Jay Shaw explains hypnosis as a narrowing of attention that lets ideas bypass your critical mind and reach your subconscious. He uses everyday examples like being offended or laughing at a comedian to show how this state already happens naturally. Some people are especially skilled at inducing it.
What exactly is hypnosis? The narrowing of focus to the point where everything that isn't that thing that you have your focus narrowed upon becomes background noise. Anytime you give— give something access to your attention in a way that it can bypass your critical mind and stimulate your subconscious, you've just been hypnotized. If somebody offends you, they just hypnotize you. They got your attention. They bypass your critical mind. They stimulated your subconscious. If you go to a comedy show and you laughing, that comedian just hypnotized you. He got your attention. He bypassed your critical mind. He stimulated your subconscious. That that's hypnosis. Some people are really really good at it like me. Some people just do it on accident all day long. But
