Suggestion is ... Mechanisms of suggestion

Suggestion is something without which many processes in society are impossible. Communication, education, work, relationships with the opposite sex - everywhere there is suggestion. This impact can be used both for mercenary purposes, to achieve their own goals, and as an auxiliary therapy - self-hypnosis and setting for well-being.

Definition of concept

Suggestion is an action aimed at changing the behavioral characteristics of a person, his mental and emotional state. Due to changes in behavior and psyche, the individual to whom the suggestion is directed freely perceives new information (installation, instruction, order). The second name of suggestion is suggestion, and the person directing suggestion is called a suggestor.

Impacts of this kind are carried out verbal and non-verbal ways. During communication, individuals also use suggestion, constantly imposing emotions, desires, moods and opinions on each other.

The power of suggestion directly depends on the quality of the information received, the authority of the person directing influence on someone, the suggestibility of the individual. In addition, the impact on a person is enhanced by external and internal factors: natural disasters, the emotional state of the individual, his suggestibility.

Suggestion, unlike belief, is not based on logical arguments, but on the willingness of a person to accept at a subconscious level instructions and transmitted information. It instills inspired ideas, feelings and feelings, without using any evidence and logical explanations.

Who is most susceptible to suggestion?

Children and women, as well as adolescents, impressionable people are more prone to other people's exposure, rather than adult men with an established psyche. A person becomes inspired by the following physical and mental factors:

• Weakness and fatigue;
• Pain;
• Bodily relaxation;
• Drowsiness;
• Emotional arousal;
• Boredom;
• Low level of development of thinking;
• Incompetence in any sphere;
• Weak-willed;
• Anxiety;
• Shyness;
• The lack of time in making any decision.

A person can resist the impact either intentionally or unintentionally. Intentional resistance helps to purposefully overcome suggestion. This is a constant conscious analysis of the information received, comparing it with personal knowledge and beliefs. If the suggested program does not coincide with the already available data, the person rejects it. Unintentional resistance is the pathological tendency to question individual individuals.

Forms of suggestion

There are three main forms of human exposure:

• hypnosis;
• Suggestion with complete relaxation of a person, both mental and physical;
• Suggestion in everyday life, during the waking of the individual.

The impact of this kind is aimed at reducing a person's vigilance, weakening his thinking processes for making information, while using the emotions of the person being inspired. That is, during the installation, new information is associated with facts, people, situations that are already familiar to the person, which cause him to have very positive emotions. This allows you to place yourself in an individual, to inspire him with confidence. In this case, it is worth considering that with the appearance of negative emotions, the installation will be completely rejected.

Conviction

Suggestion and belief are similar and at the same time fundamentally different concepts. The latter can be equated with the sub-point of suggestion. In this method of influence, logical techniques combined with social and psychological pressure are used. That is, as a tool, references to authoritative sources of information, the influence of a group of individuals are used here. In the latter case, conviction works more efficiently, since the group impact on a person is stronger than the impact of one individual on another.

Persuasion is directed directly at the logic and mind of man. Because the impact takes into account the level of development of the individual. At a low level, persuasion may not work, since in underdeveloped individuals, logical thinking is usually completely or partially absent .

Hypnosis

Hypnosis and suggestion are almost inseparable concepts. Hypnosis is the state in which a person is between sleep and wakefulness. In another way, hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness, trans. The hypnotist uses various techniques to introduce a person into a trance, influencing the psyche of the hypnotized.

The hypnotist performs several actions simultaneously: introduction into a trance; The introduction in the subconscious of their own attitudes, suggestion of certain tasks. A person is immersed in a hypnotic state through the constant, monotonous actions of the hypnotist, aimed at irritating certain senses:

• Touch (touch, stroking);
• Hearing (muffled music, calm tone of voice);
• View (fixing a glance at any attribute of the hypnotist).

Also, some hypnotists practice complete blockage of the senses - physical relaxation, closing of the eyes during the session. In a hypnotic state, a person can immerse himself only on condition that his brain has a predisposition to transitions to the inhibited state.

The voice of the hypnotist, as it were, takes possession of the human subconscious, blocking the flow of other information.

Self-expression

This subspecies of suggestion is a method of self-government. A person constantly inspires himself with any thoughts, imposes emotions and a desire to act. The impact on one's own self is actively used in pedagogy, upbringing, and independent study of various sciences. Autosuggestion is a psychological suggestion that helps you overcome your own fears and achieve your goal.

The main forms of this impact are:

• Affirmations - textual and verbal suggestions;
• Visualization - images and images that create a mood that embody a specific goal;
• Meditation and self-hypnosis - suggestion by thoughts.

Autosuggestion does not always give a positive attitude, often a person unconsciously inspires a negative outcome of events, mentally lowers self-esteem. This does not allow the person to develop normally and improve. Therefore, auto-suggestion should always be positive and conscious. The effectiveness of the impact depends on the person's susceptibility to the settings, as well as their quality - wrong and unrealistic settings are usually not perceived by the subconscious.

Methods and types of suggestion

Basically, suggestion is a verbal, verbal influence, reinforced by various auxiliary techniques. According to historical data, the word always had a strong influence on a person, it helped cure dangerous diseases, could stop and unleash a war.

In any of the methods, the effect first irritates one of the areas of the brain, simultaneously slowing down the work of the remaining part of it, and then, with the help of a discharge, the suggested thought, word or idea is tightly fixed in the subconscious.

The mechanisms of suggestion are:

• Straight lines . Here the main role is played by the speech of the person directing the suggestion.
• Indirect . In addition to speech, other types of effects are used, stimuli that enhance the effect of suggestion

Suggestions

Mental suggestion, the introduction of one's own desires and ideas is an impact, the result of which is the change of attitudes, beliefs and attitudes toward something or someone. This also includes the emergence of new aspirations in life, of which the individual had not previously thought about.

This method of influence is used in the absence of close contact with the person being induced, that is, at a distance. Suggestor in detail imagines that the object of suggestion is at the moment next to him, while feeling how his thoughts reach the destination - the subconscious of the suggested. In order for the mental suggestion to come true, a person needs to believe in his own strength, and also to represent in detail what he wants to achieve from the suggested person, to what state he wants to introduce it.

Verbal, or verbal suggestion

The impact of this kind implies a complete immersion of the person being instilled into a relaxed state. This increases the strength of the verbal signals sent by the suggestor. The latter should be fully confident in their own abilities, collected and focused on the implementation of the conceived.

Verbal, or verbal suggestion has several subspecies:

• Direct . Here, simple settings are used that are understandable both to the suggestor himself and to the person being suggested. They quickly pronounce themselves and are carried out, while the suggested person does not have the opportunity to refuse to accept the installation. This method of suggestion was previously used to block the pain syndrome in operations.
• Indirect . With this influence, a person does not understand what the suggestor is trying to achieve from him, and he has a choice, to accept an installation, or to resist it.
• Open verbal suggestion. Here the suggested are offered several different settings, by accepting which, he can begin to act. The success of suggestion depends on the person's attitude to the information they receive.
• Hidden verbal suggestion. This is the unification of the individual's calm speech with certain hidden orders (commands, attitudes).

All phrases and individual words are pronounced aggressively, but at the same time calmly and smoothly, not too loudly. The voice must contain the strength and confidence of the suggestor. The power of suggestion with words is increased several times if the phrases are constantly repeated, since repetition helps to fix new information in the subconscious of the person being taught.

Non-verbal suggestion

The impact is carried out by means of visual contact with the suggested, changing the intonation of the suggestion, various gestures, fixation of the person's sight on the constantly moving object. The words here are used as an auxiliary tool.

Methods of suggestion with non-verbal action:

• Change in the physical state of a person - catalepsy. At the time of suggestion, the individual takes on a certain posture imposed on him by the suggestor.
• The introduction of pauses in the spoken text. The instigator involuntarily fills the gaps between the information received by one's own thoughts, decisions and attitudes.
• Suggestion of levitation. Here the physical effect is completely absent, the inspired one is immersed in trance only through his own imagination.

How to make suggestion more effective

Whatever the impact on a person, in order to achieve a positive result, it is necessary to be guided by the following rules:

1. The patient must be in a relaxed state, and his logic and critical thinking should be completely turned off. This is possible with a slight alcoholic intoxication, as well as immersion in a trance.
2. Suggestor needs to believe in what he is trying to inspire to the person, otherwise the impact will not be effective. Also, he should not doubt his own strength during the session.
3. To achieve the desired result, you must constantly train and improve yourself.
4. During the impact, the suggestor must fulfill all the promises given to the ward, otherwise the suggestion will not be effective.

How to protect yourself from exposure

In view of the fact that many scammers use suggestion as a method of gaining profit, there is a need for self-protection against this impact.

Recommendations that help protect against suggestion:

• While communicating with unfamiliar personalities, you need to remember your own goals, if necessary, translating the conversation into the topic of interest.
• In the dialogue, you need to constantly change your position, use gesticulation, periodically changing the intonation and tempo, the timbre of the voice. It is also recommended to change the rate of breathing.
• At the slightest suspicion of suggestion and the inability to get rid of it, one must sharply break off the dialogue and leave.
• During the conversation, experts do not recommend looking into the eyes of a person trying to instill something to you, as well as watching his manipulation, whether it's waving his hands or using any objects that attract attention. Here it is necessary to fix a sight on a static object, or constantly to move a sight from one object on another.
• If you understand that you are trying to inspire other people's ideas and desires, then you need to immerse yourself in memories, mentally draw a picture of any events.
• Stop exposure from outside helps communicate with your own "I", listening to loud music, reading aloud any text.

Remember that suggestion can be both positive and negative. The positive helps to restore a person's self-confidence, restore health and abandon addictions, when as a negative suggestion destroys a person from within, adjusting to the negative outcome of events.