10 Powerful Mind Control Techniques

If you go back to your past and think about a situation where you are unable to control your actions because of someone’s behavior, you can simply connect it to mind control. No, it’s not your emotional outburst as your actions were manipulated by someone else without you even knowing about it.

This mind control technique (or brainwashing, manipulation, etc.) can either be in your favor or not. This basically depends on your perception and the kind of situation you are in.

From the following article, we will be covering the 10 powerful mind control techniques that are being used by people and companies worldwide. Make sure you check all of them as these can benefit you at some point in your life.

What is Mind Control?

Mind control can be successfully done by applying different techniques. This can either control or modify the thought process of the person you are going to apply. In some cases, it becomes very effective, while in another situation, it can backfire.

Keep in mind that not all mind control is considered negative as it has some benefits that are healthy for an individual. It possesses the power to change the behavior, thoughts, actions, beliefs, and even their identity.

In research, it was shown that mind control and brainwashing can be differentiated.

• When a person is brainwashed, the victim is aware of the fact that they are being influenced. As a result, their thinking pattern changes according to the desire of the instigator.
• About mind control, there is a huge possibility that the victim may not know getting manipulated. Due to that, this technique can be dangerous if the other person has no good intentions in the first place. You never know, your close relative or neighbor can also be a manipulator.

All the Powerful Techniques

Some of these techniques take time to work which proves that different person has their unique mental strength. The stronger ones can be tough to influence, whereas the weaker ones can be done immediately.

So, it all depends on the kind of technique you are using, the period of the application, and the person’s current mental condition (personal and social aspects).

Besides, no physical force is required to get the job done. Anyone can be targeted and that’s where it gets dangerous.

1. Necessity and Sensationalism

This technique makes us feel like we are going to miss something important. Due to that, we feel a kind of urgency to fulfill that desire as soon as possible. Media and other social influencers use this most of the time.

Some examples are:

• Hotel booking websites post information that they have limited room available in a particular season. Most of it is booked, only 1 or 2 are available so you should apply for it immediately. In reality, this is not true. It is just a trick to hook you up with their advertisement policy and most of the time it works.
• Magazine which informs the world about top celebrities sometimes exaggerates or creates their own unique stories about famous people to sell papers.

2. Mixing the Reality and Personal Belief System

In this case, the person is being presented with a wrong idea so that an illusion is created and the initiator gets their desire.

It can happen in a way that you won’t even notice and will take it as a regular situation.

Some examples are:

• If a person is interested in eliminating an employee from the organization, he or she might use this technique to the upper management by showing different flaws and other negativities of that particular employee. The victim might get terminated if the seniors are convinced well enough.
• In a social situation, if a person hates someone, he or she can insert some negative perception on others by talking about all the negative aspects of the victim. 

3. Following a Stereotype

A stereotype is simply a belief about a particular thing, situation or person. It is a kind of expectation we can have on different aspects of our life.

Some examples are:

• Suppose you are a big fan of an athlete or celebrity. So, there is a chance that you can copy some of their lifestyle or characteristics so that you can feel a sense of achievement. In some situations, the famous person might look good on the outside but not from the inside. Make sure you pick carefully.
• If we observe our neighbor or a family and we find that they are really happy despite all the troubles they are facing, we might unconsciously display it in our life as well. This basically gives us a feeling of unity with people (families, neighbors, etc.)

4. Changing a Decision

Yes, your decision can be changed by a manipulator and you won’t be aware of it. This can turn out to be dangerous if the initiator has a negative intention. That person displays his authority in front of you and will provide some personal examples to verify his or her particular claim.

Some examples are:

• Before you buy an earphone, a company might show you all the benefits you are going to get if you purchase it and why you shouldn’t be buying other brands. If you had planned to purchase a specific one in advance, there is a possibility that you can change your decision.
• For the kind of person who can’t make life decisions and are not mentally strong, they can be easily manipulated by planting wrong ideas if they are surrounded by negative people.

5. Making a Person Do You a Favor (Door-in-the-face-technique)

This is a trick where the other person feels a bit of guilt and does you the favor that you want. To achieve that, you have to set a bigger favor than your desired one.

Some examples are:

• John wants Suzan to send an e-mail on his behalf but he knows that she might not agree with that.He can start by asking her a favor like borrowing money, posting a letter, etc. Since it is a big one and she is going to reject it anyhow, John is going to get his next desire easily as Suzan is going to feel a bit of guilt if she rejects the second one as well.
• Some market researchers might call you about doing a survey consisting of 50 questions, whereas they have actually set 5 questions in total. You may feel to ignore it initially, but when they will ask you the second favor, you will be going to do it.

6. Using Important Sentence or Vocabulary

When you use a high-level sentence or vocabulary, the opponent might feel a bit low in terms of mental status power. This shows you that you are a much knowledgeable individual which sets your bar quite high than normal.

Some examples are:

• A clever person might use this technique to break the confidence of the person he or she might be in a debate with. That smart individual could bring topics of a famous person which can completely change the dimension.
• If you prefer to direct the conversation according to your desire, you can use legit sentences or vocabularies that have power and deep meaning.

7. Criticizing a Whole Group Based on an Individual

Most of the people on social media prefer to display the bright side of their life and hides all the negative areas. It is true that we love the positive aspects of everything, but we can’t judge a person based on a single criterion.

Some examples are:

• If you are injured by a body massage from a professional, you can’t criticize the whole parlor based on an incident.
• Some people gain pleasure in judging a cricket team by focusing on a particular athlete’s performance negatively.

8. Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation

People who are sleep deprived and feel no motivation throughout the day are very much vulnerable to get influenced.

Some examples are:

• You can easily motivate this kind of person by providing them with something that is out of their thought process.
• Manipulators find them as their biggest victims and negatively steer them by suggesting lots of fruitful outcomes, which they are not going to get in the end actually.

9. Repetition

Constant repetition is a powerful technique if you use it for your advantage. If the message is delivered to your brain correctly, you are gradually going to process and experience it in your real life.

Some examples are:

• People who have been abused mentally in their childhood usually believe some of the aspects that they have programmed by the abuser in the past like ‘You are not good enough’, ‘You will never be successful’, ‘No one will ever love you’ and so on.

These sentences were repeated so much during their growth stage that they tend to believe it without giving a second thought.As a result, their behavior shapes like it.

• If you repeat a specific and positive affirmation to yourself, you will notice that this is imposing a good effect on your daily life. Affirming ‘I am confident’, ‘I am always optimistic’, etc. can change your perception in any situation of your life. As you can see, repetition can be used for positive purposes. 

10. Hypnosis

This has been used by professionals before we even stepped into the earth. Hypnosis makes the persons’ mind vulnerable enough to install a new perception and set of behaviors.

Some examples are:

• To overcome past traumatic experiences, a professional take their patients’ mind to a calm state through hypnosis and goes to the source of the problem to solve it.
• If an individual has a negative purpose, he or she can create fake memories onto the mind of the victim through hypnotherapy. After the session, that vulnerable person will act completely different and might follow the orders of the instigator.

Who Loves Mind Controlling?

Mind control can be applied by anyone who has a clear intention to control someone to get their desire. The person has a specific reason which can be personal, social or political.

In other words, their ultimate goal is to cut the freedom of the victims’ point of view and their judging power. These techniques are quite common among cults, sects, etc. The group leaders prefer to use it to gather more followers and keep them active all the time.

A lunatic, psychopath or sociopath can also use it to hurt the victim. This kind of people doesn’t have emotions and are very good at misusing it in any way they want.

Some examples that you might be able to relate are between a teacher and student, parents and kid, doctor and patient, boss and employee, and many more.

Some Advantages

Fortunately, there is a light at the end of the tunnel from these mind control techniques. Don’t take it negatively in all areas as they are beneficial and play a key role in different circumstances. Here are some of the benefits.

• Professional Purposes

Doctors or psychologists use these techniques to cure their patients who have mental disorders. Yes, it brings positivity to the lives of unhealthy people in lots of ways. Some visit the professionals to overcome their addictions, past traumatic experiences, suicidal and self-harm thoughts, and to improve their self-esteem onto a new level.

• Personal Growth

The best thing about it is that you can use it for your personal development. If you can apply it correctly, you can follow the perception of wealthy or successful people and bring success to your own life as well.

Whether you are poor or not, you can at least push yourself up or break your comfort zone that you might not be able to do before. Plus, you can also follow the lifestyle of your favorite celebrities and take up their identities to bring some changes in your own life.

• Earning a Person’s Respect

If you are in a meeting and you want to share your idea and suggestion so that everyone can take it seriously, this technique will be a blessing in disguise.

We all run towards pleasure, and if you can make the employees in the room feel the same thing by showing the way they can profit from a certain project, this can turn as a big advantage on your side as well.

Not only you will earn their respect, but people will also be dependent on you from the next time when a decision-making situation arises.

Likewise, during a heated debate, both parties fight their best to make their claim as true and valid. Using this strategic process, you can neutralize the situation and even earn the other parties’ respect at the end.

Human always makes the decision based on the emotions they are feeling and then we use our logical thinking to prove it right. Mind control allows you to win their heart positively. Your positivity and good intention will motivate them to change their mind without feeling any resistance.

In total, this method is not always bad and it only becomes negative when the initiatory has a purpose that will only serve him.

Final Words

This is a very informative article and it will be best that you should go through it more than once. You would always prefer to remember from your memory bank, right? So, don’t forget this step.

Share it with your loved ones so that they can know all the benefits and drawbacks beforehand. Do well to others and the same thing will come to you. As karma says ‘What goes around comes around’.

Have a good day!