Hello all, If you enjoyed my last lesson you will hopefully find this one just as entertaining.
I want to cover Expectation and convincing today in this lesson, I’ll get started with expectation.
And there we go, I just created expectation, I created the expectation that you will be reading about expectation, you will see how this ties in later.
Expectation is telling the subject what will be happening once you have performed the induction ( eyes will close and all the muscles in your body will relax), I will use Derren Browns latest live show as a example (what this video first then read on but make sure to skip to just to about 12 minutes and 30 seconds into the video for the relevant point of the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk1C_IIfufQ
So your wondering, “yep, He played a binaural tone designed to put them into trance… why did we watch that?” but the binaural tone has nothing to do with the induced relaxed state, they put themselves in this trance (I hate the word trance, Lets call it relaxed state) Derren created expectation at the start so he has told them what this tone will do to them, to further convince them he tells them ways to resist the binaural tone, at this point no layman has any reason to not believe that this tone will have a effect on them, This tone that he plays is the convincer, the tone is designed to be very bass heavy so the people in the audience can feel the sound waves passing through them to convince them that the tone is having a effect on them, for most people taking part thats enough convincing to get them to stand and convince themselves they are in trance.
Same with hypnosis, pretalk = Expectation
suggestibility test = Convincing
If you can convince your subject that what your doing is having a effect one way or another, they are hypnotized.
Hopefully you can see the point of this lesson as it is very hazy, the more you think about it, the more it will begin to make sense.
I’m Bradley Thomson and I’m out!
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