You're here to learn about hypnotic gifts, but why?
Just take a moment to really think about what brought you here.
Now some of you here will be here just to improve your hypnosis skills in general.
Just give me a little shout out, little Y's if you're here just to generally improve your
hypnosis skills.
This is the interactive portion, by the way, folks, this is where...
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I think hypnotic gifts is an excellent, excellent place to be here for that.
Here's why.
Hypnosis basically has a number of different phases; we set the conditions, we put an induction
in place.
Then we do something, and then we get done, right?
Doing the inductions themselves, well, that's pretty straightforward.
We've got a whole book on inductions, the Deep Trance Training Manual volume one has
tons and tons of inductions.
There's hundreds of inductions out there.
We'll even give you some interesting new ones today to help you out with what we're doing
here.
But you see, most novices, people who are interested in hypnosis, they're fascinated
with the induction and they think that if only they get the induction right, then everything
else suddenly, magically becomes easy.
Now that you're in a trance, I can just say, "You'll never eat chocolate cake again," and
they'll never eat chocolate cake again.
That would be wonderful.
But that's not quite how hypnosis works.
The induction merely sets the conditions that allows a person to respond to suggestions
more, better, more thoroughly.
Does that make sense to everyone?
What it doesn't do is guarantee that they will respond to those suggestions in the way
that you intended.
That's because you have a living, breathing, human being in front of you with needs, wants,
desires, and values, and everything that you suggest will be interpreted through that.
The reason why hypnotic gifts are of particular value is because you can safely learn the
hypnotic methods, the principles, the tools of suggestion that gets your ideas both accepted
and responded to by another person's unconscious.
Now, if we do this within the context of hypnotherapy, we can absolutely do that, and I know a lot
of you have already seen, have been to a level one hypnosis, level two hypnosis, level three.
A bunch of you are in the Hypnotherapy University doing your four-year training with us.
So there's a ton of stuff you guys know, and all that stuff is great.
What we do with hypnotic gifts, look, it's a unique opportunity to take hypnosis out
into the wild before you're ready to take hypnosis out into the wild.
If you say, you hang up your shingle and say, "Look, I'm a hypnotherapist.
I'll help you with this," and then someone comes in, and you try and help them, and it
all falls apart, well, it doesn't feel so good.
I've been in that situation.
Making transition from a hypnosis enthusiast other a hypnotherapist who actually is helping
people, that's a really difficult transition to make emotionally because, well, suddenly
things don't quite pan out as easily as they do in the schools, shall we say, because there's
expectations and other things going on.
Hypnotic gifts help you manage that transition much more smoothly.
Why?
Because they're fast, they're easy to do, and most important of all, they are not, and
please bear this in mind, guys, they are not guaranteed to work.
The people you do this with need to know that they're not guaranteed to work.
This will be actually part of the motivational frame we'll get into when we get started.
What this does is it takes a lot of pressure off you.
It means you can do hypnosis with anyone you wish.
Sometimes it'll work, and sometimes it won't work, but it won't impact you because all
you're going to say is, "Look, we'll get as far as we can in five minutes, and if we can
do it in five minutes, great.
If we can't, no big deal," where then you just need a bit of extra time before that
happens.
But what you haven't done is painted yourself into a corner where you spend the next three
hours proving to someone that hypnosis is a real thing that actually works, right?
Rest assured, guys, I've made that mistake.
I've sat at a dinner party in a corner somewhere with someone for two hours helping them through
some problem because I couldn't do it in the five minutes at the dinner table, and it's
not an ideal situation to find yourself.
Does that
make sense to
you guys?