How to make anybody do anything using hypnosis
For years people have been asking the question: can a hypnotised person be made to do something against their will?
We’ve all seen stage hypnotists working their dark art, and at face value it does appear that innocent members of the public can be made to carry out all kinds of embarrassing stunts that they probably wouldn’t do whilst not in a trance.
But the truth of the matter is a little more complicated.
The trick the hypnotist uses is to ply suggestions to the subjects subconscious mind. But even if he managed to so this, we may imagine that there exists a filter between what the subconscious accepts and what the conscious mind will allowed to be carried out.
When psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud postulated the theorey that the human mind consisted of three parts (consisting of subconscious, ego and super-ego) he suggested the super-ego acted as a type of conscience -–a guardian if you will – over the other levels of the mind. Using this model, the super-ego would be likely to forbid or censor any behaviour which was unacceptable to the individual on a moral level.
However, with modern developments in indirect hypnosis, conversational hypnosis, or covert hypnosis, the waters become muddied when addressing our original question.
One of the pioneers of so-called "indirect" hypnosis – the therapist Milton Erickson – would use language patterns in a very covert way in order to implant subconscious suggestions. He might ask "would you like to wash the dishes up before or after we go to the cinema?". This seemingly innocuous query diverts the conscious mind by challenging it about when to do the washing up, whilst implanting an indirect command that we will go the cinema. Such constructs are likely to bring about the hypnotists command (in this case that we are going to the cinema) because they largely bypass conscious analysis.
Another way the hypnotist can instil suggestions, this time in a more direct manner, is to utilise the power of emotion. In an emotionally charged state the subconscious is wide-open to suggestion (have you ever wondered why you tend to remember things said in the heat of an argument?). The hypnotist could shock someone by jumping out at them and yelling "boo!". Whilst they are trying to compose themselves, he barks "fall over!". Very often they will, without realising why.
But can hypnosis really be used to make someone behave completely out of character, possibly against their moral will? Can someone be made to fall in love with you, or to harm another? Disturbing evidence, beyond the remit of this article, suggests that such things may be possible to those who know how to utilise the dark art of covert hypnosis.
Duncan Rosslair writes about covert hypnosis www.hellnotes.co.uk Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/nlp-hypnosis-articles/how-to-make-anybody-do-anything-using-hypnosis-1713310.html
