. These responses can be just about anything, but they are usually tied to emotional responses. Emotions are a subconscious construct that happen regardless of the conscious mind, so they are fairly easy to pick up on.

Once you have your unconscious response, you are ready to go to the fourth and final stage and lead the unconscious to the desired outcome. Now that the person is focused on you, has lowered their critical factor, and has given you the unconscious response, they are finally ready to listen to the suggestions that you have for them in order to help make their life better.

When you are able to complete all four stages, then you will find that hypnotism is available to anyone with the patience to learn and willingness to achieve a state of awareness in people in order to help and not hinder.

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Skills Needed To Learn Hypnosis

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Antonia

Most people have seen a hypnotist on television and thought either they are full of it, or they have some ability that other people do not have. The truth is they have been able to learn the necessary skills of conversation hypnotism to bypass a person’s subconscious roadblocks in order to put them into a trance like state while talking to them.

This isn’t the same thing as a past life regression trance where you lay back and close your eyes; this can happen to you while talking to someone at a table in a café while drinking coffee and you would never be aware of it.

In order to become a master hypnotist, you are going to need to learn the skills of conversational hypnosis. These skills will allow you to bypass a person’s conscious guards and delve into their minds in order to allow you to set suggestions or help them with personal issues that need to be resolved. These skills are common in everyday language and conversations and are not all that difficult to learn. The hard part is forcing yourself to take the time to practice and master these skills to get the results you seek.

One of the first skills you are going to need to master is a signal recognition system. This system will allow you to realize that the person you are talking to is in a hypnotic trance without having to ask personal questions to see how they will react. These signals are basic language constructs that the person will say without being aware that they are saying them. Once you have mastered the signal recognition, you can begin to implant future memories or trance based suggestions to help that person change their life for the better in some way.

In order to get a person to give off signal recognition, you will have to become a story teller. This doesn’t mean sitting around a campfire relating a short story; rather it is in getting the person to listen to what you are saying and having them open their subconscious mind to your tugging.

This skill will allow you to get a person to give you signals a lot sooner than the old hypnotist game of having them watch a spinning pocket watch or pendulum of some kind. There is no need to make a person focus on anything other than the words you are saying to them in order to place them into a trance like state.

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