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From: gameer_77
Date: Wed Jan 8, 2003 9:29pm
Subject: [Derren Brown] Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion
--- In a previous message Harry Cannon wrote:
> 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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>
Hmm, thanks for the ideas, Harry.
They seem logical, but I really can't find a willing person; My
family are not very keen. (Mebbe you could help out with that? A
pretend trick to get them believing?)
Can you do me a favour? Can you try it on yourself, and tell me if it
works or not?
Thank you :)
| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 2243: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Harry Cannon | cannon8alluk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 6 KB |
| 2249: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Thu 09/01/2003 | 7 KB |
| 2256: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2258: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | wayneryder | wayneryder | Thu 09/01/2003 | 2 KB |
| 2264: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 4 KB |
| 2268: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Thu 09/01/2003 | 3 KB |
| 2269: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 4 KB |
| 2274: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Blue Chip | cs_bluechip | Thu 09/01/2003 | 4 KB |
| 2276: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | killerb_0187 | killerb_0187 | Thu 09/01/2003 | 4 KB |
