Subliminal Communications

Subliminal Communications

Richard Nongard, an expert therapist who specializes in hypnotherapy - usually to help people break harmful habits such as smoking - explains that hypnosis is simply a relaxed state of mind akin to meditation.  The brain frequencies are a little higher than sleep, but much lower than for something like driving your car in heavy traffic, where the frequencies are much higher given the focus needed to stay alive!

I have been studying body language for about 2 years in the field now in both sales and with social experimentation.  The magisterial source on body language is What Every Body is Saying by Joe Navarro.  After some experimentation and understanding of the animal brain (or lizard brain, or amygdala), I made a diagram that explains what is going on.  

Our conscious minds communicate mostly with words and simple gestures.  However, the Lizard Brain communicates also, but it operates below the level of the conscious mind.  Once you study and practice the subject of Body Language from experts like Navarro, you can read what the Lizard Brain is thinking and communicating.  Have you ever spoken with someone and felt a sense that something was wrong, but you could not explain it?  Have you fallen into a feeling of closeness with someone but you had not known them before and you cannot explain what happened?  Well, it is all very simple!  You Lizard Brain is the answer to these questions!

Our animal or Lizard Brains are prehistoric and ancient.  It developed way before the neocortex where consciousness and language reside.  The animal brain is exactly that - it operates on an instinctual animal level, and we cannot directly control it.  Nobody except psychopaths can control their body language.  Nobody cannot not communicate!  Read that previous sentence again…  When speaking with someone, our Lizard Brains are sending and receiving messages on an unconscious level.  It instantly reads body language, and it instantly communicates at all times with all the Lizard Brains in the same room.  You have to understand this point to really get this.  (1) The Lizard Brain cannot not communicate, and (2) The Lizard Brain is instantly and always communicating with all other Lizard Brains it is in contact with in the same space.  

So, it sends and receives signals of body language, sight, smell, touch, taste, etc at all times.  How does this happen?  I created a diagram to illustrate my findings of this phenomenon from my personal perspective.  Look at my diagram below:

How do we use this information if the Lizard Brain cannot be directly controlled?  Good question.  The answer: we can indirectly control the Lizard Brain.  We can change our body language through the techniques used in Method Acting.  With the use of our visualization and imagination, we can fool the Lizard Brain to react in any way we choose - if we have the skills to imagine that we are really in a particular situation.

For example, if you want to imagine yourself as powerful and care free, imagine that you are driving a Ferrari, with a pile of money on the back seat in wrapped rubber bands containing one million dollars in cash.  Imagine you are driving 80 miles per hour and the wind is blowing in your hair and you are thinking about this cash in your back seat.  Feel and imagine.  Guess what?  Your Lizard Brain will emit the body language of a care free millionaire enjoying a fine ride in a fine car!  And then what?  All the other Lizard Brains around you will sense this and respond appropriately.

It is that simple.  There is a lot more to this, but this should give you a rough sketch.  Have fun!

Joe Istre