Do subliminal tapes or CDs work?

Question

Please tell me your experiences with them if you've used them or you know someone who has.

Answer 1

They have been shown to work.  Movies had insertions of buy popcorn and drink coke.  Both sales increased.

Some stores had playing in their music things like dont shoplift.  Their theft went down.

I use a hypnosis tape nightly, and it has helped me.

Answer 2

No they don't.

My experiences with them are irrelevant, as anecdotal evidence is useless.

There was a double blind study where different groups of people used tapes for either memory improvement or self esteem.  Both groups reported improvements.  However in the second phase, the investigators secretly switched the tapes...so the low self esteem listened to memory tapes, and vice versa.  Guess what, they both still claimed to have improved, and both showed no actual objective improvement in either case.

It's always about what does the evidence show.  Fundamentalist Alties will however ignore the evidence if it doesn't support their pet faith.

Answer 3

I've tryed the weight loss one and i think it made me each more especially ice cream.

Answer 4

They work very rarely.

This is because the success of hypnotic suggestions is due to the skills of the therapist to tailor his suggestion to the particular needs of the client. According to the results from session to session, the next suggestion is then modified to target the goal even better.

In bought tapes and CD's the tape is on the contrary made as vague as possible to reach a wide range of people, and that doesn't work for most people. Moreover, the suggestion remains the same and your results or lack of them are not monitored to permit a change of course if necessary.

Answer 5

They use of recording to assist yourself in different things can work.  It depends on the person and what it is that they are hoping to accomplish.  I have clients that have used recordings to assist themselves in weightloss and smoking cessation.  It just depends once again on the person and the ability of the therapist and the client to use the altered state of consciousness for healthful suggestions.

Tara

www.innerbalancebodywork.com

Answer 6

'Myth Busters' proved this theory wrong.