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Hypnotic Finger Snaps

One of the biggest misconceptions is that once the client’s “free will has been compromised,” the hypnotist can make the affects last forever or reactivate the power whenever someone snaps their fingers. While this is a riot to watch in films and cartoons, writers take advantage of the common person’s lack of knowledge and use it to bring comic relief to the story. Anyone jumping in your face and snapping their fingers or saying magic words never snap you into trance. If doing this did work, my house would be clean, my lawn manicured, and both my kids would be in before curfew every night. I’d have the two best little slaves ever—but alas, it isn’t true. I still clean my own house and call my neighbors searching for my kids occasionally, just like any other mom.

 

However, saying things to yourself such as, “When I get home, I need to throw my shirt in the laundry for tomorrow,” is a prime example of setting your own subliminal reminders. Sometimes they even work—more often with practice, just like self-hypnosis or any other habit. How many times have you come home?  (Trick question) Do you put your shirt in the laundry every time? Probably not.

So, getting home and putting your shirt in the laundry are two different tasks, but you’re using one to remind you of the other. You mentally tie them together for today—quite like one of the key functions of the hypnotic process.

 

Hypnotists do use reminders to create habits for the things you choose to change. But those are habits YOU have chosen—not anyone else. And no one can put you under hypnosis without you being aware of it and being okay with the idea—even a professional hypnotist would need you to cooperate and follow the initial instructions. AND anytime you become uncomfortable or find yourself lacking trust in the hypnotist, you can break the connection with no problem whatsoever and re-emerge. You may be a bit groggy if you are not counted out correctly, but that feeling goes away over a short period of time. You’re always completely safe and your protective subconscious is always in control, even when your conscious is relaxed and amicable.

 

Another thing to tell you while we’re on this subject is you would never do anything that you wouldn’t normally do. You aren’t even asleep. But you’ll need to read the next question for the explanation of that concept.

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