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Although this trick is quite difficult to perform, I will explain it in great detail so that anyone can perform it. It is best suited for a one-on-one scenario where you want to demonstrate hypnosis to someone, or you can perform it on an individual person in front of a group. If you are having trouble with this trick, I recommend looking for some easier tricks to practice first.
This trick uses awake hypnosis. You will not put anyone in a trance and the person you are executing it with will be fully conscious at all times. In fact, that’s one of the things that makes this hack so cool.
It works on this principle. Have you ever had a very bad headache that doesn’t go away? You would have noticed that the pain was often intermittent. If you were paying attention to something else, you might even momentarily forget about the pain before it takes hold of you again. It is a signal from the body to the brain that something is wrong and you consciously experience it as pain. Because we can perceive pain intermittently between focusing on other things, we can actually completely distract ourselves from the pain sensation and make it go away. This trick makes the pain go away so completely that the person feels numb. In the end, you use it to numb people’s faces so they even have trouble speaking.
To begin this trick, have the participant put their hand on a table. Make sure you are sitting next to them instead of across from them. Sitting in front puts you in an adversary position and can cause the person to resist. Tell them to take a deep breath and then relax. Say something like this “The trick I’m about to show you is really cool, but for us to pull it off I need you to listen carefully to what I’m saying. Can you do that for me?”
This does several things. First, frame the trick as “us” rather than being the hypnotist and they the subject. You are doing it together. Second, state that the trick is fun and cool. Third, it states that it needs your input to function properly. You’ve already gotten them to obey you by putting your hand on the table. You get them to comply with the request to breathe deeply. Now you can make them recognize that they are going to fulfill the question “can you do that for me?”
Now is the time to tell them a story, rich in metaphors, that subtly establishes the nature of the trick. Start talking about the pain. Tell a story about a time when you were injured and how much it actually hurt and how it relates to the pain that is only in the mind. This is a story I use from my childhood: “When I was a child, I used to treat everything as an adventure. I was always running, climbing, jumping and rolling. One day I went out with a friend to explore some rocks on the beach. My friend pointed to my hand and he said, ‘You’re bleeding.’ I looked down and saw that my hand was covered in blood and that it had been bleeding for a while. Then the pain hit me. Just a cut, but I felt the pain go straight to the bone. Suddenly, it was so incredibly painful that I started screaming and ran to find my mother. Isn’t it funny that I didn’t start feeling any pain until I saw that he was hurt? “
Now to the next step. There is a pressure point between the thumb bone and the rest of the palm. To find it, place your finger on the patch of skin between your thumb and forefinger and move it toward your wrist until you feel the bone. If you press it, it will hurt more than if you press it anywhere else. What you want to do is apply gentle pressure to that pressure point on the participant’s hand. Then ask, “can you feel that?” Wait for them to recognize it and say, “Isn’t it interesting the way we feel pain? Even though the pain goes through the whole body.” Then press even harder on your hand and ask “how does it feel?” They should answer that it hurts. Push down even harder one last time and then quickly remove your finger.
Now say, “Isn’t it interesting that even though my finger is gone, it still hurts? How even though the pressure is gone, you can still feel the pain?” Drag out the word pain as if it literally hurts to say it. Now place your hand over theirs and push down as if you were pushing air down right where you were pressing with your finger. Now say, “Notice that the memory of pain is so strong that even though my hand doesn’t touch you, you can still feel it. It feels like it’s pressing again. Can you feel it?” Ask them the question and wait for them to answer yes.
Now say “if the pain were a color, I would think it would be black. I want you to imagine the pain as a black decomposition that becomes stronger when my hand presses down.” Then slowly press your hand down on that point once more, still hovering over it so it doesn’t touch it. Now say “and it’s interesting how pain can spread. How it starts in one place and just spreads.” When you say ‘spreading’, raise your hand and quickly spread your fingers, suggesting that the pain is spreading. Say, “You can imagine the black decay spreading, as if radiating from that point.” Then start moving your hand towards your wrist and say “you can feel it extend to your wrist” then move it towards your fingers and say “you can feel it extend to your fingers”.
At this point, your participant should feel quite uncomfortable. We want to push this a bit further before offering any relief. Say, “And as it spreads, you may feel it getting blacker and blacker. You may feel the pain getting more and more intense.” Raise your hand a bit and start pressing down like you’re pushing a heavy weight on top of them, “and as my hand pushes down harder and harder, you can feel the pain getting stronger and stronger.”
In NLP, this is called creating a “loop.” We started talking about the pain, which set the cycle up. Then when you press your finger on their hand, you open the loop and expose them to pain. You keep the loop going by implanting the suggestion that they can still feel the pain even though your finger is gone. Then, you anchor the pain to your hand by pressing down on the place that hurts. Then you anchor the pain to the color black and make them imagine it is there. As you move your hand around theirs, that anchor still exists, causing them pain wherever your hand is. This makes them imagine that the darkness is spreading, reinforcing the pain. Make sure when you say the part “as my hand pushes down harder and harder, I can feel the pain getting stronger and stronger” and really emphasize harder and harder plus louder and louder.
Your participant can at any time break the pain sensation by breaking the circle. They just have to wave their hand, stand up, or even say “I don’t want to do this anymore.” That is why it is important to make sure you have a good relationship with the participant. Make sure they think this is “cool.” And make sure they feel safe.
At this point it is time to close the loop. Immediately after saying the words “louder and louder,” raise your hand quickly, click your fingers, and strike them in the center of the forehead. This uses what is called a “pattern break”. You interrupt the thought pattern the person is going through by doing something completely unexpected. You also make a loud clicking noise that wakes them up from pain. Then, you provide them with the first real physical sensory input that they have received since you pressed their pressure point. This impacts your system. It reminds them of what real pain feels like and completely distracts them from the artificial pain it made them feel.
You use the moment when they are surprised and stunned by the interruption to implant a suggestion. Immediately after clicking and touching them on the head, you say, “And so the pain is gone. It is completely gone and there is nothing left and you can no longer feel the pain …”, then pause briefly and almost like an afterthought you say “… in fact, you can’t feel anything anymore.” You let this thought sit for a moment and before they have time to process it properly, you begin to speak again “it is as if every feeling has left your hand. It is as if your whole hand has gone numb.”
Important: whenever you say numb for the rest of this trick, always extend the last syllable. It’s like your mouth goes numb every time you say the word.
Now say “in fact, your hand is so numb that you couldn’t lift it even if you tried.” This subtly tells them not to try to raise their hand. But since they want to, they want to test if they really can, but you just told them not to, reinforces the idea that your hand is numb. Pause for a moment and let the idea linger in your minds.
Now say “while you are sitting there, listening to the sound of my voice, your hand glued to the table, completely numb and not feeling, you can imagine trying to raise your hand. And the more and more you try and raise your hand the more numb he turns … until … he is completely devoid of sensitivity and has become completely numb. How do you feel? “The first part of this statement contextualizes the last part. In fact, they are sitting there listening to you. Then reinforce the suggestion you’ve been working on by saying “your hand on the table” as if it were fact, you could easily have said “the sky is blue” and your tone of voice would have been the same. When asked how you feel, lengthen the word “feel.”
They should say that your hand feels completely numb. Use two fingers to take your hand by the wrist and lift it up. It should fall completely limp on the table as if it doesn’t have any feelings. Ask “can you feel that?” and they should say no. Press on the top of the palm of the hand (one of the least sensation areas in the hand) and ask them if they feel that and should say no.
Now say: “I want you to imagine that the numb feeling is escaping from your hand” – at this point put your hand over theirs – “and imagine that it is escaping into my hand. That the numb sensation is going away. out of your hand and into mine “- now lift your hand from theirs -” and he’s completely gone and he can move his hand. ” They should be relieved to raise their hand in the air with all the feeling recovered.
Now look them directly in the eye and don’t look away. They should be so impressed with what you have done that it is difficult for them to notice their gaze and look you straight in the eye. Now say, “That numb feeling exists in my hand. Wherever you touch it will be like a brush, painting numbness on your body. Wherever you touch it will go numb.” This time really lengthen the word numbness as if your whole face is going numb when you say it. Then take your hand and put it on his face. Touch her face as if you were lightly grasping her jaw. Your thumb on one end of your jaw lines up with your fingers on the other.
Now back up and click your fingers and say “and suddenly all the feeling was gone from your face, and your mouth and your jaw. Every place my hand touched went numb. And that feeling quickly spreads across your face until You can’t feel anything at all and you’re completely numb. How do you feel? “At this point, they should say numb as if they’re actually numb. It should sound like your entire face is paralyzed. It is usually accompanied by a look of astonishment.
Now click your fingers and touch them once more on the forehead and say “and so the numbness is gone and all the sensation has returned to your face. You feel calm, renewed and relieved. And you have come out of this knowledge that pain is only in the mind. “
In conclusion, I would like to point out that this trick is difficult. It might be a good idea to do it after you have demonstrated hypnotic ability in the participant or someone else before him. And remember, practice makes perfect.