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"The Deep Trance Training Manual Volume I" is the book for everyone exploring deep trance phenomena. Building upon the reader's existing practical ability and basic knowledge, this systematic training approach holds the keys to inducing deep trance states quickly and easily. This work presents practical exercises designed to improve technique and core theoretical principles from all the major hypnotic perspectives, supporting the development of elegant, individual style and language, and mastery of powerful approaches for dealing with others. Chapters include: - Principles in formulating suggestions - The language of deep trance (the Milton Model made easy) - Rapport and personal power - Calibration - Deepening techniques - Rapid inductions (including three different handshake inductions) - Trance termination - Language patterns (including a vital section on creating a natural flow of language).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50982 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 128 pages

Fidelity - The Journal of The National Council of Psychotherapists - Pat Doohan
This book was so interesting that I await the publication of volume II with eager anticipation.

The Hypnotherapy Journal, June 2003, Trevor Silvester
The books presents an excellent "how to" manual mixing the traditional with some contempory NLP approaches.

Deborah Rose, Chartered Marketer, November 2003
This is an encouraging meaningful manual for some one looking for well-written exercises that get you practicing with ease.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant book
This book is so well written that it is easy to understand and follow, its use of simple engish enables to reader to comprehend all aspects of the hypnotic art, my understanding and learning has greatly improved because of this book, I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has a serious interest in hypnosis

Succinct and Practical Manual
I should first point that that if you are familiar with NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis and with techniques from Ormond McGill - you will not find anything new in this book.

In that respect I was initially disappointed when I got this book, but then I have realized that it does fill the need for people who don't like to read a lot and who have attended only one of those three-day or seven-day hypnosis trainings, because most of the stuff that is presented in this book is not even taught in such courses. So for a person with an average hypnosis training, the techniques in this book are bound to take his hypnosis practice to the next level.

This is a very small book - only about 100 pages and the first half of the book takes you through some very basic and essential NLP skills such as calibration, eye-accessing cues, verbal predicates, establishing rapport, Milton Model, and at the end of the book, you'll find a list of hypnotic language patterns. I still believe that any professional hypnotist should take NLP training.

The next section of the book has an overview of different suggestibility tests, inductions and deepeners both from traditional hypnosis, from Ericksonian hypnosis and from Ormond McGill.

I'd like to add few words about Ormond McGill, since he seems to be the only well-known hypnotist in the west who has incorporated what are otherwise known as esoteric techniques in his practice of hypnosis.

You'll find a lot of books on hypnosis that deal just with traditional hypnosis, NLP and Ericksonian hypnosis.

Traditional hypnosis had a path similar to the way that chemistry emerged from alchemy: people kept the mechanical techniques, but left the spirit (life-force) out of it. You still get the results, but there's always something missing there - like a physical body without life in it. That was also the path of modern medicine.

Mesmer was on the right track. He recognized that there is something intangible (life-force / energy) involved in the process - he called in animal magnetism. Benjamin Franklin laughed him away - saying no, no, it's imagination that does the trick. Yet both were right. It is imagination that stirs the energy, the life-force and creates changes. Traditional hypnosis dropped the "working with the energy" bit, and kept for the most part just the mechanical techniques and went on toward the development and use of hypnotic language (as in Ericksonian hypnosis).

In Eastern countries, where this invisible energy is accounted, there are numerous practices for learning how to use mind-power to play with this energy and get some extraordinary results. Ormond McGill published one lovely book "Hypnotism and Mysticism in India" which contains some good exercises. In essence they are very similar to the mind-training exercises described in the book "Initiation into Hermetics" by Franz Bardon.

If you understand the role that "energy / life-force" plays, and you learn to use your own mind-power to manipulate it, you'll get much, much farther with hypnosis. Hypnotic techniques and hypnotic language, together with essential NLP skills will give you "external skills" of hypnosis, working with the energy will give you "internal skills" (I like to refer to them as "internal martial arts" - after all, that's what Oriental "nei kung" practices are all about).

This book "The Deep Trance Training Manual" deals for the most part with "external skills", but there is a brief mention of some methods used by Ormond McGill, and I am very glad that Igor mentioned them. But, there is much, much more to this.

Still, if there were only one practical book on hypnosis that you were buying, I'd recommend you get this one. It has no fluff, only one technique after another. If you put to practice everything you learn in this book, you will be way ahead of any average hypnotist.

Excellent, concise yet thorough.
What it's not:

It's not full of stories or case histories, niether does it refer overly much to research.

What it is:

A wonderfully clear, concise manual on how to go about the process of deliberately induced a specific trance in yourself or someone else. In other words a splendid guide to the art of hypnosis.

Ledochowski I've decided is a worthwhile addition to my expanding hypnosis/therapy library. I bought it on the basis of the two reviews that were here before me, and I'm glad I did.

To put it into context, yet not comparing his skill with others in this list my library includes all of Bandler's work, Erickson's work, Elman, Hellor, Gilligan, Stephen Brooks, Adam Eason, Paul McKenna, Calvin Banyan, and Bill O'Hanlon. In addition to a nice collection of NLP authors and REBT/CBT gear. So it's certainly not the first book I've read on this.

This is the manual you keep with you if you are travelling and need to refer to specific hypnotic techniques or wish to practice and have forgotten steps :-).

Buy it and prepare for clarity. Unlike my review which is written probably too late at night :-).