Formation: The Power Of Suggestion

Formation: the action of forming or process of being formed or moulded.

How? By neurolinguistic programming (NLP) = information delivered in a certain way that forms the mind – and forms us – through selected words and images. It’s never a lie; it’s just selected, and mixed with a load of boring stuff that dulls and confuses the mind. That’s what hypnosis is all about; the power of suggestion – when people are suggestible, they will believe anything. It’s not magic, it’s psychology.

Something unusual is brought to our attention and, for a moment, we are flummoxed. If anything out of context happens at that moment, we become vulnerable, confused and susceptible to suggestion, and that is how we acquire pseudo-knowledge, pseudo-spirituality. Conditioned like Pavlov’s dogs, we build our story, our dream state, our placebo and nocebo.

Pseudo: from Greek pseudēs ‘false’, pseudos ‘falsehood’.
Nocebo: from the Latin ‘to harm’. The effect is the opposite of the placebo effect. It describes a situation where a negative outcome occurs due to a belief that the intervention will cause harm.

Suggestion gives rise to belief that can last a lifetime, and shows a lack of an individual sense of responsibility.

The only thing we can know is direct experience now. This experience is not to be used later, as a similar situation will have a different atmosphere. Memories do not fit all moments, otherwise we would just live on memories – usually others’ memories – and we’d sound ridiculous.

Wisdom is actual experience of reality;
it is just pure consciousness in the moment now.

Belief is a take-away snack.
Wisdom nourishes forever.

With wisdom, we step out of line and pay for it,
but it’s worth it. 🙂

Think enlightenment.
Live it.
Become it.