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Techniques of hypnotism

Disciplines > Hypnotism > Techniques of hypnotism

There are many techniques used in hypnotism. Here are a number of them.

• Affirmation: Support the person.
• Ambiguity: Many meanings happen at once.
• Confirmation: Telling them it's working.
• Fixing attention: To occupy the the mind.
• Hand-clasp: A useful test of suggestibility.
• Levitation: Magical floating arms!
• Linking: As your arms relax, your shoulders relax too.
• Noticing: You might have noticed that you are relaxing now.
• Pausing: Giving time for things to sink in.
• Progressive relaxation: Relaxing one part at a time.
• Relax-repeat: Just keep saying 'relax'.
• Tense-relax: Tense muscles then relax them.
• Vagueness: Certain words work well.
• Visualizing: Getting people to see things.
• Wondering: A method of indirect command.

See also

Assumption principle, Confusion principle, Distraction principle

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