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Hypnosis: The Super Suggestion

Tuesday, 31 March 2009
A suggestion is an instruction which if accepted by the subconscious mind is acted upon by an individual. Suggestions can be delivered in various ways.

The first by repetition or compounding. Repeat a suggestion enough times and ultimately it will be accepted by the subconscious mind. It's a bit like, asking my son repeatedly to tidy his room. Eventually, he does. Well some of the time!

Delivering them by association. The principle is to link an idea the person knows will happen to something that they are not necessarily aware of. So for example, "As you hear the sound of my voice you will become aware of your breathing. With each breath you take you will feel more relaxed than you did before." A very basic example, but I hope it demonstrates my point. This is associating one event with another.

Present your suggestion by believing it is going to happen. This will increase the chance for the subconscious mind to accept your statement. The power of belief is under estimated and for me this is the magic of hypnosis. Don't worry we will discuss this in a future post. If you really believe that by touching their left hand they will go into a deep state of relaxation then this will be acted upon.

The key to your suggestion being acted upon in hypnosis is to keep ithem very simple. Be very clear about the words you use. Remove as many fluffy words from yoursuggestions as possible. By this, I mean words that really have no place being there. Please do not confuse this with 'additional' words that are put in to increase the chance of your suggestions being accepted. Keep them in there!

Reverse psychology is a great way of delivering a suggestion. How many times have you been told you can't do something, but you have felt this over whelming urge to do it anyway. At some point in our lives we have used 'reverse psychology' to influence people. You may have used this suggestion, "It's OK, if you don't want to!" In hypnosis, the classic eye locking phenomena demonstrates this techniques very well. "Your eyes are locked and stuck together. You cannot open them. The harder you try, the tighter they become." So these are my suggestions on delivering your suggestions!
1. Repetition or Compounding.
2. With belief
3. Association
4. Simplicity
5. Reverse Psychology
What about the super suggestion? I hear you ask. The Super Suggestion increases the chance for everything else that you say to be accepted by the subconscious mind. This is very powerful when acted upon. A great example is from Jonathon Chase's, Don't look in his eyes;
"From this moment in time every word I say instantly becomes your reality"

Think of a suggestion like a pebble thrown into a pool. It starts a ripple which spreads across the water. Just like an idea in your mind.

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Andy
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Learn Stand-up Comedy: The 20 Word Rule

Monday, 30 March 2009

By Steve Roye

Everyone who tries to learn stand-up comedy already knows that…

One of the biggest problems most new comedians face when they are trying to learn stand-up comedy is that they can’t seem to get to the punchlines quick enough in their act.

In other words, the set-ups to the jokes are too long. Way, way too long.

This is a real problem because in order to be recognized as comedian of any mention, you must be able to command at least 4 laughs per minute for each minute you stand before an audience.

And the secret is NOT to talk faster. As a matter of fact, you absolutely don’t want to be in a hurry at all when standing in front of a comedy audience.

Please note that I said a minimum of 4 laughs per minute—headlining comedians get 6-8 laughs per minute.

Now, get ready to learn stand-up comedy from a different perspective.

Provided that you have a recording of your stand-up comedy act (audio or video) and have it transcribed on your word processor (word for word)…

You can apply the 20 word rule to get the results you want. The 20 word rule is not a hard and fast rule—it is a very flexible editing guideline that you can use now to help shorten your set-ups or identify where to add punchlines.

Here’s the simple process:

1. Use your transcribed comedy act and review your recording of that act. Make a visible mark at every point that you got laughs on your transcript.

2. Now go back and count the number of words that lead up to each laugh. If there are more than 20 words, the chances are great that you need to do some serious editing to shorten the set-up or add a punchline.

This concept applies to comedians who are employing old school joke writing techniques as well as those using the more powerful topic driven stand-up strategies.

For those who seriously want to learn stand-up comedy, it should be noted that household name headlining comedians only use 10-15 words (average) before they get to a punchline.

Again, I want to mention that the key is NOT talking faster on stage. It’s about easily structuring what you really want to say, the way you speak naturally so that you can get the maximum laughs per minute possible every minute you are on stage.

Steve Roye is a globally recognized expert in stand-up comedy material development and performance improvement. For more stand-up comedy techniques, tips and secrets, check out Steve’s Learn Stand-up Comedy hub page.

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About the Author: Steve Roye is a retired Navy veteran who started his stand-up comedy career while on active duty.

After struggling for 9 solid months and almost quitting stand-up comedy, Steve developed the Killer Stand-up Comedy System for producing high impact stand-up comedy material very quickly -- without using conventional joke writing techniques.

In the process of discovering how to master the stand-up comedy stage, he became one of the world's leading experts on comedy material development and performance enhancement.

Steve is now retired from stand-up comedy and focuses on developing others as comedians and funny speaking professionals, as well as operating several successful online businesses.

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History of Hypnosis - From Animal Hypnosis to Nowadays

Saturday, 28 March 2009

By Orkhan Ibadov

History of hypnosis starts from ancient times. But modern hypnosis developed from 17-th century. Below you will learn the modern history of hypnosis and discover how it has been developed until nowadays.

The first type of hypnosis was animal hypnosis. In 17th century farmers could calm chickens hypnotically using different techniques. In France, farmers learned to hypnotize hens to sit on eggs not their own. In 1800-s people hypnotized birds, rabbits, frogs and others. B. Danilewsky experimented with animal hypnosis and studied its physiological workings in animals.

Austrian doctor, Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815) who is acknowledged as the "Father of Hypnosis" started the concept of magnetism. Mesmer believed that there was a quasi-magnetic in the every air we breathe and a "cosmic fluid" could be stored in inanimate objects, such as magnets and transferred to patients for curing their illness.

Mesmer cured a woman, who suffered from a convulsive malady. During one of the woman's attacks he applied three magnets to the patient's stomach and legs while she concentrated on the positive effects of the "cosmic fluid". Her symptoms subsided when Mesmer gave her this treatment. Mesmer believed that "cosmic fluid" was directed through his patient's body, her energy flow was restored and she regained her health in this way.

He could restore the sight of a young famous, female musician, Mille Paradies, who had gone blind at age 4 when she heard a noise at her bedroom door.

Mesmer had great success treating thousands of people with "animal magnetism" and the process referred to as mesmerism.

A student of Mesmer, Marquis de Puysegur (1751-1825) first described and coined the term for "somnambulism". He used "animal magnetism" on a young peasant. During this process Puysegur noticed that the patient could still communicate with him and respond to his suggestions.

Puysegur thought that the will of the person and the operator's actions were important factors in the success or failure of the magnetism and he believed that a "cosmic fluid" was not magnetic, but electric.

An English surgeon, Dr. John Elliotson (1791-1868) reported in 1834 numerous painless surgical operations performed using mesmerism.

A Scottish surgeon, James Braid (795-1860) gave mesmerism a scientific explanation. He found that some experimental subjects could go into a trance if they simply fixated their eyes on a bright object. He believed that mesmerism is a "nervous sleep" and coined the word hypnosis, derived from the Greek word "hypnos" which means sleep.

Braid rejected Mesmer's idea that hypnosis was induced by magnetism.

French neurologist, Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) used hypnosis to treat hysterics and categorized it as an abnormal neurological activity.

Auguste Ambroise Leibeault (1823-1904) and Hippolyte Bernheim (1837-1919) were the first who regarded hypnosis as a normal phenomenon.

Freud was interested in hypnosis and read Bernheim's book on hypnosis "De la Suggestion" to find a physiological explanation of suggestion in the nervous system. As he observed patients enter a hypnotic state, Freud began to recognize the existence of the unconscious. However, Freud rejected hypnosis as the tool to unlock repressed memories, instead favoring his techniques of free association and dream interpretation. With the rise of psychoanalysis in the fist half of the 20-th century hypnosis declined in popularity.

The modern study of hypnotism is usually considered to have begun in the 1930s with Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952) at Yale University. His work Hypnosis and Suggestibility (1933) was a rigorous study of the phenomenon, using statistical and experimental analysis. Hull's studies demonstrated that hypnosis had no connection with sleep ("hypnosis is not sleep, ... it has no special relationship to sleep, and the whole concept of sleep when applied to hypnosis obscures the situation").

Hypnosis therapy has been widely used in World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Hypnosis techniques were merged with psychiatry and was especially useful in the treatment of what is known today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

In 1950s medicine started to use hypnosis for therapy. In Britain, in 1952, a Hypnotism Act was instituted to regulate stage hypnotists' public entertainments. In 1955 British Medical Association recognized therapeutic use of hypnosis and in 1958 the American Medical Association approved a report on the medical use of hypnosis.

Two years after AMA approval, the American Psychological Association endorsed hypnosis as a branch of psychology.

Milton Erickson (1901-1980) developed many tips and techniques in hypnosis that were very different from what was commonly practiced. His style is known as an Ericksonian Hypnosis, which has greatly influenced many modern schools of hypnosis.

Dave Elman (1900-1967) was one of the pioneers of the medical use of hypnosis. Elman's definition of hypnosis is still widely used among many professional hypnotists. He is known for having trained the most physicians and psychotherapists in America, in the use of hypnotism.

He is also known for introducing rapid inductions to the field of hypnotism. One method of induction which he introduced more than fifty years ago, is still one of the favored inductions used by many of today's masters.

John Cerbone is best known for his work in the area of instant inductions (speedtrance induction). His work draws on the six methods of inducing trance (boredom, confusion, loss of equilibrium, eye fixation, misdirection, shock and overload) in a unique technique that produces instant induction in 3-7 seconds. Richard Nongard has been a collaborator in developing these methods with Cerbone.

Today, hypnosis is highly effective and popular medical tool. It is widely used for habit control - stop smoking, weight control and other health problems. Many hypnotists run their own stage and street hypnosis business. And others do hypnosis just for fun (hypnotize their friends, parents etc.)

Orxan Ibadov is a leading expert in the field of hypnosis. He invites you to learn self hypnosis, street hypnosis, stage hypnosis, covert hypnosis and NLP techniques on his popular and comprehensive hypnosis site at www.hypnosisblacksecrets.com

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Gil Boyne's Master Class in London

Thursday, 26 March 2009
Gil Boyne has been a practicing Hypnotherapist for over 50 years. He studied with great innovators like, Milton Erickson, Fritz Perls and Dave Elman to name but a few. The founder of the American Council of Hypnotists Examiners in 1980. The founder and principal instructor of the Hypnotism Institute of Los Angeles for thirty-nine years. He has moved back to the UK to continue private practice and teach Clinical Hypnotherapy to experienced students.

I have just learnt that the innovator of hypnotism, of which there are very few and legendary American Hypnotherapist, Gil Boyne, is teaching a 4-day Master class in London.

The full fees are £750 and the course starts on Tuesday 26th May 2009. It will be different from previous masterclasses. According to his website, Gil is offering to anyone who has already attended "Gil Boyne's Master Class in London" course tuition fees for £250.

If you have not previously attended Gil's Masterclass, register before the 1st of April 2009 and you will save £100.

The course materials look to be extensive and include;
- two DVDs, one a live case history and the other an Instant induction
- seven CDs of Classroom lectures and demonstrations.
- a course manual.
- multi-page analysis of three case histories shown in class.
To findout more visit Gil Boyne's website.

Best Wishes

Andy Mitchell

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Hypnotist Christopher Caress will be filmed for a promotional DVD

Saturday, 21 March 2009

On Sunday 29th March 2009 Renowned Hypnotist Christopher Caress will be filmed for a promotional DVD for a Top American Agent who is based in Las Vegas.

This DVD will be shot in Chesterfield in the UK, this is not a live performance so there will be no live audience present at the time of filming.

They are looking for 20 - 30 volunteers; females & males who are aged 18 or over and would like to participate in this amazing DVD. Not everyone will be hypnotised some will be asked to participate but not under trance.

This promo DVD will also appear on various sites like Youtube for promotional purposes, a copy will be available for each person who appears on this 3 minute promotional DVD. The DVD will be very fast paced, very theatrical and incredibly powerful, it's not for the faint hearted!!!

This DVD will be filmed on Sunday 29th in Chesterfield, UK. There will be three cameras and a small film crew present. The whole shoot will take about 2 to 3 hours. You are kindly asked to wear what you would normally wear if you were going out to a club, bar or going out to watch one of the best hypnotists in the country! You are also asked to bring some food and water with you on the day. Your petrol expenses will be paid by Christopher on the day if reasonable, this will be agreed before you travel.

If you or your friends would like to appear in a Promotional DVD that will be spellbinding and experience the excitement of a film shoot, you won't be disappointed! Christopher is looking for people who are very creative, can use their imagination, are not easily embarrassed and will allow their subconscious mind to wake up and release the real STAR inside of them!

What do I need to do next?

Be registered or register on facebook at www.facebook.com and invite Christoper Caress to be your friend. Please make sure that you have a profile picture of yourself. The event will appear in your events diary where you can express your interest to participate. A contact number will be required later so that Christopher can contact you and discuss the format of the day, not every one who wishes to participate will be accepted,

Where exactly is the event?

Once Christopher Caress has accepted you as a friend, you will be able to view the full details of the venue from the event calender.

Why are the full event details not published on Your Hypnotist Blog?

This is an exclusive day where Christopher will contact you once you have expressed your wish to participate. Not every one who wishes to participate will be accepted. Remember, this is not a live performance and there will not be a live audience present.

Who is organising this event?

Renowed Hypnotist Christopher Caress

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One Sentence Persuasion Course

Saturday, 14 March 2009
This article was emailed to me from a hypnosis group and I wanted to share this with the readers of Your Hypnotist Blog.

The One-Sentence Persuasion Course was written by Blair Warren. Blair has been involved in the study of persuasion for over 30 years. I really like his work, which is about his thoughts on the subject and he acknowledges they are not necessarily the universal truth.

If you apply the principles, I think you will find that your persuasion skills will be improved dramatically.

download the pdf version
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Andy Mitchell

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Hypnosis Jokes: It's a laugh

Thursday, 12 March 2009

Comic Relief is here on Friday 13th March. I thought it would be a great idea to put jokes about hypnosis on the blog. If you know any just add a comment. I will publish them if they are not too rude!!

Here's mine to start.

I went to see a stage hypnotist. During his act he tripped over a chair and shouted, "crap". Do you know it took the club cleaners all night to sort out the mess.

Have fun

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New Comedy Writing Techniques For Comedians

Monday, 9 March 2009

By Steve Roye

I know many comedians struggle with comedy writing. It just doesn’t have to be that way if you are a naturally funny person in everyday life.

Let me show you how I approach comedy writing.

Here’s an actual news headline I saw today:

Man calls 911 as he struggles with police.

Using this single headline sentence, I don’t really have to much comedy writing at all to get a laugh. This headline by itself represents a guaranteed big laugh and the beginnings of a full blown stand-up comedy skit should I decide to expand it.

Here’s how I would use a bit of comedy writing skill to turn this single news headline into a beginning stand-up comedy skit:

“I was online, looking at the news

I saw this news headline:

Man calls 911 as he struggles with…

The police”

I can guarantee that if delivered properly to an audience, these few lines will get a huge laugh every time.

Here are some secrets you need to know about the brief comedy skit I just presented:

Comedy Writing Secret #1: It would be very easy to expand upon the bit above by simply reacting to the news headline using your own sense of humor.

Comedy Writing Secret #2: The delivery of this bit is critical to its ability to generate the big laugh. An attitude of shear disbelief will probably get the greatest laughter response when delivering this stand-up comedy skit.

Comedy Writing Secret #3: The sentences in the stand-up comedy skit above are broken up by my own natural breath pauses (when we speak, we DON’T talk to the end of a sentence if it’s a long sentence. It is broken up with natural breath pauses).

A HUGE factor in comedy writing and editing stand-up comedy material is to capture your own natural speaking rhythm when you are writing your comedy material down on paper.

I’ll share this bit of insight with you:

Comedy writing for stand-up comics is much more involved than merely reciting words from a piece of paper.

If you are serious about comedy writing that produces killer RESULTS on the stand-up comedy stage, please check out my resource box below. There’s a link to a new article available now that shows you how to kill on stage in your very first minute.

Steve Roye is a globally recognized expert in stand-up comedy material

development and performance improvement. He has just released a report called

Starting Your Stand-up Comedy Act: Your First 60 Seconds

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Steve Roye is a retired Navy veteran who started his stand-up comedy career while on active duty.

After struggling for 9 solid months and almost quitting stand-up comedy, Steve developed the Killer Stand-up Comedy System for producing high impact stand-up comedy material very quickly -- without using conventional joke writing techniques.

In the process of discovering how to master the stand-up comedy stage, he became one of the world's leading experts on comedy material development and performance enhancement.

Steve is now retired from stand-up comedy and focuses on developing others as comedians and funny speaking professionals, as well as operating several successful online businesses.

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Humor - Writing Jokes

Sunday, 8 March 2009

By Michael Russell

Joke writers are in such great demand. Anyone who thinks it's easy to write a joke should try it some time. It's not, and professionals who can write good jokes for comedians are a rare breed. But certainly these joke writers didn't come out of the womb with a built in funny button. Just like everything else in life, they had to learn their craft. Sure, it helps to have some talent, but there is an art to writing a good joke. In this article we're going to go over some of the techniques that joke writers use in writing a good joke.

The standard, or most common joke is the one that uses the setup and punch line form. The setup is basically where you explain what the joke is about. The punch line is where you deliver those magical words that hopefully, will make people laugh. Easier said than done. Here is an example of a setup and punch line joke.

Setup - My brother Donald is SO dumb Punch line - He thinks a Mars Bar is an alien food.

Some of the greatest jokes of all time have been of the setup and punch line variety and stand up comics all over the world use these regularly in their acts.

Another technique that is used in comedy, especially in situation comedy dialogue, is the list. Most lists are in groups of three. The first two in the list are alike and not funny but the third thing in the list is the oddball and is used to get the laugh. Here is an example of a list joke.

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some hire PR officers."

This was an actual quote by Daniel J. Boorstin who was a lawyer born in Atlanta, GA. Yes, even lawyers can be funny.

Another technique that joke writers use is what is called the comparison. These are funniest when pointing out extreme differences. Here is an example of a comparison joke.

My wife's idea of a romantic night is dinner by candlelight. Mine is a quickie on the couch. Another technique that joke writers us is the simile.

This is where you describe something and compare it to something else that is just totally ridiculous. Here is an example of a simile. He's a cross between a merry-go-round and a vampire.

Then there are the observations. This is where you simply observe the things that are around you. Nobody was any better at this than Steven Wright, who's comedy was just so unique. Here is one of his classic observations.

"You can't have everything. I mean, where would you put it?" Another device that comics use in telling jokes is mimicking other people. It may be your teacher, your parole officer, even your mother. And of course, when delivering the joke, you have to go into the voice of that person. This is usually good for a chuckle, especially if the audience can relate.

Finally, there is the callback. This is when you refer back to an earlier joke. An example of this would be something like...

I was going to send my brother Donald a Mars Bar, but I couldn't get a hold of a space ship.

If you think about it, this is funny on SO many levels.
Michael Russell

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How to Delight Your Audience (Part 2)

By Lindsey Benton

In Part 1 of this article I talked about how important it is to interact with your audience at your gigs. Read on for my final Tips and those ‘special ingredients' you can enter into the mix, for a great show...

Tip 2 - Special ingredients - for your interaction. Having seen hundreds of gigs in my time, the ones that are the most enjoyable have been the ones where the audience interaction has had the following ingredients:

Make what ever you say fun - this means being witty, telling funny stories - make a note when funny things happen to you and share them with your audience.

Do your own rendition of someone else's song - Newton Faulkner did his own rendition of SpongeBob SquarePants - it was hilarious! (get permission for this if necessary - don't be in breach of any copyright).

Tantalise your audience with a song that you know they like - Newton, again used this tactic with the SquareBob SpongePants song - he said something like, "Do you like SquareBob SpongePants, well I may play it for you later" The audience went crazy...and kept asking for it whenever they could.

If you are in a band - have some banter with all the band members - don't just leave the audience interaction to the lead singer - in this instance make sure the audience can hear well and don't go into private jokes - the audience won't get it! So you could try some kind of light-hearted mickey-taking of each other, but nothing too personal and make sure you don't actually upset each other!

Some bands like to introduce each individual members and you no doubt have seen them each having a little solo slot with their instruments, during that introduction - you could do this by each playing something funny, but instantly recognisable - such as a TV show theme tune, or a nursery rhyme or a song that everyone knows.

Get an audience to participate in one of your songs - if you can, get them to do some kind of harmonising - to do this you could split the audience into two halves and start one half singing some particular lyrics to a specific tune - once you have got them going, turn to the other half and get them singing the harmony at the same time.

You may want to create specific hand or arm movements that is unique to your band or act or even for one of your songs - Little Man Tate have done this and at a recent gig, everyone in the audience were making the same movements - this is all part of engaging with your audience.

There are countless ways in which you can have fun with your audience - so get your creative juices flowing and work out what you want to do and when, during your set.

Tip 3 - Practice makes perfect. If you are unsure what will work, practice certain bits at a small low-key gig if you can. Or practice on your trusted ‘street team' or your family and friends - they will let you know if your banter or other interaction works or not.

A further tip is to make sure that when you do it for real - make it look or sound as spontaneous as you can - your audience will want to feel special - so if it sounds too rehearsed you may lose the fun element of it. So, it's about getting the balance right.

I hope this article has been helpful to you. If you have difficulties in interacting with your audience or indeed you suffer with stage fright and even the thought of going on stage gets you nervous, feel free to email to arrange a free consultation call, when we can discuss how I can help you. lindsey@bravura-group.com

Lindsey Benton runs her own coaching and mentoring business, Bravura, for musicians and non-performers in the music industry. Lindsey helps her clients work through solutions to succeed in their music career and life. Lindsey writes a monthly newsletter for musicians to give insight and helpful tips to make positive advancement in their music careers. Check out http://www.bravura-group.com to view coaching packages, reports and the newsletter.

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How to Delight Your Audience (Part 1)

By Lindsey Benton

Are you a performing artist who finds it difficult to talk to your audience? Do you feel awkward or a bit shy and don't know what to say in between your songs, or how to introduce yourself? Is it that you feel happy singing or playing your songs, but you are nervous of saying something stupid or making a fool of yourself when speaking at your gig? If so, you are not alone - it is one of the major issues that comes up when working with my musician clients.

Having been to a lot of gigs recently, I have been specifically observing how each band or solo artist has interacted with their audiences and it has become obvious how much more enjoyable the gig is when this interaction is done well!

This was particularly highlighted when I went to see James Morrison at his gig in Leicester earlier this year. His support act was a guy called Newton Faulkner (you can find him easily on My Space), he came on stage and instantly had the audience eating out of the palm of his hand - his banter and instant rapport was almost startling - whether he has a natural talent for this or whether he has practiced it to perfection, I don't know - maybe it's a bit of both - whichever, the effect was amazing.

I also went to a gig where 5 unsigned bands played. One band stood out - not just for their music, which was great, but because once more their interaction with the audience was so much fun.

Of course Robbie Williams is a master of stage presence and his showmanship is second only to that of the late Freddie Mercury - the ultimate showman in my opinion!

As a result it has become very clear to me that not only is it necessary for you to write and perform great songs, but to be an all rounded entertainer, if you want to be successful in your music career.

To give another example, years ago, the Bare Naked Ladies used to include a medley of other artists' songs in their set. They would be instantly recognisable because they were current hits, but the band added a twist - they sang their own witty lyrics over those hits, which were usually about the city they were gigging in - this engaged and warmed them to their audiences. They are well worth checking out if/when they are on tour.

You too can engage and have fun interacting with your audiences, how? Carry on reading...!

Tip 1 - Create great material - for your interaction with your audiences. You are very creative, so this shouldn't be too difficult for you to do! If it helps, take a blank piece of paper and write a script of what it is you want to say.

Start with an introduction of yourself - picture in your minds eye how your gig will start - will anyone else introduce you onto the stage or will you just walk on? Either way you can walk on and say "Hey Leicester, how're you doing?" make sure you have a big smile on your face and then start playing your first song. A further tip here is make sure you know in which town or city you are playing in - there is nothing worse than saying the wrong place - a cardinal sin of gigging! Being in Sheffield (a few years ago) and watching The Fall say, "hello Nottingham", didn't go down well and they lost us as an audience from the start!

If you are an artist or a band supporting another act, after you've finished playing your first song, you could make sure that the audience know who you are - quite often audiences don't know in advance who the support acts are going to be, so tell them your name!

In Part 2 of this article you can see what ‘special ingredients' you can use to delight your audience!

Lindsey Benton runs her own coaching and mentoring business, Bravura, for musicians and non-performers in the music industry. Lindsey helps her clients work through solutions to succeed in their music career and life. Lindsey writes a monthly newsletter for musicians to give insight and helpful tips to make positive advancement in their music careers. Check out http://www.bravura-group.com to view coaching packages, reports and the newsletter.
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Covert Hypnosis and the Art of Suggestion

By John I Vincent

Much has been written lately about the so-called 'Covert Hypnosis' and 'Covert Hypnotic Techniques'. They exist. They are powerful. They are also very subtle.
'They exist' this is true, but do they work? The simple answer, 'Yes', will meet with some parties agreeing while others would disagree, and they would both be right from their point of view; so lets explore further and get a common agreement. Can everyone who tries these techniques get them all to work? Of course they cannot. Not even the world's most experience Hypnotists can perform every so called 'hypnotic phenomena' that would be like asking a painter to be able to paint in the style of Salvador Dali's surrealism, Constable's realism and Monet's impressionism along with every other style there is. The volume of diffrent paining styles is huge and no one could ever hope to paint like all of them!
Some people try a few techniques, they do not work, and they give up. The opposite of that is that some people try a few techniques and keep trying them and eventually achieve successes that spur them on to learn more, and most importantly, keep practising. If you put a hand out and reach, with maybe a little nod of the head you can influence some people to pass you the TV remote controller or a magazine without you saying a word. Everybody is able to use some form of body language to influence or change people's minds, even if it is just shaking your head! Even so the 'technique' of shaking your head (mastered by infants) is a non-verbally given suggestion, universally recognised as meaning 'No'.
This is the equivalent of the painting 'technique' called 'throwing paint on a canvas' (also mastered by infants) and this is indeed a method (or technique) of getting paint on the canvas, indeed even used by some professional painters exhibited in some of the most prestigious galleries! - As a side note, what an achievement it is to convince the art world that paint thrown on canvas is art. An artist can convey thoughts in images... An image really does speak a thousand words, and if you know how to speak in pictures, well you could convince with them to! - Describing shaking your head as a technique is using the word 'technique' as loosely as possible! Nonetheless it is nonverbal communication and therefore a 'physical suggestion', the use of 'body language' as it is sometimes called. Adopting the point of view that shaking your head is a non-verbal suggestion means you are already a master of some non-verbal suggestion techniques. With practice you can become more successful with other 'techniques'. Some people for example can have a person kiss them without speaking; maybe they have been in a relationship for years or just met that night! There are some people who can give such a look that... well you know... Some people can suggest images and thoughts to people in an entertainment setting; there are many forms of suggestion and many outcomes.
Accepting that these things are brought about with suggestion and, that suggestion is the main tool of the hypnotist makes these 'hypnotic techniques'. The reason they are covert is because most people would not call them hypnosis, so they are hidden from view. When you kiss your wife or girlfriend because she leaned over suggestively and invited you to kiss her without saying a word, are you thinking about her use of suggestion or just acting on the suggestion? Just like the handshake suggestion, you put your hand right out there and hold theirs while shaking it up and down (at least in the 'classic handshake technique' some of the 'new form handshake techniques' do not involve the shaking). To call these things hypnosis seems laughable and that is why they work so well because nobody is ever looking for them, people do not analyse your every movement, there is too much happening to consciously keep track of. As you think back and realise you do not remember everything I said in this article, that means your conscious mind cannot challenge what it has forgotten I said, and so those suggestions are, for the time being, and maybe even for the rest of your life, something that you act upon. That is covert hypnosis, or at least one very small (700 word) expression of just one part of the enormous subject of 'Conversational Hypnosis.'
John has assisted Paul McKenna P.h.D and Dr Richard Bandler to teach N.L.P and Hypnosis to thousands of people from all over the world.

A professional Magician John has carved a niche as one of the UK's top close-up Magicians and Mind Readers, working for Blue Chip companies, celebrities and on TV. http://www.howtoreadminds.co.uk Contact info@john-vincent.co.uk
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Friday, 6 March 2009

“When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.” - Swami Vivekananda, Indian Spiritual Leader.

I’m sure you have heard of this before, “Don’t think of a red ball!” What are you thinking about, in most cases a red ball?

Imagine you are attempting to loose weight, and go into to the refrigerator to get an apple, and on the top shelf is a piece of chocolate cake waiting to be eatien. You choose the crunchy apple, but in your mind you are thinking about the cake. In some cases like this;

I really fancy a bit of that cake. No, I shouldn’t. I’m trying to loose weight, but I really fancy a piece. If I have a small amount that will be ok?

The more not eating the cake is thought about the more intense that idea becomes, and the more intense it becomes the bigger the urge is to eat it. Effectively fixating on the cake so much, it can’t be helped, the fridge door is opened and the cake is… Well you know the rest.

The Oxford English dictionary defines a suggestion as, “The action of prompting one to a particular action or course of action; the putting into the mind of an idea, an object of thought, a plan, or the like; an instance of this, an idea or thought suggested, a proposal”.

Effectively a suggestion is an idea that ultimately is acted upon. Think about the cake. The suggestion was seeing it in the fridge which created the idea of wanting it. The idea became so intense that it was put into action and with only a few crumbs left on the plate.

There are many definitions of a hypnotic trance. Type into Googlehas in excess of 375,000 results. Many hypnotists believe that a trance is a state where a person has a narrow focus of attention, i.e. their mind concentrates on a limited amount of information coming in to it. Some other hypnotists think a trance is a state where their critical mind becomes less analytical and their unconscious brain becomes dominant to take on the suggestions. These are simplistic definitions and are not exhaustive of the many available.

For the purpose of this post, look at a hypnotic trance as a state where your mind is more likely to take on an idea and make it so intense that it becomes an action. This is referred to as a state hyper-suggestibility. Imagine the scene, number one fan meets their hero, a rock or film star. They are asked to get them a bottle of water and they do. This could be viewed as a form of trance. Where the star has suggested, “Get me a bottle of water”. The idea has been taken on board, become intense enough that to be turned into an action. The rock or film stars' thirst has been quenched. We could therefore argue that this is a form of trance because the fan has become hyper-suggestible and turned a suggested idea into an action.

What is hypnosis? Before we look at the answer to this, how did the term hypnosis come to be? James Braid was a Scottish physician who practiced in Manchester in the 19th century. Through various experiments on subjects he concluded that the phenomenon of hyper- suggestibility was a form of sleep. By taking the word ‘hypnos’ who was the Greek god of sleep, he created the terms hypnotism and hypnosis. According to The James Braid Society after further experimentation he realised this phenomenon did not just occur during sleep, but when awake and therefore Dr Braid wanted to rename it monoideism. By which time, unfortunately hypnotism and hypnosis had become widely adopted.

Hypnosis could then be suggested to be the name given to the process of facilitating the state called trance or hyper-suggestibility in another. With the aim of creating an idea that is intense enough to become an action.

So, where do hypnotists fit into the picture? A hypnotist uses their skills and knowledge to facilitate a state of hyper-suggestibility or trance. They then make suggestions which become ideas that are so intense they become an action in another.

Best Wishes

Andy Mitchell
Your Hypnotist

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