I’m happy to announce that the long awaited squeal to Speed Trance: Instant Hypnotic Inductions has finally arrived. I have been waiting for this project for a while as I’m a fan of Street Hypnosis.

For those of you not involved in it you are losing a lot of money as Street Hypnosis is a great way to get clients and lots of fun. For those of you looking to spread the truth about hypnosis their is nothing better than educating people on the street, hypnotizing them, with permission of course and giving them feel good suggestions.

Street Trance: How to Do Impromptu Hypnosis is a DVD Project by Richard Nongard and John Cerbone, both who carry a lot of weight in this field. They are most known for their last best seller Speed Trance, which changed the way I use Instant and Rapid Inductions. For those who are not interested in street hypnosis you should still get this DVD because the stuff you learn in can be directly applied to your hypnosis practice or used when giving demo’s and workshops on hypnosis.

Remember, we as hypnotists have to think of ourselves as marketers. Think outside the box and you’ll find your pockets filling with cash pretty quickly. Some of the things you will learn in this DVD from Richard and John is….

• Learn how to demonstrate hypnosis and hypnotic phenomena – instantly – anytime, anywhere, with anyone with Richard Nongard and John Cerbone!

• Learn Lighting Fast Instant Inductions that Work!

• Learn More Original Instant (6-second) Inductions, step-by-step, from John himself

• Learn to Perfect your Pre-Talk for Successful Impromptu Encounters (how to drop them everytime)

• Learn to Create Mini 1-Person Stage/Street/Party/Anywhere Shows on the fly!

• Learn New Applications for Using Instant Inductions in Stage, Street and Clinical Settings

As with all Richard and Johns training videos, this set includes both classroom lesson as well as video clips of Richard and John performing these techniques live, in public places, with complete strangers. Learn the methods step-by-step, understand how and why they work, then see them demonstrated live, with real people in the real world.

It’s one thing to learn the theory, its a whole another thing to see these theories put to work in the real world. You will have a blast learning and demonstrating these new techniques – and your performance skills and confidence will soar as nothing teaches you confidence quicker and faster than street hypnosis. If you want to purchase Street Trance Click the link to your right!  ===>>>>>  Street Trance- How to Do Impromptu Hypnosis

Speed Trance Review

As many of my readers know I’m very outspoken about my beliefs when it comes to the use of Instant and Rapid Inductions.

I personally believe that every hypnotist should know more than just a Progressive Relaxation. I also believe that you need to know other inductions as well, but as you begin to study and learn them you’ll start to see how powerful these types of inductions can be for you and your practice.

It doesn’t matter if you are a stage hypnotist, street hypnotist or a clinical hypnotist. These inductions can aid you in almost any situation.

The problem with your typically Progressive Relaxation Induction is that it can take anywhere from 35 min to 45 min depending on the ones you use. Another problem with them is that at the end of the whole thing you don’t even know if they are in hypnosis or where exactly they are. Now, don’t misunderstand me as I believe and know relaxation serves a vital purpose in the overall health of a person, but these people are paying you to hypnotize them and help them out with whatever situation they have in their everyday life. In some instances, I might use a Progressive Relaxation Induction if the client is in some discomfort or if they just want to do a relaxation session. Still, in my opinion this model of hypnosis is outdated to a degree.

What is so great about Instant and Rapid Inductions?

So what is so great about Hypnosis Inductions? Well one thing is they can be used in a wide range of settings including Street Hypnosis, Clinical and Stage. Instant and Rapid Inductions are great when you need to get straight to work as they don’t take long and they are perfect when working with very analytical clients. The reason why is because they happen so fast the client doesn’t have time to analyze what is happening. This is great because now the paying client is actually getting their money worth and you have more time to work with them if needed. Also, most of the time they also get a person into a deep state of hypnosis bypassing the need to start at a light state and work your way down or up. Some Rapid Inductions even have testing built right in to make sure you know where they are at during the session.

So If I had to put a definition on these two types of inductions than a Rapid Induction would be any induction that is 4 min or less and a Instant would be a induction that is 10 seconds or less. So as you can see they are much faster than the standard 35 or 45 min progressive relaxation induction. Now this leads me into the reason I started this post, which is, something called Speed Trance.

What is Speed Trance?

So what exactly is Speed Trance? Well if you thought Instant Inductions were fast than you haven’t seen anything yet. Speed Trance Inductions seem to take a total of 5 seconds or less in the majority of cases and maybe even faster than that in my opinion.

They are a unique style of very rapid instant inductions. John Cerbone and Richard Nongard who are both excellent Hypnotists developed the concept of Speed Trance. I have always consider myself to be pretty damn good with Instant and Rapid Inductions and quite fast at them, but I was quite surprised at how fast these inductions were compared to some of the ones I was using. Beside Speed Trance Inductions being very fast they also look very cool, which is a plus if you are doing stage or street hypnosis.

What Makes Speed Trance Unique?

I have bought many Instant and Rapid Inductions DVDs and most of them are usually just a showcase of Inductions. They really don’t explain anything beyond what they look like. Most products barely even touch on the concepts and theories of why they work and how they work. The Speed Trance 2 DVD set is more than just a showcase of creative looking inductions. It actually serves as a How to guide on how to perform these unique inductions and gives you even more value as it goes into troubleshooting, deepening, safety, rapport building and more. Some of the concepts and techniques taught on the 2 Disc set will actually improve your other instant and rapid inductions as the techniques behind Speed Trance can be applied to other ones as well.

Can’t I just watch Youtube to Learn Speed Trance?

It’s funny though because people e-mail me once in a while and ask why I should buy the DVD when the inductions are right on Youtube. I honestly feel sad for people who ask me this for a couple of reasons. One reason is just because you can imitate an induction doesn’t mean you can ‘do’ the induction. Yes, it is true that some people can mimic an induction and actually get it work. Now the other part to this is that I promise you that if you just do this method you will fail most of the time. Why? Because you don’t understand how they work, you don’t understand how to set them up and the principals behind them.

You won’t be able to adapt it or trouble shoot it if necessary. This is why watching the actual DVD set is important as it gives you all the missing pieces of the puzzle. You will know exactly how these inductions work, the concepts behind them and be able to adapt them or use them in all types of different context. This is why it’s important to know the truth behind them and not just mimic some quick youtube clip.

It’s not very professional to walk up to someone, claim you can hypnotize him or her, but if they ask you how it works you couldn’t tell them. So now that I have cleared that out of the way lets get to Speed Trance: Instant Hypnotic Inductions.

What You Will Learn in Speed Trance

John and Richard start off with a pretty fun and general discussion about Speed Trance and the theory behind Instant Inductions. This is very important as it lays the foundation for you to understand why they work and how they work. As for some reason people tend to think these inductions are fake or some form of magic, which I can promise you they are not. I really enjoy watching these two work together as they have a really great chemistry. Listening to John speak is worth the price of the DVDs as he is from New York and quite a fast talker which makes the convo between the deep voiced Nongard and the fast talking Cerbone quite funny.

A great feature on the DVD set is that Richard and John just don’t talk about Speed Trance, but they actually demo it live with a group of people at a local bar. This is really great to see because it takes classroom information and actually shows you it applied in a real world setting. No pre-conditioned people or stooges, just people who we’re at a bar looking for fun. John even demonstrates a one-man hypnosis show, which was pretty funny. The humor plays a big part of this DVD set as John has an ‘interesting’ style of hypnosis and might have split personalities. (I’m just joking John) The humor actually serves a purpose, which Richard and John cover later in the DVDs. Either way it keeps things entertaining rather than falling asleep while trying to watch the program.

As I mentioned earlier they give tons of real life examples, stories, tips, and John even hypnotizes Richard, which is pretty fun to see. Now, I know some of you are wondering if these are the standard Shock based Inductions or surprised inductions? They are not those types of inductions, but instead combine the use of many other hypnosis techniques such as:

• Sensory Overload
• Confusion
• Eye Fixation & more

This DVD does assume you have some type of previous knowledge about hypnosis or inductions, as this video does not teach you how to hypnotize someone. Remember an induction isn’t hypnosis; it’s just an induction. The Inductions start you on the path of the hypnosis, but these DVDs do not teach you about suggestions and etc.

Personally I think even if you have never learned how to do an induction you could learn it from this video. I have a great deal of knowledge on this subject and even I found a couple of good points I didn’t consider before and that made it worth the price. I think anyone who has never been introduced to these types of fast inductions will be amazed at what’s possible. I have also used every single one of the Speed Trance Inductions within my Hypnosis Practice and they all work great. Very simple, creative and easy once you understand how they work.

Flaws with Speed Trance

While Speed Trance is a really great DVD it has a flaw which is the editing in some places. There are parts that make you feel as if the editing may have been rushed. This really doesn’t affect the overall lessons learned from the DVD. So unless editing is the only thing you care about than I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Still, I feel as if it was my duty to let you know.

My Final Thoughts on Speed Trance: Instant Hypnotic Inductions

So by now, I hope I have given you a little insight into the 2 DVD setSpeed Trance: Instant Hypnotic Inductions. I personally recommend this product and no its not just because I have a affiliate link set up with them. I could set up links to a hundred different programs that provide much better rate of returns, but as you know I believe in credibility and value. I spent years of my life training in hypnosis and I spent lots of money on good products and bad ones. I can only imagine where I would have been if I only spent money on good products.

I am asked this question a lot by both new hypnotists and those who have been in practice for quite a while. They just can’t seem to wrap their minds around the concept, or they are afraid to try different forms of demonstration, so I try to explain what hypnotic phenomena is really all about.

Okay, so you have a clinical client or a stage subject, and you’ve hypnotized them… What now?

Most people think of Hypnotic Phenomena only in terms of Stage Hypnosis skit performances – see the guy start to sweat when you suggest that it’s hot, see the girl raise her arm like a balloon, and so forth.

Unfortunately, this is often the extent of hypnotic phenomena demonstrations you see in stage shows. But there are so many more things you can show the audience and have your subjects experience – beyond just dancing like Madonna or posing like a GQ model. Hypnotic Amnesia is a very powerful demonstration on stage, yet I’ve met tons of hypnotists who don’t use it – won’t even try it – simply because they are afraid that it won’t work.

Get over it – IT WORKS! If the subjects will follow your suggestions to pretend they are swimming like a fish, or to cuddle their shoes as if they are pets, they will also forget their name, where they are from, and who they came to the show with. Confidence – on your part – is all it takes. Full body catalepsy demonstrations were once the expected show climax, but are not really recommended these days, due to safety and liability concerns. However, you can still pull off some astonishing effects with simple arm or leg catalepsy demonstrations.

What Are Positive & Negative Hallucinations?

Positive and Negative Hypnotic Hallucination is just fascinating. Have you gone invisible in front of your guests yet, or made an object become invisible? This is an amazing type of skit that audiences just love, because there’s no denying that it’s really working.

There was once a video clip on the Internet of a stage hypnosis show where the hypnotist actually has an alligator walking across a lady. She is laying on the stage, and she does not see – or feel – the alligator that is climbing over her. This is a demonstration of a “negative hallucination;” something that is obviously right in front of their eyes – is not seen, or felt or heard, as the suggestion may indicate.

“Positive hallucination” is when you tell the subjects that they will see something that simply is not there. A common use of this is when the back of the hypnotist’s pants are said to go missing, and their bare behind shows when they turn around. This generates a variety of giggles and gags from the subjects. If you’ve seen many of Brian David Phillips’ posts recently, you may have heard the term sticky hypnosis. This phenomena generates a ton of bewildered laughs. Stick the subjects feet to the floor, or their hands to their head or to a wall, or their bottom to the chair – and no matter how hard they try, they can’t lift – the harder they try to lift, the more they are stuck. Great fun.

Now, let’s get clinical for a minute. You can easily use Hypnotic Phenomena in clinical sessions, and they can help you achieve long-lasting results.

This client has never been hypnotized before, and he needs to quit smoking for several reasons, immediately. Richard utilizes an eye-focusing awareness induction, followed by a bit of confusion. Then, to enhance the effectiveness of the age-regression ‘as if you never smoked’ suggestions, he works in an arm catalepsy effect to draw out all negative resistance and blocks to success. This video was filmed 11 months ago, and the client has never smoked since.

What Is Arm Catalepsy?

Using arm catalepsy in situations like this – gathering up negativity, anxiety, depression, fear, confusion, anger and so forth – helps to focus intensity on the suggestions, driving them deeper into the subconscious.

This technique can also be useful for ‘giving the client what they want’ when you have one who wants to ‘feel’ the power of hypnosis and to ‘know’ they are hypnotized. To achieve this, after the catalepsy is in full swing, simply have the client open their eyes and see their arm, acknowledge that it’s stiff and rigid, and then close their eyes and pick up where you left off. Sometimes this bit of ‘proof’ will exponentially enhance the therapeutic efficacy for clients who are skeptical or resistant.

In this video demonstration, Richard has the client’s arm drop to release the tension and let go of the negative blockers – but another powerful effect is to have the client open their fist and feel the built up negativity shooting out of their fingertips, out into the ether, dissipating into harmless nothingness, never to return.

Age regression is useful in many clinical situations to help the client remember what it was like before (they smoked, gained weight, became phobic, etc). This helps re-center the subconscious, generating the valid idea that what once was, can be again, and offering a set of emotions and behaviors as resources to draw upon for altering today’s behaviors towards the desired goal.

That’s all I have time for now, but I hope to have offered some interesting thoughts to ponder as you create your next show or get ready for your next clinical session.

~ Paula Saxon Nongard, MA,CCH

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