More Hand sticking!

Whilst we're on the topic of sticking hands to things. Matt was kind enough to help me out with this demonstration. I may have mentioned this before in a previous post, but I build expectation of my subjects that I hypnotise for the first time. Everyone knows that they are going to forget a name or a number, and everyone knows that they are going to get their hand stuck to something.

This a) sets up expectation, and b) it's a common talking experience amongst my friends when they say "oh yeah, he did that thing and that was really crazy" rather than "did he make you forget your name? nah, he stuck my foot to the floor".

And whilst it may be boring to watch me stick people's hands to stuff over and over, it's always interesting to see how people react and I can guarantee, that if you go back though every video, it's with awe and surprise that this weird phenomena has occurred.

Speaking of stuck hands

Speaking of stuck hands this week with Billie, I decided that I'd review some old Season 1 footage of Alex and his stuck hands video. You can see in detail in this video how I lay the suggestion out once I have my subject in trance. Enjoy the video and Alex's reaction to the experience.

Dugald's First time hypnosis

Sorry for the delay. With mothers day last week, I decided to make a video of me making a Blueberry and Passionfruit, white chocolate cheesecake. Sadly that has nothing to do with hypnosis, so I digress. Today's video is Dugald's first time being a willing hypnotic subject. As with any first timers I usually do an amnesia (forget your name or a number) and a catalepsy (hand stick) suggestion, just so I can gauge their level of responsiveness and possibly take the suggestions further in a follow up session. So may I present to you, Dugald and "Super glued hands".

P.S. Dugald doesn't have a youtube channel I can link you to, so he's my first non-youtuber that I've posted ;)

Season Finale (Not Series! I will be back!)

So this is the last video for the season. I'll be taking a 4 week break and returning soon once I've had a chance to regroup and get some more footage cause it's be hella hectic!
In this video however, I show you how easy it is to compound suggestions eg. the Hand stick suggestion along with a name amnesia modifier. Hope you enjoy the round out of videos with the guy that I started the season with, Dylan!

Sticky hands with Ned

Ned is one of those people who are also active in the YouTube community and had never done hynpnosis before and was eager to give it a shot. Sometimes some things don't quite go to plan, like name amnesia, however I decided to roll with the punches and see if his body would respond to the "super glued hands" suggestion. The resulting video is what happened when I got the suggestions rolling, and you also get a sneak peak of what was going though his head when I provided the suggestion to him.

Hand stick suggestions

One of the things that I do for the first time that I've hypnotised someone is to provide usually name and/or number amnesia, as well as a "hand stick" suggestion. This is to give people a taste for what hypnosis is like, and what it's about, and it's something fun to do.

Matt was an awesome volunteer who knew nothing about hypnosis, as most of us don't know anything. So the first thing I did was remove any element of fear, as well as any elements of expectation. I told Matt during the session that I don't want him to expect for things to happen and I didn't want him to feel that he was doing something wrong or right.

Once this pretalk was in place, it was time to do some hypnosis! The results of the hypnosis can be seen here: