A lot of people don't seem to believe that hypnosis is real, but I do. I'm not about to sit here and argue/debate over it either, so don't bother with the nonsense. How do I know hypnotism is real? Because... I've been studying it for quite some time now, and have been practicing instant and rapid inductions on random people. My problem comes in, that I don't know if I am yet confident enough to do this, and confidence is very important in hypnosis. Hopefully you all can read what I have written and try it yourselves.

The average person can be hypnotized very quickly. It doesn't require them to lay down on a chair and listen to some guy for 20 minutes to become hypnotized. There are different ways to induce this type of rapid or instant hypnosis, but I'll just explain the two most general ones. The first one being the the handshake induction.

How exactly does it work?

Being as predictable of creatures as we are, raise your right hand and extend it towards someone while say "hey there" and smiling, and 9 times out of 10, they will automatically raise their right hand to shake yours back automatically, and without thought.

If you interrupt an automatic behavior like this, you create sort of a query in your subject's thoughts, a brief window to the subconscious mind which closes almost immediately afterards. During this time, you must swiftly speak one word into their subconcious mind that they wont misunderstand before this window is closed. You can say a word like "sleep" for example. If said at just the right moment, this usually makes them drop like a rock into the somnambulistic state (trance, sleep walk), without having to go through the old fashion style of hypnosis.

Handshake induction has a huge variety of empasis and usage. Here's another example.

1. Have someone sit facing you as you sit also.

2. Tell them to put their palm on your palm

3. Tell them to look into your eyes and not break the stare unless asked to do modify their actions.

4. Now tell them "In a moment I am going to count to 3. I want you to press down on my hand and I'll be pressing up against your energy and simply follow my instructions instantly."

5. Say "1... 2... 3... push push push". Tell them to push harder if they are pushing to gently.

6. Now put your other hand over their eyes, as if to not let them see something, and slowly slide it down.

7. Now say "As you continue to press down on my hand I want you to develop a feeling in your eyes like your still awake very late at night watching an old black and white movie. You should go to bed but you're just sooo tired. You feel your eyes getting droopy ....and closing.... and drowsy....and......SLEEP !

A very important part of this is that...the very moment you begin to say the word "sleep" you have to QUICKLY, slip your hand away from theirs, thus causing their mind to react to two different actions a tthe same time, creating the 'window of opportunity' while bypassing the norm.

Though there are tons of methods and other examples I could give, these were just two that your welcome to try.

Now if you learn a technique known under Conversational-Hypnosis,the possibilities would be endles... not too mention the speed you'd be able to achieve this.