Tony Gaschler - MODERN HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES. Advanced Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis

The fourth basic exercise The fourth basic exercise Sit at a table with the pendulum and the pendulum board ( ill. 2 ) and bring the pendulum to a standstill. Then, as in the first basic exercise, picture in your mind very vividly how the pendulum starts to move in a circle in a clockwise direction. You must make sure that you make it very, very vivid. You can also use your eyes in this exercise by following the pendulum’s imagined movement to the right with your eyes. Let your eyes follow the circle around. This will strengthen the mental picture and make it more animated. At the same time, you should start to repeat the following phrase in your head: “The pendulum circles to the left in an anticlockwise direction!” --- The pendulum …” etc. This creates a conflict between visualization and thought. That is to say, it creates an internal conflict between dynamic ideas and thoughts. You will see that visualization triumphs over thoughts and the pendulum really does turn to the right, exactly as you pictured it.

The difference between thoughts and visualization The difference between thoughts and visualization This fourth basic exercise shows us that: 1.both mental pictures (dynamic ideas) and thoughts can be at the center of our consciousness at the same time. 2.both can be contradictory at the same time. 3.in a contest or conflict between thoughts and visualization, visualization will always win. 4.there is a clear difference between thoughts and visualization.

The subconscious or “ideomotor system” The subconscious or “ideomotor system” In all the literature on hypnosis, and even more so in all the psychology literature, you can read a lot about a so-called “subconscious”. In the subconscious, suggestions and autosuggestions are supposed to materialize. Well then, just who can picture this dubious subconscious? In this self-study method, I use the term “ideomotor system” for this subconscious. This allows you to picture something beyond this term, and this is important if you want to achieve success and not just accumulate factual knowledge. The word “ideomotor” is made up of “idea” and “motor”. In this combination it means: “cause movement to happen through ideas”. “System” is understood to mean that part of our entire nervous system that makes it possible for ideomotor actions to take place. You can picture the human ideomotor system as the part of the nervous system that plays a role in the perception of vivid ideas and in triggering ideomotor actions. You have to admit that this description is much clearer than the word “subconscious”, for which it is much more difficult to picture the meaning in practice.

Additional basic exercises Additional basic exercises When mastering suggestion and hypnosis, a lot depends upon your own experience. This is why I would advise you to carry out more exercises with the pendulum yourself. Here are some suggestions: 1.Lengthen the pendulum and try the exercises when standing up. 2.Use the pendulum when you are in different moods. If you are agitated, concentrating actively on a mental picture will calm and distract you. 3.Try to devise other pendulum exercises yourself. The pendulum, as it is used here, is a material, scientific instrument. Please do not use it for superstitious games and fooling around, such as for fortune-telling, divining lottery numbers etc. As a future hypnotist, you should think clearly and objectively, for it is only from this that success can grow. Those people who are involved in superstition and mysticism do not enjoy success in life, for their thinking is not focused on the essential, or on the reality to be found in and around them. If you do not search for truth where it really is to be found, namely in life and in being active, then you place yourself outside of life, and should not be surprised when success avoids you like a leper in every aspect of life.

Clear basic terms Clear basic terms Before we carry on to the next set of exercises with test people, I would like to try and explain some basic terms to you. 1. Idea: By idea we mean a mental prototype, a fundamental term. We have to differentiate between normal ideas that do not trigger ideomotor actions and vivid ideas. For this reason, from now on we will use a new word: v i d e e (formed from vital and idea). By this we mean vivid (vital) ideas that have an effect on the ideomotor system and trigger actions there. 2. Imagine - visualize: By this we mean activities that consist of imagining or visualizing an idea or videe. Imagine = to form or have a mental picture (an idea or videe). Visualize = to form a picture of something in your conscious mind. 3. Suggestion - autosuggestion: By suggestion we generally mean any type of mental influence. This includes everything that contains videes, including: words, gestures, actions, images, symbols, written words etc. Suggestion is the act of placing videes through words, gestures, acts, images, symbols, the written word etc. in the ideomotor system of a person. Autosuggestion = suggestion made to oneself, influencing oneself, placing videes in one’s own ideomotor system through talking oneself into believing something or by visualization etc.

A new term: “videe” A new term: “videe” To explain this new term “videe” as clearly as possible, here is an example: If you were to picture Napoleon in your mind as you might have seen him in a painting, then you would be picturing an idea. This is passive and would not have any particular effect on you. However, if you were to picture yourself as Napoleon or you were to picture having to play the role of Napoleon, then you would be placing a videe in your subconscious. Your entire behavior, your appearance, your facial expression and your entire personality would purposely alter to fit the videe. Please note: ideas are passive mental images, passive prototypes. Hence, they do not produce any effect on the ideomotor system. Videes, on the other hand, are active, dynamic mental images, and are active and effective prototypes. They trigger actions in the ideomotor system.

Lesson 3

The first suggestion exercise

Systematically finding test people

Suggestion exercises when awake

What suggestion exercises are all about

Basic rules for suggestion exercises

The second suggestion exercise

The dynamics of gestures

Lesson 4

What happens during suggestion exercises

Deprivation of personal liberty through hypnosis and suggestion

The third suggestion exercise

The dynamic moment during your exercises

The core problem of the suggestion technique

Lesson 5

The fourth suggestion exercise

What to do if hypnosis occurs during suggestion exercises

How to form suggestions with words

The fifth suggestion exercise

Is a hypnotic gaze necessary?

The diversity of expression

The sixth suggestion exercise

The advisable sequence of exercises

Lesson 6

The theory of movement

Putting theory into practice

The seventh suggestion exercise

The transition to hypnosis techniques

The eighth suggestion exercise

Part II (Lessons 7 - 12)

Lesson 7

The first hypnosis experiment

The first hypnosis test

The simple wake-up method

A wake-up formula for deep hypnosis

A simple method to deepen hypnosis

Lesson 8

The second hypnosis experiment (a quick method)

The theory of hypnosis

The mysterious physiological hypnosis process

Hypnosis and the human gender function

Systematic hypnosis – now possible

Lesson 9