Shannon's Journal Discussion

[Shannon]

My name is Shannon, thanks. Shortening it doesn't work.

Peripheral vision is almost entirely subconsciously absorbed information, and that makes it subliminal.

Hello Shannon, I am new here and this is my first post.

I emailed this question but was told to post it in this thread.

I came across a website saying that in subliminals, the affirmations must be in the 'You' form, not 'I'. It was trying to say that it will not help you or will not be effective because the voice in the subliminal is talking about him/herself, hence the 'I' and it is not directing the statements to you. If a stranger is telling your subconscious 'I am confident' how can it be so effective? Why not 'you are confident?'

This is a good point and I am not sure if this has been brought up before.

Can you please shed some light on this?
Most subliminals out there are in I form.

The facts according to realty, instead of simply playing telephone with everyone on the Internet assuming everything everyone on the Internet says must be true, is as follows:

"YOU" statements work only for people who accept direct control from others. It would be the equivalent of a hypnotist giving commands to achieve the trance state, instead of doing so in a subtle, passive way that allows the individual the illusion of control. These very same statements will be rejected, resisted and ignored by those who would require the indirect approach with a hypnotist.

"I" statements are much more acceptable, and universally so, because they work for both much better. They don't trigger "You can't tell me what to do!" responses from control freaks, and they work for everyone else as well.

The fact is, even if I use a male voice only, and I use an "I" statement, even female listeners will execute the statements because part of the process of cognition subconsciously appears intrinsically tied to execution. This is why I cannot get an "if/then" statement to work definitively so far, even after 24 years of doing this.

Of course the gender of preference is better, so I use both male and female voices whenever possible, or whenever it would not detract from the goal.

This information is based on more than a decade of research and experimentation, and observing what actually works. I used to use "YOU" statements in the beginning, because like everyone else, "I read it online". But the fact is, most of what is online about subliminal scripting is incorrect, again, as borne out by more than a decade of research and experimentation on my part.

Eh? I wasn't 'playing telephone' assuming everything was true. I just wanted to ask and find out about what seems like a good point.
You have to question sometimes, so you can know what is the truth.

I did not intend to imply that you were playing telephone. However, if you look at how information about subliminals and their scripting is acquired, it is very much like a game of telephone. We start off with someone saying X is true, and then the next person reads it and assumes it's rue and copies it, and then the next person reads it from the other two and assumes it's true and not only copies it, but states that it is known fact, and then...

Nobody's doing the research and experimentation to figure out what the truth is, except for me (and a few specialists in academic psychology, whose work is almost never read by anyone else outside the academic field).

So over literally thousands of re-tellings, there is a lot of repetition of the same "facts" which gain fact status simply because they've been repeated by so many sources, not because they're actually factual.

And the person who gets online looking for information is going to be beset with this sort of thing.

Then they're going to come across me, who is doing all sorts of things that are said to not work, and of course they ask why I do what "doesn't work". We get this periodically, and of course I am happy to explain, because this needs to get out there.

But the whole process just reminds me of a game of telephone. The fact is, short of doing the decades of research, and/or extensively experimenting for yourself, you couldn't possibly know the things that are true or otherwise about what's out there on the Internet. So you reading all that and then coming here and asking me why there is a discrepancy is a good thing. There was never any intention on my part to imply that you're playing telephone, and I apologize if it was worded in a way that seemed that way.