Champion Mind Skills

Traditional hypnotic inductions can be understood as a type of ritual that transpires between a hypnotist and their subject. Are they necessary?

Will rapid hypnotic inductions make more traditional hypnotic inductions obsolete?

The café was crowded last night and D and I had to wait a bit before getting a small table. M soon joined us and after some post-Holiday-intercession recap, he began our induction of the evening. M used a relatively obscure but apparently very effective Milton Erickson technique on me and D. By merely turning [...]

Trance is so common that we may no longer recognize it for what it is until someone else points it out to us.

Whether I’m trying to pace and lead to influence someone in conversation or going for a full-blown hypnotic trance experience, being aware of my surroundings affords me with a wealth of possible tracks that I could weave into my suggestions.

Suspended imagination.

This is my working definition of what “trance” is.

I was recently reading a discussion on a popular hypnosis forum. The discussion was about whether or not a trance state exists in reality, or perhaps it’s all merely degrees of suggestibility.

Another hypno MeetUp with more hypnotic phenomena. I got a hand stuck to a table while the subject’s eyes were open, and the feeling of being stoned on cannabis was created with hypnotic suggestion only.