Yesterday at the Lesswrong Berlin meetup I taught a technique for dealing with emotions. On of the things I learned from the experience is that it’s hard to get people in the LW crowd to strongly associate emotions through bringing up memories.
Or a student could imagine deciding to do his homework and then suddenly winning a million dollars.
That’s a bad idea. Most people are not motivated to engage in actions that make them win a million dollars. It’s outside of their comfort zone to just win a million dollar. It requires people to update their self identity in a non trivial way to win a million dollars. You want to imagine situations that feel good but that are easily accessible.
Using tricks with mental imaginary is a large part of what hypnosis is about.
Changing sociability in a lasting way isn’t easy because we have had strong conditioning about what to feel in the past.
Even through my German vocabulary is bigger and it’s my native language I’m frequently more let go in social interaction when they are in English because I learned to speak English socially with people in environments that have generally an upbeat vibe like Toastmasters while I spoke a lot of German in my life in situations like school where I behaved socially inwardly.
If I can get someone in a deep enough trance in hypnosis then I can attach an emotion to a well defined behavior. The emotion will come up the next time the behavior is triggered.
If it’s something like sociability and the person gets often negative feedback in social situations then the emotional trigger will burn out and soon lose it’s effect.
I personally consider implementing negative emotional responses to be dark, but if anyone who comes to the LW Europe Community Camp in Berlin wants a 1-on-1 hypnosis 30 minutes experience to associate a positive emotion to an experience just approach me. As far as I understand there going to be lots of unsheduled time at the weekend.
Yesterday at the Lesswrong Berlin meetup I taught a technique for dealing with emotions. On of the things I learned from the experience is that it’s hard to get people in the LW crowd to strongly associate emotions through bringing up memories.
That’s a bad idea. Most people are not motivated to engage in actions that make them win a million dollars. It’s outside of their comfort zone to just win a million dollar. It requires people to update their self identity in a non trivial way to win a million dollars. You want to imagine situations that feel good but that are easily accessible.
Using tricks with mental imaginary is a large part of what hypnosis is about.
Changing sociability in a lasting way isn’t easy because we have had strong conditioning about what to feel in the past.
Even through my German vocabulary is bigger and it’s my native language I’m frequently more let go in social interaction when they are in English because I learned to speak English socially with people in environments that have generally an upbeat vibe like Toastmasters while I spoke a lot of German in my life in situations like school where I behaved socially inwardly.
If I can get someone in a deep enough trance in hypnosis then I can attach an emotion to a well defined behavior. The emotion will come up the next time the behavior is triggered.
If it’s something like sociability and the person gets often negative feedback in social situations then the emotional trigger will burn out and soon lose it’s effect.
I personally consider implementing negative emotional responses to be dark, but if anyone who comes to the LW Europe Community Camp in Berlin wants a 1-on-1 hypnosis 30 minutes experience to associate a positive emotion to an experience just approach me. As far as I understand there going to be lots of unsheduled time at the weekend.