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From: Blue Chip
Date: Thu Jan 9, 2003 3:47am
Subject: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion
>You TELL THEM the this time you will use hypnosis and they will find
>that the more the TRY the more their arm will become heavy.
DB uses the beautiful "the more you try in vain the more you <do whatever>"
I love the addition of "in vain" - When you tell them to "try", they
subliminially add the "in vain", for that is the most recent reference to
that speech pattern.
At 01:47 09/01/03 +0000, you wrote:
>You can give them a nice little trick that'll work. It's on the same
>line as DB in the Boxing club.
>
>Ask you volunteer to hold an arm out straight in front of them.
>
>You now hold your out stretched arm with your hand on top of theirs.
>
>When you say go they are to lift your arm as high as possible.
>
>You say go and they lift your are (you resist enough to make them work
>for it).
>
>NOW
>
>You TELL THEM the this time you will use hypnosis and they will find
>that the more the TRY the more their arm will become heavy.
>
>Get yourselves ready. Then tell them to WEIGHT.. WEIGHT
>
>Then say "OK now JUST TRY"
>
>You then commit full resistance to it and at all time hold eye contact
>with them.
>
>Depending on the level of response you get you can also add that the
>harder they TRY to lift your arm the more their right foot WILL stick to
>the floor (assuming they are using their right hand). Just a little
>something to add when you get a very good response.
>
>
>This can be opened up and you can create some great fun with this one.
>The by product is that you create believers in an instant with it. Of
>course it's a lot of showmanship but then a lot of hypnosis is anyway.
>That's part of what creates the belief.
>
>ENJOY
>
>Harry
>
>
>Kind Regards
>Harry Cannon M.I.A.H. D.hyp
>Member of the International Association of Hypno-Analysts
>Email: [e-mail address obfuscated]
>Email:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: gameer_77 [mailto:]
>Sent: 08 January 2003 21:30
>To:
>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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [e-mail address removed]
> >
> >
> >
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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 :)
>
>
>
>
>
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| Replies | Author | Yahoo! ID | Date | Size |
| 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 |
| 2280: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Rob Dobson | northerncomfortuk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 6 KB |
| 2287: Re: Suggestion/Autosuggestion | Harry Cannon | cannon8alluk | Thu 09/01/2003 | 7 KB |
