How 'shock' inductions work

There are a lot of shock inductions around at the moment. From grabbing peoples hands and pulling their arm out of the socket to waving your fingers in front of them and yanking their arm and yelling sleep at them.

Shock inductions are fast, dramatic and they work with hypnotiseable people, or hypnotees. But then anything works with them ;-)

So why does a shock create an opening for hypnosis?

When you get something unexpected then your logical conscious has to give over control to the subconscious. This is because the conscious can not react fast enough and reason gets in the way. If you had to think about whether to duck or not when you see the fist coming toward your face you will get hit. Your imaginative mind is faster than light but but your logical brain isn't.

Now the subconscious when it's dominant and not hidden by the brain process will accept suggestion, it's meant to, it's how we work, and it does that without reason. That doesn't mean it can't choose, it means it doesn't use logic or any sort of sense one could call common to make choices.

Interrupting a pattern of behaviour or doing anything other than what is expected will produce a shut down state for the conscious process which leaves the mind or subconscious in charge. And I do mean anything. Grabbing the arm instead of the hand. Pointing to the left and saying 'look right'. Any action or even unexpected phrase will do it. A lot of people will go if you just yell "sleep"! at them when it isn't expected.

Asking an inappropriate or nonsensical question such as "Mines blue is your pink with wheels? Did you say which what?" I used some such rubbish yesterday to demonstrate to a student that so called 'language patterns' work because they confuse and shock. Anything works.

As for the word 'sleep' that works most of the time because that is the pattern most westernised people carry for hypnosis and all these rapid and shock inductions are doing is exciting the pattern that person runs.

So, shock and induce. Almost any word will do. It must however be said with intent, that is lack of doubt - technique alone will not suffice.

Can a swinging watch improve your sex life?

Hypnosis as an aphrodisiac or a way of making role play simply awesome is free, safe and most definitely available when ever you are ready to play, and the batteries are included!

Okay so we know hypnosis can be used to help us stop doing things and to help repair things that don’t work properly such as our memory. We also know that it can be used to unleash our imaginations and to entertain, but what about using it to enhance our experience of life and the body we live it in?

Just imagine being able to hypnotise your partner to achieve multiple orgasm beyond the bodies capabilities. That’s right, guys can use hypnosis to experience the world of ‘more than once’ that without years of applied tantric study, drugs or very tight ligatures would normally be the soul domain of the female. Longevity is of course another facet of hypnotically expanded sex that couples can access not forgetting increased physical sensitivity without potions or pills.

Relationship hypnosis opens up a new realm of role play. The reality of those naughty costumes can be safely heightened so that the experience looses the interruption of logic allowing you to get lost in the fantasy. And if public sex is an enticing thrill but a moral no-no then a hypnotically induced scene can be as fun, or as funny, as the real thing without the risk of arrest or upsetting the neighbours.

As a young man discovering hypnosis one of my favourite games used to be hypnotising my partners to believe I was their favourite male star for the evening, not that I wasn’t anyway, but there’s no harm in letting them play. The obvious benefit being that the role was filled by the perfect version of their dream and that spilling over into the memory. So unlike real life there is never any disappointment over age, height or other potential physical let downs.

BDSM carries with it an undeserved stigma when viewed from the outside. Domination sounds, well domineering, and pain shouldn’t be exciting. Society views such things as perverse and dangerous however the truth is rarely what non participants think it is. In this world hypnosis can be the ultimate domination toy and the erotic aspect of releasing the mind to the seeming control of another person seen as the zenith of letting inhibitions go.

Many alternative aspects of eroticism and sex play are seen as perverse and dangerous and that’s a stigma that hypnosis shares when used by anyone other than clinically trained people with more letters after their name than they have in it. The fact is that in consensual acts only occasionally does a heart collapse under the strain and Sexual Ecstasy is hardly ever written on death certificates. Although of course misplaced sexual play can and does sometimes get recorded on emergency room admittance sheets. 78% of the cases in ER rooms of rectal foreign bodies are the result of sexual activity.

However hypnosis can make even the most outlandish physical act safe by removing the actual objects and replacing them with the experience of the object. It can make otherwise fairly harmless but unpleasant things smell and taste better and open up new boundaries of adventure, remaining safe at all times of course!

And the hypnosis? Just how safe is that?

The thing is a mind open to hypnosis to the point were it could become dangerous is also open to be told that anything that happens inside the mind does no harm. It is very simple really. The mind is told it’s experiencing a fantasy and it does.


Hypnosis can be learnt from a book, DVD or even over the internet, although it’s my experience that it’s better in a practical hands on environment where mistakes are more easily rectified and techniques better honed. The thing to remember is that it’s important to learn how to use the process from a reputable source. Although not too many clinical classes teach hypnosis for fun, entertainment and the enhancement of experience other than the Academy of hypnotic arts in the UK who run a master class for couples only.

If sex is 10% physical and 90% mental there must be a sound evolutionary reason for that, it seems such a shame not to use an awesome human capability to increase our enjoyment.

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New show

So after falling on my butt on stage last week - I started to use a stool with wheels on it the only trouble being I can only go backwards and it capsizes - I have decided to put together a new show come seminar come lecture which, for want of a better word I'm going to call an edutainment, which also means I don’t have to move around too much and can do from the wheelchair.

I figure people want to know how they work and my take on that might just be useful to them. It is an aim to get people thinking. To inspire. To move them. Although the real reason is that the bruises are now coming out and my bum is sore so sod falling off that bloody stool again.

The medium of hypnosis and mentalism - that is sleight of mind - is a fantastic way of getting the response all we hypnotists of course need….. fear going on to abject terror. ;-)

That is the rubbish the dread therapists often throw at my wheel spokes. That's when I'm on wheels which is more often these days, unless I fall off. Of course I am not after fear, I am after adoration and awe.

So back to the show - it will be roughly about how to use your mind. You might as well because for sure others have been using it for years - maybe it's your turn. Learning is way more likely if there is emotion and dopamine so laughter is vital for retention. So the more fun the more learning. So there will be an element of comedy, irony, pathos and dirty smut.

The idea is to make self development and motivation available to those who can’t afford to spend the money or the time on weekend or full day seminars but who still need to have their backsides metaphorically and motivationally kicked. It has to be metaphorically with me or I fall over.

We are also planning the next year of 1 day, 2 day and the new 3 day Diploma of Hypnosis Practitioner learning experiences. So the dates will soon be up on the swinging watch blog.

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