Introduction
Hypnosis has been used throughout human history. For centuries, hypnosis has been associated with mysticism and magic. For most people, it is still synonymous with magic or quackery.
In fact, hypnosis is a complex science, a healing method and a way of influencing others. Having mastered hypnosis with the help of this book, you will be able to influence people, instill in them certain thoughts and actions, and engage in self-hypnosis.
Separate chapters are devoted to meditation, self-hypnosis and autogenic training. This book is a modern practical guide that will help you learn how to use hypnotic techniques in your life. Also, this textbook on hypnosis does not ignore the issues of protection from the influence of others: such a dangerous type of street hypnosis as gypsy hypnosis is discussed in detail.
Thanks to this book, you will be able to achieve success in life, learn how to manage people, and also get the opportunity to manage your present and future, get rid of phobias and complexes, and become happier.
Ilya Melnikov - How not to succumb to hypnosis
Ilya Melnikov
How not to succumb to hypnosis
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As they say, no one is stopping you from trying. But you shouldn’t think that it’s easy.
Thousands of cases of “fooling” gullible and not so gullible people. Research on gypsy hypnosis has yielded many unexpected discoveries and contributed to the development of psychotherapy and hypnosis. Not a single study of the occult sciences has yielded such practical results.
Ericksonian hypnosis transformed into the popular today NLP, or neurolinguistic programming. This is what is taught on every corner today. We do not know whether Dale Carnegie suspected that his advice in the book was so close to the techniques used by gypsies and hypnotists.
As you know, neurolinguistic programming consists of:
• Property assessments
• Adjusting to it, that is, finding a “common language” on a non-verbal level
• Transition from the role of an adapter to the role of a manipulator
Further influence depends on your goals, abilities and preparation, as well as how controllable your object is, and also, to no less extent, how strong your motivation to manipulate it.
What are the difficulties of this process? First of all, in you. You must learn to see things as they are. You must free yourself as much as possible from thinking stereotypes. Practice imagining yourself as a character in a science fiction movie who finds himself in a world he knows nothing about. Do not take anything for granted - remember that everything can deceive - the eyes, the ears, and the sense of touch.
As an exercise, we can advise you to determine by eye the temperature of an object, the distance to it, the age of the person, his name. Check how your perception is configured. Experience in practice how often you make mistakes due to generalization, erasure and distortion. These traps are used by illusionists for tricks. However, there are many such examples in everyday life. And the consequences from them can be anything. For example, generalizations can relate to very different aspects of life - we group and generalize everything - this allows us to think faster. For example, a bearded man seems older to us, and a short man seems younger. But if we are convinced several times that this is not the case, under circumstances that you remember, then the emphasis will shift. For example, a young man walked a whole block behind a girl who, turning around, turned out to be thirty years older, will never judge a woman’s age when he sees only her back, moreover, he will constantly fear that the sad experience will repeat itself. But here, too, not everything is clear. Age can be determined without seeing the face, the young man was simply inattentive - he was confused by his slender figure and hairstyle.
Erasing is when we remove what obscures reality, drawing in the invisible parts based on our experience. An example of this is that if you "go by" your experience based on statistics, you may be wrong. For example, you will most likely be shocked if your child suddenly speaks in a deep voice, or if your cat starts talking. I bet you will be in shock for a few seconds. The illusionist has these few minutes.
You are not ready for such turns, but still tried to prepare!
In the process of such exercises, you begin to understand how rigid and clogged with stereotypes our thinking is.
And now you understand that:
• There are thousands of such parallels in your life.
• If we internalize such clichés in simple terms, how many psychological cliches do we have that are dictated to us by religion, society, family, our morality, and education. Moreover, there is a clear pattern - the higher the education level, the more clichés there are. Children have significantly fewer of them.
• Those who understand these clichés - that is, those who have vital things (earnings, life) depending on them - have enormous power over you.
• It is difficult to get rid of clichés - there are many of them, and our civilized mind, with a developed second signaling system, can no longer live without them.
• You can study only a part of these clichés, the most basic ones, of course - it’s a long, difficult task also because it resembles cramming. For the gypsies, this is a textbook, they have a lot of proverbs and observations and in general they do not think “intellectually”, but “figuratively”, and they do not need to spend ten pages explaining some nuance.
Our civilized ideas about the world are too generalized and passed through our second signaling system. Since “the spoken word is a lie,” our model of the world is distorted twice. Anyone who can understand our model of perceiving the world has the key to us. The simplest way is to “adjust” – to your breathing, movements, gait and facial expression. The more automatically the manipulator does this, the more naturally you “synchronize” with him. Control is touch - light, almost imperceptible.
If the object is not alert, you can begin to change roles. And here we need to remember that many signals do not reach the central nervous system - very quiet sounds, mental messages, small movements, minor changes in intonation. The faster and more versatile the impact, the more dependent the object is, the easier it is to be “hooked.”
And this is precisely what remains the secret, the “know-how” of the gypsies. Perhaps it is in their language, perhaps in the rhythm of phrases, the characteristic rhythmic and irrational rhythm of gypsy speech at first glance, which is similar to recitative when a gypsy tells fortunes or invites a client. This makes sense, since sound, whether we hear it or not, is a wave message that has a certain pattern.
In the history of mankind there are no fairy tales and legends that are devoid of meaning. Spells, meditative formulas or a certain combination of sounds in the speech of a fortune-telling gypsy, hypnotist, psychotherapist or spiritual teacher of a sect are one and the same thing, with minor variations.
A fortune teller's or hypnotist's ball, colorful gypsy skirts, passes and monotonous movements during meditation make it easier to control your consciousness. After that, you can be ordered - and you will obey.
ALL THESE ACTIONS AND SOUNDS DEPRIVE THE PERSON OF WILL AND ADJUST THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE OBJECT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE MANIPULATOR
What can be done to counter this? Not all attempts may be successful.
A good friend told me this story. As a student, he and his friends accompanied a classmate home for the summer holidays. At the station, one of them came up with a “hot” idea: to catch a fortune teller red-handed. The day before, a local police officer spoke at the hostel. The conversation was about crime in the area, precautions and, as usual, cooperation. Nonsense, of course, but the district police officer mentioned the gypsies. They say they beg, steal and cheat using hypnosis. The latter aroused interest. The students discussed this among themselves: some believed, others did not. There were fortune tellers at the station - here is a real opportunity for you to verify the veracity of the district police officer’s words.
The “capture” plan was developed quickly and naively. The departing girl was supposed to approach the fortune teller; four guys were dispersed in the crowd and positioned at a short distance from the fortune teller in order to be able to observe what was happening. If danger arose, the girl had to give a sign with her hand - straighten her hair, but not as is usually done - from the forehead to the top, but at the back of the head. Then the guys come close and act according to the circumstances.
The “bait” to incite the gypsy’s greed was a hundred dollar bill, but not a real one - instead of a portrait of the President of the United States, Stalin was on it. Some smart guy got the hang of making them and sold them at the market as souvenirs. They put this “banknote” in the wallet and used chalk money to gild the fortune teller’s pen. That's all. The girl was supposed to “accidentally” show the fortune teller the contents of her wallet.
There were no objections from anyone. The girl said: “Even though it’s not bucks, I won’t give my wallet to the gypsy,” she smiled and walked away. The guys took their starting positions and, presumably, everyone hoped to be first next to the girl at the right moment. However, nothing suspicious or requiring external intervention occurred. The fortune teller took the girl by the right hand, asked and said something. One of the guys, let's call him M., came close to the fortune teller and the girl several times - he listened and looked closely, but did not find anything unusual. The experiment clearly failed, and the guys looked at their watches, rightly believing that this time could have been spent more interestingly.
How to resist hypnosis?
If you suddenly feel that someone has managed to put you into a trance, then you still have the opportunity to protect yourself. Don’t listen to anything they try to convince you, just replay your favorite song, poem or tongue twister in your head. Reflect on your plans for today. This method of distraction will help awaken consciousness.
You can also protect yourself from hypnosis by asking unexpected questions. Quickly ask the scammer: “What powder do you use to wash your clothes?” or “what color are your eyes?”, “What did you eat yesterday?” This way, you will distract him, gain time and get away from this scam faster.
Be careful and remember that the best contraindication for hypnosis is lack of trust!
How does hypnosis work?
Hypnosis works only after establishing trusting contact between people. Any hypnosis depends on the hypnotist himself and the character of the person at whom it is directed. If a person was able to be put into a deep trance with the help of a gaze and words, he will do everything that is asked of him and only after that he will not even be able to understand what happened to him and why he gave all the money and the gold ring to the gypsy.
See how hypnosis works with an example:
One doctor decided to conduct a hypnosis session with his patient. She came to him with an umbrella because it was raining outside. The doctor talked to her, of course, gained her confidence and inspired her that at the end of the session the woman should go out into the hall from the office and open her umbrella.
And what do you think? That's exactly what she did. The doctor came out and asked why she opened the umbrella in the room. The woman, after thinking about it, began to make excuses, saying that she decided to check whether it had dried after the rain.
Even under hypnosis, a person logically explains his actions; they will always be adequate and convincing for him. You can inspire absolutely anything in anyone, and he will consider it his own conviction. Fraudsters act and induce hypnosis by chattering, overloading, distracting attention, and only after they see that the victim is “hooked” do they begin to dictate their rules.
