Home
News & Updates
How do you define a hypnotist? What’s a suggestive hypnotist?
Hypnotist – A person who passively guides others or themselves into and through a hypnotic state or trance.
Suggestive hypnotist – A person who gives active direction to a person or persons after inducing them into a hypnotic state.
How is a stage hypnotist different?
From a stage hypnotist’s point of view, stage hypnosis is a mental state in which the subconscious mind is brought front and centre and the conscious mind is at rest. In a hypnotic trance people do not think or reason… they just act. The subconscious mind seems unable to fully analyze a situation without consequences. That is, it knows right from wrong but always seems to get to the final objective in the shortest way, sometimes with no regard for safety to its own well being.
This is not necessarily a bad thing but one has to be careful when they are in this hypnotic state. A good stage/comedy hypnotist will incorporate all necessary elements of safety and trust all the while creating a very humorous and entertaining experience for all participants.
Live hypnosis is like being in a waking dream where the stage hypnotist is the guide.
What is hypnosis really?
What hypnosis really is has been debated for many years and will be for many more years to come. The best way to define hypnosis is to look at what people who have spent much of their lives developing and studying it have to say…
“Hypnosis is the use of suggestion, whether direct or indirect, to induce a heightened state of suggestibility in which there is bypass of the critical faculty of the mind and selective attention to suggestions given” - Dave Elman
“Hypnosis is a shrinking of the focus of attention” - Milton Erickson
“Hypnosis is a state of awareness dominated by the subconscious mind” - Micheal Preston MD
Regardless of what you may read on the internet or other sources, a hypnotist CANNOT force you into a trance. The subject first has to allow it. JayDee runs into many people who say they cannot be hypnotized, this is simply untrue. What they are really saying is… I will not allow or trust anyone to hypnotize me and in that they are absolutely correct!
All hypnosis is self hypnosis.
Everyone daydreams (aka, self-guided hypnosis experiences) therefore everyone can be hypnotized; they just may not let anyone else do it to them. This is why JayDee Hypnotist promotes a clean and classy show. JayDee develops trust with his volunteers and audience members for two reasons; when the show is over they all know they can trust him and the next time they see him perform, they will be much more inclined to volunteer for hypnosis. It’s good Karma and all in good suggestive fun!
JayDee hypnotist performs all over Canada in cities and areas such as Edmonton, Vancouver and Regina in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. JayDee even travels to areas of the US such as Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska and Colorado.
See what participants are saying about the JayDee stage hypnosis show.
