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Originally Posted by Brutha  So I can't do something that makes someone focus completly on it?
I bet if some girl drops her pants in a room full of people a lot of people will focus quite rapidly completly on it and forget what they were thinking before.
The fact is that something like a handshake induction can bring someone who is a total stranger to you into a trance. Sure they will leave it when you tell them things they don't aggre with directly.
But their is room to manuver with Embedded Commands and Metapors outside their awareness and built motivation to do certain things or hallucinate things.
Its a matter of skill. |
Hi Brutha,
My point is that people can't be hypnotized against their
will, or to be clearer, what they perceive to be their moral/ethical boundaries.
If a girl drops her pants I'd bet at least half of the people looking wouldn't be looking against their will
Admittedly this boundary is pretty flexible and dependent on circumstances, POWs have been subjected to pretty intense 'hypnotisim' more accurately framed as 'brainwashing', and when the mass hypnotism of mobs is pretty real.
But on one to one hypnotism, I've found the rule of thumb to be true; if someone's unconscious mind doesn't feel like they can trust you at some level, they're not going to let the conscious mind go to sleep.
You can be skillful up to a point, but even Milton Erickson had patients he'd spend hours hypnotizing.
Granted, building trust is also a skill
