- So let me tell you what hypnosis is and isn't.
Because many people are scared of hypnosis and
go, "Well, can't you make me do what I don't want to do?"
Well, if that was the case
every hypnotist would be a multimillionaire
because we'd all make our clients pay us more money
and buy us Porsches,
rather than bunches of flowers.
And obviously, that doesn't happen.
So first of all, nobody can be made
to do what they don't want to do in hypnosis.
Secondly, people say,
"Well, what if I never come out of hypnosis?"
I go, well, where are these people?
"I read about them."
"There are people still in hypnosis in a warehouse
somewhere." So that's not true.
You cannot stay in hypnosis.
You can never ever be made
to do anything you don't want to do.
Getting the mind to change can be quite hard work,
except when you use hypnosis.
Now studies have shown,
scientists have shown,
that something happens in the mind during hypnosis
that doesn't happen out of it.
And what that is
is the mind becomes very excited and receptive to change.
I'll give you a good example.
I've worked with many men
who can't give a best man's speech at the wedding.
And even grooms,
one who fainted at his own wedding rehearsal
because they were so nervous about giving a speech.
In hypnosis, I just told them they love giving that speech
and it was easy, and they enjoyed it.
And the mind accepted it.
Because the mind will accept things in hypnosis
that it won't accept out of hypnosis.
But it still has to be things
that you already want to happen.
In hypnosis, you can tell people
they are indifferent to sugar,
they've lost interest in chocolate.
And they will accept that.
Well, they won't accept that out of hypnosis.
But hypnosis is so natural.
If you are deeply watching a television show
and the phone rings, and you jump,
you've gone into a state of hypnosis.
When you drive your car home on autopilot
and you don't even think about it,
you're going into a state of hypnosis.
Hypnosis is simply getting access to your subconscious mind.
And often, we go into dreamlike states.
We're in a form of hypnosis anyway.
But many of people don't know how to get into hypnosis
because they do all this stuff about relaxing my body,
starting with the toes.
And 25 minutes later, I've got to the top of my head.
But that takes too long.
If I'm giving you an audio to listen to,
the last thing I want is to spend half an hour
to get into hypnosis.
Because I only want you to spend 15 minutes listening
to the whole thing.
So I'm going to show you how to go into hypnosis.
It's a natural state you go into every time you go to sleep.
And that is you roll your eyes up like that.
You keep your eyeballs up here.
And keeping the eyeballs up,
you close the eyelids down.
So you you lower the eyelids without the eyeballs.
Let me show you again.
This is how you normally close your eyes.
You might look up and then you lower the eyeballs
and then you lower the eyelids.
And that's just a closed-eye state.
When you lift up the eyeballs and keep them up
while closing the lids,
you go into hypnotic state.
Any of you with babies will know
that, as your babies are about to go to sleep,
they start to do that.
And you go, "Oh thank God they're going to sleep."
Because when you go to sleep,
your eyes roll up.
And, in fact, if you lift up someone's eyelid
and they're asleep, you'll find you just see the whites.
Because our eyes roll up and we go to sleep.
So rolling the eyes up,
keeping them up and closing the lids down,
puts you into an alpha brainwave
where you are much, much more suggestible
and much, much more relaxed.
And of course, you don't have to stay like that.
You only do that for the first few seconds.
And then, when your eyes are closed,
you can let your eyeballs go wherever they want to.
So any time you want to go into hypnosis, you look up,
you breathe in and out three times,
you keep your eyeballs up,
and you close the lids down.
If you ever want to sleep on an airplane
or in your own bed and you are not sleeping,
I recommend you do that.
Again, just roll up your eyes, breathe in and out.
And you can have sleep come to you.
It always works on planes or trains or wherever you are.
It is very simple to get into hypnosis.
Very simple to come out of it.
You simply count yourself up.
You see if I was hypnotizing you through the screen
or in my office, and I put you in hypnosis
and left the room and didn't come back for eight hours,
you would either go to sleep for 20 minutes
and wake up, or you just open your eyes.
You can't stay in hypnosis
when the hypnotist is not guiding you.
When you listen to the audio, it will often say
if you are listening to this audio at night in bed,
then, as my voice ends,
you drift into this deep, beautiful sleep
and you wake up at your normal required time in the morning.
So you're not staying in hypnosis throughout the night.
And when you play the recordings at home,
it will say, go deeper and come back.
And people write to me and go, "Marisa,
you know, when I listen to your audio, I always fall asleep.
I only wake up at the end when you tell me to come back."
Or people say, you know,
"I always go to sleep when I hear that audio
but I only wake up at the end."
Now, well, that isn't that interesting?
You're following suggestions.
So while, when it says go deeper,
you go so deep, and you come back at the end
when it says come back to your full awareness.
Because you're always following instructions.
And in fact, following the hypnotist's instructions
is another way of being hypnotized.
A willingness and ability just to go along with it.
Some people go, you know,
I didn't really feel hypnotized.
But I thought, well, I'll just do what you say anyway
and see what happens.
And that is actually a form of being hypnotized.
Hypnosis is not scary.
Everything I have in my entire life
from the child I was told I could never have
to the success I was told was certainly not available to me
to a couple of illnesses
that I was told I couldn't recover from.
Everything I have, I owe to hypnosis.
There's nothing scary about it.
All my financial success I owe to hypnosis.
So don't be scared of hypnosis.
It's phenomenal.
I can tell you now that all the best athletes
in the world use hypnosis.
One day, the only athletes who get
into the Olympics will be those who use hypnosis.
And that's already being predicted
by many, many coaches who say, you know,
the athletes who can visualize do so much better.
Their bodies work better.
They have more mental clarity.
They have more drive.
The same thing in school.
So people are beginning to really understand hypnosis.
It's the founder of psychotherapy after all.
It's in the Bible.
You have nothing to fear from hypnosis, but so much to gain.
You can eat better, live better, function better.
You can talk yourself out of negativity
and talk yourself into feeling really good
almost all the time.
So don't be scared of hypnosis.
It's a state we go into naturally all the time.
There's nothing scary.
You can't stay in hypnosis, even if you wanted to.
You can never be made
to do anything in hypnosis you don't want to do.
If it was that easy,
all different world leaders would be using it.
And they're not.
Because you can only make people do what they want to do.
And if you want to change,
it'll be the thing that makes change easy,
rapid, permanent, and powerful.
So you have nothing to fear and everything to gain.
And I know that once you do it a few times, you'll love it.
But when I have clients who say,
"I'm really scared of hypnosis."
"I'm scared that I'll never come out."
I say, "Okay, you know what?
I'm not going to hypnotize you.
I'm going to show you how to hypnotize yourself.
You're going to put yourself in hypnosis
and bring yourself out."
And I say, "Let's do it together.
Takes like less than a minute.
Now you do it, and I'll coach you a bit."
And the third time, put yourself in, bring yourself out.
And when they know they can do that,
all the fear, all the resistance is gone.
And, of course, that's what you're going to be doing.
Putting yourself into hypnosis,
bringing yourself out of hypnosis.
Once you see how easy it is,
you'll be doing it on planes, at airports,
any time when you have to wait
or any time something stresses you.
Even better, when you need to remember something,
you'll be able to put yourself in hypnosis like that
and remember.
When you have to take a test or study,
you'll be able to really get that phenomenal focus
where you narrow down and take everything in
that you are focusing on.
And it will give you incredible confidence too.
If you ever have to speak in public
or go for an interview or even ask someone out,
you'll find that you can quickly put yourself
in that state where instead of fear,
you feel confident and excited and thrilled and elated.
And who wouldn't want to feel like that almost all the time?
So that's what hypnosis will do for you.
And so much more too.
I know you'll love it.
I love it.
You'll see.
Thanks for listening.