On one occasion, I went into a public house in a ‘less than desirable’ area, and performed to a crowd of only 30 people, 28 of whom were around 50+ in age and didn’t want to take part. I attempted to convince people to join the fun and eventually managed to drag 4 people up. If I’d had the notion in my head that only 1 in ten could be hypnotised on stage successfully then at this point I would have folded, lost confidence, and that lack of confidence would have come across to my volunteers therefore thwarting my ability to hypnotise them. The volunteer must have absolute belief in your abilities as a hypnotist

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