Two very important points or stage tactics at this point: Keep the volunteers’ eyes closed and have them stay seated during the first three routines. That’s eyes closed and locked tight and remain seated as you (perform the suggestion to follow). Both things will deepen their trance experience. You want them to access their respective imaginations and experience hypnosis in their heads, first.
Here are some routines I recommend you adopt and make your own:
Imagine playing a piano or other musical instrument like a violin or fiddle (aided by instrumental background music)
Imagine driving a speedy race car or flying a jet plane (aided by background sound effects)
Imagine holding their favourite small pet or bird
The reason why I suggest these routines is that they are easy to IMAGINE FOR YOUR VOLUNTEERS. IMAGINATION IS THE KEY TO A GOOD HYPNOSIS SHOW.
There’s no STRESS or DANGER following these types of suggestions, as they are seated with eyes closed. Such suggestions ARE EASY TO DO and get into. You want the volunteers’ easy and full compliance that such routines will help establish. THEY ARE ALSO EASY for you, the hypnotist, to MANGE ON STAGE. (The piano playing routine is great for the above mentioned prompting of certain, under-performing subjects. I’ll talk more about this later on in this ebook.)
Many stage hypnotists, frankly, use either these exact routines or variations on them. The best do the first two or three routines mentioned with the volunteers’ eyes closed and seated. Many also do the old hot to cold—imagine you’re lying on a sandy beach. However, that can be problematic and here’s why. Better yet, let me ask you this: why might this beach routine cause the loss of some volunteers, especially women?
You will be surprised how many people can imagine playing a piano, even a violin—although some people can’t imagine playing a violin as easily as playing a piano.
Anyway.
The lying on a beach with the suggestion that it’s getting hotter and hotter can more often than not cause people, especially body conscious females, to feel UNCOMFORTABLE lying imagining they are in the sand.
Furthermore, not everyone likes the beach, especially older, out of shape women (more than men), many people don’t like the hot sun, sticky suntan oils, resulting sunburn, don’t enjoy sand in their swim suits, and so on. Also, imagining heat is much more difficult for people than imagining cold.
And believe it or not, I’ve asked people who’ve gotten up suddenly and walked off stage, out of trance, why they are leaving the show—the majority of whom are women, the LYING ON THE BEACH routine caused them to think they’ll have to take their clothes off and to have get-naked thoughts.
So, stick with the piano playing and driving a car and then suggest that they imagine a small pet, and your show will always get off to a successful start.
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