Posts from ‘July, 2009’

We’ve all had special days, days that we will look back on for the rest of our lives. Today was such a day. Having been in the audience of an excellent 4 day seminar given by Gil Boyne on Clinical Hypnosis I had been invited to interview him at his home in Islington.

In this video, Gil demonstrates a number of deepeners, and how a person is willing to entrust their balance or equilibrium to the hypnotist.

Newspaper reports that “TOP California hypnotist Gil Boyne has proved that his incredible psychic powers can cure arthritis and dissolve kidney stones without the use of drugs or surgery.”

In this video, Gil discusses various indicators of hypnosis, and how the critical factor of the conscious mind can be bypassed to allow suggestions to be more readily accepted. Gil demonstrates this by asking the subject to forget a number, and by asking her to adopt a new name for the duration of the demonstration. [...]

A suggestion is an idea that reaches the mind through the five physical senses and/or the basic perceptions. When you read a book, you discover many ideas but they can become suggestions only when they begin to move into your internal mental system. When you begin to classify and identify and filter them as “Now, [...]

In this video, Gil demonsrates how to use a rapid induction with a subject who is standing, and how to safely guide the subject to the floor. This rapid induction takes just seconds, and earned Gil the title of “World’s fastest hypnotist”.

In this video, Gil demonstrates the effective use of the rocking deepener.

When an idea is presented to an adult mind it is screened against the accumulation of knowledge, experience and the interpretation which is stored in the “critical factor of the conscious mind.” It’s function is to act as a filtering screen, so that when ideas are presented we have a way of analyzing them. We [...]

In learning to hypnotize you must first learn to recognize suggestibility. As you gain experience you will develop an intuitive feeling about the suggestibility of the individual – but in the beginning of your career, you can give tests to discover your subject’s initial level of suggestibility. The subject must be somewhat relaxed and free [...]