Self Help & Personal Growth

Mind Control Techniques

Mind Control Techniques

It is strange how fascinated people are with the idea of mind control. Whether it is hypnotic mind control, or mental manipulation by the CIA, the idea of controlling the thoughts of others is everywhere. I think that this is for one simple, psychological reason. The idea of mind control really represents the core of human desire. Everyone wishes that they could just think of something and have it so. No matter whether you want money, power, love, or success, it would be great to just be able to think it and have it so.

In recent years,  mind control has become big business in many different ways. On the one hand, ideas of black ops, of CIA  mind control conspiracies, become more and more common as our liberties are stolen from us and we slip into a culture of paranoia and constant surveillance. With all of these evil people watching us, supposedly for our own protection, and with all of these advertisers trying to manipulate our thoughts to get us to desire what they have to sell us, paranoia almost seems like a rational response.

But on the other hand, mind control is being taught more and more as a technique. The applications range from business to dating, but techniques such as NLP promise to make it easy for you to make people bend to your will through suggestion and other tactics of mental manipulation. Even hypnosis, hokey as it may sound, is making a comeback. The idea of having someone else completely under their power is so appealing to some people that they will do something as strange and outlandish as trying to hypnotize their target. It is really strange what some people will do for fun, but there it is.

I have for a long time wanted to study these methods of mind control, because I have seen people do them, and would like to learn how to frustrate and defeat them. Business types regularly use tactics of NLP, where they will consciously use your words or emulate your body language to try to bring you over to their side. Political think tanks will try to steal the language of the other side and change its meaning to take its power away. Advertisers will tap into our hidden desires to make us want things which everyone knows that we do not need. All of this is mind control, and all of it is intentionally used to manipulate people.

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