Hypnotist Yvonne Oswald leads a suggestibility test with participants Betty and Dr. Yvonne Oswald, using imagery like a heavy dictionary pulling one hand down and balloons lifting the other arm to measure how responsive they are to hypnotic suggestion.
So, hello, Betty. Hi, Dr. Yvonne Oswald Oswald Oswald. We're here today to do some hypnosis and some suggestibility tests. Okay. How would you like to find out how suggestible you are? Oh, probably a good thing to know. It is a good thing to know. Okay, so go ahead and close your eyes, and I'd like you to put your arms out as though you're sleepwalking. As straight ahead as they sleepwalking. There you go, that's good. And what I'm going to do is ask you to flip your right hand to face the ceiling. Excellent. And I'm going to place on this right hand a heavy, heavy dictionary, and I want you to just imagine that heavy dictionary. It's getting heavier and heavier, it's going more and more heavy. I'm going to put another book on as well, and you feel that, that hand moving towards your knee. You can't resist that hand moving towards your knee. That's right, it's moving towards your knee, it's moving towards your knee. It's really, really moving towards you. That's it, it's just really easily and sweetly moving towards your knee. And on this hand, I'm going to place some wonderful balloons, some— I'm wrapping some beautiful healing balloons on this left arm, and it's going to rise, rise, rise, rise really quickly. Right, the higher it goes, the more successful you're going to be. That's right, feel it rise, feel it floating in the air. And now go ahead and open your eyes. Isn't that interesting? Right? I'm suggestible. Very suggestible. You are so suggestible. What can I say? Alright, so that's one of the tests.
