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Being the compulsive eater that I tend to be, I tried one of Steve
Halpren's dieting tapes. I have partially succes with it. It
does help me eat less, reduces the stress so I was not reacting
to that but I had to play it when I first got home & sometimes again
in the evening. I have a friend that used the same tape and had
more success with it.
I've tried several types of tapes, guided visualizaton, hypnotherapy,
and this. I would plase this after the two other types. The only
benefit over the other two is that I can listen to it while I do
another quiet activity - exercise, do dishes, etc.
One thing that you may want to check is the text of the messages
& make sure that they are ones that you want to hear. I am NOT
saying that you can be programmed to do something you don't want
to do by these tapes. But it made it more meaningful to me to be
able to repeat the messages during the day (like affirmations).
Jayna
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| You're actually asking two questions: one on subliminals; one on
those sold at House of Zodiac.
I've tried a subliminal with some success; I got it from Sutphin's
outfit rather than HOZ, though. Those that were available from
HOZ use "natural sounds" (such as surf breaking) to mask the
subliminals; the one I used had music as the mask. I think it's
easier to listen to music than, say, to ocean noises. My wife tried a
surf-breaking one designed to help stop smoking. She got bored
after 5 minutes, so the investment went down the tubes.
Note: _Ethical_ sublimimal publishers will supply you with a listing
of the subliminal messages (sometimes is a sealed enverl ope for
later perusal). I'd be very suspicious of using a subliminal; without
such a listing available.
Steve Kallis, Jr,
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| Some subliminals seem to work well for some people some of the time.
Nobody really known why one works and another fails, or why one
works for one person and not for another, or why it will work sometimes
for someone but not at othertimes for the same person.
Much of the experimental literature on subliminals concerns
non-specific messages added to other forms of therapy. By far the
most commonly used, for historical reasons, is "Mommy and I are
One". Many experiments show better "outcomes" for various therapies,
including stress reduction and habit-breaking, when there are sessions
which present this message. On the other hand other very similar
experiments have failed to show any effect at all.
My impression is that the concensus among psychologists who "believe"
in the potential of subliminals is that knowledge of the message
is irrelevant. I suspect that the situation is similar to hypnosis.
In my experience, the effect of whether or not the "subject"
consciously remembers a post-hypnotic suggestion is:
1) For a "long-term" post-hypnotic suggestion, which is what
is theraputically useful, amnesia makes the "start-up" of
the suggestion a bit smoother.
2) In the long term, however, it makes no difference.
3) For a "short-term" post-hypnotic suggestion, something which
will set up "cognitive disonance" amnesia can be quite helpful,
but won't make the suggestion last significantly longer.
In other words, knowing the "suggestion", whether hypnotic or
subliminal probably doesn't make a lot of difference in the long
term outcome of anything which is going to "work" anyway. Bad messages
will be rejected in the long term but may cause some stress and
discomfort in the short term -- unless they reinforce a bad habit
you already have. A suggestion that you "drink like a fish" might
have bad consequences to an alchoholic but would have only a short
term effect, at most, on a non-alchoholic. Overall, I would say
that you should make sure that someone you trust knows what's on
the tape. If you check it yourself, I doubt if it will make any
difference in the long term.
Topher
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