If You Can’t be Hypnotized, You Lose | Jim Kellner | TEDxGrandCanyonUniversity 

I’m that guy in the audience that just keeps laughing at everything

I don't know about hypnosis but after watching hours of video, I got hungry, ate 5-6 burgers and because of the great lot of food, I felt sleepy and fell asleep.. I think the burgers hypnotized me.

I feel like hypnosis is pretending to be hypnotized. If somebody is told "you can't open your eyes, now open your eyes" he's only pretending not to open his eyes because he wants to be hypnotized. It's just like not wanting to open your eyes, not being unable to.

I've tried hypnotherapy a few times. I wanted it to work, but unfortunately it didn't. It's definitely not skepticism, disbelief or stubbornness. I wouldn't have spent money on something I was skeptical/stubborn about.

Those " 3 groups" aren't right. I myself have wanted to do these sessions very much and have practiced whatever techniques I can. However. My mind runs faster than I can think or speak. Its constantly raising. Some people just cannot. Period.

this trick is called stage hypnosis, it is different from regular hypnosis and is achieved by having plants in the audience.

My dad was a psychiatrist and a professional hypnotist. He told me hypnosis works if you believe it. My brother and I used to ask him to hypnotise us , but he said he couldn't do it since we were family.

I love how simple it is to in fact change someone's perception. A lot of the time it's about agreeing with them at first or merely seeming to care for their outlook - which keeps them engaged, then you drop your own narrative in light of that, and they're like, "Omg yeah!" Some will come to a rational conclusion later on and be like, "wait what" but a lot of them will in fact have a drastically changed outlook. It's fun but also potentially devastating since I recognize how easily an entire nation could in essence be influenced in manners like this. There's another way that suggests confusion through questioning in a manner that one can't decisively answer, you then present a fact that is somewhat related and all of a sudden you've given them a perspective they may not even have considered to begin with or now find that perspective to be the decisive answer they're so desperately trying to provide. Uhg, if it's one thing I have learnt about the human mind it's that its often far to easily manipulated.

Common hypnosis info: "you can't be hypnotized if you don't want to be." "Some people are more suggestible than others." So hypnotism is when you ask someone to do something and they decide to obey you? Sounds like fancy peer pressure, not anything "mystical."

It’s been two years since I’ve watched this video and my hands are still stuck together..annoying

I'm loving it!!! I CAN be hypnotized when a couple months ago I tried the same but couldn't??? I know there's been MAJOR changes in my life but I still don't understand why not before and why I can now.

We are hypnotized by what we think. But if we question what we think we wake up from the trance we are already in. This takes down the barriers to infinite expansion.

Thanks for the talk, Jim, it changes my perception of hypnosis. I wish I could've been in the audience to give it a try.

I was a volunteer one on of these stage hypnosis shows once. I just went along with everything because I didn't want to make a scene and ruin the show. It was a decision I consciously made, not because I was suggested to. I wanted to be hypnotized but couldn't

As a forensic psychologist I have been around professionals who used hypnotherapy. First, I am extremely skeptical about the procedure and its values. I see it more like a psychological placebo,in other words,a self persuasion mechanism. People who successfully undergo hypnotherapy,seem to possess a trait called “hypnotizability”. A final word, and this is an scientific evaluation based on empirical evidences,people under hypnosis are in total control of themselves, and would never do anything they would normally find highly objectionable. If you believe that stage hypnotism is real,think twice.....

7:47 he spoke about me 😂😂😂 I reading the comments his clap brought me back 😂😂

Good insight!

I got so excited when asked to participate, totally imagined everything, felt tension and a lot of increased warmth in hands, but they came apart no problem lol. That was disappointing. That aside, I've always wanted to try hypnotherapy. I can see multiple areas where it might be helpful for me. Unfortunately, for someone like myself who has no income and insurance that won't even consider alternative types of therapy or treatments, this isn't even an option.

Very good talk, Jim

You lose assuming the hypnotist's intentions match your ideas regarding what's fair, ethical and moral. If they don't you're _far_ better remaining conscious and awake.

Why does all hypnotist I’ve meet has no hair? 😂

Informative n interesting talk. Thank you bless you. All your dreams come true

I was in the audience for this and sitting beside my step dad and realized he couldn't pull his hands apart and we couldn't get them apart when we tried to help! He was too chicken to go up though 😛 Well done Jim, you are fantastic! Ignore the naysayers, most who take the time to write their negative posts have accomplished little in their own lives and live vicariously online.

His stories are making it more unbelieveable.

Awesome work Jim!!!

I am a mentalist and if everything you say is right then I should be able to increase my skills to become a hypnotist as well. Im still a skeptic of the act put on. Mentalists and magicians do the same thing they put on a show. Magic isnt real and as it seems to be. All 3 have that in common and the one thing they also have in common is its just a trick. Mentalism: tricks, science, targeted guessing such as the most common card in a 52 deck of cards (the ace of spades), intuition is a key factor too. The mentalist/magician asks the questions and makes the magic happen. I feel like that is more of a fun talent that everybody can enjoy. Hypnotism, if real, seems too sketchy from the horror stories I've heard online.

1:17 is this info true? if it is, why so many ppl on comments think that hypnosis isn't a thing?

dude everyone up there is afraid what would happen if they didn't play along ahahha

wow i get this so much now :) its not fake but i have too much going on in my head to be hypothesized

A Fantastic demonstration of hypnosis Jim. It's was really nice watching you pull hypnosis out of it's deep dark hole and shed some light on it for all to discover. How very well explained.

That’s awesome buddy I’ve been on stage three times or so in my life I think it’s amazing and not just on stage but I know people want to work there is thank you and yeah I’m speechless but like I said I’m speechless I got that I don’t have any words to say but I don’t know what speechless LOL love you thanks he was like Yeah I’m looking for a job out north me in for a job use hypnosis to get me a job thanks

i actually tried this ... its honestly scary HAHAHA

Anyone who doesn't believe in hypnosis has never experienced sleep paralysis nor lucid dreaming. The mind is capable of and responsible for so much more than we give it credit

You know what hypnotizes me? Beautiful women, dammit they get me everytime.

Look at how still they are in the background...

I paid to be hypnotised for a problem I had. Unfortunately no matter how much I tried I never did get hypnotised.

I take strong exception to the statement made repeatedly that these people are more creative that the rest of us. I'm highly creative and imaginative. I just don't believe every suggestion simply because it is suggested. To me this speaks more to a lack of critical thinking than to creativity. Will you turn off your critical thinking simply because someone asks you to? My answer is always no. Never! I might make an exception if I was in therapy with a licensed hyponotist and that I decided to trust them completely.

Brain waves can be detected with an EEG machine, the brain is capable of differing states, I.e beta, alpha, theta, delta, gamma. Hypnosis helps induce theta wave state, which is the state the mind goes into during REM sleep. This is the same state a child lives in up to about 7 years of age, hense why their imagination and creative play feels so real. In this state the mind is impressionable, hense why we refer to children's mind like a sponge, they absorb everything, the subconscious mind as less resistance. You could think if it like you was hypnotised, conditioned to be the person you have become based on many things that have been installed into your mind from childhood. Cognitive dissonance is a conflict in the mind so if you were to feel this from a suggestion made, you yourself would automatically refuse acceptance of the suggestion. You are in control at all times, and will only accept suggestions that your mind is willing to accept without conflict.

Would be very interested in being deeply hypnotised - but on the three occasions I've taken part in an audience (not yours) and asked to put the hands together - I've unfortunately had no difficulty opening them - despite trying to be compliant and not 'fighting' against it. I guess people like me whose hands would easily unlock, but who undertake hypnotherapy will get much poorer results than those who are easily susceptible?

There are real hypnotists and there are mentalists who pretend to be hypnotists. I know this because real hypnosis works on me and I have also been the assistant to a mentalist. Different things. it's hard to believe in something that's never happened to you before and I understand that because I used to be in that position until I was really hypnotized by someone who genuinely knew what they were doing. It's honestly one of the freakiest things you've ever experienced, not being able to open your eyes for example.

Great talk and demonstration Jim! You did a great job of dispelling the myths and explaining why everyone should use the tool of hypnosis in there professional and personal success arsenals. As a fellow hypnotherapist I'm very familiar with the misconceptions about what hypnosis is and is not. Though stage Hypnosis can be fun, Hypnosis is not just an entertaining gimmick, it is an ancient art of altering consciousness. Hypnotherapy is another thing altogether. In my Beyond Hypnosis practice, and in yours Jim; we use it as a serious healing tool to help people make lasting changes in their lives by altering the root cause of all experience; their consciousness. ​

Jim, can meditation be used as a substitute for hypnosis for those of us who cannot be hypnotized?

Im so confused, I did everything he said but like all I got out of this is they are doing exactly what he tells them to lol, they are choosing to listen to him so its not really hypnosis...

Awesome! Jubilant am i now!

Is hypnotism just giving yourself over to the influence of other's words?

Great stuff

Well, I tried, but I believe I may be associating hypnosis with an itch

I need extreme focus for Deep work and I came here. Wrote this comment before watching this video so I could be safe not hypnotized whole life 😂

Thanks for sharing this. Great presentation!

First study the conscious and subconscious mind and ithere functions. Then you will understand power of suggestions.

Some people say hypnotised is an illusion, for me, I don't think so. I just think its just controlling your body, like, when You daydream, your soul comes out of your body and you will look directly at a spot and if you move your eyes you get out of your daydream and your soul comes back to your body! There's this thing that you have to swing to get to hypnotised a person It looks like a clock or in can be used to any swinging thing. It just looks cool, But this person is hypnotising is kinda what other people who panic says Just a matter of fact that I don't know if its rare or uncommon to not get hypnotised my a master of hipnotier But at least we are watching a show that people are constantly eyeing on these hipnotizic people And its cool if you have a power or your a hero or just a magician But hipnotizers and my FAVOURITE Like when I saw one before I LOVED THE SHOW *it was old so I forgot the show name* But its great to have a magic trick *Mhm but this is my edit* *One time I went to this store in 2015 there was a hipnotizer and HE hypnotised me* I just slept for 3 minutes but it was COOL *another time I went to the circus and they showed us a hipnotiser and She hypnotised the owner of the CIRCUS and it was so cool* Aight, that's all I gotta say. -muna hamed

Realy the best presentation.

There is another group. The ones who have tried it and it did not work.

I went to a stage hypnotist show with friends in Las Vegas about 20 years ago and I went on stage with two other friends and they got hypnotized, but I was asked to go back to the audience. It is definitely weird.

I can't be hypnotised, and I regret it. As Mr Kellner says there are many ways in which hypnosis can be very useful. I can't stop my brain from a kind of passive resistance. My hands came apart immediately, with no effort. .

I truly wish anything could make me feel like living

Title should be, "If You Can't be Hypnotized, I'm Fake"

“Your hands are going to become warmer” Uhh... Duh? It’s cold water.

I have been suffering from depression most of my life. I have spent most of my life wishing I was dead or planing the way I will end my life

I still don't understand what hypnosis is.

never been hypnotized never will

The sign at 12:30 is saying please just act I will bay you later

I do believe that hypnosis exists but am yet to wait for a hypnotist to use a method to ensure that the people going up on stage are believably not acting. If there was a way to get a random chosen participant and ensure he is not acting, that would help me to wrap my head around hypnotismn

Can we talk about this guy's failure rate (aka the rest of the audience that didn't go on stage because they could pull their hands apart). We know a certain portion of the population will always be very impressionable. People join cults and kill themselves for them. So it's not unexpected that certain people will be "hypnotized."

Participatory

I don't know about hypnosis, but I know there are a lot of comedians.

most of the time its not staged. Hypnosis on a stage in front of an audience is a preset to have the participant believe that if they don't follow along they will be alone. no one wants to be alone, so they follow. usually the hypnotists are very charming, nice people and the participate wants to loyally follow to avoid being the oddball out. the solution would be to have multiple oddballs, that way the participate won't feel bad for showing control....then the hypnotist can just say something like " that's ok some people aren't as easily hypnotized" and the ones who are still pretending will stick together, because they have been assigned as easily hypnotized. its now to late. they must follow. with that said placebo and suggestions are completely real.

I've lost.

I'll keep control of my own mind thank you

I imagined my hands pull apart destroying the duct tape..man you Just can't hipnotize a super human 🙅👍

one woman left her chair on the stage. What happened?

didnt that second chick touch her face...?

this guy is using classic sales script lmao

I was hypothesize

all people can be hypnotized 🥳 letting yourself be hypnotized is the first step on knowing yourself, accepting yourself .. also therapeutic... change your life in a positive way ✌️ ..

By "more creative and imaginative" he means easily manipulated...

Bro when he was talking about people zoning out, i was totally zoned out and as soon as he clapped his hands I was back.

What happens if someone complains about depression, is hypnotized to feel better, but is actually chronically low in Vitamin D? In that case, if you can be hypnotized, you lose.

=)))))))))))) wtf did i just watched ? 101% acting!

Lots of people fake it

I lost

They super imagination and stupidation too. This video is like that story of the king with the invisible clothes.

other word for simon says

How is this not placebo?

It's fake, al ppl are pre arranged and get some cash.

Interesting to notice how much he talked on first 5/6minutes to try to make hypnosis more effective on them. That a part, seems pretty fake. The girls just laughts and move as theyre low paid series acctress, idk.

I know hypnosis is real, but doing stage shows like this does nothing more than make people believe it's just a trick. Don't believe me? Just look at some of the comments people have made.

No wonder tedx talks have gone down the drain.

It's weird he can't hypnotize himself into growing his hair back.

I absolutely love Ted Talks. But I gotta comment on this one- I'm surprised to see someone come on who isnt authentic and uses fake audience members to make what hes selling seem legit.

This feels so fake. I can't tell anything else.

This comedy act wasn't very funny.

No, you are a winner if you can't be hypnotized . for example, hypnotism works on the masses to go to war for a few powerful people . If most of us were sceptics there would be no war .

why allowing such rubbish fooling you?

Only demons can get inside your mind.

Silly.

It's like saying if you don't believe in god then you are going to hel..

Sounds like a great way to control sheep on a mass scale...oh wait, thats tv/internet

Fake

This is so fake