How to Hypnotize a Person 2

If you don’t have some kind of mechanism set up in advance, you will probably either drift straight off to sleep and sleep, or you will say, Well, this isn’t working and I’m still conscious of what’s going on and you’ll pop out of trance.

for instance when I do it, I will tell myself, for self-hypnosis I will say, Okay, I will do the self- hypnosis and I will wake up in exactly 30 minutes, or I wake up at exactly 5:30, so I have a specific parameter when I’m going to stop doing the hypnosis.

I will literally wake up in 30 minutes. I do it every single night when I go to sleep. I say, I have to get out of bed at 5:00.

I set the alarm but nine times out of ten, I wake up at 4:58 wide awake and I say, Hm. Gee. I’m awake. It must be 4:59. It must be almost 5:00. And then, boom. The alarm goes off.

That’s an internal clock and everybody has one and with the hypnosis you can use it to your advantage and it works immensely well. I’ve done it – I will, you know, take a cat nap for 20 minutes, and then I can get on with my day. It’s a tremendously powerful –

And you go through the process of relaxing the body all the way up. When you relax down the arms, relax the neck, and I started this technique as a kid, when I was nine years old.

The book said, Oh, start relaxing from the head down. But it, it just kind of struck me odd.

If I’m relaxing my head, if I relax my brain, and I relax my head and my face, then how am I going to – I’m not relaxing the rest of my body, because once I relax that, then I can’t think.

So I swapped it around and I start at the feet and go up. Then my entire body’s relaxed by the time I get up to my head, and then the head when I relax the head and the face, boom, I just drift off. And then –

Depending on who you read or who you listen to or talk to, some people when they’re doing hypnosis relaxation instructions start at the head and work their way down, and other people start at the feet and work their way up.

Whatever works good and feels good to you at that particular moment.