“Those hands are stuck right”
So one of the good ways that I pace and lead from is having their hands stuck. I want to point something out, there seems to be some magic in getting someone to
consciously verbalize something… this is something I keep coming back to and I don’t think my explanation I’ve wrote about in the guide is detailed enough about it because I really don’t have the answer. When I say “you know your name right, but” for name amnesia When I say
“you know where you are right, but” for changing location When I say “you know your PIN number right? But” for changing someone’s PIN number I think it’s quite weird to mention the opposite effect of the phenomena before you begin, I also think it’s weird that it’s necessary to make someone consciously consider their current state of affairs.
The explanation I give is that ideas might be primed in the brain but until they are suddenly gave attention to, or it comes to a task where the answer isn’t a clear one… then these quick judgements come into play. But honestly I’m not sure, because “those hands are stuck right?” in a way it’s a statement to ensure those hands are still stuck before I precede i.e. press your hands together while I continue..
giving her the illusion her hands are stuck because she
continues to press together, but regardless of whether I’m having her press her hands together, it might seem
unnecessary to make her aware of those hands – but that’s what I seem to do by choice, so much so that it seems an essential component of nearly every language pattern I do.
Anyway enough of that analysis, what is for sure if that you should say “those hands are stuck right?” and this acts as a pace until you lead into the routine… you need to be careful about the question mark on (?) right. Because if you actually ask a question then you are implying that those hands are not actually stuck and the next routine you do will also not work. Now a quick option I have to make someone’s feet stuck to the floor is to have them first do a ‘deepener’ I have. Ok I know what you’re thinking
“Vince aren’t you contradicting yourself, you said no deepeners” we’ll let me explain. “Just close your eyes”, “I want you to imagine you’re on a boat”, “you’re on a boat in a storm, you will not feel sea sick”, “but you’re going to feel like the boat is rocking”, “as you rock forwards and backwards now” (now you see them move a bit) “like if you’ve ever been on a boat before” , “you rock and feel uneasy on your feet”, “but you will not fall over”, Now this routine acts in a weird way, because they’ve visibly rocked and they only have their feet to keep them
standing up, then they tend to dig their feet into the floor, and really put their centre of gravity close to the ground, this gives me a good opportunity to dive on and claim their feet are stuck. I want to mention something really important, when I showed you the hand stuck to the table
in the last example; I really put a heavy emphasis on getting the hypnosis subject to copy me. Feet stuck to the floor is kind of the same thing, usually the moment I start trying to move and drag my feet, and they do the same.
Often before I even have got into the routine of feet stick, I’ve just said to the subject “just look at my feet” and then I start to try and drag them, and I bend my knees. I’m trying to deliver the impression that by bending my knees or attempting to drag my feet does something and is worth trying… the subject will usually immediately start
attempting to drag their feet or bend their legs. If they do this then their feet are practically already stuck to the floor.
This is a really good opportunity, this is like when in the handshake someone squeezes your hand before you actually start even delivering suggestions… you can completely dive on the response they are already testing and make them really stuck, because they are rehearsing a muscular expression that providing they keep attempting to do that expression every time they check consciously whether they are stuck to the floor, then they’ll always discover that as a result they can’t move thus leading them to the inaccurate conclusion that they are stuck. I only say inaccurate because someone is never really stuck… they might only be able to think stuck thoughts, they might be only able to practice that expression… people ask me how long a phenomena lasts, it lasts as long as an emotion lasts.
Like if you ever think back to when you’re angry and you can’t calm yourself down, how long does that last for 90 minutes? 2 hours at most? You end up getting exhausted
and you need to rest… when you need to rest, your mind drifts into something else and then you seem to struggle to get angry about the thing anymore. This is probably referring to a person who is psychologically healthy and does have decent levels of sleep. If REM is the process of reorganising trauma’s to be less harmful then, that theory means that anyone with healthy levels of sleep should be able to detangle any trauma. With regards to post hypnotic suggestions, because they are rehearsed expressions in prompt to an event then they can last for quite a long time.
There are reports of subjects having post hypnotic suggestions for as long as 27 years; which seems quite believable; but they need to be well rehearsed beliefs. I really don’t’ know if someone could easily believe that their shoe is a mobile telephone every time they look at it, that could be because of the regular indirect interaction with shoes brakes down the conditioning… which is what my experience was when I was trying stuff out with hypnotic subjects in my less quick days, and my more experimental days. “Just look at my feet, you know, when your knee’s feel kind of funny (bend knees) (possibly point at their knees if they didn’t bend them) and it feels like (try to drag feet)”What should happen is the subject
immediately bends their knees and when they do this, they might try to drag their feet, I believe the lack of leverage from breaking the unit of strength of their entire leg makes it impossible to move the feet if they pull the feet from below their knee. Their only choice would be to lift the leg from the top of the leg, however I never rehearse this
expression within myself – In fact I will never let the subject see me lift my legs; until I’m 1o0% sure that they are completely stuck to the floor. So the wording is “you know when you’re really happy, and you feel those feet, and it feels like you’re a tree routed into the earth, as if your centre of gravity is close to your feet, and I noticed you haven’t moved in a while right, but those hands are stuck, it’s like those feet, like whatever way you try to drag them.. they just feel completely stuck.. I’m a hypnotist and until I clap my hands your feet are stuck to the ground now, and you can’t work out how to move an inch “The moving of an inch is a contradiction to them lifting their leg, lifting their leg and moving an inch are completely at odds with one another. Now if your still stuck into the ground yourself as a hypnotist, I know it’s a little embarrassing because you’re supposed to have control over your subject; so you need to say “your feet are stuck, and you can’t move them, I’m a hypnotist, I can move my feet, (but do this after they are looking away, on the offbeat) (the way to create an offbeat is to create an on beat.. so I might tend to do an outstretched point at them, but point away from the direction I step into when I remove my feet from the ground. “but your feet are stuck to the ground now ”I think feet stuck to the ground is a really nice routine. Recently at a gig I had a subject who perhaps because she didn't speak very good English, I seemed to only get hand clasp out of.. I didn't want to take any risks, because about 30 people were watching... So I thought I would stick her feet to the floor as I have various
sure fire ways of making someone's feet feel pretty stuck.
The best bit was, I told her she'll only be able to move when she counts and reaches 100 but every number she says until then makes them more stuck then I point at her vocal chords and say "say 1" which is a really funny thing to do because now she might realize that I’ve made a joke and had her say the first number that makes her more stuck until she counts out loud to 100.The time limit on routines is one important defining characteristic of them.
By a routine having clear boundaries surrounding it, makes the routine stronger. The fact she has to count to 100 not only is distracting, but also acts a mean of ensuring that she remains stuck as it gives her a ‘way to work it out’
rather than attempt to relax, lift, different muscles, or recall different things to have her find a way to lift it, which she might achieve if left to her own devices.