Part 2Hello everyone.
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After the break was over, everyone streamed back into the large hall and took seats, while the everpresent pumping music was playing.
--> I guess that the music is another anchor for having good feelings. Besides being always played, when the crowd was screaming, or being in trance (establishing an audio-anchor) the majority of students goes into clubs at the weekends and dance to that kind of music.
When everyone was seated, Lennackers went on with even more story telling, more jokes and the question-answer game. He now had the crowd on his side, laughing about every joke or comedic gesture he made.
The guy who sat in front of me, near the girl who i annoyed with my laughter, had a very very strange way of laughing. He seemed totally out of control, laughing extremely hard at nearly everything and even bending over his table.
I, on the other hand was bored by all the story telling.
I do not remember what he said in detail, but i think that he shifted more into the "You have to act, when the time is right. You are not allowed to hesistate (and so on)".
He even did a small imagination exercise: "What do you feel, when you do not get your dreamjob?"
"You do not have to feel bad about it, you are special, imagine, that you won the sperm race or else you would not sit here."
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4. Exercise "50 € under my chair"
I did not know about that exercise before, but it fit thematically with his story telling.
At one time, after having finished a rambling about the "you have to act"-thing, he said:
"There are 50€ under my chair."
He waited while the hall became quiet. Than three students rushed forward to the chair and fought about the money. Honestly, it was kind of degrading.
He proceeded to "interview" the girl who won and set her up as a model, who acted right. And questioned a bit why the others did not act like that.
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After the exercise followed more jokes, stories and some "feeling barometer" screaming. And 2 exercises, which i found to be quite vicious.
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5. Exercise "Postcard"
In front of us laid a postcard with a in my eyes very ironic poem. Translated from German:
"Watch your thoughts,
because they become words.
Watch your words,
because they become actions.
Watch your actions,
because they become habits.
Watch your habits,
because they become character.
Watch your character,
because it becomes your destiny."Isn't that ironic. It describes the process of thought reform and even gives warnings. The card however is used in an very emotional exercise. I missed the lines:
"Watch the gurus,
because they stirr your emotions.
Watch your emotions,
because stirred emotions make it easier to change thoughts."The exercise was made to "do something good, to give something back". Every student had to write a letter with everything he always wanted to say to a person in his family.
While everyone wrote on the card, sad music was played. The girls in front of me were nearly crying and said to each other:
"Oh my god, i'am nearly crying."
"It felt so good."
What now follows is a weak Version of Byron Katies "Gift me your weeding ring sessions".
Markus Lennackers announced, that everyone can bring his card to a box at the end of the event and he will send the postcards to the relevant persons.
--> Give me your personal thoughts and worries and i will take care of them. You can trust me.
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What now follows is no exercise, but a long, fully hypnotic letter. Markus Lennackers claimed that this letter was from his dead grandma, but that is almost 100 percent a lie.
I guess that his grandma does not mean anything to him and her death can be exploited to induce trance, stirr emotions, change thoughts.
The letter was very long, emotional and full with indirect (mostly metaphorical) and plain direct directions, which fit into the categories:
- Do not use logic and do not criticise all the time. Let your emotions flow freely.--> Which kind of grandma would tell that to her own grand son anyway. Good luck, trying to survive World War 2 without logic and criticism.
"I wish, i would not have used my rational mind so often and trusted the feeling in my belly more.."
- Always improve your life, even when you are happy.--> Sink deeper into the world of self improvement and start buying seminars, you sucker.
"I wish i had reached more often for the cherrys on the trees, even when i was happy."
- You have to do something, if you want to reach your goal.--> And if it does not work, it is your fault alone, because you send negative energy to the universe. Come to my seminar to get yet another emotional high.
" My own grandpa once told me a story: A baby lion was alone in the desert...and he had to run very fast to not starve to death and to reach the zebra"
--> Notice the hypnotic technique of a "Story in a Story", designed to suck the recipient deeper into the "Letter from Grandma"- World.
The effect the "letter" had on the crowd was a very emotional one. Many people sobbed and used tissues to wipe tears away. It did not even occur to them, that this "letter" was as fake as it could possibly be.
After that fake letter, Lennackers time ended (big applause) and everyone went into the break.
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Do you want to see a video of those in action? It is in german, but you do not need to understand them to see some of the exercises and the audience's reaction, i described:
Lennackers and Beck"Das wird mein Jahr = This will be my year"
"Veränderung ist möglich = Change is possible"
"Bereit sein = Being ready"
"Das Leben ist keine Generalprobe = Life is no dress rehearsal (actors who perform the theater play a last time, before it goes live)"
"Erfolg ist planbar = You can plan sucess/Sucess is planable"
"Glauben Sie fest an sich = Firmly believe in you"
"Alles erreichen! = Archieving everything!"
And so on. I do not want to translate everything, since it is all nonsense, mixed with high pitched rock music, direct orders and smiling people to create a light trance and feeling of joy. Just another marketing clip.
Notice how similar it is to Tony Robbins events.
I will write more today or in the coming days.