A short YouTube monologue by Jim Katsoulis arguing that hypnosis is a natural, unavoidable everyday state (e.g., when watching movies or TV) because imagination produces real experiences and bodily responses. The speaker recommends learning self-hypnosis to intentionally program the subconscious to produce desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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Yes, you can be hypnotized. Maybe not by a hypnotist, but you, like all people, go in and out of hypnosis every single day. It's a very natural state that you cannot avoid. Every time you watch a movie or a TV show, you're in a state of hypnosis. You're just absorbing the experience and you're living it in your imagination. And by doing that, you have an actual experience. If you watch a comedy, you laugh. If you watch a horror movie, you're tense. If you watch sports, you have adrenaline running through your body. So this process of using your imagination to experience things is completely normal and natural. Now, the problem problem is you probably don't know how to use it. So you need to learn how to hypnotize yourself. When you want to program your subconscious mind to start thinking, feeling, and behaving the way that you want to, because it's one of the most powerful ways to create changes in the results that you're getting.