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you have chosen to work with today. See yourself as a child, beneath this cloud, and allow yourself
to be in relationship with it. Greet the cloud, let it know who you are and what you intend to do. Be
in a relationship with the cloud.
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I may say, As a child, did you ever use the rhyme? Rain, rain, go away. Come again
another day. Little children want to play? (Smiles circulate around the group, telling me they are
entering an emotionally charged experience, directed by the right hemisphere of the brain.) And if
you did, how many of you recall it working, even if you only imagined it? Breathe deeply into that
feeling, and allow it to charge every cell of your body. Recreate those thoughts, those memories,
feelings and experiences IN YOUR MIND, NOW.
NOTE FROM DEVIN KNIGHT: Reciting this rhyme is an excellent idea. It can serve
a dual purpose. If the person says it worked, you comment about how even simple thoughts
can change the weather. If the person remembers the rain stopping your claims are even
more valid.
Suppose the person says the rain didn t stop. You make a comment, saying that was
too bad. Tell them when you were a child, the rain stopped every time you recited the rhyme.
It was then that you realized you had the ability to control the weather. Either way it s a
win/win situation.
You may open your eyes. As adults, remain with that feeling and remember your
experience as you begin to focus on your cloud NOW. At this point I frequently incorporate open-
eyed visualizations (colors) and progress to suggestions of the clouds shifting, moving, dispersing,
disintegrating, and disappearing. I ask the participants to allow their eyes to become unfocused as
they stare at their cloud, kind of like viewing one of those 3-D pictures/optical illusion that you
must look at JUST RIGHT. I also instruct them to direct their energies and thoughts THROUGH
the cloud and not just at it.
The clouds will begin to swirl, especially after I lead the experience by suggesting they are!
This is a lot like the Twisted Palm reading of Luke Jermay s from 7 Deceptions. Building Blocks
also work great with this routine!!! This is recommended reading.
They can imagine and visualize busting the clouds using any method they wish, and I invite
them to be creative and have fun with it. For those of you who understand the human mind and the
nature of hypnosis and suggestion, you get what this does.
In your mind, you may hurl bolts of energy or fireballs at the cloud. You may imagine a
giant vacuum cleaner sucking it up completely, or even a mythical beast that EATS the cloud up.
Whatever you wish! Imagine the cloud being torn asunder. I like to imagine the cloud as an ice
cube in the hot sun, or a scoop of ice cream melting across the sky.
I verbally use binds, double binds, hidden directives, embedded commands and pre-
suppositions. These are outside the scope of this book to explain, and they may help dramatically,
but are NOT necessary for effective cloud busting.
I get the audience breathing. They are relaxed but altered. Their perceptions shift, as does
the sky. Lo and behold, the sky is clearing, clouds are melting and people are once again delighting
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in simply BEING. By taking them back to their childhood, we may by-pass the ego mind, the
analytical side and skeptical nature of the spectators.
By closing their eyes and visualizing, they change their brainwave patterns, and become
relaxed; suggestible. Breathing comes along to induce a mild state of hyperventilation, mild
hallucinations, natural optical illusions, hypersensitivity and increased suggestibility.
Affirmations are just cloaked suggestions, having the audience repeat them over and over
again only reinforces what we are doing!!!
The cloud is melting, the cloud is melting, the cloud is melting.
My cloud is gone, my cloud is gone, the cloud has vanished, the cloud has vanished. You
frame these as positive affirmations, and they are really just direct suggestions. These suggestions
work because of your psychological set up and framing of the effect and rapport with the
spectators.
Ideally, they have experienced a piece of fantastic magic or strong mentalism and they are
open. The spectators are breathing, they are visualizing, they are receiving suggestions, and auto
suggestion through affirmation. They are distorting their vision and regressing in age. There is also
a group mind dynamic in play here . . . mass hysteria and a group spirit are powerful things.
Also, there is the natural human factor of wanting to believe, and in achieving success. They
do not wish to be failures or the odd ones out . . . they seek to make the magic happen.
OWNING THE CLOUD
I want to include, that by having the spectator(s) choose a cloud to work with, they are
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