Learn faster by identifying with the expert
Learn faster by identifying with the expert
May 29, 2020
5 min reading time

Learn faster by identifying with the expert

Quickly master skills. You might think that would mean practicing every day, reading, signing up for courses and all sorts of things. Sure, this can help you learn new skills, but then it takes a very long time.

Fortunately, there is a way to learn quickly, and somewhere you already know that way because you've done this before. Here I will address it first

When you are little, between zero and four years old, you have a lot of things to learn. Huge things, much more than you learn in a day now. You have to learn how things work in your family, your environment, how to deal with your parents, and if they are divorced, what about step-parents, grandparents, and siblings.

How you deal with your culture - Dutch, Indian or Islamic culture - and how it goes in the village where you live. Are those rules suddenly different there? And the culture in your family, how does it relate to the village?

And then you have to go to school, and there you also have to learn all kinds of things.

When you're that age, you're not at all asking critical questions about how it works. You just do. For example, you're imitating your father and your mother. You are also a combination of your father's 20,000 genes and your mother's 20,000 genes.

A fruit fly has more genes than you.

So when you say that what you do is genetic, I always think that won't be too bad. That's nature.

Then we also have nurture: how we are raised. What rules, ideas and traits we are taught?

And we have genetic nurture: what environment do we grow up in. If you grow up in Africa, your IQ is on average 11 points lower, because in that environment there is less availability of anything that will boost your IQ.

So we get all this as a gift. You just get 11 points of IQ gift compared to third world countries. You just have to be born in the right place. And you can do something with that or not.

Then we have our environment, which stimulates us and provokes certain behaviors, our upbringing and our genes.

One of the most important things you do is imitate your mom and dad. Then later - when you have children of your own - you suddenly do statements you learned from one of your parents, whereas the used to hate them. That something suddenly flashes out, making you think, "Shit, now I sound just like my mother (or my father) and I don't want that at all." And yet you're just doing the same thing one of your parents used to do.

Most people do things the same as their parents, and you see that in their children. You then see certain inherited behaviors, as well as inherited pathologies. Back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain. Yes, our whole family has those complaints. Yes, you all do the same thing too.

It also makes sense to do the same, after all, you have to survive. After all, you have to know how everything works.

You can even go against it, and even that is often then because of your father or mother.

Whether you rebel or do exactly the same thing, in the beginning you do exactly the same thing. Later the rebellious comes. Then you see people have certain traits or the same walk as one of their parents.

Makes perfect sense, because you want to learn things as quickly as possible.

But you may later prefer to adopt someone else's skills rather than those of your parents. They may not be the best role models for the goals you have now.

So this is a quick way to learn something.

But how do you do this as an adult?

With deep trance identification, you can then "imitate someone else."

For example, if you want the skills of Martin Luther King when he gave that speech, you step into him.

There are three things you can believe about what happens next.

  1. You step into that person's energy and you get all kinds of information, skills, images and ideas as a result.
  2. You step into your idea of that person. Everything you have unconsciously picked up suddenly comes to the surface, and it feels like that is Martin Luther King.
  3. You channel the information that hangs there from Martin Luther King.

I believe the third. The whole universe is made up of information, of bits. They used to think it's all matter, then they thought it's energy, and now physicists think it's all information, all bits.

I think we, that our brains, channel that information. I channel the information from Edwin. The IRS, my mother, my father and those around me say it. So this is confirmed every time. Everything says I am Edwin and I say it myself. So I channel all the info that Edwin has and that is hanging out there.

I then imagine my brain as a kind of receiver channeling the information.

So then I can channel myself on Richard Brandson and I get very interesting ideas, insights and beliefs and then I think, "Wow man, you can think about life that way too."

Those insights stick and so do the feelings.

With aikido, I did that a lot and then I got very clear ideas and feelings, like realizing how the gut feeling works and how to move your arm. Because I focused then the founder of aikido.

This is how my skills advanced tremendously. So not a linear growth, but suddenly I went up a level.

I believe you then tune in with your brain to the channel of that person you want to learn something from, and then you channel that information. Because it's just hanging there.

Energy and information is always there and you need to grab it.

Information is also noticeable, in your body. It is then so, so you feel it. You feel that new knowledge throughout your body.

This is how you used to learn from people you wanted to learn from, and this is how you can do it again from people you would like to learn from.

Now I achieve so much better results with crossfit by tuning into information other than just Edwin Selij. I then tune into Matthew Frazier, the three-time crossfit champion. He's always in the mood to train and then suddenly things go a lot easier.

Your body suddenly goes a lot faster and you get stronger, because your mindset also changes and then things go very differently. You start acting differently and also your body changes (so much faster and much stronger in my case) if you tell yourself that you are that person.

Your body then suddenly adapts to it.

Of course, you also have to deal with your genes. If you align yourself with individuals with skills you want, you will learn them much faster.

Be sure to listen to this podcast as well:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/195236/1229870-hoe-kan-je-nu-veel-sneller-iets-leren

On the contrary, if you believe more in those other two forms of deep trance identification, it is still important to find a role model.

Maybe you already have a role model in your mind. For example, a great musician, a great athlete or a great entrepreneur.

Observe that person, read a biography and then go into deep trance identification. Everything you have picked up consciously and subconsciously during the observations then comes to you, which also allows you to quickly get new ideas about how you can address issues. You can get realizations and this can give you an awful lot of knowledge.

This is an advanced technique for hypnotherapists and you get it in the hypnosis 2.0 training.

Want to know if you can hypnotize yourself or others? Then come to the hypnosis playshop. The playshops are held in Wormerveer and Zwolle.

Want to see hypnotherapy in action, that is, people being helped with their problems? Then come to a hypnosis seminar.

Want to get started with hypnosis techniques right away to advance to the 2.0 training? Then enroll in Hypnosis Institute Netherlands' training courses.

About the author
Edwin Selij is owner and founder of Hypnose Instituut Nederland and provides training in Hypnosis. He is author of the books "You Don't Have It You Do It" and "Break Free!" and regularly appears on radio and TV to talk about hypnosis. He is the #1 Hypnosis Trainer in the Netherlands and has been giving hypnosis training for years. He was the first in the Netherlands to teach modern hypnotherapy via livestream.
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