ChristianKl comments on Flashes of Nondecisionmaking - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lionhearted 27 January 2014 02:30PM

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Comment author: jimmy 27 January 2014 09:19:25PM *  4 points [-]

Funnily enough, we can control our bleeding more directly. .

Think vasoconstriction. If you can learn how to access your bodies ability to use vasoconstriction it can work pretty well. I've met a guy that knows how to think bleeding away (while he was awake at least, he would start bleeding again in his sleep). I've also used suggestion to help stop my girlfriends bleeding to surprising success (the doctor asked why the cut hand was so cold!).

While the main point of "you can't just bark orders all the time" stands, it does point out anther avenue for turning indirect work into a fairly direct avenue through being more aware of what your body functions feel like so that you can communicate with them.

Comment author: ChristianKl 31 January 2014 11:54:05AM 1 point [-]

I've also used suggestion to help stop my girlfriends bleeding to surprising success (the doctor asked why the cut hand was so cold!).

If you do things like that I would take care to revisit the issue a few days or a week later to make sure that the blood flow in the hand is alright and the experience didn't taught your girlfriend to permanently have less blood flow in that hand. You might even measure the temperature in both hands with a thermometer.

Physical trauma + specific suggestion that solves a problem is a straightforward way to install long term behavior.