Signal Recognition Technology

I got this from a deleted post

a review on SRT

Today I’m writing about some specific techniques for changing the internal state of an individual, one of which is called Signal Recognition Technology – SRT for short. You may or may not be familiar with this specific method of eliciting and/or changing someone’s emotional frame but hopefully after this post you’ll understand the mechanics of it and why it is indeed so powerful.

First let’s quickly discuss why we’d want to induce a state change in a person with this method in the first place. When a person has a negative frame or outlook, it’s almost impossible to force them into a more beneficial state without encountering resistance. You can be covert and get results, but there is an easier way. Plus you can combine covert techniques with this method which will be demonstrated further on.

You’ve all heard about the guys who tell a girl directly, “Don’t feel that way.” Though their intentions are usually good, they’re thinking about “solving the problem” in a very linear fashion that just doesn’t work with the female mind. In fact, it doesn’t work with the emotional mind of either gender. In order to coax an emotional shift in a person you need to do it in a way that’s natural to them.

Let’s take the example of being angry: In the natural process of shifting from angry to happy there are some important individualized transitional stages that must be included (see fig. 01); for example the person first becomes less angry, then calms down to neutral, then begins the processes that make them happy and then finally they are enveloped in the state of happiness. You cannot go from anger directly to happiness for even if you tried it would FEEL fake and NOT NATURAL (see fig. 02). There are many reasons for this and it’s too lengthy to go into here but I might in the future.

Angry -> Mildly Upset -> Neutral -> Content -> Happy
(fig. 01)

Angry -> Happy = Incongruent to Their Natural Process
(fig. 02)

This is where the power of Signal Recognition Technology comes into play. The explanation of SRT itself can be derived from its name; you’re using the person’s own emotional and subconscious signals of recognition as an application to move them to where you want them to be.

To demonstrate SRT further, I will provide you with the following example:

”What’s the first feeling you get inside when you realize you are in love?”

When you ask a person that question, first of all in order to understand it they need to go into their subconscious to find their symbol or pattern for love. Without the symbol or without anything to compare the word to, it is meaningless. If I say to you, “what’s the first feeling you get inside when you feel shnorgle?” There’s no symbol or previous pattern to match the word shnorgle to (Hell, you’d probably start thinking about the first feeling you get when you’re confused by a word). By the way, a mixed up set of internal symbols is often the cause of many instances of cognitive dissonance for without our symbols and patterns we are lost in oblivion. But I digress.

Secondly, when a person is asked, “What’s the first feeling you get inside when you realize you are in love?” after they’ve processed the word love to comprehend the sentence, they then have to search around their subconscious to find an answer to the actual question of how it feels. And in most cases, they dip into their permanent memory to find a time when they felt they were in love and they re-experience those same feelings so they can provide you with an answer. Even if they don’t answer you directly, just thinking and considering the question causes the state change.

Voila! They went through THEIR OWN set of processes/transitions and you changed their state to one of feeling in love. If you just said to the person, feel like you’re in love right now! It’s not natural because instead of guiding them graciously through their own processes of feeling love, you’re forcing your words onto them. As you can see this has tremendous power in the world of persuasion as you can casually elicit any state in a person just by asking them a question.

You don’t even need to be directly overt with the question in order to get the same results. As long as the symbols or patterns match up the process will be the same as we tend to experience the same states for differing contexts.


Midnight.