What if your thoughts and actions were not under your grasp? What if someone else were to drive you? Sounds spooky, doesn’t it? Well there is nothing spooky about it, it’s just hypnosis. The curiosity that drives us towards knowing more about it arises from the same idea of control that have been spoken about in the first two lines.
The control of thoughts and actions of others falls under the study of subliminal hypnosis. Subliminal actually is derived from the Latin word “Limen” which means threshold or Limit. Therefore, subliminal means a state of awareness, which just lies below the level of consciousness. While under the subliminal hypnosis stage, a person conscious mind is not able of anything. The part of the mind, which is active, is the sub conscious mind. Thus, we talk about “awakening” the subliminal within us.
At first the subconscious is targeted, you are brought into a trance i.e. a state in between consciousness and sub-consciousness. Then a message is instilled by the hypnotist which will get imprinted onto your subconscious. The information will be there without your knowledge and will be acted upon only with the help of certain precise commands or signals. This is where the problem lies since the hypnotist may input unwanted commands which may not be favorable to you.
A major problem associated with this approach is that the human mind sometimes will go into the subliminal stage automatically. An example of when this can happen is when despite being in a noisy crowd, we can block all the distracting noises around us and isolate and just focus on a single sound. This ability to just totally ignore all the external stimuli and just focus on a single point is an example of the subliminal mind taking over.
Subliminal hypnosis has always been an area of great interest to the commercial world. The potential benefits that can be reaped by these corporations are indescribable. Imagine a situation where through advertisements, these marketing companies can actually persuade the consumers to mould their buying habits to suit these companies? In fact, these companies to plant subliminal messages into the print and broadcast media are spending huge sums of monies.
The surest way of combating these attempts by anyone is learning more about them. This process of learning will be of much help since then no one will be able to exploit or harm you and also you can try out the therapeutic value of it to your hearts content. Also learning and knowing more about it will help you overcome the fear factor and thus get you better equipped to stand against any such attack on your person.
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