Circumstances and surroundings - Hypnotizing stubborn subjects - Influence upon others - Avoidance of failures - New experiments - The experimenting room - Influence of light and darkness - Sunlight and colors - Temperature - Intense heat and drafts of air - Examples - Physical suffering-Agreeable and disagreeable odors - Perfumes - Tobacco smoke - Loud and discordant sounds - Music - Lullaby - Chants - Monotonous sounds - Melody - Music boxes - Singing of Angels - Soothing influence of music - Insanity and melancholy - Noise and quietude - Hypnotizing new subjects - Personal comfort - Position - The Chair - Clothing - Recumbent position - Emotions - Fear of being hypnotized - Fascination of Reptiles - Recognition of superior power - Domestic grief - Anger - Tranquillity of mind-Condition of the skin - Dryness - Influence of time.

Circumstances and surroundings have great influence in favoring or preventing hypnosis, and it is well to become thoroughly familiar with established facts in this connection. Not infrequently a good hypnotist finds it almost, if not altogether, impossible to control a subject whom he knows to be susceptible - the failure being due to improper circumstances or surroundings.

It is not always necessary to have the conditions perfect, for very frequently hypnosis is easily produced under the most unfavorable influences. But it is always easier upon the operator and more satisfactory to all parties concerned to take advantage of every favorable influence. To say the least, it is vexatious for an operator to have to battle with a subject. If he is a beginner, he loses confidence in himself, which is fatal to good results, and he exhausts his nervous energy.

To strive to hypnotize a stubborn subject, with determination that it must be done, strains the mental powers just as the physical powers are strained by exertions expended in accomplishing results that require the full limit of muscular effort.

Another important reason for having circumstances as favorable as possible is the influences of success or failure upon others. There are always many skeptical persons anxious to exaggerate every seeming failure, and for an operator to manifest his inability to perform what he claims to be able to accomplish, is disastrous. Besides shaking the faith of others in his pretentions, it lowers his powers in the estimation of many whom he might desire to use as subjects, and sometimes shakes his confidence in himself. Nothing succeeds so well as success, is as true in hypnotism as it is in every other line of action.

To make a reputation as a hypnotist, it is necessary that there should be no failures in public. Do not undertake before others what you feel sure you cannot accomplish. Try new experiments privately. The following influences favorable and unfavorable to hypnotic control should be studied carefully. The . favorable influences are not all necessary, but they are all conducive to "making" good subjects, and a subject once well "made" can, with rare exceptions, be successfully exhibited in public, even under the most unfavorable circumstances.