Posts from ‘April, 2009’

Gil demonstrates the hand closing induction, followed by the modified Elman arm drop deepener and mental relaxation deepener.

In dealing with clients, we must secure their cooperation and trust to make certain that they respond as well as they can. Without their full cooperation, therapeutic results are delayed, distorted or even prevented. Once you have created an atmosphere of trust, confidence and an expectation of success, you can stimulate the client into action [...]

I describe the study of hypnotherapy a ‘mystic art’. Let me illustrate: Millions of people take piano lessons and a percentage of them learn to play well enough to entertain their family and friends. An even smaller percentage learn to play well enough to earn income at weddings or at an elegant restaurant. A smaller [...]

The evolution of man is in many ways dependent on the contributions of science but the modern study of hypnotherapy resists the efforts to classify and identify its nature and elements. It is a mystical art based on a spiritual philosophy and efforts to learn and practice it which are based on the theories of [...]

Hypnotherapy is not taught in universities. In fact, most professors in universities still deny that there is a vocational title of “hypnotherapist.” They still say that hypnotherapy is only a ‘tool’ that licensed mental health therapists use as one of many “techniques”.

There is no legal definition of hypnosis anywhere in the world. Below, I have included quotes from many experts who have achieved reputation with their practice and writings on hypnotism. Each of them has attempted to define hypnotism and none of them agree.

This technique is named Wolberg Arm Levitation in honour of Dr. Lewis Wolberg, medical psychiatrist and famed hypnotism pioneer and researcher. It can be used as a suggestibility test or as an induction. As a suggestibility test, the subject’s eyes are open and trance has not been induced. As a deepening technique, hypnosis has already [...]

In this video, Gil demonstrates the rapid induction that he originated, and which he is perhaps most famous for.

This news item appeared in the Sunday People on 27th September 1981

In this video, Gil demonstrates the standing rapid induction, eye catalepsy, automatic motion, and conditioning with post-hypnotic re-induction.