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Four people volunteered to be my hypnotic subjects. Two men and two women were listening to each and every word I was saying. I asked them to rise up from their chairs and "step forward, walking and sleeping, walking and sleeping." Out of the four subjects, only one, a woman, stepped forward and obeyed my command. The others opened their eyes, aroused themselves from any hypnosis influence I had on them, and listened and watched me as I worked with the sleepwalking woman. I suggested that when the woman's eyes open, her arms would be stuck in front of her and she would not remember her name, until I snap my fingers beside her ear. She responded to those suggestions and the other people watching told me they were impressed.

This was my first attempt at hypnotizing another person!

The next day, which was Saturday, I received a phone call from Andrew. He was one of the three volunteers that did not respond to my hypnotic induction the night before. I will always refer to him in this book as Andrew. Andrew was appreciative of my efforts the night before. He thanked me over and over and apologized for not responding well. He did not go under the so-called hypnotic spell. I had no idea both of our lives would now change, forever.

Andrew explained to me on the telephone, he needed to see me right away. He begged me to come to his home. He would clarify everything when I arrived. When he met me at the door, he looked very nervous and upset. He was always such a happy, calm and confident man, I knew what he had to say was very important.

Andrew admitted that he suffered from acrophobia, a severe fear of heights. But it was not an ordinary "fear of heights," that required him to contact me. Andrew's fear was so intense, he could not ride on an elevator or walk up the stairs of a second story building! If the building had windows facing outside, Andrew would not enter. I said I was not a psychologist or psychiatrist and suggested that he find one to help him overcome his fear. He had no time to explore this option because in a few hours, two friends were coming over to have him his first ride in an airplane to help him overcome this fear.

Can you imagine the intense fear Andrew must have had at the time? Can you feel yourself in his place, knowing you would leave the ground in a small aircraft without the benefit of a solid support beneath your feet? This would be Andrew's first attempt at flying in and airplane and he was paralyzed in fear.

After hearing his request, I wanted to help, but I remembered that Andrew was not responsive to my hypnotic commands the night before. I was not successful in putting him "under."

After failing to achieve a deep hypnotic trance, or even a light hypnotic trance, would he now reject any helpful suggestions I would give him?

There was only one way to find out!

Andrew was a very likable person, with a beautiful wife and family. He was well respected in the community and was about to embark in raising himself to new levels in his career. His career was launching into space. Soon he would be in the clouds, rocketing to the stars.

I proceeded to use a progressive relaxation technique of hypnosis. Andrew was concentrating on relaxing all the major muscle groups in his body. At the same time, Andrew was narrowing his mental concentration down to one thought. How good it felt to relax in this way. I taught him self-hypnosis and gave him an exercise to perform while he was in the aircraft. This exercise is the same exercise I will give you later. This is called a hypnotic "prescription, or prevailing thought."

The doorbell rang and Andrew's pilot buddies were at the door. We all went to the small rural airport. There, I told Andrew I would stay on the ground and observe. He would need to confront his fear by himself using the exercises I had given him just a few minutes before. Andrew and the two pilots got in the small aircraft. After a few moments the aircraft was in the air. As it lifted off the ground I wondered if Andrew would be okay. Was he using the exercises I gave him to relax and achieve his goal? Could he maintain the mental state necessary to get through this crisis? Would he hypnotize himself so hard he would lose his mind?

Even though the aircraft was in the air for about an hour, it seemed like days. My neck hurt from gazing up at the heavens for such a long period of time. The tension was unbearable. The aircraft landed. Three figures headed toward me. I felt it was a good sign to see Andrew walking under his own power. He looked okay and finally said, "Wayne, that was ok."

The following Wednesday morning he called my on the telephone to invite me to breakfast. At breakfast, told me he was entering ground flight training. Andrew was going to get a pilot's license! A lifetime of fear was gone in a flash, because he used his imagination and mind power to control it. He was able to overcome a major hurdle on his road to success.

More importantly, he didn't lose his mind!

I am proud of Andrew! Just as I am going to be proud of you when you write, call or e-mail me, with your personal success story.

Is hypnotism a trance? Is hypnosis, one person dominating another or creating a situation to embarrass another? Can you get stuck in hypnosis?

Andrew helped me understand the definition of hypnotism that I have embraced now for over 30 years. Hypnotism is the "power words have when surrounded by your complete attention." Hypnotism can also be looked at as "the narrowing of our concentration down to just one or two core thoughts." How we get the subject to narrow concentration down to just one or two core thoughts? We ask the person to think of nothing but peaceful and relaxing thoughts.

Mike Hayashi, a martial arts instructor and from Phoenix, Arizona, teaches the acronym for the word fear which is: false expectations appearing real. Do you have false expectations appearing real? Does everyone have some fear or phobia  holding them back from top achievement? Are you ready to change false expectations into positive expectations? Let's do it together! I will be with you every step of the way. Even when you feel no one is supporting you in your journey, remember that I will. My words will go with you, wherever and whenever you may need them.

In Chapter 1 we explored  self-hypnosis and how it would help you. Review the assignment at the end of Chapter 1. Did you find it difficult? Did it make you think? Hypnosis and self-hypnosis techniques are designed to make you think and communicate with your powerful subconscious mind. They are designed to allow you to think from another perspective. They allow you to think very honestly about your personal situation.

In Chapter 2, we will learn more about to expect from the reality of hypnosis and self-hypnosis and will begin our success plan starting with Chapter 3. From Chapter 3 until Chapter 12, we will be implementing and exercising your goal success plan. For now, we will clear up a few things about hypnosis.

One of the greatest speakers to have ever lived, Caveat Robert, the founder of the National Speakers Association, used the following quote to illustrate the definition of a "goal," Caveat said: "a goal is a dream with a deadline." Think about it. Have you ever wanted something and placed a time limit on acquiring it? Just before the time expired, did you miraculously receive it? That is the power of a goal. Once you wrap all of your emotions, your thoughts and your resources around your goal, and combine it with a deadline, you are rapidly achieving your goal.

Why do I define "goals" before we define "hypnotism?" Because in order to be successful at self-hypnotism, you must understand that it is all about goals and goal setting. We are creating "dreams with deadlines," with each and every successful hypnotic induction.

Go back to your assignment for Chapter 1, and place dates beside your goals. Make the dates realistic or unrealistic. Either way your body will be moving toward making those goals and dreams come true. You are in complete control.

Hypnotism is the power that words have when surrounded by our complete attention.

Did you ever get lost in a book that was exciting to you? If someone talks to you while you are in this mental state of mind, do you hear or even care what he or she is saying? Did you ever listen to music that would bring to mind and incident that took place many years before? Was that incident so clear in your memory that you felt that you were reliving it? Did you ever fall in love?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, you have experienced hypnotism.

Did you ever get stuck? Did you realize that if an emergency took place while you were in this state of mind that you would be able to respond to the emergency? The book touched your imagination in such a way that the words and ideas presented in the book were surrounded by your complete attention. The music touched your imagination in such a way that a very clear memory associated with the music caught your imagination and became the focus of your complete attention. When you fall in love, what happens? Is your imagination stimulated in a way that you overlook physical, mental and emotional characteristics that others, (usually friends, relatives, or the local law enforcement officials) bring to your attention?

If hypnotism sounds like nothing special or a very common state of mind, you are perfectly correct in your thinking. Using this state of mind to achieve your personal goals is why you are reading this book.

Stage hypnotism involves two or more persons working together to realize one person's goal. One person is the hypnotist or operator. The other person is the volunteer or hypnotee. The goal of the stage hypnotist is to entertain. The goal of the volunteer is to help the stage hypnotist achieve his goal. The stage hypnotist captures the volunteer's attention and presents words and ideas in such a way,  the volunteer's imagination is stimulated and the ideas are carried out. Remember  the volunteer must want the hypnotist's goals to materialize or they just won't happen.

Think about Andrew. Andrew did not respond to any of the stage hypnotism I performed. However, when the goal of overcoming the fear of heights was his goal, Andrew's motivation and desire helped him overcome his fear with the assistance of the same hypnotist as his operator.

Is The Stage Hypnotist All Powerful?

Some of these ideas, such as the hypnotee acting with a different personality, or becoming insensitive to pain will be carried out to the amazement of the audience. Sometimes people get the feeling that the hypnotist possesses a strange, super human, power.

The stage hypnotist is not born with some type of strange power over people. The stage hypnotist is working with the basic definition of hypnotism and using psychological principles I will explain and you will utilize and practice in future chapters. More theory is located in Chapter 14. 

Self-hypnotism involves presenting words and ideas to yourself in a way that will captivate  attention and move you to some type of action. You surround yourself with words and ideas meant to bring about a change. But instead of having the change for an hour or so on stage, the change is meant to last a lifetime.

For example, if you want to lose weight, you may present words and ideas to yourself that involve how wonderful you will look and feel after you lose the appropriate weight. You wish to look and feel wonderful today, tomorrow, and many years from now. You may see yourself in the future getting compliments from all of your friends and relatives and perhaps see yourself in new, exciting relationships or stimulating events.

In this book, you will be presenting many words and ideas to yourself. You will present them in a way that will guarantee your success in the challenges of your life now, and your life ahead.

The following is a brief list of uses of self-hypnosis. Can you think of any more?

The list is endless! I have personally worked with people, both as individuals and as groups to achieve these benefits of self-hypnosis. Think about challenges you have. Continue the list.

You learn how to relax and open your mind toward self-hypnosis. As you learn to relax deeply on my command or request, a strange thing begins to happen. You begin to accept suggestions that will be of benefit to you. A suggestion is simply an idea or thought that is implanted into your subconscious mind and when teamed up with repetition, becomes reality. The body responds to the ideas or thoughts you put into your mind. After enough repetitions of these thoughts are received, the mind starts to reprogram itself to respond the way you want it to.

How many repetitions does it take? It's hard to make any assumptions. Some people will begin to change their behavior after the very first session. Most people need many repetitions to insure that the desired behavior will override the undesired behavior.

You will learn how to present yourself with words and ideas. You will surround these words and ideas with your complete attention. Then you learn how to word suggestions in a way to give you the best opportunity to affect your subconscious mind. You learn how to create hypnotic prescriptions that are personal to you and specific to overcome your challenges and achieve your goals. You will then give yourself these suggestions or ideas many, many times before you finish this book.

The good news is that repetition of these positive thoughts and ideas will eventually create your goal achievement.

You have already begun. The journey into your subconscious began as you completed the assignment in Chapter 1. It will continue with Chapter 3 in which you will learn how to hypnotize yourself.

Workshop

Turn the page back to your completed exercises in Chapter 1. Remember the assignment you had for Chapter 1. Take the list of goals and compare them with the list of uses of self-hypnosis. How do they compare?

Activity 1 - Write down 5 new goals on your list

You should have a total of 10 including the assignment from Chapter 1.

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Activity 2 - Recording your goals

Take out your cassette tape recorder or other voice-recording device. Begin with a fresh new tape and title it, My Goals. Record on the tape the goals you wish to work on in this class. If you have more than 10, that is fine.

Activity 3 - Listening to your voice

After you are finished recording, listen to your voice on the recording at least twice a day. You pick the best times for this exercise. The times you pick will be the right times.

When you are finished with the assignments you will be ready to experience your first hypnotic induction exercise.

Let's begin!

Summary

In Chapter 2, you learned a new definition of goals.

You learned to define hypnotism, stage hypnotism and self-hypnotism.

You now know the similarities and differences of each.

You also learned many uses for self-hypnosis

If you are interested in personal, one-on-one instruction with me to achieve your goals, please call me at: 602-647-4280 today. I offer convenient instruction by telephone.