Hip knows his is all around us

Hip knows his is all around us. Hip knows his is all around us. Hip knows his is all around us. Have you noticed?

Today's blog entry is just a ramble. I really should catch up on the Field Reports, there're a few more that I want to write about. But today I'd rather just ramble...

As I learn more about NLP and Hypnosis, I begin to notice how bits of both occur naturally all around. I remember when I was back in college, I thought about buying an Infiniti G35 coupe once I could afford it. After I started thinking that, I began to see a lot of G35 coupes everywhere I went. Maybe everyone began to, like me, want to buy a G35 coupe. I can also remember when I first wanted to be really generous to others. It would be nice if everyone began to be like that, too. We'd all help people and everyone would feel better every day. Can you imagine that? Now... I'm not sure if that would happen and, anyways, it probably wasn't more people wanting a G35 coupe, like me, so much as it was just me noticing the existing G35 coupes on the road more often. (Ever had that experience? Not necessarily with G35 coupes, of course.)

Well that's how it seems to be going with hypnosis and NLP. I've begun to notice it all around... While talking to friends, a guy zones out for a few seconds seemingly gazing at nothing, and when he returns to the conversation he can't remember what his friends said to him (that's what some people would call spontaneous post-hypnotic amnesia. Ever experience something like that yourself?) A husband demonstrates how effective a hypnotist he is (though he isn't aware of it) by acting a certain way (the trigger) and his wife immediately responds in a patterned, predictable way (like a hypnotic subject following a post-hypnotic suggestion.) A friend unknowingly drinks a diet soda and thinks it tastes like regular soda, until he looks at the can and realizes it is in fact a diet soda. Then all of a sudden, he notices how it tastes like a diet soda.

It makes sense, though. Hypnosis wasn't invented. Somewhere, back in the day, people just began to take notice of it. Somebody noticed it, and eventually learned to recognize it. Then somebody found out how it occurred and figured out how to induce it in a targeted and precise fashion. Some people would refer to somebody like that as a hypnotist. Some people might refer to that somebody as a friend... or a co-worker... or a person with a blog...