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Giving full kudos to Scott Adams for directing me toward the hypnosis studies. Don’t get me wrong, don’t assume as I know your thinking that I am taking classes to learn how to hypnotize folks like they do on stage. In my past studies toward understanding how to deescalate and/or negotiate toward avoidance I studies a bit about the compliance profession, a profession that uses a form of hypnosis through influence principles to sway folks into spending time and money on what they want to sell us.
As I begin my studies I can’t help but realize just how much we all use some form of hypnosis to change our beliefs. We are taking information and using confirmation biases to manipulate that information so that it fits neatly within our belief systems. It is just the human thing we do.
Do you sit seiza and meditate on clearing your mind so that you can focus as much as humanly possible on training and practice, staying in the moment of training and then practice? If you said yes, I know you did and you actually bobbed your head in the affirmative while thinking that, then you are performing a form of self-hypnosis.
Isn’t all self-help psychological methodologies simply a form of self-hypnosis therefore being a self-compliance influence we all use on ourselves to become better - what ever that may mean to the individual?
In defense-protection models a significant part of that is to, first avoid if at all possible; second, is to deescalate things so they don’t go physical, i.e., avoiding the physical; third, to persuade the other guy -and- ourselves to avoid the monkey influences of our brains while deescalating both ourselves from the monkey brain suggestions and those currently influencing the adversary you may be facing. All assumptions this is the type of violence and aggression not asocial predatory toward either a process or resource project by the attacker. Think about that one a few moments, I can almost hear you say how important that part was causing a re-read.
Hypnosis, so far as to my understanding, is projecting a certain type of confidence the others can read; it is using body language and verbal words, sentences and phrases to influence others and finally to cause them, the others, to WANT to change their minds and do something more - peaceful.
Oh, yeah, I hear you and your saying, “What about all that Gentle Art of Verbal Self-defense you are always writing about?” Well, think about it, it is just another form of compliance efforts using influence principles or in short, “A Form of Hypnosis.”
Then, if you are FORCED into a physical encounter then you can retrieve from conditioned memory those methodologies and force levels necessary to stop the damage, end the attacker and then - using your compliance hypnotic influence tactics and strategies - you can articulate the first responders so you can avoid jail and avoid prosecution. Now, ain’t that a better way?
p.s. hey, you say, what about when we try to manipulate or are being manipulated? Wait, one moment, manipulation is an attempt to influence you into complying with what the person wants so it too is a less then stellar form of, “Hypnosis.”
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