Teppo Holmqvist - 14 Jan

Hypnotic Influence:

A Master Class in Experiential Trance

Copyright 2015 Teppo Holmqvist

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First Edition 2015

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD

When I began writing this book, my goal was to create a book on hypnotic influence that I would personally enjoy reading, and could refer to again and again in consequent years. However, my original version was far from accessible. Those who were already well-versed in hypnotic influence found it very useful, but beginners were hopelessly lost with all of its intricate details and techniques. Based on feedback I received, I made revisions with the intention to make the writing as accessible as possible, while maintaining the depth and quality of the original version.

After revising the draft several times, scrapping more than half of what I had originally written and consulting with several highly trained hypnotists, everything was finished. What you are holding now, in your hands, is the result of two years of writing, editing, and research. It is meant to be an evergreen title that will benefit anyone reading it. No matter if you are reading this as a beginner or master , this book has something for everyone.

This book is truly meant to be a masters class in experiential trance. My claim is not that this book covers every hypnotic technique under the sun, but that it contains every hypnotic technique from which all the rest are derived. To be polite, if anyone else claims otherwise, that person is either clueless or trying to make things appear more complicated than they really are in order to entice you to buy more of their products.

I know this is a bold claim, but hypnosis is far less and far more than most people understand. When you get really deep into it, you will realize hypnosis is really awareness combined with behavioural flexibility , thats simply it. Many hypnosis trainings focus primarily on language and inductions, making you believe the power lies only in them. However, when you get good at hypnosis, you will find it is possible to hypnotize others without ever speaking a word. How is that possible? It just happens that when you begin to understand underlying operators for hypnosis, you will realize most of them arent related to words at all. Instead, there is a set of low-level operators that actually make hypnosis possible. So long as a person has an IQ that is above 70, and hasnt lived their whole life isolated from human civilization, you can count on these operators to exist within them. When you master using them, you will be able to hypnotize people without uttering even a single word.

However, you be asking yourself, if this is true, why didnt I write this book solely from the standpoint of low-level operators? The answer to that question is, simply because beginners need structure and in the beginning it can be comforting to know one has words to fall back upon. Ultimately, relying only on low-level operators requires confidence and experience, something that comes only with practice. Even then, I will clearly expose all underlying operators and mechanics for all techniques taught in this book.

This book covers a lot of ground in very short time, but as a beginner, it is important to understand that if you master even a third of what is taught here, you will be so far ahead of most hypnotists that it wont even be funny. You will also understand what is truly possible with hypnosis, which is probably quite different from what you have previously learned in the mainstream community. But as a beginner, it is also important that you actually read the material and carefully think what is being said. There are not many fluffy sentences in this book and if something is in the book, it is there for a reason.

While everything will be discussed primarily from a standpoint of influence, the actual techniques are content free. Hypnotic influence is content free and these techniques work equally well when doing; negotiations, therapy, dating, networking and even parenting. There is no context where these skills could not be used, but learning them requires effort. But with the right kind of attitude, and willingness to put the effort into learning these skills, you will be surprised how much your ability to influence others will improve in a span of a few months. With all this being said ...

Welcome to the World of Hypnotic Influence!

HYPNOSIS

Before we can begin talking about what you can do with hypnosis to influence someone, it is important that you understand what hypnosis and trance actually are all about. There is lot of information to digest here, and I personally recommend that you just take it easy. If you are a beginner, you dont need to fully understand everything said in this chapter; a digestion of a few main points are enough to begin. You can always return here to consult further as you improve your skill.

But my greatest wish is that you become a confident hypnotist who truly understands the theories that makes hypnosis work. I dont want you to be just another person who does hypnosis, but rather that you learn to bethe hypnotist . Not just person who practices hypnosis, but person who has adapted it as his way of being. When you learn to be the hypnotist, you will almost invariably get a hypnotic result in any and all of your interactions, without the necessity of written patterns or rehearsed routines. I want you to be able to enter into any interaction, able to hypnotize people right away without any kind of limiting beliefs holding you back.

You will need to have the ability to separate fact from fiction and further discern what might just be marketing hype, because sooner or later you will cross-train with others too. I highly encourage cross-training because many beginners, and even experienced hypnotists, often adapt a mind-set that mastering one skillset can fix all your problems. That discipline could be practically anything; hypnosis, NLP, Silva, CBT, meditation, yoga, reiki, even acupuncture. It doesnt really matter. As you begin to cross-train, you will inevitably discover two things. First, all disciplines contain some useful material. Second, all of them contain the same elements and basic truths. Many things have endured from era to era simply because they just happen to work.