I've been interested in quick hypnosis and the stuff derren brown does for a while. But never cared enough to actually learn it or test/experiment with it because if it were that powerful everybody would do it right?

>>17919764
No, it totally is that easy. It just takes a little practice. The hard part is finding willing volunteers.

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>practice
This is wrong. It takes trust, that's all. Most people are highly trusting and will go into trance easily. Some people have a harder time trusting and so they won't really take any suggestions until they feel like it's safe to take them.

It's not a skill you can train and it's not an act to perform. You either trust and let things happen or you tryhard and pretend it's not you doing it. The power of the mind is great, but it is YOUR power to wield. Hypnosis is simply allowing someone else to take the reigns for a bit. The hypnotist acts as a guide, that's all. If you don't trust you guide, they can't lead you anywhere. When people talk about getting better at hypnosis, they're actually talking about getting better at trusting people, getting better at listening, or getting better at understanding things.

My first and only real experience with hypnosis was having a simple foot paralysis suggestion work on me. I literally couldn't believe it, but I had lost my ability to move my feet. It took monumental effort on the part of my friends to get me to trust enough to let something like that happen, but when it did it was literally unbelievable. I literally couldn't believe it was possible, even though I literally couldn't move my foot.