I Create as I Speak (Abracadabra) by Lewis Lé Val

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I CREATE AS I SPEAK * LEWIS LE VAL





























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“Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the t he hardest hearts.”

– Patrick Patrick Rothfuss.















Contents 1. Introduction & What is Suggestion?

2. Paradigm Shift – Shift – Your Your Frame of Mind

3. Finding a Good Subject

4. The Methods

5. Stepping Beyond

6. What if it Doesn’t Work? Work?

7. FAQ from Audience

8. Final Thoughts

9. Acknowledgements

















1. Introduction.

Dear reader, please take a moment to try this for me. Take a deep breath in, and then close close your eyes and count to five in your your head as you exhale. Then open your eyes and continue reading. Do that now! **********

Why did you do that? Because I told you to? Exactly. That, in its most basic and simplest form imaginable, was suggestion. In psychology the definition of suggestion is the action of influencing a person to accept an idea or belief uncritically. So if, at its core, suggestion is as simple as that, then how much more difficult can it be to use it as a form of entertainment or part of a performance?

















What follows is the way I, personally, use suggestion while performing. This is how I do it, and with enough practice and understanding, you will be doing it too!

There are many different names for suggestion. Subliminal suggestion, waking hypnosis etc. I wish to keep your read as simple and as clear as possible, so throughout the book we will be referring to suggestion and hypnotic phenomena simply as ‘suggestion’. Put simply, suggestion works through words spoken, words unspoken and your actions. It needs all three to work effectively. I will be giving you as much detail as I can on how you can use suggestion in your performances or even as performance pieces alone. There is a wide variety of things you can do. For now though, let’s start from the beginning. Many different people have many different theories and explanations as to how and why they believe suggestion works. What follows is one

of

the

most

popular

theories.

There

are

few

hypnotists/hypnotherapists etc who will disagree with this theory, but

















guard between the conscious and the subconscious parts of the mind. Any and all thoughts and suggestions directed toward the individual are analysed by the critical factor. Its job is to accept or reject suggestions from entering the subconscious mind based on what it thinks is normal or right. So if you were to just randomly tell someone that their hand is stuck to the table and they cannot lift it, their critical factor will reject your statement because it knows the hand is not stuck. But what if you were somehow able to bypass the critical factor, and cause your suggestions to slip past it? If their brain is unable to judge if the hand is stuck or not after being told that it is stuck, it will simply believe what it has been told as the critical factor wasn’t there to judge the truth. The suggestion slips right past the guard and into the subconscious mind. The hand now becomes stuck to the table because the mind believes that it is. This is what creates the magical feeling for the person. Consciously they cannot lift their hand from the table and it feels weird, because subconsciously they believe that their hand is is stuck. So how do you bypass the critical factor? Well throughout this book I

















work, so later I will show you some methods that you can use to remove the appearance of failure. I say appearance because in our line of work that is all failure is, an appearance. Before we go any further I would just like to point out my use of the word hypnosis and hypnotists in this book. When a person is hypnotised they are given suggestions, very similar to what I will be showing you but they are delivered in a different way. Although some may argue that using suggestion alone is technically a form of hypnosis, I do not wish to over complicate things. So please remember that I will not be teaching hypnosis or how to hypnotise people in this book. I am teaching suggestion methods, ways to use words and actions to create these effects. I only mention hypnotists as they too use suggestion in their the ir performances and/or therapies. therapies.

















2. Paradigm Shift – Shift – Your Your Frame of Mind

Words unspoken. By this I am talking about something known as ‘subtext’ ‘subtext’ (the psychological definition). Subtext is simply what you are thinking during an interaction or conversation. Now maybe you don’t believe that this makes a difference, but I promise you it does. If you and

are

about in

to your

attempt mind

a

suggestion you

are

based

effect, thinking,

“This might not work, I hope it does, what if I fail?” Then without a doubt, you will fail. We can sense what people are thinking, and we do it naturally every day. If your subject or audience can sense any doubt in you then your suggestion will not work. You need to appear confident, experienced and professional. You need to appear as if you know exactly what you are doing, and that you’ve done this a million times. If you went to see a doctor and they seemed nervous or unsure of what they were doing, would you trust them? Would you take medication they gave to you? Probably not. It is the same with suggestion. Never let anybody know that you are learning to use



















It will work best with strangers or people who do not know you too well. So before you begin, keep positive thoughts in your mind. Tell yourself that it is going to work, you do it all the time, it’s going to be great, you’re an expert. If you go in to this with 100% belief in yourself and your your abilities, abilities, it will work.

Subtext has such a big

impact on how you are perceived by other people. Use it to your advantage. Next I would like to talk to you about authority. Authority is the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. You will need the same sort of authority over your subject or audience that a school teacher has with their pupils or students. Think back to when you were at school. If your teacher told you to stand at



















last time you had an argument with someone and I bet you were using larger hand gestures than usual, even if the argument took place over the phone. It is something we do naturally to deliver our message with a bit more force. Obviously don’t overdo this, don’t wave your hands around like a lunatic! Just make your natural gestures slightly larger. Another good technique is to act like you ‘own the place’. By that I mean pretending, without saying, that the venue or location that you are in belongs to you. When we go to the house of somebody we do not know too well, we are always on our best behaviour out of respect for the person, their house and their belongings. We wouldn’t just kick off our shoes, lie down on the sofa and start flicking through their TV channels, but they can certainly do that because it is their home, their space and their zone or territory. In your mind, the place you are in should belong to you. Bartenders do this with their bar, DJs



















During a handshake I tend to place my left hand on top of the shake as it is a bit more dominant. Don’t confuse this with the corporate ‘double shake’ were you place your left hand on the other side of the shake, sandwiching their hand between yours.



















3. Finding a Good Subject

So now that you are in the right state of mind to use suggestion, what do you actually say? Well, one of the simplest and best suggestion ice breakers is to ask you spectators if any of them have ever been hypnotised before. This question usually generates mixed reactions. The most common answers are; “Yes” “No” “I don’t believe in hypnosis” “Can you hypnotise me?” “Please don’t hypnotise me!” Now, it doesn’t matter what they say, but you have now shifted the



















Normally after you ask your spectators if any of them have ever been hypnotised before, you will get asked a lot of questions. If you already are a hypnotist and you know what you’re talking about then please feel free to answer their questions. If not then I recommend you Simply

do

not say

try

to

something

answer along

their the

questions. lines

of,

“Now I am not going to hypnotise anyone, we are going to try something similar to hypnosis, but nobody will be going to sleep.”

It is now time to select your subject. If any of your spectators have told you they have been hypnotised before and it worked well, then you should choose them. If not, look around the group for somebody who clearly wants you to choose them. Maybe they’re making direct eye contact with you, sitting forwards and slightly leaning towards you or appear to be a bit excited after you mentioned hypnosis. Their





















you are interesting, it is much easier for you to agree with me. So anything you need your spectator to be, just assume that they are and tell them! Even if they’re not, they will agree with you. Remember, don’t ask them if they have these traits, just assume that they have them. For example: “You seem “You seem fun and interesting.” interesting.” “You look like you have a really good imagination imagination..” “I get a strong feeling that you’re the type of person who is always up for new experiences.” experiences.” “You seem like the type of person who is very interested in this





















you have their full attention, which is always important when using suggestion. If you are interested in learning more about how this technique can be used, I recommend looking into the work of the very talented and very clever dating coach, Adam Lyons, and his work on ‘qualification’.

You don’t have to mention hypnosis if it doesn’t fit with your style or performance, you can just go right in with the suggestion. However I believe it will help if you can lead the conversation towards hypnosis, hypnotic phenomena or anything of that nature. I prefer not to





















The above should be said in a friendly tone. Now, although it is only 3 lines, there is a lot going on here. I will attempt to break down the psychology of what just just happened. “I will do this with you.” The word ‘do’ being a key word here. It implies that something is about to happen. If you were to say, “I will try this with you” the word ‘try’ says that there is a possi bility bility of failure and could put doubt in your subject’s mind. mind . A doctor would never

say

they

will

Also,

this

line

is

try try a a

direct

procedure. statement,

It

is not

always a

do. do.

question.





















4. The Methods Your right hand is extended, your subject’s hand is on its way to yours as they’re expecting a handshake. Instead of completing the shake, you’re going to take their hand as hand as you would with a handshake, bring your left hand to their forearm and use both hands to raise their arm up slightly. Their arm should be no higher than chest height and try to keep their hand almost palm down. Maintain a light grip on their arm and hand while you do this, this action should not be





















during the process of waiting for their arm to support its own weight, you should gently tap the palm of their hand with the thumb, index finger and middle finger of your right hand in a random sequence. This will slightly confuse your subject, as they will be wondering what you are doing! Confusion is a great element to add to any suggestion or hypnosis work. Put simply, when the human mind is confused, it is a bit like it is drowning, and it will take the next available piece of information that it can make sense of and hold onto it like a float, in order to escape from the confusion state. Meaning if your subject is in a state of confusion when you deliver your first













































A word on the use use of handshakes for hypnotic phenomena. phenomena. Through history there have been many people who have used and developed handshake techniques to induce hypnosis, hypnotic trance, suggestion etc. Most notably are Dave Elman, Milton Erickson and Richard Bandler. I would strongly recommend taking a look at their























harder and when, and only when you know your hand is completely stuck, I want you to TRY and move your fingers, and you will find that you can’t. The more you try to move your fingers, the less you’re able to.”

At this point you will know if it has worked because they will react!























Ok! Now I think we should recap before we go any further!

1. Frame of mind. ( A particular mood that influences influences one's attitude or or behaviour ) Subtext / positive thoughts / instant expert / authority 2. Ask a question that will shift the conversation to hypnosis or























its own weight. You can also do the three finger tapping as mentioned earlier here if you wish. If their arm starts to pull away from you, use an out. (See ‘What if it doesn’t work?’ chapter). 6. If their arm stays, begin your first suggestion script.

























doesn’t look like its working right away, just repeat yourself with a bit























Now slowly walk backwards,

from them and watch their























making their arm lock could be the above. You see, unless you’ve























arm. This is all in their head, but whatever they do, just go with it and























you to to do it with them. It’s good to be finished with one person before











































































































































































































































































































I Create as I Speak (Abracadabra) by Lewis Lé Val

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