Learn Hypnosis: The Everyday Key to Effective Communication
Today's newsletter is about hypnosis. But rather than give you a bunch of tips on how to "do" hypnosis, I'm going to share a perspective on what hypnosis "is", which is far more valuable. The tips can be filled in later. The perspective can change your life.
To be upfront, let me give you the headline: hypnosis is a tool for bending reality.
Let's be even more mystical, hypnosis is a tool for becoming deeply yourself. Which means deeply satisfied, fulfilled, and living a life you love.
Aleister Crowley would have said hypnosis is magick, which to him meant creating change in accordance with your Will. I wouldn't disagree.
Right now, I'm under the magickal Will of my 15-year old daughter, Brooke. She told me she wants me to teach her hypnosis. Here we are.
Anything is possible
When it comes to hypnosis the first rule is: anything is possible.
Let's take a full beat to consider that one.
Anything is possible is an attitude. An angle of approach to life and reality. In the lingo du jour, it's a mindset.
Operationally, it's a mindset I encourage you adopt to guide your actions and thinking both long-term and short. And by short, I mean in every interaction, all the time, always.
With your Mom. With your lover. With your best friend. With that as*hole at work. With Universe. Always, in every context: anything is possible.
As Robert Anton Wilson points out, “an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
When paired with Crowley's dictum of creating change in accordance with your Will, you've got a powerful platform for creating...well, anything.
The alchemists of old focused their attention on turning lead into gold.
You can put your attention on more practical stuff. Or just stuff that's more interesting to you. Again, the sky's the limit - anything is possible. And what matters most is what you want to create.
Which brings me to my next point.
What do you want to get out of hypnosis?
Traditionally, people use hypnosis for personal transformation, helping and healing others, behavior change, improved communication, turning people into chickens on stage, sales, persuasion.
All that stuff is possible. I once kept a guy at the edge of orgasm for 15 minutes in front of a room full of people (with hypnosis, geez). I've cured phobias, updated beliefs, regressed people into their past lives, installed memories, changed people's behaviors, and created immediate new habits. But the most important thing I use hypnosis for is bringing people back to the essence of themselves. That's the real magick.
What a spell to be able to cast.
So I want you to open your mind on this one. Hypnosis is an old-timey word that doesn't nearly convey the vast power its practitioner will possess. I invite you to consider hypnosis as the super-sized version of effective communication. As in, you are able to communicate anything with anyone effectively to get just about any result.
To me, the best result is to elicit the best in yourself and others. And to become totally aligned with...totally transparent to... the greater system in which you are enmeshed.
So, when you're choosing what you want out of hypnosis, my first suggestion is to cast this spell: become completely singular from essence to action, and to be able to create any outcome with anyone.
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Then, choose to instinctively know what outcomes are most deeply supportive of you and the person you're communicating with.
To reiterate:
Those skills are vast. They include:
...and so much more.
The lands hypnosis can help you navigate are equally vast. There are specific, traditional hypnotic levels:
But there are also all the lands people are beginning to explore in our new age of the brain...with THC, psychedelics, ketamine, neurofeedback. And all of them can be more readily accessed and navigated when hypnosis is your friend.
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For today, I want to leave you with one practical assignment.
There are two main types of hypnosis: direct and conversational. The former is useful for gaining an understanding of what's possible, for wrapping your mind around the powerful algorithm of hypnotic communication. The latter is the best, because it applies to every conversation, everywhere, with everyone all the time.
To get started with that, I want you to consider the most true thing I've learned.
Every sentence, every word every person speaks is hypnotic. It's how they program themselves. And it reveals their map of reality, their models of the world, and the programs they are running at any given moment.
Begin listening to what people say and how they say it.
Notice the programs they are running.
Notice the programs you're running.
It's been in front of you all along.
Pay attention.
If you'd like me to go deeper into the skills of how to develop your hypnotic abilities, let me know. If not, I'm sure Brooke would prefer the TikTok version of learning hypnosis anyway.
Creator of The Next Generation Philosophical-Scientific Framework
11 个月Hypnosis is a good way to restore one's own free will and the related cognition capability. It is useful when one has difficulty in understanding something.
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12 个月Hypnosis gets considered by many as pseudoscience, but it's really not the case. It's behavioral aspect is well understood, just not the mechanics off consciousness (generally). I've never tried it but have always been curious in terms of the wide variation in susceptibility from person to person, and if that's innate or in someway trainable. It's a very intriguing point you make Devon White on it's potential role for psychedelics. In some cases the biggest barrier to therapeutic interventions is the fear of going through emotional trauma (though in other cases that is actually the point). So if hypnosis can curb run away fears, and it aid physical relaxation, it could help overcome one of the biggest hurdles.
Spoken in 112 schools, to over 20,000 students; raising future champions, and resilient leaders. 2x English Kickboxing Champion, Blackbelt, International Keynote Speaker. Dream BIG, start small, NEVER GIVE UP!
12 个月'Hypnosis is an old-timey word' - the perceptions around what hypnosis actually is are interesting! I love how you have described it Devon White