http://positivetranceformations.com.au/blog/stage-hypnosis/ Are you allergic of the limelight? Are you not comfortable of being the center attention of the crowd? Stage fright that is! Do you want to put an end of it? And ready to give your inner confidence and self-fulfillment? Then Stage hypnosis might all you need! Hypnosis, on the other hand, is considered a very fast and effective cure for anxieties and phobias. So you might wonder, "Is there a stage fright hypnosis to treat your fear? Then it’s proven effective! Visit us for more!

1. Stage Hypnosis

2. Ok, we’ve posted plenty about
hypnosis and hypnotherapy and
some of the reasons why people
turn to it for help. But what
about stage hypnosis? How is it
similar to “real” hypnosis or
clinical hypnosis and how is it
different?

3. Stage hypnosis comes in two
main types. The first sort is the
best known sort – where you
have a hypnotist up on the stage
who calls up volunteers from the
audience to be put into what is
referred to as a trance. Once the
volunteers are put into a trance

4. they are given a series of
commands, usually to do
something ridiculous or
hilarious, though usually within
the bounds of good taste and
decency. The volunteer might be
told that when they put on a
huge pair of sunglasses,

6. they will see everyone in the
audience with no clothes on;
they will not be instructed to take
their clothes off… or at least not
in any of the stage hypnosis
shows I’ve seen or heard of.

7. The second type of stage
hypnosis was used as part of a
traditional magic show. In these
old shows, the conjurer’s
assistant was put into a trance
(or appeared to be put into a
trance, anyway) before being
used for illusions such as being
sawn in half,

9. levitated up off a table covered
in a sheet, put into a cabinet to
have sabres seemingly thrust
through them and more.

10. This writer recently saw an old
Laurel and Hardy black and
white film (“A Haunting We Will
Go”) where the comic duo act as
assistants to the conjurer Dante,
and Dante seemed to use this
form of stage hypnosis quite
frequently.

11. (At one point, he tries to put
Stanley into a trance, and when
Dante wiggles his fingers,
Stanley wiggles his ears… but
I’m getting distracted and I’d
better stop before I tell you the
whole plot.)

13. The main thing that stage
hypnosis of both types has in
common with clinical hypnosis
is the trance. The trance state is
considered to be the hallmark of
hypnosis and is what gave
hypnosis its name (it comes
from the Greek word for sleep
and a trance state looks like
sleep to the outsider).

14. In both types of stage hypnosis,
the subject (the volunteer or the
assistant) is told to stare into the
hypnotist’s eyes. This mimics
what happens in clinical
hypnosis, where the subject (the
client seeking help from
hypnotherapy) stares at a focal
point. the trance.

15. In stage hypnosis, it appears to
be the eyes of the hypnotist and
his/her personal energy or power
that puts the subject into

17. However, in clinical hypnosis, it
isn’t so much the eyes of the
hypnotist as the voice. The
subject of clinical hypnosis can
stare at any focal point they
wish, even their hands or a pin
on the ceiling.

18. In stage hypnosis of both kinds,
all the power seems to be in the
hands of the hypnotist and the
subject seems to fall into the
trance against their will. In
clinical hypnosis, it is frequently
stressed that nobody can be
hypnotized against their will.

19. The get-volunteers-to-do-silly-
things type of stage hypnosis
has another parallel with clinical
hypnosis: suggestions.
Suggestions implanted by the
hypnotist while the subject is in
the trance affect the actions of
the subject once he/she comes
out of the trance,

20. with the altered subconscious
(where the suggestions have
been implanted) producing the
change in behavior. This
happens in clinical hypnosis and
is how hypnotherapy works, to
put it very briefly. This principle
of suggestion is exaggerated for
effect in stage hypnosis.

22. There a number of other ways
that stage hypnosis differs from
clinical hypnosis. Firstly, stage
hypnosis is always very public.
It’s a show and everything is
made to be as dramatic a
spectacle as possible. Clinical
hypnosis, on the other hand, is
very private,

23. especially as it is usually done
to help someone with a problem
that can be quite intimate and
personal. And the sort of trance
induced in stage hypnosis isn’t a
real trance at all, as any clinical
hypnotherapist will tell you.

24. The subject is not in a relaxed
state and the trance appears to
be induced almost instantly – a
real trance requires relaxation
and takes time.

26. So what is going on really with
stage hypnosis if the subject isn’t
in a real trance? Why do you see
that staid person from the
accounting department rushing
around the room squawking like a
chicken when they’re normally as
dull and quiet as a calculator?

27. Why does the conjurer have to
put the lady in the sparkling
leotard into a trance before
sawing her in half?

28. It’s easy to explain what’s going
on with the conjurer’s type of
hypnosis. Here, it’s part of the
atmosphere of mystery and
illusion. There’s something a little
uncanny about even clinical
hypnosis, and it is no secret that
even clinical hypnosis has drawn
on the techniques of the yogis
and gurus and has a touch of
mysticism about it.

30. Stage conjurers draw on this to
give a sense of mystery and
supernatural power as part of
their act – and the assistant is
faking it as part of that act. What’s
more, the actions of the
“hypnotized” subject and the
actions of the conjurer as

31. he/she puts the assistant into the
trance also serve to distract the
audience from the mechanism of
the trick. Not all conjurers use
fake hypnosis as part of their act
and plenty of professionals get
on just fine without it.

33. But what about the other sort of
stage hypnosis? What’s going
on here is more complex. When
a person volunteers to be the
subject of a stage hypnotist, he
or she probably knows the sort
of thing that they’ll be asked to
do

34. It is highly likely that the
volunteer actually wants to do
these crazy things in public. Yes
– even the staid, boring types.
The hypnotist gives the subject
an excuse to act like an idiot in
public and get away with it – after
all they “can’t help it” because “I
was under the power of the
hypnotist”.

35. In the case of the dull accountant
described above, probably
he/she has been itching to break
out of that professional role and
get out of the rut but without
endangering their business
image. Humans are funny
creatures…

36. positivetranceformations.com.au