A hypnotist explains how he moved from seeing hypnosis as a party trick to using it therapeutically. He uses his voice and confidence to help people quit addictions and reach goals without drugs, and wants to fix hypnosis's bad reputation.
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So I first became a hypnotist because I thought it was a cool party trick. You know, you've seen all these people doing wacky things on stage, and I thought that was what I wanted to do, this profession. And it turns out, the more I really, really dug into it, I realized that there is so much power that you have with your own words and your confidence and your tone and just how you say things, that this doesn't have to just be a party trick, but it can actually be used to help people in their lives, help people with addictions, help people achieve goals that they've always wanted to accomplish, right? And to me, that is actually the more interesting facet of hypnosis because that that is still underexplored in society. Clearly, as with the reputation of hypnosis, it's still this like swinging watch, right? And so any way that I can improve the reputation of hypnosis as this tool that everybody can use to improve their life, that's what I'm here for. And also, it's the purest way of helping people because you're just using the tools of your human body, your voice, your confidence, your tone to directly improve other people's lives. You don't need medicine, you don't need drugs, you're not selling anything. It's just you and your words. That's it.