Suggestions that Create Confusion
Suggestions that are deliberately constructed to disorient or confuse a person in order to create responsiveness, overload an overly intellectual demeanor, and facilitate dissociation are known as confusional.
For example, you can think you consciously understand the point of such suggestions, but your unconscious (subconscious) mind likes clarity, too, so if you consciously believe that it will consciously work for you in unconsciously structuring the conscious and unconscious patterns for knowing consciously at an unconscious level that you can overload someone's ability to comprehend, then just make sure you use confusion when it is sensible to do so.
Embedded within the confusion are some clear, sensible, and meaningful suggestions that can stand out against the backdrop of confusion.
Confusional techniques are among the most complex hypnotic patterns to master because they are, well, confusing. Confusion techniques deliberately disrupt the person's everyday mental set in order to increase the likelyhood of a suggestion getting in.
When people are confused, they STOP! And then they develop an internal focus (a self-induced hypnotic state) as they quickly sort through everything they know in order to resolve the confusion. While the person's conscious mind is so preoccupied with making sense of something, the unconscious is more readily available for suggestion.
Confusion techniques can take a variety of forms, but generally fall into one or two categories: pattern interruption techniques and overload techniques. Pattern interruption techniques involve saying and/or doing something to interrupt the person's routine response style in a given area.
Sensory overload involves so overloading the person's conscious mind with information coming in from multiple sources that it can't possibly keep up; thus, the unconscious is engaged to a greater degree.
Confusion techniques for the purpose of induction require a clear- headedness on the part of the hypnotist who is inducing a state of confusion in another, so that the hypnotist knows what he or she is doing at each moment. It also requires some dissociation on the part of the hypnotist in order not to get caught up in the confusion he or she is creating.
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