Is stage hypnosis safe?
Hypnosis is as safe as daydreaming in a chair at home.A: Yes. Hypnosis is as safe as daydreaming in a chair at home… lying on a picnic blanket watching clouds pass by, or the feeling of losing yourself in a great book or good movie. Hypnosis is no more dangerous than natural slumber. However, on stage, BLAZE does his best to protect the volunteers from harming themselves. When they stand up and move around the stage, they do so with their eyes open. You are conscious, but you tune out most of the other stimuli around you. Just as you focus intently on the book’s plot or the movie’s action, on stage the hypnotist is the focus of the hypnotized people to the near exclusion of most other thoughts—except generally the sensation of physical relaxation and mental focus on the suggestion. An that is why hypnotized people do silly things on stage. Hypnotized people are capable of saying no, or terminating hypnosis, all by themselves.
Yes. Hypnosis is as safe as daydreaming in a chair at home… lying on a picnic blanket watching clouds pass by, or the feeling of losing yourself in a great book or good movie. Hypnosis is no more dangerous than natural slumber. However, on stage, BLAZE does his best to protect the volunteers from harming themselves. When they stand up and move around the stage, they do so with their eyes open. You are conscious, but you tune out most of the other stimuli around you. Just as you focus intently on the book’s plot or the movie’s action, on stage the hypnotist is the focus of the hypnotized people to the near exclusion of most other thoughts—except generally the sensation of physical relaxation and mental focus on the suggestion. An that is why hypnotized people do silly things on stage. Hypnotized people are capable of saying no, or terminating hypnosis, all by themselves. And there is research available to show that is in fact the way it is, as well. Hypnosis is as safe on stage as most
