Twitter Thread: Suggestions | 9/13/22
Added 2022-09-29 19:24:29 +0000 UTCOriginal thread: https://twitter.com/h_sleepingirl/status/1569793925115957250
❌ "Induce trance to make suggestions"
✅ "Make suggestions based on a person’s psychology in order to hack them"
Trance is not what makes suggestions happen. (Suggestions are what make trance happen.) Basing suggestions in truth/reality is part of what actually makes them effective. Hypnosis is more about making suggestions than it is about inducing trance.
❌ "Now, your body is stuck." WTF are we basing this large change in???
✅ "As you listen to me [true], you can grow more aware of the muscles in your body [true/easy], and you'll find that sooner or later [presupposition], your body won't want to move at all [suggestion]."
I know:
- Saying things that are true paints me as a person who says the right things
- Making someone change focus is very easy
- Inevitability is a persuasive feeling
- Separating someone from a part of themselves is easy and allows for responsiveness
One basic suggestion model: truth+suggestion.
"Because you're listening to me [truth], you're going to go into trance." "You're going to go deep [suggestion] because you can't stop yourself from doing things that you desperately crave [truth]."
Say truths about:
- What you're observing in them physically
- What they're/you're doing
- Things that they believe/know
- What they're thinking
- The reality of psychological phenomena around trance
You can literally read someone's mind by learning easy cold reading stuff. I wrote an article a bit back about understanding this + how people respond to trance so you can make suggestions that are based in the reality of their experience.
