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Record all of your shows on video and sell them. Put them on YouTubeand your website.
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Glossary
Abreaction – An abnormal reaction.
Alpha – The lightest state of hypnosis with brain waves measuring 8-13 cps.
Assistant – The person who stands behind the committee members on stage to insure their safety.
Audience – A group of people who attend a stage hypnosis show. These are specifically the people who are not a part of your committee.
Beta – Normal wakening consciousness with brain waves measuring 14-30 cps.
Binaural beats (Also called Binaural tones) – Sounds that induce relaxation and affect brainwaves by slowing brainwaves down.
Britek – A company that makes professional lighting equipment.
Clinical hypnosis – Hypnosis that takes place in an office setting for
purposes of altering unwanted habits or thoughts (ie: over-eating, smoking and fear of flying).
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Committee (Also called participants) – Volunteers who participate in the stage hypnosis show on stage.
Compounding – Giving the same command several times to increase its power.
Convincers – Examples of hypnosis that convince the audience and potential committee members of the power of hypnotic suggestion. These can include the arms spinning convincer, the lemon test convincer and the finger
magnetism convincer, among others.
Deepening – A process of intensifying the hypnotic state by having 3 situations occur simultaneously: 1. Counting backward from 10 to one. 2. Having either the person imagine going down something such as stairs while the counting is occurring or having them imagine something else going
down such as the sun setting. 3. Telling them as they are relaxing more and more deeply as 1 and 2 above are occurring.
Deepening skit – A skit that brings the committee members to a deeper state of hypnosis.
Delta – Sleep with brain waves measuring 1-3 cps.
Dismissal – Asking participants to return to their seat in the audience. This is done whenever the hypnotist has 1. A non-compliant committee member. 2. A committee member who has been warned twice and continues to disrupt
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the show or 3. A committee member who has had an abreaction and will no longer be participating in the show.
Energizing Skits – Skits performed in rapid secession and involving rapid speed on the part of the committee members to get the committee members and the audience re-energized when there is a drop in the energy on the stage.
Four-walling
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The hypnotist gets four walls and the box office and keeps all of the profits. However, the hypnotist pays for everything. Overall, this can be more financially lucrative than receiving a salary.Fractionation – A process, which lasts throughout the entire hypnosis show. This involves putting committee members into hypnosis, bringing them out of hypnosis, putting them back into hypnosis, bringing them out of hypnosis, etc. This allows the members to go deeper into hypnosis each time so that the longer the show continues, the more challenging the skits and interesting the skits can be.
Individual bits – Programming given to individual committee members such as when I say your name you will remember that your belly button is
missing or when you hear a specific piece of music you will dance on stage.
Induction – A relaxing story involving all of the senses that puts the committee members their initial hypnotic state. The induction process usually takes about 5 minutes.
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Introduction – This is done by someone other than the stage hypnotist. It consists of the following phrase, "Ladies and gentlemen, live from_____, you’ve seen him/her on ________, please welcome________.”
Mackie 402 – A sound mixer.
Phenomenon Skits – Skits that demonstrate hypnotic phenomenon.
Post-hypnotic suggestion – A suggestion used to change a committee members behavior after emerging from hypnosis.
Pre-show – Anything that happens before the hypnotist is introduced.
During this time safety, lighting, sound, temperature, etc. should be checked.
Pre-talk – The part of the stage hypnosis show in which the stage hypnotist explains what they are going to do during the show. This is also a time to establish the hypnotists credibility and demonstrate the power of hypnosis.
Pyramiding – The process of building from simple skits to complex skits as the show progresses. This is aided by compounding, which puts the
committee members deeper into hypnosis as the show progresses.
Re-induction – Putting the committee members in hypnosis again and in the sleep position (leaning on each other with their eyes closed).
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Skit – Any entertaining performance involving two or more of the
committee members and usually involving all of the committee members.
Stage hypnosis – Hypnosis conducted on a stage for the purpose of providing entertainment.
Suggestibility Test – A test that gages how suggestible a person is.
Convincers such as the lemon test and the finger magnetism test can be used as suggestibility tests.
Test skit – The first skit of the stage hypnosis show during which the hypnotist and assistant look for non-compliance.
Theta – Hypnotic state with measurable brain waves of 4-7 cps.
Trance Termination – Waking someone from a hypnotic state. This is done slowly from counting 1 to 3 and telling them that with each number they become more aware of their surroundings. At the count of number 3 they are