WEBVTT - Is Hypnotism Real? 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.720 Hi, Welcome to Sign Stuff, a production of iHeartRadio. My 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:10.480 name is Jorge cham and you are getting sleepier and sleepier. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.760 You are going to listen to this episode all the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.520 way to the end because we are answering the question 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.960 is hypnotism real? Does it really work like we see 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.760 in the movies with a swinging pocket watch? And can 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:30.200 you use it to get someone to do things without 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.559 their knowledge. We're going to talk to two hypnotism experts 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.720 who are going to step us through how it works 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.239 and what the most common misconceptions about it are. And 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.120 then in the end, you're both going to hypnotize me. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.960 So focus on my voice, let yourself go and join 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.120 me as we answer the question is hypnotism real? 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:54.400 Hey? 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.120 Everyone, Okay, today's episode has a gimmick, and that is 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.160 that I ask two hypnotism experts to hypnotize me. We're 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.399 going to see which one was able to do it. Now. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.360 The word hypnosis comes from Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.120 who in mythology is also the twin brother of death 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.400 and the father of dreams. But what most people think 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.040 when they hear the word hypnosis came from a German 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:24.000 doctor named Franz Mesmer in the late seventeen hundreds. Mesmer 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.399 was a bit of a cult leader who claimed he 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:33.280 could control a cosmic energy he called animal magnetism using 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.520 simple magnets. He would enthrall audiences with demonstrations of curing 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:42.160 people from things like headaches, stomach problems, and even paralysis 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.160 and seizures. If you've heard the word mesmerizing, Franz Mesmer 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.920 is where it comes from. He would hold sessions where 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.400 people would sit in a circle and hold bars of 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.760 iron connected to a big tup of water that Mesmer 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.919 claimed had this magnetic energy. Mesmer would then walk around 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.120 talking to the participate, and after about an hour or so, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:06.280 some patients would feint, others would fall into a trance, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.480 and others would start to convolt or shake. Afterwards, the 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.080 patients would claim to be cured of their ailments. Mesmer 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.799 became so famous the King of France, Louis the sixteenth, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.240 hired an elite team of investigators to find out if 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.000 Mesmer was real or a fraud. The people he assembled 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.880 were like the avengers of signs at the time. They 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:32.040 included Antoine de la Boissier, the father of modern chemistry, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.040 Joseph Ignaz Guillotine, who invented the guillotine, and it was 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.400 led by none other than Ben Franklin, one of the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.000 founding fathers of the United States, who at the time 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.519 was the US ambassador to France. The group was called 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.920 and part of my French here Les Commissier Charge parla 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.200 Roux de le xamin to Magnetism ANEMA, or the Royal 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.600 Commission on Animal Magnetism, and they did what is considered 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:02.600 to be the first ever controlled clinical trial. They designed 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.480 this series of experiments where they would put test subjects 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.360 alone in a room or behind the curtain, and then 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.400 they would tell the patient they were being magnetized when 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.160 really they were not, or they would have one of 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.320 Mesmer's men try to magnetize the patient without telling the patient. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.880 This is what's now known as a blind study. As 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.799 you might expect, Ben Franklin and the team of scientists 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.839 found that there is no such thing as animal magnetism 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.680 and that the effects people reported were mostly due to 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:36.000 their imagination, the power of suggestion, and peer pressure. Okay, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.600 the first person I brought in to hypnotize me is 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:42.720 doctor anuche Zaheti. Doctor Zaheedi is a researcher in the 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.280 Department of Psychology at the University of Munster in Germany, 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.760 and he has written several papers on the science of hypnosis. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.400 Before we got started, though, I was curious to know 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.520 how he got interested in this subject. Here's what he said, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:57.560 thank you so much for joining us. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.960 Thank you very much for inviting me. I'm very happy 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:00.600 to be here. 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.080 You haven't hypnotized me. Now, I just want to make sure. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.680 Not yet, not yet. I'm trying, but not yet. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:09.760 First of all, what got you interested in the topic 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:10.760 of hypnosis? 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.720 So I was trying to find the topic from my 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.800 massive thesis. At the time. I was very skeptical about hypnosis. So, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.240 oh yeah, I wanted to prove that hypnosis is not 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.359 going to work. And then I participated in some course 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.159 program introducing me to hypnosis, and then went and saw that, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.960 oh it might be effective. And by the end of it, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.919 I was very much actually interested in surprised by things 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.360 that I just saw by the power of mind. Led 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:38.680 just say that I was hooked. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.679 So you were a skeptic and then suddenly you believed 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.080 in it. It sounds a little suspicious, sounds like maybe 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.840 they hypnotized you. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:49.680 They definitely ritized. In that program, I started to think 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.200 about hypnosis based on stuff that I saw in public 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.200 media right through TV series. You will just get hypnotized. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.640 You start to disclose all the sensitive information you had 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.480 ever in your life, and then by the end of it, 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.960 it's going to be very dangerous for you. But as 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.679 we went through the whole course, it became more clear 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.880 that I just got the whole concept wrong. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.799 These days, according to doctors a heady, hypnotism is mostly 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.640 seen as a form of therapy. Let's say you want 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.840 to feel more confident in your life, or you want 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.839 to get rid of some phobia or fear that you have, 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.520 or let's say you want to lose weight or break 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.000 a habit like smoking, then hypnosis might be for you. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.320 There are studies that have found that hypnotherapy can work 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.080 as a way to help you change your behavior. Here's 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.600 how doctors a heady defines hypnosis. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.360 At the moment hypnosis, if you want to defind, it's 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.800 a procedure that two people are some experimenter, the hypnotice, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.239 the clinician, whatever you want to call. The person will 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:52.720 give another person the participants, some suggestions and participants will 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.479 just listen to these suggestions. Imagine with the hypnotics and 0:05:56.640 --> 0:06:00.920 think about these suggestions, and through this process, the participant 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:05.640 is going to have a perception that is semi different 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:10.960 from your normal perception. And this altered perception, altered cognition, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:15.120 would be very interesting for everyone. So it's an opportunity 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.159 to change your frameworks in order to see things differently. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.719 We'll get to how hypnosis works a little later. But 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.320 another interesting application of hypnosis is in pain management. If 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.320 you have chronic pain, or if you're going to go 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.320 through a painful medical procedure, it might help to get hypnotized. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:35.919 And that's what God. The second expert I brought in 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:41.440 to hypnotize me, doctor Dali Jaja, interested in hypnosis. Well, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.680 thank you doctor Jajah for joining us here today. Am 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.080 I hypnotized right now? Have you already hypnotized me? 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.800 Everyone asked this question. Now you need to want to 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.080 be hypnotized. What did to work? 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.640 Can you tell us who you are and what you do? 0:06:59.040 --> 0:06:59.160 So? 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:03.440 I'm a pharmacy, hypnotherapist and researcher. I have an infel 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.080 in the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Queensland 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:12.239 and especially certificate in clinical research from the University of Madman. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:18.400 I have around seven publications about theories of hypnosis and misconceptions. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.880 I mainly focused on medical hypnosis for pain. For example, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:27.800 hypnosis has a potential benefits for children's procedureal pain and distress. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.520 Also the traumas that children go through can be prevented. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.760 So what's the situation. There's a patient like a child, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.400 and they were going through some procedure and you would 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:40.880 be there applying hypnosis to them. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.960 Yeah. So for example, with someone having you to extraction, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.680 I did hypnosis. So the session started before the procedure, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.120 and when the procedure was being performed, the patient was 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:57.040 already in a hypnotics state, in any laxed state, imagining 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.600 pleasant scenes. And then when the proceed was over, the 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:05.120 patient didn't have to go through the trauma the fear 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.800 of being ather dentist. No anesthesia was used. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:14.440 Wow, So hypnotism can be used to basically block out pain. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.880 I asked doctor Jajah, what are some of the other 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.280 misconceptions people have about hypnotism? Now, you said there are 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:23.160 a lot of definitions out there and a lot of 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.480 misconceptions about hypnosis. What are some of the common misconceptions. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.120 A common methace hyprocess is a sleep like state, and 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.920 movies you see people undergoing hypnosis as if they're sleeping 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:39.439 or an a state of somnambilism or reduced awareness, while 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.880 in fact hypnosis is distinct from sleep, as hypnotized individuals 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:48.720 remain aware of their surroundings and they can even leave 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:54.120 hypnosis at any time. And some misconceptions that hypnosis involves 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:59.920 robot like automatic responding without being able to resist suggestions, 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.920 while in truth, although it does involve a sense of 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:08.480 involuntariness and a reduced sense of agency, individuals do not 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:12.240 lose control under hypnosis, and they can resist suggestions that 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.680 do not align with their inner inclination. Some people say 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:20.520 that in hypnosis you cannot remember what occurs. Spontaneous amnisia 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.160 is exceptionally rare, and hypnotized individuals can remember everything that 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.840 occurs during this session. And also, hypnosis sometimes is confused 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.320 with other techniques like meditation or mindfulness, but in fact 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:39.400 hypnosis is distinct from these. If you're seeing something under hypnosis, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.440 your brain acts differently than if you're just imagining something. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.800 The visual areas would be activated as if you're really 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.040 seeing the objects. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:53.520 So a definition of hypnosis is still something even experts 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.920 disagree on. The American Psychological Association, the main body of 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.079 psychologists in the United States, has redefine what hypnosis is 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.600 at least three times in the last few decades. They 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.120 can't seem to agree on what it is. But from 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.640 our experts, this is the general picture. Hypnosis is a 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.559 procedure where you sit down with a hypnotist and the 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.000 hypnotism helps you enter a state of mind in which 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.080 you might dissociate or tune out the rest of the 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.959 world and be completely immersed, be more open to suggestions, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:28.240 and you might feel a loss of agency or control 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.920 over your actions. Right when we come back, our two 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.120 experts are you going to tell us how to get 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.600 someone hypnotized, and then in the end we're going to 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.880 see which one was able to hypnotize me. So don't 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.520 fall into a trance. Stay with us. We'll be right 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:54.920 back with more science stuff. Hey, welcome back. Okay, we 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:58.160 talked a little about what hypnosis is, and now we're 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.319 going to talk about how to hypnotiz someone. We're going 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.320 to do it by playing your clips from the two 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:07.719 sessions where the experts try to hypnotize me. According to them, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.600 hypnosis is a four step process. Here's how Doctors AHEADI 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.240 describes the first step. Okay, so you described it as 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.360 a process. What is that process. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.800 First, you are going to have a long discussion with 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.600 your clinician about the hypnosis itself creating some positive expectations 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.840 in you and also with U seeing your negative expectations, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.280 you expect that some fun stuff are going to happen. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.080 So you expect that your hands or arms can be moved, 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.400 your sense of agency over your behavior might be changed 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.199 to your movements, and these things can happen to everyone, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:41.920 and that's okay. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.280 So the first step in hypnotizing someone is a conversation 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.800 that happens before the actual hypnosis, and this is where 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.160 the hypnotism essentially primes you for what's about to happen. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.680 They make sure that you want this to work, that 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.400 you have positive expectations, and they tell you that you 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:02.040 might have some strange feet during the session, like you 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.520 might feel like you're not in control of your movements 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.719 and that this is normal. But most important, the pre 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.719 hypnosis talk is to get you to trust the hypnotist. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.320 So the trust between two of us are going to 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.240 be very important. So report is very important at any 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.640 point in hypnosis, and your brain tells you that you 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.480 should not trust me, the process going to stop. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.359 It sort of sounds like you're trying to pre hypnotize 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.920 the person to lean into the process, not to freak out, 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.440 because if I have my guard up, if I'm skeptical, 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:33.640 if I'm afraid of what's going to happen, then it 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.280 definitely won't happen exactly. The second step in hypnotizing someone 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.280 is to officially start the hypnosis, and this is where 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.640 that famous swinging pocket watch comes in. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.200 Then you start the next step, which is ghypnotic induction. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.960 Usually it's a ritual. You're trying through this ritual to 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.360 start the initiation of the process. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.880 Some sort of signals that says, all right, the process 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.080 has now officially begun exactly. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.720 For instance, they will ask you to close your eyes, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.400 and then you will think about your muscles and then 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:09.160 you'll start to relax them one by one. Another one 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:12.559 is eye fixation, so you would start to look at 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.199 some specific place and then you try to keep your 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.280 eyes open, and then at some point you have the 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.559 tendency to close your eyes and you're going to get 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.320 tired and the process starts. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.120 That's sort of like the one you see on TV 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.720 or in movies or in old movies where they would 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.679 swing a watch, oh yeah something and say you're getting sleepy. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.559 That This is kind of the where that comes from. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:38.000 Yeah. Yeah, the clock actually is a thing still hunting 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.319 me every time. I'm just introducing how someone's governer the clock. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.280 Do you have a clock or not? Actually gets a 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:45.400 very ineffective way. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.120 Yeah, so hypnotherapists don't actually use the swing in pocket watch, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.920 but they do use other techniques to get you to 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.360 relax so that your brain goes into a relaxed state, 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.679 and this is where the hypnosis actually start. I'm now 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.000 going to play for you the two sessions where our 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:08.560 experts try to hypnotize me, and so your license hypnotherapist. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.960 I am actually heart to part in the therapist. I 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.400 don't actually practice as a clinician. I'm very much boring scientists. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.400 But it is not going to be that much difficult. 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.800 It's a very actually simple thing. So yeah, definitely it's 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:25.920 possible to hypnotize anyone as long as they are trusting 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.280 you and they are okay with a situation. Okay, that's right, perfect, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.480 So let's just do something together. Let's just start with it. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.520 Close your eyes, and then we will try to first 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.280 relax your body together. Please see it comfortably on your chair. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.760 Try to imagine your body as it is, and then 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:48.800 think about your body as a butt of water. Now 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.800 it's empty, there is no water in it, and you 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.720 can see through your body, so a transparent container. Now 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.960 that we do want to now feel with some war 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:05.240 warm water. It's warm, pleasant water, not too warm to 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.640 make you uncomfortable, not too cold to make you uncomfortable, 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.880 but warm enough to give you a pleasant sensation. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.280 Okay, can you close your eyes when you're ready. Okay, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:22.000 Visualize a relaxing blue light above your face, a relaxing 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:26.600 blue light that you're inhaling, moving all the way into 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.400 your shace. Chill your shace, becoming more and more relaxed, 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:35.000 and feel all the muscles of your face relaxing with 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:40.400 every inhalation and with every exhalation. Allow all stress, all 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:45.480 tensions on bluckages. To live your face, and now allow 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:49.040 the eye to move into your neck to relax your neck. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.760 So boose, that's repret that you take and feel all 0:15:53.760 --> 0:16:00.480 the blockages, all stress, all tensions needing your neck, allow 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.800 the light to move into your shoulders. Relax your shoulders. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:09.640 So both hypnosis sessions went on like this for several minutes. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.920 They had me focus on each part of my body 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.600 and relaxing them one by one. It's not too different 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:18.520 from what you might do in a yoga or meditation class, 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.720 and the idea is to get your mind to a 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.480 place where it's ready to take suggestions. These suggestions are 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:30.920 what makes hypnosis different from say, meditation or mindfulness. First, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.280 the hypnotists might start making suggestions that take you deeper 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.520 and deeper into your own thoughts and imagination. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:44.240 Focus your imagination, your awareness, and as this light finds 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.880 you with awareness that enhanced focus, all the blockages to 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:53.880 a deep process, distractions all on pleasant thoughts, They all 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.840 evaporate and you're filled with night. How can you to 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:03.080 be ready journey into your subconscious mind? Enjoy the place, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:07.159 and when you're ready to meet the place, say. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:13.280 Okay, okay, now, taking with you all the joy, all 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:17.439 the happiness of the safety of this place to stay 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.080 with you throughout the session and beyond it. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.400 I will come from three to one when I reach one, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.720 and you can imagine yourselves on top of stairs. States 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.840 that in you to the gate of your subconscious mind 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:36.119 three to one. See the stairs and see yourself going 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:41.120 down the stairs. With every step you count the number backward, 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.640 and you go downward, closer to the gate of your 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:50.960 subconscious mind and deeper into his process. So starting from twenty, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:52.800 can you count out. 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:58.080 Lock twenty nineteen eighteen. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.119 Ohing grossure and closer to the gate of your your 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.520 subconscious mind seventeen. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.920 Now when the hypnotist thinks you are fully immersed, some 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.720 scientists believe this is an altered state of consciousness. An 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.320 altered state of consciousness is just a different way for 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.920 your mind to be. Normally, we are aware of what's 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.760 around us, and we are constantly thinking about what we're 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.560 going to do next. But several times a day we 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.360 all enter into different states of consciousness. For example, you've 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.480 been listening to my voice for the last few minutes 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.600 and paying attention, and you've probably tuned out the rest 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.920 of the world. You've been a little zoned out. It's 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.000 like when you're driving and suddenly you realize, oh, we're here. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.840 You don't remember actually driving the last ten miles or 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.199 when you get into the zone when you're running or 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:49.000 doing exercise, or when someone's watching TV and they look 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:52.359 like they're in a trance. These are all different states 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.520 of consciousness. Here's how doctor Zaheti explains it. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.040 At some point, you will get absorbed in your imagination 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.199 so much that you get dissociated from the environments. So 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.280 this concept is an altered state of consciousness. So you 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.359 might also understand hypnosis and as an altered state of 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.920 consciousness where instas hypnosis might the couple your cognitive control 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.880 or change heat in a way, and because of that 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.560 you might be able to experience hypnosis in this state. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.880 The hypnotisms would then start the third step in the process, 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.119 which is to give suggestions. And there are different suggestions 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.480 hypnotists can give. For example, here is one called direct 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:31.520 murder idea. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:37.200 So just imagining this water, watching all your anxieties, all 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:42.160 your stresses, and getting more and more comfortable. Now, whenever 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.600 this anxiety and stress that you had previously are gone 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:51.000 and you feel more relaxed, you can start imagining a 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:56.400 couple of colorful balloons being tied to your fingers. Now, 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.960 look at these balloons and different color that they have 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.879 probably remember when we were kids, we were playing with 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:07.080 these balloons. We were having a lot of fun. Now 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.320 imagine these balloons and as you are just seeing them 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.200 more and more vividly, this positive experience that you had 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:21.160 during your childhood is going to feel your hand. And 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.520 then these positive experiences are going to make your fingers 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.600 and hand lighter and lighter. This might start with a 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.720 tingling sensation, and then your fingers and your hand is 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.840 going to feel lighter and lighter, and at any point 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:41.480 when they are light enough that they want to start 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.359 moving in the air, led them to move. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.879 What doctor say Eddy is doing here is giving me 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.600 what's called a direct motor idea. In this case, he's 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:56.000 suggesting that I imagine balloons tied to my hands, and 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:00.040 then visualize those balloons lifting my hands. And from a 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.359 lot of people who go through this, their hands will 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.560 actually move and they'll feel like their hands are moving 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.160 on their own. Another type of suggestion is to access 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:10.600 lost memories. 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.960 And now looking from to you see a door opening, 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.440 going through the store, it takes you to a beautiful 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.960 memory of your childhood. See yourself there. What do you. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:26.040 See at the beach? 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:28.240 Okay, how all that? 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.280 Maybe twelve ten. 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.960 Okay, and what do you see in this case? 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.680 I see the stars, the water and the moon. 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:42.000 And how do you feel in this place? 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:47.600 I feel connected to the stars. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.000 Allow your ener child to give your backsite that he's 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:55.920 holding in that place that allows you to be more aware, 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:01.240 focused on the present moment I connected to Nay. Allow 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.199 the slide to fill you. And as the slide chains 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:09.560 you or blockages that prevented you from enjoying the present, 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:14.679 from being fully aware and mind chilling the present and 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:19.840 from experiencing your connection to the stars and to mature, 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.080 allow them all to evaporate. And when the slide chaines 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:28.280 you and one to blockages, evaporate and say okay. 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.800 The last kind of suggestion that a hypnotist can give 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.919 you is the clinical or therapy related suggestion. This is 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.360 if you want to change something about your behavior, like 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:40.880 if you want to cure a phobia or lose weight 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.200 or quit smoking. For example, here's how doctor is a heady. 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.560 We describe hypnotizing someone who wants to lose weight from 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:49.400 eating too much chocolate. 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.200 So if you are very much into chocolate and then 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.439 you feel hopeless when you see chocolate and you need 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.800 to buy it. I can just create association for you 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.879 during hypnosisself whenever you see chocolate, but now you think 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.720 about the future when you didn't eat this chocolate versus 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.320 the future that you ate this chocolate, and then this 0:23:07.440 --> 0:23:10.320 mental practice is going to create that association. Next time 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:12.280 you see the chocolate, you will have this couple of 0:23:12.320 --> 0:23:16.600 milliseconds to think about these two different futures, and that 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:18.640 is enough for you to inhibit this response. 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:22.960 And here's how doctor Zahdi would hypnotize someone to cure 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:24.840 their fear of spiders. 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:27.400 So if you have a phobia of a spider, let's 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:30.560 just say you will just imagine the spider very far 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.199 away from you. It will be very much threatening in 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:36.720 the beginning, and then a couple of sessions later, or 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:39.520 we will just bring this spider a little bit by 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:41.439 a little bit closer to you to the point that 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:44.880 you can imagine just touching the spider without getting too 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:48.280 much anxious. And then at some point actually like this 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.640 is going to be enough for you to lose your phobia. 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.159 And this is how doctor Jaja would hypnotize someone to 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:56.600 help them stop smoking. 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.639