Dear
reader,
a
treat for you for new year's eve, although most of you probably won't
read it in time and/or won't have time to prepare yourself
accordingly before the party. Anyway...
Drug
of choice is something Richard Bandler came up with. The idea is that
our body remembers sensations and reactions. Mind you, it's not the
drugs that cause you to feel a certain way and experience the world
in a certain way. It's your body's response to the drugs that does
that. So for example it's not the LSD that makes you feel the way you
feel, it's your body's response to the LSD.
Of
course with the technique's name "drug of choice" we tend
to think of drugs: LSD, or alcohol
most commonly, I guess. But it can also be used to help you sleep
without your sleeping pills.
According to Richard Bandler, you have to take this pill or whatever
once and remember it and
if you do the remembering well enough, taking the thing once is
enough and you can recreate the
sensations again as much and as often as you like and need to. I
remember Bandler talking about having
several teeth removed and he needed to take some kind of meds. He
supposedly took them only
once and did it with "drug of choice" the next times. The good thing about "drug
of choice" is that with alcohol
for example, you don't get the negative side- or after-effects like
hangover, headache and such.
Essentially "drug of choice" means: free drugs as much as
you want!
So
how do you do this? Let's say you want to get drunk. You remember a
past time when you were drunk
or drinking anyway. Where's the first location you felt it in your
body? I assume it was your mouth.
What kind of feeling was it? Maybe a cooling sensation in your mouth.
Where did you feel something
next? And what kind of sensation? Just as suggestions: your throat?
Stomach? What about
your hands? Your legs? How about your head? Just go through your
body, remember all the parts
of your body in the order you feel the effects when you are drinking
alcohol. Got them all? Go through
them again. As always, do it in the order they happen for you. Do
this a couple of times and you'd
most likely be drunk quite soon. You may want to make sure you're
sitting down somewhere the
first time or times you do this. And watch out when you stand up
again!
You
could also create an anchor for being drunk. That way you may get
there faster the next time and
you don't always have to sit down going through all the parts of your
body time and again.
There's
a nice video of the magician Derren Brown doing this with a guy:
Derren
is quite sneaky with his anchor on the poor chap sending him a short
message at an unexpected
time. Watch out for the guy with the turban, who's sitting in front
of the guy. That's Derren.
He's in his costume/disguise from another trick he did prior to this in that show. So it's not like Derren just sends him messages and
leaves him alone drunk. Very responsible man, he is.
And
also another video working with anchors to enhance the intensity
here:
The
basic idea of this is that you had the sensations before and remember
them in a certain order. But others suggested that you don't need to
have been drunk in order to make yourself drunk that way. We all have seen drunk people either in real life or on movies. So we have a
reference, if not our own. Some say that this is enough already. I
haven't tested that yet.
You
may also want to take it further than just getting rid of your
sleeping pills. They only gave me one
once or twice on a night before surgery. But I don't usually take
them and wouldn't do it again ever
given my experiences and knowledge about hypnosis now. Certainly they
gave me some stuff to
calm me down before surgeries. You may want to recreate those
sensations, too, if you aren't used to
sleeping pills. I'm sure you'll go to sleep very soon that way. Even
if you don't take sleeping pills. I
know I could drift off quite easily that way if I wanted to. However
for sleeping problems I usually
do something less "dramatic", but equally effective, as I
wrote in other posts before.
You
could substitute sleeping pills, if you take them on a regular basis
and don't want that anymore. Ideally you shouldn't need sleeping
pills on a regular basis anyway. Certainly you can get hypnotically
drunk with this method, too. How about replacing pills that help you
with sexual dysfunctions of some kind with this method? How about if
you have a weight problem and make up your own drug with “drug of
choice” to help you with that? Or a confidence booster for shy
people? Or... post your ideas to use this method in the comments.
(Also see my Long live placebo post for that, if you haven't already
read it.)
You
could also combine effects or effects of different substances and
make your own new free drug! It's free, no negative side-effects, no
after-effects. And you can have it as often and as long as you want.
I have this naïve idea that people teach this method to addicts and
the drug-related crimes and deaths go down and drug taking goes down.
But maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part. I haven't worked
with addicts, I don't really know about addictions. Would be cool if
it worked though.
Please
be careful, if you want to use this method to replace actual
medication you really need. Like a diabetic who needs regular insulin
shots for example. At least consult your doctor about this before.
There are some pharmaceuticals you should actually take and not
replace them like that. Not without consulting a doctor first anyway.
Until next blog,
sarah
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