Q: What is hypnosis?
A: Hypnosis is a state of your mind in which you can accept hypnotist’s suggestions without resistance. Can you resist hypnosis? Of course! You can be hypnotized only if you consciously and willingly follow instructions given to you by your hypnotist.
Q: What is the difference between stage hypnosis and hypnosis that hypnotherapists use?
A: There is no difference! But a hypnotherapist works with any client who wants to try hypnosis to solve his or her problem. A stage hypnotist carefully selects the most hypnotizable people from all people that came to watch the show.
Q: Do people selected by a hypnotist experience real hypnotic trance?
A: Yes, they experience whatever a hypnotist suggests to them during a show.
Q: Can hypnosis harm people while they are hypnotized?
A: Absolutely no! Hypnosis is a state of your brain activity very similar to what you experience when you are getting sleep every night but didn’t fall asleep yet. Or when you are wailing up in the morning. But not completely awaken yet.
Q: Why hypnosis works for not everyone?
A: Everybody reacts to hypnotic suggestions differently that is why hypnosis doesn’t work for every person. Some people are so analytical that they easily resist any hypnotic suggestions.
Q: Does a hypnotist have some peculiar power?
A: No! A stage hypnotist is a normal human being with experience in a field of entertainment. Of course, a stage hypnotist is able to hypnotize people willing to participate in a hypnosis show.
Q: How a stage hypnotist induce hypnosis?
A: There many ways to induce hypnosis. Every stage hypnotist has own favorite method. For a professional stage hypnotist, it can take 5 or less minutes to hypnotize selected people on stage.
Q: Do hypnotized people on stage feel good during and after a hypnosis show?
A: Yes, because a hypnotist gives all hypnotized people positive suggestions to feel great during and after a comedy hypnosis show! As a manner of fact, hypnosis helps to reduce stress, improve sleep, increase self-esteem, stop smoking and more.
Q: Can a stage hypnotist help people stop smoking?
A: I can, because I work with my clients at my office. But I think that not every stage hypnotist wants to help people to stop smoking. It is a good idea to contact your stage hypnotist after the show and ask him or her about hypnosis to stop smoking.
Q: How about the cases when someone couldn’t be able to wake up when a hypnotist said: “Wake up”.
A: Honestly, I think that cases like this one are made up by news reporters. Even if a person falls asleep while in hypnosis, he or she will wake up because hypnosis is a normal partial sleep, not a peculiar power!
Q: What if I want to participate in a comedy show but I can’t go under hypnosis?
A: Well, you still can enjoy a show as spectacular. Please understand that a stage hypnotist selects the most hypnotizable people for a comedy hypnosis show.
Q: Can anyone learn how to hypnotize?
A: Yes, just as anyone can learn how to play a musical instrument but not everyone is able to become a virtuoso. Personally, I think that every master hypnotist should constantly keep learning hypnosis.
My name is Alexander Ivlev. As a certified hypnotist, I can help you relax and feel better!