The Pre-hypnosis Talk for Stage Shows

The Pre-hypnosis Talk for Stage Shows



You will be developing a Pre-Hypnosis talk for your stage demonstrations. The purpose of the pre-hypnosis talk is to actually pre-hypnotize some of your volunteers before they arrive on stage. Also another objective of the pre-hypnosis talk is to set up the audience for what will happen next. You will be using the questions and answers from Lesson 1 in your pre-hypnosis talk. Before you begin your talk, however, you will to understand what hypnosis is and what your audience is thinking about it, while you are standing in front of them on stage. You will hear some of the same information over and over as I want to burn this information deep into your mind. It is important for your success as a professional stage hypnotist.


The Basic Principles of Hypnosis


Question: What is hypnosis?
Hypnosis refers to the extraordinary power words have when surrounded by your complete attention. When you are hypnotized you are actually in a focused state of mental concentration.

Many people think a hypnotized person is asleep because of all the relaxation they are witnessing. But this is not true. As a person goes deeper and deeper into hypnosis the concentration gets more and more pronounced.

Back in the 1970s a professional boxer named Ken Norton would hypnotize himself before and while he was in the boxing ring. He became the heavyweight champion of the world by using hypnosis for concentration.

Dolly Parton, the country singer/song-writer used hypnosis to improve her song writing ability.

Lilly Tomlin a famous American and Canadian comedian used hypnosis to become more creative in her comedy writing and performing.

Sylvester Stallone used hypnosis to become more self-confident when he was selling the idea of the "Rocky" movies to Hollywood movie producers.

The American actor Kevin Costner used a hypnotist to help him overcome his fear of water for one of Kevin’s movies.

Many sports figures use hypnosis to help them improve their sports performances. Sometimes they use hypnotists to help them, and sometimes they just use self-hypnosis.

Think of hypnosis as super concentration because that is exactly what it is. That super concentration stimulates creativity and memory in a way that seems magical.


Conscious and subconscious mind----

Question: What is the conscious mind and what is the subconscious mind?

Answer: The conscious mind is the part of the mind that we use to analyze and make decisions regarding movement or activities to engage in. We use our conscious mind all day long. Think of the conscious mind as an analytical mind.

Question: What is the sub-conscious mind?

The sub-conscious mind is the part of the mind that is always active but operates behind the scenes unless we call upon it through meditation or hypnosis. The subconscious mind is triggered during flight or fight scenarios as well as when we are in a meditative state. Things that seem to operate automatically for us during the day are goals that are being accomplished by our subconscious mind.

By operating behind the scenes I mean whenever we engage in an automatic activity such as singing a song we "know by heart," driving a car, running on a treadmill or listening to music we have heard over and over again, we are using our subconscious mind.

These all would be conscious activities if we were learning the song for the first time, learning how to drive for the first few times, getting on a treadmill for the first time or listening carefully to a new song.

Our subconscious mind is like a computer. Once it is programmed it works on its own. In order to change the activity you must change the program.

A hypnotist is successful to the degree he can temporarily change the program, (with stage hypnosis) or permanently affect the program through hypnotherapy.

What does your audience think about hypnosis?

People come to your show to be entertained. All of them have preconceived ideas about hypnosis. Although, you are presenting educational facts during your pre-hypnosis talk and demonstrating those principles in an entertaining way, most people will leave with the same preconceptions they had before the show.

You will however, make a strong difference in the lives of the volunteers and many of the audience members will not only be entertained, which is your mission on stage, but they will be moved to action to overcome challenges in their lives using hypnosis.

Here is what your audience thinks about hypnosis.

Many people in the audience think you have extraordinary powers. Some people think you have ESP. Most people know that a person cannot be hypnotized against his/her will, however everyone is wondering about your opinion about that. People are thinking about volunteering but many are wondering if they will feel safe on stage. They are wondering if you will humiliate them in front of their friends. Some people think you are demonic and want to sit in the audience and watch you turn someone into a toad. All would like to be able to feel what hypnosis is like before they commit to volunteering to be the center of attention on stage.



Your First Pre-hypnosis Talk

The following is my pre-hypnosis talk for high school, junior high school, and college major event audiences. These are the shortest pre-hypnosis talks I give because schools hire me for the entertainment not a lecture about hypnosis. Usually in junior high schools and high schools I have less than an hour from the time the students begin arriving into the auditorium or gym to the time they are dismissed after the show. I will only spend two or three minutes in front of the entire audience before I ask for volunteers to march up on stage and begin the entertainment. The best way to explain hypnosis to your audience is to present an experiment that everyone in the audience can participate.

The following represents my pre-hypnosis talk with a high school assembly audience.


Pre-hypnosis Talk with the Lemon Test

The following is a typical pre-hypnosis talk:

“Thank you for inviting me at ______ high school.”

“My name is Wayne Perkins and I am here to bring an exciting audience participation stage hypnotism show.”

“You can see 16 empty chairs behind me.” “In few minutes, you will be invited to come up on stage and experience the true magic of the mind…hypnotism.”

“What is hypnotism?” “Hypnotism is the power that words have when surrounded by your complete attention.”

“Hypnosis is not a religion.” “It is just a profound state of mental concentration.”

“Did you ever listen to a song that brings back a very vivid memory of a relationship you had with someone you care about?” Did you ever get lost in a book and your Mother called you for dinner and you didn’t even hear her?” “Did you ever fall in love?”

“All of these are daily examples of hypnotism.”

“The form of hypnotism we will use today will involve an easy state of concentration.” “You will given suggestions from me, and your powerful subconscious mind will allow some fantastic and funny things to happen as a result.”

“Since I only have 16 chairs on stage, most of you will not be able to participate in the show.” “I have a brief experiment for all of you.”

“In a moment I am going to ask all of you to close your eyes.” “With your eyes closed down I will ask you to breathe deeply and relax.”

“Are you ready to experience the magic of your mind?”

Close your eyes down tight.

“With your eyes closed down, inhale deeply, hold it, now let it go.”

“Your body is relaxing, deeply relaxing.”

“Now, I am going to count to three and when I reach three, open your eyes and focus on me, here onstage.”

“One, two three, eyes open.”

“With your eyes open focus your attention on what I am holding in my hand.”

“I am holding a large, sour, bitter, juicy, yellow lemon.”

“You can all see this large, sour, bitter juicy, yellow lemon.”

“It is such a large sour, bitter, juicy, yellow lemon.”

“Now I take my knife, and I cut into the rind of the sour, bitter, lemon.”

“I am now squeezing the sour, bitter, lemon and you can all see this sour bitter juice trickle to the floor.”

“Now I take and I suck on this sour lemon.” (I physically suck on it very loudly into the microphone)

“And as I suck on this sour, bitter, juicy, yellow lemon, notice how your mouth fills with saliva.”

(You will hear laughter and sound of astonishment coming from the audience)

“This is suggestion the basis of hypnotism.”

“The lemon gives your mind a picture of something sour and bitter.” “When I enhance the picture with the suggestions I am giving you about the lemon’s characteristic, these ideas pass from your conscious mind into your subconscious mind, and your salivary glands secret saliva.”

“It happens automatically.”

END OF THE HYPNOSIS PRETALK


Use hypnosis pre-talk for your high school audiences. You will be able to overcome some of your audiences’ fears of volunteering and you will be insuring the success of your show.

Wayne F. Perkins

“My mission in life is to help you achieve your mission in life.”—Wayne F. Perkins


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