The Real Way To Hypnotize SomeoneContinuing on from our previous chapter on how to hypnotize people - Excerpt: If you desire to send a person to a place of which he knows nothing, as to the manner of going you must necessarily give him full directions, so nothing that is certain to occur can divert him. So it is with a subject; he must know what to expect and thus be freed of all fear that might be aroused when the attributes occur, which otherwise would cause an active mind. The falling of the eyelids, of the head and the hands should arouse no thought other than the one you are suggesting to him through his ear, i. e., the thought of sleep. This thought of sleep is one that can hypnotize someone quite easily.
As two senses must be affected to impress a thought, great care is necessary that whatever you say you actually do, so the prospective subject can see as well as hear it.
Special attention is drawn to the sentence, "If you will do so your eyelids will get heavy and close; or, if I close them for you, allow them to remain closed." Only three in ten will close their eyelids ; the other seven after giving you the stare for some five minutes, must have their eyelids closed for them. If yoU will note in the foregoing sentence, I have said nothing about the eyelids "not closing," but have made affirmations and provided for the "not closing." When you say to him, "Your eyelids will get heavy," you must then close your eyelids. When you say, "remain closed," your eyelids must be closed while saying the words. When you say, "or if I close," while uttering the words "I close," you must with your ringers close your own eyes, taking care to imme- diately remove the ringers; otherwise you would convey through his eye the idea that you will hold his eyes closed (suggested to him by seeing you hold your own eyelids closed). Hence, if you close them for him, when you remove your fingers, the subject will open his eyes. When you use the words, "head falls to the front," your head must move forward; and when you say, "hands fall to your sides," your hands must fall. So if you want to hypnotize someone, know that giving a direct form of hypnotic command like this is almost irresistible.
If you will notice, there are two ways of awaken- ing mentioned here ; one is "When I tell you ;" the other, "When I say ALL RIGHT and clap my hands." (Which must be said with one breath.) You use "ALL RIGHT and clap my hands;" the doctor should use the other. The physician, de- siring his patient to go away with some inspiration given him, simply says, "When you open your eyes you are awake," and so and so is the case ; for an inspiration given in hypnosis can only be re- sponded to in hypnosis. The operator in the par- lor entertainment, when he has finished the per- formance says, "All right," and claps his hands.
Why do I desire the subject to put his hands As to signs togther? To see them fall. The hands will un- consciously drift apart — the action will be entirely involuntary, and after a pupil has watched a dozen pairs of hands he will see that no one on earth can deceive him, as it is utterly impossible to simulate (consciously) an involuntary action. It is for the same reason that I desire the head to fall to the front — I wish to see it fall — knowing that when an Expression action is part of a thought, to the degree that action of thought takes place is to the extent that the thought is aroused in tJie "mind." When the hands drop relaxed to the sides, I know that the subject has forgotten or lost his environment, and therefore is in hypnosis.
Now, I have told the subject exactly what would happen. If my pupil will carefully analyze the paragraph he will find that telling him to "Take an easy position" is the first attribute I desire. That to "look at the pencil," if the operator holds it in the proper position, will force the eyes up- turned, or converged ; that if he thinks of the pencil he will furnish concentration. I then tell him as to the closing of the eyes; and then, if I slip into his "mind" the thought of sleep, I will have ac- complished my purpose and have induced hypnosis. This is the real key to know just exactly how to hypnotize someone.
Now stand to the left of your subject, holding a lead pencil or your finger as in Plate III, and repeat verbatim in a firm voice :
"Drowsy, sleepy, drowsy, sleepy, drowsy, sleepy; as you go deeper asleep your eyelids get heavy and close." (Repeat until accomplished.)
The sentence of "Drowsy, sleepy, drowsy, sleepy, et cetera, as you go deeper asleep your eyelids get heavy and close," seems a long one. Why not make it shorter? Why not "Drowsy, sleepy, your eyes shut"? Is not that the same thing? No! "Drowsy, sleepy, et cetera, as you go deeper asleep the eyelids get heavy and close," makes the closing of the eyelids one of the attri- butes of the thought of sleep ; but when you say, "Drowsy, sleepy, your eyes shut," you are trying to force into the "mind" of the subject two sepa- rate and distinct thoughts ; i. e., to sleep — to shut his eyes — which is utterly impossible. Any oper- ator who, in giving inspirations to the subject, leaves out his "and's," "as's" and "but's," will fail, inasmuch as the ideas must be thoroughly cor- related and be one thought, because thoughts may of themselves become ideas, or ideas become thoughts. This is the perfect example on how to hypnotize someone.
We will assume that you held the pencil over the subject's head for some half an hour and he failed to take on hypnosis. What is wrong? If he As to failure is not in an easy position (No. i), that is your fault. Is his collar too high, is his head too far back, is his back too close to a radiator or fireplace, et cetera? Or, if a woman, is she laced too tight, do her shoes pinch, et cetera? Why is any easy position the first attribute of sleep? I mean by an "easy posi- tion" one in which the sense of feeling is not mak- ing discomfort a dominant idea ; for if so, it is im- possible to fade away the thought of the environ- ment ; therefore, before sleep can be induced, com- fort through feeling must form itself into a natural attribute of sleep. The upturned eye (No. 2) is also for you to furnish. Are you holding the pencil in the proper place ? If you strain the eye, you lose No. 1. Has the time come to close the eye (No. 4)? Is the subject concentrated? If not, you cannot accomplish No. 5.
It is a poor art or science if we must wait half As to con- an hour to discover whether the subject is con- centration centrating or not.
Having fifteen to twenty-five subjects on the stage and a restless audience waiting for an enter- tainment, what could be accomplished if I had to wait half an hour for each subject, to discover if he was concentrating?
Every time one gets a new thought the eye blinks, although the eye may blink without a change of thought; but never a change of thought without the blink.
Note. — Now, dear reader, when you stand be- fore a mirror to experiment, remember that the making of another idea dominant is not changing the thought. You may think you can change without blinking, but it is like people believing that a person can go on the stage and "fake" for a hypnotist, both of which are directly against a set law and impossible. If the world could learn that those attempting to deceive, deceive only them- selves, there would be fewer failures in life.
The moving of the eyeball shows the reviewing of the associated ideas and always occurs in those who have large perceptives (heavy projection over the eyes). They will think of the pencil but will divide and study its attributes, i. e., cost, color, form, et cetera, and are the subjects who require several drills. Their hands will fall stiffly to their sides (having taken on hypnosis about ninety-seven per cent). For complete hypnosis, the hands must fall limply. This is the key to hypnotize someone.
If the subject gives you the "baby stare," and you fail to hypnotize him you had better — well, I advise my pupils under such conditions to jump into the river and say, "Here goes nothing." Proof of The subject being in a collapsed state or re-
hypnosis laxed condition of the muscles, we know he is in
hypnosis, but as a great many will not accept any thought of sleep without being stretched out, it is policy to lay them on the floor, which nearly al- ways consummates the required attribute. The proof that he is in hypnosis is that he is relaxed.
Perhaps he can simulate it; I can hold my arm relaxed? All right. Man can think of but one thing at a time ; the subject's eyes are closed. I take hold of his arm (he relaxes it) ; with my other hand I quickly lift his leg, and, if he knew how to simulate, he could not shift the action in time to deceive anyone.
A subject being in all the conditions of sleep is of no value to me, — the operator. I want one seemingly awake. Consequently, I want now to partially unbuild what I built. First, I give him what I call the "Ear Test," the object of which is to find if I can replace the thought (cylinder) of sleep with another thought (cylinder) having a perceptible action to it. Therefore, I say to him, "Your right ear (touching it) smarts, burns, stings, itches, and will stop only when you rub it a long time with your right hand," making with my mouth expressions of pain. If the subject rubs his ear, I have a demonstration that I have changed the thought. If I say to him, "Your ear smarts, burns, stings, rub it," would I get any action? No, he would simply ask me which ear, if his cere- brum was active. Therefore, it is necessary for me to designate the ear, or properly, to state which ear, and touch it. I now tell him, "Your right ear, or this ear (touching it), smarts, burns, stings and itches, rub it." Will he rub it? He will not. but will ask me why he should rub it, if his cerebrum was active, but if I said to him as above mentioned, "it will stop only when you rub it" he rubs it to cause it to Plop, not because I told him to rub his ear. which I failed to do. Man does nothing be- cause he is told to. While he is rubbing the ear I call to him, "The pain has stopped." Instantly he ceases to rub it. Is the subject now in hypnosis ? No, because he has the thought that the "pain has ceased" instead of the thought of sleep. His muscles are contracted into the position he hap- pens to be in, the eye can be turned down ; the in- experienced would say he was in hypnosis, the same as when lying limp on the floor. My experi- ence proves to me that he is not in hypnosis; he has the thought of "no pain" which is a blank thought similar to the thought of sleep, but you will find that the muscles are in a different condi- tion. So understanding this different condition is one key to understanding how to hypnotize someone.
Voice rules The subject can only respond to my voice, he
being free of his actual environment. My voice now being his environment, I must pull apart nearly all that has just been brought together. To open his closed eyes is the most powerful suggestion of be- ing awake. If I could only teach the subject now to open his eyes, to turn them down and still re- spond to my voice only, he would be in the condi- tion I desire. So I say to him in a firm voice :
Unbuilding "You open your eyes only when I tell you ; you
awaken only when I say ALL RIGHT and clap my hands (I tell you). Now mind!" (Repeat this.) I then cause him to rub his knee in the same manner as I cause him to rub his ear, by designa- ting the knee as follows : "You have an awful pain in this (touching it), the right knee, and it will stop only when you rub it a long time with both hands." While the subject is rubbing, I say, "When you look at it it will be a thousand times worse.
Now open your eyes." If he opens his eyes and continues to rub it, he is practically my subject for the first time. In this way we play on him a psychological trick; first bringing up in his "mind" the thought of pain; then disassociating the opening of the eyes with the idea of awaken- ing, and substituting for it the idea of more pain. We do not tell him that "When you look at it, it will be a thousand times worse ; now look at it." Because, if his cerebrum was active, he would re- fuse to look at it. We tell him to open his eyes, and if he opens them, he certainly will look at it. We now say to the subject, "Close your eyes, the pain has ceased;" then saying, "When you open your eyes you will find yourself on the floor. Naturally you will get up and sit on the chair. The moment you sit down you will discover that you have a very severe nose bleed ; now open your eyes," the "now" being necessary as a conjunction to connect it with the previous statement. Other- wise, the subject would be likely to take the sen- tence, "Open your eyes," as a separate thought, do so and lie there on the floor with his eyes open. The subject opens his eyes, gets up, sits on the chair, and discovers his nose to be bleeding. Is this subject now in hypnosis? Decidedly not. His muscles are contracted, in response to his feel- ing (environment) ; his eyes are open and in the "normal" position; he is not necessarily in a com- fortable position. Other than that his cerebrum is inactive, or that the thought of a nose bleed has been put into an automatic action through his ear, no sense will respond to his environment unless it has a relationship to his present thought; he will continue to give action to all the variations of that thought until the operator's voice changes it. This is the true way to hypnotize someone.
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