When I first started to learn hypnosis I had pretty much the same questions, concerns, issues, mistakes, expectancies and misconceptions as most newbies have, only difference is that i did not exactly have the privilege of the IAYH to help me along the way but also had the good fortune of befriending some of the best in the business and have my concerns answered and the determination to make the mistakes that I needed to in order to grow and learn as a hypnotist…
But one of the things I am noticing that has not changed since I started is that the so-called newbies in hypnotism are asking the same questions I did all those years ago, the same questions most hypnotists asked some point in their life, the famous questions on the ‘mechanics’ of hypnosis.
The questions like:
“Leo, I saw your video on X Induction, I read your post, and I tried X induction and it just doesn’t want to work for me, how do you do it?”
“I did the X induction and they kinda went into hypnosis but the didnt stay, when do I say ‘sleep!’? what deepener do you use? how do you get it to work for you?”
“Leo, why do you make it look so easy? even Nathan… but it never works for me :’(”
This entire Lesson is an answer to those famous questions, so sit back, relax, and absorb.
One of the greatest things to realize as a hypnotist as I mentioned earlier is to not stick to one ‘style’… hypnosis is hypnosis, the mind is the mind, and any ‘style’ could and would get you the desired results, no school of thought exists without some success but why stick to just one school of thought?
I am Leo Gopal, and my partner here on the International Association for Youth Hypnotists, Nathan Thomas, have arguments all the time on styles, theories, beliefs, we differ, but neither of us win our fun little debates, because neither of us are wrong, we accept and belief one works best for us, we get rid of limiting beliefs and we embrace beliefs that would increase our success, simple.
There is no ‘mechanics’ to hypnosis! Yes! I know! Thats what I called the lesson, but we do say “Sleep!” when hypnosis is not sleep now, right? Good, glad you agree, now lets go deeper… now into the actual reasoning that changes one from a newbie to someone ready to go out and hypnotize anyone right now…
The Greatest transition of understanding that a hypnotist makes towards success is when he realizes that hypnotism, no matter what style, form, or school of thought is being used, is not… a mechanical process. I repeat: Hypnosis is not a mechanical process
There is no, do x and y and z into hypnosis now, especially with inductions, when doing the handshake/arm pull induction the hand has to be at a 30 degree angle adjacent to their waist and you should have a 180 degree angle eye contact with the subject, ‘Sleep!’ should be shouted at just about 35 dB at 0.2 seconds after you pull the arm in a 90 degree angle to the ground at approximately 15 miles/h in order for the induction to work!
o.O now you see why Nathan and Myself are Master Hypnotists, we can actually pull that ^ off…
By the way, the above is just me giving a sarcastic, cynnical blurb into hypnosis being mechanical, none of the above about the arm pull induction is true. However, this is a very vital and important concept to understand in order to achieve the success you desire as a hypnotist.
Hypnosis is not about a mechanical induction, a memorized pretalk, scripted suggestions, etc
Something to ponder for the next lesson:
Did you know that the ‘process’ of ‘pretalk-induction-deepener-suggestions-awakener’ does not really exist, it was just named and created that way for us to be able to teach and learn it ourselves…
Did you know that the divisions of the mind like ‘conscious mind’, ‘sub-conscious-mind’, ‘unconscious-mind’ do not exist either… its merely a way for us to possibly attempt to understand the vast glory of the mind, which with our simple layman definitions can not even grasp its complexity… but we try… and it works… but it does not exist…
Did you know there is no such thing as hypnosis either? (I feel some debates brewing here) but then again… everything is hypnosis… it all depends on your definition of hypnosis… here is mine:
“Hypnosis is the alteration of a person’s subjective reality with the establishment of acceptable selective thinking through communication”
Get it?
Well, basically, hypnosis is just a pure, refined level of communication (verbal, nonverbal) where you get a person following your suggestions (sounds a lot like persuasion, doesn’t it?)… that is what persuasion is… so what is the difference between being a good persuader and a good hypnotist… in hypnosis you get to actually change the persons entire reality, give them hallucinations, remove pain, achieve the seemingly impossible… hypnosis therefore is persuasion at the deepest level…
Following that definition, you would understand that there is no actual need for “trance” and that hypnosis can then take place at anytime, anywhere, and with anyone… knowing this now, gives you more hope and confidence in actually performing hypnosis, doesn’t it? because after all, everyone can be persuaded, cant they?… it does… and they can… right? 
Hypnosis works on 3 simple elements basically… remember them as BIC (not Business Intelligence Center) but Belief, Intent and Confidence.
The Belief that hypnosis exists and that it works, the Intent of what you wish to achieve and the Confidence to achieve it. Notice that this BIC can be applied to anything in life?
Also notice that this “lesson” does not teach you anything specific in actually ‘performing’ or ‘practicing’ hypnosis but it still is a lesson that makes a major difference, now integrate this into your current workings, find the most suitable way of using this information and create within you the master hypnotist you desire to be and watch how you improve everyday in everyone into achieving that hypnotic success, sounds good? Great, because it is!
Summary
Hypnotism is not a mechanical process and you can not become a good hypnotist by being a mechanical student, do not learn something of by heart, learn how it works, how it fits together, why ‘a’ makes ‘b’ happen. Every hypnotist is unique as every subject is unique, subject ‘a’ will be perfect for method ‘c’ but subject ‘b’ may not… utilize everything you can when hypnotizing, utilize everything you can to learn more, adapt yourself to the subject, do not expect your subject to adapt to you (especially in covert hypnosis)…
I do hope this lesson has helped and made an impact in your belief in yourself and your hypnotic abilities to be able to go out there and do it now… 
See you in the Forums,
Eternal Smiles,
Leo Gopal
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