Fun With Hypnosis: The Complete How-To Guide

During college, one of the more impressive stage shows I have ever seen was a group hypnosis. I watched a stage full of about 25 classmates all under hypnosis doing the most surprising things. I would have thought the show was 'rigged' if I had not known several of the people personally. Several years back I attended to a local county fair to see a similar show. That got me intrigued and I ultimately purchased a couple of books on hypnosis to see what this was all about.Fun With Hypnosis is a short paperback, but with some very interesting content. The chapters near the end of the book talk about self-hypnosis. At the time I was having problems getting sleep at night so the section on getting a good night's rest looked interesting. I remember taking a couple pages of the narrative, scanning them into a optical character reading and converting them into computer generated oral text. After assembling the parts in order, I sat back to review the recording which was about 7 minutes long. Kind of dry and boring. Did not think too much of it. Surprising that night and for the next two weeks I slept like a baby. I was impressed. The only nexus I could make from the sound sleeping was the review of that recording.Since then I have burned that oral narrative to a CD for periodic evening listening when my anxiety level is high and I need restful sleeping. I will admit the impact of the recording is less now than the first time I listened to it, but I am impressed. The stuff really works.I have never been part of a mass hypnosis (at least I don't think so), but I will vouch that hypnosis (in general) really seems to work.I have always liked this book for its ease of reading, basic content and introduction to a totally different topic from the norm.

I have read a few books on this subject and have also done some training in it, but I have to say, I liked this book a lot. It is to the point and easy to follow. Gives some good scripts and enough information to get going. The only thing I feel I would not do which the author does in some instances, (and is not really necessary) is to lean people forward (chest to knees) I personally have a bad neck and back and this kind of movement would only aggravate the problem, so taking this into mind, I would not want to do this to anyone else, or at the very least, without being very sure they are medically fit to be in this position! Otherwise, I think this book is great and well worth the read.

Useless and dangerous. Only trained professionals should try to hypnotize somebody, not someone from a cheap book.

Fun and witty little book

Helping me lose lbs.

Fun With Hypnosis: The Complete How-To Guide by Svengali is, by far, the best book on hypnosis I have ever read. It slowly shows the reader the history of hypnosis. It explains how it is used worldwide in the medical community. It then goes through testing; to relax the subject and to test if he/she responds to your commands. After testing, he tells you how to induct a trance, deepen the trance, mulpitle routines you can do, all with great detail and with word for word scripts that get results. After those chapters, hedives into stage hypnotism and odds and ends, followed by a helpful self help section on self hypnosis for eliminationg and starting habits; for example stop smoking, dieting, and good study habits.

Maybe if you can get your "subject" to stop laughing at you. Maybe if you can get over the cheesey wording and stop laughing yourself. Maybe, just maybe, this might work. Until I see someone use this book live on me or someone I know, I shall cling to my doubts about the effectiveness of the teachings in this book. If you really, really desire to read it..maybe you should check it out at your library and save the money.

This book is wonderful for a beginner; explaining suggestibility tests, A little bit of history, the subconscious mind, stage hypnosis, and self hypnosis. Open the door to your mind and help others to open the doors to their minds as well. Not only were the exercises fun for me, but everyone involved had a blast and really hypnosis can be learned so easily.

A great book well written its a very professional book good value very informative highly recommended if you like Hypnosis

I feel this is a pretty good introduction to hypnosis. The content is well structured and straightforward, and is consistent with what I have previously read on the subject. It's an easy read with plenty of scripts and not too heavy going on the theory. But don't expect the humour of a Derren Brown book!However, the book is let down by very poor editing/proof-reading. The book is self-published I believe and as a self-publisher myself I do understand the difficulties, but it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the book is littered with typographical errors - some particularly blatant - which ruined the flow for me at times. Having said that, nobody else seems to be troubled by it so maybe I'm just a pedant.(Author: do feel free to contact me if you'd like a list of my mark-ups! author@pauljnewell.com)

I don't know about that last review but this book is great! The title makes the book sound cheap, I think a new title should read "Become a Stage Hypnostist and Have Fun Making Big Money" If you are planning to learn hypnosis and maybe becoming a stage hypnotist, then this book is for you. This book will teach you everything for perfoming as a stage hypnotist. Please remember that a stage hypnotist is not a therapist and should not attempt any kind on therapy. What you will find in this book covers more than what is really needed to know about stage hypnosis. I think I will use this book in my class as my guide for teaching stage hypnosis. I have spent thousands of dollars and weeks in hypnosis classes, this book teaches you all that for $20. What a buy! GET IT!

This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn hypnosis. You will not read this book and be able to hypnotize someone, but if you study the book develop a proper hypnotic script for putting people into trance, and practice a lot, you can achive great results with this book. Forgot about the expensive hypnosis classes.

Das will ich nie (!) selbst praktizieren. Aber wie das funktioniert bei der Show-Hypnose und bei wem, das interessierte mich sehr. Nun weiß ich's. Neugier befriedigt.Der Autor ist offen und witzig.Was er über sich selbst sagt und zeigt, darüber musste ich immer wieder lachen, wenn ich das Buch zur Hand nahm. (S.114)