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.

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

There is no such thing as a good subject or a bad subject. Everyone has a natural capacity for response and it is within our human nature to respond. However, there are differences in the response level and many call the difference “resistance”. Let’s create a scenario. You are in your office with a client [...]

Many experts believe that there are only two main approaches to the induction of hypnosis; paternal and maternal, or authoritarian and permissive but that’s a meaningless concept which has no connection with this work as I teach it. The “Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy” is the title of a paper that was presented In the journal [...]

The direct gaze induction is one of the most effective hypnosis inductions a hypnotherapist can employ, although it takes some practice to master. In this video, Gil demonstrates the direct gaze induction, eye catalepsy and post hypnotic re-induction.

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

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”.