It simply cannot be denied that covert hypnosis is equally concerned with removing negative thought processes as much as it is concerned with installing positive thought processes.

When you are trying to add personal power and success to your life, one of the things your mind is most likely focused on is what you can add to yourself, but you seldom think of how important it is to take away from yourself. You need to train yourself to take away in order to be as successful and powerful as you want to be. This powerful strategy involves removing bad behaviors, bad habits, and anything else that interferes with your goals and objectives.

The Subtraction Strategy can also involve breaking up with someone who is having a negative impact on your life, or it may involve ending friendships that are not productive. By getting rid of these people, you get rid of their infectious behavior so that you are not infected by them. You've all heard the saying, "Those who walk with wise men will be wise". Well, because a person is identified by the company they keep, it is imperative to get rid of negative alliances you have made and establish positive and productive alliances in their place.

You may also think of The Subtraction Strategy like you would think of dieting. Dieting keeps you fit, healthy, and looking good. But dieting has as much to do with what you abstain from as it does what you indulge in. This means that what you remove yourself from as a hypnotist is as important as what you involve yourself in as a hypnotist. There are also certain techniques that many "persuasion gurus" teach that in simple terms do not work out and that do not give you the outcome they promise. So, instead of trying to use strategies that don't work, you should abstain from them so that you will have the ability to carry out the tactics that do work. Letting go of what doesn't work is what gives you the strength to embrace what does work.

Let go and you will be able to embrace again. This is the key to mastery. Most people are only worried about what they can add, but they are usually not concerned with what they can take away. By eradicating fear, anger, and other negative emotions, what will happen to you is that you will be empowered to be filled with happiness, success, patience, and power. If you were to fully consider this principle of letting go, you will realize that taking things away is the primary objective of hypnosis.

Another crucial principle to keep in mind about The Subtraction Strategy is that you first must become empty before you will have the ability to be filled. A full cup cannot be filled anymore, so to be able to fully focus upon and to be able to practice one thing that works, you must not be focusing upon and practicing other things that do not work. This is part of what is known is Taoist philosophy as "non action". Non action is extremely important, because not doing is what causes you to do. It's like when a person quits smoking: By not smoking they will be able to exercise more because they can breathe easier and will have more energy. This same rule applies to mind control hypnosis, because by not wasting your time doing and studying the wrong doctrines, you will be empowered to practice and learn the correct doctrines.