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From: Blue Chip
Date: Wed Jan 8, 2003 7:23pm
Subject: RE: [Derren Brown] Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion
One word: Yes :)
>Hi
>
>The next time to apply (NOT TRY) this hypnoidal test on your WILLING
>volunteer remember the ask them to pretend with all their concentration
>that their fingers are locked tight together. Remind them to keep their
>arms locked out straight and when, and only when they are completely
>sure that their hands are locked tightly together only then ask them to
>JUST TRY to open them while holding onto the pretence that they are
>locked tightly together.
>
>What happens is this:
>
>1. The sub-conscious can not discriminate between
>pretending/imagining and the real world, it's all the same to the
>sub-conscious.
>2. When they are ready, you ask them to JUST TRY to open their
>hands. The word try infers that they may not be able to open their
>hands.
>3. the imagination takes hold of this inference and Coue's Law of
>Reversed Effort kicks in from here ensuring that their hands stay locked
>together.
>
>When using this technique you must be aware not to directly challenge
>the conscious intellect. Instead, cajole them to use the AMAZING POWER
>OF THEIR IMAGINATION so that they know that they are doing all this and
>so they don't feel as though they are being taken control of.
>
>Just some thoughts offered.
>
>
>Kind Regards
>Harry Cannon
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gameer_77 [mailto:]
>Sent: 08 January 2003 17:26
>To:
>Subject: [Derren Brown] Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion
>
>Thanks for responses, yet i'm still unable to do the hands locked
>trick on the site mentioned previously.
>
>Can anyone who's done it and has worked explain exactly what they
>done? I feel i can't progress further until i get this right.
>
>Another Q: Can you do autosuggestion, without before being applied
>suggestion?
>
>For example, am i wasting my time trying to make my own hands lock?
>
>Thank you
>
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