"An induction is the tool which hypnotherapists use to get someone into hypnosis. It's where everything starts. Inductions come in all shapes and sizes… What I want to focus on, to keep things very simple and to get you up and running with hypnosis as soon as possible, is just the basic induction — what we could call a relaxation induction. With a relaxation induction, all you're really trying to accomplish is, in layman's terms, boring the person to sleep.
"Although they won't be in sleep, they'll be in hypnosis. But imagine talking to someone and trying to bore them. Some people do that naturally… Those people would be excellent hypnotherapists. If you're one of those people, congratulations, because although you've been boring people all your life, now you can actually help people with that.
"You must be very careful with the subconscious mind that you say what you mean and mean what you say, because the subconscious mind will take things very literally… Act as though they are a foreigner and do not speak your language properly, and you need to speak slowly and clearly so that there is no misunderstanding."