Re:The theoretical basis of ideomotor signalling

Hi Todd,

I am aware of what you wrote & agree. As a Hypnotherapist & I use ideomotor signalling routinely. Though not usually for the reasons that you mentioned. I think of signalling as a way of communicating with a person who is so deeply relaxed that s/he is unable to or not inclined to speak. It's a bit like communicating with someone who is unable to speak in a host of other circumstances up to a point.

Someone with a mouth full of food may gesture in reply to a question. We all have to resort to signalling when the dentist is digging at our teeth. Someone speaking to a group or on the phone may gesture. Many of us take more meaning from the gestures & body language than from the actual words coming out of a person's mouth. We repond to 'the vibes' so to speak. Sometimes the words & the gestures do not match, & that is of great interest too. Especially in Hypnotherapy.

Now in hypnosis there are also the 'passes' that many practitioners do to emphasize what is being said as well as to project 'energy' towards the subject. That skill ties up with dowsing, reiki, qigong healing and many oher modalities & is probably even more controversial in the West.

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