For instance Progressive Muscle Relaxation will be listed as a technique on its own, but in fact it is something that a hypnotist may use in conjunction with another technique. There are many more so-called ‘techniques’, but many of them are variants of each other. With practice you learn that every script tends to be ‘subject specific’ - so contrary to what many believe, there is no magic bullet set of words which will automatically play someone in a trance. Some very superficial research will show you that there are many induction ‘scripts’ to go with the induction techniques. What style of hypnosis is used at ? Closing Thoughts on Common Hypnotic Induction Techniques. So bored that we switch off and lapse into a daydream.īoring people into a trance is a deceptively simple technique. We have all experienced being subjected to such a dull and boring soliloquy from someone, for instance the university lecture, or a sermon that we basically become bored. The mind can be overloaded by creating circumstances whereby the client is subjected to an increasing number of sensations or ideas until in effect, their conscious mind capitulates. We saw at the very beginning that we are attempting to quiet the conscious mind in order to access the subconscious.Īnd the sensory overload technique will try to do exactly the opposite by totally confusing the mind in order to access the subconscious. A hypnotist can create those subcultures muscle commands and harness them to induce a hypnotic state. Your leg moves involuntarily as if you were about to kick the ball. If you’ve ever watched a football game and become completely engrossed in it, there may have been occasions when you find you are mirroring a player who is about to kick a ball into the back of the net. Some say that producing a hypnotic induction in this position is by far the easiest. If you ask a subject to lie down and relax, they are already associating their position with sleep. The thinking behind this technique is again very straightforward - it is easy to induce relaxation when placing a subject in a position which he or she associates with relaxation. In effect, they will go into a trance because they believe that when the hypnotist tells that they will go into a trance, it will happen. As a direct result of the hypnotist’s presence and what he tells the subject, the subject will go into a trance. If you tell a suggestible subject that they will feel tired very quickly.
Many highly skilled stage hypnotists still use this technique.Įriksson’s handshake is probably the original rapid induction technique and as the name suggests, it consists of the hypnotist holding out his hand, the subject taking it expecting to shake hands in the normal way, whereupon the hypnotist surprises the subject by instead of shaking up and down as expected pulls the hand to one side. The phenomenon is also known as ‘tonic immobility’ and relies totally on startling the subject. It does not rely on the subject having to be particularly suggestible. Not every subject responds to this but when it does work it is almost instantaneous. This is a very fast technique and relies on surprising the subject which in turn elicits a response similar to the ‘Freeze’ survival reaction. This is one of those methods which relies on distracting the subject either by pulling them forward or sideways and simply telling them ‘Sleep!’ This relies on the eyes gradually becoming tired and gradually closing them. Usually this is done by the subject leaning back and looking up. In this technique, the hypnotist asks the subject to gaze at an object or a specific place. Visualisation technique.Ī guided visualisation technique is a very straightforward technique in which we take the subject away (in their mind) and allow him to place him or herself in a good place, followed by asking them to recall a pleasant situation. Here's an Overview of Some of the Most Used Hypnotic Induction Techniques.
Different subjects will respond to different techniques. The vast majority of hypnotic induction techniques rely on relaxing the subject rather than frightening or shocking them into a trance.Įventually, the words we use to hypnotise someone will gradually become less important than the technique we settle on for a particular subject. In order to slow down or quieten down the conscious, we need to send it somewhere else by giving it something else to do. We want to be dealing with a dominant subconscious. What we are attempting to achieve is simply to quieten the conscious mind in order to give us access to the subconscious.
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