Mentalism is a psychological discipline that uses a range of techniques, including sensory observation, hypnosis and suggestion. There are many applications of mentalism, including the study of characters, the search for criminals, and predicting events that may happen in the future! Let’s discover the secrets of mentalists.
What is a mentalist?
An experienced mentalist has generally undergone extensive training in many techniques:
- suggestion,
- hypnosis,
- Neurolinguistic programming,
- cold reading…
The judgment and advice of an experienced mentalist can be so accurate and his predictions so astonishingly astonishing that he can sometimes give the impression of having extrasensory powers. An experienced mentalist gives this impression because their very subtle observations go unnoticed by most people, who as a result often attribute extraordinary powers to them.
For a mentalist, you speak even when you say nothing
One of the secrets of mentalists’ efficiency lies in their knowledge of body language, which is also important, even more important than verbal communication. So for a mentalist, you express yourself through your body, even if you don’t speak.
Even if you do your best to remain as motionless as possible, you can’t stop your body from talking. Besides, the more you try to remain motionless, the more your body will talk on your behalf, and for a mentalist that would be a goldmine of information.
The way you stand, the way you cross your legs, whether you cross them or not, whether you put one hand over the other, the way you hold your head straight or bend it to the side… and many other body positions resemble reading an open book to a mentalist.
According to many psychological studies, body language represents more than half of the information that a mentalist can use to know everything about someone, whether it is about their character, their past, their hidden intentions or what they are planning to do in the future. to do in the future.
The more this person will try to hide his emotions, for example by locking himself in absolute silence, the clearer his thoughts will be to a mentalist.
Depending on the attitude of their conversation partner: mentalists:
- will know if they are being lied to,
- know whether the person keeps his promises or not,
- know whether the person is capable of significant effort
- discover everything they need to know about that person’s personality.
Cold reading
One of the most important other techniques used by mentalists is called cold reading.
Cold reading is a perfect complement to non-verbal communication because this technique makes it possible to infer a person’s personality, intentions or actions simply by analyzing the way he dresses and stands.
As a result, unless you appear before a mentalist without clothes, no matter how you behave, how you stand, whether you communicate verbally or not, a mentalist will always manage to know everything they want about you and what you have . done, no matter how hard you try to hide who you are, what you have done or want to do.
The subtle observation that can be derived from cold reading opens the door to the real personality of an individual, since we all come from a cultural environment that shapes us and transmits codes that we reproduce consciously or unconsciously, codes known to mentalists .
Consequently, the way we talk, whether we talk or not, the way we stand, the way we dress, act and react reveal our personality to an experienced mentalist in a much more accurate way than by telling them about us in detailed terms exist to tell. . This observation reveals much more than what we could say, because much of our behavior, of which we are not aware, can seem completely obvious to an experienced and observant mentalist.
