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Okay, about the video - lol. I don't see how learning magic tricks helps you improve anything. About those steel bars - she stole some Shaolin monk tricks. That shattering arrow almost got in eye of that girl. The boards prove a lot also about karate bullshit. If you train a year and then some fat lady does it with the first try. About the moment, where she said - germs shouldn't create diseases and the cancer things, well, got to admit - theoretically it's possible. Again let's look at the kid who cured cancer with self-hypnosis. There was a Discovery channel program on this. I believe that brain is a very powerful tool by using which you can program it to make changes to your body in certain limits of course.

I have a simple advice to happiness - don't let shit influence your feelings, live in the moment. Hmm...actually I need some money right now, I need to write a book on this topic, no - I will write 1 book and split it in 5 so I get more money.

>> ^Crosswords:
I think the bullshit part of these self help seminars isn't the notion that people are unable to help themselves, or through attitude or behavioral changes make significant positive adjustments to their lives. I think the bullshit is the notion they're trying to pass off that you can do anything if you put your mind to it!


Well, it is truth actually. You can do practically anything if you have the motivational power and don't give up. Of course it excludes impossible things as flying, becoming a world champion at boxing at age 44 or becoming a model if you are ugly looking. However, if you have realistic goals, for example, build a condo, buy a lamborgini or become very professional at something you are just good at. With huge effort+willpower+mind state+self hypnosis you can attain any almost any goal you want. The problem is - a lot of people can't motivate themselves, they don't have enough willpower, they give up easely and then they deside they have to pay for this simple information you can find practically anywhere.

BTW - That self hypnosis thing is not bullshit, I've tried it and it works. You can somehow hack your subcosncious mind to be in the positive state and it will come out and you will be another person. I didn't pay for it tho' (read: torrent shop).

Your Google-fu is weak, Daughter of the Ox.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Hypnosis-prank
*discard

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In reply to this comment by Trancecoach:
Thing is, yes, you can't make anyone do something that's against their moral fiber, with hypnosis. However, one can use hypnosis and other behavior modification techniques to change the way a person thinks about their so-called moral fiber and pretty much get them to do anything you want them to. It just takes more time and work and it's not all that conducive to the kind of thing that takes place in a hypnotherapist's office (or on a television show, for that matter). Still, worthy of an upvote, even tho it's "busted."


The second segment is actually much more surprising to me. I kinda figured this part would turn out how it did since I've heard that was how it would work, but the other one was something new to me. Link, this one never got sifted for some reason....

>> ^Trancecoach:
Thing is, yes, you can't make anyone do something that's against their moral fiber, with hypnosis. However, one can use hypnosis and other behavior modification techniques to change the way a person thinks about their so-called moral fiber and pretty much get them to do anything you want them to. It just takes more time and work and it's not all that conducive to the kind of thing that takes place in a hypnotherapist's office (or on a television show, for that matter). Still, worthy of an upvote, even tho it's "busted."


The second segment is actually much more surprising to me. I kinda figured this part would turn out how it did since I've heard that was how it would work, but the other one was something new to me. Link in description.

Thing is, yes, you can't make anyone do something that's against their moral fiber, with hypnosis. However, one can use hypnosis and other behavior modification techniques to change the way a person thinks about their so-called moral fiber and pretty much get them to do anything you want them to. It just takes more time and work and it's not all that conducive to the kind of thing that takes place in a hypnotherapist's office (or on a television show, for that matter). Still, worthy of an upvote, even tho it's "busted."

I have been studying hypnosis for a little while now. Here's techniques I noticed in the video:
ambiguity, embedded commands, binds, double binds, confusion, quotes, presuppositions, frame control, negated statement (not really sure how else to describe it. i.e. I could say you're a d!ck head but I'm not going to. say you're a d!ck head. that would be wrong. to call you a d!ck head I mean.)

Are they really using hypnosis? *shrug* They're missing a vital part anyway, and it's something I've noticed about most scientologists. So I'm not worried.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I still don't get how people think that joining Scientology is a good idea.


They use general semantics and hypnosis on the premise of "self-improvement" or "stress relief." The more progress you make, the more encouragement / discipline you receive as feedback so to keep you motivated towards achieving "the bridge" to your "success" rather than become a quitter.

Oh yes, Scientology is a dangerous cult founded by a psychotic science fiction writer based on psychoanalysis (Freud), hypnosis (Erickson), general semantics (Korzybski), and ritual magick (Crowley). Since his death, the bogus "system" has since been sifted into marketing tools as a sort of pyramid scheme of insane brainwashing programs. If but its members could break trance long enough to realize how self-deluded they are to see, thanks to this video, the extent to which All Scientologists have blood on their hands (even Tom Cruise, despite the fact that TCLTC).

no longer working... [Edit: Got it to work in this window: http://media.putfile.com/Scientology-Awards-Show-Video---Tom-Cruise?utm_source=embed2&utm_medium=embed ]

BTW, this is program uses hypnosis, pure and simple.

It's also remarkable how they've apparently edited out those parts where Cruise jabbers incomprehensively. They only left in the parts that .. ehm.. make a bit of sense. Makes ya wonder, don't it?

I've actually seen similar effects induced with hypnosis. Lots of fun stuff.

It's gotten to the point where I write off as insane anyone who professes a sincere belief in god. "Self hypnosis" is damn right. "Self importance" is another big aspect of it. Religious people hold themselves up as humble, while carrying on in the most hubristic, self-serving ways.

The thing that really bugs be about today's casual christians is most of them use their religion as an excuse to go around acting like total shitheads in certain cases. "God will forgive me for any sin, so it's okay to lie, cheat, and steal so long as I'm not killing anyone."

O.O

They should make one about how repeated exposure to conspiracy theories weakens our brains and makes us more susceptible to corporate propaganda, consumer hypnosis, and Jonestown-style massacres.

Unless of course you buy our new and improved "Aluminum Brain Wave Defender Mark 2".