The power of suggestion is everywhere. It's almost a part of human nature. For example, take a class of students.
They're going over the answers to their tests with the teacher.
The calls on one student, "Tom, what's the answer to #3?" and Tom replies, "A". So, then maybe the teacher turns to another student and asks the same question to Jim, and lets say Jim thinks the answer was "B" , however Jim gives the same answer "A" because Tom did.
And I'm sure you know this is called...peer pressure.
The statistics say that something like 65% of us will give the wrong answer just because we heard someone else say it, even if we know it's the wrong answer.
Another great example of the power of suggestion is the placebo effect.
Why it works is still being validated by scientists as you are reading this. There are now ground breaking studies giving more and more reliability to these dynamic potentials of the human mind.
Many hypnotherapists have known this and used it to help people for years; it has just taken the academics a while to fund and conduct measurable experiments to prove these concepts.
The overall conclusion is that there is no longer any considerable power in suggestion.
Now, just like the blue elephant example on the
home page
you can use the power of suggestion to literally change your life.
I know that might sound ridiculous, but hear me out...
If you say to yourself, "don't smoke". Your subconscious mind hears "smoke".
So, you have to restructure that suggestion to say something like "breathe oxygen", and if you are always wanting to breathe oxygen, the chances are you won't want to smoke.
Of course, there are a lot of
other factors to it
, but this is about suggestion.
So, why don't you just try it yourself? Click the play button and experience how powerful suggestion really is, first hand...
This is just an example of what hypnosis does, how suggestion is used in hypnosis, and how your mind works with it.