Hypnosis has been used for hundreds of years to help people in a number of ways. It's been used to help treat psychological illnesses, make people more confident in their day to day life, and it has also helped people achieve great goals.

If you want to know how to hypnotize someone, then the process is easier than you may think. All you need to do is guide someone (your subject) into a deeply relaxed and care free state. This state is known as a 'trance'. Once a person is in this state of trance, their subconscious becomes vulnerable to your suggestions.

The person will act upon anything you tell them. For example, if you told the person that they would feel confident whenever they spoke to a large group of people, then they would feel confident whenever speaking to a crowd, even when they were out of hypnosis.

Likewise you could make the person feel deeply attracted to someone, or unattracted to someone (such as in the case of an abusive partner). One important thing to remember however is that you can never give a person a suggestion that's against their fundamental morals and beliefs. If a person thinks that you're suggesting something to them that's morally wrong, then they will not act upon the suggestion.

With all that being said, let's now look at how you can guide someone into a relaxed state of trance, so that you can plant suggestions within them.

The 6 Step Process

1. First of all, you want to make sure the person is laying down on a bed or sitting in a chair, and is relaxed. Make sure you're somewhere quiet, where there's not much of a chance that you will be disturbed.

2. For the second step, you want to tell the person that they will feel themselves becoming deeply relaxed. You could say something such as "and as you listen to my voice, you will feel your body becoming deeply relaxed now".

3. Once the person is relaxed, have them imagine that they're walking down a staircase of 20 steps, and ask the person to count in their minds from 20 down to 0 as they take each step down. Tell the person that at the end of the staircase is a state of deep relaxation that cannot be seen, only felt. Let the person count their steps in their own mind, don't say it out aloud for them. You can even give the person a couple of minutes to do this, as it does not matter if there's a minute or two of silence once they reach the last step.

4. Say the following to the person: "As you feel yourself in this deeply relaxed state, you will notice that your right hand is so relaxed, that it feels as if it has a thousand heavy blankets on top of it. No matter how hard you try to lift up your right hand, you won't be able to". You will notice that the person will be unable to lift up their right hand. Have the person do this with their left hand, and both of their feet (this is a process known as a 'deepening technique').

5. Once this is done you may plant any suggestions you like within the person. You could tell the person they will feel more confident, tell them that they won't want to smoke ever again, tell them that they will exercise frequently in order to lose weight. You can plant almost any suggestion you like within the person.

6. Once the above steps are complete, simply have the person imagine that they're walking back up the flight of stairs again, counting in their minds from 0 until 20. Tell them that once they reach the top step at 20, they will open their eyes and feel wide awake and fully alert.

That's all there is to it. You now know how to hypnotize someone.