Aidzee is an amazing stand up comedian, and an interesting inspiration to my life in terms of presentation and self confidence. I had the wonderful pleasure of hypnotising a classic stand up comedian and watching the process where he fills for time is an interesting exercise when I tell him that his name is gone far away and that he's forgotten his name.

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.

Hypnotic Handshake with Billie

So apparently my video showing me performing a Hypnotic handshake induction with Billie has reached a thousand views. Whilst unfortunately you can't hear the audio of what happened on the day because it was quite windy, it's quite interesting to see how different people react to the handshake induction.

If you want to study the actions again, please feel free to watch this video over and over!

Hypnosis with Tyson (aka ForestHillVlog)

So lets revisit an oldie but a goodie. Tyson was yet again one of those people who haven't been hypnotised before and wanted a go. Tyson was a good sport and his personality reflects the slightly more childish side to him. So I decided to play on this. This is the second half of a suggestion which didn't record properly, but I told him prior that if he saw two fingers being held up on a hand, it would be the funniest thing he had ever seen and can't help but crack up laughing. As always you can click on the video to watch it through.

More fun with Squidgy

So I decided this week to revisit old footage, and break it up a bit. Depending on the level of suggestibility of a person, we can perform negative hallucinations, or making people think someone else, or some other object is invisible. In this case, Squidgy felt so comfortable the first time I hypnotised him, that I figured I'd give this a go, and I make his mate Michael disappear. You can see what happened by clicking the video above. Also part 1 of the Squidgy experiment can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOlKoPXseb8

In the beginning

So if you've ever been interested in hypnosis and what it's all about, I'd like to start with a little game with you guys. Don't worry, this isn't going to get it so you start barking like a dog, or anything like that. It's a simple game to see how suggestible you are in the current environment you are watching the video below:

So regardless of watching the video, I told you this was an imagination game. This is purely to see what your subconscious mind would do. Most people follow the suggestions as it's an easy one to follow, but how much of that they follow is how imaginative you can make yourself, and the environment around you, such as, is it safe? are you amongst friends? do you feel comfortable?

So this is a good starting test. You can play this game as many times as you like, or share it with friends. It's really to get you thinking about how fun hypnosis can be, and what your potential could be as well.

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: