{"id":202,"date":"2009-12-15T17:29:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:19:54","slug":"hollyweird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/2009\/12\/15\/hollyweird\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyweird"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Hypnotic Eye, 1960 Hypno-Horror movie<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Last night, Michael and I watched a movie. THE HYPNOTIC EYE. 1960 hypno-horror ridiculousness. On the one hand, it is (unintentionally) hilarious–beyond ridiculous, to anyone who understands what hypnosis is and how it works. On the other hand, it is quite disturbing that this movie helped shape beliefs about hypnosis to minds of the 60’s and beyond!<\/p>\n

This movie features sadistic,\u00a0evil, murdering hypnotists!\u00a0 Not just one, but TWO evil hypnotists.\u00a0 Stage hypnotists.\u00a0 Working together on the unsuspecting public to torture and maim.\u00a0 Nice!\u00a0 (NOT!)\u00a0 The male hypnotist also had his hypno-seduction thing going on, too.<\/p>\n

Visually, the movie was stunning, and evocative.\u00a0 Black and white.\u00a0 And not just black in color, I think they call it “film noir.”\u00a0 Nice spooky soundtrack.<\/p>\n

Hollywood and popular culture\u00a0sure like to malign hypnosis and hypnotists.\u00a0 It’s not just movies of the 60’s, swirling with hypnowheels and blinking electronics, men with dark, evil eyes and even evil-er intent, and swooning, helpless\u00a0women.\u00a0 That mystique continues today in popular culture, movies, television.\u00a0 A mystique of fear, and darkness, mind control, and nasty intent.\u00a0 A recent episode of “The Mentalist” (massively popular US television show) featured an evil, murdering hypnotist as well.\u00a0 Also, thieving!<\/p>\n

Of course, people who truly feel that hypnosis is dark and dangerous don’t come into my world.\u00a0 They aren’t coming to me for help.\u00a0 So, I really don’t know how prevalent this myth-bound attitude is.\u00a0 When I teach my courses at Bellevue College and with my own school, Mindworks NLP, and even one on one with clients, I ferret out these fear beliefs and counter with what I know is true.\u00a0 And clients and students experience that truth!<\/p>\n

Hypnosis is a healing art.\u00a0 It’s natural, and positive.\u00a0 It’s one of the most natural and positive forces in the universe, and it’s not something “being done” to someone else.\u00a0 It’s what we can do inside ourselves and for ourselves.\u00a0 It’s a GOOD thing.\u00a0 Powerful, positive, healing, expanding, beautiful.\u00a0 Natural.\u00a0 We all go in and out of hypnosis every day.\u00a0 Reading, daydreaming, playing on the computer, writing, watching TV,\u00a0just THINKING, it’s all hypnosis.\u00a0 I’ve always been a thinker, one prone to\u00a0daytime dreaming, so I’ve always been a hypnotist.\u00a0 You are one, too.\u00a0 I have a\u00a0hypnosis friend named Skip.\u00a0 He says we’re in\u00a0a hypnotic state\u00a024\/7, only trading one trance for another.\u00a0\u00a0 I like that idea, too!<\/p>\n

So, while these movies and shows are surely entertaining, and might be “fun,” please take it with a grain or two or thousand grains of skepticism when you see, hear, or read in popular culture about all the evil hypnotists and their evil mind control power.\u00a0 Maybe it helps sell movies, but it ain’t reality.<\/p>\n

Warm Regards,
\nConnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hypnotic Eye, 1960 Hypno-Horror movie Last night, Michael and I watched a movie. THE HYPNOTIC EYE. 1960 hypno-horror ridiculousness. On the one hand, it is (unintentionally) hilarious–beyond ridiculous, to anyone who understands what hypnosis is and how it works. On the other hand, it is quite disturbing that this movie helped shape beliefs about […] <\/p>\n

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