Learn To Hypnotize (Does Hypnosis Work? Yes!)

Today we're going to discuss the question, "Does hypnosis work?" Not only does hypnosis work, it is relatively easy to learn to hypnotize in your own time.

Most of the discrepancy over the validity of hypnosis is over stage hypnosis. Stage hypnosis is when the hypnotist, an entertainer, performs a show in front of a live audience. The fact that the production is a "show" may seem to take away some of the credibility when one is trying to figure out does hypnosis work. A skeptic may look at the audience, see a seemingly random audience member picked out, and then see the audience member do wild and unpredictable things and then make an argument that the audience member could have been a "plant". In layman's terms, a suspicious onlooker may believe that the audience member is in fact not an audience member but a paid "actor" in the show. Such a staged event would call into question whether the hypnotist/entertainer ever actually had learn to hypnotize or if he or she is just a talented entertainer.

It is hard to tell if such performances are pure performances with actors or if they are completely legitimate hypnotism demonstrations. Perhaps some are completely staged, some are completely real, and some are a mixture of both. A mixture of both could be if the hypnotist "hypnotizes" a staged audience member early in the show to demonstrate to others that hypnotism is real. To do so would get the audience to buy into hypnotism more and make real, legitimate hypnotic trances more forthcoming later in the show.

Other forms of hypnosis are generally accepted as a legitimate form of hypnotherapy. For instance, hypnosis to quit smoking is a very common practice. Hypnosis is also used in psychiatric sessions to bring closed off memories to the forefront and help out the psychiatric process. The moral of the story is, in most cases one can learn to hypnotize and count it as a legitimate activity.