Quotes About Hypnosis

I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep - just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

hypnosis is potentially very dangerous spiritually, leaving the subject wide-open for impulses from the realm of Satan.

Trance is fragile.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

Hypnosis has been around a long time. It's a phenomenon that has been used as a form of therapy. The term hypnosis was coined by a man named Dr. James Braid back in the nineteenth century. The field of clinical hypnotherapy has been developing ever since. In the late 1950s, the American Medical Association approved hypnosis instruction for inclusion in medical schools. And hypnosis is considered by clinicians to be a serious topic in the healing arts.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

by means of what we now call hypnosis an individual could exercise an influence for better or worse upon the mental condition of his neighbor.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor.

Coulter remained near her, sword in hand. "I suppose it goes without saying, if you slip into a trance, you'll never come out of it." Kendra

One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

this strange case, which smacked of obvious devilry, with an admixture of some hypnotic tricks and distinct criminality

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

The capacity to control your dissociative capabilities is very powerful. It allows people to be good at reflective cognition. It allows people to have intense focus on a specific task. Hypnosis, flow, being "in the zone"-all of these are examples of the trance state that dissociation allows. People who learn to control when and how they go into a trance state have a gift…be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology…It can be an incredible strength.

I'll never forget my mom coming into the room middle of the night with YouTube videos of hypnotizing people saying, 'You're happy, you're going to be okay,' and she just played it in my ear as I slept.

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.