hypnosis!

[GWB origami]

any tips on hypnosis?

[spiritofcat]

Tips on hypnosis:
Relax
Focus on your breathing
Feel your eyelids become very heavy
Let your eyes close
Relax deeper and deeper
When I count down from three you will awaken feeling refreshed and energised
Whenever you read the word "origami" you will cluck like a chicken
3
2
1
Awaken!




Origami!

Did it work?


Just kidding.
But to be serious, I do know a thing or two about hypnosis. Are you interested in hypnotising yourself or other people?

[GWB origami]

But to be serious, I do know a thing or two about hypnosis. Are you interested in hypnotising yourself or other people?

other people.

[TheUnChosenOne]

I remember reading that a hypnotist was practicing in fron of a mirror and hypnotized himself for 5 hours until his wife got home

[spiritofcat]

But to be serious, I do know a thing or two about hypnosis. Are you interested in hypnotising yourself or other people?

other people.

Okay, well that's still a pretty wide topic.
Imagine going onto a hypnosis forum and asking "any tips on origami?"
You'll probably get better info if you can be a bit more specific about what you want to know and what you already know.
Have you read any books on Hypnosis?
What have you learnt so far?
What do you want to do with it? Party tricks? Therapy? Self improvement and habit modification? Kinky sex?

[Baltorigamist]

I think I remember hearing somewhere that it takes some kind of special ability that you either have or don't. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[GWB origami]

most interested in tricks and maybe a little therapy. i already know the basic steps: induce trance, deepen, give orders, wake up. getting past induce trance is hard for me which is why i'm asking.

[spiritofcat]

most interested in tricks and maybe a little therapy. i already know the basic steps: induce trance, deepen, give orders, wake up. getting past induce trance is hard for me which is why i'm asking.

What sort of induction are you using?
Some people go into trance more easily than others, so it maybe be that the person you're trying on just isn't very well suited to it.
It's important to have your subject spend some time relxaing and focusing before you try to bring them down into a trance.

I would suggest starting with a sequence of them relaxing and focusing on their breathing.
It can help if you can see the rhythm of their breaths and speak along with it, mentioning breathing in and breathing out at the times when they're doing that.

From breathing you can move on to sequentially relaxing muscles. Starting from the head or from the toes and slowly moving through from one end to the other, have them concentrate on each muscle relaxing and becoming limp and heavy, sinking into the chair or bed.

After all that they're likely to be in or close to a light trance, but I'd suggest a numerical descent to deepen it into a good solid trance.
Have them imagine walking down a flight of stairs slowly, counting the steps, or riding an elevator and watching the numbers change.
Try to engage all their senses in this imagining. Ask them to feel the texture of the carpet under their feet and the banister under their hand as they descend the stairs, listen to the grinding and whirring of the elevator as it descends, have them pay attention to the visual details of their imagined elevator or staircase, and so on.
Keep reminding them that they're going deeper and deeper and becoming more and more relaxed with each number.
Depending on how susceptible they are, a count of 10 or 20 should do the job.

Once that's all done they should be fairly deep and you can run a couple of tests to check how they're doing.
My favourites are an imaginary balloon tied to their wrist, which makes their arm rise apparently without any effort from them, and having them clasp their hands together, imagine them being glued like that and then not being able to separate them.