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

I’ll call it as I see it.

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

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

Nor any of the techniques we use to help people overcome what’s 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.

Consider:

A great hypnotic party trick is to make some temporarily forget the number five. So 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 count again – same result.

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

Hypnotists didn’t invent that.

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

It’s the same with everything else in hypnosis.

Everything from slumping in a chair, being unable to move…

To suddenly take on a new personality (aka cluck 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.

These may sound like the actions of a crazy person. Like forgetting little things, it’s a matter of degree. If you’ve ever caught yourself (for better or worse) doing or saying something out of character, 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 getting distracted or spending hours flying. It’s usually more subtle, like not realizing your hand is playing with your pen.

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

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