[bayliving]

Actually, NLP works quite well on intelligent people. IMO it isn’t a matter of intelligence or unintelligence to make NLP do its trick: it works on either equally well.

So how do you defend yourself against this tactic?

It clearly doesn't work on everyone so where does this technique fall short?

Personally I can't stand the man and his politics.

[exit82]

So how do you defend yourself against this tactic?

See post #26 for some pointers.

[DieHard the Hunter]

I'll start by recommending this .pdf as a good intro to the topic of NLP -- I'm halfway thru reading it now, and it appears to be good stuff. You write:

> So how do you defend yourself against this tactic?

An excellent question that would be easy to over-simplify in answering. But here's an extract from the .pdf file that puts it nicely into a nutshell:

“The only thing you need to do to break a negative hypnotic spell that has been cast on you is begin to think rationally, to begin to think critically. And if you decide that you choose this message as one that’s good for you, by all means sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. But, if you decide that this is not something you want to have in your life, just simply analyze it, criticise it, ridicule it, and say “Hey, that’s not how the world works.” And you’ll have protected your mind from taking on board something which you really dont need.” The Power of Conversational Hypnosis, Clifford Mee and Igor Ledochowski, re the section entitled “The Dark Side of Hypnosis.”

[HalfFull]

It clearly doesn't work on everyone so where does this technique fall short?

I remember seeing a professional hypnotist do a show in the 70's...he was really good. He started out by asking for volunteers who might be interested in being in the show (as hypnotized subjects, doing funny things). About 75 people from the audience came up. Through a series of short tests and preliminary things, he vetted the 75, and reduced them to about 10 people. He said he was doing this because, as he explained, some people were more prone to the power of suggestion than others. He also explained that you could not hypnotize people to do things against their moral values, but could make them do things that did not fall in that criteria

He ended up with about 10 people who he put under hypnosis and made do funny and entertaining things. There was little doubt in my mind that these people were actually hypnotized.

Bottom line....from that show I can see that at least 10-30% can be manipulated through hypnosis. This is especially true if people **WANT** to believe what they are being told.