Hypnosis Inductions Dissected

INTRODUCTION Many years ago I attended a class called Introduction to Criminalistics - Introduction to Criminal Forensics, at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts. The first day’s homework assignment was for each of the students to look up a gentleman named Louis Pasteur. We were to write a one or two page paper about him and his contributions. While reading, learning, gathering information, and writing about Mr. Pasteur, I quickly understood the reasoning behind the assignment. Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist recognized for his medical discoveries of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and the causes and prevention of diseases. He is best known for his invention of the technique for treating milk and wine known as pasteurization. He is known as the “father of microbiology” because of his numerous discoveries on a molecular level. Louis Pasteur used powerful microscopes to investigate what the naked eye was unable to see. Studying these tiny elements allowed him to create solutions and eliminate diseases. Through the assignment, I discovered that what Pasteur did is similar to what criminal forensics does. The tiniest of details are sought after and studied, allowing a scientific explanation of what happened, completing the picture and making it possible to understand the dynamics of the situation. When creating a song in a recording studio, you are learning about how the music is structured. When you hear a song on the radio, you hear the finished product which is comprised of many instruments as well as several voices. Each soundboard, whether it has four tracks or thirty-two tracks, may contain one instrument per track. When you record one instrument at a time on each track, you gain tremendous insight into how the song is created. You are left with a thorough appreciation and understanding of the amount of work that goes into putting a song together. The listening public usually has no clue or isn't concerned about the recording process, but hopefully, they will enjoy the finished product which was painstakingly recorded. My goal with this book is to do what Louis Pasteur, criminal forensics specialists, and musicians do to understand how and why something works. Seeing a breakdown of the elements that cause the inductions to work helps you to thoroughly understand the process. This gives you the opportunity to become a powerful hypnotist with a collection of reliable and potent tools at your disposal. BALLOON INDUCTION Introduction: Balloons come in all shapes and sizes, are made of different materials, and serve many purposes ranging from sports, recreation, science, medicine, military, and even hypnosis. Induction: Relay to the subject in a smooth, continuous, slightly authoritative tone, “Imagine an invisible balloon right here.” While saying this, place your cupped hands together with the sides of your index fingers touching each other and the sides of your thumbs naturally touching each other. Your palms should be facing the floor and the back of your hands should be facing the ceiling. Both hands should be cupped as if you are holding the top of an inflated invisible balloon. As the hands separate, the left hand should arch its way down from the top and left side of the balloon. The right hand should simultaneously move and arc downward from the top and right side meeting the left hand at the bottom center of the balloon. The sides of your pinkies should now be touching each other. The palms should be facing the ceiling and the back of your hands should be facing the floor. Continue on by saying, “Imagine this invisible balloon has a force field around it.” Place your hands on the right and left sides of the balloon as you mimic trying to squeeze it, and say, “You cannot penetrate this force field. Put your hands here.” Assist the subject by placing her palms on each side of the invisible balloon, making sure her wrists, elbows, and shoulders are locked in place and her stiff fingers are spread apart displaying a slight curvature to them. “Close your eyelids and imagine seeing the balloon. When you can see the balloon in your mind, tell me what color it is.” The moment she tells you what color the balloon is, immediately tell her to try and pop the balloon by saying, “You cannot penetrate that force field. Try and pop that balloon now. Try and penetrate that force field, you cannot.” The moment her hands struggle to squeeze the balloon, exclaim, “Try harder.” Without hesitation loudly clap your hands together, and in a commanding voice say, “Sleep!” Explanation: As previously mentioned, the following should be said in a slightly authoritative tone from start to finish. “Imagine an invisible balloon right here. Imagine this invisible balloon has a force field around it. You cannot penetrate this force field. Put your hands here, close your eyelids, and imagine seeing the balloon. When you can see the balloon in your mind, tell me what color it is. You cannot penetrate that force field. Try and pop that balloon now. Try and penetrate that force field, you cannot. Try harder. Sleep!” The continuous flow of instructions and commands leaves no room for intrusive thoughts or doubts to surface. Locking the fingers, wrists, elbows, and shoulders in place makes it difficult to successfully squeeze the balloon. The moment the subject sees the balloon in her mind’s eye and tells you what color it is, indicates that selective thinking has occurred. The physical struggle to pop the balloon is proof that the critical faculty has been bypassed. The loud clap of your hands (popping of the balloon) accompanied by your command to sleep startles the subject, causing her to immediately enter hypnosis.