1. Stage Hypnosis Books. It is iuseful if you are new to stage hypnosis. Here are the essential stage hypnosis books you should get from Amazon:

- Ronning Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis by Geoffrey Ronning, $34.95

- The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism by Ormond McGill, $55.96

2. Online Membership Programs. This is one of my favorite ways to learn stage hypnosis. I highly recommend to join online membership program by Stage Hypnosis Center. You have chance to learn great stage hypnosis tips – basics of stage hypnosis, how to run stage hypnosis shows, funny stage hypnosis tips and so on. You can try it for only 1$. If you like the resources there, you can stay as a member for the low cost monthly membership.

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3. Work with a Master Stage Hypnotist. You can work one-on-one with stage hypnosis masters. But it is very expensive to hire good stage hypnosis professional for the mentorship. If you are not going to spend 2500-4000$ for 2 days mentorship, then the following way is the best option for you to consider.

4. Home Study Courses. It is the best way for learning stage hypnosis secrets. Because you choose the working hours and time pace to work on stage hypnosis tips which makes it enjoyable for you to learn stage hypnosis. I reviewed some of the courses online and I highly recommend the following course below.

Ronning Modern Home Study DVD Course

Choose one of the ways above which appeals to you and start learning stage hypnosis today.

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Hypnothoughts.com is the fastest growing online hypnosis community in the world. Hundreds hypnotists (2541 currently) worldwide meet there to share their knowledge around hypnosis and hypnosis related topics.

You can benefit from Hypnothoughts community in a different ways: meet famous hypnotists, add them friends, chat with others on live chat, share you opinion as a blog post, join several hypnosis groups and so on.

And it is free to join this community. Join the community and don’t forget to add me as your friend at My Hypnothoughts Profile.

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Here is an opportunity. Adam Eason has just announced a new hypnosis event which I ‘m sure will be very interesting. In the event famous hypnotists will discuss and debate different hypnosis topics. The discussion will be recorded and given to the people.

Best of all, you have a chance to ask your hypnosis questions to the hypnotists below and they will answer your questions and give their opinions.

Who will participate in this important hypnosis meeting?

- Adam Eason – author of the “Secrets of Self-Hypnosis” and other hypnosis publications;
- Igor Ledochowski – multi author and creator of famous “Conversational Hypnosis”;
- Jon Chase - renowned stage hypnotist, trainer and author of the book “Deeper and Deeper”.

If you want to ask questions to these hypnotists, you can do it on Adam Eason’s blog.


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Imagine, how would your life change if you could hypnotize girls, family members and anybody or even run your own stage hypnosis business?

Being a hypnotist is very profitable and enjoyable career path. Best of all, learning how to become a hypnotist can be a simple process and you can learn how to hypnotize people quite quickly.

But before you begin learning hypnosis you must consider aims and objectives and ask yourself why you want to become a hypnotist.

You may want to become a professional hypnotist and run your clinical hypnosis business. You can learn performance arts and become a stage hypnotist.

Or you just want to learn hypnosis to hypnotize others around you like most people do.

So before seeking for any hypnosis training programs you must decide what kind of hypnotist you want to be. After this, it is easy to choose the right hypnosis education and program for you.

There are 3 main ways you can learn hypnosis and become a hypnotist.

1- Get Hypnosis Home Study Course

Learning hypnosis through home study courses is less expensive than attending hypnotherapy school or finding a mentor. Also you do it at home and work with the schedule you make, so it is the best way for learning hypnosis.

I highly recommend to get the hypnosis home study courses below to start learning hypnosis and NLP techniques:

- Conversational Hypnosis Learn How to Hypnotize Anyone in a Normal Conversation!

- Hypnosis Coach – World Renowned Hypnosis Training From Michael Masterson!

2- Hypnotherapy Training School

Attend respected, licensed hypnotherapy school. You can look for schools at the local area for your convenience. Be sure to investigate (ask former students, learn the background of the trainers) before you attend any school.

3- Find A Mentor

Finding a professional and experienced hypnotist-mentor is a great way of learning hypnosis. You should find a hypnotist who is willing to work with you 1-on-1.

Choose one of the ways above which appeals to you and start learning hypnosis.

When you start your hypnosis experience, it is important to have confidence in your power. If you are skeptic and engage in the hypnosis practice with high reservation and suspicion about the value of hypnosis treatment, then you will not have a positive attitude during your hypnosis work.

Also having too much or too little confidence will make you weak with the relationship with the client.

There are some characteristics for being effective hypnotherapist. Here are them:

1- Convince your client that he wants to be hypnotized. You can not hypnotize someone if he doesn’t want to be hypnotized (except covert hypnosis), so give him the reason for being hypnotized.

2- Build up confidence in your client and be friendly. If your client does not trust you, then probably he will not follow your suggestions.

3- Encounter each client as a unique individual. The level of hypnotism changes from person to person. Keep in mind that everybody has his unique problems although most of them can be categorized.

4- Be perceptive of the client’s emotional needs and deal with the emotional displays happen during the treatment.

5- Make your environment relaxed and calm with soft colors, soothing music etc. This will help your client to completely focus on suggestions.

6- Identify problem areas, their severity and determine the type of induction techniques;

7- Focus on the goals of hypnotic induction. Calm and relax your subject to help him focus on your suggestions and eliminate all his problems and worries.

These are 7 important tips for being successful hypnotherapist. Be sure to use them during your hypnosis experience.

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The first type of hypnosis started with animal hypnosis. In 1600-s farmers calmed chickens hypnotically using different methods. 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 a theory of “animal magnetism“. He 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.

He cured a 29-year-old woman, who suffered from a convulsive malady. During one of the woman’s attacks Mesmer 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.

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

One of Mesmer’s pupils Marquis de Puysegur (1751-1825) used “animal magnetism” on a young peasant. During the process he 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 physician, John Elliotson (11791-1868) reported 1.834 surgical operations performed painlessly.

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.

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 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, he 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 hypnosis 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“).

Hypnotherapy has been widely used in World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Hypnosis techniques were merged with psychiatry and were especially useful in the treatment Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

In 1950s medicine started to use hypnosis for therapy. In 1955 British Medical Association recognized hypnosis therapy and in 1958 the American Medical Association approved a report on the medical use of hypnosis.

2 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.

This is a brief history of hypnosis and hypnotic techniques. Today, hypnosis is highly effective and popular medical tool and it is widely used for habit control – stop smoking, weight control, stress reduction and other health problems.

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It is a great book to learn the basics of hypnosis, self hypnosis and hypnotherapy. It covers different areas of hypnosis and hypnotic treatment, like cigarette addiction, losing weight, setting career goals etc.
Highly Recommended!

“Hypnosis for Change“by Josie Hadley, Carol Staudacher, $11.53

“Josie and Carol have done a wonderful job in educating the general public on what hypnosis really is. Their book covers every aspect , from self-hypnosis to special techniques for the hypnotherapist.”
- Fred F. Schiavo, President, National Hypnosis Institute

“This book is a significant contribution to the art and science of hypnotherapy by a highly qualified educator and clinican.”
- R. D. Longacre, Ph.D., F.B.H.A., Board of Directors of The National Board for Hypnotherapy and Hypnotic Anesthesiology

“Self-Change Hypnosis“ by Richard MacKenzie, $20.22

The techniques that you will learn in Richard’s groundbreaking new book will both challenge and inspire you to achieve goals in your life. One of his favorite quotes comes from a man called Henry Ford. It says “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” He believes that if we change and challenge the things that we believe about ourselves, that we can ultimately change and take control of our own destinies.

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