look into my eyes and you maintain that
gaze for just a few moments you’ll soon
fall into a very deep trance there’s a
few of you out there that are convinced
like the DJ who was interviewing me she
wouldn’t look me in the eye she kept
looking away finally she confessed I’m
afraid if I look into your eyes you
hypnotize me I was relieved
unbelievable I know based on my
experience I know that most of you out
there think you can’t be hypnotized but
what I found is if you think you can’t
be hypnotized it’s only because you
don’t understand what hypnosis is what
you’re gonna find out shortly is that
nearly everyone can be hypnotized
truly 90% of you can experience hypnosis
that’s according to the to the
integrative medicine Center for Stanford
medicine Forbes magazine ranks ranks
Stanford University as number two in the
nation so I think we can all agree that
they’re a reputable source you’ll also
discover that hypnosis can be used for
far more than the typical weight loss
and stop smoking that you may have heard
of finally you’ll find that you really
have no need to fear the hypnotist there
are three main groups of people that
think they can’t be hypnotized I’ll say
the first group thinks they can’t be
hypnotized because they’re too smart I
think that what they’re really saying is
I’m too skeptical to be hypnotized
now skepticism will get in the way no
doubt but only to the extent that it
keeps you from trying hypnosis sometimes
in working with businesses they’re
skeptical about trying new things
but once they finally understand what
hypnosis really is and then it can help
their employees be more focused on their
goals have more confidence on sales
calls and even dial up the motivation in
general they can witness dramatic
increases in sales in a very short time
so you can be smart and be hypnotized
which is fortunate because if you can’t
be hypnotized you lose you lose a
valuable tool that your colleagues and
your competitors are using you lose what
could be the most powerful method of
focus concentration and enhanced neural
receptivity known to science the next
group of people to think they can’t be
hypnotized are the ones that are too
stubborn and in a way being too stubborn
can get in the way but only so far as
they’re unwilling to allow me to guide
them into hypnosis if they resist my
attempts to help them guide go into
hypnosis then sure they probably can’t
be hypnotized but why would you want to
resist when I could with hypnosis
helping to be more focused on your goals
increase sales and make you feel more
motivated than ever to do whatever it is
you want to do in life I could have
resisted hypnosis and not change my life
around I used hypnosis to quit smoking
to start living a healthier lifestyle to
ease depression I used hypnosis to
change my entire life and I used it to
lose over 60 pounds damn I’m pretty
I say that as a joke I started saying
that about eight years ago when I was
well that guy I understand him a
middle-aged guy I’m bald I’m not a
beauty queen but the more often I say
that phrase the better about myself I
felt now I get because I say this phrase
a lot a lot of my clients and even
people on Facebook they’ll actually
write to me and say that they’re
starting to feel the same way so please
say it out loud everybody damn I’m
pretty well done I can joke about it now
and I even joked about being heavy back
when I was heavy but I’ll tell you one
one experience really stands out for me
I want to take this girl on a romantic
date and I want to take our horseback
riding on the beach and I knew that was
romantic because I’d seen it on the
front of a romance novel so we get out
to the beach to ride the horses and the
woman she calls me over and she looks at
me and she says I’m sorry how much do
you weigh I found out I was too heavy to
ride a horse have you seen a horse
they’re big I was too heavy to ride a
horse we rented scooters instead it
wasn’t the same I knew I had to make a
change so don’t resist the hypnotist
because if you can’t be hypnotized you
lose the next group I’m going to talk
about other non-believers now these are
the people to say to me I wish I could
use hypnosis but I just don’t believe in
it just like you don’t have to believe
in gravity to fall down or you don’t got
to believe in hypnosis to be hypnotized
believe me it’s not a belief based
modality I had a guy come up to me one
time when I was setting up for a show
and he said I’d really love to volunteer
but I don’t believe in that sort of
stuff I said that’s okay come on up give
it a try
major universities around the world
even the American Psychological
Association agrees that in hypnosis is
effective so truly that is why I say if
you can’t be hypnotized it’s only
it’s worth setting aside your skepticism
and your disbelief because again if you
can’t be hypnotized you lose Oh in that
disbeliever yeah he did get hypnotized
he became the best subject that day so
what is hypnosis you may be wondering
the American Psychological Association
says that hypnosis is a procedure where
a practitioner or researcher uses
suggestions to while working with a
subject to change their sensations their
perceptions their thoughts behaviors now
we’re going to get a chance to explore
some of those changes in sensations in
just a little bit I’m gonna be asking
for some volunteers we’re gonna do a
demonstration the definition goes on to
say that most people describe it as a
state of focused attention focused
attention you see right now a lot of you
have your attention focused on me but
others of you have allowed your focus
your attention to be diverted in fact
you’re so focused on something else that
you don’t even realize that I’m talking
about you right now hopefully I have you
back now have you ever been driving down
the freeway and you missed your exit
because you zoned out that’s hypnosis
you ever try to talk to your spouse
while they’re watching their favorite
show on TV if they don’t hear a word
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and hypnosis I hope you understand now
that hypnosis is a completely natural
state that we all go into and out of
every single day so you absolutely can
be hypnotized and what I’ve come to find
is it’s not a matter of whether or not
you can be hypnotized or not it really
is a matter of how quickly you go into
hypnosis and how quickly you accept
suggestions you see some people go into
hypnosis really quickly because they’re
very highly imaginative and they think
in pictures everyone can experience
hypnotherapy it takes a select few that
can really use their focused attention
to think in pictures and use your
imagination to change their sensations
or thoughts and that sort of thing what
I’d like to do right now is test your
imagination would that be all right
excellent
I want to do a quick demonstration with
you so I’m going to ask you to and
here’s the thing every time we do a
demonstration there’s a few people out
that are like I’m not gonna do a
demonstration hmm but here’s the thing
if you don’t do it the person next to
you goes oh I’m uncomfortable I don’t
want to do it so please everybody join
in alright clasp your hands together for
me right now look at those hands we’re
gonna go really quickly clasp your hands
look at your hands focus on your hands I
want you to imagine that your hands are
stuck together right now
use your focused attention and your
imagination stare at your hands imagine
that they’re absolutely stuck together
they’re welded shut their superglue
holding them shut put them in a vise and
take some duct tape and put around it
right now
imagine see yourself putting the duct
tape around your hands right now just
like that now I want you to send a
strong message to your unconscious mind
my hands are stuck together in a moment
I’m gonna count from 1 2 3 when I say 3
you can try to open your hands but I
want you to notice that the harder you
try to pull them apart the more stuck
they become because they’re absolutely
locked shut
nod your head if you understand 1 2 3
try to pull your hands apart
that’s it try to pull it apart and if
your hands do not come apart stand up
for us right now go and stand up go
ahead and stand up for me if your hands
did not come apart yeah there you go
there you give her a hand everybody
she’s doing great your hand
did not come apart good they’re still
stuck together go and stand up for me I
would like to invite all those people
whose hands are stuck together to come
down up to the stage I got some stairs
idea here come join me up on stage for a
little demonstration give them a hand
everybody there are the people with the
most focused concentration and attention
and imagination stairs are right over
there come right up I come help you but
then I’d get out of the light come on
over perfect those hands just like that
you’re doing perfectly I’ll take as many
as you that can come up here come on up
that’s right
come join me right over here how you
doing
feeling pretty stuck yeah excellent
excellent have a seat right there for me
thank you and you sir stuck together
can’t pull them apart
excellent go and have a seat for me
right there perfect perfect how about
you really stuck feeling stuck hanging
them apart good have a seat good good
good pulling oh yeah very good very good
can’t use you tonight good what’s up
good you have a part you okay you didn’t
have a seat good good good come on over
ladies come on over
perfect right gonna stay on the light oh
let me see
nobody focus let me see yours certainly
focus I’m gonna send you back wait he’ll
come apart now look let him go
let him go now good no please on the
count of three they will hold on all
right everybody on stage focus okay
sometimes it works – well sorry everyone
up here to focus on my words in a moment
I’m gonna count from 1 to 3 and that
person out there that’s still stuck
together when I say 3 your hands will
come apart and you’re gonna feel totally
completely relaxed not yet if you
understand 1 2 3 I’ll part that’s it
just like that perfect excellent
give them a hand they’ve got excellent
imagination great imagine of skills
surprise yourself didn’t you it’s a very
strange feeling right excellent ok next
what I’d like you to do is pick a spot
pick that exit sign right there and I
want you to focus on that sign focus
focus focus keep your eyes nice and wide
wide and now close them right down just
like that
perfect I’ll open them up nice and wide
just like that
close them right back down one more time
open them up nice and light and then
keep them open and let those eyes become
super heavy
for the rest of this night anytime that
I say the word focus and push you pull
you or shake your hand you relax
completely your eyelids close your head
comes forward your body relaxes
completely and your whole body relaxes
anytime that I should push you pull you
or shake your hand and say the word
focus your eyes close your head falls
forward your body relaxes completely and
you go into a deep deep state of
relaxation excellent now go ahead and
close those eyes perfect just like that
and now you can open them good now I’m
gonna come by and shake your hand if I
should pull you push you say the word
focus you go into a deep state of trance
relaxing not great if you understand
perfect put your hand out for me put
your hand out for me excellent look me
in the eye just like that focus just
like that relax perfect just like that
perfect excellent just like that focus
just like that perfect perfect look
right over here
focus perfect just like that kind of
weird isn’t it focus just like that
focus just like that perfect relax relax
right there perfect just like that down
let it go and let it go down perfect
focus just like that relax very good
these people have excellent excellent
imaginations and they’re able to just
relax completely this is a gift people
this is an absolute gift because they
can change their lives in quicker than
anybody folks on stage in just a moment
I’m going to count from 1 2 3 when I
count you up from 1 2 3 when I count you
up from 1 2 3 you’re gonna open your
eyes you’re gonna feel wide aware but
you’re gonna stay in a very deep deep
deep state of trance you’ll be able to
move around walk around talk still stay
in that very deep state of trance what
you’re going to discover is I’m going to
tell you that one of your hands and arms
is detached from sensation you’re going
to place your hand in ice water but you
will not feel any discomfort at all
you’ll only feel pleasant feelings or no
feeling at all not yet if you understand
1 2 3 open your eyes stand up come with
me right around here come right over
here perfect if you have a sleeve roll
it up detach sensation from come here
detach all sensation from this arm right
here detach sensation now put it in
there just like that
just like that
detached sensation from this aren’t put
in there right there detach sensation
detaching sensation just like that over
here perfect just like that detached
sensation oh we’re a little mixed up
here go ahead and put your hand on this
one right there perfect you to come over
here detach sensation put this hand in
just like that detach sensation and now
you to just like that excellent if
anytime anything is painful or
discomfort of course stop doing what
you’re doing but what you’re going to
notice is that your hand is actually
going to start feeling warmer when it
starts to feel warmer you’re going to
relax even D if you’re going to feel
even better even better notice your
eyelids that’s right
just getting heavy but you’re staying
wide awake wide aware and totally locked
in to where you’re at what we can do in
hypnosis is we can help people change
the sensations that they’re feeling what
would it be like to be able to change
the way food tastes so the broccoli
tastes better what it’d be like to have
your perceptions change so that you
actually felt good waking up in the
morning and you were excited on Mondays
there’s all kinds of possibilities
hypnosis can be used to change any
behavior nearly any behavior or habit
because it works at the subconscious
mind the root of all of it now popular
movies would have you fear the hypnotist
they think you make you think that we
can control your mind we can’t I was at
my office in Phoenix one time it was
August and the air conditioning wasn’t
working very well I did a consultation
with a gentleman and afterwards he said
to me Jim I think you can help me but I
don’t want to give control of my mind to
anyone I’ll feel a little sassy I said
look if I’m a good guy if I’m an ethical
guy and you give me control of your mind
that’s a good thing I’ll help you to be
successful if I’m a bad guy I’m
unethical why are the world what are
they sitting here in Phoenix and August
talking to you we can’t control your
mind but you hear stories you’ll hear
stories people will say something like
well my uncle said that he heard that a
hypnotist in wherever did whatever so I
would never see a hypnotist well what
about this
my uncle said he heard a story of a
dentist in wherever doing whatever so
I’m never gonna get my teeth cleaned
look you’re much more likely hear cases
of people being injured or abused by
someone in law enforcement the medical
field or education but that does not
mean that you shouldn’t use people in
those services because most of them are
ethical human beings that have your best
interests at heart just like us so
please everybody think about that next
time you’re thinking that you can’t be
hypnotized because most likely you can
everybody on stage you’ve done an
excellent job give them a round of
applause fantastic what are you noticing
up there don’t do much yourself yeah my
hands getting warmer okay what are you
feeling same my hands pretty cold pretty
cold okay so we got one all right thanks
everybody and you know what just
remember don’t resist it the hypnotist
because if you can’t be hypnotized you
lose thank you everybody thank you
everybody you can take your hand out [Applause]