We all know of Star Wars, the famous production by George Lucas’s which has brought about the pop culture lifestyle that lasted up till today. While I do not want to be bombarded by fans all over the world by my inaccuracies and lack of attention to detail, I would like to bring your attention to one of the well known aspects of the Jedi’s in the movie. It is the Jedi mind trick that is used and how a wave of a hand enables them to control the mind of the enemy. Very soon gates are opened and escapes are made. Things and information are handed to them as easily as ever and success is within easy reach.
The princess is saved, the Empire defeated and the galaxy restored to the order it should be in. While our lives may not have the drama that the double trilogy might have, how surprised would you be to know that a very close cousin of that Jedi mind trick is available online? Yes, I know it sounds amazing - but welcome to the world of subliminal messages. From the movie, it seems as if the Jedi is able to speak and embed that message into another person’s subconscious just with a wave of a hand. Immediately the statement becomes truth and life goes on by as they planned. I could not have found a better description for the technology of subliminal messages and in essence, this is what they do. Firstly, replace the wave of the hand with a medium like something auditory or visual. That is the distraction.
Usually it comes as relaxing music or very relaxing and serene scenery.The message is then embedded in the subconscious mind where it reaches the cortex of the brain and floats around. Amazingly, the conscious mind does not detect this. How the subconscious works is that it believes all the messages that it receives and proceeds to follow their instructions to the letter.This is because it also believes that it has gone through all the necessary security measures and filters of the conscious mind and other cognitive defences like rational thinking and critical thought.
So, it accepts them as raw data that the mind has accepted as truth.This is a very powerful form of mind control, but the only difference between you and Luke Skywalker is that you are doing it on yourself. Most of us have plenty of bad habits and addictions that we would like to kick.Or we may have some negative characteristics that we would like to change. Using this new form of Jedi mind tricks, or subliminal messaging, we are able to push through the conscious mind and thus implant messages directly into the controlling core of our emotions, spirit and soul - thus changing ourselves for the better and transforming our lives.
