Monday, 5 October 2009

Research Project Ideas - Devloping - Developing- Devel.....

Power of Suggestion
To understand the Power of Suggestion, you need to appreciate the nature of suggestion and how it works. For example, they should always be in the positive. If you read ‘don’t think of a black cat’, what do you think of? If only at a subconscious level, you probably thought of a black cat. That is because you have to think about each word before understanding the grammar. The unconscious works in the same way. So if you think to yourself ‘don’t worry, don’t worry‘ you are actually programming yourself to worry, because ‘worry’ is being repeated to your subconscious. Do you see how this works? This is a useful tip for everyday life. For example it is more influential to say ‘please be on time‘ rather than ‘please don’t be late‘. When someone asks you how you are, answering ‘not bad‘ will leave the word ‘bad’ lingering in their subconscious, which they may then associate with you. So first tip for the power of suggestion: the subconscious takes things literally, one word at a time, and processes all the associations for those words.



Here is a very rough example of how I intend this to work. Imagine this image was a television advert, as you focus on the dot in the middle, all of the other colours around it seem to disapear as you focus solely on the information in the middle of the page/screen. This is a basis for my edited films/reports, as I would like to create a similar effect through editing.

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