Suggestion: methods and techniques

Suggestion is an impact on the human psyche that bypasses consciousness and consists of communicative (verbal and emotional) influence without understanding and critically evaluating the information received.

In this way, it is possible to introduce into a person's psyche thoughts, ideas, beliefs, emotions, feelings that are alien to him, which will not be subject to logical analysis on his part. During the suggestion, there is a "blind" assimilation of the offered information, according to which the client will subsequently think, feel and act.

Suggestion is used to change a person's undesirable behavior - to remove unnecessary actions or to instill necessary ones. Suggestion is also used to change a person's thinking, to persuade him to use new attitudes and beliefs. Suggestion techniques are also often used to spread rumors and useful information.

In order for a suggestion to have an impact, it must be repeated. It is possible that the result of the suggestion will not be achieved initially, but it will definitely be realized later. In addition, the consequences of the suggestion may not appear immediately after the impact, but will become noticeable after a certain time.

The tools of suggestion are words, voice (its timbre, intonation, tempo of speech, etc.), and look.

Suggestion can influence all people, without exception. But there are individuals who are particularly susceptible to the influence of suggestion - such people are called suggestible.

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Thought suggestion

Thought suggestion is an influence during which a person changes his own attitudes, convictions, intellectual attitude towards some event, action or object. Thought suggestion also includes the acquisition of new attitudes by a person, for example, the emergence of desires and aspirations that he did not have before.

In order for the suggestion of thoughts to always have a positive result, it is necessary to follow some rules:

• The object of suggestion must be in a state in which critical thinking and logical processing of information are disabled. This can happen in a light trance, under the influence of hypnosis and alcohol.
• The person who exerts influence must sincerely believe in what he is suggesting to his protégé. If this does not happen, the result of the suggestion will be questionable.
• You must not feel dissatisfied with yourself and your actions during a suggestion session. Otherwise, the result will not be achieved.
• It is necessary to fulfill all the promises that were given to the person being suggested, otherwise the result of the suggestion will be nullified.
• You need to constantly train and improve your skills, as this affects the quality of the result you get.

Suggestion and persuasion

Suggestion and persuasion are ways of influencing the human psyche.

Persuasion is one of the types of targeted psychological influence, which is carried out by means of arguments. Persuasion operates with human consciousness. Therefore, it is important to use argumentation to explain the essence of a phenomenon, cause-and-effect relationships and relationships in the course of it, the essence of a phenomenon is explained, the significance of any issue is explained.

The means of persuasion include showing, telling and justifying (argumentation). Therefore, persuasion can be done not only with words, but also by action, personal example of behavior. The effect of suggestion is possible, which is based on opposition, which, for example, causes the object of persuasion to want to try something that is considered inaccessible to him.

Persuasion influences human behavior, but not directly. Because it is an internal motivation or compulsion to act through an appeal to human reason.

The strength and quality of persuasion are influenced by the following factors:

1. Prejudice. In this case, the main work is done with the formulation of the problem itself and the solution that the client already has. The manipulator needs to change with his message those attitudes that the object of persuasion believes in.
2. Trust in the source. It is very important to inspire trust with your appearance and behavior, to inspire sympathy and to look authoritative.
3. Message. The message itself must appear convincing. For this, not only arguments are used, but also vivid images, designed to focus the audience's attention on the accent of the problem that the manipulator needs.
4. Emotions. Despite the fact that persuasion appeals to people's reason, it is impossible to bypass emotions in this impact on a person. For example, messages that "touch the soul" of the client have a much greater impact on him than dry arguments and facts.

The difference between persuasion and suggestion is that suggestion appeals to the subconscious, bypassing the conscious aspect of information control. And persuasion affects the human consciousness, in which it is very important to critically comprehend the information received, correlate it with previous experience and build logical chains. Although persuasion has an emotional component, suggestion operates only with human emotions and other subconscious factors, when persuasion appeals specifically to the human mind.

Methods of suggestion

Experts identify the following methods of suggestion:

1. Suggestion during the client's waking state, when he is in an active state of consciousness.
2. Suggestion during relaxation, when psychological and muscular relaxation occurs.
3. Suggestion through hypnosis, when the client enters a highly altered psychophysiological state.

There is also another classification of suggestion methods:

1. Verbal suggestion, in which the influence is carried out with the help of speech, is verbal.
2. Mental suggestion that is carried out without direct contact with the client, over a great distance.
3. Metaphysical suggestion, which is a combination of a conversation about the reality of the human "I" and the unity of the Universe with a mental process of suggestion. This method is used for physical and mental healing of the client.
4. A spiritual influence that is used for physical, mental and spiritual healing of a person. The healer is in the flow of healing forces of the Universe, which he directs to the client. The healing process involves the superconscious, which has good contact with the subconscious of a person and helps to heal from illnesses, as well as bring the psyche into a state of harmony.

There are also three forms of suggestion:

1. Strong persuasion.
2. Pressure.
3. Emotional-volitional impact.

Indirect suggestions

Indirect suggestions are a type of influence on a person, in which he has a choice: to accept or reject the suggestion. This type of suggestion is necessary in order to direct the client's behavior, emotions or thoughts in the direction he avoids.

Indirect suggestions are divided into several subtypes:

1. The sequence of acceptance, in which the suggester lists statements with which the client agrees. And at the end, he pronounces the attitude that the person needs to accept.
2. An implication in which the suggester affirmatively states what may happen, and the client prepares himself in advance for the predicted outcome.
3. Double bind is a frequently used technique in which the client is offered a choice between two similar options.
4. Suggestion by absence of mention, in which the suggester lists a list of possible situations, omitting a significant event. The client's attention is subsequently drawn to it, and as a result, the person focuses his consciousness on this factor.

Hypnotic suggestion

Hypnotic suggestion is a type of influence on a person that requires the client to be immersed in an altered state called hypnosis. During a suggestion session, the client is immersed in a hypnotic sleep with the help of a suggester. In this state, the subject actively reacts to what the hypnotist says. At the same time, there is no critical understanding of the information, and the commands go straight to the subconscious, bypassing conscious analysis and understanding. And then they influence the behavior and health of a person, his psycho-emotional state.

Methods of hypnotic suggestion are divided into:

1. Mechanical, during which the client is influenced by objects and phenomena that have a monotonous nature (light, sound, etc.).
2. Mental, when verbal influence is used.
3. Magnetic, based on the use of therapeutic magnetism.

It is believed that the greatest effect is achieved by combining the mental and magnetic approaches.

Psychological suggestion

Due to the fact that there is everyday suggestion, it is necessary to specifically highlight psychological suggestion. This is a form of suggestion, in which a special psychological influence of one person (suggestor) on another person (suggerent) is carried out. The above-mentioned influence is carried out through verbal and non-verbal communication. In this case, the quality of the suggestor's arguments is low, and the criticality of the suggester's thinking is at a low level.

The suggester is imbued with the suggestor's arguments as if they were his own, often without requiring any evidence of the statements being made. In such cases, the suggester is influenced not so much by the source, content and form of the suggestion, but by the personality of the suggester, who inspires unquestioning trust in the client.

Suggestible attitudes, laid in the suggestor by the suggestor, become an integral part of the client's personality. And later the person who has been influenced by the suggestion changes his behavior in accordance with the received attitudes.

Mental suggestion

Mental suggestion is carried out when the object of influence is not within the suggester's reach. Such influence is considered absentee. Mental suggestion is carried out in the following way - you need to imagine that the recipient of the influence is next to the person carrying out the suggestion. You can imagine the client at a distance, but it is important to see him nearby. Then you need to imagine that thoughts leave the suggester and reach the brain and consciousness of the person being suggested. It is also possible for the person carrying out the suggestion to imagine that he and his client are having a conversation.

One of the main conditions for this method is the ability of the suggester to imagine the desired state of the client. When transmitting thoughts over a distance, not much energy is spent. You just need to imagine that thoughts are moving from the suggester to the person being suggested.

Mental suggestion has several stages:

1. Tracking and tuning into the object of suggestion.
2. Focusing on an object and forming contact.
3. Suggestion of necessary information.

Suggestion at a distance

Suggestion at a distance is an ability that not every person has. Most people are sure that their thoughts and desires are completely independent. However, there is such a phenomenon as suggestion at a distance, which is capable of changing people's beliefs and behavior. This phenomenon is associated with telepathy and hypnosis. Classical hypnosis methods require direct contact with the client. However, hypnotic telepathy is possible without visual contact with the suggestor or even the presence of the object of suggestion.

Suggestion at a distance occurs through the transmission of impulses emanating from the cerebral cortex of the person performing the influence. The receiver of the signals does not even suspect that he has involuntarily become a receiver of someone else's thoughts. Therefore, the person perceives the thoughts and feelings that arise in himself as his own.

It has long been known that the human brain is like a kind of "radio receiver" that can both receive and emit various impulses. Under certain circumstances, the brain begins to perceive other people's thoughts at a distance, as well as transmit its own to people.

Suggestion technique

The basic technique of suggestion includes the following stages:

1. Establish contact (rapport) with the client and form subconscious trust. For this, the mechanism of verbal and non-verbal adjustment (implicit imitation) is used. Verbal adjustment occurs through agreement with the statements of the object of influence. Non-verbal adjustment uses the rate of speech, intonation and timbre of the client's voice; postures and gestures; the rhythm of breathing and pauses in speech, etc.
2. Leading the client into a light trance with the aim of reducing the activity of consciousness. This is done with the help of:
   • fixation of the client's attention on some external object, manipulation of objects;
   • drawing attention to some part of the body of the person being suggested and concentrating on the sensations in it;
   • holding the attention of the object of suggestion on some experience or emotion.
3. Consciousness activity also decreases in situations of mild shock, surprise, confusion, and overload with excess information.
4. Launching an unconscious search for analogies in the client’s subconscious is carried out with the help of metaphors, questions, and stories told by the suggester.
5. Direct suggestion. At this stage, the suggester uses the introduction of commands into the subconscious of the object of influence.

The mechanism of suggestion

In order for suggestion to achieve results, it is necessary to influence the person's subconscious. To do this, conscious processes responsible for critical understanding of information and logical analysis of the received data are switched off in various ways. And the emotional component of a person's personality, on the contrary, becomes actively involved in the process of suggestion.

The subconscious accepts as truth any command that is repeated many times, and in a convincing form. The suggested attitude penetrates the subconscious and remains there forever, even if the object of influence has forgotten about the act of suggestion itself. Over a certain period of time, a change occurs in the client's condition and behavior, in accordance with the commands received.

Neurophysiologists explain the mechanism of suggestion as follows. With the help of speech, the suggestor influences the client's cerebral cortex, thereby irritating it. The suggestor's orders cause certain emotions that arise due to the stimulation of the subcortical areas of the brain. Negative induction, which appears due to the low resistance of consciousness, is transmitted throughout the cerebral cortex. Therefore, the command becomes limited from all other influences and the client obeys the suggestion. A new dominant of excitation arises in the cerebral cortex, which is quite stable and strongly influences the client's further behavior.

Suggestion and hypnosis

Hypnosis is a special altered state of human psychophysiology, which is caused for the purpose of suggestion. With the help of this state, it is possible to achieve a change in the client's attitudes and beliefs, to achieve an improvement in his psycho-emotional state and well-being. Since the subconscious of the object of suggestion is configured to carry out the commands that were received under hypnotic influence.

There are four phases of hypnosis:

1. Mild drowsiness and muscle relaxation occur, while consciousness and memory remain clear.
2. A waxy flexibility in the muscles occurs, which allows the client to maintain a particular pose for a long time. Consciousness becomes clouded.
3. Hypnosis proper, when the client's impressions and emotions are limited directly by the information that is given to the client by the hypnotist verbally. In this phase, the client can be immersed in a state of catalepsy, in which his body seems to become wooden.
4. It is characterized by the client entering a somnambulistic state, in which the manifestation of such phenomena as telepathy and clairvoyance becomes possible.

Suggestion and hypnosis are different types of influence, since hypnosis occurs in a strongly altered state of consciousness, and suggestion is carried out either in a light trance or in the full consciousness of the client. The relationship between suggestion and hypnosis is that any hypnotic influence is carried out to produce a session of suggestion to the client.

Types of suggestion

Types of suggestion are divided into verbal and non-verbal, intentional and unintentional influence.

1. Verbal is a type of suggestion that is carried out using words. There are three subtypes of verbal suggestion:
   • direct;
   • indirect;
   • open;
   • hidden.
2. Non-verbal is a type of suggestion that is carried out wordlessly, using gestures, looks and intonations. There are three forms of non-verbal suggestion that specialists use:
   • catalepsy;
   • pauses;
   • levitation.
3. Intentional – this is a form of suggestion when the suggester has a specific goal of influence; clearly understands what and to whom he is going to suggest and makes every effort to achieve the set goal.
4. Unintentional is a form of suggestion when the suggester has no explicit goals to suggest anything to the object of influence and does not use any deliberate efforts for this. This form of suggestion is effective if the object of influence is internally predisposed to the suggested information.

According to content, suggestion is divided into:

• Positive – allows you to achieve positive changes in the client’s condition, qualities, emotions and behavior.
• Negative – has a negative psychological impact on a person, after which he develops negative states, properties, feelings and actions.

Strict suggestion

Strict suggestion is a harshly expressed reprimand for certain actions of a person. Strict suggestion is made in a negative form and predicts the most deplorable measures for the object of influence if the suggestor does not fulfill the conditions that were set for him.

Strict suggestion is usually carried out after a person has committed an offense. Usually such influence is exerted by a more influential, authoritative person, higher in rank, title or position. Strict suggestion may use elements of intimidation or threats, emotional pressure and blackmail, as well as a forecast of negative consequences for the person.

Suggestive suggestion

Suggestion is a mental suggestion that is used to change the thought processes of the object of influence. Also, during the process of suggestion, feelings and emotions, reactions and other aspects of the client's behavior change. The act of influence is usually not noticed by the person on whom the suggestive suggestion is carried out. The method of suggestive influence is usually used in psychotherapy to cure mental and physical ailments of the patient.

A distinction is made between suggestion that is carried out from the outside (someone else’s suggestive suggestion) and one’s own suggestive suggestion (autosuggestion, self-suggestion).

Verbal suggestion

Verbal suggestion is a type of influence on a person that is produced using words.

Let's consider the subtypes of verbal suggestion:

• Direct suggestion. With this type of suggestion, the intentions and goals of the suggester are clear, clearly stated and implemented. They cannot be interpreted in any other way than the one proposed to the object of influence. This type of suggestion is used, for example, during operations to anesthetize the process.
• Indirect suggestion. In this case, the suggester's intentions are not clear to the object of suggestion, so he may not be influenced. Since the goals and intentions of the person performing the suggestion are not clear to the client, the latter has a choice - to succumb to suggestion or not. Usually, indirect suggestion is used when they want to direct a person in a direction that he ignores.
• Open suggestion, which is distinguished by the fact that it provides a person with a choice of different options for action. There are several forms of open suggestion:
  • Mobilizing, when the object of suggestion is offered a fairly broad framework, which the client fills with content according to his taste.
  • Limited, when the client is offered a list of answers from which he can choose the one that suits him.
  • A therapeutic metaphor that uses the replacement of the name of one object, phenomenon or event with another. This method is used to connect different aspects of reality in suggestion.
• Hidden suggestion is the composition of the suggester's speech using various kinds of hidden commands. Such forms of influence are inserted into the broader context of the text that the suggester pronounces.

Non-verbal suggestion

Non-verbal suggestion is an influence carried out without the help of words by using non-verbal methods - intonation, gestures, looks, manipulation of objects, timbre of voice and others. It is possible to use this type of suggestion not only with a conscious specific purpose, but also exclusively unconsciously.

Let's consider the types of non-verbal suggestion:

1. Catalepsy, during which the client takes a certain imposed position for the success of the suggestion. Catalepsy of the whole body or its individual parts is distinguished. It is not worth constantly resorting to this type of suggestion.
2. Pauses that are inserted in the right places. The client fills the gap (emptiness) in the spoken text with his own decisions, so the use of pauses can take the form of open suggestion. In addition, with the help of pauses, you can highlight the main idea of a phrase or the entire text.
3. Levitation, during which no physical influence of the suggester is required. The suggestion is carried out with the help of the client himself, namely, thanks to his imagination. In this case, the object of suggestion himself determines the moment of entering the trance state, which makes levitation suitable for self-hypnosis sessions. Since after the suggester has taught the client to enter the state of levitation, the object of suggestion can use it independently.

Hidden suggestion

Covert suggestion is a form of non-verbal influence. There are several forms of covert suggestion:

1. Suggestion through speech strategies. This is a method of hidden suggestion, when the instruction given to the client is dissolved in the structure of the sentence. Such verbal tricks are achieved using the techniques of assumption, limitation of choice, abstract sentence, denial, cause-and-effect opposition, truisms, and so on.
2. Suggestion using hidden quotes. This method of suggestion involves influencing by expressing the thoughts of strangers or creating an artificial situation that can be used as a pretext for psychological influence. The story is told on behalf of another person, but the object of influence understands that the appeal is addressed personally to him.
3. Suggestion through marking. The essence of this technique is non-verbally highlighting that part of the statement that is a command for the object of suggestion. This can be achieved, for example, by raising your voice on the necessary phrase, changing the tempo of speech, inserting small pauses before and after the command, changing the timbre of the voice. You can gesture with your hands or manipulate objects - a mobile phone, a lighter, a pen.
4. Creation of a thought form. Suggestion occurs by implanting thoughts into the client that begin to guide his actions. Such statements, which are pronounced in a convincing manner, begin their independent life in the head of the object of suggestion and direct his reasoning in the right direction.

Suggestion in a dream

The result of such a method of influence is similar to the effect of hypnotic suggestion. In a dream, the influence of speech is not conscious. The object of influence does not realize that he is listening to someone's speech; clients treat the words they perceive as thoughts that appeared in their dreams.

Suggestion in a dream occurs by whispering special phrases to a sleeping person. The technique of suggestion to a sleeping person is simple and is divided into several stages:

1. Tuning to the sleeping person. It is necessary to sit at the head of the object of influence. It is necessary to touch the client's finger and hold it in such a way as not to wake him. You can also gently put your palm on the forehead. For 2-3 minutes, you need to say in a quiet voice, in the rhythm of the sleeping person's breathing: "The sleep is getting deeper and deeper."
2. Checking the sleeper's behavior. The speech should be quiet and calm, during the pronunciation of words, the speech tempo should be slowed down and then accelerated. If the sleeping person's breathing rhythm also changes, then contact with the client has been established.
3. Suggestion. At this stage, phrases are pronounced that need to be conveyed to the client.
4. Suggestion of forgetting. You can tell the client that after waking up he will forget everything that happened during sleep. But, at the same time, the sleeper will remember what was suggested to him.

The suggestion session is carried out at night during the first 15-45 minutes of sleep or in the morning 1-2 hours before waking up.

Suggestion in reality

Suggestion in reality occurs in several varieties:

1. During the client's active wakefulness.
2. In a state of rest and light relaxation.

There are several rules that help to achieve success during suggestion:

1. You need to be absolutely confident in your abilities and in what you are saying.
2. Speaking requires loud, clear and distinct pronunciation of words.
3. You need to look your ward in the eyes.
4. Before starting to work with a client, you need to relax as much as possible and relieve yourself of psychological stress.
5. At the beginning of the session, it is necessary to establish contact with the client.
6. The best results are obtained when the object of influence is in a state of light trance.
7. It is necessary to set the required expectation; to say what should happen as a result and why.
8. The suggester must be in a state of rest.

Direct suggestion

Direct suggestion is a type of suggestion in which the intentions of the influence are open and cannot be interpreted in any other way. Direct suggestion is divided into the following subtypes:

1. Explicit suggestion – the suggester transparently and in detail explains to the client what goal is being pursued and what result is expected.
2. Camouflaged suggestion – the suggester does not declare the intentions of influence, but at the same time makes it clear that the effect of influence depends on the client himself.
3. Post-hypnotic suggestion – used to provoke a state of self-hypnosis in the client or in cases when the object of influence needs to erase from memory any traumatic events of his psyche. Thanks to post-hypnotic suggestion, it is possible to program the client to perform any actions after the end of the hypnotic session.

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Suggestion of thoughts from a photograph

Suggestion of thoughts from a photograph is a type of mental suggestion that is carried out at a great distance from the client. With mental suggestion, it is necessary to establish contact with the object of influence. To do this, the suggester evokes the image of the client in his consciousness and holds it for a long time.

To facilitate the transmission of thoughts at a distance, a photograph of the object of suggestion is used. Since there is no need to direct efforts to retain the image of the client in the mind, mental influence on him is more successful.

The technique of suggesting thoughts from a photograph is simple. The suggestor needs to sit down, relax and put himself into a state of light trance. Then he needs to focus his gaze on the client's photograph and begin to mentally pronounce some command repeatedly. This must be done confidently, casting aside any doubts. Constant concentration of consciousness on the desired setting, as well as on the client's image, is necessary.

Suggestion in business communication

Suggestion in business communication occurs under the influence of the authority of the person from whom the information received comes. This occurs in emotionally charged business negotiations, as well as in stressful situations. At this time, the criticality of consciousness decreases and one can succumb to provocative suggestion.

Lack of time, when it is impossible to take a break and critically rethink the information received, is also a factor contributing to suggestion.

Suggestion is made in a categorical form, with elements of psychological pressure. Therefore, the suggestible person does not weigh the information and does not subject it to logical analysis, but simply automatically reacts to it, performing certain actions.

A person who falls under suggestive influence is capable of making an impulsive decision only under the influence of emotions, without thinking about his behavior.

The quality of suggestion depends on the person's age, gender, personality traits and type of thinking. Also, the suggester's knowledge of the personality traits of the individual to whom the suggestion is made is the key to the success of the influence.

Treatment by suggestion

The word is considered to be as healing as other medical methods – medication, surgery, physical therapy, folk medicine. With the help of suggestion methods, you can cure:

1. Neuroses, stuttering, aggressive behavior and other psycho-emotional disorders.
2. Many internal diseases, especially of a psychosomatic nature.
3. Early stages of cancer.
4. Alcohol, drug, food and other types of addiction, as well as smoking.
5. Bad habits, such as constantly biting your nails, etc.
6. Correct undesirable behavior, for example, get rid of laziness, improve academic performance in schoolchildren, lack of desire to eat, and so on.

Healing of the body and psyche occurs due to the use of huge hidden reserves of the human central nervous system. Treatment by suggestion is carried out by controlling psychophysiological processes during the introduction of the patient into a hypnotic state and pronouncing a command to him that changes the client's attitudes, beliefs and mood.

Suggestion of illness

Suggestion of illness is a negative form of suggestion. The object of influence, previously healthy, begins to show symptoms of the illness for which it was programmed. Very often, suggestion of illness occurs at the everyday level, for example, by overly caring parents or grandmothers who constantly suggest to their child that he will get sick from some external factors.

Diseases of suggestion most often occur in hypochondriacs, who are subject to both external suggestion and self-suggestion. Hypochondria is a condition that manifests itself in the presence of fears or excessive anxiety about one's own health. Hypochondriacs are often afraid of contracting some dangerous, fatal disease.

Usually, suggestion of any disease is effective in the case when a person internally agrees with the speaker or suspects something similar.

Instilling fear

Instillation of fear is a negative impact, designed to provide a person with a state of anxiety, worry or panic fear. It is also possible to actualize depressive states or apathy. The danger can be real or imaginary. Fear can be caused by a specific object, phenomenon or simply a persistent, inexplicable state of anxiety or panic. The feeling of fear can also arise in the face of the unknown.

It is characteristic that before the moment of suggestion, the object of influence did not show any negative reactions to the above stimuli. After the suggestion, the suggerents show stable behavior, in which they begin to avoid any places, objects or phenomena to which they were previously indifferent. Moreover, this fear is unmotivated: if you ask a person why he is afraid of something specific, he will not even be able to give a reasoned answer to this question.

When confronted with an object or phenomenon that causes fear, all psychophysiological characteristics of a person change, he easily loses control of his consciousness and falls into panic. The suggestion of fear can only be removed by a response session (or sessions) of influence of the opposite direction. The suggested fear cannot be removed by rational means, persuasion and other methods.

Health suggestion

Health suggestion is a type of therapeutic suggestion that is carried out during the patient's illness. Such suggestion sessions can be carried out in a state of relaxation, light trance or under hypnosis. In autosuggestion, it is also possible and necessary to use settings to improve health.

There are many known cases where complex somatic ailments disappeared only thanks to sessions of suggestion or self-suggestion.

Experts recommend conducting self-hypnosis sessions aimed at improving health immediately after waking up or before falling asleep. The fact is that at these moments the line between consciousness and the unconscious is erased, a person finds himself in the so-called pre-sleep state. In this state, access to the unconscious is facilitated, which more easily assimilates commands for health restoration and healing.

Suggestion to lose weight

Since the subconscious mind is very receptive to commands or images when the control of the cerebral cortex is turned off, suggestion methods can be used for weight loss sessions.

To do this, the suggester conducting the session must use verbal commands that encourage the client's psyche to stimulate fat burning processes in the body. Very good results are achieved through suggestion in a state of hypnosis. It is also good to use images and verbal commands in self-hypnosis sessions.

Suggestion to lose weight is used to restore the optimal state of the psyche and metabolism; lost skills of self-regulation of the body's protective functions are restored.

Instilling self-confidence

Self-confidence is a feeling of one’s own inner strength and rightness, supported by a calm state of mind, in which a person feels comfortable in any situation.

There are several ways to create a state of self-confidence:

1. You need to play with self-confidence, direct your body activity towards copying confident behavior.
2. It is necessary to use affirmations or self-hypnosis phrases, which should be used in situations of stress or loss of confidence.
3. Use self-hypnosis and relaxation sessions, using images of success and self-hypnosis phrases aimed at strengthening the psyche.

Instilling self-confidence can also occur during psychotherapeutic sessions through trance or hypnotic influence.

Suggestion training

Suggestion training begins with the ability to establish contact or rapport with a person. These skills are well developed in the psychological movement called neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

Training in introducing a client into a state of light trance and the effective use of speech structures and special commands takes place during trainings and seminars on Ericksonian hypnosis.

You can learn hypnotic suggestion in special training courses on hypnosis, but for this you need to have a medical education that allows you to use hypnotic influence for medical and psychotherapeutic purposes.

Protection from suggestion

Protection from suggestion is a necessary skill, not only in a critical situation, but also in everyday communication.

To protect yourself from suggestion, you need to follow these recommendations:

1. Always remember your goals when communicating and bring the conversation back on track.
2. When talking, change your posture, speech tempo, voice timbre and intonation, breathing rhythm and frequency more often, and gesture differently.
3. Do not look into the eyes of the interlocutor, do not watch the things that he manipulates. It is best to focus on the object that you have chosen yourself or move your gaze from object to object.
4. Go into an internal trance - immerse yourself in some memories, thoughts, imagine some events.
5. Turn on your internal monologue: start mentally saying a prayer, reading a poem, singing a song.
6. If you cannot escape from the suggestive influence, it is best to immediately break contact and leave the meeting place.

How to resist suggestion?

There are rules of conduct for those people who are concerned about the problem of how not to succumb to suggestion:

1. You should avoid communicating with suspicious strangers, gypsies, beggars, and so on.
2. Don't accept information from strangers without critical thinking, no matter how scary or attractive it may be. You need to question any information you receive.
3. You should not look into the eyes of strangers and avoid touching your body.
4. It is necessary to learn to refuse, to say "no". Every person is free in their actions, and no one is obliged to help anyone, to understand someone's situation, to know the answers to all questions, to fulfill ill-considered promises or to communicate with anyone.
5. You should never make quick decisions under external pressure.
6. There is no need to tell strangers any confidential information about yourself, or “open your soul” to strangers.
7. It is necessary to engage in autogenic training in order to resist external influences in a critical situation.
8. Dark glasses, listening to a player, and simply being in a hurry are good ways to shield yourself from suggestion.
9. In critical situations, it is necessary to remain calm and cool, and avoid emotional reactions to various circumstances.
10. Collective suggestion has a greater effect than individual suggestion. Therefore, it is necessary to avoid mass gatherings in which there is a possibility of becoming an object of influence.

Suggestion is a serious tool of psychological influence on a person. And therefore, when using it, you need to be professional and very careful. Because with the help of suggestion you can both harm a person and heal him.