What would
you do if you were called on stage? Would you spoil the fun,
or play along and be a sport? Many volunteers are friends of
the hypnotist or have been paid. Turning such a wonderful
alternative medicine and self-help into a circus show with
such bad taste, and I believe that it should be regulated or
controlled. In saying that, the problem stemmed from
Hollywood who transformed this wonderful healthy science
into something darker, occult, supernatural or magic, and
often frightening or controlling.
Many
excellent fully qualified and experienced hypnotherapists
often turn to stage hypnosis to increase their income. The
hypnosis therapy works so well that clients don't need to
return to the hypnotherapist, they stop smoking in a couple
of sessions, or sleep like a log, whereas other
psychological methods often take years, meanwhile this type
of therapist has a handsome steady income.
Many
supposed hypnotic tricks are merely fakes, such as the rigid
body suspended between two chairs, or by telling a subject
that he cannot speak, but then not even asking him a
question, so that he remains silent anyway. With magic, we
all know that every part of the show is a trick, but with
hypnosis the audience is just not sure. There is no
measurable state of hypnosis, so that it's quite difficult
to prove, unless the subject has reached a very deep trance,
and here we can observe REM and other physiological
clues.