Manipulate People With Conversational Hypnosis
by Bob Walsh
Many people want to learn hypnosis. Unfortunately hypnosis has gotten itself a bad reputation, because it attracts a lot of charlatans and snake oil salesmen. You can probably remember some movie scenes where some criminal has used hypnosis to perform some kind of evil crime. Or maybe you have seen a stage hypnosis show where the hypnotist used hypnosis to make other people make a fool out of themselves. But that is really not what hypnosis is about. In fact, I would say that that is an abuse of the possibilities of hypnosis.
Hypnosis has been used in medicine for quite a long time. Nowadays dentists use it to drill holes or even pull teeth from patients without any kind of anesthesia. Surgeons perform even open-heart surgery on patients where using medication to anesthetize them would be dangerous. In fact, even the Belgian Queen recently has undergone surgery with the help of hypnosis. So it clearly is a very effective method of influencing people. After all, if you can make people ignore the pain that comes from pulling a tooth or operating them, actually cutting them open, and they don’t feel the pain, don’t you think that you can use hypnosis to make them do such simple things as agree with you, follow your command, or buy from you?
The answer is: yes, you can. There are different kinds of hypnosis, for example there is self hypnosis, hetero hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis, conversational hypnosis, stage hypnosis and a lot more. What we want to focus on here is conversational hypnosis, which is really an offspring of Ericksonian hypnosis. Because conversational hypnosis is most suited for our purpose of manipulating other people. With conversational hypnosis you can hypnotize and manipulate people by just talking to them. You basically hypnotize them secretly. They don’t even realize that they’re being hypnotized. But you are fully aware that you’re doing it, and you are fully aware of what they are experiencing and you are in total control of the situation.
The first step in using conversational hypnosis to manipulate other people is to make them feel comfortable and relaxed. Make them trust and like you. This is something that is called establishing rapport. There is a specific method to how this is done, but in this article I cannot go into every detail, but instead want to give you the general idea of how it works.
Once they feel comfortable and trust and like you, you can deepen their relaxation and use hypnotic language patterns to put them into a hypnotic trance state. With the use of embedded commands and posthypnotic suggestions you can then plant the seeds of actions that you want them to take. What is great is that they won’t remember that you made them do that, but instead they will think that it was their own idea, and that they did it all on their own.
What’s most amazing about conversational hypnosis to me is that actually everybody can learn to do it. If you decide that you want to master conversational hypnosis, you can get started right away and within the course of just weeks you can become hypnotic. It doesn’t matter if you are outgoing or shy. It doesn’t matter if you have a deep resonant voice or if you sound like Mickey Mouse. It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old. It doesn’t matter if you are charismatic or unimpressive. The power of conversational hypnosis is there for everyone to take. And all that you’ve got to do is to make that decision and commitment and then follow through.
Visit http://www.hypnodepot.com to learn conversational hypnosis.Just some of the things you will learn there are:* How to hypnotize other people* How to read body language and recognize the signs of hypnosis* videos, audios and more!
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Mind Mapping for Younger Children
by Alan Pritchard
I am often asked about the introduction of Mind Maps to younger children.
The approach will need to vary depending upon the age and maturity of the children involved but let me tell you how I teach children who I think would get bored by being told about Mind Mapping and really are only interested in doing stuff. First of all I never tell the kids that we are “Mind Mapping” or doing anything special. I tell them that we are going to learn about, for example, a farm.
I will have a huge piece of paper (at least flip chart size) and will either ask them to draw what a farm looks like or will get the kids to cut out pictures from magazines so that there is a central image of a farm.
If I don’t have any child safe scissors I usually cut out a load of pictures myself but if I can encourage the children to sort through magazines and find their own pictures, providing it is safe, I’ll let them cut them out.
I then ask them what sort of things we see on a farm. I either suggest or try to encourage them to come up with generic words like Animals, Buildings, Crops, People, Machinery etc.
These form the Key Images on the main branches because I will either ask them to draw an animal or a building etc or once again get them to cut pictures out from Magazines.
Then having captured the main branches I will go deeper into one of the topic areas for example I will ask what animals they may find on a farm and again sub branches for sheep, cows, pigs, hens etc develop and once again the children will generate these branches themselves.
Now my description of this process is somewhat linear because as you are no doubt aware, young children will just tell you everything that they can think of without following my adult-orientated logical approach.
I describe it in this way for ease of explanation but essentially what happens is that the mind map will grow and it will consist entirely of pictures structured in Mind Map form.
In fact capturing the information this way is a great way of harnessing children’s creativity and spontaneity. A more linear, topic by topic approach may stifle a child’s natural desire to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
Another good thing about doing it this way is that the children can work together in teams, one doing the “Animal” branch, another doing the “Machinery” branch etc.
If this approach is adopted when covering any topic, it will just seem natural to the children that it is the most sensible and fun way to capture information.
Then if you ask the children to tell you all about the farm (or whatever the subject is) they will “see” the Mind Map, particularly the bits that they were responsible for, and will give a very comprehensive and structured account of a farm.
If you are dealing with very young children who are just learning to read, you could label the Mind Map Images with large lettered words to help them recognise the words from the pictures.
For parents this is a great way of bonding with your child and exploring a subject together. For teachers it is a simple way of engaging young children in an activity that will help them learn and process information about a topic.
Copyright (c) 2009 Positively MAD
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Easy and powerful way to increase your intelligence
by Franz Rasch
There are claims floating in Internet blogs and elsewhere that you might increase your personal IQ by as much as 20 points by the use of image streaming (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_streaming).
We all know that there are thousands of web-sites and books peddling all kinds of methods for self-improvement and personal growth. We know because we’ve read perhaps not most of them but at least one typical specimen of each category, a (re)search quest that started over fourty years ago.
But let’s get back to the basics: what does (physiologically) constitute intelligence?
There’s but one thing that sets a more intelligent brain apart from one a little less so, its internal “wiring”:
1. the amount of connections (synapses) that relate brain cells with each other and equally important
2. the strength of these pathways
3. and how they relate with each other.
The way brain cells can interact with each other is virtually unlimited, that is to say, trying to calculate all possible combinations leaves us with a figure that’s many times higher than even the amount of atoms in the whole universe.
Then there’s also the speed with which new connections are formed, but research seems to suggest, that both human “subspecies”, those who are forming new connections rather quickly and the “neurologically slow” both have their mutually exclusive advantages in survival which is why both sets of genes are still transmitted down through the generations. We’ll discuss this topic in a forthcoming article.
Now, if the three points shown above by and large constitute the physiological basis for intelligence as it seems to be measured by standard tests, then we must only find out how these connections between cells (neurons) are increased? Well, as everyone knows, this process is simply called learning. The interesting thing is though, that learning can as much happen by interacting physically (including smelling, listening and seeing!) with your environment as well as interacting with a virtual world, like in thinking, meditation, contemplation etc.
This virtual world is for your brain cells every bit as real as the outside world, and the reason is easy to understand: that “outside” world does not exist for your brain - it is transmitted to your nerve cells via electrical impulses and it makes no real difference where these impulses are generated.
So when you vividly remember something you are training those pathways as much as if you experienced the scene physically that is now a memory! But while you can only do so much per day physically without completely exhausting yourself you can relive as many memories as you wish per day and you can create new experiences in your brain by … well, being creative! Since your subconscious mind does handle about ten million times more data over time than your conscious mind does, the most powerful method of creating an extra load of traffic on your neural pathways is to let your subconscious take over. That pretty much describes what image streaming is all about: associate freely and let flow and come forth everything that your subconscious produces. Since most of your memories are visual images, even if you are not consciously aware of it, this requires to let images flow freely, or, in other words, image streaming. And if you practice steadily and repeatedly you will eventually increase your IQ considerably as you beat new paths and create new paths (associations) between hitherto less or unconnected areas of your knowledge. And that, in essence, is intelligence.
Here are some resources that prove the point or shed more light on the subject:
Image-Streaming - Learn it here now—your most powerful mode of thinking and perceiving, by Win Wenger, Ph.D. http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm
Two GUARANTEED Ways to Profoundly Improve Your Intelligence, by Win Wenger http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/guaran4.htm
Image Streaming - A Technique Review http://futureimperative.blogspot.com/2005/03/image-streaming-technique-review-al.html
It doesn’t matter, if it’s really 20 IQ points or less, the main point is: no matter where you start from, if you practice only a few times you will notice a much richer stream of visul imagery that helps you find creative solutions and helps to keep your brain fit - which is even a good way to stave off dementia, Alzheimer’s disease etc.
On http://www.fsa-ev.de you can find more articles on learning techniques and strategies or intelligence training in both English and German.
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Death - A Life Lesson in Personal Change
by Dorothy Tannahill Moran
How would you know what the lesson is? You don’t live to tell it!? As a person focused on personal change and transition, it does strike me that this is the ultimate transition. The lesson is in the observation of the process. It’s either the pre or post death experience of those left behind or it’s the pre death experience of the expired. I choose the later because of the big lesson’s I learned from my dad’s death and from the current pre-death transition of my best friends sister.
The lesson is: Live like you’re dying. What would shift in your life, your behavior if the possibility of death loomed over you? These two beautiful people demonstrate that you make big changes real fast.
My dad was a stern, difficult and strict man when I was growing up. I feared him more than almost anything else I might have felt. Imagine that same man as, happy, curious, effusive, generous, present and introspective. That’s what happened to him the very second he was told he would die without by-pass surgery. These days by-pass surgery is almost as common place as gall bladder surgery. In those days it was brand new and this procedure represented maybe something close to the 200th such surgery in the entire US. It was a big risk with or without it. I didn’t realize he had shifted at the moment I heard this discussion but I knew it later that summer after his surgery. I knew something was amiss when I pulled up to the house and my dad was sitting on the ground looking up at the tree he was under. When I joined him, he asked me if I had ever just looked at a tree from underneath. He proceeded to explain his observations and joy in what he was experiencing. This launched a set of behaviors for the decade he had left that were simple and powerful to those he had a chance to encounter.
While my friends sister’s transition is still in process, I have been fortunate enough to hear of the various outlooks her sister has had. Many of these perspectives strike me as noble and loving both for her and her family. Instead of dwelling on something potentially sad, she has used this time to really live. As a second party observer, I see it is pulling her family together and at the same time using it to show the rest of us what to focus on. What a gift she gives us each day.
The lessons gained from their modeling behavior are:
- Life is too short to worry. Things will take care of themselves
- Make sure no day goes without kindness to others.
- Don’t go to sleep without expressing your love, gratitude and joy especially to those you love.
- Be curious. It causes learning and there are and infinite amount of cool things to know.
- Spend time being present. Absorb everything right to your pores. Enjoy exactly where you are, you can’t control what will happen tomorrow.
- If you have a dream, pursue it. Now.
- Engage strangers. Everyone has a fascinating story they really want to share.
- Laugh. At everything. It makes you feel good.
- Mend fences if they are in disrepair. It will be part of what you leave behind.
What would shift in your life if you lived like you were dying? Imagine just how great your life would be? You would hold no grudge or create any. You would be in love with everything, every minute of every day. Sure, we have to think about the rent and food but this way of living doesn’t mean an “either /or” situation. You can continue to do all the things you do today. You would simply live in a way that would be abundant and joyful. You would be contagious. You would be a living legacy.
Copyright (c) 2009 Dorothy Tannahill Moran
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Stuck In A Powerless Comfort Zone? How to Reclaim Personal Power
by Valery Satterwhite
“‘People will suffer almost anything as long as it means they don’t have to change.” ~ Deepak Chopra
Life is a series of ups and downs, twists and turns. You can approach the roller coaster of life with arms high in the air; willingly and ready for whatever comes next. Or you can grip the handlebars and fear for your life. The choice is yours. A “next” is guaranteed if you are still breathing. As such, change is inevitable and certain.
Yet so many people fear change. Even as masters of our own destiny, deliberately choosing our own paths can sometimes be intimidating. Everyone has the ability to create positive changes in their lives, yet distorted fear-based perceptions often lead to the treadmill of a stuck-in-a-rut comfort zone of existence. Many people believe that they are inadequate or incapable of handling a new situation. New situations, entering into new zones of being are, therefore, are scary. Even if a person doesn’t particularly like their comfort zone, like an old worn-out baby “bankie”, it feels safe.
When a strong self-worth is in place, change is seen as a welcomed opportunity for growth and personal fulfillment. Enthusiastic creative energy is activated instead of debilitating fear. The person with a growth mindset eagerly reaches for a continuous flow of new positive experiences, while the person with a fixed, fear of change, mindset will dig-in and stay put in current patterns of behavior that generate more of the same stuck-in-a-rut experiences. Fear of change is the work of your Inner Critic, the voice of your fear and self-doubt.
There is a way to tell if you’re resistant to change; dragging the reluctant along as you go about your life. You have an inner guidance system that I playfully call your Inner Wizard. This is the voice of your intuition and inspiration. As your Muse it serves up emotion to tell you if you’re resisting or embracing change. If you feel uncomfortable, lethargic, anxious or more extreme feelings of desperation and depression your Inner Wizard is telling you that you are holding on to a comfort zone that is not working for you even if you feel safe within it.
If you are willing and available for growth and change you feel good. You great each day with renewed energy and wonderment. It’s that simple. If you feel tired and unfulfilled then you have given your power to make positive changes over to your Inner Critic who is unyielding to any sort of change beyond where it feels safe. If you have given up your power, then you are powerless to change your circumstance - until you reclaim your power.
To reclaim your personal power, examine your comfort zone. There is power in writing down your examination discoveries in a journal. The writing process takes moves the flying monkey-mind thoughts of the Inner Critic and puts them onto a page where you can look and examine how you make choices, what criteria you base your actions that deliver the existence you are experiencing.
What, specifically, are you afraid of? What stops you from moving forward in the direction of your dreams? Fear of change begins to lose its power upon this initial examination. As you dig deep into the underlying thoughts and believes that generate your fear, their power to limit you begins to diminish. Deliberately look for evidence that contradicts those thoughts and beliefs.
For example, ask yourself, - What’s the worse that could happen? - What would happen if the worst happened? - How realistic is that? - How can I know, absolutely, that the worst will happen? - What positive experiences could come out of the change? - Can I point to any positive examples of people doing those things, living that experience, now? - How realistic is the positive possibility? - If other people have done it, why not me? (check for and examine further Inner Critic self-doubt on this one) - Who would I be, what would I do and what would I have if I had a positive change outcome? - What is one thing, one simple thing, I can do in this moment to move forward positively into a new and better comfort zone?
Then do that one thing. And the next.
Before long, you’ll realize that what you feared was a misguided belief, not a truth. You are stronger and more capable than you gave yourself credit for. No longer enslaved by your Inner Critic, you have regained your personal power and a healthy sense of self-worth.
Pay attention to your emotions as you continue to move forward. Trust in yourself and the creative process of life. Tap into your inner wisdom, your intuition, your Muse, and the Wizard within for guidance and support. You will always be safe.
Copyright (c) 2009 Valery Satterwhite
Valery Satterwhite is an Artist Mentor who specializes in empowering people to create more profoundly, more prolifically, and more profitably. Learn how to trust your intuition, acknowledge your truth, and disarm your fear and self-doubt. Valery developed a proven unique “Inner Wizard” methodology to empower the Wizard Within to actualize and express full potential. Join now at http://www.InnerWizard.com . Get Free “Inner Wizard tips” too!
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