General  »   Everytime i try hypnosis i fail EPICLY

Can someone tell em what I'm doing wrong? I've tried to hypnotize my sisters, a friend, a sister's friend. I've only tried quick inductions on my sisters and her friends. But i tried a progressive relaxation induction on my friends, and i wasn't sure if she got hypnotize because i was just doing the induction for my friend because she needed to relax. I am very very new to this. I don't even know what to do when they get into their hypnosis state, I've only done alot of relaxation. I've read what a person looks liek when they are hypnotize ( fluttering eyes, blank facial expression) and thats what my friend looked like but i wasn't sure if she was actually hypnotized. But other than that, all the quick inductions I've done have failed. I mean the person would get focused and then when i say sleep nothing happens my subject even tell me nothign happened. And i am very noob, so i only know the hand pushing down induction. And i dont know what a pretalk is, or any deepener, or anything. I've just watched hypnosis vids, and from the vids made my own script that have the same idea but diff words. Can someoen give me a website to teach me all of this or teach me how to do a quick induction.

I looked everywhere but i don't know why my subjects wont ever fall into hypnosis. Am i being not confident enough? Cus i get very focused. I'm sorry for being annoying. =( I just really wanna learn hypnosis, to help my friends when they get stressed out, or just make friends happy by entertaining them.

you can look for trance signals to make sure that your subject is hypnotised:

-Pupil dilation
-Slowed pulse (watch for pulse in side of the neck)
-Changing breathing patterns (these may be faster or slower)
-Smoothing/relaxation of facial features
-Absorption of attention (fixed gaze, glazed eyes etc.)
-Change in blink reflex (faster, slower and no blinking (eyelid catalepsy))
-Change in swallowing mechanism
-Eye fatigue/closure
-Immobility
-Involuntary muscle twitches
-Change in skin color/tone (in particular face and hands)
-Limb catalepsy (look for signs of “waxy flexibility” in arms)
-Changes in voice (slower speech, different tone etc.)
-Increased passive responses (less argumentative etc.)

and you can also try to induce a simple hypnotic phenomena like arm levitation, eyelids catalepsy or something like that to make sure he is in the right state.

Dude for the arm levitation just tell them (while they are asleep) "when I say awake you will wake up but when I tap your shoulder you will feel your arm rising up it will keep going until it can't get higher" Then say awake and talk to them then just tap their shoulder. When It is higher say sleep and bring them abck under.

Yikes, there is no question in hypnosis more popular than 'why can't I hypnotize someone?'
I'm getting a bit tired answering this question all over again..

SLEEP is NOT a magic word, and no, the induction you do isn't any magic either. It's all about leading, pacing, utilizing - communicating. You can go and shout SLEEP at a random stranger to test this theory if you wish :P Now remember!! Do the induction but don't copy everything. It's not about how you move your hand or how much pressure you apply and not even about the delay between the induction and sleep command. PACE, LEAD and if anything unexpected or even expected should happen, always UTILIZE!

I think this should be printed and hung on a wall of every hypnotist.

Theo