Magic Tricks Revealed: How To Quickly Establish Rapport With Any Audience

by: George Hutton

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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 Time: 10:20 PM - 0 comments

Here's a great pseudo psychic trick that is based on Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP. It's easy to learn and will give you lots of instant credibility if you are planning on doing some up close magic work. It's a great way to build quick rapport with your audience, which is always a good thing.

Any magician knows that credibility is very important when doing a series of magic tricks. One mistake and you're cover is blown, and they'll be watching you with a much closer eye. When people see a magic act, especially if they'd paid money, they want to be dazzled and entertained. They don't have to make believe that you are doing real magic. They want to believe you are magic.

A great way to set yourself up as an authority in their minds is through some seemingly amazing psychic mind reading. But through some basic eye accessing cues, you can usually tell what kinds of thoughts they are thinking. When you match up your "patter" with the kinds of thoughts they are thinking, your credibility, and their enjoyment, will skyrocket.

Here are the general rules. When people look up, either up and to the right, or up and to the left, they are generally thinking visually. They are literally seeing pictures in their minds. When people look side to side (without moving their head) they usually are thinking auditory, or sound based thoughts. When people look down, either down and to the right, or down and to the left, they are generally thinking of "feeling" thoughts.

One way you can do this is to pick out a willing participant, and have a mini conversation with him or her. As you pay attention to their eyes, and gain and understanding into their thoughts, you can easily match your words to their type of thinking. Just use picture words (see, look, witness, etc.) when they are looking up, and speak in sound words (hear, listen, music, etc.) when they are looking side to side. People rarely think in terms of feelings when they are out watching a show. It is much more of an auditory and visual experience.

While these tips are very basic, and broad, they will go a great deal in helping you gain a huge amount of rapport in a relatively short amount of time with any audience, or even with a one on one encounter when you are doing street magic. These skills can even be used in a non-magic setting, like on a date or within a relationship, but I'll leave that up to you.