Chapter 69 Chapter 16 Entering the back garden of the soul

with the help of a hypnotist Into the back garden of the mind Among all psychological phenomena, the magical power produced by hypnosis can almost be said to be the most confusing.The reason why people are human is that they have a strong individual consciousness and are not easily controlled by the simple words of others.But in hypnotism, people suddenly find that their self-proud individual consciousness easily surrenders to the simple suggestion of others.It's like the beautiful looking computer at home, there is an obvious loophole behind the normal operation, someone puts malicious virus software into your computer, and the virus gets into you through that loophole In the end, your computer system confuses normal instructions with virus instructions, and finally, your normal instructions are out of control.

The hypnotic instructions are like the virus instructions, which get in through the loopholes in your individual consciousness, and then make your individual consciousness unable to distinguish which is your own instruction and which is the instruction of others, or is more willing to obey the instructions of others, Because other people's instructions sound more reasonable.Our human brain, like computers, is an open system, so there must be many loopholes.In fact, there is no pure individual consciousness at all, and most of our actions are the result of cooperation between individual consciousness and external forces.

If external forces are not maliciously interfering, then individual consciousness is more focused on its own judgment.If external forces interfere maliciously, like computer viruses, then individual consciousness will inevitably be polluted by external forces when making judgments.If an individual is surrounded by a group of people for a certain period of time, and the thoughts of that group of people are completely different, gradually you can see the tendency of individual consciousness being eroded by group consciousness. I said such a paragraph at the beginning of this chapter to remind everyone that the magical performance of the hypnotist you saw is actually being staged every day in your life.And you are the one who has been driven into a daze by the society, and you still think you are sober, and you think you can take responsibility for the judgments you make.

But having said that, the word loophole I use here is actually a bit negative.Hypnotists like to call the characteristic of being hypnotized easily "talent".In the crowd, 25% of people are very easy to be hypnotized, and naturally, another 25% of people are not easy to be hypnotized, and most people have a certain degree of response to hypnosis. Since I said that being easy to be hypnotized is a kind of talent, I also said above that it is a kind of psychological loophole. Is this good or bad?In my doctoral dissertation "Research on Hypnotic Susceptibility", I conducted a systematic study on this issue, and concluded that hypnotic susceptibility is almost an independent personality trait, and has no obvious relationship with gender, intelligence, and willpower. But it's somewhat related to people who are lively and extroverted.I also found that hypnotic susceptibility and qigong sensitivity are also related to a certain extent. Below I will pass on my hypnotic experience to you.

What is hypnosis? Hypnotism is the ability to control the mind.The mind here is a vague concept, including the conscious level and the subconscious level.Hypnosis affects the conscious mind primarily through the subconscious, which is invisible, or at least unnoticed. The so-called human consciousness refers to the range of consciousness that a person can pay attention to at each moment.For example, if you are walking and your eyes are looking straight ahead, all you can be aware of is mostly what you can notice.Under normal circumstances, your attention is on the road ahead of you, you see streets, shops and pedestrians, and your moment-to-moment judgment is awake.If you see an acquaintance, you greet him immediately.In a word, you know what you're doing.

But there is another situation where you are walking and you are thinking about one thing, and you are so absorbed in thinking about it that you no longer pay close attention to the situation on the road ahead.As a result, your walking is like sleepwalking. When you get home, you suddenly realize that you just floated back like a wandering spirit.You're thinking about your business, but your body seems to be in charge of another.In fact, when you think about your business, your body's subconscious takes over your body, and the relationship between your subconscious and your body is a mechanical relationship.The subconscious mind does not make judgments all the time like the conscious mind. The subconscious mind just accepts instructions and then executes that instruction mechanically.

Hypnosis is to focus the other party's consciousness on a certain thing, and then quietly take over the other party's subconscious.The relationship between subconsciousness and behavior is very simple and direct. If the consciousness of expertise and judgment is diverted, then once the subconscious mind is taken over, the individual's reaction will be simple and direct. Therefore, the core of hypnotic power is to draw away the power of the opponent's consciousness and take over the opponent's subconscious.Consciousness is connected with cognitive judgment, while subconsciousness is connected with bodily instinct.Hypnotic power requires that consciousness cannot be terminated, only drawn away.If consciousness is terminated (for example, when you enter a sleep state, the conscious mind stops working, and only the subconscious is working, that is dreaming), then it is not hypnosis, but sleep.Many people don't understand the difference between the hypnotic state and the sleeping state, and think they are the same. In fact, there is an essential difference between the two states, that is: during hypnosis, the consciousness is awake, but is drawn away; while during sleep, the consciousness is Unconscious is in a state of rest.

It is not an easy task to draw the other party's conscious attention away from the other party's own body.When a man sees a sexy beauty on the street, his attention is likely to be attracted by the beauty at once.And even if the beautiful woman doesn't know the technique of hypnosis, she can use this attraction to hook the man's consciousness, and then make financial demands on the man.That man will often willingly pay incredible fortunes to win a smile.One day, when he broke up with that beautiful woman suddenly, that man would feel like a dream. The hypnotist hints through words, and the beautiful woman through her sexy beauty, both can effectively control each other.Words activate the other party's consciousness, and beauty activates the other party's instinct.How a man responds to a beautiful woman is programmed in his genes.Beauty is a physical stimulus that directly acts on the subconscious of the other party.If this beauty is good with words, the amount of control she can develop is amazing.

Therefore, the most ideal hypnotic power is the dual influence of the combination of conscious speech function and subconscious physiological function.A superb hypnotist must be a master of language and an expert who is familiar with human physiology. It is the appearance technique of hypnosis to exert physiological influence on the hypnotized person through gestures, postures and moderate massage techniques.The most curious thing is whether a hypnotist can emit some kind of energy to exert an influence on the hypnotized like a qigong master, which involves the exploration of the most mysterious hypnotic power of ideas in hypnology.

In the 1990s when qigong was popular, the vast majority of qigong enthusiasts believed that qigong masters could send out qigong, that is, emit inner energy to the other party, thereby affecting the other party's physiological condition.But since Sima Nan, the anti-counterfeit qigong master made his debut, none of the qigong masters who boasted all over the sky can beat Sima Nan.Up to now, reports about qigong masters' exercises have almost disappeared. Sima Nan believed that the astonishing effects produced by qigong masters' gong reports were all caused by the hypnotic effect.Interestingly, when Sima Nan was in Shanghai, he became friends with my elder brother, Dr. Sun Shijin.Dr. Sun Shijin and I were under the tutelage of Professor Zeng Xingchu. He and Dr. Ji Liu, another student of Professor Zeng Xingchu, were the first to conduct hypnosis research.After I entered the teacher's school, I also had a special interest in hypnosis. My doctoral thesis was "Research on Hypnotic Susceptibility".

Sima Nan went to Shanghai to fight false qigong. When talking about hypnosis, Sun Shijin asked him if he had ever received hypnosis. Sima Nan said no, but he was interested in giving it a try.So, Sun Shijin hypnotized Sima Nan.As a result, Sima Nan at least entered a light hypnotic state.After the hypnosis ended, Sun Shijin asked Sima Nan how he felt?Sima Nan thought that he was very conscious and did not enter a hypnotic state at all.But Sun Shijin believed that Sima Nan had indeed entered a hypnotic state. I was not there at the time, so I couldn't know the truth. Sima Nan attributed all the miraculous phenomena of qigong to hypnosis, but he thought that hypnosis didn't work for him. Of course his feeling was very good.But Sima Nan may not know that there is something like Qigong in the self-hypnosis training of the most famous hypnotist in the American hypnosis circle.Many American hypnotists believe that when hypnotizing, the hypnotist can use the energy emitted by the hypnotist's body to influence the hypnotized person (for example, Ormond McGill, who is known as the grandfather of American hypnotists) I firmly believe that the hypnotist's body energy plays a role in hypnosis).Therefore, it can be said that the subconscious physiological function includes the hypnotized person's instinctive response to external stimuli and the hypnotic energy of the hypnotist. In the United States, those hypnotists (mostly psychologists) who emphasize scientific views do not pay attention to the hypnotic energy of the hypnotist.But those stage hypnotists who emphasize performance effects, almost all emphasize the hypnotist's energy training.Regarding the energy training of hypnotists, this is a mysterious field, which was overly deified by Chinese qigong masters in the past.But Sima Nan went to another extreme, completely denying the hypnotist's energy effect.In fact, although modern science has done a lot of research on the human body, there are still many mysterious phenomena in the human body that cannot be explained by simple theories.