There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was not invented till 1850. In it was wrapped up the mysteries of Isis in Egypt thousands of years ago, and probably it was one of the weapons, if not the chief instrument of operation, of the magi mentioned in the Bible and of the wise men of Babylon and Egypt. Laying on of hands must have been a form of mesmerism, and Greek oracles of Delphi and other places seem to have been delivered by priests or priestesses who went into trances of self-induced hypnotism. It is suspected that the fakirs of India who make trees grow from dry twigs in a few minutes, or transform a rod into a serpent (as Aaron did in Bible history), operate by some form of hypnotism. The people of the East are much more subject to influences of this kind than Western peoples are, and there can be no question that the religious orgies of heathendom were merely a form of that hysteria which is so closely related to the modern phenomenon of hypnotism. Though various scientific men spoke of magnetism, and understood that there was a power of a peculiar kind which one man could exercise over another, it was not until Frederick Anton Mesmer (a doctor of Vienna) appeared in 1775 that the general public gave any special attention to the subject. In the year mentioned, Mesmer sent out a circular letter to various scientific societies or Academies as they are called in Europe, stating his belief that "animal magnetism" existed, and that through it one man could influence another. No attention was given his letter, except by the Academy of Berlin, which sent him an unfavorable reply.

This book contains a revolutionary new system for Past-Life Regression and Imagery Therapy called The IRE Approach . Learn inductions, deepening techniques, how to facilitate past-life regression therapy sessions and imagery sessions and other crucial hypnotherapy techniques. This book is a MUST HAVE for therapists I.R.E. stands for "Imaginative Role-Enactment." This is a complete hypnotherapy system created by Certified Master Hypnotist Christopher S. Harris. "Most Past-Life Regression Therapists are approaching the technique as true to life - They will tell you that they are actually taking you back to a time that you have lived before. But The IRE Approach does not assume that you believe in Past-Lives and we do not propose that that is what we are doing. The IRE Approach treats Past-Life Regression as Imaginative Role-Enactment and so the topic of "reincarnation" and the risk of conflicting with the client's belief system is never an issue. This approach is a Godsend to hypnotherapists specializing in Past-Life Regression therapy because now by framing the procedure in a different way it is accessible for use with every client. You are no longer forced to use a modality that you think is less-effective for the client's particular issue just because your chosen technique is controversial. Unlike what many therapists believe, the value of PLR isn't in going back to real past lives. The value is rekindling the very nature of humanity What do I mean by this? I believe that imagination is one of the fundamental parts of being human - Every one of us is born with the innate ability to imagine, play, and pretend. But what happens to children that play with imaginary friends? We are discouraged from play and imaginary social interactions to the point that it becomes so deeply repressed that it takes intensive therapy to uncover what fragments remain. This is so sad if you think about it. We have buried our inner child until barely any remains. We have cut off a mental limb. Allowing a place with no judgment or ridicule and actually encouraging the redevelopment of imagination has always been the true value of PLR, whether the practitioners knew it or not. It is this Imaginative Role-Enactment that we consider to be our client's biggest tool for self-discovery in The IRE Approach ."

The Visual Squash is the premier negotiation strategy. It is a powerful technique that allows individuals and groups to move beyond "either- or" dilemmas and generate new ways of meeting personal and group goals. It also helps coaching clients to resolve parts conflicts and secondary gain issues. This book presents the traditional Visual Squash in a detailed, easy to follow manner so you can begin using it immediately. It also illustrates variations including, the Conversational and Deep Trance squashes. Finally you will discover how to apply this powerful pattern in your business and personal life. "This book dives deep into one of my favorite NLP patterns. I teach this process in my classes because it encapsulates many of the most important principles behind good change work. Knowing the authors, as I do, I expected a well thought out and presented overview and breakdown of the visual squash and all it's variations. This book exceeded those expectations in so many ways and on so many levels. Yes, they deliver the most comprehensive treatment of this pattern that I've ever read, and believe, has ever been written. But, even better, they use this platform to cover the most crucial elements of lasting, generative change that goes way beyond the pattern and into the very nature of change itself. In this book you will learn a complex system that aligns all levels of experience from the behavioral up to identity, covering and uncovering the values, beliefs and unconscious motivations behind the problems and, more importantly, the solutions. Shawn and Jess make sure to give you many different ways of adapting this process to fit any client in any context. From a purely conversational approach more appropriate for a business coach to a deep trance variation perfect for a hypnosis session, you are guaranteed to find useful ways of implementing these ideas. The authors also cover some key linguistic concepts, from temporal and spatial predicates to the whys and hows of addressing nominalizations. This is learning that changes every aspect of the therapeutic/coaching interaction by teaching multi level communication that speaks directly to the unconscious mind. And this, in my opinion, changes everything." Melissa Tiers

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.

Many people have heard of and perhaps know a little about the fascinating subject of Hypnotherapy. This book will give the general reader a comprehensive knowledge of how it works, its history and how it can help to relieve a multitude of symptoms, negative emotions and psychological problems. But more than this, it also looks in detail at where some of our commonest problems arise; those negative, inappropriate and worrying feelings and habits that may hold us back from living our life to the full. After reading this book, you should be able to know and understand yourself better and to see things with a new insight allowing you to take more control of your life and to become the person you really want to be.

This material further advances the student into a greater understanding of the subconscious mind and advanced techniques of hypnosis. After mastery of this level, the student will be ready for instructions in hypnotherapy.

A must have addition to every hypnobook library. Whether you have one or twenty books on the subject of hypnosis this should be part of your collection How to hypnotise for stage street and therapy is a resource for anyone wanting to hypnotise others under any condicondition From fundamentals like what happens in the mind of the subject right through to inductions for different situations. Includes real, useable pre talks, inductions, deepeners tests and more. Everything to get you started. If you don't want to trawl through thousands of pages of phsycobabble in order to start hypnotising people this is the book for you. Includes a step by step self teaching programming to add structure, hit a target move to the next step simple as ABC. Buy this book and you could be hypnotising others in less than a day Just over 200 pages of information. Can be read in a couple of hours by which time you WILL be capable of putting anyone in a trance. Oh and more importantly bringing them back.

Researchers from the Budapest Hypnosis Laboratory approach hypnosis as an interactional process, a special encounter between hypnotist and subject. That means that not only the subject but the hypnotist is also studied at a multilevel approach. Katalin Varga and her colleagues extended the concept of interactional synchrony to the phenomenological data. In this book, methodological developments and results are presented, as are special techniques of eliciting subjective reports, paper/pencil tests suitable for interactional use, and ways to analyse interrelating phenomenological data. The special possibilities of the interactional approach of phenomenological data are exemplified by recent empirical results, including non-hypnotic interactions. All of these empirical results seem to add special new possibilities to the understanding of hypnosis in particular, and human dyadic interactions in general. The book encourages researchers to follow this interactional approach and methodology. Though the book is based on experimental hypnosis sessions with healthy volunteers, but many clinical implications and clinically relevant findings are also presented.

This book is a one-of-a-kind look into the multi-billion dollar industry of subliminal messaging and subversive sales techniques used in advertisements and person-to-person sales. Written by certified master hypnotist, former sales manager, and current sales trainer Christopher Harris, this book is a how-to-guide and expose all in one. Learn the psychology behind embedded commands, priming, brand recognition, and so much more. The first half of the book also contains a complete and detailed written description of how formal and covert hypnosis really works and how everybody in the world can be hypnotized if you know how. The information in this book can literally make you millions of dollars per year - Can you afford not to know?

The A to Z of hypnotic words and phrases By Steve Leap This dictionary style book is the ultimate companion for the aspiring hypnotist as well as being an invaluable reference tool for those more experienced therapists and performers too. There is a lot to take in when you are learning any craft. And when you need to remind yourself of that small piece of information that's on the tip of your tongue it's no good having to trawl through your course notes, or other books you may have, for hours on end. You need the answer right now and this book will be there to rescue you. Can't remember the correct terminology for a phenomena don't worry it's here at your fingertips always. Most hypnotist like me have extensive libraries on hypnosis. And trying to find an article or phrase is a daunting prospect when you may have t sift through 30 or 40 books. Now you won't have to you can simply use Hypnosis the A to Z. Included are every useful word and phrases you need in the world of the professional hypnotist. Starting out is exiting and fun, imagine the difference you project to your potential subjects when you use correct terminology every step of the way Not only do you have full descriptions of the everyday hypnotists words and phrases. You also benefit from a huge array of examples and practical uses too Using this fantastic book couldn't be easier. Following an alphabetical sequence so flick through find the word you'd like to reference and presto. Everything from the AARONS& depth scale right down to the popular wand waving ZAP Use it as part of your learning reading from cover to cover Use it to remind yourself of those elusive new terms Find any phrase or word easily and quickly In fact use it how you will, but once you have it you WILL use it below is a small sample of just one section of this fantastic book for you to get a feel of just what is in it and how beneficial it is. ELMAN INDUCTION A very effective rapid hypnosis induction created by Dave Elman. It is considered the best guaranteed induction by many hypnotists since it is completely permissive and relies upon he subject to pace themselves into trance with the help of the hypnotist. Created by Dave Elman the renowned hypnotist, author and radio show host. Below is the Elman induction word for word. However it was originally used in 1963, that's fifty years ago, it is still generally accepted that it is a basis for a good induction but needs updating due to the wording being outdated but also there is quite a lot of questioning of the subject and this may have a tendency to unravel the trance slightly. Especially if there is any misunderstanding. So first will be the induction in pure form and next my own modified version. The Elman induction: Will you just take a good long deep breath and close your eyes...now relax the muscles around your eyes to the point where those eye muscles won't work and when you're sure they won't work....test them and make sure they won't work... ...And so on... Hope you enjoyed this sample of part of the E's. HAPPY READING And of course HAPPY ZAPPING

Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use by A. Alpheus ZHINGOORA BOOKS]

Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the mid-to-late nineteenth century that it became a particularly fashionable way to explore the human mind. Although understanding of the subject has evolved considerably over subsequent years, this book remains a fascinating insight into a technique once thought to be at the forefront of medical science. (summary by Stuart Bell)

The Science of Self-Hypnosis:
" The Evidence Based Way To Hypnotise Yourself"
is a book written for anyone wanting to learn about self-hypnosis and how to use it.

This book is ideal for anyone; ranging from beginners who are new to the field of self-hypnosis, to experienced clinicians hoping to teach patients how to use self-hypnosis for therapeutic gain.

Contained within this book are a range of methods for anyone to apply: to achieve a hypnotic mindset, develop hypnotic skills, induce self-hypnosis, deepen the experience of hypnosis, apply a range of evidence-based techniques and strategies for self-improvement and then exit hypnosis.

The book offers a modern historical explanation of the development of this fascinating field as well as serving as a guidebook for practical application.

All of this is done by dispensing with notions of an 'unconscious mind' or a 'special trance state', instead showing hypnosis to be an ordinary skill that anyone can learn, to be good at and derive benefit from.

As the book title suggests, it adheres to research findings and the evidence-base available as much as possible while offering up a substantial literature review of this topic.

The second half of the book looks specifically at applying self-hypnosis for stress management, anxiety reduction, depression, pain control and sleep enhancement; all showcasing techniques which can be applied to a range of other issues too.

This is a comprehensive volume that aims to result in it's readers becoming proficient self-hypnotists.

Adam ends his book with these words:
In my opinion, there are not enough people in the world who have these skills. Self-hypnotists have the opportunity to make real beneficial changes that make each day an exciting prospect; the self-hypnosis adventure and exploration starts here.

That indeed is an exciting prospect

This book makes three radically different and significant types of hypnosis easy to use in daily hypnosis work, examining in detail the techniques of Erickson, Estabrooks and Elman. Exploring methods that employ Direct Authoritarian and Indirect Permissive approaches, Hypnosis progresses beyond these approaches to describe the inductions pioneered by Dave Elman: a technique that places responsibility for hypnosis on the client. An invaluable resource for all trainers and therapists, Hypnosis is a comprehensive and lucid manual that incorporates powerful inductions for producing deep-trance phenomena, sections on the application of metaphor and hypnotic language patterns, and scripts for a variety of hypnotic inductions.

The purpose of this course is to provide methodology and practical applications for the clarification of problems through the use of hypnotherapy. It deals exclusively with hypnotherapy applications and does not deal with induction or preliminary technique training. These methods are designed for the accomplished hypnotist to utilize for therapeutic applications. The course also deals with habit control as well as intense behavioral modification procedures, self-improvement procedures and long-term therapy goals. The course is presented in an outline form for easy reference and as a teaching aid. clear instructions as to these intensive procedures are given for a more in-depth understanding on the part of the therapist.

Foreword By Dewey Kelley And Hornell Hart.

This book is a must have guide for every Hypnotist wanting to help smokers quit. Smoking cessation is a cornerstone of the hypnosis industry. Many hypnotists go into practice with the hopes of helping people kick the habit. Running successful stop smoking programs helps save lives and build successful businesses. Unfortunately, few Hypnotists are trained in the art and science of working with smokers. They blindly feel their way through this challenging landscape. Some even become so discouraged that they give up working with smokers. Quit takes out the guess work, presenting an easy to follow and highly effective protocol for helping smokers quit based on the authors' experiences working with hundreds of now non-smokers. Quit leads the reader through everything from the initial phone conversation to the testing process- providing the client the opportunity to prove to themselves' that they have changed. Quit also presents 3 completely new patterns, taught nowhere else in the world, which have extremely high rates of success with smokers. If you were to run your session with just these 3 patterns your success rates would skyrocket. Quit is a must read for any change worker working with smokers and is an essential part of every hypnotist's library. Quit gives you the familiarity and confidence to work with smokers and help save lives.