One of the most effective and funniest uses of public hypnosis is with expensive travel bags. As a public speaker, traveling through airports, I sometimes see men or women carrying a travel bag by one the high end designers. Many of these bags may cost $400 to $600 dollars. Here is the hilarious catch: They do not have wheels on them. You see the person trudging along carrying this heavy bag sometimes weighing 45 or 50 pounds, and it doesn’t even have wheels on it. Truly seasoned travelers carry the bag that has wheels and probably costs a fraction of the price. This is a great illustration that you can convince someone of anything. You can convince someone that the luggage is really worth this exorbitant amount of money.
~~Have we ever been hypnotized be media???
~~Do we believe that a diamond really buys happiness?
~~Have you ever paid $100 for a pair of jeans?
~~How about the $65.00 rough cotton Polo T shirt. Is it really worth $65.00 or have you been convinced or shall we say hypnotized into believing that it is worth $65.00? Is the fact that there is a tiny horse on the shirt makes it worth so much? How much better is it than the shirt that is 1/5
the price and made out of higher quality of cotton?
Everyone wakes up out of hypnosis. A person who is hypnotized CANNOT stay in a hypnotic state unless they are constantly hearing the hypnotist’s voice. This is the most frequently asked question from audience members after a show. Some people have a true fear in hypnosis that a person can stay in the hypnotic state and not wake up from it. Sometimes a person can be deep enough that they might require a slight tap on the shoulder or an extra count up from the hypnotist, but everyone wakes up out of hypnosis. It is very similar to asking, has anyone ever not woken up from a nap? The only way someone doesn’t wake up from a nap and get stuck within a nap is if they died or other coma related issues that would have nothing to do with hypnosis to begin with. Everyone always simply wakes up out of hypnosis.
Have you ever driven past your house when your intention was to go to your house? Driving is one of the most hypnotic things that we can do. We can go on a long road trip and suddenly hours go by without remembering the route that we took. We can pass numerous towns, lakes and pastures while not remembering a good deal of the route. Driving creates the sleeplike hypnotic state where you have the
focused state of the road or the painted white lines twenty or thirty feet in front of you. We often react subconsciously to these situations on the road without consciously thinking about the tasks of driving at hand. When we first learn to drive as a teenager, we are creating a much more conscious state with both hands on the wheel and attempting to notice everything around us. After years of driving, we create a more nap like state while on the road or shall we we say being in a more subconscious state. Some incredibly hypnotic situations can arise by anyone who has driven through snow, especially on a dark evening. The snowflakes falling with the white lines going by create a very repetitious and hypnotic state for the driver. It is a very similar effect to the use of a flashing light that hypnotists will often use in order to help hypnotize someone during the induction in the beginning of the show in order to get them into a hypnotic state.
The power of suggestion is illustrated in numerous areas of our lives. An excellent illustration of this is what is known as the arm levitation technique. Now, place both of your hands out in front of you. Yes, place both arms out in front of you. Now, flip your right hand over, now imagine there is a large set of books in your right hand. As you feel the large set of books in your right hand, imagine your left hand becoming very light. You feel the lightness of your left hand as if there is a balloon in your left hand pulling it up to the ceiling. As you feel your left hand get lighter and lighter, you imagine it pulling up to the ceiling. Now feel the heaviness of the right hand pulling down towards the ground as another set of books is being placed on your right hand. Feel how heavy the right hand is becoming even heavier. Now, Freeze your hands. Look at where your hands are:
This is an illustration of the power of suggestion. The hypnotist gives the commands and describes the story and your body follows. You feel as if there is a large set of books in your right hand even though your hand is completely empty. This is a great illustration of the Power of Suggestion!
Is it really possible to hypnotize people or are they just faking the experience? Hypnosis is truly alive and well within the world today. It is truly amazing how many people will say, “I don’t believe in hypnosis.” Another comment could be, “Those people are all faking it.” The best illustration of hypnosis and of how real it is when someone is hypnotized hero she can go through an entire hypnosis show as a subject on stage and not laugh. The entire audience is bursting out in laughter throughout the entire show as hypnosis shows are one of the funniest things that you have even seen and the hypnotized subjects on stage are completely in trance and not responding to the laughter. It is literally as if they are at a Saturday Night live level of comedy improv group on stage and not responding to the laughter. They are simply staying within the show by focusing on the hypnotist’s voice, thus focusing on his/her commands and not responding to the audience’s laughter. This is where the truly focused state exists. The audience will burst into laughter time and time again as it is one of the funniest things you have ever seen, but the subjects will be stone faced as if not evening hearing or seeing the hilarious scenarios and situations. It is as if they are Will Farrell in a skit and can keep a straight face throughout the performance. Thus the illustration that they ARE hypnotized!
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