Rapid ‘Induction’ Rituals

OK, so you think I’ve gone nuts!? Or been seduced by the ‘dark side’!?

No, it’s OK… this is still Hypnosis Without Trance! So why, then, am I here demonstrating and talking about rapid inductions?

Well, it certainly isn’t because they have anything to do with ‘trance’! I’m talking about rapid inductions because, trance or no trance, they can be very useful tools. Within an HWT framework, rapid inductions can be useful on 2 levels:

1. They are excellent for building response sets and evaluating responsiveness.
2. They serve as a ritual that builds meaning and serves as a ‘big because’

This isn’t to say that I use them much (I don’t) but occasionally, in the right context with the right person, a rapid induction is just what is called for. Anyhows, the video will explain all!

An, as usual please do leave your comments and questions below!

httpv://youtu.be/YuXw3OgkJHs

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James Tripp

Hypnotist and Transformative Facilitator. Creator of Hypnosis Without Trance.

26 Comments

  • hobbicles

    May 23, 2012

    Janes,
    Is this on any of your products? (either Hypnosis Mastery Programme or The Hypnosis Without Trance No-fail Protocol)?

    • admin

      May 23, 2012

      Hi Hobbicles

      It is not. The demos are from some footage recorded at a training.

      All the very best

      James

  • Bill

    May 23, 2012

    Great video! If I truly understand this, it’s essentially all about compliance, the quality of the compliance, and fullfilling a client’s expectation of what hypnosis is supposed to be like by having an “induction.”
    Bill

    • admin

      May 23, 2012

      Pretty much Bill – although personally I prefer the term ‘responsiveness’ to ‘compliance’ (the former has more functional connotations for me).

      J

  • Dario

    May 23, 2012

    Hello James,

    As always your clips are full of great bits.

    With this approach, What about the theory that says that instant inductions open a gap between conscious and subconscious where you can put the suggestion? that is, the confusion provoques that the subconsious grabs what’s easy for it so the person follows your suggestions…

    Regards

    • admin

      May 23, 2012

      I think that maybe the shock moment can ‘de-frame’ reality for the subject for just a moment, which can leave them open to new framing (supplied by the hypnotist).

      J

  • Magic Leo

    May 23, 2012

    Dear James, your explanation is very clear and gives a great ease to become a good hypnotist. well I am a daily performer of magic as well as hypnosis. As a performer I come across challenges all the time from the audience, like, I dont think I can be hypnotized can you hypnotize me still. and being challenged in front of a big audience I usually give it a try and fortunately such personality do get hypnotized also. my question is 1. how can I change the belief of such a person who think that they cannot be hypnotised. 2. how can I increase the response factor of a person who is not responding well. like in the case of pacing and leading. 3. does the card stick effect works all the time because many times I tried this unfortunately I couldnt succeed. well the hand sticking on the table works once they have been into other hypnotic act which I make them perform. well thanks for those who discovered rapid induction which always helped me to take 80 of my audience into trance. Thanks a lot for all the effort you put in to make people understand what is hypnosis in another perspective. GOD BLESS YOU

    • admin

      May 23, 2012

      Hi Leo

      1. Don’t debate it, outframe it! Present a model of hypnosis from within which the challenge or belief makes no sense:

      “Hypnosis is about how people organise their reality, and how we can influence that. Your reality is already organised in the way that it is – you think the way you think, believe what you believe, act the way you act and you are consistently you. So the question is less about whether I can hypnotise you and more about whether I can de-hypnotise you… let me give you an example”

      Now you go into something. You’ve aid you’ll give an example, but not said of what (hypnosis? De-hypnosis? Influence?). Start to do something hypnotic that builds response and starts to lead his reality. If you are a magician, just have a back-up pseudo-hypnosis out (my favourite is Kollosal Killer – the piece becomes about planting an idea in the centre of the subjects mind). However, if you build a frame of collaboration rather than ‘mind-control’ you shouldn’t really get any problems happening, because anyone can create a reality in which their hand is stuck to something – it’s just willingness, appropriate frames and good coaching.

      Other choices include don’t resist “you can’t hypnotise me!” “you are absolutely right, the only person who can truly hypnotise you is yourself, and that’s the secret… but I might be lying (said with a twinkle in the eye). Then just get busy doing something else magical.

      2. That is a massive subject in it’s own right. There are tons of tricks and frames that can help, but my most fundamental tip is stop framing it as mind control or something that is done to someone (unless you want to frame it that way, in which case you will meet more overall resistance from anyone with an aversion to being controlled and dominated).

      3. Nothing works every time! But, if you are flexible, you can pretty much always get something to work. Forget the recipe, forget the sequence – just coach them into the experience. And forget about it having to be hypnosis! If someone is resistant to that frame, just be a magician and get them to play some ‘imagination games’ as part of the trick. Or just interesting imagination games on their own.

      Hope that helps

      J

  • Magic Leo

    May 23, 2012

    I have experienced this many times and notices many times getting into the subconscious mind with confusion or shock and it has helped me a lot even I have come out with my own kind of confusion induction in which i borrow two currency notes and start asking the subject to tell me which is head and which is tail and i keep on asking the subject by showing the two bill turning the sides. the subject goes on saying heads tails tails head tails tails and when I find the body language that at one point the subject get into a thought why this guy is making me do this stupid act I command sleep and the subject do go into trance and there after is highly suggestible

  • Doc Regal

    May 24, 2012

    Creating intrigue is fascinating in itself and what you do present here is quite lovely, James. Your fine distinction is that responses are the observed phenomena, and I’ll add that hypnotic rituals are akin to ceremonial rites of passage which have implicit meaning. I also will second the notion that the more efficient we are in directing our inductions the better. Well done!

  • I appreciate how you have articulated something that I have been instinctively sensing for a while – recursive reality validation. X is true, Y is true, and then there is new evidence (like confusion) of a “change” that makes Z happen around and around.

  • SS

    May 24, 2012

    I think you’re saying that TRANCE is just a form of hypnotic Phenomenon, right?

    • admin

      May 24, 2012

      That is something I have said before, but it wasn’t so much what I was saying here.

      All,the very best

      James

  • SS

    May 24, 2012

    I’ve used Deepners like fractionation to get people to go deeper. And I’ve just asked them on a scale of 1-10 where they are currently at to guage their level of depth.

    Any comments?

    • admin

      May 24, 2012

      IMO, depth is just a perception. You can get people to experience being deeper… Question is “for what purpose?”

      J

      • SS

        May 24, 2012

        Touché.

        A greater depth has been associated with getting further/harder phenomenon; more suggestability.

  • Stephane

    May 30, 2012

    I like your perspective on rapid inductions. It certainly opens new avenues and ways to use them and removes a lot of performance anxiety one might have while performing them which undoubtly will make them more effective.

    On the subject of deepening trance, I am wondering now if it is not part of what you call ‘the big because’ or the ritual. In other words, by getting people into a ‘deeper state’ they might think that what was not possible before (e.g. like an name amnesia) now is. What’s your view on this?

    Sometimes I fail to get certain phenomenm like amnesia after a rapid induction and some fractionation helps. Now I also wonder if it is not my own beliefs and lack of confidence that gets in the way.

    • admin

      May 30, 2012

      I totally agree!

      Deepeners work if they increase ‘buy-in’ for the process… but often they don’t! Especially if mishandled i.e. “you are going 10000 times deeper” and the subject is thinking “I don’t think so”!

      Better to use something like “and you can go as deeply into that state as you need to to just feel good” or something like that. Used like that, the deepener can become a safe and useful tool (but not the only tool) to increase buy-in, rather than an essentially means to get requisite depth of trance (when, IMO, there is no requisite depth of trance).

      All the very best

      James

  • chimanrao

    January 5, 2013

    Can confusion and surprise take people in hypnotic loops without need of preframing in any verbal way….?? like strangers on bus stop…the way Erickson used to do with strangers….is it really necessary to talk about gnosis or things related to mind?…I have not been able to persuade a “boy”for anything related to mind…I want to hypnotize a boy..that’s a bit difficult with them….

  • chimanrao

    January 5, 2013

    demonstrating a hypnotic phenomena our at least a weird phenomenon will create mystery …how to do that?

  • russ

    January 6, 2013

    Hello James: This is a comment about both the bubble and the (instant) inductions. I watched twice and also reviewed the comments of other viewers. And have viewed the video of the girl at the fair multiple times. All very challenging. When I first viewed the girl at the fair, it was probably on You Tube. It is remarkable that she smiles, talks and ostensibly maintains her normal personality — clearly not in a trance state — yet her hand sticks to her head and her arm locks. I will continue to study and hone in on what you do because it appears to offer a very effective short-cut to achieving the hypnosis and whatever goal accompanies that. I have had success in hypnotizing persons — always with direct and fairly rapid inductions, but I have relied on going “deeper, deeper – deeper, etc. and have heretofore believed that deepening was a facilitator of inducing deeper type suggestions. For example, anaestesia for an operation.I do get one point, however. Seems to me that you are teaching us to get inside the four part loop: to permit us the freedom to operate free from scripts and hence, more effiently and originally. Quite a challenge. Anyway, thanks again for sharing your insights and learnings. Russ

  • Amelia

    April 29, 2013

    This is a topic which is close to my heart… Many thanks!

    Exactly where are your contact details though?

    • admin

      April 29, 2013

      Thanks Amelia.

      Contact details? Grey tab, top right!

      All the very best

      James

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