Laws of Suggestion

Law of concentrated attention

Concentrating your attention on an idea will lead to it spontaneously realising itself.

Relaxation and repartition makes it more likely to happen if you focus on the positive and on the goal.

An example is if you want an i phone you start to see them everywhere.

Law of  reversed effect

The harder you try to do something that is governed by the unconscious, the more difficult it becomes to achieve.

In a session the therapist will give suggestions to allow the client to relax and the harder the client try's to relax, the easier it will become for them to do so.

Law of dominant effect

A stronger emotion replaces a weaker one.

eg. behaviourist aversion therapy. In a hypnotherapy session the therapist would pair the clients undesirable behaviour with being sick. i.e. chocolate or smoking addiction.