Dr. Yvonne demonstrates a hypnosis suggestibility test on a volunteer named Will. She guides him through stance and eye-closing before catching him in a controlled sway, showing how the test measures responsiveness to suggestion.
So, hello, Will. Hello. Right, we're going to see how suggestible you are. Is that okay with you? Sure. We'll do a fun test just to see how suggestible you are. Okay, go ahead and stand like this. Okay, okay, cool. And I'll put your chin up to face the ceiling and close your eyes and notice yourself swaying backwards and forwards. That's right, backwards and backwards and forwards. And I'm going to touch on your left shoulder, and when I touch on your left shoulder, you're going to fall sweetly and easily into my arms. Whoa! Awesome! Good job! Okay, you're so suggestible. Okay, wow, I know, isn't it interesting? So here's the trick. What happens is we're going to talk to his unconscious mind. So I'm going to give him nonverbal instructions first of all. So as I stand there and say, can you stand like this, I'm going to be putting my feet backwards and forwards like this, and he's going to copy me. That shows we've got good rapport. What's going to happen then is that we've got good rapport, I know he's working with me. If I say stand upright with your legs together, this doesn't work. This is a natural thing that happens where as soon as you put your chin up, you will go backwards and forwards. You've got your feet too close together, it won't work. So they need to be about hip width apart and very loose, nice and loose. Then I'm going to tell him I'm just going to loosen my shoulders like this because he'll automatically do it exactly because he's got— we've got bigger pull. And then I'm going to ask him to lift his chin up to face the ceiling and close his eyes. If you only lift the chin up this much, it doesn't work. You have to lift the chin up right to the ceiling so that they're looking at the ceiling and then close their eyes, and you'll automatically start to sway. At that point, go ahead and look up and close your eyes. I'm going to take a step and step to his right, so now I'm facing him so that if when he falls, he can fall and he's going to catch my shoulder, he's not going to slap me in the face. So I'm going to literally say, 'I'm going to touch on your left shoulder, and when I touch around your left shoulder, you're going to fall sweetly into my arms. That's right, correct.' And as he fell forward, I literally caught him. I've got my hand on his arm here And I've caught him with the shoulder here so that I've got his full weight. So even though he actually did his full weight forwards, it was as light as a feather to me. That's how you do it. Okay, thank you, Will. Cool, thank you. You're very good, good job.
