Never take anything serious and play a pretend role.
When in captivity by captors, disagree with them at first and
pretend to be serious as if their current brainwashing techniques are not
functioning, then slowly play the fake role as to get them to think they are
winning you over slowly. You can do this by perhaps starting becoming
moderately aggressive or relaxed and cooperative and leading them on with what
you know is correct. As time goes on, start to question them. Later start to
agree with the captors. However, secretly preserve and hide your whereabouts,
truths, and ego. This is adapting a technique as a method of deception. In addition,
a crucial part of not becoming brainwashed is learning to be the perfect actor
and taking on the leading role to secretly fool the captors into thinking they
are winning you over little by little. Keep in mind you’re playing their game
but unnoticeably your way. Your goal is to make them believe they are winning
you over. I find it a good idea to perhaps do so as if in a spectator-mode-state
of mind or as if watching yourself acting and being the star in the lead role. Remember,
their primary tactic is to break you down any way possible (sleep deprivation, lies
(false or manipulated truths), shame, guilt, starvation, humiliation, physical
threats, psychological threats, false kindness, socialization, social
engineering…etc). Thus, their heaviest tactic is using shame, guilt, (most
likely due to the cause of one’s belief)and their sense of false kindness to
get you to bend to their will. Unfortunately, this is the part where you have
to work or act the hardest. Be sure to get a lot of sleep when possible, eat
whenever possible (watch out food could be drugged to make brainwashing easier), and practice
maintaining your mind’s stability and endurance by occupying your thoughts
elsewhere. Puzzles are the best form of mental exercise. Furthermore, it’s also
critical to know who the real enemy is and maybe adapt selective hearing to
where you hear and collect the opposite of what the captors are telling you.
Talk to yourself
The next technique is to talk to yourself. After a session
of trying to be brainwashed by one’s captors, it’s a good idea to de-brainwash
oneself by talking to oneself to undo the psychological effect that is at the subconsciously
level of one’s mind. If I may explain further, by talking to yourself, you are
speaking to your subconscious. This can also be done looking at your
reflection. Overall, it’s your subconscious you must maintain and preserve; otherwise,
your captors will eventually be successful. It’s in good practice to tell
yourself positive things even if you don’t believe in them or think they are
untrue. It’s also within good practice to make peace with one’s sins or points
of weakness without giving in to self-defeat (because of this one should not
take anything serious), instead find ways to uplift oneself. In the case where
treatment is so severe, one should ask and repeat the questions: What is their
name, age, occupation, what they like, and any other information they want to
hold on to (do so in silence and secret; the captor’s will more than likely use
this information against you). By doing this one is holding onto their
self-identity. It’s also good practice to visualize yourself free from your
captors and what one will one do when freed. Another good idea is during the brainwashing
process or when one has time, recollect memories and past experiences. There is
a good chance you will be reliving them for a long while. If you can’t think of
any memories, make it up. Nevertheless, it’s your dreams and memories that will
keep you sane. This technique will be most helpful during sleep deprivation.
Another technique is singing or making up your own song and using your
imagination as an anchor to keep one’s sanity. It’s also a good way to keep
moral up. Having moral, even if it’s just one person, is extremely beneficial,
despite of all the negativity that is surrounding the individual. When morale
is low, you can pull out the heavy weapon and create your own micro-culture. I
will explain more of this later; nevertheless, this can be anything, really.
Think of it as going tribal with limited resources, like being on an island. Every
resource is a gem where less is more. The more people play along, the more
moral goes up. I like to think of it as returning to one’s ancestral state of
mind. Doing this will ensure novelty for any resources around you.
Collective mentality.
When in captivity with others it’s a good idea to create a
collective environment. This involves the participation of everyone possible.
The first thing that should be established is self-control. Everyone in a
confined environment needs self-control management. In needed, doing so should
also be with the help of others. Next etiquette needs to be established. It’s
important that people should be respectful of each other and do their best to
be polite, help and establish a friendly and harmonious relationship with
others. Establishing this is critical to get a mutual cooperation of each other.
In this environment morale is the most important task one can provide to each
other. To elevate morale, it’s a good idea to have activities that others can participate
in. One can do this by exercising, mediating doing things with others, taking
turns telling stories, making puzzles, playing games or even coming together to
act out a play or sing a choir. I like to think of it as taking on occupations
as if a medieval town. Another idea could be to establish a hierarchy; however,
this breed competition which could turn into jealousy which could turn into
destructive behavior. It may be a good idea to avoid this. If one does create a
hierarchy, there should be a leader voted unanimously by everyone in the group;
in addition there should also be a successor. Another idea is to rotate between
leaders. Now looking back at what’s been done to the group held in captivity,
we can see that one can create their own micro-culture in which can help keep a
level of morale up which could also decrease the effects of brainwashing. However,
if others believes in what the captors are saying and become brainwashed
themselves, they could also be the tool to brainwash others, in essence the
spoiled bread that taints the rest of the bread in the bag. To prevent this,
they too need to be mentally prepared and to play the part as actors. In the
case that every person believes what their captors are saying and does in fact
become brainwashed, one needs to retreat into themselves and do their best to
keep themselves from believing with the techniques mentioned in the article.
Nevertheless, it’s important to play along. For example, think of others that
are brainwashes as zombies, occasionally to blend in, you go and walk amongst
them while pretending to be one; however, in reality you are preserving yourself
and keeping one’s true thoughts and beliefs a secret.
Think, philosophies, and strategize.
Think and question everything, but do so alone and kept to
yourself. Under a controlled institution, in which is necessity for brainwashing
to occur, anyone or everyone could be an enemy. Understand the reasons why a person
is becoming brainwashed and how it could be used into the captor’s favor. By
examining truths, one will find answers. Another idea is to keep oneself busy
with thought with the use of philosophy. If one has all the time in the world,
try to come up with answers to the most impossible of questions one can think
of. This can help to have a healthy and productive mind.
Hypnotherapy
Finally, the biggest tool one has in their arsenal of anti-mind
manipulation tool-set is hypnotization. In such an occasion one is brainwashed beyond
belief, perhaps the most effective tool can be to hypnotize and communicate to another’s
subconscious directly. It is here where a person can be rewired and perhaps brought
back to normal. One can also apply this technique using self hypnosis where one can subconsciously condition themselves to not get brainwashed. Theoretically, the more weak and warn out one's mental state is, the easier it is to apply self hypnosis and to recondition who one is or wants to be. The steps for self hypnosis is simple: relax, clear one's mind, breath slowly, and talk to oneself in a very focused and clear way. Use subconscious commands. Then after one is finished, slowly open one's eyes, in hale and exhale, and bring oneself back to reality.
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