The Way Embedded Commandments Actually Work
Everybody who has been interested in studying covert hypnosis has heard of embedded commandments.
Milton Erickson is the man who is responsible for inventing embedded commandments. He invented them to cure people of chronic pain and for a ton of other therapeutic purposes. Several other hypnotist have also been using embedded commandments since Erickson invented them, mostly to help people stop smoking and to help people lose weight.
Now, it wasn’t long until hypnotist tried to use embedded commandments outside of clinical settings. All of the sudden there were hypnotist running all over the place trying to use embedded commandments to seduce women and to get raises at work. All of these things were done under the name of covert hypnosis.
Anyway, you seldom hear of any actual results that anyone has got trying to use embedded commandments like this. The truth is that embedded commandments performed so poorly in the male seduction community that they are no longer practiced. There hasn’t been a single person whom I’ve met who has been able to get what they wanted by using embedded commandments. If embedded commandments truly could be used outside of clinical settings, then why aren’t the hypnotist who are using them sitting on their own private island ruling the world!
So what gives? Why is there so much hype in the persuasion community behind these therapeutic tools that are known as embedded commandments? The answer is simple: It all comes down to a few money grubbing hypnotist who were out to make an extra buck. In real life situations, embedded commandments simply do not work.
The reason why they don’t work is because there is no clinical setting for the embedded commandments to survive in. It’s sort of like what happens when you take a shark outside of an ocean–it dies because it cannot live outside of its environment. In order for embedded commandments to be successful, there must be a appropriate context for them to be able to take root in the person’s mind. And a HUGE factor of this clinical setting is a clients voluntary action to sit before the hypnotist whilst the hypnotist continues to repeat the embedded commandments in different ways.
Repetition is crucial for embedded commandments to work, and people seldom obey them right when they hear them. This means that embedded commandments are a poor choice to use in a real life persuasion scenario where covert hypnosis is being applied. You won’t have the time or the opportunities to continually repeat them until they take root in the person’s mind whom you are trying to persuade. Besides, there are also many distractions in real life that weaken the power of embedded commandments because in order for them to work you must also have the person’s full attention.
An easier and more effective route to power persuasion would be to put into effect the types of hypnosis that can be practiced through behavior patterns. These are the disguised forms of hypnosis that have a better track record of actually persuading people, because behavior is more powerful than words alone.
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