Hypnosis, Finally explained | Ben Cale | TEDxTechnion

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2019
  • “Hypnosis” seems mysterious and unexplainable to most people, but could it be explained with one simple idea? In a mesmerizing talk at TEDxTechnion, renowned Israeli magician and mentalist Ben Cale explains his simple and down to earth theory about hypnosis. Ben Cale is an Israeli Mentalist, Hypnotist and magician who travels around the world with a show called Hypno-Magic. Ben has over a decade of experience in private and corporate events all over the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @faran_iqbal
    @faran_iqbal 2 роки тому +1474

    Plot twist: The woman at that family event was just pretending to be hypnotized, in order to convince him to believe in himself, So actually since that day, he has been in her hypnotic trance

  • @mervinbernardels988
    @mervinbernardels988 4 роки тому +1175

    "People are just exploiting the believe that they are being controlled by someone or something else to give themselves the legitimacy to do what they already wanted to do and be who they already wanted to be" - Words to live by.

  • @thequietterkina2095
    @thequietterkina2095 4 роки тому +562

    "all hypnosis is self hypnosis"...
    thats basically it ...

    • @gavinnewton7221
      @gavinnewton7221 4 роки тому +9

      Is this the synopsis of this ? I don’t want to waste my time because now I gotta figure out if water gate was about controlling all the water in America

    • @tusseriesfavoritas7441
      @tusseriesfavoritas7441 3 роки тому

      I found a good collection of videos that should help on Hyper Hypno Blueprint

    • @emilyboada6640
      @emilyboada6640 3 роки тому

      There are a few components to if can hypnosis help. One place I discovered that successfully combines these is the Hyper Hypno Blueprint (google it if you're interested) without a doubt the best guide i've seen. look at the super information .

    • @nadiayvonnerazanajao7082
      @nadiayvonnerazanajao7082 3 роки тому

      I found this video on Hyper hypno blueprint - there's many great videos there that may help you

    • @jesusrojassi
      @jesusrojassi 3 роки тому

      I can across a useful collection of videos that should help you at Hyper hypno blueprint

  • @bartolomedelmar1694
    @bartolomedelmar1694 Рік тому +117

    I was professionally hypnotized and can attest it is a real thing, not in a magic show context. It is basically entering a really deep trance (if you meditate, you've been there) and being "unconscious" enough that all instructions and guidance enter freely into your mind. You recognize you can break the "spell" at any time, but if instructions are not absurd or dangerous, then you are inhabiting a really particular place where, and this is the best description I can give, your conscious "operating system" is in the background.... There, but not quite so. It is REALLY interesting.

    • @timgibney5590
      @timgibney5590 9 місяців тому +7

      It was all in your head. Everyone who has done so said it was peer pressure

    • @bartolomedelmar1694
      @bartolomedelmar1694 9 місяців тому +11

      @@timgibney5590 yes, but no... You understand little of the undercurrents of suggestion....

    • @crazywolf101
      @crazywolf101 7 місяців тому +1

      What do you concentrate on to get hypnotized?

    • @deehayen
      @deehayen 7 місяців тому

      It's just all in your head

    • @airtightcomics
      @airtightcomics 6 місяців тому

      Naw look at Covid. It traumatized almost everyone and then they got hypnotized by govt propaganda for two years straight. Trauma based mind control

  • @SoulPusher
    @SoulPusher 4 роки тому +185

    He's coming from a magician perspective, utilizing physiological "tricks" to get his outcome. There are many hypnotists who put all the power in the subject and NOT themselves, and get wonderful results. He's explaining "expectancy", which is only one piece of a bigger puzzle. An important piece mind you, but still only a piece.

    • @newworldwellness7007
      @newworldwellness7007 2 роки тому +13

      thank you for pointing this out

    • @Sagenetics
      @Sagenetics Рік тому +59

      I agree with you. The explanation that this guy gives is incomplete, though believable and is probably more directed at stage hypnosis. I run a private practice as a hypnotherapist many years now. And it is totally different. I almost never touch my subjects unless it's for anchoring. Actually, in the pre-script, one of the first things we tell the subject/client is that they are in total control and we have no control over them. So we destroy the above mentioned illusion purposefully to empower the client. Through the years I had many people that I had no rapport with as well, and still got good results. So no, hypnosis is not a trick. In my opinion, hypnotherapy is a fast way of classic (re)conditioning. But how? In short... most stubborn behavior is created because it had a positive effect in the past (for example: smoking with your friends was a social thing or it negated stress). In hypnotherapy we work with the emotion/feeling connected to that old behavior and connect it to a new more positive, helpful behavior to replace the old. Hope this makes sense to anyone reading this.

    • @SoulPusher
      @SoulPusher Рік тому +4

      @@Sagenetics 100%

    • @Sagenetics
      @Sagenetics Рік тому +1

      @apex Laxus Ey, sorry for my late reply. In my experience, yes, a good therapist should be able to manage a situation like that. It might take some sessions though, just to reach a trance/hypnotic state. Some of the therapy can also be already done outside trance.

    • @ayeezack5477
      @ayeezack5477 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Sageneticssounds like regular therapy to me

  • @ilialuk1
    @ilialuk1 4 роки тому +648

    This is the first non BS explanation I’ve seen about hypnosis. Now it makes perfect sense to me. I know Ben, and he explained it to me before the TeD talk, very rare to have someone so logical and crisp in his explanation, 5min and I got it. Great job on the talk!

    • @dharmendarkumar-fm4qc
      @dharmendarkumar-fm4qc 4 роки тому +2

      7un,

    • @sakhile_nkomo
      @sakhile_nkomo 3 роки тому +24

      Plot twist: you're hypnotized right now.

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 3 роки тому +2

      Gullible

    • @ClassyBaxy
      @ClassyBaxy 2 роки тому +4

      ikr. once i saw some guy say that it was alien technology and u use powers from another dimension. He was also selling a course for hypnosis lol

    • @lewismcelroy6946
      @lewismcelroy6946 2 роки тому

      Why is hypnosis everywhere? Y did my smiling comment gone viral about rejection go viral? Is it possible 2 hypnotising the heart. Ah well at least I am in cybersecurity life's too short to chase the most beautiful 1

  • @mr.f716
    @mr.f716 Рік тому +80

    I never really believed in hypnosis because already at a young age i found out about what he is telling us here. And i do believe he is absolutely correct. I realized this when i dont remember under what context but i learned of a trick: the trick is that you take a thin rope with a slight weight at the bottom (I used a string with a coin attached to it, a string on its own should also work) and then you hold it in your hand and you can simply tell yourself in what direction the thing is supposed to swing. No concious movement will happen but if you think to yourself i want it to swing from left to right, after a while it will. Same if you say it should swing away and towards you. And then the person that made me do the trick simply told me about micro movements. Movements so tiny your body does them without you even realizing. But as soon as you tell yourself i want it to swing a certain way, your body will make it swing unknowingly because of movements so small you dont even notice em. And then same thing applies here. If the person hypnotising you tells you the arm youre holding up feels so heavy that it will fall down imedeately after he snaps. That probably wont happen because such a huge movement from the arm is to obviously controled by you but if he says there is a weight on it and its slowly moving down, then yeah these micro movements wont be noticable to be of your own doing. Hope i was able to get my point across

    • @lionessprowess3581
      @lionessprowess3581 9 місяців тому +3

      Does this apply to playing with a Ouija board as well?

    • @mr.f716
      @mr.f716 9 місяців тому

      @@lionessprowess3581 Well im no expert but i am very certain it is. I actually bought a cheap ouija board to test it out a while ago but most of my friends are too scared to play so i never got around to trying it

    • @avaneeshbenki8266
      @avaneeshbenki8266 9 місяців тому

      You bring up some good points but the method in which you communicate yourself is very flawed. Work on being more concise and direct in your language.

    • @mr.f716
      @mr.f716 9 місяців тому +12

      @@avaneeshbenki8266 yeah i was aware this wasnt my best work when i wrote it but I can always bring out my secret weapon, im actually rather young and english is my second language so I dont have to be all that good at it hehehe

    • @karanpy7905
      @karanpy7905 3 місяці тому

      Totally agree mate! ​@@mr.f716

  • @grantarmstrong2968
    @grantarmstrong2968 Рік тому +81

    It’s a bit harder to explain because you have to think about consciousness when discussing this. We like to think about our mind being our own and in our control, but realistically it is not. You cannot control things like your heart beating, emotion, or basic functions (you can train and somewhat impact them, but never have complete control over them). This is because identity is a concept that we created, we are essentially a character that was created by the human mind. If this sounds outlandish, than you wouldn’t be alone, but you cannot deny that no matter how hard you concentrate, you cannot stop your heart by simply telling it too. So, when you talk about hypnosis, you aren’t just talking about convincing someone to agree to everything you say or to believe you are in control. You are really convincing the brain that the character/identity or whatever you want to call yourself which process everything is not in control. It’s not about convincing them that you are in control, it’s about convincing them that they aren’t in control

    • @MichaelWilson40423
      @MichaelWilson40423 Рік тому +2

      Damn that makes sense

    • @VonJay
      @VonJay Рік тому +6

      Well the brain is roughly three layers. The autonomic, the limbic and the cortical. “You cannot control your heartbeat” is because it belongs to the autonomic system, or the automatic involuntary system. Heart rate is “unconscious.” However your cortex or your cognitive executive brain areas can control your limbic system, or your emotions if you train it well. Your limbic system or your emotional brain can override your cortical regions of compromised by unforeseen circumstances.
      And consciousness is signified by “gamma waves” in the brain which are at 40hz and above. So when you’re actively conscious you’re really in total control of everything else, but based on what you learned and studied in life would make you better at a task or event though all others competing are moving at 40hz brain waves.
      So in short I disagree immensely since science doesn’t back your premise.

    • @PrepperKiwi
      @PrepperKiwi Рік тому

      ⁠@@VonJaythey sneak into the unconscious when the conscious is looking elsewhere. It’s what they call hypnosis, it’s what I call Pavlovian mind hacking. Let’s hope the heart has a backup circuit breaker.

    • @chidiemeke8331
      @chidiemeke8331 9 місяців тому

      This is by far the best comment I ever read on UA-cam comment section❤
      1:46

    • @goldencookie5456
      @goldencookie5456 Місяць тому

      As someone who had OCD but understood it, this is a principle I'm already very familiar with despite not knowing anything about hypnosis. Why couldn't I stop thinking images and dialogue of a cat while trying to sleep? Because I was convinced I couldn't stop myself. Same principle. With OCD, you're basically chronically hypnotized very regularly and uncontrollably at random in the most chaotic manner ever to the point that it impedes on your daily function.

  • @pauline9136
    @pauline9136 3 роки тому +64

    Can you imagine if this was a TED talk during the Salem witch trials, no doubt this is sorcery

    • @redpillmatrix3046
      @redpillmatrix3046 2 роки тому

      And church will accuse him of satan presence

    • @SubmitToTheBiomass
      @SubmitToTheBiomass Місяць тому

      It's not a TED talk, it's a TEDx talk which they will let literally anybody - including this third-rate magician - do. If you don't believe me look up "2070 Paradigm Shift".

  • @Learnjapanesefromsomeguy
    @Learnjapanesefromsomeguy 2 роки тому +202

    I went to a hypnotist show in Vegas once and was brought up on stage with four or five other people. Naturally, I was not under the hypnotist's 'control' and everything I did was of my own volition. I was, however, under the control of peer pressure, I would say. There are a number of things that went through my mind as I was on stage, "Everyone else is sort of doing these silly things and they are obviously not under any kind of spell either. So, I will just play along so as not to stand out," and "I don't want to ruin the show for everyone, so I will play along just to keep the show running smoothly." I imagine the other participants had similar thoughts and ideas. To this day, though, the friends I went to the show with believe that I was legitimately hypnotized. I didn't want to tell them it was fake so as not to ruin the 'fun' or 'magic' of it.

    • @amadeus5923
      @amadeus5923 Рік тому +63

      I have the same experience with a certain virus and pretending to be sick from it.

    • @itsaj2404
      @itsaj2404 Рік тому +5

      @@amadeus5923 😂

    • @LondonSoundSystem
      @LondonSoundSystem Рік тому +3

      @@amadeus5923 veryu funny

    • @rockyroaditis8341
      @rockyroaditis8341 Рік тому +3

      @@amadeus5923 lmfaoooo 😭😭

    • @Tman33919
      @Tman33919 Рік тому

      Hypnosis is very real. Have you seen Dolores Cannon? Hundreds and hundreds of her clients tell her the same thing when in a hypnotic state and are posessed by the same beings. There is also subconscious regressions that trigger past life memories. Why do you think some people get knocked out and start speaking a different language. Everything is in the subconscious collective mind. You just weren’t emotionally invested and insecure about it. I suggest you try meditation, get into deep theta brainwave states and then try it. Our brains when awake are in beta state. When we watch TV our brains go into Alpha state, which is the most receptive of brainwaves. So watching TV programs our minds subconsciously. As does colors, symbols, etc. have you heard of Mk ultra, the paid government operation that kidnapped thousand of Americans and did secret mind control test on them. This is all declassified information. Still goes on, just under different names. The subconscious is 95% and the conscious mind only perceives 5 percent, which means we are a living in a bandwidth perception of our actual minds.

  • @oscararru8777
    @oscararru8777 4 роки тому +232

    Why is his shadow wearing a hat

    • @TextiX887
      @TextiX887 4 роки тому +4

      This comment xD

    • @parallelteam916
      @parallelteam916 4 роки тому

      F

    • @user-ic2yr2mu5y
      @user-ic2yr2mu5y 4 роки тому +6

      It’s his glasses,, but that was funny lmao

    • @MosesTok18
      @MosesTok18 4 роки тому +9

      Jit hypnotized the camera

    • @tariqahmed5445
      @tariqahmed5445 3 роки тому

      It’s because his shadow is projected on the curtains which aren’t flat so it creates a a hat shape on his shadow

  • @Remidream17
    @Remidream17 2 місяці тому +3

    The thing is that you’re not unconscious at all, you are aware of everything but at the same time just focused on suggestions. It’s like going to the cinema, you are so invested in the film that you don’t even hear people eating popcorn

  • @dilpreetd651
    @dilpreetd651 4 роки тому +195

    this guy explained it all to the truest extent ever

    • @seanmichael9056
      @seanmichael9056 3 роки тому +5

      3:12 the hypnosis starts, just want to say that it’s an amazing way he did it and I’ve been studying hypnosis myself I’m trying to teach myself one skill in the pandemic and that is hypnosis even the the schools are opening up slowly I still don’t trust to so I’m staying home trying to teach myself new skills

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 3 роки тому

      He’s a liar and you’re a sheep

    • @siris615
      @siris615 3 роки тому +3

      @@seanmichael9056 did you not understand the video? About what he said? He said its not real....

    • @richardcronshey4839
      @richardcronshey4839 2 роки тому +2

      He did not make any reasonable explanation

    • @galaxydrifter9799
      @galaxydrifter9799 2 роки тому +1

      @@zackp5294 if you think for more than 10 seconds it makes sense

  • @esh8400
    @esh8400 4 роки тому +32

    Basically an intensely focused and guided belief!

  • @motakez731
    @motakez731 4 роки тому +307

    Everynight i got hypnotize for like 8-10 hours

  • @libertas_americana
    @libertas_americana 3 роки тому +7

    Belief is a powerful thing.

  • @Ahmad-dg8rx
    @Ahmad-dg8rx 4 роки тому +198

    Man i keep imagining him say
    *WOW you can really dance*

    • @willgogo3234
      @willgogo3234 4 роки тому +2

      Zen-oh Sama underrated comment

    • @justonyx6721
      @justonyx6721 4 роки тому +4

      He said we’ve all been dancing all this time, what a coincidance!

    • @kcdev89
      @kcdev89 4 роки тому +1

      Omg I am dying! Can we be besties 😂

    • @loismendelsohn3210
      @loismendelsohn3210 3 роки тому

      😂😂

    • @loismendelsohn3210
      @loismendelsohn3210 3 роки тому +1

      Can't unhear it now 😂😂

  • @parkkinglot892
    @parkkinglot892 3 роки тому +45

    This is similar to what the doctor said to me, when I argued that depressed people cannot make themselves better by thinking positively. He simply said "It's not they "cannot" the truth of the matter is "they will not".

    • @studionewart2487
      @studionewart2487 3 роки тому

      T n

    • @elenapashaeva1
      @elenapashaeva1 3 роки тому +1

      Cool idea

    • @littlethuggie
      @littlethuggie 3 роки тому +6

      You need a new doctor.

    • @parkkinglot892
      @parkkinglot892 3 роки тому +2

      @@littlethuggie He wasn't my doctor, he was a family friend, and his accomplishments make him a reliable source.

    • @littlethuggie
      @littlethuggie 3 роки тому +4

      @@parkkinglot892 I don't care. He's not a good doctor, and I doubt he's a psychologist/psychiatrist, and instead specializes in something completely different. Or he just isn't good.

  • @ChucknMcNuggets
    @ChucknMcNuggets Рік тому +7

    The phenomena can be tested to debunk the idea that something isn't actually happening. It's not hard to get someone stuck to a chair and take a leap of faith. The hypnotist can put $100 ten feet in front of the person, tell them if they can get it, they can keep it. The hypnotist can even say he's leaving the room and there are no cameras. The money will still be sitting there. People reveal passwords to their phones, credit card numbers, their address... and can pass a polygraph test afterward that they never revealed any info, and weren't hypnotized. (when they clearly were) What we call placebo is much more powerful than a trick of making someone believe a lie. People can go from balling their eyes out, to laughing in less than a second. They can get goosebumps on cue, raise their heart rate without doing anything physical, or remember where they put an object they thought they lost. You can't trick a person into chugging a brutal bottle of hot sauce as if it was a cold beer like you can under hypnosis, or holding a spider without a negative reaction, when they say they are terrified by them.

  • @martinwilliams9866
    @martinwilliams9866 Рік тому +20

    The paradox of hypnosis is that we know of hundreds of ways to induce it, but don't know what it is that is being induced

  • @tommiegreen
    @tommiegreen 2 роки тому +21

    I never believe when I see others get hypnotized. It has to happen to me in order to believe it

    • @mrbigarms
      @mrbigarms 2 роки тому +6

      I think you'll find not everyone can get hypnotized, I never beveled in it, in fact I was very critical of it until on holiday my wife was hypnotized at a show, I was gobsmacked! She got up onto the stage a did things I would have never believed she would do. As for me I never for one moment felt influenced, even thought I tried! It's a very weird thing!

    • @djstatz
      @djstatz 2 роки тому

      @@mrbigarms the same happen to me ..never thought it could happen and it did I said numbers the crowd saw before I spoke them.then I repeated it..yea I'm still shocked..watch the movie Ultrasound

  • @naomikriger1651
    @naomikriger1651 4 роки тому +11

    Interesting! I like the occam's razor style of thinking. Seems like a good way to approach the topic

  • @ksisneh
    @ksisneh 3 роки тому +70

    I connect with this guy. I make my audience sleep all the time.

  • @ChristIsK1ng
    @ChristIsK1ng 5 місяців тому +2

    I just experienced hypnosis for the first time in my life after watching Don’t Worry Darling on Netflix. It wasn’t while I was awake. It was like my dreams were loops of different scenes that had nothing to do with the movie. They were mini nightmares. I woke up and immediately started to read deeper into the movie and quickly realized that there were elements of hypnosis in the movie and I had been hypnotized.

    • @whocares8460
      @whocares8460 3 місяці тому

      ay. I've been a hypnotist for 18yrs.. mostly I use it to date the most beautiful women I can find without EVER being rejected even once. I also use it to better myself and make my life and my students lives easier. Pain? forget it.. Failure? hahahhaha!! even before I started my company... I would use it on my bosses and become a supervisor. Raises? Guaranteed.

    • @whocares8460
      @whocares8460 3 місяці тому

      The best methods are not publicly shared though... It seems like it must be your destiny to stumble upon it but you can forget teaching friends and family... they dont want the truth.. you can only help the strangers who demand to pay you. That's the tough part.. I can't help my fam much but ask a client I've never met and they will tell you I'm the reason they now enjoy life. If given the choice to live more 'without' my knowledge base of over 1k useful books or to die today.. I'd choose death with no hesitation. I love winning and getting my way too much to go back to regular joe ahahahha

  • @DFCE82
    @DFCE82 2 роки тому +5

    Great explanation! Thanks a lot for sharing this video! 🙏❤️

  • @musicalkristy
    @musicalkristy Місяць тому

    Wow !!!!!! Literally belief is everything !

  • @Shaunster1995
    @Shaunster1995 Рік тому +1

    Wow I got chills at the end.

  • @freddyedinger9484
    @freddyedinger9484 2 роки тому +1

    Ive been hypnotized over an audio.

  • @esh8400
    @esh8400 4 роки тому +4

    Dude this is priceless! Thanks!

  • @InternetScammer
    @InternetScammer 3 роки тому +3

    GREAT presentation

  • @artdanks4846
    @artdanks4846 2 роки тому +60

    Very interesting, and also explains why my entire life I've always been "unhypnotizeable", even though I've always "believed" in hypnosis, and always wished I could be hypnotized. But seeing this video makes me realize now that I always knew that the power did not come from the hypnotist, but from my own mind! And that understanding somehow always "short-circuited" my ability to be hypnotized.

    • @hypno-elevatehypnotherapy1051
      @hypno-elevatehypnotherapy1051 2 роки тому +15

      Have you ever watched a movie and felt something whether it was a laugh out loud moment or an inner desire to cry because you felt the emotion of the character's struggle? If yes, then you've been hypnotized. You just didn't realize it.

    • @5katt3r8ra1n
      @5katt3r8ra1n 2 роки тому +8

      @@hypno-elevatehypnotherapy1051 I agree with you.. your definition of "hypnosis" is too specific. Any time someone has entered your mind, suggested something, and you felt that on a deep level, you've technically been hypnotized. Hypnosis IMO is when someone reaches the deepest cores of themselves from the aid with an outside source.

    • @pooblock4092
      @pooblock4092 2 роки тому +5

      I’m sure religious people can easily be hypnotized. It’s basically the same thing. Convincing yourself of something deep down you know makes no sense only to feel better and do what you truly want to do.

    • @artdanks4846
      @artdanks4846 2 роки тому +7

      @@pooblock4092 Actually, in my particular case it's the exact opposite. I am very much a "religious" person, and I think that may be the reason I've never been able to be hypnotized. Because my religious beliefs are very deep, so I'm thinking that's probably what "overrides" any possibility of being hypnotized.

    • @alantorres2256
      @alantorres2256 Рік тому +3

      You just haven’t met a good hypnotist

  • @peterlustig5606
    @peterlustig5606 3 роки тому +38

    What a brilliant & amazing presentation and insight, I can't thank you enough Ben!! This was truely the most insightful TED-talk I've ever seen. All the best for you, love from Berlin to Israel!

  • @ferolsellon7749
    @ferolsellon7749 2 роки тому

    Glad I watched till the end. Luv this theory and mindset

  • @adamwarnke7247
    @adamwarnke7247 Рік тому +2

    This sparked a passion very well spoken and seems legit

  • @chilledout_5486
    @chilledout_5486 3 роки тому +12

    Its so simple, but makes so much sense... (dude i love watching ted talks man)

  • @juanshery4414
    @juanshery4414 10 місяців тому +2

    Great young man, exact explanation, thanks a lot . ❤

  • @borisod
    @borisod 4 роки тому +26

    So the main point is that hypnosis requires a willing/believing subject? That does not mean in anyway that it does not have a deeper mechanism behind it. This would be like saying - I looked deep into it and it seems that the only reason studying with my math tutor works is because I am willing to follow the process he suggests... If you are saying this technique allows someone to quit smoking in an instance - that is not something most people are able to do just using their will power, or even placebo pills. What to speak of surgeries done under hypnosis without pain killers.
    So even if we accept the prerequisite for the hypnotic state is that the subject believes the hypnotist has some power over him - it does not explain the rest of the process and effects of hypnosis.

  • @xxjohnnyred6247
    @xxjohnnyred6247 4 роки тому +13

    “The Belief” ..... this is true.

    • @tommiegreen
      @tommiegreen 2 роки тому

      But the point of hypnosis is to change belief

  • @queenrayne1338
    @queenrayne1338 3 роки тому +28

    Well, hes half right. It is all about belief. However, the fact that people in hypnotic trances do enter an altered state of mind in which the brain produces theta waves, much like someone who is meditating or sleeping, indicates a real physiological effect. I would argue that it is another form of guided meditation, not some empty trick or delusion. Of course by the end of the speach he more or less lands on that conclusion, at least by implication.

    • @littlethuggie
      @littlethuggie 2 роки тому +1

      Then call it guided meditation, not hypnosis.

    • @drhubs7049
      @drhubs7049 Рік тому

      Agreed. Ive seen a hypnosis show where he used people that were not ones to go along with the crowd. They were all in a trance. I watched one of my friends bump into someone and break out temporarily. That was a real physiological phemenon. You can't fake that

    • @becca_rose_x
      @becca_rose_x Рік тому +2

      @@littlethuggie this IS what hypnosis is though!! Like he explained in the video, hypnosis isn’t mind control. So why not call it hypnosis? This is exactly what hypnosis is! And if u look it up, a guided meditation is actually a hypnotic state too. All hypnosis is, is relaxation and a suggestible state to accepting suggestions and the power of your imagination. I think u still have the idea that the word hypnosis is some magical thing, as u said “call it meditation not hypnosis.” But this IS*** what hypnosis is

    • @littlethuggie
      @littlethuggie Рік тому

      @@becca_rose_x "hypnosis" implies the subject is acting beyond their control, as per the actual definition of the word lol.

    • @becca_rose_x
      @becca_rose_x Рік тому +3

      @@littlethuggie like I said… that’s what it implies because that’s the biggest misconception of what hypnosis has been for years. It’s not mind control, so as a society we need to stop thinking and seeing that’s what it is. It’s still hypnosis, but u gotta detach yourself from that connotation and implication because also for a lot of years it’s been debunked that hypnosis isn’t mind control. So basically, stop seeing it is. Same sort of thing when people believed mentally iII people was “insane” and they were treated badIy but that’s debunked too now

  • @patfacunla1687
    @patfacunla1687 9 місяців тому

    Thank you very much ben.

  • @MultiSoulcollector
    @MultiSoulcollector 2 роки тому +1

    Great JOB BEN !!

  • @TheHipHopistit
    @TheHipHopistit 4 роки тому +17

    That's just crazy, I wanna try that on my own!

    • @JacobTheSunPreacher
      @JacobTheSunPreacher 3 роки тому +1

      You actually can try It on yourself!

    • @sharonbraselton4302
      @sharonbraselton4302 6 місяців тому

      first get exoert train yiu furest befire trykbg

    • @MikeNice619
      @MikeNice619 5 місяців тому

      @@sharonbraselton4302 Did you have a stroke mid sentence?

  • @shiritech
    @shiritech 11 днів тому

    Finally! it was a great explanation.

  • @jacqueskeys
    @jacqueskeys 2 роки тому +2

    True Mastery! Your life/work is truly a blessing Ben!

  • @veredklein160
    @veredklein160 4 роки тому +11

    Thank you, it's really interesting and I learned from it a lot!

  • @Ghostdog4
    @Ghostdog4 Рік тому +12

    I'll consider his explanation and demonstration. It seems very rational as far as his carnival like physical tricks are concerned. Doesn't explain a whole bunch of other strange behaviors it can make people do.

  • @annelaout
    @annelaout 3 роки тому +95

    I wonder, if after explaining this, you would have asked another volunteer on stage, would the change of successfully hypnotizing that second volunteer be significantly smaller?

    • @eternalconfusion6226
      @eternalconfusion6226 3 роки тому +26

      I've never tried hypnosis but because I never believed in it I always had this notion that if I ever tried it it wouldn't work.

    • @venomg5799
      @venomg5799 3 роки тому +14

      @@eternalconfusion6226 didn't work on me. I think you have to be like, super gullible or believe anything.

    • @vivekranaware9169
      @vivekranaware9169 3 роки тому +8

      YES IT ALL WORKS ON THE BELIEF SYSTEM.... IF SECOND VOLUNTEER COMES ON STAGE HE ALREADY HAS THE NEW BELIEF,,,,BUT THE SECOND VOULUNTEER CAN BE HYPNOTISED WITH OTHER NEW TECHNIQUE

    • @JacobTheSunPreacher
      @JacobTheSunPreacher 3 роки тому +2

      The chance of it being succesful increases, since the person understands How It Works, It Just let him make you believe and want whatever he says If it's not dangerous or you are hardly against

    • @innertuber4049
      @innertuber4049 2 роки тому +3

      Apparently only 10% of people can be significantly hypnotized

  • @tinaaiomanu5039
    @tinaaiomanu5039 2 роки тому +4

    Seems like a golden explanation. Thank you.

  • @mariopappalardo3818
    @mariopappalardo3818 2 роки тому +28

    There is definitely a lot of truth to this, especially as relates to stage hypnosis, but it fails to explain the physiological changes in the brain that can be measured with MRI. It fails to explain how anesthetic free surgery can be performed under hypnotism. It fails to explain how hypnotherapy can mediate involuntary shakes in someone with parkinsons. These "tricks" do change the way are brain is functioning momentarily, and the pathways that are being used.

    • @nerdstrangler4804
      @nerdstrangler4804 2 роки тому +9

      The physiological changes measured with an MRI is because you are not dead. Having your brain activity change when you do or think about something different is a normal thing that should be happening at all times.
      Surgery has been performed without anesthetic long before hypnosis. I am sure there are all sorts of tricks people used to distract them from the pain, hypnosis is just another form of distraction. Probably a similar situation with parkinsons. When they fixate on their tremors it probably makes them worse.

    • @vassalofthenight9945
      @vassalofthenight9945 2 роки тому +4

      All of that can be just dismissed as placebo. I genuinely believe there's no limit to what a human body can do for itself if it believes that it can. When studying psychology i've read of a lot of cases where people cured themselves of terminal cancer, had huge cysts physically shrink to half the size in two days or had locked joints that they fixed and started doing sport, all of which while taking sugar pills that they though were medicine. Placebo is genuinely ridiculously powerful and underappreciated as a tool.

    • @Fian_so
      @Fian_so 2 роки тому +1

      That's because it's no trick , how can you trick a guy to see through another guy as though he was invisible ! Or make so he can lay himself on the top of two chairs without falling .

    • @littlethuggie
      @littlethuggie 2 роки тому +1

      Citations?

    • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
      @yourdedcat-qr7ln Рік тому

      @@Fian_so consciousness controls matter

  • @shragamildiner8472
    @shragamildiner8472 Рік тому

    Wow Ben, great Ted talk! Appreciate you referring me to it

  • @carine-bellef6287
    @carine-bellef6287 4 роки тому +41

    What an interesting talk!
    I wonder how many therapists really perceive this as you do

  • @strangeanimations2518
    @strangeanimations2518 4 роки тому +3

    Great video!

  • @danlewis4886
    @danlewis4886 Рік тому +6

    That only works on highly suggestible people. When they aren't, different methods are used. This guy has a lot to learn.

  • @shahenazhalepotra5332
    @shahenazhalepotra5332 2 роки тому +3

    Ok, I am a 14 year old and using mother's account right now. Like a year ago, watched a video of hypnotism and tried it. I have been trying new things since and now I can make you feel what I am saying and make you forget that it was me who did it. Sometimes it scares me that if I had ever hypnotized myself and made myself forget some important stuff for some reason.

    • @ulisesmagana4413
      @ulisesmagana4413 2 роки тому

      Any good tips? I wanna prank my sister. She doesn’t like to shake hands and gets nervous around people it’s a kinda prank but also to help her to get out of her shell

    • @shahenazhalepotra5332
      @shahenazhalepotra5332 2 роки тому +1

      @@ulisesmagana4413 just imagine what you want to do, and think any trick you can use to make that happen. Like if you want someone to forget their name, make them imagine a board with their name and slowly make it fade and baam! They don't remember it. To reverse it make the board reappear. I often ask them to think of a chalk board where I use a duster to erase the the name and then if you write someone on it, you can say that that is their name for fun and fix it afterwards. Also, if you keep on this for too long, they might get distracted which may make them remember.

  • @felixknowloveyoudlovetokno2324

    Thank you very much for this. my mind has been put at greater ease, I learned a lot, and I appreciate this.

  • @dancing_frank_lee
    @dancing_frank_lee 3 роки тому +1

    love this guy

  • @ryan89201
    @ryan89201 4 роки тому +113

    Interesting viewpoint. I've always thought that hypnotists targeted the more persuadable audience members or had planted "prop people" in the audience.

    • @dylanbinu10352
      @dylanbinu10352 4 роки тому +34

      Ryan Watters Well it does work better with persuadable people since the subject has to believe that they are being controlled.

    • @jmsr8640
      @jmsr8640 4 роки тому

      Many thanks, been searching for "hypnotizing show" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Ever heard of - Andrewlon Hypnotification Scheme - (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my friend got cool success with it.

    • @mariaportugall1933
      @mariaportugall1933 4 роки тому

      Winner of a video, I've been looking for "sample hypnosis scripts" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Andrewlon Hypnotification Scheme - (just google it ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my mate got excellent success with it.

    • @neoadviser8056
      @neoadviser8056 4 роки тому

      This is glorious, been searching for "hypnotic inductions" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Andrewlon Hypnotification Scheme - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my work buddy got great success with it.

    • @aliwaleed3422
      @aliwaleed3422 4 роки тому

      your thought is actually more scientifically proved than mr ben in the show .

  • @daver7838
    @daver7838 4 роки тому +6

    That was really interesting, always wanted to know how that worked. Thanks!

  • @ValerieFulmer
    @ValerieFulmer Місяць тому

    Some people are more open to suggestion than others.

  • @GunZnRifles
    @GunZnRifles 4 роки тому +6

    Amazing lecture!

  • @shirleysanchez5865
    @shirleysanchez5865 2 місяці тому

    Great presentation!

  • @necrocratics
    @necrocratics 4 роки тому +7

    Yea thats y whenever some one say you cant do it,it never works

  • @MaNa106
    @MaNa106 4 роки тому +3

    Really cool!

  • @lilmikee5658
    @lilmikee5658 4 роки тому +41

    very, very good Ben. I must say you did great at actually explaining this topic in a clear and understandable way. Even if I know all hypnosis is self-hypnosis the subject does not necessarily do. In any case, this is not useful to me, being the hypnosis community for years has taught me this, and people in the hypnosis community have known for a while. Even if it is not a new claim, and others have presented it in the past. You yourself have done this in a way no one has. In a public, open access platform where you talk about it in a way everyone can understand. So for that, thank you Ben.
    btw see you later u/bencale

  • @Etrius10
    @Etrius10 Місяць тому

    Before I watched the video I already had a similar conclusion, that stage hypnotism at the very least is basically just a form of performance anxiety. You're given the opportunity to perform in front of a crowd and so you do whatever the hypnotist says. I don't even necessarily believe that the subject believes that they're not in control. I think the key lies in shame. This is even why the hypnotized will go and tell their family members and friends that they were truly hypnotized, at the risk of feeling shame for having put on a show under a false pretense. The same for the psychotherapy angle, they are free from shame because they are under the belief that the hypnotist at least believes they are in some sort of altered state, and so they feel less shame admitting things.

  • @Noattentionplz
    @Noattentionplz 4 роки тому +48

    Really interesting! I like this explanation because it brings the power back to the self, we got in us what it takes to heal and solve our problems, sometimes we just need help to realize it and bring that power out.

  • @borisazizov329
    @borisazizov329 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks

  • @maybinator
    @maybinator 4 роки тому +131

    Glorified placebo therapy

    • @DisrUptuSVerRB
      @DisrUptuSVerRB 4 роки тому +21

      Glorified placebo therapy on three, two, one, all the way down, down, down, into Glorified placebo therapy, down deeper. Deeper down, deeper than you've ever been before... That's right.

    • @TimoteoCrnkovic
      @TimoteoCrnkovic 3 роки тому +5

      soo wrong, try to undergo surgery under placebo without anestetics

    • @vaphiadis1
      @vaphiadis1 3 роки тому

      @@DisrUptuSVerRB hahaha you got it !

    • @hoenircanute
      @hoenircanute 3 роки тому

      @@TimoteoCrnkovic anestetics

    • @bigdumbfatcat2869
      @bigdumbfatcat2869 3 роки тому +5

      @@TimoteoCrnkovic Actually, people HAVE undergone surgery under hypnosis. Look up here on UA-cam "Hynosurgery live - shows surgery performed under hypnosis" and it will show you an example. Now, this is no real replacement for anesthetics, nobody is arguing that, and the variability of people's susceptibility to hypnosis makes it very impractical for a wide use, but it seems to be a real thing.

  • @Mineav
    @Mineav 3 роки тому +44

    Another key component, I think, is also that it's fun to be hypnotized and give up control to someone else for a little while. Exactly why, I'm not sure, but it may have something to do with our natural desire to make connections with other people. Or it could be that we prefer to take the mental path of least resistance at certain times.

  • @TTGFRED89
    @TTGFRED89 6 місяців тому

    This is well explained thanks

  • @voratheexplorer6442
    @voratheexplorer6442 3 роки тому +77

    So hypnotists really are con artists, it's just that they're conning the person being hypnotized and not everyone else who came to watch.

    • @walkernick86
      @walkernick86 3 роки тому +16

      Not really no. I don't actually agree with what he is saying to a large extent. He is saying that hypnosis is just compliance using magicians tricks. This is not what true hypnosis is, although it can be a part of it and is certainly key to getting someone in hypnosis.
      Never trust a stage hypnotist for real hypnosis advice! There are plenty of hypnotherapists that sedate a client for anesthetic free surgery. Explain that as a case of someone just having permission to "being who they just wanted to be"!

    • @voratheexplorer6442
      @voratheexplorer6442 3 роки тому +1

      @walkernick86 in the interim I actually learned how to hypnotize people and... I don't know how it works. It really shouldn't. But it do.

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 3 роки тому +1

      It’s spiritual. He controls demons. He is a liar.

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 3 роки тому

      @Scott Anderson ahhhh hahahahahahaha
      What’s it like walking through life blind?

    • @zackp5294
      @zackp5294 3 роки тому

      @Scott Anderson do you think your ancestors were fish?

  • @davidariamirroarkyoung
    @davidariamirroarkyoung 7 місяців тому

    Excellent!!!

  • @fidebagwell5697
    @fidebagwell5697 Рік тому +2

    When I was in high school, we had a hypnotist at the after-prom party. When he hypnotized the audience, I just got a tickling feeling in my head that made me want to laugh.
    One of my friends, however, thought her hands were stuck together. I pried them apart.
    Perhaps it is at least partially a matter of willpower; the willingness to let someone else call the shots, or the willpower to resist.
    Even though I'm a very different person now, and honestly in great need of help, I still think I wouldn't be able to be hypnotized. I'm at the mercy of so many things, so I'm not going to relinquish control of the few things I can still control, even temporarily.

    • @sharonbraselton4302
      @sharonbraselton4302 6 місяців тому

      chef has hyortizemmafuc shiw orim night tooñ he git kusa ann ducimko oregrñt orm night

  • @janakkapadia209
    @janakkapadia209 3 роки тому

    Outstanding 👍

  • @perryshields7979
    @perryshields7979 3 роки тому +2

    @9:55 i felt the emphasis on that one

  • @chucku.farley981
    @chucku.farley981 4 роки тому +13

    According to this explanation the patients hypnotized to stay free of pain while the dental operation do not feel the pain because "the hypnotist said so!". all he explained was how a "convincer" works not the hypnosis itself.

    • @iamnicolehate
      @iamnicolehate 11 місяців тому +2

      Correct, he was incorrect stating this was an induction. A convincer is a technique used to "convince" the subject that they are in a hypnosis state.

  • @itaipinki
    @itaipinki 4 роки тому +5

    Great lecture!!!

  • @joshuanoble334
    @joshuanoble334 4 місяці тому

    The position of the eyes looking up prevents your eyelids opening. Try it yourself. Look up with your eyes closed and try to open them. She was very unbalanced when her foot wouldn’t go up. He put her in a very precise position for a reason.

  • @NishanthSalahudeen
    @NishanthSalahudeen 4 роки тому +1

    This is the best best explanation i ever heard

  • @Jsarson1976
    @Jsarson1976 Рік тому +8

    I am a clinical hypnotherapist certified and governed. What he has done is called an eye lock induction and you don’t need to look up, people won’t open there eyes as we’re talking to the subconscious to help issues within them that need balancing. I know this is different to what he is doing but what he said about these ideas about hypnotism then I totally disagree with him.

  • @freeblowis2345
    @freeblowis2345 3 роки тому +3

    He is spiting facts

    • @ablemedia8763
      @ablemedia8763 3 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂read this at the right moment

  • @altmandaniel1
    @altmandaniel1 4 роки тому +3

    Great talk! Thanks!

  • @gameryusic825
    @gameryusic825 3 роки тому +5

    Like how the ouija (sorry idk how to spell it) board works. There is no ghost but because everyone's hand is on the triangle thing in the middle and note that the board is super smooth and slippery. Everyone really wants the board to work and its not intentional but the brain would give uncontrolled twitch or small movements and since almost all of them wants something to happen they will want to expect movement so say if they asked "Are you here?" Most people would want the ghost to say yes. Therefore everyone's uncontrolled twitch and movement plus the slippery surface would make the triangle piece in the middle slowly but surely. Move. Get rekt ghost busters.

    • @dgerz
      @dgerz Рік тому

      Ouija boards are real, although, they aren't ghosts. They're demons, deceitful fallen angels.

  • @mindgalaxy306
    @mindgalaxy306 4 роки тому +1

    Very nice explain hypnosis sir

  • @NaughtyKitty
    @NaughtyKitty 4 роки тому

    This is amazing.

  • @l0lfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
    @l0lfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 4 роки тому +5

    Very hypnomagical!

  • @bluesharp5004
    @bluesharp5004 Рік тому +5

    You obviously don't understand the trance state. There is no hypnotist involved during "road hypnosis" when you suddenly realize you've passed an exit a long ways back, or wonder why the last hour seems like 5 minutes. There is no hypnotist involved when you read a book and visualize a story in your mind taking place that is almost real. There is no hypnotist involved when you have dreams that are visual and seem real. Hypnosis is a form of trance that may or may not be directed by another person. It requires focus, and only increases the possibility of suggestion working on the unconscious. The unconscious mind does the work. What hypnotic subject wants to jump out of a chair from electric shock? Were they waiting to that anyway, and just needed someone to make it "legitimate" for them? Your simplistic explanation is from the viewpoint of a magician and mentalist. If you're trying to explain away stage hypnosis, you may have some valid points. But unfortunately you didn't just debunk the years and years of scientific study of this phenomenon performed by people much smarter than you.

  • @marinushdratch7983
    @marinushdratch7983 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing 😃

  • @Langkowski
    @Langkowski 2 роки тому +4

    I find it extremely uncomfortable to close my eyes in front of other people, so I would probably need a sleeping mask instead if I was on stage.
    I have tried hypnosis twice; once with my eyes open and once with a mask. It didn't work in either cases. When the hypnotist says "you arms are starting to feel heavy" and stuff like that, I get a little annoyed because my arms are NOT getting heavy. Neither do I experience any of the other stuff I am told that I am experiencing.
    Also, some people have aphantasia, and for them it will be a little hard to imagine the things the hypnotist tell them to imagine.

  • @catalin22ism
    @catalin22ism Рік тому +2

    This is pretty deceptive. What he didn't say is that he's talking about a very technical distinction mainly of interest only to psychologists. For one thing, he's just giving an opinion without support. But even if his definition were true, it doesn't imply that you could achieve the kinds of altered perception and change in subconscious habits without methods that communicate with the subconscious more than ordinary "persuasion" would.

  • @IamSCS
    @IamSCS Рік тому +3

    I trained with California-based Hypnotherapy Motivation Institute. They instruct us to embrace the idea of "one-up-manship", that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis (and it's fine to share that fact with clients) and to have the heart of a teacher.

  • @blueberrypie3452
    @blueberrypie3452 Рік тому

    Very interesting....

  • @Ramya_M
    @Ramya_M 2 роки тому +1

    Perfectly said!!! Hipnotists creat belief on the subject that they hold control over the subject...subject follows what the hipnotist say..and they believe they are hipnotised..

  • @prabalmitra9532
    @prabalmitra9532 3 роки тому +1

    Sir, I enjoyed your talk.

  • @user-jz4vs2ee4u
    @user-jz4vs2ee4u 3 роки тому +1

    Wow amazing video! Thank you!

  • @javadhashtroudian5740
    @javadhashtroudian5740 Рік тому +2

    As a clinical hypnotherapist the induction is 1 percent of my work and the therapy is the other 99

    • @janaemm1135
      @janaemm1135 Рік тому

      Does hypnotherapy help with depression and anxiety?

    • @javadhashtroudian5740
      @javadhashtroudian5740 Рік тому

      @jana emm yes it can
      However a combination of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and hypnosis would be much better

  • @christofferlou
    @christofferlou 11 днів тому

    I knew this from the first time i saw a hypnosis show in real life

  • @rishivishwakarma173
    @rishivishwakarma173 2 місяці тому

    Can hypnotism help me to forget that I loved someone and instead make me believe that we have always been just friends

  • @novantembo2288
    @novantembo2288 Місяць тому

    The problem with watching anything magical on video...is that I cannot shake off the feeling that someone is JUST PLAYING ALONG.

  • @peakhypno
    @peakhypno Рік тому

    SUPERB.