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Jimbo Paris Show #46- Empowerment by a Master Hypnotist (John Moyer)
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Welcome to The Jimbo Paris Show #46- Empowerment by a Master Hypnotist (John Moyer)
This episode will open our minds about an art form called Hypnosis Shows.
“Your mind is your incredible power source.”
– John Moyer
By combining twenty years of award-winning stand-up comedy experience, with a natural quick-wit and improvisational showmanship, John Moyer connects with every audience. His "approachable persona" is genuine. This authenticity drives his passion to deliver an entertainment experience to be remembered.
To John, it's not just "a show." It's about engaging and interacting with audiences, to tap into what it means for them to experience their particular event from a point of view that makes it fun for everybody. Whatever the event requires- an emcee, a comedian or John's most popular entertainment experience, stage hypnosis, John's creative and outside-the-box approach, delivers.
Corporations, colleges, high schools, entertainment planners and a variety of private events have booked John, and continue to book him. John's stage hypnosis shows in particular, is a unique, exciting experience. Hypnosis shows are an art-form that date back a couple hundred years, and John reboots that art-form for 2016. Back-dropped by modern music and shaped with pop culture, there's a frame of reference that's fun and relative to audience members of every age.
More than this, however, John delivers and additional element that defines his hypnosis show for audiences: Every on-stage participant receives a lasting gift that harnesses the power of their minds for good.
John's skills as a performer guarantee entertainment that's uplifting for everyone, in every audience. His training as a Master Hypnotist and a Certified Consulting Hypnotherapist (CCH) guarantees his volunteers access an area of their beliefs about themselves, that empowers them to attain goals and jettison negative habits that hold them back.
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Introduction and Guest Background
00:00:05
Speaker
Hi, I'm Jimbo Parris, and you are listening to the Jimbo Parris Show. So today we have John Mayer, and we're going to be putting him up right now. He's a professional hypnotist, and we're going to learn a little bit about hypnotism. Let's hear. Hey, how are you? I'm doing good. I'm doing good, sir. Fantastic. Good to see you. And where is the Jimbo Parris show out of? Where are you?
00:00:34
Speaker
Baltimore, Maryland. OK, I am a fellow east coaster. I grew up in southern New Jersey, but I'm in Salt Lake City now, so it's always it's always good to see some peeps from the east coast. So can you begin by giving me a summary about yourself?
00:00:50
Speaker
Yeah, I began probably well over 20 years ago as a stand-up comic. I graduated from theater and film school, had a degree in screenwriting, but I fell in love with stand-up comedy and I was doing that professionally for
00:01:06
Speaker
For 20 years along the way, I had a couple of independent screenplays produced into feature-length films. But I was always fascinated by the mind. And about 10 years ago, the market of stand-up comedy began to take a very different turn, kind of in the beginning of the 2000s. And being fascinated by the mind,
00:01:31
Speaker
I began to study hypnosis and went on to retire from stand-up comedy and do a stage hypnosis show. From doing a stage hypnosis show, I wound up growing a following on my YouTube channel of over 200,000 subscribers doing hypnosis and meditation content, which is what I currently commit myself to full-time right now.
00:01:54
Speaker
is helping people be able to tap into the power of their mind the way that it helped me. And it's a really different place from where I began as a stand-up comic, hanging out in CD comedy clubs and CD bars and that sort of thing, telling jokes to drunk audiences. But I've found it far more rewarding and beneficial to be able to help people tap into the power of their mind. So that's what I am all about. That's what I do right now.
Understanding Hypnosis
00:02:20
Speaker
And how do you help people tap into the power of the mind? It's allowing people to realize how the subconscious mind functions. And when they understand that and learn how they can actually access that through self-hypnosis, through meditation, you're basically going from a beta brainwave state, which is what we're in most of the time. You're slowing those brainwaves down.
00:02:46
Speaker
And you're entering an alpha and theta brainwave state, which allows you to tap into your subconscious mind. And, you know, it's kind of like, you know, when you go in, it's like computer programming, you're going in, you're deleting some code that doesn't work. And you're putting some new code in that does work. And.
00:03:02
Speaker
It's one of those things where once you begin to do it with a little bit of practice, everybody can make it happen for themselves. I mean, we already go through a hypnotic state every single day on our own. It's a state of mind that we naturally access, just showing people how they can intentionally trigger that to make a difference in their life.
00:03:24
Speaker
How do you think that could actually make a difference in the world? This is just me playing devil's advocate. Yeah, oh, no, absolutely. It makes a difference. And this is kind of my philosophy. We've heard for years about external threats to humanity. I mean, I grew up in the 80s, and it was always the fear of nuclear war, right? There's this existential threat that humanity is going to be destroyed.
00:03:48
Speaker
through nuclear war. And this generation, we hear a lot about the existential threat of climate change. But I truly believe that the greatest existential threat to humanity isn't coming from the outside in, it's coming from the inside out. It's individuals
00:04:08
Speaker
You know not realizing that they can manage their emotional states and you know, we have we live in such a connected world now where Emotions can go viral and it's mostly anger anger and frustration Bitterness hostility can travel around the world in an instance because of what we have, you know for social media and when we learn to be able to
00:04:32
Speaker
readjusts the way that we realize that we can function our emotional states. It makes the individual become certainly much more centered, much more grounded, much more rooted in the connection of humanity, of
00:04:46
Speaker
of decency and compassion and caring. And you do that with one and that one person is able to help somebody else who's able to help it to somebody else. And then suddenly you have an entire group of people that may have different ideas and different beliefs and different opinions, but because they understand the ability to connect with other people that they're able to communicate and we're able to come together. And that's kind of what I'm passionate about doing.
00:05:14
Speaker
And where does this passion come from? Where was
Personal Growth Through Hypnosis
00:05:17
Speaker
that? You know, it comes from it came from my own experience. You know, I was at a point in my life, you know, about 10 years ago where I had gone through a divorce. I was a you know, I was a single parent and dysfunctional relationships and not not having I was steeped in my own
00:05:40
Speaker
Anger issues you know my whole thing was a stand-up comic and which is what i learned in film school you know all drama is conflict so you're not gonna have a star wars unless there's a darth vader and there's a death star and there's something at stake so i took that when i was doing stand-up comedy that all drama is conflict which would be funny for me so
00:06:00
Speaker
I was able to stand on stage and tell jokes, but I was telling jokes about the dysfunction of my personal life. And I looked at my personal life and said, hey, the more dysfunctional I am, the more jacked up it is, the funnier I could be on stage. And that made me incredibly unhappy personally. And I wasn't
00:06:18
Speaker
Succeeding in the areas of the things i wanted to do i was honestly i was kind of hopeless i wasn't sure where things were going to go and i was unhappy as an individual and then i realize that you know that's all me it's one of the things i tell people is.
00:06:33
Speaker
You know, the bad news is whatever you're going through, it's all you. It's all because of you. But the good news is whatever you're going through can all change because of you. And that's what I, you know, that's how it happened to me. My life is vastly different now than it was 10 years ago in so many ways.
00:06:52
Speaker
I just celebrated my fifth wedding anniversary with my wife. It took me three times, took me three marriages, but this is the one that once I got my stuff together, it just all clicked and it all came together. So I found a level of personal happiness, a level of personal peace, personal success that benefited me
00:07:16
Speaker
And, you know, my family, and that's why I'm passionate about being able to, you know, share that with other people. And, you know, the thing that I tell people is there's no right or wrong. There's only if something works or if it doesn't. So I put my content out there, like on my YouTube channel, I share ideas and concepts and things that worked for me in my life. And if it works for somebody else, if they're able to receive that and they notice a difference, you know,
00:07:39
Speaker
Fantastic. I'm grateful for that. And I'm grateful to hear from the people that I do that say, hey, these ideas, these concepts changed my life. How does hypnosis make one more accountable?
00:07:50
Speaker
Well, you know, what it does is when somebody has the opportunity to realize that, you know, it's their thinking, it's their, you know, their programming. And again, that can come from so many different places. And it doesn't necessarily mean that it's somebody's fault because, you know, the way that they are, you know, they're programmed. But when people can look at inside of themselves and realize that they can change themselves,
00:08:19
Speaker
then that's, you know, that's what makes the difference because, you know, so many times I hear from people, we all hear from people that, you know, somebody else made them mad, or if this person would simply behave this way, if this person would do this, if this circumstance would be this way, then I can be happy.
00:08:39
Speaker
And it's actually the complete the other way around. It's not about what's happening out there. You don't need other people to behave a certain way. You don't need other circumstances to be a certain way when you inside of yourself can come into peace and come into happiness. That's when it all comes together. So it's holding people accountable or letting know that they're accountable for their emotional states.
00:09:00
Speaker
And when somebody is opened up to that and they're willing to do the work and take a look at that and go through the process of saying, hey, you know, I can make a shift for myself, then it's all better for them that way. And how does one initially make that shift? How do you push them?
00:09:18
Speaker
in that direction? Well, you know, obviously, somebody has to, you know, prefer to make some type of a change, or they're looking at something in their life and they're going, you know, this isn't working out for me. And when somebody can just open that door up enough, and they're willing to
00:09:37
Speaker
Like with me, for example, I never thought I could be hypnotized. I never had any concept of meditation. But when I started to do that, when I cracked that door just a little bit, it opened so much up for me. And I tell people, it's like going to the gym. When you walk into the gym, if you haven't been there at all in your entire life, you're not going to be able to lift this weight or deadlift this weight or run so far or whatever. But if you go in there and you do a little bit,
00:10:03
Speaker
then a little bit turns to a little bit more turns to a little bit more. So it's just about initially, you know, taking that initiative to commit to the fact that, hey, you know, I want to explore this, I want to learn this. And then, you know, the and the cool thing is, is once you begin to experience that, even on a small scale, and you begin to see the results,
00:10:24
Speaker
then of course it obviously that's a you just want to die falling down that you know that down that rabbit hole. So it's just a matter of just saying, hey, I want to sit down in a quiet place alone. And, you know, listen to a meditation, listen to a guided meditation or listen to, you know, self hypnosis. And that's something that somebody can do, you know, that you just
00:10:47
Speaker
put on a program that can guide you through that. Yeah, I mean, there's obviously there's a lot of people that go, you know, do one on one sessions. My wife works with, you know, works with people one on one. But, you know, there's a lot of people that, you know, they just prefer to, hey, I can pull something up with my phone and listen and start right there. How does hypnosis work?
Hypnosis Techniques and Myths
00:11:06
Speaker
The way it works is you've got your conscious mind and you've got your subconscious mind. And the statistic that I actually recently heard, it's your conscious mind makes up for about 12% of your total brain power, and your subconscious mind is responsible for about 88% of your total brain power.
00:11:31
Speaker
thing that I heard about if you look at in terms of, you know, computer information, your conscious mind is processing about seven to 10 bits of information per second. Whereas your subconscious mind is processing somewhere around 20 million bits of information per second. So there's a lot more going on in the subconscious mind than what's going on
00:11:51
Speaker
you know, in the conscious mind. The subconscious mind is our operating system. It's all of our programming. It's all of our ideas and thoughts and things that are connected together that tell us how to feel, how to behave, how to react. So what you're doing is when you experience hypnosis, you're getting into the subconscious mind where you can actually make those things happen. Now, the challenge is that the subconscious mind is lazy and it doesn't like
00:12:17
Speaker
things to change. It's pretty hardcore about how it wants to operate. And the analogy I use, it's like the bouncer at a nightclub with a red velvet rope who determines who gets in and who doesn't. So what you're doing is when somebody gets into a state of hypnosis, you're kind of distracting
00:12:36
Speaker
that bouncer with the red velvet rope. It's called the critical faculty. It's that division between the conscious and subconscious mind. It's that gateway. And you're opening that up to let somebody go right into the subconscious mind and then have access to those, you know, our connections, our beliefs. So you can just go right in there and say, instead of feeling this way about this, now you can feel this way about this. Instead of behaving this way, now you behave this way.
00:13:00
Speaker
So in a sense, you're kind of tricking the mind to be able to get in there. But once you get in there,
00:13:08
Speaker
there's a lot of things that are possible. And the cool thing about the subconscious mind is the fact that you can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not. So it's like, you're watching a movie and you're feeling those, like if it's a horror movie or whatever, you're feeling those emotions, you're feeling that fear, or how many times have we had a dream? And in the dream, no matter how bizarre something is in a dream, in that moment, our mind's accepting it as real.
00:13:35
Speaker
So that's the same thing that happens under hypnosis. When you go into hypnosis, your mind's accepting everything that it's receiving as a real experience. And then we'll act upon it as if it's a real experience. That's what makes it so powerful. It's kind of like the, you know, the ultimate form of natural or real virtual reality. So how does someone actually get through that balance? What are the different approaches?
00:14:02
Speaker
There's a lot of different things that a hypnotist do. There's not one particular approach or one particular technique. There's quite a few things that can be done. Now, for instance, when I'm on stage, if I was doing the stage hypnosis show, for instance, when I performed for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, I had about
00:14:27
Speaker
five minutes, five to seven minutes, really, to be able to get a group of people hypnotized. So, you know, you think you have 20 people on stage. You got to move really quickly. You got to do, you know, work really fast. It's like throwing, you know, mud up against the wall and seeing how much of that, you know, sticks. Now, when you work with somebody one on one,
00:14:47
Speaker
there's a feedback loop you're able to kind of observe kind of what's happening you're able to cater the approach and the style and the things the techniques that are using you know to that individual now when i'm doing things on youtube a lot of my content people appreciate to listen to to fall asleep at night or they they'll listen to before they fall asleep so i'm able to take what's called a progressive relaxation approach where your
00:15:10
Speaker
you're doing things to relax different parts of the body and the mind so you can be a lot slower, you can be a lot more methodical about how you do that. But it's not like an incantation, a spell with a script. You say these exact words this way and the end result is going to be hypnosis. But what it comes down to is knowing how
00:15:39
Speaker
The things that you say, for instance, one of the, one of the things that's a really powerful hypnosis technique is they call it leading and pacing. So you might say to somebody, you know, you're sitting there in your chair and.
00:15:54
Speaker
You're laying back and your eyes are closed. And now those are all things that if somebody would hear that, their mind is hearing, okay, yes, I am sitting in the chair. Okay, yes, I am leaning back. Okay, yes, my eyes are closed. So the mind is creating a yes set, right? It's agreeing with everything it's saying. So once you get through those three things, you're sitting there in the chair, you're leaning back, your eyes are closed, and you're beginning to relax and open up your mind.
00:16:20
Speaker
to the things that I'm saying. So the mind is going, yes, this is true. This is true. This is true. This is true. And then you throw in the hypnotic suggestion, and then the subconscious mind just continues to go, OK, yeah, that must be true. I am opening up my subconscious mind to receive suggestions. So you're doing these things essentially in ways you're tricking the mind.
00:16:42
Speaker
you're tricking the subconscious mind. You're also distracting the conscious mind to be able to not necessarily pay as close attention. Like I said, you're getting that bouncer with a red velvet rope to look away. So there's all these different things that a hypnotist will do, different approaches, different techniques and styles. There's not one size fits all.
00:17:06
Speaker
When I'm putting my content out there on YouTube, essentially, I have to try to be one size. If it's all you're putting something out there for the entire world, not everybody is going to receive what I do, but a large portion of people will be receptive to my style and my approach. What are some of the common misconceptions that people have about hypnosis?
00:17:27
Speaker
One of the big things is that people think, well, number one, a lot of people think, can I get stuck in hypnosis? Like if I get hypnotized, is it going to be a comatose state? Am I going to be able to get out of that? That's not the case. You're not going to be stuck in hypnosis. A lot of people think that you're just turning over control to somebody else, the hypnotist, and that's not the case either. Our minds are so deeply rooted in our,
00:17:55
Speaker
in our moral programming that if you were to hypnotize somebody and say go rob a bank, unless they're a bank robber, they're not going to go rob that bank. So you can't be completely controlled and you can't stay stuck in hypnosis. Those are the two big things that people ask about hypnosis relative to any type of misconceptions. Speaking of people, how did you build your client base? How did you go from being
00:18:22
Speaker
a regular hypnotist to then having this now, a whole community of people. And how does your audience additionally benefit?
00:18:33
Speaker
from your position as a hypnotist as well? The first part of that was kind of interesting because I'd spent 20 years doing stand-up comedy. So when I decided to train in stage hypnosis, a lot of people that do that that are just starting out, probably they don't necessarily have a lot of
00:18:55
Speaker
stage experience, you know, you'll have some guys that might be magicians, there's a lot of people that are DJs or whatever, you'll have some people that, you know, they were hypnotists, you know, professional hypnotists, like with a practice, you know, they want to do a stage show. So for them, there's a lot of trying to figure out how this is going to work. Now, what happened for me is, as soon as I trained in stage hypnosis, I was able to go back to all my entertainment contacts, the bookers, the managers, you know, the people that had
00:19:21
Speaker
You know rooms in the agents and those the talent agencies and I went back and said hey guess what instead of you know stand-up comedy now doing stage hypnosis show so I had a really big database to be able to tap into to get myself shows and so I was able to take off considerably doing my stage hypnosis show and I went and as I took off.
00:19:43
Speaker
I expanded my audience base because now it wasn't just comedy clubs or bars. I was doing high end corporate events. I was doing universities and high schools and the Royal Caribbean cruise line. So that was able to kind of propel me, you know, in the stage hypnosis.
00:19:59
Speaker
realm then what happened from there was the big things a lot of hypnotists do after their show is they you know they sell their merchandise you know they they've got stopped smoking programs they've got weight loss and all these different programs now when I started doing it CDs were still kind of a thing so you would sell CDs after your show
00:20:20
Speaker
But of course, you know, over the last, well, within the last 10 years, people stopped having CD players. It became, you know, an obsolete thing. So a lot of hypnotists were talking about, well, should we put these on MP3 files and sell thumb drives after the show? How can we sell our stuff? And my thought was, well, instead of selling the stuff after the show,
00:20:41
Speaker
why don't I put it on YouTube and then tell people in the audience, hey, go to my YouTube channel and subscribe to me on YouTube. And that began to build my subscriber base. But then at the same time, I developed an organic following, people who were on YouTube that were looking for hypnosis and meditation content. So it just organically snowballed. So it just kind of went from one to the other to the other and just kept compiling. And the second part of your question,
00:21:09
Speaker
is, you know, and rephrase that second part of your question for me about how, you know, the audience base benefits. And your audience benefit from your show. Are you talking about the stage hypnosis show itself?
00:21:23
Speaker
Well, I'm talking about a lot of things like corporate events, those things. Yeah. Well, one of the big things from somebody, even if they're just watching the show as an audience member, one of the things that I do up front is, well, in order to have a hypnosis show, you deserve to have volunteers on stage. So you have to get volunteers on stage. So it's really important.
00:21:47
Speaker
those first few minutes that I'm on stage to be able to let the audience know that they're going to have a lot of fun. It's going to be really interesting to watch. It's going to be fascinating. But I also let people know, you know, I'll give them some things about this is what's going to happen when you come up here, you're going to be able to, you know, you're going to feel really good
00:22:08
Speaker
Physically because there's a lot of profound physical benefits that somebody can get from just being in hypnosis fifteen minutes of hypnosis is like the equivalent to four or five hours of. You know deep sleep at night so your body can really benefit physically that's one of the things what i was on the cruise ship as i would tell people.
00:22:27
Speaker
When you come up here tonight, you're going to have an incredible night's sleep. You're not going to have any issues sleeping. And every time I would say that, you could hear the audience. They were talking about it. That was an interesting thing for them. That was reason enough for them to want to come up on stage.
00:22:42
Speaker
But the other thing that I would tell people to is like, look, if you have a goal that you're looking to achieve, if there's something that you want to accomplish when you come up here tonight at the end of the show, we're going to make sure that your subconscious mind is empowered to make that happen. So people now have a reason they feel motivated to go up on stage. And when I was doing the cruise ships.
00:23:04
Speaker
you know, I'm on the cruise ship for a whole week. It's not like I do the show and I'm, you know, I'm gone. People have the opportunity and interact with me through the weekend. People would come up to me all the time and they would say, you're absolutely right. I had the best, you know, sleep of my life that I've ever had. Thank you for that. Now I'm more interested in finding out about how I can utilize hypnosis or meditation to have this continually happen for me. Or people would come up and say, I had one woman one time, she came up to me and she said,
00:23:29
Speaker
I'm a chocoholic. I eat way too much chocolate. That's my weakness. I'm here on a cruise ship. There's chocolate everywhere. So I thought if I came up on stage, you could help me stop eating chocolate. And she said it's been four days since the show and I haven't had any chocolate since. And my friends can't believe it. They're completely amazed. So I would give people reasons to come up on stage, things that would motivate them.
00:23:53
Speaker
And not only just in that moment, I mean, they would have a beneficial experience from that moment. But now all of a sudden they're realizing, hey, there's a lot more potential for me here. If I continue to go on and continue to practice hypnosis or practice meditation, it could open up so many things for me. So that's how the audience members and the volunteers of my shows were able to benefit. And even people that didn't necessarily participate in the show,
00:24:23
Speaker
People would come up to me all the time, especially at corporate events, because everybody knew each other. People would come up and say, I work next to that guy every single day. There's no way that was fake. I can't believe what I just saw up there, but it really happened. And that's amazing to me. So it would create curiosity for everybody to explore what could be possible relative to their minds.
00:24:47
Speaker
And this is your business tactic.
Engaging Audiences with Hypnosis
00:24:51
Speaker
It's inciting curiosity. You're sort of the man.
00:24:56
Speaker
You're sort of luring them in. You're attracting the audience. You're not going after them. Well, you know, it's kind of, you know, anything relative to, you know, when they talk about, you know, sales or marketing, it's, you know, you're making a promise and then you're following that up with a proof. And then, of course, if you're selling something, then the third P in that equation is price, right? It's promise, proof and price. For me, it was making a promise to people, hey,
00:25:26
Speaker
this is what you can experience. And then they would see the proof of that. So, you know, that's basically, you're letting people know and, you know, and the thing about hypnosis and meditation too, is it's been around for
00:25:41
Speaker
You know, since the dawn of humanity, it's something that ancient civilizations had practiced and had an understanding of that I think we kind of lost track of. And then, of course, it kind of began to become a thing in, you know, the 1700s with.
00:25:58
Speaker
you know, Fran, Franz Mesmer, and of course, James Braid, the Scottish surgeon in, you know, the in the 1800s, where like, so in the 1700s, it began to people started to kind of explore and try to figure this out again, we have more understanding about it now. So it's not something
00:26:16
Speaker
that's necessarily new. It's, you know, it's, it's quite ancient, but people for that, for a lot of people, it is kind of a new thing for them. It's something that new that they're discovering. You know, I did a poll on my, on my YouTube channel a few months ago asking people, you know, how long had they been meditating?
00:26:32
Speaker
You know, was it less than a year? Was it one to three years? You know, was it longer than that? And, you know, the majority of people, it was something within just the last couple of years that they began to explore and experience.
00:26:49
Speaker
Now, of course, the thing is, is that once you kind of go down that road and you see the benefits and you realize the benefits, then people talk about that. My wife doesn't do any marketing or any advertising for what she does. She works with people one on one. It's all word of mouth and people notice a change in other people. They notice that
00:27:15
Speaker
all of a sudden they're behaving differently in more positive ways. You know, a lot of the, you know, the drama, the dysfunction is gone. And so many people that my wife sees, it's because they know somebody that my wife worked with and they saw the difference. And now they're like, Hey, sign me up. I want to do that too. And when you do all of this, does hypnosis work for everyone?
Natural State of Hypnosis
00:27:44
Speaker
Hypnosis is a natural operational state of the human mind. It's something that we are all designed with. Actually, everybody experiences it. I mean, you actually pass through a state of hypnosis when you go to sleep at night, where it's like you're trying to talk to somebody that's staring at their phone screen and they have no idea that you're trying to have a conversation with them. They're oblivious. That's a form of hypnosis.
00:28:09
Speaker
Intentionally triggering that state intentionally accessing that state is very different. If it's something that somebody is open to then there will be able to you know it might take practice some people it might happen quickly and some other people you know they might have to develop it over a period of time.
00:28:29
Speaker
But, but then, you know, the flip side of that too is, you know, I did a show a few years ago and it was for a, it was for a local sheriff's department. And we did the show and I'm calling for volunteers and, you know, they were, they were kind of a, they were kind of a rough and rowdy group and volunteers were.
00:28:46
Speaker
It was a little challenging to try to get some volunteers up on stage, but a lot of people were pushing. There was a woman who was the head of the county jail and they're like, you need to go up on stage and do this. And, you know, this woman decided to come up on stage, but she was like, this is ridiculous. This is stupid. This is, I've never been hypnotized. This isn't going to work on me. And an hour later, she opened her eyes up and had no idea what just happened over the last hour.
00:29:13
Speaker
And everybody was pulling out their phones, and they were playing back the video, showing her what happened on stage. And she couldn't believe it. She was stunned. Now, that's an example of somebody that was kind of in resistance, but wound up being able to do it. Now, the thing is, it's very different for somebody to sit at home and listen to what I do on YouTube versus being willing to come up on stage in front of a group of people and be hypnotized that way.
00:29:42
Speaker
For some people, if they're in resistance to it, if they're really in their head, people are watching or I'm on stage, whatever the case may be, then it's most likely it's not going to work for them, but then you have
00:29:58
Speaker
people that turn around and it's easier for them if they're in a one-on-one setting. But the thing is that once you begin to develop that ability, it becomes easier and easier and easier. So all the people that have come up on stage that have been to hypnotists for one-on-one or they do regular meditation, and they're always the ones that are able to go down really deeply, really quickly at the top of the show. What are some of your best clients successful?
00:30:25
Speaker
You know, what I would say, because I mean I don't really work with people one on one my, you know, my wife. She's the one that does that does works with people one on one but, you know, relative to me, you know, you know, I read.
00:30:41
Speaker
comments every single day on my YouTube channel where people will share with me how much they've benefited from my programs, my meditations or my hypnosis, how much easier it is for them to fall asleep at night, how much they are able to reduce stress in their lives,
00:31:03
Speaker
how much, you know, that they feel more confident. So all, you know, these areas of the things that we think of as, you know, personal development or personal success, just the average everyday, you know, life things that a lot of people struggle with.
00:31:19
Speaker
Um, I hear from people all the time that say this helps me. So, you know, that to me is the greatest, what I say as far, you know, as a, you know, a success story or compliment to me is hearing from people all over the world, um, that tell me how they were able to benefit and continue to benefit from listening to, you know, my content. Would you consider yourself a family business owner?
Comedy and Hypnosis: A Unique Blend
00:31:44
Speaker
Well, probably, I mean, I am a small business owner. So yeah, I mean, I, you know, I own my own, you know, own my own business to be able to, you know, to do what I do, where everything goes through. So yeah, I own my own company. So small business owner for sure. Yeah. And when you do all this, and you market and you draw in this audience, how did you cultivate or mix up that comedic skill within your hypnotism skill?
00:32:12
Speaker
That came in very handy when I was doing stage hypnosis, because obviously you had to have an element of ability to be on stage. You had to have an ability to be able to kind of think on your feet, which I was obviously
00:32:30
Speaker
able to do doing stand-up comedy and you had to kind of know what was funny so those two things paired really well for my stage hypnosis show. Now the interesting thing that I did find when I started doing hypnosis is they call it the pre-talk that's when you go up initially you talk to the audience for seven to ten minutes warm them up let them know that they're gonna have a good time when they came on stage.
00:32:51
Speaker
I found that when I leaned too heavily on being funny during that that time period you know making a lot of jokes the audience almost seemed a little bit intimidated by it was a little harder to get volunteers because when you're a stand-up comedian you're on stage,
00:33:07
Speaker
you kind of take this superior attitude that I'm the one up here, I'm the one that knows everything, I'm the smart ass, and I'm the one that's telling jokes, don't mess with me. So I realized that when I was doing my pre-talk, I had to dial that back a little bit. I still wanted to be a little bit funny to make the audience laugh, but not over the top.
00:33:25
Speaker
And then, of course, when you brought audience members on stage, it was a thing where you didn't want to do anything that was going to completely embarrass them. You had to let people know that if you're up here, if you're participating, it's things that you're going to want to be able to experience.
00:33:44
Speaker
It was funny because I did have a guy one time after, you know, one of the cruise ships shows and he said, well, you know, you told people that they weren't going to be embarrassed. And I go, well, yeah, that's right. And he goes, would you rethink that? Because, you know, there's people up on stage. And of course, people were doing goofy, silly stuff on stage. And
00:34:04
Speaker
i said would you go up and do that he goes no i wouldn't go up and do that i go so you didn't okay these were people who were comfortable you know being up on stage and you know being silly doing you know goofy stuff so but it's not going to be to the point where it's like you know somebody's completely mortified and they don't want to face people so obviously if you're doing a you know a corporate event
00:34:30
Speaker
You know, you have to be very careful. These people are going to see each other, you know, again on Monday or whatever the case may be. But now when it came to doing what I do relative to YouTube,
00:34:42
Speaker
you know humor humor's not really a big part of that my theater and film and my writing ability obviously mashed up really well with that because I had experience on how to write and how to produce and how to edit and you know do all that sort of stuff so that's that you are paired really well with you know me being able to do hypnosis but not necessarily
00:35:06
Speaker
you know, be funny. So, you know, there's obviously, you know, you put yourself out there on YouTube and people are opening themselves up to, you know, receiving, you know, my guidance as far as going into their mind and, you know, being hypnotized. That's obviously something that, you know, you take very seriously and, you know, you don't make jokes out of that for people. So, you know, the stuff that I do on YouTube is not necessarily very funny because it has obviously, you know, a deeper meaning, which is
00:35:36
Speaker
Interesting is my personal life. Obviously, I was a stand-up comedian for a very long time, so I like jokes. I probably have a dark sense of humor sometimes, but you just have to learn to compartmentalize that stuff. How do you combat the hecklers?
00:35:55
Speaker
Those were only kind of a case when I was doing stand-up comedy, not necessarily so much when I was doing hypnosis. And it was funny too because it was one of those things when I was doing stand-up comedy full-time, my wife would say the favorite part of the show for her was when somebody did try to heckle me because
00:36:18
Speaker
it just became an excoriating experience for the people you know that were that were trying to you know to heckle me and and you know it was because my stand-up comedy when I was doing it like I said earlier came from a lot of dysfunction in my personal life so I kind of came across as you know this angry you know raging guy on stage you know a little combative so of course if somebody would heckle me then
00:36:42
Speaker
It would never necessarily end well for the people, seeing people get thrown out of clubs and stuff because they would get so upset. When you're doing stage hypnosis, you're not going to be the rude jackass that you might be as a stand-up comic to people.
00:37:03
Speaker
But like I remember one time I was actually I was doing a corporate event and this is typically, you know, it would probably happen more so at a corporate event because you got people sitting at tables together. I'm hanging out. But there was an audience or a group of people that were talking quite a bit. They were being really loud. They were kind of disruptive to the show.
00:37:20
Speaker
You know, I told one of the volunteers on stage that I think she was supposed to be like the, you know, the phone police. And if there were people that were ruining the show for other people, she was supposed to. So here was this whole group of people that were talking in the back and had no idea the show was even happening. And then all of a sudden you had these people from the stage, these volunteers from the stage that walked down into the audience.
00:37:42
Speaker
and just started harassing this one table and got them all to go up and throw them out. So it was kind of an entertaining component to the show that worked out fairly well. And obviously on YouTube, you get hecklers there too. There's a lot of trolls there. There's a lot of people that
00:38:05
Speaker
don't necessarily subscribe to what I do or believe in what I do or don't like what I do. You know, the most, most of my views come at night. So I'll wake up in the morning, and I go, Okay, well, let's see what people said overnight. And of course, you open up the YouTube comments. And, you know, there's always, there's always haters, and there's always some angry people and
00:38:25
Speaker
That's something that I have to take what I share with people and make sure I really apply it to myself as far as kindness and compassion. Because that stand-up comics side of me from back in the day, you know, would always want to get that last word in. Would always want to have some acid-tongued response to something that somebody was saying. And, you know, I just deserve to be the antithesis of that now. So I don't engage with those people. A lot of those people get either blocked or their comments just get deleted.
00:38:54
Speaker
Which one do you think is more important, stage work or YouTube work? For me, I found it's what I do on YouTube. That's become far more of a priority and far more important to me. And it's more rewarding for me because putting on the show, the stage, the stage work is great because
00:39:16
Speaker
you're there with a group of people and you're able to share something with them that will benefit them or make them laugh or feel good in that moment. But when it comes to being able to put myself out there to everybody on YouTube, that's far more rewarding because I'm reaching far more people and there's a much bigger impact. Now, have you ever done meditation or experienced that?
00:39:43
Speaker
Yes, I've done it quite a bit. Thank you for us. And what are some of the things that you've benefited from? How have you noticed a difference for you from experiencing that? Well, me personally, well, let's get into you first. What are some of the benefits specifically you've
Health Benefits of Hypnosis and Meditation
00:40:00
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got? Well, there's not only just mental benefits, being able to change your mind and your thinking and that sort of thing, but there's tremendous
00:40:11
Speaker
physical benefits that people can experience from hypnosis and meditation. And the thing is there are sister states of mind. A lot of people ask me, you know, what's the difference between hypnosis and meditation? I mean, you are going from that beta brainwave state down into an alpha and theta brainwave state. So there's very similar things happening relative to the mind there. But what happens
00:40:33
Speaker
physically is that your body is experiencing a boost of dopamine and endorphins. So you feel really good emotionally. But the other things that happen as well is your body gets a boost of antioxidants. So you have this tremendous immunity boost that's happening to your body. And
00:40:56
Speaker
Also, I think there was a really really interesting study done a few years ago where they had taken women that had breast cancer and they were going to go through a severe Course of radiation so they broke the woman up the women up into two groups one group of women
00:41:13
Speaker
Just got the radiation and that's all that they received. The other group of women did the radiation, but they also meditated every single day. Now, one of the things that happens is when you go through chemotherapy, your telomeres can get ground down. And basically what your telomeres are is they're almost like the little plastic caps on the end of your shoelaces.
00:41:35
Speaker
And these are at the end of your chromosomes. They're a protective covering for your chromosomes. And when your telomeres wear down, I mean, that's an aging process. So at the end of your life, your telomeres are going to be so worn down. That's why you get old and that's why you die.
00:41:50
Speaker
One of the things that happened with people that go through chemotherapy is that their telomeres get wound down or ground down because of the impact of the chemotherapy. What they found at the end of the study was that the women who just went through the chemotherapy, as expected, their telomeres on their chromosomes were ground down.
00:42:11
Speaker
the women that went through the chemotherapy and also meditated on a daily basis, their telomeres remained intact and there was nowhere on their telomeres. So we have this really powerful resource for our body that's able to keep us energized and healthy and it just comes right from the experience of doing a meditation or hypnosis every single day. So you have all these tremendous physical benefits and
00:42:40
Speaker
people can utilize that to relax and calm down. They're able to de-stress. And I hear that from a lot of people. People go through all these different kinds of experiences of anxiety just because of the world we live in and they're able to...
00:42:55
Speaker
tap into that part of themselves that allows them to feel more comfortable, allows them to feel more relaxed. So those are all the things that have, you know, I've noticed a huge difference, you know, in my ability to, you know, sleep in my ability to feel, you know, more relaxed, my ability to, you know, to feel healthier, but also in the things that you're trying to do, you know, achieving your goals.
00:43:19
Speaker
you know, if the mind can't tell the difference between what's real and what's not, when you start to input information into your mind, and your mind believes that you are somebody who has, you know, capable of achieving whatever goal or have a belief in themselves, you're going to be able to make that possible. So, you know, we have all these physical, mental, emotional, spiritual benefits from tapping into, you know, the resources of our mind that have been there with us the entire time.
00:43:48
Speaker
What's the difference between hypnosis and meditation? What's happening is very similar. You're going from a waking beta brainwave state, you're slowing your mind down, you're going down to an alpha and theta brainwave state. In hypnosis, in a meditation, you're looking to kind of clear your mind and not necessarily have a bunch of thoughts in there.
00:44:16
Speaker
when you're doing hypnosis, you're opening the mind up to put those, you know, those new ideas and those new thoughts in your mind. So on one hand, you can look at it, it's like, you know, meditation, you're turning the engine off, you're giving the engine a break, allowing it to cool down and relax. Hypnosis, you're turning the engine off, you're giving it a break, but you're also giving it an oil change and maybe fitting it with some aftermarket parts to give it an upgrade. And so which one do you think is most ideal?
00:44:46
Speaker
You know, either one, if somebody's just starting out, we hear a lot of the words, guided hypnosis, guided meditation, sleep hypnosis, a lot of them are interchangeable. So, you know, you're going to find programs on YouTube that maybe say it's a guided meditation or say that it's, you know, a guided hypnosis or it's a hypnosis meditation. Find something that you feel aligns with you. If there's something that you're looking to do and you say, well, you know what, I don't have
00:45:16
Speaker
an hour but i have 20 minutes i find a program that's you know 20 minutes long or 30 minutes long or whatever works and you just start to experiment you just find something that resonates with you that you're interested in and just explore it i always tell people there's no right or wrong there's only if it works for you so experiment take things different programs for a test drive different hypnotists
00:45:40
Speaker
You know, there's a lot of people that tell me they love me. They don't listen to anybody else. There's people that tell me they hate me and they would never listen to me and they only listen to other people. So it's just what works for you. So that's why I always tell people, you know, if you're looking to do it, it's not a mystery. It's not that hard. It's an easy thing to, you know, to tap into. So just pull up a guided meditation and follow along and listen to it and just keep doing it. Work your way up to bigger things.
00:46:05
Speaker
And what do you think about the difference between regular and guided meditation when one is better than the
Meditation Practices
00:46:11
Speaker
other? It's up to the individual. It's what works. You know, there was a time that I never would have believed that I could sit in the lowest position in complete silence and not move.
00:46:24
Speaker
for 30 minutes and have it be an incredibly euphoric and powerful experience, but about a little over, well, probably a year and a half ago, I committed to wanting to do meditation.
00:46:39
Speaker
So for me, but there are times as well, it's like if there's a subject matter that I'm looking to address, there's something I kind of want to get fired up in my subconscious mind, then I'll listen to something where somebody's talking me through something. Whether they're walking me through a process or they're sharing
00:47:01
Speaker
hypnotic suggestions that my subconscious mind is going to pick up. So they have kind of different purposes. I mean, they both will allow somebody to relax. They're going to allow you to feel really good. You're going to have those emotional states. One is just you're flying solo with nothing coming into your head. The other one is somebody would be speaking to you and guiding you along. And when you did all of this,
00:47:30
Speaker
What's one piece of advice you would give to yourself, your younger self, in your position that you're in now? Like if I could travel back in time and find myself in high school, I would say start learning this stuff and applying it and doing it right now. Not necessarily an angle as far as a career, but just in your personal life, learn to meditate and reap the benefits.
00:47:55
Speaker
And what's one piece of business advice you could give to all the entrepreneurs listening to? This is something that comes, this is kind of personal for me because when I was a kid,
00:48:08
Speaker
My father worked for the family business. My father worked for his grandfather's. Grandfather had a very successful, I don't want to say construction company. My father was a welder, but they were a welding company. But my father at the same time was a very talented musician. He loved big band music. He played the drums. He was a fantastic singer. He had his own big band orchestra, and he would go out and play on the weekends. But in my father's mind, a real man,
00:48:36
Speaker
was somebody who worked 40 or 50 hours, 60 hours a week at a job that he hated so he could provide for his family. And the things that you like to do like music or entertainment or that was just a hobby. You don't ever consider doing that seriously as a profession. And I saw how unhappy my father was living that way.
00:48:59
Speaker
And when I was about 12 years old, I discovered his super eight millimeter movie camera. This was back before we had VHS cameras or anything on our phone. And I was fascinated by wanting to make movies with my dad's camera. And as I would do this, I realized I actually had a pretty good knack for it. And it was something that I wanted to go on to graduate high school. I wanted to go to film school. And I said to my dad, what do you think about me making movies?
00:49:27
Speaker
And my father said, I think it's another one of your stupid childish ideas. So my father told me this when I was like 13 years old. So I had two things going for me. I didn't want to wind up like my father. And I was going to prove to my father that he was wrong, that I could do something he told me I couldn't do. So I went on, I went to film school, I graduated.
00:49:50
Speaker
I still write screenplays, I've had stuff produced, I still do other video production stuff outside of my YouTube channel if it's something that is of interest to me. So I just tell people, if you want to do it, if it's something you're passionate about, nobody can tell you otherwise.
00:50:08
Speaker
do what you want to do and don't believe anything else anybody tells you, unless it's something that you can take as valuable information that's going to inspire you. That's what I tell my kids. I will be the first person, whatever you want to do, I will be the first person to say, hey, let's figure out a way for you to do this and encourage you to make sure that you could do it. If you're
00:50:33
Speaker
You know, it's the cliche, but we hear it. If you're doing something that you love, then you're never working a day in your life. And that's really what it's about. It's about doing what you love, being able to earn a living at it and enjoy doing what you do. And, you know, if you can help other, you know, if there's a process where you're helping other people, you know, along the way, then it makes it, you know, it makes it even better. So always believe in yourself and hypnosis and meditation can help with that. And when you talk about
Final Thoughts on Hypnosis and Personal Growth
00:51:02
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believing in yourself.
00:51:04
Speaker
How does it want to accomplish? It's what you have programmed into your, you know, your subconscious mind. That's really what it is. It's, you know, if you have confidence or if you don't have confidence, it's all the result of the wiring that's happening inside your head. And it came from someplace from somewhere. And that's the thing about the subconscious mind is that we don't necessarily, we don't necessarily know where something came from. We don't know how something got there.
00:51:34
Speaker
Now, for me, when I was a kid, hearing my father tell me that he thought something I wanted to do was a stupid idea and that I couldn't do it. Well, that, you know, that moment created enough anger or pain or frustration in my mind that that got linked up pretty strongly in my mind. And my goal was to set out to prove my father wrong. And that was a drop, you know, that was a drive for me. But then, you know, the, the
00:52:00
Speaker
You know, people, for example, you know, I'll talk to people that have had bad relationships, something happened. You know, they want to have a loving romantic relationship, but things keep going south. And, you know, you trace that back to they had an experience where they were in love and they, you know, they got hurt.
00:52:20
Speaker
And the subconscious mind says, man, relationships equal pain. So if we find ourselves going down the road, we're going to get in a relationship. We're just going to sabotage that so we don't have to experience pain later on. So it's all stuff that's in our mind. You don't necessarily have to know where it came from, but if you're able to acknowledge, well, this is what I think. This is my patterns of behavior. This is what I do.
00:52:42
Speaker
Okay, well, what would be the opposite of that? And then you focus to make those changes with your mind. You're disconnecting one association and emotional state, and you're reconnecting something that's more empowering for you. I really like this interview. Can you please give me some final words that you'd like to give to the audience?
00:53:06
Speaker
Final words is your mind is this incredible power source and a lot of it is, is untapped. I mean, a lot of it's tapped that works against us in some ways. Um, but when we kind of realize how that balance of power can happen in our mind.
00:53:25
Speaker
we can make profound changes and have the experience of physical reality that we're looking to have that we create inside of our minds first. So I would encourage everybody to explore meditation, explore hypnosis, go to my YouTube channel. You can subscribe to me there. I've got a ton of content on there of different lengths of different themes that somebody can experience. So I would love it if they would check me out there on YouTube.
00:53:55
Speaker
Okay, I'm Jimbo Parrish and this is the Jimbo Parrish Show. Thank you again. Thanks Jimbo, appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the Jimbo Parrish Show.