About
Hi!
My name is James Tripp and I welcome you to Hypnosis Without Trance!
I am a Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, NLPer and a Mentalist (no sniggering please, just look it up) with what I believe is a fresh take on Hypnosis – what it is, how it works etc. Over the last over the last few years I have been experimenting with hypnosis and hypnotising across a range of different contexts – in formal hypnotherapy, mentalism performance settings, impromptu demonstration and educational contexts.
What I am known for is what is archaically called ‘waking hypnosis’ – I elicit strong hypnotic phenomena without ‘hypnotic induction’ or the use of ‘trance’. Which is actually pretty easy because the truth is hypnosis has nothing to do with trance.
No ‘sleep’, no ‘eyes closed’ no ‘deeper and deeper’ – just sweet hypnosis!
On this blog I will be teaching some elements of my approach to hypnosis. I’ll be posting video tutorials and breakdowns of actual ‘no-trance’ hypnosis sessions.
Whether your are already a hypnotist or are just learning, whether your into therapy, changework or performance, you’ll find a load of cool and original stuff on here that will open your mind and raise your game.
All the very best
James Tripp
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Hello James,
I’m looking forward to finding out more about your approach to hypnosis, which interests me greatly.
But to tell you the truth, I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. You’ve already put considerable time and effort into this blog, the other web site, and the Report (which I’ve downloaded but haven’t yet read). So far, it seems, you’re doing this out of the goodness of your heart, in order to get your ideas out there. That’s very generous, and I commend you and thank you. But I wonder if you’re thinking of this as eventually becoming a profit-generating enterprise, with courses and materials to be sold, as with so many other hypnosis sites on the web. Not that there’s anything wrong with that per se . . . I’d just like to have you clarify your intentions.
In any event, I look forward to learning about your ideas. Thanks for the effort so far.
Hi Kevin
I am glad that you are finding my approach interesting, and I hope that you get to start playing with some of the ideas.
Everything that I am putting up on the blog is free and will remain so. With regard to the future, I hope that people like what I have to offer and take one of my trainings (I teach NLP and Hypnosis), and if the interest is there I may offer something on DVD or audio (I need to figure the logistics on this).
For now, this is just about getting the stuff out there and gaging what people think.
Thank you for your support, and I hope you continue to enjoy the material.
All the very best
James
Cool. Thanks!
Hi James,
Firstly this is a great site. Secondly When I read your report I gotthebooks you recommend. Which would you recommend reading first?
Nic
Wow… you all bought 9 books!?! Cool!
If you want to get going with Hypnosis ASAP, read Reality is Plastic first, and start doing the stuff! After that, maybe the Jon Chase book or the David Calof audios, or wherever takes your fancy.
James
Hey James
Attended your training today and want to know much more!
Superb and well developed approach that is the most impressive I’ve ever seen…
I feel you will be an awesome sucess and it would be great to keep in touch… It’s smooth, fast and effective…
Very accomplished feat by any standards
Robert, thank you!
I am glad that you got a lot out of it! Do keep in touch and let me know if you start working with the material.
All the very best
James
Hi James,
Great and fascinating material extending the possibilities of how we can use trance, hypnosis or whatever you like to call it, plus some invaluable tips. Looking forward to the impending announcement of your home study programme. Thankyou
James,
Love your stuff! Thank you. The last video was VERY helpful. However, I wanted to suggest you recommend more about checking out the laws of performing hypnosis in the area of your viewers. I’m a magician and sadly I’ve been brought to a halt when I found out that in my state in the U.S. it is a felony to practice without a license, which requires over 100hrs of classroom work and a large fee.
Great work and thanks again,
Joe
Hi Joe
Thanks for the feedback!
There has been much debate over the last 6 months here in the UK regarding the legality of street hypnosis. The law has never been tested so no one really knows how it is to be interpreted. I have deliberately avoided posting about law, because I don’t want to be giving advice in that area, however I will put up a little post about peoples responsibility regarding researching the laws that govern their territory.
Thanks, Joe, for the suggestion.
All the very best
James
i just finished to watch you DVD, and about the painter lady with the sticking card, there is something that i do’nt understand, and i feel that there is somthing that i missed:
Why do you ask her to repeat like a loop ” i think that i will drop this card” wich is exactly what you don’t want .
and just after that talking about the hypnotic ladder, i feel like a missig scale: you imediatly tel her that her fingers are stck to the card….!!
When you do the same thing with the hand stuck to the table , before any real test, there is 2 intermediate steps:
What do you feel more stuck? fingers or palm? ( and the the second after adding some glue: and now what is more stuck?)
Hi Philippe
If you look in the bonus materials their is a write up of the card stick. Here’s how it works:
“I am going to drop this” is a future tense statement, so it contains within it the presupposition that they are holding on to it (it works as an indirect suggestion via presupposition), so as long as they genuinely continue to repeat the words, they will most likely be unable to drop it (dropping it would be inconsistent with the presupposition).
“I am going to drop this” also sets a direction for the conscious mind (they are thinking, “I know where this is going”), which you do a ‘reversal’ on when you give the challenge. This creates a moment of confusion which leaves many people particularly open to suggestion at that point.
Now, you are right that there is no escalation on this piece (it moves straight to a digital test), which makes it a bolder piece than the hand stick (there are no ‘safety features’) – this is why I use the hand stick much more these days. But it is still a nice piece and you can get a lot of milage from it if you use it.
Hope that helps!
All the very best
James
Hi James,
I enjoy reading your blogs. Just a quick question, maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t the phrase ”Hypnosis without Trance” like saying water without liquid? After all hypnosis is trance! This is what differentiates this form of talk therapy from other forms. If this was not the case, as hypnotherapists all we are doing is talking to a person with their eyes closed and relaxed, so what would make this any different from ordinary counselling or traditional psychotherapy?
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
John
Hi John
Yes, you are missing something!
I am guessing that you have not read my free report Hypnosis Beyond the Trance Myth – you can get it here : http://www.hypnosiswithouttrance.com/
BTW, hypnosis is not a therapy, although it is a ‘tool’ that can be used to great effect by therapists who know how to use it. Many hypnotherapists do just talk to a person with their eyes closed and relaxed, and that is not using hypnosis.
Hypnosis is a way of using communication to engage a persons beliefs and cognitive processes in such a way as to alter their perception of reality. You need knowledge and skills to do this, but you do not need trance. Read the report and it will make a lot more sense to you.
All the very best
James
Hi James,
as an expert (in my opinion) i would LOVE your opinion on
this short video: http://learn-hypnosis.com/blog/?p=23
It is a video from Jonathan Chase explaining that only 80%
of the people can be hypnotized. Period.
Do you agree with this James?
Thanks a lot up ahead!
Rudy
Holland
I have attended a 2 days course whith Jon. His position is more something like ” 20%in fact will just not accept to be hypnotised, most of the time, being afraid of loosing control” But Jon like to drop sentences like bible rules;)
Hi Rudy
That’s not a bad rule of thumb (for good hypnotists) from Jon… but it isn’t quite that simple! I believe that everyone can experience hypnosis and does everyday. By this I mean if you take the definition “hypnosis is the use of communication to alter a person’s perceived reality” (which is close enough to my working definition), hypnosis is happening all the time. But this general, everyday hypnosis only relates to what I would call ‘soft phenomena’ – simple changes in state and thinking.
To get ‘hard phenomena’ (catalepsy, hallucination etc.) you need to distort reality much more, when you do this, people notice it happening and tend to correct in order to reinstate reality as they know it.
So you need to set frames that will explain the distortion, and you need to get them to ‘buy in’ to those frames (believe them 100% or close to 100%). Now, from a psychological perspective, some people are habituated to scepticism, which means that it is hard work to get them to buy into the frames you set. THIS IS KEY!
The perfect hypnotist is skilled enough to get ANYONE to ‘buy in’ to the operating frames… but this hypnotist doesn’t exist!
It’s a bit like Martial Arts – even the best of the best cannot beat everyone on the planet (because there will be those who surprise them with something they were not equipped for, or some contextual element will make difference… or they will be having an off day).
The more experience you have in hypnosis, the higher the percent of people you meet you can hypnotise. 80% is a good level! Most hypnotists that good (and this will include Jon, who is excellent) will learn to recognise the percentage that they are going to struggle with, and carefully avoid them (thus engineering for themselves a close to 100% success rate).
For me, the ongoing fascination with hypnosis is learning more and more about how people respond (especially those in the tough 20%) so as to start cutting into that percentage and move towards the ‘holy grail’ of being able to hypnotise ABSOLUTELY ANYONE.
This is where the HWT No-Fail material (which is being ‘pre-launced’ today) comes from – it’s for dealing with that tough percentage that just aren’t going to plan. This doesn’t mean that you are going to get ‘invisibility’ with everyone you work with, but taken in combination with good general hypnotic skills, you can get some category hypnotic phenomena from almost anyone, and for those who you can’t (at that time), you can exit the process on your terms and with your credibility intact.
Please be clear that this is my take on things based in my experience, and that Jon Chase and I have very different worldview from each other when it comes to these things (and that may even be an understatement!).
For me, the downside of the 80/20 rule in this context is that if you write off 20% as unhypnotisable, you place a psychological barrier in the way of developing your skills to tackle that tough 20%.
If the Wright brothers were hypnotists, I wonder how they would have responded to being told that %20 of people are unhypnotisable?
All the very best
James
by the way, i would be really interesed in the way you would write a script of the begining of the Elmann induction how would you “make ” : your eylids wont work ? wich is not really deferent than your hand is stuck or this card is stuck ( your eylids are stuck? )