What can post-hypnotic suggestions do?
Post-hypnotic suggestions, are used to make behavior modifications on a subconscious level. Richard Bandler and John Grinder, in some of their older NLP books, describe dramatic post-hypnotic behavior, ranging from transposing sensory behavior (Such as cigarettes tasting like dirt instead of cigarettes or touches being felt in different parts of the body instead of the part touched) to one particular example of a woman who could look at someone and have the text of that person’s name appear in her vision so that she could recognize them, even years after a single meeting. A more common, and certainly less labor-intensive to instill, use would be to form associations between concepts, such as leaving a feeling of displeasure whenever cigarettes or fattening of food are thought of, in an effort to dissuade the subject from smoking or eating those foods. As part of a stage hypnosis act, a post-hypnotic suggestion, assuming that hypnosis has actually taken place, can be used leverage the e
