Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis: A Professional Hypnotist Reveals New Procedures for Inducing Both Deep and Self-Hypnosis
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This book is dedicated to those who aspire to a fuller understanding of hypnotic procedures. It is my purpose to show you, the reader, how to develop any individual into a receptive, hypnotic subject, and to give you the necessary understanding and knowledge required to achieve this end. You will also be instructed in the use of my original techniques, which have proven to be so wonderfully effective in my long experience as a professional hypnotist. A careful reading of the book will not only be rewarding because of the wealth of information contained in it, but will also assure the reader maximum professional efficiency in the exciting, and fascinating practice of professional hypnosis.
Melvin Powers
Melvin Powers (1922-2013) was an American author and book publisher, best known for his line of self-help and inspirational books. Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his own mail-order business at age 16, selling books on the subject of chess and gradually added new titles and new subjects. He purchased books from publishers at wholesale and sold them for retail, adding to each order a flyer advertising the other titles he had currently available. With the success of his first venture into publishing in 1949—his own book, Hypnotism Revealed—Powers started Wilshire Book Company in Los Angeles, California. His first big publishing success came in the early 1960s when he purchased the paperback rights to Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and published it in a trade paperback format—a larger size than the mass market paperbacks that fit into racks in supermarkets and drugstores. An even bigger success was his publication of the paperback edition of Psycho-Cybernetics by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, which became a multi-million bestseller. His book How to Get Rich in Mail Order, published in 1980, was an all-time bestseller on the subject and is considered the bible of the mail-order industry. He has taught seminars on mail-order techniques at community colleges throughout the Los Angeles area. When songwriter Tommy Boyce, best known for writing songs for The Monkees, entered his office with a manuscript called “How to Write a Hit Song and Sell It,” Powers decided to try his hand at songwriting. With personal coaching from Boyce, and classes in composition and lyrics at UCLA, Powers co-wrote some songs with Boyce that made it onto the country and western charts. He passed away in 2013.
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Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis - Melvin Powers
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ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF HYPNOSIS
BY
MELVIN POWERS
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF HYPNOSIS
A SMALL PICTURE OF THE POWERS HYPNODISC
The above picture shows the Powers hypnodisc. Its original size is twelve inches in diameter. It is placed on a phonograph turntable and as the subject looks at it, the hypnotist suggests hypnosis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 11
FOREWORD 12
CHAPTER I—What Every Hypnotist Should Know 13
CHAPTER II—The Psychological Approach and Technique 16
CHAPTER III—You Can Hypnotize Anyone 20
CHAPTER IV—Advanced Methods of Hypnotism 24
CHAPTER V—Eight Original Techniques for Inducing Deep Hypnosis 28
CHAPTER VI—New Procedures for Acquiring Self-Hypnosis 35
CHAPTER VII—Waking Hypnosis 44
CHAPTER VIII—Secrets of the Stage Hypnotist 49
CHAPTER IX—How Instantaneous Hypnosis
Is Accomplished 53
CHAPTER X—Hypnotic Techniques in Psychotherapy 58
CHAPTER XI—Hypnotism Does Help 64
ONE HOUR HYPNOTIC RAIN TAPE (3³/4 IPS) 74
HALF-HOUR HYPNOTIC RAIN RECORD 76
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 77
FOREWORD
THE PRACTICE of hypnosis is as old as history itself. This fascinating art was first introduced to the world in the ancient land of Egypt, and has persisted to the present day. It was, doubtless, passed on through the priests of Egypt, Persia, and the Levites, and later spread to the Greeks and Romans, who kept its fire aglow so that Europe could benefit from its warmth at a later date through the experiments of such friends of man as Mesmer, Charcot, Bernheim, and others, who did so much to contribute to our deeper understanding of this dynamic force.
Hypnosis is not a mystic rite, nor is it a stage trick performed solely for the edification, and delight of an audience. It has been a part of man’s history too long to be looked upon as mere entertainment. It is, primarily, a technical means of helping those who are in distress because of subjective fears, or pressures of whatever kind, be they of a mental, spiritual, or physical nature. It is with this serious purpose, and with the scientific implementation of hypnosis, that we are concerned in this book.
There have been many books written on the therapeutic value of hypnosis. Numerous volumes have dealt with its history, and many more have been concerned with its various phenomena. There has, however, been comparatively little written about the actual technique of inducing the hypnotic state. Since this phase of hypnosis has been so woefully neglected, we have not had the rapid technical development our vital science so rightfully deserves. This volume is designed to remedy that lack.
I have personally known psychologists who had given up using hypnosis solely because of their inability to effect the hypnotic state in their patients; but who, when at last were properly shown how easily this state could be induced in most subjects, were finally unanimous in their enthusiastic acceptance of its therapeutic value.
This book is dedicated to those who aspire to a fuller understanding of hypnotic procedures. It is my purpose to show you, the reader, how to develop any individual into a receptive, hypnotic subject, and to give you the necessary understanding and knowledge required to achieve this end. You will also be instructed in the use of my original techniques, which have proven to be so wonderfully effective in my long experience as a professional hypnotist. A careful reading of the book will not only be rewarding because of the wealth of information contained in it, but will also assure the reader maximum professional efficiency in the exciting, and fascinating practice of professional hypnosis.
Melvin Powers
12015 Sherman Road
No. Hollywood, California 91605
CHAPTER I—What Every Hypnotist Should Know
IN MY OPINION, the hypnotist must firstly be a person of the highest integrity, who is ever aware of his responsibilities to his clients. He must be firmly grounded in the study and understanding of psychology and its techniques; of affable address; of sympathetic attitude; of pleasant and reassuring manner; of calm understanding and patience; so that the total impression of his personality, inevitably creates the favorable rapport that is so essential to the success of the able hypnotist. The hypnotist must above all have complete confidence in himself and his technical efficiency, since to be effective, it is necessary that he speak with the surest authority, so that he can control the subject completely.
Even if you chance to be a beginner in this field, you must still proceed in a manner that will instill complete confidence in your subject, since it is not likely that you will be successful if the subject becomes aware that you are a novice in the field of hypnosis, for no one is inclined to be the first subject of an amateur hypnotist, no matter how enthusiastic he may be. You must never fumble in your procedure, and if questioned, you must have a confident and ready answer for whatever question that may arise in the subject’s mind. To say, I do not know
to a question, is to destroy whatever confidence the subject may have in you, thus eliminating any possibility of achieving the harmony so necessary to successful hypnosis. In the event that the correct answer is not known, it is still necessary to offer a convincing explanation, so that no loss of prestige would affect the successful conclusion of hypnosis.
It is further always important to remember that mistakes will be made, no matter how many books have been read on the subject of hypnosis. It is the purpose of this book to make the hypnotic procedures so clear that errors in methodology will never occur at all, or, at least, very seldom, if the book’s principles are conscientiously applied by the reader. It is, above all, the actual practice that creates the skill and proficiency of the successful hypnotist. It is, therefore, advisable that the budding hypnotist find as many subjects as he can, so that he can most quickly arrive at that stage of proficiency which will mark him as an efficient technician. It is my suggestion, if you are a novice, that your first subject be someone who is not too well known to you. In fact, a total stranger would be best, since not being aware of your apprenticeship in hypnosis, he would respond with more alacrity than your friends, or members of your family. You would thus be given a greater opportunity to become familiar with the hypnotic techniques and to develop your skill to the fullest possible degree of virtuosity.
Once your reputation as a hypnotist is assured, the prestige which redounds from this distinction will predispose others to seek you out. In my experience, as a professional hypnotist, I have observed that it was particularly those persons who had been referred to me by my former patients, that made the most excellent subjects for hypnosis, since they have been pre-conditioned, as it were, by the enthusiasm of those beneficiaries, who had come under my influence in the past. These new subjects, therefore, having become favorably disposed toward my person and reputation, very quickly fell under the control of my hypnotic suggestions. Since they had already been sold
on my competence as a hypnotist, it was only necessary to maintain their lively confidence in my reputation, and to proceed quickly to the conclusion of the hypnotic state with them. With such subjects, it was not necessary to spend either time or energy on the pre-hypnotic talk, since these were not required, due to the favorable condition that had been created in advance through fore-knowledge of my reputation. I, therefore, immediately proceeded to the actual hypnosis; working as rapidly as I could to induce the deep hypnotic state, which is the goal of every hypnotist. This procedure had obviously been made much easier for me, due to the advanced state of suggestibility with which these subjects came to me, as a result of their