Getting into the Zone in Stage Hypnosis
Taken from Stage Hypnosis Guru.com
Getting into the Zone, by James Szeles
I’m going to address something very few hypnotists talk about, doing the difficult shows. I don’t know about you, but I have performed under some very trying conditions. Recently I worked a small fair in the high desert of Arizona and the first shows were at night outside on an open stage area. Arizona at night at that time of the year can be either very warm (in the 70’s) or it could snow. The first two nights of the fair it was in the mid 50’s with a very high wind and it was on a weekday school night so there were not a lot of people at the fair that night. After about 15 minutes of working up a crowd, I had 10 people in the audience and 5 volunteers on stage. All 5 people were young girls who knew each other and I got lucky putting 4 of the 5 deeply under despite the cold and the wind. On the weekend nights at the fair the weather was warmer, but like a lot of small fairs they had several events going on at the same time as my show and one of the events was a band that was playing very loud music. Of the 12 shows at that fair I managed to do 10 complete shows, one partial show and I had one show with 8 people on stage; 6 of the eight were young kids goofing off who didn’t really want to try and they wound up waking up the other two on stage so no one went under!
I find that some of my performances are at shows were I really have to work had to get them going but every now and then I’ll be performing and get into what I call “the zone”. He’s what happens. I’ll be 1/3 way into the show and have a group of volunteers under when everything falls into place. The volunteers on stage are great, the audience is really into the show and it has a flow to it. It’s a feeling you can’t make happen and it comes at times when I least expect it. For example, I did a high school grad night show last month. It was the last of three shows on the same night and it was set to start at 3:00am. I arrived at the location only to see the DJ breaking down his equipment, so I have no PA system or CD player, the parents knew I needed the equipment, it was in the contract. The hall they rented did have a house PA system with a cord mic that was hard wired in to the system so I could not use my wireless mic. It was my third show that night at three different schools and I was tired. One of the parents did have a boom box in their car so I used the house PA mic and placed it in front of the boom box so I at least had sound and talked as loud as I could. The show started at 3:25am and a funny thing happened, once I got the show going the zone hit and things just fell into place. 18 of the 20 kids were wonderful subjects and went deeply under. The two hundred kids watching the show were very quite when I was talking so they could hear what I was saying and the show turned out great. I wound up doing an extra 20 minutes because the kids were having such a fantastic time. It’s shows like that which make you forget all the times you really have to work hard to get it going.
James Szeles
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