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Posted By: ichMael
24-Mar-10 - 10:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama's Hypnotic Speech Techniques
Subject: BS: Obama's Hypnotic Speech Techniques
I just read the 67-page document at the link below and made notes of the high points. I encourage everyone to read it. Fascinating. It was written before the presidential election so some of it seems dated now, but no less important:

AN EXAMINATION OF OBAMA'S USE OF HIDDEN HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES IN HIS SPEECHE open link in new window S  open link in new window

Obama's speech often diverges from normal and logical speech patterns, and clearly uses the non-logical, clearly artificial and intentional patterns of hypnotic trance induction, and hypnotic critical factor bypass as taught in the field of covert and conversational hypnosis. This document will explain what Obama is doing and how it works by explaining hidden hypnotic language patterns and other hypnosis techniques.

Essentially, hypnosis is an altered and common state of mind involving intense focus, sidelining or disassociation of the rational critical thinking, and the state of hyper-suggestibility brought about while the subconscious mind is the dominant player. It happens while reading, listening to music, and even while hearing a great speaker.



PACING AND LEADING

Pacing and leading is a fundamental tool in conversational or covert hypnosis. "Pacing" can be almost any technique by which a hypnotist gets your critical factor to lower its critical analysis and scrutiny of the information you are receiving.   The "lead" is the new information, suggestion, or command the hypnotist wants to implant. When done effectively, the hypnotist can "lead" – implant suggestions and commands that pass through into your subconscious that will be taken as unquestionably true.

Pacing works by disguising information as part of the subject's ongoing verifiable experience to trick the critical factor into letting that information pass through to the subconscious. Unknowingly to the conscious mind, when this happens, the lead, or the new information from the hypnotist is accepted as absolutely true, and becomes part of the subject's deepest beliefs.

Three of Obama's favorite hypnotic paces are "that's why I stand here tonight", "now is the time", and "this moment." These are things the hypnotist says that are verifiably true, and used to lower our critical factor defenses to allow implantation of subconscious messages. These three pacing statements were used by Obama a total of fourteen (14) times throughout his 2008 Convention speech in Denver. After pacing the audience, thus lowering cognitive critical factor defenses, Obama then implanted the lead (hypnotic command), "and that is why I will be your next President." The reason Obama sounds so hyper-confident with certain language patterns is because he has to in order to input a command effectively so your subconscious takes it as absolute truth.

Obama's sentence structure is often exactly what is taught by Erickson in ways that cannot be coincidence. If he went into specifics, he would not be pacing, he would be encouraging the use of the conscious mind, something he is attempting to avoid.

TRANS-DERIVATION

A statement that we hear consciously contains only one surface structure (unless we do a double-take and realize a secondary meaning). However, one such statement can contain multiple deep structure meanings to our subconscious. The process by which the mind searches between alternate meanings is called trans-derivation. The searching through these various meanings is part of what distracts the rational part of the mind as part of hypnotic induction, even if we are not consciously aware of our search between different meanings. When Obama says "change" is can mean a lot of different things to everyone. He is not specific in what he means because then he would lose his pacing of the audience. Obama creates a trans-derivational search just by saying the vague word change, allowing that message of change to slip into the subconscious, as a command, that he has associated with himself in a number of subconscious and conscious ways.

HAND GESTURES


EXAMPLES FROM A COUPLE OF SPEECHES:

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