Skeptic checking in....
1.it can "work" on some people, but not everybody
B.it never works like it does on TV/the movies
III.there are two aspects of it that are messed up:
a.the reliving past trauma that you've forgotten is super dangerous bull sh**t
b.the reliving past lives that you've lived before is bull sh**t, but far less dangerous. Still gross and wrong though.
4.at best it's a neat party trick
far better for society than other bull sh**t professions like 100% of acupuncturist or 89% of chiropractors.
Hypnosis on other people is usually done based on a few factors:
- Creating a mood where you and the person who will get hypnotized operate better in
- Having good oratory techniques and working with suggestive thinking techniques.
There are ways i can easily hypnotize myself, the best way to learn this is on the train if you work with fixation points. A good example of unintentional self hypnosis is polder blindness one experiences in the car.
Hypnosis has similarities with dissociation, and can literally be the same thing sometimes but hypnosis is more of a pop term and sensational term. Dissociation is a psychiatric term, tbh i consider them all umbrella terms that are related, but no term perfectly describes it because dissociation for example is considered as harmful and undesired, which i do believe self-hypnosis is not.
Hypnosis can be helpful for a numerous things:
- Mood/Emotion alterations, like ease of anxieties
- Explore other ways of thinking
- Confidence boosts
- Dealing with high stress levels (or even trauma)
- Can change your perception of time and space
It can also be used destructively for example
- If you can boost your confidence and your ability to think one can be victorious, you could do exactly the opposite. There is a term that falls under this: self-prophecy thinking. Another example of destructive self-hypnosis that I believe in is repeating a lie as often as possible, to the extent you believe in the lie.
Hypnosis usually only works if the receiver is open to the one that hypnotises. If you're like i'm gonna hypnotize you, and the receiver is like: "i don't believe in hypnosis", it's not gonna work. It's not like that and these kind of things are bs.
I personally use "hypnosis" to calm down and ease stress with techniques similar to meditation but that wouldn't define as meditation.
And in some ways, a politician can in some way "hypnotise" part of the crowd, if they're a good orator or demagogue, in that the receiver is much more open to believe what said orator tells as true.
Hypnosis is a "vague term". I don't believe in pop hypnosis. Pop hypnosis is someone well skilled in these techniques, but they cannot cause miracles and hypnotists on TV are always fake and staged.
One other thing i want to add is that someone who wants to be hypnotised is rather someone who self-hypnotised himself in being more open to suggestive thinking instead of the hypnotist doing that due to self-prophecy thinking.
A few examples:"i'm gonna fail for this exam" vs "i'm gonna pass this exam".
"i'm gonna get drunk" vs "i'm totally not getting drunk"
And yes, you can do the test. try to believe you are not getting drunk while drinking beer, it will be much harder. While vice versa it's much easier
You can also give a kid some fruit juice and tell them you put alcohol in it while there is a party mood, it's gonna get active & energetic and actually thinking it will get drunk, because a kid is more open to suggestive thinking, esp. if you're the parent/legal guardian and trustworthy."this girl is gonna like me" vs "this girl is definitely gonna dislike me".
(even if this actually already involves another "actor")
basically this is also placebo / nocebo effect kind off.
They don't ensure that what you think is the result, but they make what you think or believe is more likely to be true, esp. if you're an actor in what you say (basically you take directly part in your self-prophecy statement"). The more participants there are in your statement, the less appliable it becomes.
It is not gonna work if you say like
"i believe donald trump is gonna win the election" vs "i believe donald trump is not gonna win the election"
because you have no direct influence over it.
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Also saying you're a hypnotist actually is a thing that makes people more open to suggestive thinking because you're a hypnotist, because you'll be an authority figure for some.
Think about it like a kid seeing santa claus. The kid doesn't know who is santa claus or who the person behind santa claus it, but it'll perceive santa claus as santa claus. It'll be more open to what santa claus says than what the person who dresses as santa claus would say if he wasn't dressed as santa claus.
This is why attributes and dressing can be important to these kind of shows.
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