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Lesson 7

If I commence the 7^th lesson with a warning, I am not doing it because I want to give you a moral sermon. No! I would only like to warn you against carrying out the exercises and experiments described in this book thoughtlessly or when you are under the influence of alcohol.

If you are going to carry out experiments, then please only carry them out to obtain experience and knowledge. Please never carry them out to impress or do a favor for friends and acquaintances. Experiments that are of value to you are justified, but never those that only serve to satisfy curiosity and to gain prestige. Such experiments should be refused.

And now we come to the first hypnosis experiment. If you have not already gathered a large amount of experience and previous knowledge, then please only start the experiment when you have successfully completed all the suggestion exercises given in Part I several times. Doctors and alternative practitioners, who only want to use hypnosis for therapy purposes, may go directly to the actual hypnosis following an in-depth study of the theoretical treatises in the first part. As they are usually experienced in dealing with people and in suggestion techniques, doctors and health professionals find it easier to master hypnosis experiments.

The first hypnosis experiment

For this experiment, use a very good TP with whom you have successfully carried out all the suggestion exercises. Stand this person in front of you. Then start to carry out the eighth suggestion exercise and, as soon as the TP can no longer open his/her eyes, say to him/her:

“Now your eyes are closed. Do not try any more to open them. Relax your whole body and listen closely to my words. You are becoming very sleepy, sleepier and sleepier. You want to sleep, to fall into a deep, sound sleep. After a few seconds you are going to fall deeply and soundly asleep. You will then only hear my voice and nothing else. --- You are now becoming sleepier and sleepier -—sleepier and sleepier. --- When I have counted to three, you will be deeply and soundly, very deeply and soundly asleep. Nothing will wake you up until I tell you to wake up. You are going to sleep deeply, very deeply. --- One --- you are becoming sleepier and sleepier – ever sleepier and sleepier. --- Two --- you now feel a deep and sound sleep falling over you, exactly as if snowflakes were falling over you --- sleep falls over you exactly the same way --- more and more, and soon you will fall deeply and soundly asleep, very deeply and soundly --- THREE! YOU ARE NOW DEEPLY AND SOUNDLY ASLEEP!”

Say these last words with a raised voice, insistently and firmly.

The TP will now sleep and you can carry out several experiments, including those described in Part III of this self-study method. For your first hypnosis experiment, however, only carry out a little test.

The first hypnosis test

Lift the TP's right arm, as shown in ill. 14, hold it firmly and then say: “When I have counted to three, you arm will be stiff, completely stiff --- one --- two --- THREE! --- Your arm is now completely stiff and can’t be bent anymore.” Now take your hand away and try to bend the TP’s arm carefully, it will not bend as it really is completely stiff. Then say: “When I have counted backwards from three, your arm will be completely normal again and will fall relaxed and normal to your side: --- three --- two --- one! --- Your arm is normal again.” Now the arm will fall relaxed to the TP's side, as it was before. Go on to say: “Now open your mouth --- wide --- wide! --- And when I have counted to three, you will no longer be able to close your mouth. --- One --- two --- three! You can no longer close your mouth! Try it! It doesn’t work!” When the TP has tried in vain for a few seconds, then say: “Now I am going to count backwards from three and when I reach the number ONE, you will be able to close your mouth again: --- three --- two --- ONE! You can now close your mouth again! Close your mouth!”

We do not want to do anything else with the TP, as this small test experiment is only to show you that you really have hypnotized the TP. Now waken the TP according to the following methods that have already been described in Part I.

The simple wake-up method

You are already familiar with this simple wake-up method from Lesson 5 in Part I. However, I am going to describe it here again. Say to the TP: “I am now going to wake you up. When I have counted to three, you will be completely awake and will feel refreshed and alert. One --- two --- three! You are now wideawake and feel refreshed and alert!” Please do not forget to learn this simple wake-up method entirely by heart before you carry out the first hypnosis experiment. Should a TP not wake up immediately, repeat the method, saying the number “THREE" very firmly and loudly and shaking the TP’s shoulders forcefully. This will definitely result in the TP waking up, for you can wake up those who are hypnotized in exactly the same way as those who are sleeping normally.

Sometimes, in works of fiction, you will find stories of people who have been hypnotized and cannot be woken up, who then sleep for weeks and finally die of starvation. Such horror stories do not reflect reality. The reality is that a hypnotized TP can always be woken up and, should one of the standard wake-up methods not work because the TP is too comfortable perhaps or too lethargic to wake up, you can call them forcefully by name and firmly shake them awake, just like a person who is sleeping in bed.

A wake-up formula for deep hypnosis

When a TP is in a deep hypnosis, which usually occurs when a number of experiments have been made with that person or if the hypnosis has been purposefully deepened, which will be described next, then please use the set wake-up phrases that I, myself, use most often:

“Your sleep will now become lighter --- lighter and lighter. --- I am now going to wake you up slowly. --- You will not feel any headaches or drowsiness after you wake up. --- Your sleep is becoming lighter and lighter. --- I am now going to count to three --- when I reach the number THREE, open your eyes and you will be completely awake --- one --- your sleep is becoming lighter and lighter --- two --- you are already starting to wake up --- THREE! You are awake, completely wide-awake! You feel fine!”

When you say the number THREE, say it loudly and like a command. Should a TP not immediately wake up, repeat the entire set of phrases in a loud and clear voice and, when you reach THREE!, shake the TP’s shoulders firmly saying: “YOU ARE WIDE AWAKE! COMPLETELY WIDE AWAKE!” There is never a problem waking up normal TPs, it usually only happens with highly strung (fragile) people, therefore never use such people as TPs!

A simple method to deepen hypnosis

I will now describe one of the simplest methods to deepen hypnosis.

After you have hypnotized a TP, say to the person: “I am now going to wake you up and immediately afterwards put you to sleep again --- then your sleep will be much deeper and sounder than it is now.” Then wake up the TP and, after a few seconds, start to put the TP to sleep again. When the TP is asleep, say: “With every breath you take, your sleep is now becoming deeper and deeper --- ever deeper and deeper!"

Then, to the rhythm of the TP's breathing, say to the TP each time he/she breathes out: “Deeper --- deeper --- deeper --- “ and so on. After about 20 to 30 breaths, then say: “Now you are sleeping completely deeply and soundly and only hear my words, you hear nothing else, only my words!” Then you can carry out those experiments for which a deeper hypnosis is preferable.

Note for doctors: to apply hypnosis as a therapy, a light sleep is sufficient. The ideomotor system is wide open in that state and your healing suggestions (videes) can enter and either become reality immediately or they can be stored up and then later become reality or, for long-lasting suggestions, become reality over a period of time. Deepening hypnosis is only important if experiments are to be carried out that could possibly activate the SELF consciousness prematurely. This will be delayed by a deep hypnosis.