Quotes About Suggestibility

memory's malfunctions can be divided into seven fundamental transgressions or "sins," which I call transience, absent-mindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence.

Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.

When one begins to appreciate the roles of unconscious suggestibility and self-fulfilling prophecies in human life, this song seems as funny as the latest radioactive fall-out figures.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

The scientific dictator of tomorrow will set up his whispering machines and subliminal projectors in schools and hospitals (children and the sick are highly suggestible), and in all public places where audiences can be given a preliminary softening up by suggestibility-increasing oratory or rituals.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions for increasing your level of suggestibility. It teaches your body emotionally that the event you're grateful for has already happened, because we usually give thanks after a desirable event has occurred.

By the same means, if you were to change how you feel, could you become more suggestible to a new stream of thoughts? Absolutely! By feeling an elevated emotion and allowing a whole new set of thoughts to be driven by that new feeling, you'd increase your level of suggestibility to what you were feeling and then thinking.

Only about 5 to 10 percent of the population are considered very susceptible to hypnosis. In

Once we become more suggestible, we're naturally associating something outside of ourselves (the new medication) with the selection of a different possibility (being pain-free).

Whether by coincidence or not, 7.83 Hz also happens to be a very powerful frequency used with brain-wave entrainment, as it is associated with low levels of alpha and the upper range of theta brain-wave states. It is this range of brain waves that allows us to get beyond the analytical mind and into the subconscious. Thus this frequency has also been associated with high levels of suggestibility, meditation, increased human growth hormone levels, and increased cerebral blood-flow levels.14

emotions like gratitude and appreciation open your heart and lift the energy in your body to a new place—out of the lower hormonal centers. Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions for increasing your level of suggestibility. It teaches your body emotionally that the event you're grateful for has already happened, because we usually give thanks after a desirable event has occurred.

More challenging is learning how to drop down even further into theta, which is a kind of twilight state where we're half-awake and half-asleep (often described as "mind awake, body asleep"). This is the state we're shooting for in meditation, because it's the brain-wave pattern where we're the most suggestible.

You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.

Remember, the subconscious mind will believe anything you tell it if you tell it long enough and strongly enough.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

by means of what we now call hypnosis an individual could exercise an influence for better or worse upon the mental condition of his neighbor.

If you are told you will have a spiritual experience, chances are pretty good that you will, and, likewise, if you are told the drug may drive you temporarily insane, or acquaint you with the collective unconscious, or help you access "cosmic consciousness," or revisit the trauma of your birth, you stand a good chance of having exactly that kind of experience.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.

Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmm ed.'" " Hmmm? " Sunny asked. "Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!