Brainwashing to the Detriment of Truth
Now then. This is important! Unless you’re both very much in love in the normal course of your lives, do not under any circumstance take your beloved for a walk across a swinging rope bridge high above the ground, or spanning a deep gorge.
I’m not joking. Promise! Researchers have found that young men and women find each other much more attractive in such conditions.
This was contained in a psychology paper I read. I have no idea who the researchers were, nor from whence they came, but I can’t help feeling they were pretty desperate for work! Still, there you are. You’ll thank me for that bit of information later!
The reasoning behind this is that both the raised heartbeat and emotions that they feel because of their somewhat precarious situation on the rope bridge, they put down to physical attraction. All right, let’s climb off our rope bridge and back onto solid ground again, shall we?
There’s a good way of persuading someone to believe something about you. Excite their emotions and shoot the idea across to them while they’re in an emotional state. I’m not saying you should reduce them to floods of tears, but make them excited about an idea you may have, perhaps.
In all seriousness, this is exactly what a skilled hypnotherapist will do. He or she will raise a patient’s emotions, so that they may implant good new ideas into their minds. They may have to clear out the old ideas first and if this is the case, then paradoxically the hypnotherapist may have to calm them down to do the clearing out before exciting them again to fix the new ideas.
Ordinary, everyday hypnosis, then, is quite unnecessary to brainwash people. The reason for this is that any idea that some leader might want to put across to the masses, be the idea good or dangerous, all he or she has to do is to excite their emotions with one fixed idea. Work their emotions up more and more, focusing on this one idea, and provided you focus this idea with more and more intensity, you have the crowd hypnotized.
That’s all it is. The crowd are hypnotized into a belief and of course from there, they go around, excitedly telling others, and before you know it, a very dangerous situation could have developed.
This is why it’s absolutely vital to ascertain where a certain belief came from.
I believe we discussed this the other day. Just because a million people believe something, does that necessarily make it correct? Again, this is why a good hypnotherapist will first examine whether the beliefs a patient has are truly his own, whether he has them because his family’s believed in them for generations, or whether someone’s deliberately implanted them into his mind.
Most importantly, of course, whether or not they’re dangerous to the patient
We know we have a laugh and a joke, but Mike Bond does rightly think it so necessary to explain how beliefs can be held to the detriment of truth. You’ll learn a lot more on his Website as well as being able to grab 2 FREE downloads on hypnosis simply by clicking on The Hypnosis Attraction