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5 Simple To Use Hypnosis Induction Methods

By Trevor Johnson

There are lots of different methods of hypnosis induction. Most every hypnotist has their own favorite methods but if you’re just starting out these ideas for a hypnosis induction are a good starting place. Of course, if your patient has any preconceived ideas – for instance, if they’re a fan of old movies and think that looking at a swinging watch causes hypnosis to happen – then that may be the best form to use.

Unless you’re performing a rapid induction, it’s probably a good idea to get your subject to take a few deep breaths and then allow their eyes to close.

1. Confusion Method

If you’ve bought any of Paul McKenna’s books or CDs, you’ll know this method. Our mind can’t concentrate on too many things at once. So start with asking your subject to count backwards in their head, starting at 300 and counting downwards. Count with them for the first few numbers, then put in the suggestion that they may lose count and that it doesn’t matter if that happens. While they’re concentrating on counting backwards, you continue with another induction, causing confusion in their mind and making the whole hypnotic induction process easy.

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2. Forest and Stream Method

Talk your subject through this, making the images, sounds and feelings as vivid as possible. They will find themselves in a clearing in a forest. Ask them to notice the feeling of the grass below their feet, maybe some dew on the grass as well. Then get them to see how the light plays as it shines through the brances above them. Introduce the sound of birds singing and other animals (but nothing too scary!) around. Then they notice the stream that is babbling near them, the noise the water makes as it runs over the bed of the stream. Maybe they can dip their hand in the water to feel how cool and refreshing it is. All this leads to a state of relaxation after which you can use a deepener method to take them even further into trance.

3. Arm Drop Method

Start this hypnosis induction by getting your subject to raise their arm above their head. It doesn’t matter whether this is their left or right arm. Get them to stare at one of their fingers and allow their eyes to close just as soon as they are ready. Then tell them that their arm is getting heavier and heavier and that they will notice it gradually dropping down. As their arm gradually falls, they will fall into a deep hypnotic state which gets deeper and deeper until their arm has come to rest on their leg or lap.

4. Hand to Face Method

There is a bit of confusion in this method as well. Start as though you are going to shake your subject’s hand then, just before this happens, grab their hand (rather than shake it) and raise it to their face, telling them to close their eyes at the same time. You can use this in conjunction with the arm drop method if you like.

5. Arm Levitation Method

This is quite often use by stage hypnotists when they are choosing their subjects as it can be quite fun for an audience to watc.h. Tell your subject that you have tied a balloon around their wrist and that they will find that the balloon is slowly lifting their arm upwards. As their arm gets higher and higher, they’ll find themselves deeper and deeper in trance.

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