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hi welcome to the manchurian approach DVD I'm here with Anthony Jaclyn marvelous very nervous about shaking
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your hand at this point this is essentially a DVD on hypnosis for magicians yes it is okay now a lot of
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people may know you already from your book reality's plastic now this is a book that you wrote as it two years ago
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now yeah about 18 months ago okay see months ago and we discussing it wasn't
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specifically aimed at magicians or Mentalist but a lot of people kind of who are into that type of thing bought
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the book had success with it and this is kind of bridging the gap between magic mind-reading and the hypnosis absolutely
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and there are lots and lots of books and and learning resources out there for
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hypnosis most are geared towards either hypnotherapy or stage hypnosis and there
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are some good products if you like reality is plastic which is this book
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here is a book on impromptu hypnosis so
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essentially if you're not planning to be a stage hypnotist or hypnotherapist but you would like to give demonstrations of
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hypnosis then this is a relevant book for you yeah I mean that's that what's nice about it is I think with stage
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hypnosis and certainly hypnotherapy one of the things that people immediately think of is very specific conditions so
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I hypnotherapy you know the therapy room stage hypnosis you know does the audience you know play a part in this
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whole theatre theatrical piece but this is essentially in a bar on the street but yeah or anywhere else it could be in
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a sales presentation it could be a middle of a mentalism effect it could be you know in as part of a parlor effect
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yeah we're doing demonstrations with a whole audience so yeah by impromptu that
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doesn't just mean that it's unannounced or unplanned you're not gonna cut someone go to sleep well you can get you
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can someone and go sleep yeah right and and and it covers that too but ultimately I just want people to become
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a hypnotist so that in any situation whether it's in the middle of a magic
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effects or at a party they are able prop free to get into a performance of hypnosis and
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absolutely yeah that's a great point and what you've sort of touched on oh yeah prop free so essentially if you are a
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magician or Mentalist or something and you're out with friends or you're out in a social situation someone says do something you haven't got your card your
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favorite you know maybe Pete devised a bill it work you can use the techniques which we're going to set out on here to
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do a very very good situation once you learn this you'll be able this will be something that's kind of in your back
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pocket forever and I think you you said something relevant there with regard to
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magicians learning this and then the next logical step being how do they apply it and that is relevant but yes
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perhaps 60 70 percent of copies of reality as plastic have sold to
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magicians right it's a very popular book with them and again partly that is part
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of the reason for that is that hypnosis is one of the original mystery arts along with a good Q&A act and contact
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mine reading you know hypnosis is old-school and has been around for a long time but more recently I think
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people have imagined you need a degree in psychology or you need to be an NLP practitioner to be any good at it
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neither of those things are true in fact qualifications will prevent you from getting started but you know quite often
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magicians learn it they learn the techniques but the next leap they have to make is how do I apply it how do i
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mix this in with a card effects a coin effect a mind-reading mind-reading effect absolute so I want this DVD to to
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a go over you know the the techniques of doing hypnosis but secondly how to
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routine it in to your act so suit your character yes it's not like it you're not all of a sudden just jumping from
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doing being a magician into him so you're kind of blending it so it's all part of your performance and all weaves together yeah in a very natural way
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let's talk briefly about the structure of this particular DVD project yeah now
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this is going to be sort of split into two sections which is going to be the inductions themselves and the actual
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hypnosis and then moving on to the magic stuff so this is this could be for someone that's never you know perhaps
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read the book or learn hypnosis has no background in it this they could take this and go from start yeah the the structure
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we're going to use is very straightforward I am going to talk about how I open up a group of people and get
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them interested in the idea of being hypnotized and taking part in some of the group exercises from there we're
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going to go into the setup process that's how in a few sentences you can
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get people on board figure out who's likely to be your best candidate for it
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how to deal with objections and fears people have will then get into what I call the set piece which are exercises
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that some people will know as suggestibility tests or exercises in waking hypnosis I call it a set piece
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because they're not really that good his test right but there are a lot of things you can achieve in terms of building
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this hypnotic relationship with your potential subject from the set piece we
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go into the inductions at which I'm going to just teach you two key
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inductions one will be the handshake induction and another is either hand fixation you'll see that from those two
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and the set piece exercises you actually have a lot more to play with a lot more freedom I'm not going to try and run
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through you know and repeat all the information that's in but you know I'm
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not ashamed to admit that those two inductions are the two that I use in pretty much every single performance of
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hypnosis and magic okay so you don't need tons of inductions that's just your
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means to get the person in and yet if it has some drama and some Flair then it
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will also help get other people in to get their attention so we do the inductions and we're going to talk
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briefly about deepening and how it brings somebody out and then the first
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kind of phenomena that I typically get into things like arm levitation
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catalepsy being aware I'm able to move getting people laughing and I mean the
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subject not just people that are watching this up like this is uncontrollable yeah uncontrollable laughter getting them corpse in with laughter and then
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from there we'll get into the the kind of heavier phenomena of hip it's okay hallucinations amnesia the
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post hypnotic act how to use posted like suggestions well and you know health and
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safety is key along the way you have to understand as a hypnotist yes it's fun but ultimately you're in charge of the
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moral and ethical and Health and Safety boundaries so we are going to cover that kind of stuff too we will then look at
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how to use all these phenomena in the context of being a close up card guy in
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the context of doing magic on radio in the context of a mind-reading parlor act
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okay so ditch try and put it in some different context yes along the way you're going to you know see people
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doing silly things cool but the aim of this is to make it relevant to magicians
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yes so that people can kind of go anything oh I can use that I could work that into what I'm doing yeah and kind
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of enhance what they're doing with the hypnosis and I like the fact you've picked you because you said it in the book that it's far better to master a
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couple of inductions as opposed to try and learn five six or seven and you know kind of get to grips with some of them
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so those specific inductors that you talk the item fixation and the handshake induction both realize both quite visual
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yeah for people watching as well also with the set pieces which is something
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that with people will see in the live performance footage what are you doing it with a group to select it's probably a good time to just quickly ask you now
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when you're using a set piece obviously to select the best subjects and are
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there certain people that just cannot be hypnotized or within reason can anybody
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be hypnotized as long as they're kind of got the faith in you because you said on the book you know they have to know that you think of yourself as the hypnotist
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that's not you quite strongly sort of set out in the book yeah so is that kind of a quite a key element I mean anyway
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it doesn't matter who it is as long as they're kind of gonna go with it and go with you I proceed with the assumption
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that everybody can be hypnotized okay okay so it's I don't I don't walk into a bar and think he'll be good she'll be
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awful he's too analytical she's a stupid and yeah occasionally people will prompt
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those kind of thoughts in my mind of course and when they do for some bizarre reason it tends to come true
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that person is too stupid or that person is too anything right okay but as a rule of thumb you you cannot tell who might
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be good who will not be good until you you know get through your opener get
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through your intro and get into them and what I'm interested in at that point and
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we'll talk about this with me when we get into this stuff in more detail is who's paying most attention who is
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fascinated who is sitting there listening to me so almost got a thing of cost ahead pick me pick me yeah it's
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like you look at me no seriously look right here underneath my eye yeah yeah take a deep breath in those guys sleep
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now they put the a deeper deeper sinking floating drifting down in a moment I count to three and on the count of three
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you'll be back in the room feeling absolutely fantastic and really really ready to be hypnotized 1 2 3 wide awake
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hey don't Chris I just have no explain
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what just happened there for people watching her cuz that's them I mean we firm we spent time together before you
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know I'm very very about ever shaking hands with you I'm like quite a good
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subject then because that was straight there I mean I know you didn't even go through the set piece in that only thing
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is I've seen you guys before or did we set anything up no there was no setup there are you already hypnotized before
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we know it no indeed so the point is you can just go straight in right ok and that's about the hypnotists I'm sort of
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leaning away okay but my preference in
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to answer your question is to play as a numbers game to approach as many people as you can right and to work with the
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people who on that night in that mood with that hypnotist rise to the top yeah and to leave other people thinking well
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that could have been me or a wish that had been me and then you'll find out their expectation and their anticipation
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helps pull them straight straight into your your game as it was a nice thing as well as if people are already kind of
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experienced with magic and mentalism and being a performer then they've got kind of a little bit more of a leeway into
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this you know they've got a bit more of a confidence they're used to dealing with people as well and they've got sort of something to fall back
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if they kind of I don't know maybe if they fluff it when they do it but there's no reason why they they should I mean II know there's no that's very
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saying that is a massive advantage knowing that you know understand the the set piece exercises which are simple and
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anyone could learn some of them look like schoolboy tricks things like magnetic hands yeah things like that
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okay when you read it and you know how they work and you know as simple they are it's it's easy to think well yeah
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you know I know that but let me get on to the big stuff but I can assure you when you get a dozen people around the
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table doing these exercises yeah you are entertaining them yes and you have an opportunity to lead off at that point
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that was your demonstration of mind over body yeah that was it you never promised
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a full on stage who knows know you've done something you've supposed to control their movements without your saying so if you were to do that and
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then to come in with a strong piece of magic or mentalism whatever else it is you happen to do then nothing is ever
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lost okay yeah but we're going to talk about that we'll talk in more detail about you know when to proceed when not
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to proceed and how you can play that because it's one of the fears people have what if they don't go what yeah
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what if they don't know what about if I go out there and I do sleep and they just go what are you doing
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sure and what's an occasion that happens but we'll talk about that too great okay let's get into it
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I answer let's kick off with the opener
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yeah the opener so you walk into a bar or you're at a party and you want to initiate some hypnotic experiences for
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people look I'll say this I am NOT
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naturally the demanding to be the center of attention so this is something I
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better pay attention to right now there to learn and I've developed this
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approach by looking at walk-around magicians who are very good some
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Mentalist I admire and even the work of pickup artists okay who spend a lot of
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time thinking about their openers you know approaching people on the street because they're strangers completely exactly so and ultimately that's what
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you're going to be doing as a performer and if you want to do street hypnosis or or you're a magician you want to
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introduce this to people you don't know and at some point you've got to mention the words you've got to say it and we'll
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talk about covert applications and noticing it later on but right now let's imagine that we're going to be open
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about this and the first tip it's kind
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of based on something that came from a discussion with Paul Brooke now if you don't know Paul Brooke is a fantastic
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mentalists he's producing great products and written some interesting books and in one of his books I believe it's
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called on Mephisto shoulder that has some of these kind of darker effects in he has a serial number from from a bank
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note the ocean effect and this involves walking up to someone you've never met before on the street or a party and
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asked asking if they have a wallet or a purse asking them to take a note out of
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it and then without touching it without looking at it you name the serial number that is the stance on that bill and it's a wonderful
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effect okay and also I'm not going to talk about the method but what was of
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equal interest to me when I heard the effect this year but how do you walk up to a stranger and just ask them to get help and I know tell how does that
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actually happen and Paul said something that I think is very relevant to hypnotists and that is that he
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introduces himself as a performer so he stops that person and just says hi I'm a performer can I show you something so
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this is very generous not specific type of performance just a price I'm a performer so that gives you a huge amount of
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latitude with regard to the things you can then ask people to do you can ask people to put their feet together you can also understand in a particular
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fashion and as he's demonstrated you can ask them to get a note out of their wallets something they wouldn't normally
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do yeah so that's the first point I I used to walk up to people and say we're
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hypnotizing in here this evening or we're doing some filming I'm a hypnotist or you know I'm employed by the the bar
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to entertain this evening I'm a hypnotist so given a rationale behind it yes yeah but I've found it much much
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more effective if I say hi I'm a performer I'm a hypnotist okay so that's
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the first point just using those terms the former gives you latitude saying hypnosis introduces what you're about
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without saying your name you've introduced yourself you are the hypnotist from that point and their
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expectation is well I guess I or someone here may get hypnotized if we carry on to people looks very very intrigued
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aren't there you mentioned hypnosis and they go oh yeah what is it I think a lot of people are you know especially in
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these impromptu scenarios when they're not expecting to see perhaps it misses you know they think what does it look like what does it feel like to be
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hypnotized and there is that entry but by saying you know I'm a performer first you've you know introduces of someone that's professional at what they do
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obviously very confident and competent as well and like you say gives you that kind of yeah absolutely and you know on
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my training courses for magicians I trained intensively in the morning and
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then in the afternoon we go out on the streets and of course with you go straight in the field and the point is
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you have to kind of pretend and master it you do have to wing it a bit and being professional being prepared to
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call yourself a hypnotist rather than just a few but the point is as you know
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because you hypnotize people you know saying you're a hypnotist fires up that that model they have of hypnosis so even
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if they've only seen it in movies even if they've only seen stage hypnosis on TV or they've only seen a stage hypnosis
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act well you know holiday in Spain somewhere they've already got some
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kind of iconic images and and you know the typical words that hypnotist might use so as early as possible when I
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approach a table my mention hypnosis to get it out there just get out and immediately you know because some people
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will just naturally rise to the top and say I was hypnotized on holiday last year oh really was it a good experience yes there were you out there doing
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whatever routine great well I'm a just I'm not gonna focus on an immediately but that's kind of like a little ace up my sleeve I know that I've got someone
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over there who's gonna be God that's good very great so that's the first thing I'd open is just be a
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professional so you're a performer if it's relevant to your character in the end the second yeah forming in and
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mention hypnosis say you're a hypnotist and look at people as you say that okay
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yeah paying close attention to peak because some people just go oh I'm
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interested yeah and you know they're hanging on your every word yeah you know so so that's the first thing the other
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thing is just to be aware at this early stage of your body language and I'm not going to you know preach to performers
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who have got years more experience than me yeah but just a few points on it that helped me being open so kind of being
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your best self you know being kind of as big or bigger than the group yeah and
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that involves kind of lots of open gestures hands out feeling like you're doing at the magic just exactly like climate they don't much you know
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virtually hi I'm a performer I'm a hypnotist the other kind of mistake a lot of people make at the beginning is
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when one person shows them it's some interest and perhaps you know a couple of other people over this side of the
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group don't quite often you know just for that to dive into that comfort zone but he's honing in on that person
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straightaway now you could have some fantastic subjects that you're mentoring the rest of debate that you're missing
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so at that point even though you kind of make a mental note of that person who seems clean and fascinated you know for
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those for that first minute then you know my suggestion is to continue to be open and try and pull other people in
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yeah so what's not nice about your approach as well in the way you structure this this whole approach to
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getting into the hypnosis is they say if you've got people over here that are maybe a bit more reserved the set piece
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that you do everyone can get involved in there's no pressure and you know even if these people are more reserved when this
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sort stuff starts happening the magnetic fingers it's going to build their interest even more yeah so if they are
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you know sort of verging on being interested at being a bit more reserved not like these people who jump down up and down over here perhaps that's going
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to pull them right in without you kind of taking any risk and bit thinking you know all should light you know she like
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just sewn on these people am i ignoring people no so so so you know that's exactly it so remain standing if that's
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the way you can include most people be open physically look people in the eye
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and you know just making a mental note of who's paying you most attention that's that's that's literally the only
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thing I'm doing there okay smiling looking at who is locked onto me who's fascinated already okay great so that's
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the first thing the second idea is something drawn from the work of doc
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he'll furred I can't surf mentalism him sab solutely all right fantastic gentleman fantastically creative
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Mentalist and I looked at system 88
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which is essentially if you don't know it's a cold psychological reading sawyers it's like all the questions
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exactly the questions and the cube and all this kind of stuff and it's it's brilliant you know and it's one of those
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things where you know I'd kind of read it and looked at it and wondered if it would work and you know I'd heard that
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readings kind of drew people in but that was never really part of my act but I
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then got the opportunity to see doc hillford performing this in it in a bar in London and he barely got through the
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door before it started in three hours later he was he was still only a meter from the door and again I've only got
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too many details about system 88 I do rate it I don't think it's a great system you don't picture yourself as
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being psychic there are no props or anything involved it's just done with mind to mind but what I I want to talk
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about is what he calls the approach which is kind of equivalent to the open okay talking about now now Doc's opening
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line is I could ask you just five questions and know everything about you
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that's immediately intriguing it's immediately intriguing so it does a number of things firstly it introduces
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who you are again you may not have said your name but you obviously oh the - odana dress
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obviously suck you know this introduces your character secondly it introduces
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the kind of the playground it introduces you know gives the person and
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expectation of what's going to follow well if I carry on talking to him I guess we're in a play some kind of game
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and he's going to try and get into my head or it may just be a complete unknown and they're just like oh really
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or no you can't but it elicits a response that's the third something else so it introduces you it introduces the
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kind of feel that you'll be playing in and it also elicits a response so in my opener and essentially I'm trying to
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achieve those three things even if it's saying hi I'm a performer I'm a hypnotist would you like to try something and so it does all that this
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is again I'm just kind of backing up what I've said already but when you're crafting your opening lines try and
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achieve those three things make sure that they introduce you make sure they introduce the subject without I'm gonna give him 20 minutes of waffle about
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hypnosis and hitting into this very quickly this is just getting straight into it and eliciting a response of
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either you know because when you say hypnosis you get one of a few responses no one is just like oh yeah which is a
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final response you know there's nothing wrong with fear that is that is that's good for narrowing the attention yeah
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the other responses people point at a friend and just say what you make him do something stupid yeah which again is all suggesting that it's
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fun it's interesting and and that you can do that as well and the other
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responses people are just fascinated enough to ask yeah I've never met a
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hypnotist before yeah or you know I've heard that so many times I've never met a real hypnotist you know all those or
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they'll just say what does it feel like to be hypnotized because they're intrigued they've still got a few of you
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you know it's a little bit nervous for you it sounds about it so that allows you to then get into your your actual
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setup yes come to that so yeah you know
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some stuff on doc Hill for then system 88 which is is a manuscript or a PDA I believe it's available I think you
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deserve a set of these products and but you know this is just the first part yeah but it achieves a lot and it's
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helped me kind of tweak my my opens great okay okay and one other set of
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ideas again this is based on the the self-styled guru of speed seduction and
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I'm not going to suggest he is anything other than that a gentleman by the name is Ross Jeffries an American an American
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guy he's been around for you know involved in this kind of world for I guess a couple of decades at least and
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it's extremely accomplished with his conversational language pattern this was
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just walking up to people on the streets and yeah I don't know a huge amount of
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Battenberg featured in a in a British TV show hosted by louis Tharu I imagine it
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was called weird weekends and he was he was actually tracing following different
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hypnotists as one of the people he spoke to an interviewed was Ross Jeffries who
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actually came across pretty well you know it was a program run by Louis Theroux and at one point he he was being
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taught by Ross how to approach women on the street from stone cold walking
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straight up to him and you know with a view to getting talking to maybe getting their number yeah all right now Ross had
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a very very simple approach to doing this and it's kind of easy to remember and again I think it's relevant to us as
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performers and especially as hypnotists and the the formula is compliment
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introduction question in that order do not skip any of the steps compliment
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introduction a question okay okay you know you thinking of this is a pick up tool so again let's imagine we're in a
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busy bar yeah walk up to a table you know again in this context it's going to sound incredibly cheesy and okay and dry
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but you know what could a compliment be it could be you walk up to a table when it's like alright it looks like this is
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where the party is yeah you know you guys look like you up for a laugh or you two look like you're
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quite creative or you know you look like an intelligent table and until I get
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like a smart person yeah you know not it's nothing too creepy but and the
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point about this is it can be any compliment at all you just have to give people a compliment right as soon as
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you've given them a compliment you introduce yourself hi I'm Chris I'm a performer I'm a hypnotist so you've gone
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straight hey so you've kind of got this little wedging that all you've now introduce yourself and you've introduced a playground okay and then you ask a
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question you know so it's on the street it's goodbye I just you know I just have to say you you dress with such such
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panache oh Anthony you know and then you
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ask a question so in this context compliment introduce yourself in the playground again yeah and ask a question
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can I show you something interesting or can we play some mind games it's more
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you know are you up for trying something just just simple stuff again being very open with your body language yeah
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and I find that people just respond and say yeah sure so this is all I mean this
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is great because this detail you know it's all very very essential this is before you've even got into any of the set piece that you know any of the
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induction or effects and this is literally just how you get up to these people and you know even introduce it
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you know just introduce yourself generally yeah whatever you're gonna show and the only reason I'm I'm you know kind of laboring the point because
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I appreciate this when we boil it down it comes to town to a few sentences is because I've been there I've been there
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desperate to wheel out some hypnosis you're wanting to try a new routine when I've been there with magic and it's kind
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of well how do you initiate it how did you get into it and what I would say is that you know these are the techniques
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that work for me and I know when I train people and they use these techniques that they work for them you'll find that
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you know 60 70 % of people will then get involved in the next thing you want them
