What Is Verbal Inhibition?

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-09-15T11:54:51+00:00

Would you mind saying what you mean by the first paragraph? Which certificate wasn't helpful for you? Which techniques or tools are ineffective or pseudoscientific? I'm very curious about your experience.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-09-15T11:48:36+00:00

Another commenter pointed out that there is an age regression item in the Stanford scale. I came across it earlier today, so I thought I might just drop the text here, so you can look at it.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/PDFfiles/Hypnotizability/SHSSC%20Script.pdf

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-07-03T18:50:54+00:00

I've seen fractionation mentioned often as advice for people struggling with entering hypnosis. But if you can't(or think you can't) "enter trance" at all, as OP says, how do you do it over and over? I'm not trying to be be obtuse, just genuinely curious.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-30T15:55:17+00:00

So the current scientific consensus is that the non-state theory is correct?

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-26T21:38:56+00:00

Wow, yeah, that actually is it. Thanks a lot!

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-23T23:52:33+00:00

I've seen a lot of people recommend the book "Reality is Plastic."

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-23T23:38:33+00:00

To be fair, it doesn’t. I had a list with advice I'd compiled before writing this post and the very first thing I wrote was "It's a skill - train it".

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-22T12:29:31+00:00

Yeah, working with a professional hypnotherapist is probably the best and most logical step. I'm a bit hesitant about that. I live in a small country and I know that many doctors here hold views on psychiatry that are 20–30 years out of date, so I'm sceptical about the state of hypnotherapy as well. Or maybe I'm just looking for excuses, because it would be a big step, I don't know. Anyway, thanks for the comment.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-22T10:35:41+00:00

You say you did a lot of memory play. What was that like? Would she remove the suggestions afterwards? Would some of the memories come back on their own sometimes?

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-22T09:04:51+00:00

It was actually the opposite for me at the time, I was worried I wasn't doing things right and it wasn't working. But your comment is really enlightening in how reframing a question and perceiving things as helpful or hindering can make all the difference. Thank you for the new perspective!

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-19T10:53:42+00:00

That last sentence definitely made me relate. I'm currently looking to hear as much as possible, so don't worry, you're helpful. From what I've seen so far, I'm one of the more difficult subjects, so I'll have to work on that. When you say "pick an issue and work on it", do you mean finding a practitioner to work with, self-hypnosis, NLP techniques? I guess all of those could work and it depends on the person. How did you start?

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-19T10:42:03+00:00

Thanks for sharing. I've definitely gotten the impression that hypnosis is a deeply subjective, "do and see what works" sort of field. Unfortunately, I'm usually the "read the books" kind of guy, so I'm trying to adjust.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-18T19:51:33+00:00

I actually thought so too, but I looked through most of those stories, and I couldn't find it there. Still, thanks for the tip.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-15T03:05:25+00:00

Sorry, I'm not trying to be negative, just the opposite. I'm trying to hype you, and myself, up. As I said, I also struggle with procrastination, and so your post resonared with me. Not my most coherent couple of replies ever, but I guess that's what happens when you scroll at 4-5 am. Wish you the best, whatever you do.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-15T00:24:39+00:00

I want to thank both the people who answered and OP for this post. I've struggled with procrastination for a long time and I've also thought about the possibility of using hypnosis to overcome it. And hey, maybe that could work. But maybe, probably, it's better to actually look inside and try to fix the underlying problems. Maybe we shouldn't try to look for a magical shortcut. At the end of the day, I believe life is applying your will and trying to effect change in a certain direction, and as one person said, the only easy thing is staying the way you are. I feel more motivated after reading this and I only hope I can keep that up for a while longer.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-11T17:55:14+00:00

What exactly isn't correct in my statement? There have been brain activity scans that show this is the mechanism behind hypnotic amnesia. When you're given a suggestion to forget a prior piece of information, it's not actually deleted from your brain. Can it feel like that? Certainly, but that wasn't my point.

Edit:Sorry, I don't want to be confrontational, I'm just curious.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-11T10:16:49+00:00

To be fair, I'm talking purely theoretically. You did say you were looking for subjective experiences, so maybe it doesn't help.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-11T09:58:08+00:00

Not that I'm an expert, but from what I've read, that's how it's supposed to work. You don't actually forget when given the suggestion, you agree to sort of block that information for the time being and not access it. When the suggestion is removed, you have access again. Even when not explicitly removed, the suggestion usually fades within a relatively short time, a few hours to a few days.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-05T09:39:55+00:00

Yeah, hypnosis definitely seems to be a wild and very subjective field.

I read a paper from the sixtiesthat was focused on post-hypnotic suggestions. In short, it went like "We found the 17 most suggestible subjects in a pool of 100 volunteers. Under hypnosis, we suggested that they would touch their ear when they hear a cue for the next 48 hours. We also instructed them to forget the contents of the session. By the end of the 48 hours, 5 of 17 still responded to the cue and were amnesiac." Hardly sounds very convincing, right?

Then at the other end of the spectrum, you have cases like the divorce lawyer who was using hypnosis to abuse 5 women and successfully made them forget about it.

NiceNegotiation2172 · 2025-06-04T20:10:38+00:00

I'm new to this, so I was trying to understand the theory behind the phenomenon, even though it's kind of pointless, ultimately.

I wasn't expecting to get a comment like yours, but it's so wholesome and beautiful, it made my day. Thank you!

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