Why It’s Important to Recognize Hypnosis Signals Accurately
September 10, 2009
Signals and signs you can find everywhere around you. In some cases the signals are given by objects and in others by people. When we should eat, sleep or cross the street, these are all signals that we receive.
Some signals we don’t acknowledge as easily, and they are needs, flirting or people’s feelings. People fall in trances each day and they don’t realize it. In most cases the signals of the trance aren’t recognized by the people experiencing them.
When hypnosis begins, it is very important that you understand how to recognize the signals.
Try to see the world as simple and plain as it is. In most cases, people will see it as they wish it was. Understanding how the real world works will help you open your mind. Humans generally filter out what they don’t want to see, so you should do some things to be able to see them as they are.
First of all, understand the real world that is out there, while keeping it factual and true.
The second one would be to understand the signals and recognize them. These signals will come when you’re successful, so look for them.
Once you have opened your mind and you’re able to do the two things I mentioned above, your accurate signal recognition can be tuned even more.
A great psychiatrist that lived in the beginning of the 20th century was Milton Erickson, which was great at recognizing signals accurately. His main specializations were family therapy and medical hypnosis. Just like a lot of hypnotists do today, he thought that the conscious and unconscious were separated completely. He also believed that the unconscious mind has its own interests, awareness, learning abilities and responses.
He was very precise in recognizing signals and could tell someone details about themselves even if they only found them out a few seconds earlier. This signal recognition sense was used by him to notice things that others couldn’t.
For example, he could tell when a woman was pregnant even if the pregnancy was only a few weeks old, just by looking at her hairline movement or the tilt of the hips. There are small changes in these things when a woman is pregnant.
While any other doctor wouldn’t have spotted the signals, he could easily do it. One example was of a woman that visited him and he could tell almost immediately that she used to be a man, just by looking at her. He realized it by seeing that she still moved like a man, not being accustomed with her new breasts.
