Hypnotists don’t invent anything, they steal everything

This is a matter of terminology. If you want to fight me over this because your definition is ‘better’, that’s fine by me.

I’ll call it what I see it.

Hypnotists did not invent any of our tools, tactics, and techniques.

Not just any induction … not even the idea of ​​inductions.

None of the techniques we use to help people overcome what is holding them back.

And no, not even any of your favorite stage hypnosis tricks.

Either we learned them from other hypnotists or we stole them from life itself.

To consider:

A great hypnotic party trick is to make some people temporarily forget the number five. Then you make them forget that they forgot.

Then you ask them to count how many fingers they have.

“One, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, ten … eleven …?”

They are confused, they know they have ten fingers. So they recount, the same result.

For more fun, ask them how many fingers they have on their left hand. They count six, and the same again to their right. Doesn’t that mean they now have twelve fingers?

The hypnotists did not invent that.

These little moments of amnesia and confusion are perfectly natural. They only become a problem when it happens a lot. But honestly, this kind of thing happens most days. You can think of a silly little thought and then immediately forget it.

The same goes for everything else in hypnosis.

Everything from collapsing into a chair, not being able to move …

Suddenly adopting a new person (aka clucking like a chicken) …

To, in a moment, go from being a smoker to a non-smoker.

All of these things, and more, happen naturally and spontaneously.

Yes, even you.

They may seem like the actions of a madman. How to forget little things is a matter of degree. If you’ve ever been surprised (for better or worse) by doing or saying something out of place, you’ve done what people who cluck like chickens do.

If you do it all the time, to the point where it interferes with your life, that’s when people label it “crazy.”

Hypnotists see these strange behaviors, these unusual manifestations of their unconscious, and they wonder:

“Can I do that on purpose?”

You are in and out of trances every day. Sometimes it’s obvious, like straying away from the area or spending hours flying. It’s usually more subtle, like not being aware that your hand is playing with your pen.

All of these normal behaviors have strange, powerful and surprising unconscious forces behind them.

We hypnotists see them and wonder how we can use them, distill them to their essence and improve them.