Mind Control is done mainly to change the way of thinking of a person. As some impressive personalities can influence the behavior and emotions of a person, this helps to control their mind.
Mind control techniques not only cover psychological ways but also the physical, as with torture. Brainwashing, behavior modification, coercive persuasion, Charisma, hypnosis, love bombing, truth drugs are used as Mind control techniques.
Coercive persuasion is mainly used for changing the attitude towards a specific principle. This can be successfully used for influencing a group of people. For example, when a leader creates an ideology and his speeches are forming impacts on minds of large numbers of people, he is said to be using the Coercive Persuasion. This method is a mind control technique which is used with the people who are aware of their consciousness. These people are perfectly normal and they follow the leader when his principle is accepted by them.
This mind control technique is used for social rehabilitation, training of armed forces, religious movement, elections. The coercive persuasion is also often perceived as an experiment to force people to change their ideas and beliefs.
Take a look at charisma with regards to mind control. Charisma is the word from Greek the means the divine factor.
Some individuals have a capacity to attract other people towards themselves because of their extra ordinary charm and personality; i.e. charisma. They have some magnetic power which tends to cause followers who are listening and changing their ideas. It is not easy to describe the particular quality of personality which has effect on many people’s mind. Charisma is an almost supernatural capacity to influence, persuade the people. The charismatic personality must have many qualities present in one individua, as many people admire these qualities and are obsessed with such personalities. They can do anything he or she (the charismatic person) says. This is done with in their conscious status.
Hypnosis is another technique used for mind control. It is used by the hypnotherapist for his patient. Normally it is used to solve the problems of patient, about which he or she is aware. Hypnosis stresses ongoing dialogue with subconscious mind, which will change inner thoughts of a person.
A hypnotherapist may use many methods for hypnosis. However, hypnosis is always done with the permission and knowledge of patient. Whereas mind control may be possible with repetition of hypnosis sessions.
When an individual is closely associated with others via the bond of love, he (or she) is influenced by this close mate. This often enables the other person to change the behavior of a person. For example, this technique is very useful for the person who wants to quit smoking. The other person simply has to tell him (or her) how advantageous it is for his and others’ health, for instance.
Mind Control techniques can also be used to scare the people. For instance, violence and torture are physical methods often used to change one’s attitude. Terrorists use violence for controlling the activities of people; They get their work done by manipulating the people. However physical torture is not legally permitted nor these similar unethical and illegal ways of using mind control techniques.