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We live in a world today that is full of perceptions, deceptions and misconceptions; it is often hard to tell one from the other when learning about new things.
Hypnosis is no stranger to an incredible amount of misconceptions, which is why it is important to really understand what those misconceptions are before assuming you can or cannot accomplish an objective through hypnosis. To really understand what hypnosis, or anything for that matter, is you must first understand all that it is not.
Once you know what hypnosis is not, everything you are left with is what hypnosis is.
Hypnosis has been given many false pretenses through the media, movies and just plain rumor. Hypnosis is not the ability to have complete domination over one’s mind, nor is it domination over another human being.
Another thing hypnosis is not is the ability to dominate another’s will. In a nutshell there is nothing about hypnosis that will lead you to complete domination of the world or human kind, so if this is your intention you should stop here and embark on a new path.
The misconceptions that surround hypnosis can seem almost endless, which can often be the case when you consider any type of work that is associated with power over ones mind, thoughts, ideas and actions.
There are all kinds of associations and false ideas that are created when society acknowledges that power accompanies any way of life, this include hypnosis. For example money carries the connotation of power, however unless you are knowledgeable about how to be powerful with money you will fail.
The misconceptions about hypnosis must be wiped from the slate if you are serious about becoming an eloquent and masterful hypnotist.
The most common misconception in the field of hypnosis is that associated with power. Yes it is true that you will own a sort of power over the mind of your subjects, however this is not to say you will be able to control them completely.
Quite the opposite, part of hypnosis that few are aware of is that hypnosis is actually a type of negotiation with the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is where you store your base of morals and ethics, and while you can as a hypnotist negotiate with the unconscious, you will never be able to change or control one’s morals and ethics.
The ethical code stored in the unconscious is unbreakable, these are the ideas, beliefs and moral standards that every person chooses to live their life by.
Among the common myths of hypnosis is the idea that one can completely control another, this is a myth simply because a person, whether in hypnotic trance or not, will only do what they want to do.
A good example of this is the common entertainment of stage hypnotists. Stage hypnotists will ask for volunteers from their audience, volunteers know on some level that they will be asked while in a hypnotic state to do things that they may not be aware that they are doing, they may even be embarrassing.
However on some level in their minds they are volunteering because they crave the attention that comes from being exhibitionists. The volunteers know they will be controlled by the hypnotist and they are consciously okay with that because it does not cause conflict with their moral code.
Another common myth about the art of hypnosis is that you can create a person so controlled that they will do your evil bidding, or acts that a hypnotist may not want to be personally responsible for. This again is untrue on the level that this will most often conflict with the moral standing and ethics of most people, therefore is not possible.
All this leaves us with what is left, which is what hypnosis really is. Conversational hypnosis is a way of healing and helping people to live better, healthier and happier lives through the art of language and suggestion. Hypnosis is used to its full potential when all parties are prospering from it; the ‘hypnotic messenger’ is a prime example of this.
The ‘hypnotic messenger’ was created when two hypnotists who were seeing the same subject and exchanged messages through the subject.
The messages were placed in the subconscious while the person was in a hypnotic state. As the subject visited each hypnotist and relayed the messages back and forth the hypnotists gave him free treatments as they felt a little shame in the amusing yet harmless game they were playing.
The subject continued to deliver the messages and everyone learned from the situation. The subject was receiving free therapy, and the hypnotists were not only amusing themselves but learning in the process.
This process worked because there was no moral rule being broken or violated in the process of message relay, subconsciously the subject was in agreement or had not conflict with the messages the hypnotists were sending back and forth.
On the other hand a client that is given the subconscious message to do harm to another will not carry out the suggestion because it will often conflict with their morals.
A subject that is asked to commit an act that is forbidden by their religion will not do so even if it is something that may seem harmless to many people, such as dancing. All suggestions and whether they are carried out or not depends on the moral code of the subject and whether or not they truly, ethically believe it is an acceptable behavior.
As a hypnotist it is important to focus on the fact that your goal is to help the mind fulfill what is important to that person, find and fulfill it’s purpose, in this the unconscious mind will do all that is necessary and possible to reach that goal and work with the hypnotist for complete success.
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A Basic Structure for Hypnotherapy
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Hypnosis, Conversational Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are all inclusive of trance sessions that should and will take on whatever form is necessary for producing the results you and your clients are trying to reach. There is not a certain way everything in hypnosis needs to happen. It is true that there are principals and concepts to follow as you have been learning but once trance is achieved the natural progression of that trance should be allowed and commended.
The best guide you can have is that of a basic structure for hypnotherapy, this is not a thing that is set in stone it is simply a guideline. If things vary a bit and are still producing the trance and results you have set out to obtain then you should let things happen naturally as they are.
This basic structure for hypnotherapy is all based on eight concepts which you will read about as we continue. The eight concepts are therapeutic preparation, interviews, identify work, induce trance, change work patterns, test and future pacing, ending trance and setting tasks and dismissal.
The first concept of therapeutic preparation is a variety of things you as a hypnotist need to practice, keep fresh and prepare for in, before and after each of your therapeutic sessions. The first thing you need to do in this step is to prepare yourself for the sessions and work to be done. Make sure that you are up for the task that the problems the client wishes to solve are within your realm and reach to solve.
You also need to keep yourself clean and sharp for all your processes. In this I mean that you should be practicing your skills to keep them in the best shape they can be in as well as breaking your trances each time sessions end. If you don’t you will be taking that trance and all it entails into others and your own life after the session is over.
You are trying to rid your clients of problems not create new ones for yourself! In great seriousness if you do not clear your mind and keep your skills honed you can start to lead yourself into an unhealthy way of living.
Yet another aspect of this step is to be able to leave your work behind, store away the problems of your clients when the session is over and you are not working on that case. If you are over analyzing your practice you will soon tire of it. It is good to keep in mind the mistakes you make and the things you learn from them but dwelling is not healthy. The bottom line is to live outside your therapy practice.
The second step in this basic structure is to interview your clients. The first part of this is a meet and greet in which you will build rapport, comfort with one another and trust. This basic meeting will give you a chance to converse out of trance and will initiate a general relationship built on warmth and comfort, inspiring confidence your ability to help one another. In this way you are also making an impact on the person with your credentials and experience as well as your general demeanor.
The next phase of this step is to conduct a formal type of interview with the client. In this interview your objectives will be to gather information, identify the problem, investigate the resources you have to help and challenge the patterns and presuppositions that are causing limits in the resolution of the problem. You will do all this through six different specific steps of interviewing.
The first is to calibrate, which is to open yourself and be aware of the person’s responses you are getting. In this you will have to be aware to also test both the conscious and unconscious minds.
The second step is that of rapport, which will build naturally as the interview takes place, be aware of it and help it to form.
The next step in this process is that of investigation, this is to investigate the problem, all aspect of it. This includes when, where, why, how and all the surrounding circumstances the person can give you.
After that you will move on to step four which is to challenge the problem. This is simply raising questions and doubts about the problem the client is encountering. In doing this you will challenge the beliefs and realities that the client has that surround the problem as well as seed some doubt about how concrete the problem truly is.
The fifth step in this process is to formulate an outcome. This will entail getting to the heart of what the client really wants to get from your sessions as well as setting goals. You can use any goals setting procedure you like a great one to use is the SMART goal to set an outline of what is to be resolved.
Finally the last step in this interview process will be to investigate the resources available for solving the problem. This can include experiences of the client that will be helpful, as well as a complete picture of the life of the client including beliefs, values, commitments and support systems.
These topics will provide clues in how to solve the problem your client is faced with. Clues that you can use in hypnosis that they have not been able to connect with the dilemma they are facing.
Now you are ready to move on to step three of the basic structure in hypnotherapy. In this step you will be identifying the areas in which you will be doing your work. You will use the information that you were given in the interview process to identify the areas in which you can provide assistance with given the amount of time you have to work within. Part of this will be to make a judgment on what you believe your client can accomplish and work though in the given period of time you have.
In step four you will start with trance inductions. This is where your hypnotherapy or hypnosis will take place; you can do this either informally or formally.
Step five is to involve change work patterns; these are methods such as changing frames, stories and other interventions. These are only a few options you have. You should constantly keep your mind open to new developments in this area as well as find the change work patterns that will work for you; these may be from other people or invented yourself.
Step six in basic structure is to test and future pace. First testing is always going to be an important part of your hypnosis structure. It is important to test the progress you are making so you know what is working and what has potential of failure or falling apart. If your therapy is going to fall apart you will be better off discover this while in session than to realize it happened when you were not around to patch things up. Test thoroughly and often so you are aware of where you stand with your clients.
Future pacing is a rehearsal of future situations that the client’s problem would have appeared in, in the past. In this you will want the situation to naturally trigger the solutions you are helping your client to find. The language you use here will also help your client to move toward change.
Now that you have worked your way through the first six steps in the basic structure of hypnotherapy you are ready to move on to step seven which is to end the trance. As you start to end your trance keep in mind that this is the most suggestible part of trance and you should use it to that advantage. Make positive suggestions and self esteem building tools here as you bring your client out of trance.
After you end the trance you will also want to avoid suggesting any problems occurred as well as distract their attention with a random set of comments. This will likely cause some amnesia to set in to they will only remember the end conversation of your session.
The final step in this structure is to task and dismiss the client. The objective here is to assign tasks to the client that will aid in the processes you have used in the hypnosis. After that your session is ended and the person is dismissed, only do this once you are sure the trance has been broken for reasons of safety and proper function in the world outside of your office. And that is your simple basic structure for hypnotherapy.
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The Fundamental Hypnosis Skills Every Hypnotist Should Know
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There are fundamental principals that will be of great help to you in your practices as a Conversational Hypnotist. The first of the skills that you will use in your hypnosis training has been to learn and practice going first. In going first you will be allowing yourself to access the states that you are looking to project onto your subject. To do this you will enter your own trance first usually before or as y start your induction.
When you send yourself into trance you will be sending signals, sub-communications to your listener that show them how to enter a trance and access the same state you are in.
Also as you are in trance you will have the ability to learn and experience that time more fully with your subject. Going first creates a win/win situation for you and the person you are interacting with. Putting this trust in your unconscious will amaze you and show you abilities you may not be aware you even have.
As you start going first in all your hypnotic interactions you will not only be benefiting the person you are in session with you will learn from these trances as well. Going first is a very fundamental and vital part of your Conversational Hypnosis.
The next fundamental skill you will want to pay close attention to perfecting is that of basic structure in your hypnotic inductions. When you stick to and follow a structure you should have the ability to quickly and easily bring out trance in those around you. This efficient way of working in your inductions will help to reduce the anxiety you may have in the beginning of your inductions as well.
It is important to remember with the basic structure we are going to look at that hypnosis is a natural and common occurrence. There shouldn’t be any reason why you cannot access it quickly once you have the structure to follow. The first step in this basic structure is to create the atmosphere by simply asking the person very directly to close their eyes and enter into a trance.
As they do this you will move on to making a suggestion along with your hypnotic themes and language. Suggest that every time you do a thing that they go deeper into trance. For example, “Every time I say relax I want you to go deeper and deeper into trance.” Then as you continue with your language use the word relax in your statements.
Then you simply make yet another suggestion of something you will do to get them to learn more easily, the do the action you suggested. It is the same concept as in the example above only with a new trigger and a new action, being to learn more easily.
After that you will instruct them to come out of trance as you count backwards from three or so. As you count down you will add in self esteem builders on how you would like them to feel when they open their eyes.
This is a very simple way to show how quickly and easily you should be able to get a person into trance. As you work on this you will get better and better at it and eventually it will come naturally.
The third fundamental skill in hypnosis that you should know is about and how to use your linguistic bridges. These are the linking words that seemingly flow together and create a great hypnotic theme and rhythm to your language. Linguistic bridges will help you to tie in the hypnotic themes that are so important to your hypnosis as well as create a relaxing atmosphere from the language you are using. You should practice these well and often as they are part of the core of what you will be doing in hypnosis.
Finally the last fundamental you need to read about now is that of pacing and leading. This is what makes the dance of hypnosis artistic in the way that it is shared between the hypnotist and the client. This is a very versatile skill that will be a part of the core of your hypnosis practices. Pacing and leading is a simple pattern that will help you to create a trance that is elegant and strong.
The first step in pacing and leading is to pace. Pacing is to say three to four facts, things that are verifiably true. If the sun is out say it is a sunny day. After your pace you will add a lead. A good leading statement asks through statement the person to do something that is simple and easy to do in the state they are in, such as relax or breathe.
The next step in this process is to repeat the entire process each time giving fewer paces and more leads. You will in a way count down your paces and count up your leads. (4 paces to 1 lead, 3 paces to 2 leads, 2 paces to 3 leads and 1 pace to 4 leads) All the while you will be integrating your trance tones into your speaking more and more with each repeating of the process. And as usual to end the trance you are so elegantly creating you will simply reverse the entire process.
So in summary the fundamental skills you should know and practice well would be going first, basic structure of inductions, linguistic bridges and pacing and leading. If you can master these skills and start to use them naturally as they just come to you, you will become a much more skilled hypnotist than you are at these beginning stages of your learning. Conversational Hypnosis relies on these fundamentals and it is vital that you learn to use the to the best of your ability.
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There are fundamental principals that will be of great help to you in your practices as a Conversational Hypnotist. The first of the skills that you will use in your hypnosis training has been to learn and practice going first. In going first you will be allowing yourself to access the states that you are looking to project onto your subject. To do this you will enter your own trance first usually before or as y start your induction.
When you send yourself into trance you will be sending signals, sub-communications to your listener that show them how to enter a trance and access the same state you are in.
Also as you are in trance you will have the ability to learn and experience that time more fully with your subject. Going first creates a win/win situation for you and the person you are interacting with. Putting this trust in your unconscious will amaze you and show you abilities you may not be aware you even have.
As you start going first in all your hypnotic interactions you will not only be benefiting the person you are in session with you will learn from these trances as well. Going first is a very fundamental and vital part of your Conversational Hypnosis.
The next fundamental skill you will want to pay close attention to perfecting is that of basic structure in your hypnotic inductions. When you stick to and follow a structure you should have the ability to quickly and easily bring out trance in those around you. This efficient way of working in your inductions will help to reduce the anxiety you may have in the beginning of your inductions as well.
It is important to remember with the basic structure we are going to look at that hypnosis is a natural and common occurrence. There shouldn’t be any reason why you cannot access it quickly once you have the structure to follow. The first step in this basic structure is to create the atmosphere by simply asking the person very directly to close their eyes and enter into a trance.
As they do this you will move on to making a suggestion along with your hypnotic themes and language. Suggest that every time you do a thing that they go deeper into trance. For example, “Every time I say relax I want you to go deeper and deeper into trance.” Then as you continue with your language use the word relax in your statements.
Then you simply make yet another suggestion of something you will do to get them to learn more easily, the do the action you suggested. It is the same concept as in the example above only with a new trigger and a new action, being to learn more easily.
After that you will instruct them to come out of trance as you count backwards from three or so. As you count down you will add in self esteem builders on how you would like them to feel when they open their eyes.
This is a very simple way to show how quickly and easily you should be able to get a person into trance. As you work on this you will get better and better at it and eventually it will come naturally.
The third fundamental skill in hypnosis that you should know is about and how to use your linguistic bridges. These are the linking words that seemingly flow together and create a great hypnotic theme and rhythm to your language. Linguistic bridges will help you to tie in the hypnotic themes that are so important to your hypnosis as well as create a relaxing atmosphere from the language you are using. You should practice these well and often as they are part of the core of what you will be doing in hypnosis.
Finally the last fundamental you need to read about now is that of pacing and leading. This is what makes the dance of hypnosis artistic in the way that it is shared between the hypnotist and the client. This is a very versatile skill that will be a part of the core of your hypnosis practices. Pacing and leading is a simple pattern that will help you to create a trance that is elegant and strong.
The first step in pacing and leading is to pace. Pacing is to say three to four facts, things that are verifiably true. If the sun is out say it is a sunny day. After your pace you will add a lead. A good leading statement asks through statement the person to do something that is simple and easy to do in the state they are in, such as relax or breathe.
The next step in this process is to repeat the entire process each time giving fewer paces and more leads. You will in a way count down your paces and count up your leads. (4 paces to 1 lead, 3 paces to 2 leads, 2 paces to 3 leads and 1 pace to 4 leads) All the while you will be integrating your trance tones into your speaking more and more with each repeating of the process. And as usual to end the trance you are so elegantly creating you will simply reverse the entire process.
So in summary the fundamental skills you should know and practice well would be going first, basic structure of inductions, linguistic bridges and pacing and leading. If you can master these skills and start to use them naturally as they just come to you, you will become a much more skilled hypnotist than you are at these beginning stages of your learning. Conversational Hypnosis relies on these fundamentals and it is vital that you learn to use the to the best of your ability.
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An Introduction to Hypnosis & Trance
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Hypnosis and Conversational Hypnosis are simply natural experiences that occur all the time. People spend their days going in and out of different trances and altered states of mind. If you think about it you probably access trances many times each day; when you day dream, become absorbed in a show or movie, when you become deep in thought or even immerse yourself fully in something you are reading. So hypnosis is complete and natural ways of letting your consciousness go free.
Humans are made as any animal with instincts for survival and in a world where our minds are constantly on and going it is a natural cycle of the body to produce trances to give your mind time to reset and reorganize.
These cycles are thought to happen every ninety minutes and really just give your mind a break from what it is required to do all day long. It gives the mind time to organize the events that have happened and file them in the proper places. Now it is said that these cycles are very much needed almost as required by your body as REM sleep. Without these cycles your body would become too stressed and tired.
Hypnosis is a great natural healthy experience to have, although it has been an attraction for myths of evil. It is important to know what hypnosis is not so you may then know what it really is. Hypnosis is not an evil magical trick that is played on the mind. It is not a way to dominate the world with hypnotic zombies that you control. It is not a way to program a person to do evil bidding or assignations.
What hypnosis is is a powerful and valuable mind and body connection that enables the hypnotist to accomplish the things that seem impossible to those who are struggling with them. There have been examples of the power of hypnosis in procedures like surgery without anesthetic, a person being completely awake and calmly watching as the operation is performed. This is the power of the body’s natural ways of using the mind to change the world you live in.
Hypnosis is not only used for health and physical pain suppression, it can also expand your mental abilities and functions. This is clear as in a trance state you can often study better and faster as well as remember information more clearly. Hypnosis can also increase the capacity of your creativity far beyond what you would ever expect. The point in all this is to show you how powerful the art of hypnosis can be in the light that it should truly be shown in. Not evil but a powerful art form of discipline that has an endless amount of opportunity within.
Within hypnosis we have to look at the purpose of the unconscious mind as it is highly involved in this process of hypnosis. The unconscious mind is responsible for many, many processes our bodies and minds need in order to survive. If you consider that the conscious mind can only comfortably handle five to nine processes at a time then the amount of processes that must be handled by the unconscious is very vast.
It is important to know the realms of the unconscious mind as you will be ultimately be dealing with the unconscious on a very regular basis. The unconscious mind is responsible for body, emotion, memory, communication and performance. All these huge categories are handled by the unconscious and most often all at the same time.
In the category of body the unconscious in left with the responsibility of preserving your body, it keeps your heart beating, lungs breathing, blood pressure regulated, blood temperature in check, food digested and so on. It takes care of all the things you often take for granted, that your body just does automatically because the unconscious is telling it to do so.
Emotion is another function that is handled by the unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind is responsible for all the different emotions you feel and the firing of those emotions. This is always happening, constantly; if you stop to think about it there is never a time when you are feeling no emotion at all. You are happy, sad, content, bored, depressed or excited at all times of your life. You experience these and many other emotions throughout your life and they are all put into effect by your unconscious mind.
In memory your unconscious mind spends time to organize and store all your memories. It is also responsible for the suppression of memories. It does this when your body and conscious mind are not strong enough to handle the traumatic events that take place in your life. It will restore or bring back those memories when you are strong enough to handle them in a healthy way.
The unconscious mind is also responsible for communication. This is where the information you receive from the outside world comes in and is perceived by the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind analyzes it and maps it for you to understand the interpretations. It does not directly process negativity and caters the information’s to your conscious mind. The unconscious mind must work in a way that serves the conscious mind for all to work properly in the body.
Lastly we have performance, in this area the unconscious mind is responsible for creating instincts for the body to act on. This is put into action through repetition and will use these instincts to complete and create the whole picture of reality because that is the level the unconscious mind functions on. The unconscious mind will work toward the goals and instances it can integrate into the bigger picture of life causing things and processes to come together for you naturally.
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How to Set Goals for a Hypnosis Session
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Hypnosis is an art that goes beyond just something that you do. In Conversational Hypnosis you are working to change people’s lives. Whether you are serving people who want to be healthier, happier or improve a certain behavior you are reaching to help people to enrich their lives, make them more fulfilling in some way.
Because this is such an important and large thing to do you really must know how to set your goals for each session? If you go into your sessions without any goals it is likely that you will get nowhere as that is where you set out to be. Without goals you really don’t have much direction.
Setting goals for your hypnotic sessions can be made simple by following a few important steps in order to obtain the results you and your client is looking for. It is well documented in many studies that those who are successful in their business are those who had goals, they wrote them down and put them into action within their unconscious mind.
One way to look at goal setting is to remember the PACE Formula. PACE is a formula used for success and can be used in goal setting. If you remember it stands for purpose, adapt, calibrate and engage.
Purpose, this is one of the most important parts of goal setting. You must know what it is you want. If you don’t know what it is you want to get out of each session with each of your clients then you are doing you both a disservice because you will likely go nowhere or end up somewhere that you are not wanted.
If you know your purpose, where you want to go you will be helping your mind out a great deal. You mind is constructed in a way that is goal oriented making the focus you have become your reality. In other words if you know what you want and you focus on it you will have the power already instilled in your mind to make it a reality.
Now this doesn’t mean it just happens right away. You can’t focus your mind for a few minutes and then presto all your wishes are granted. But by knowing what you want and writing it down puts the wheels of the unconscious into motion, helping you to recognize the natural opportunities that arise that will assist you in some way to reaching your goal.
If you don’t write down what you want or actualize it in some way your unconscious will float on unaware of what it is you want and continue to skip by those natural opportunities because it is unaware that they would be helpful in goals that you have.
The reticular activating system in your brain responsible for awareness will not zero in on the natural opportunities and will continue to simply delete them from your awareness as they don’t seem to be useful at that time.
PACE is one of the goal setting systems that many other goal setting systems are based off of, the general concept of these four steps are a good place to start with setting goals. Any other system you choose will be a refinement of the PACE formula, it doesn’t really matter what system you choose as long as it is a complete one and works for you.
The biggest pitfall of the PACE formula is that people tend to follow it until they reach the final step which is to engage. You must always take that last step, without engaging or taking action you will never reach the full potential of your goals. Engagement is necessary for completion.
Another set of rules for setting your goals is the SMART Goals system. In this you have the steps of specific, measurable, affect, realistic and timed. In this acronym you have a perfect lay out of the information that the brain needs in order to get the goal setting process under way.
The first step is to be specific. Having a vague goal is like saying you want to be liked. Well there are many people who may like you, but if you get down to it and the only person who likes you is the axe murderer down the street then technically your goal has been accomplished. You never said who you wanted to like you only that you wanted to be liked. Once your goal is achieved your brain will look at it as complete and file it away in the ‘I did it!’ file. You must be specific for you unconscious to continue until the true goal is met and to pick up on the best natural opportunities for actualizing your goal.
The next rule is measurable. This is the way of knowing when your goal is complete you will want to make goals that are measurable. This rule is closely related to the first rule in the best way to make a goal measurable is to be specific. Not only do you want to finish the race but you want to finish in under thirty minutes time. This is measurable it gives a limit and a turning off point for your brain to acknowledge whether the goal has been met or not.
Another great item to add to measurement is to use sensory rich specific terms about what will take place when your goal is complete. This means to let your mind know what you will see, hear, smell and feel when the goals is accomplished. If you finish your race in less than thirty minutes you will probably see other runners finishing with you, taste the water at the end of the race, feel the sweat of hard work and a job well done. Let you mind know what success will look like for you.
The third rule in SMART is the affect. This is simply the emotions or feelings you get when you think about your goal. This is what motivates you, the stronger the emotion you feel when you think about your goal the stronger the motivation you will have. This means you unconscious will also be driven by that same motivation and will put more of the resources it finds available to work for your achievement.
Next is realistic. This means you should simply be realistic in your setting of goals. This can be a hard thing to judge but the goal needs to be realistic in the real world and realistic for you. This is not an excuse to not go for the highest goals you have it is simply asking that you step back and check the realizations of those goals before you embark down a path of predicted failure.
Finally the last step in SMART is the step of timed. You need to be sure to set a time frame for your goals so you have a deadline. If there is not cutoff point then there is no rush to complete your goals. Your timeline should still be realistic but if you don’t have one you could spend your entire life trying to reach one goal and never accomplish it only because you were again not specific enough when you set the goal in the first place.
One last note to leave you with on goal setting. Now that you know the rules or at least a set of rules to go by, remember that you can sabotage yourself simply by trying too hard. As with anything else you can cause conscious interference that will inhibit you ability to reach the goals you have set. Be sure not to try too hard, let your unconscious take care of the things it knows how to do and you just focus on the bigger picture of bringing the goal to mind and making wise but relaxed choices.
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Hypnosis is an art that goes beyond just something that you do. In Conversational Hypnosis you are working to change people’s lives. Whether you are serving people who want to be healthier, happier or improve a certain behavior you are reaching to help people to enrich their lives, make them more fulfilling in some way.
Because this is such an important and large thing to do you really must know how to set your goals for each session? If you go into your sessions without any goals it is likely that you will get nowhere as that is where you set out to be. Without goals you really don’t have much direction.
Setting goals for your hypnotic sessions can be made simple by following a few important steps in order to obtain the results you and your client is looking for. It is well documented in many studies that those who are successful in their business are those who had goals, they wrote them down and put them into action within their unconscious mind.
One way to look at goal setting is to remember the PACE Formula. PACE is a formula used for success and can be used in goal setting. If you remember it stands for purpose, adapt, calibrate and engage.
Purpose, this is one of the most important parts of goal setting. You must know what it is you want. If you don’t know what it is you want to get out of each session with each of your clients then you are doing you both a disservice because you will likely go nowhere or end up somewhere that you are not wanted.
If you know your purpose, where you want to go you will be helping your mind out a great deal. You mind is constructed in a way that is goal oriented making the focus you have become your reality. In other words if you know what you want and you focus on it you will have the power already instilled in your mind to make it a reality.
Now this doesn’t mean it just happens right away. You can’t focus your mind for a few minutes and then presto all your wishes are granted. But by knowing what you want and writing it down puts the wheels of the unconscious into motion, helping you to recognize the natural opportunities that arise that will assist you in some way to reaching your goal.
If you don’t write down what you want or actualize it in some way your unconscious will float on unaware of what it is you want and continue to skip by those natural opportunities because it is unaware that they would be helpful in goals that you have.
The reticular activating system in your brain responsible for awareness will not zero in on the natural opportunities and will continue to simply delete them from your awareness as they don’t seem to be useful at that time.
PACE is one of the goal setting systems that many other goal setting systems are based off of, the general concept of these four steps are a good place to start with setting goals. Any other system you choose will be a refinement of the PACE formula, it doesn’t really matter what system you choose as long as it is a complete one and works for you.
The biggest pitfall of the PACE formula is that people tend to follow it until they reach the final step which is to engage. You must always take that last step, without engaging or taking action you will never reach the full potential of your goals. Engagement is necessary for completion.
Another set of rules for setting your goals is the SMART Goals system. In this you have the steps of specific, measurable, affect, realistic and timed. In this acronym you have a perfect lay out of the information that the brain needs in order to get the goal setting process under way.
The first step is to be specific. Having a vague goal is like saying you want to be liked. Well there are many people who may like you, but if you get down to it and the only person who likes you is the axe murderer down the street then technically your goal has been accomplished. You never said who you wanted to like you only that you wanted to be liked. Once your goal is achieved your brain will look at it as complete and file it away in the ‘I did it!’ file. You must be specific for you unconscious to continue until the true goal is met and to pick up on the best natural opportunities for actualizing your goal.
The next rule is measurable. This is the way of knowing when your goal is complete you will want to make goals that are measurable. This rule is closely related to the first rule in the best way to make a goal measurable is to be specific. Not only do you want to finish the race but you want to finish in under thirty minutes time. This is measurable it gives a limit and a turning off point for your brain to acknowledge whether the goal has been met or not.
Another great item to add to measurement is to use sensory rich specific terms about what will take place when your goal is complete. This means to let your mind know what you will see, hear, smell and feel when the goals is accomplished. If you finish your race in less than thirty minutes you will probably see other runners finishing with you, taste the water at the end of the race, feel the sweat of hard work and a job well done. Let you mind know what success will look like for you.
The third rule in SMART is the affect. This is simply the emotions or feelings you get when you think about your goal. This is what motivates you, the stronger the emotion you feel when you think about your goal the stronger the motivation you will have. This means you unconscious will also be driven by that same motivation and will put more of the resources it finds available to work for your achievement.
Next is realistic. This means you should simply be realistic in your setting of goals. This can be a hard thing to judge but the goal needs to be realistic in the real world and realistic for you. This is not an excuse to not go for the highest goals you have it is simply asking that you step back and check the realizations of those goals before you embark down a path of predicted failure.
Finally the last step in SMART is the step of timed. You need to be sure to set a time frame for your goals so you have a deadline. If there is not cutoff point then there is no rush to complete your goals. Your timeline should still be realistic but if you don’t have one you could spend your entire life trying to reach one goal and never accomplish it only because you were again not specific enough when you set the goal in the first place.
One last note to leave you with on goal setting. Now that you know the rules or at least a set of rules to go by, remember that you can sabotage yourself simply by trying too hard. As with anything else you can cause conscious interference that will inhibit you ability to reach the goals you have set. Be sure not to try too hard, let your unconscious take care of the things it knows how to do and you just focus on the bigger picture of bringing the goal to mind and making wise but relaxed choices.
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How to Develop Unconscious Rapport in Hypnosis
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Conversational Hypnosis is as it sounds, it is generally made up of different conversations, different ways of communicating. In communication whether it is verbal, non-verbal, physical or sub-communications you are constantly building some type of rapport. Rapport is a very important and valuable part of Conversational Hypnosis.
Building the type of rapport you need in your hypnosis is a job that requires hard work. Now rapport itself, on a non hypnotic level, is easy to build. You do it every day with family, friends, co-workers and even complete strangers.
This is a natural function that you learned in the earliest years of your life. The fact is that rapport building is an intuitive process that you can learn how to do consciously, you can learn to repeat the rapport building processes you use everyday.
The easiest way to build rapport with others is to always remember to go first. Going first is a concept you have learned and will use often in Conversational Hypnosis. Going first means that you must first enter or engage yourself in the state you want to project onto others around you. When you do this you will sub-communicate signals to those around you about the state you are in and it will influence them to join you in that state.
When you have a strong rapport with another person, let’s say a family member or your best friend, you probably feel certain things when you are in their general presence. Most people will feel different things like a fluttering in the stomach or the sensation of being able to breathe easier. This feeling is different for everyone but it is a feeling that is usually associated with comfort, trust and a feeling of being at ease in their presence.
You may even be experiencing it now as you think of that person, and as you think of that feeling and person you will likely start to experience the state that goes along with the particular rapport you share with that person. Many times it is helpful in learning to build rapport to associate a certain color with the feeling you link to that rapport.
When you are learning to recall a state purposefully in order to build rapport it is very important that you take that state and the feelings you associate with it and intensify it to the point of oozing. You want to expand that rapport, that feeling, that color with in you and let it fill you completely and intensely.
You really want the feeling of that rapport to seep from you and surround you. From there you want it to fill the room and envelope the other person you are trying to build a similar rapport with. The more you work on intensifying the rapport within you the more it will expand outward to the person you are interacting with.
As you are expanding, projecting and sub-communicating that rapport you want to engage the other person in it will trigger your unconscious to send out signals of that rapport. In doing this a type of natural mirroring will occur in your behaviors with the other person. You will begin to communicate that rapport on many, many different levels unconsciously.
This is where things start to become a little hard for the conscious mind to track. You will want to use all the rapport building skills and concepts you have already learned, but only to the point that it is comfortable. Once things start to become too much you will then let your unconscious mind take over and compensate for the rest of the rapport building.
The more that you can get your unconscious mind to do in this area the better. The unconscious mind is already well versed in this area as you have been doing it all your life, so let one thing be simple and let the unconscious do something that it knows how to do already.
You already know that the idea behind going first in rapport is a tried and true one; it has been tested over and over again with the same positive results. But that is not to say it is the best way to do it, rapport building can be started with going first and then can be handed off to the unconscious mind for great results as well.
Rapport is much like an intimate relationship; it is a way that you are with another person. It is very familiar and allows you entrance into their world. You have the opportunity to explore their world without hindering or damaging your own reality. You can be a tourist and see things the ways they see them, but with caution to not be judging or harsh in any way. Rapport, deep rapport offers you so many ways to really experience life through another’s view point and expand your rapport while doing so.
The best way to do this is to let it happen unconsciously. The unconscious mind already embodies and posses all the tools, skills and concepts it needs in order to build strong, wide and deep rapports with those around you, so let it happen if you can.
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Mechanics, Engineers & Magicians: Don’t Just Learn Hypnosis, Master Hypnosis!
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There are concepts and principals that you can learn and have been learning in order to educate yourself on the art of hypnosis. But the question becomes when you have already learned so much on the subject of hypnosis why not master it instead of just learning it? Conversational Hypnosis is an art that is best conveyed and conducted when you have educated yourself to the point of mastery.
You have learned that changing moods changes minds and that your reality is simply the set of frames you choose to live your life in. Because of this simple fact it is given that if you change the ways in which you think about things you will also be changing the ways in which you perceive the world you live in.
This may take time or it may happen quickly depending on the frame that you are adjusting. Some of these adjustments may last a lifetime and others may fade with time or only be short term. In any case the amount of expertise you have as a hypnotist will ultimately be judged against the level of change you can create for your clients.
Therefore you will want the level of expertise you have to be at a mastery level and not just something you learned well. In order to do this you are on the right track, you must educate your self through the various levels of advancement in order to climb to the top of the mastery mountain. You must learn above all else how to manipulate the area of expertise you have embarked on, Conversational Hypnosis, to the most defined and refined level of achievement.
There was a time when the journey you took through any given profession was marked by certain titles; however in this day hypnosis is no longer marked in these same ways. You would be wise to compare yourself to the titles of the old days and use it to mark your progress as you journey through your education in hypnosis. You should constantly be looking to increase your successes through improved effectiveness, excellence and elegance in your language and other skills.
Now this is not something that you should only apply to the techniques you are using. Level of technique will only get you so far, in fact it has been more apt to limit those who focus on it solely. The type of hypnotist that focuses only on the technique of hypnotism is focusing only on the mechanics of it. This is what you would call a reality mechanic.
A reality mechanic is one who carries around with them a convenient bag of tricks and tools that usually get the job done. However when a tool fails they spend all their time blaming the tool for the failure instead of looking to the fact that they have limited themselves through only focusing on the mechanics of the tool. When the tool works they are pleased with it and consider themselves to be somewhat magical.
The problem with this lies in the tool you are blaming for the failure. The tool, being the processes and techniques of hypnosis, are not going to be broken. The problem is that the hypnotist has limited themselves by simply only focusing on the techniques involved.
This person has not educated themselves on anything except the tools to use and if the wrong tool is chosen and fails they look to the tool for answers and it is not the tools fault for failure it was the choice that was originally at fault.
A reality mechanic can do a lot of good things but they will never do great things until another person has done them first because they are in need of the tools to be handed to them, already developed. In order to rise above the level of reality mechanic you need to become a reality engineer, this is like a well earned promotion. How do you get the promotion?
Reality engineers focus not only on technique but on principal as well, understanding how the processes work by studying them and seeing the inner workings of each one. In doing this you allow yourself the freedom of the knowledge in how to create new techniques when the time is right. If you can do this then you are more likely to get the results you want more often because you have expanded the tools in which you are able to work with, you can create new tools and understand how they work as well.
A reality engineer in essence will have the confidence and ability to meet unexpected and new situations with self assuredness. They have the knowledge to look for the information they need in order to pinpoint the best and most appropriate principals to use for each situation. The engineer has the ability to dissect the technique or process and then put it back together in a new way that will work for the current situation much more effectively and efficiently.
Now there is one more level and that is the level you should constantly be striving to be at, reality magician. A reality magician goes beyond the techniques and principals and is educated and open minded enough to have the ability to create new principals as well as manipulate the boundaries of existing principals to fit the situation they are in.
Now this does not mean that you disregard principals or think that only your principals are best, no it is a way of knowing how to create what you need even when it is undiscovered. Reality magicians can create new principals and bend the old ones to fit together to assist in any situation.
When you reach this level you are the embodiment of hypnosis, you do it naturally and things seem to happen solely because you intend them to happen. The best way to define reality magician is to use the words of Dr. Milton Erickson. “You become the scenery to which the other people naturally respond to in the way that you intend them to.”
This is where you want your level of Conversational Hypnosis to be, reality magician. This is a powerful set of shoes to fill; it is a complete way of thinking that will elevate your mastery endlessly. You must be able to appreciate this power as well as grow it responsibly. To do this, hands on training is suggested.
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There are concepts and principals that you can learn and have been learning in order to educate yourself on the art of hypnosis. But the question becomes when you have already learned so much on the subject of hypnosis why not master it instead of just learning it? Conversational Hypnosis is an art that is best conveyed and conducted when you have educated yourself to the point of mastery.
You have learned that changing moods changes minds and that your reality is simply the set of frames you choose to live your life in. Because of this simple fact it is given that if you change the ways in which you think about things you will also be changing the ways in which you perceive the world you live in.
This may take time or it may happen quickly depending on the frame that you are adjusting. Some of these adjustments may last a lifetime and others may fade with time or only be short term. In any case the amount of expertise you have as a hypnotist will ultimately be judged against the level of change you can create for your clients.
Therefore you will want the level of expertise you have to be at a mastery level and not just something you learned well. In order to do this you are on the right track, you must educate your self through the various levels of advancement in order to climb to the top of the mastery mountain. You must learn above all else how to manipulate the area of expertise you have embarked on, Conversational Hypnosis, to the most defined and refined level of achievement.
There was a time when the journey you took through any given profession was marked by certain titles; however in this day hypnosis is no longer marked in these same ways. You would be wise to compare yourself to the titles of the old days and use it to mark your progress as you journey through your education in hypnosis. You should constantly be looking to increase your successes through improved effectiveness, excellence and elegance in your language and other skills.
Now this is not something that you should only apply to the techniques you are using. Level of technique will only get you so far, in fact it has been more apt to limit those who focus on it solely. The type of hypnotist that focuses only on the technique of hypnotism is focusing only on the mechanics of it. This is what you would call a reality mechanic.
A reality mechanic is one who carries around with them a convenient bag of tricks and tools that usually get the job done. However when a tool fails they spend all their time blaming the tool for the failure instead of looking to the fact that they have limited themselves through only focusing on the mechanics of the tool. When the tool works they are pleased with it and consider themselves to be somewhat magical.
The problem with this lies in the tool you are blaming for the failure. The tool, being the processes and techniques of hypnosis, are not going to be broken. The problem is that the hypnotist has limited themselves by simply only focusing on the techniques involved.
This person has not educated themselves on anything except the tools to use and if the wrong tool is chosen and fails they look to the tool for answers and it is not the tools fault for failure it was the choice that was originally at fault.
A reality mechanic can do a lot of good things but they will never do great things until another person has done them first because they are in need of the tools to be handed to them, already developed. In order to rise above the level of reality mechanic you need to become a reality engineer, this is like a well earned promotion. How do you get the promotion?
Reality engineers focus not only on technique but on principal as well, understanding how the processes work by studying them and seeing the inner workings of each one. In doing this you allow yourself the freedom of the knowledge in how to create new techniques when the time is right. If you can do this then you are more likely to get the results you want more often because you have expanded the tools in which you are able to work with, you can create new tools and understand how they work as well.
A reality engineer in essence will have the confidence and ability to meet unexpected and new situations with self assuredness. They have the knowledge to look for the information they need in order to pinpoint the best and most appropriate principals to use for each situation. The engineer has the ability to dissect the technique or process and then put it back together in a new way that will work for the current situation much more effectively and efficiently.
Now there is one more level and that is the level you should constantly be striving to be at, reality magician. A reality magician goes beyond the techniques and principals and is educated and open minded enough to have the ability to create new principals as well as manipulate the boundaries of existing principals to fit the situation they are in.
Now this does not mean that you disregard principals or think that only your principals are best, no it is a way of knowing how to create what you need even when it is undiscovered. Reality magicians can create new principals and bend the old ones to fit together to assist in any situation.
When you reach this level you are the embodiment of hypnosis, you do it naturally and things seem to happen solely because you intend them to happen. The best way to define reality magician is to use the words of Dr. Milton Erickson. “You become the scenery to which the other people naturally respond to in the way that you intend them to.”
This is where you want your level of Conversational Hypnosis to be, reality magician. This is a powerful set of shoes to fill; it is a complete way of thinking that will elevate your mastery endlessly. You must be able to appreciate this power as well as grow it responsibly. To do this, hands on training is suggested.
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An Overview on How to Use Nested Loops in Hypnosis
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Nested loops are very important and powerful tools that you can integrate into your hypnotic processes within Conversational Hypnosis. Nested loops are going to provide a deep level of assistance to you within your hypnosis by doing several things.
The first and most important thing that nested loops or nested stories do for you is to cause the unconscious mind to work harder by getting it much more interested than a simple single story. Nested loops are also known to cause a thing called the Zeigarnik Effect, in which a thing is left incomplete causing it to evolve to a level of much higher importance within the mind.
Other things that a series of nested loops will offer you is a more secure hypnotic set of stories as well as being difficult to identify and trace. Because of all this nested loops also bypass the critical factor just because there is so much action going on.
If you recall a nested loop is a series of three or more stories that are told in a manner together to cause the unconscious mind to be impacted greater. Each story you involve in your nested loop will be told up to the climax and then you will use a soft or hard loop to continue on to the next story. The reason the unconscious mind is working harder here is because the stories are momentarily left unfinished the unconscious mind will work extra hard to try to finish them off.
After you have climaxed each story you will have an open space in which to leave a suggestion for your subject and then you will move in reverse closing the last story first, the second to last story next and so on until you reach the first story and finish it.
Moving in reverse through the end of the stories will help to create amnesia for the listener. This happens because the mind tends to forget the middle stories after the beginning of the first story and its ending have been reunited.
There are four different types of nested loops that you will begin to or may have already begun to navigate your way through. They range from basic to master level with intermediate and advanced in the middle. Each type of nested loop will entail the same general structure only adding refinements and a few concepts to each one.
The basic nested loop is the simplest and will be where you start when you want to integrate nested loops in to your hypnosis. The basic nested loop is composed of three or more stories, each told to its climax and then transitioned into the next story through a hard or soft loop.
A note on hard and soft loops which are going to be the very important transitions you make from one story to the next. A hard loop is a transition with no real warning at all. You simply go from telling the climax of the story you are on to the beginning of the next story, no explanation or excuse as to why. A soft loop is when you lead into the next story with the one you are telling.
You may go from taking a walk in the wood to seeing a bunny, using the bunny as a transition into the next story about how you received a bunny for your fourth birthday. You will use these loops between every story you tell in nested loops. They offer you a way to change stories with very little effort.
After you tell all your story beginnings using the hard and soft loops to transition between each you will come to an open space that separates the beginnings of your stories from the endings. In this open space you will leave your suggestion and then continue on closing each story in reverse. Starting with the last story first and working your way back to the beginning story.
It is important to remember that you will use this basic nested loop structure in all your nested loops. The next three types of nested loops will only have things added to them, nothing taken away, in order to advance the sophistication of the structure.
The next type of nested loop is the intermediate nested loop. Again you will follow all the same steps for the basic nested loop but with two additions. In the intermediate nested loop you will add state to your stories. Each of the three or more stories you tell will evoke a different state or emotion from your listener.
This is where you start to get their emotions going up and down and sideways, you really want to give them a ride on different emotions that you evoke through your story telling.
The second thing you will add is at the space in the middle where you were originally only leaving suggestions you will now leave a trance process first, either the COMILA or PCAT and then adding your suggestion is already built into these formulas. You still leave the suggestion only you do it in the way the formula calls for.
The advanced nested loops are going to be repeating the process of the intermediate nested loop and adding to it the trance formulas into the actual stories you are telling. You will do this so those trance formula’s start to format the unconscious mind similar to the way the story is taking place. As you do this the trance processes will become embedded in the stories you are telling and making the trance that much more powerful.
Finally we come to the master level nested loops. In this series of nested loops you will follow the some protocol as in the advanced nested loops but refine it even further by adding in conversational induction protocols.
You will integrate these into your stories as well as the trance processes. This will make your stories consciously entertaining and unconsciously they will have deeply embedded suggestions that will start to work in the mind.
All of the nested loops are great and wonderful tools to use in your hypnosis. Of course the more advanced you get in you learning the more benefit you can acquire from using the master level nested loop instead of the basic. These are important things to practice and can be easily done simply by telling stories to your friends and family with nested loops integrated into them.
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How to Use Hypnotic Trance Formulas in Hypnosis to Get What You Want
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Getting what you want out of your Conversational Hypnosis is basically going to be reaching the goals that have been set forth by you and your client. So it is safe to say that this is a very important thing to master if you want to be a successful Conversational Hypnotist. In Conversational Hypnosis you can start to structure your trance themes in way that will get the most and essential all that you are looking to achieve out of your hypnosis sessions with all your clients.
There are various trance formulas that you have been learning and working with to induce and conduct your hypnosis. As you start to assess which formulas you will be using with different clients you will want to begin to become very strategic in the ways you are thinking and communicating with each person you are helping.
As you do this you will begin to layer all the different trance processes you have learned in a way that will achieve your goals as a hypnotist and those of your subjects. The structure of your hypnotic interactions with people will rely in part on the structures you use in the trance processes you select and combine. You will have the power to include the processes you think will be the most beneficial and exclude those that may not be needed for each person’s particular needs.
You can use any combination of trance processes in your hypnosis sessions. However this is not something you must do, you can select a few or use all as you decide what is appropriate. If you have a difficult situation or problem to solve you may want to consider using every trance process available. If you have a problem that you can get to quicker and easier using only a few or even one you may want to do that.
You will decide which combination of trance processes is the simplest way to accomplish what you have set out to accomplish. From there you will take that route how ever it may differ from the sessions you have held in the past or will hold in the future.
The two trance processes you will be using at this time will most likely be the PCAT and the COMILA Formulas. These are two different types of trance process that generally have two different reasons for using; this doesn’t mean you cannot combine them to get a more through goal accomplished. You will also be working with future memories and post hypnotic suggestions.
First you will want to review the PCAT Formula; this is the formula most often used when you want to help a person to create personal change for them. This is an easy process to use as the way to introduce it is a very natural way of communicating on a regular basis.
The PCAT Formula is the process of problem, confusing the critical factor, active solution and transform. In this formula you will first start out by identifying the problem which is usually very simple as people will often bring it up as a topic of conversation without much prompting on your part.
After the problem has been identified you will want to use confusion to bypass the critical factor. There are three purposes for the confusion and those are to create smaller building materials by breaking the problem up, assists in inducing trance and bypassing the critical factor.
Next would be the step of active solution. This will be an induced state either and emotion or feeling that can be achieved through framing, stories, emotional triggers, past experiences and visualizations. You can use these concepts to search the past for a solution to the problem; a way to actively change the things the person wishes to change.
Lastly you will use the transformation step. This is simply the process of attaching the problem to the solution for the outcome to be achieved. You will attach the ‘A’ to the ‘P’ which will give you the ‘T’ in the end for a positive life change.
Future memories are a great tool to integrate into the PCAT Formula. Future memories are when you will place a memory within the person you are hypnotizing as if it has already taken place. This will help the mind to become formatted to create the events that will lead to that memory and making it a real memory to be carried out and remembered truly.
The COMILA is the second type of trance process you will be using in your hypnosis in order to get what you want. In the COMILA Formula you will be captivating the person’s attention through the various techniques you have practiced in story telling and inductions. The next step in this process is to outflank the resistance through bypassing the critical factor. Again you can use any resource you have learned such as confusion, trance induction or story telling to do this.
The next step in the COMILA Formula is to set the mood. You have learned that in order to change a person’s mind you must first change their mood and that is the same within the COMILA Formula. Then you will move on to intensifying the mood you have captured, the more intense and absorbing the mood is the more likely you will get the behaviors you are attempting to get from the person you are speaking with.
After you have done all this you will want to link that mood that you have captured and intensified to a motivating factor. You will use this by setting emotional triggers that can be activated either while you are present or when you are not. And finally you will move into the action phase; this is the trigger you set that will be fired and the action you were seeking will take place.
The most important part of the COMILA Formula is to be sure to set your trigger correctly. You can create all the perfect states you want but if there is no good trigger point to set that state into action then your efforts will fail. The general rule of thumb here is to start small.
Find the smallest trigger that would be considered the first step in setting the person into action. When you start with the biggest and most profound trigger you know of you may be failing because the trigger must be something simple and natural that the person can adequately cope with.
As you use and perfect these trance formulas and all the concepts that accompany them you will begin to see that you will have become very skilled in getting people to do what you want. You will see life improving changes in your subjects and you will become a great hypnotist as long as you study and practice these small steps that will create a vast difference in the results you see in your work.
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Getting what you want out of your Conversational Hypnosis is basically going to be reaching the goals that have been set forth by you and your client. So it is safe to say that this is a very important thing to master if you want to be a successful Conversational Hypnotist. In Conversational Hypnosis you can start to structure your trance themes in way that will get the most and essential all that you are looking to achieve out of your hypnosis sessions with all your clients.
There are various trance formulas that you have been learning and working with to induce and conduct your hypnosis. As you start to assess which formulas you will be using with different clients you will want to begin to become very strategic in the ways you are thinking and communicating with each person you are helping.
As you do this you will begin to layer all the different trance processes you have learned in a way that will achieve your goals as a hypnotist and those of your subjects. The structure of your hypnotic interactions with people will rely in part on the structures you use in the trance processes you select and combine. You will have the power to include the processes you think will be the most beneficial and exclude those that may not be needed for each person’s particular needs.
You can use any combination of trance processes in your hypnosis sessions. However this is not something you must do, you can select a few or use all as you decide what is appropriate. If you have a difficult situation or problem to solve you may want to consider using every trance process available. If you have a problem that you can get to quicker and easier using only a few or even one you may want to do that.
You will decide which combination of trance processes is the simplest way to accomplish what you have set out to accomplish. From there you will take that route how ever it may differ from the sessions you have held in the past or will hold in the future.
The two trance processes you will be using at this time will most likely be the PCAT and the COMILA Formulas. These are two different types of trance process that generally have two different reasons for using; this doesn’t mean you cannot combine them to get a more through goal accomplished. You will also be working with future memories and post hypnotic suggestions.
First you will want to review the PCAT Formula; this is the formula most often used when you want to help a person to create personal change for them. This is an easy process to use as the way to introduce it is a very natural way of communicating on a regular basis.
The PCAT Formula is the process of problem, confusing the critical factor, active solution and transform. In this formula you will first start out by identifying the problem which is usually very simple as people will often bring it up as a topic of conversation without much prompting on your part.
After the problem has been identified you will want to use confusion to bypass the critical factor. There are three purposes for the confusion and those are to create smaller building materials by breaking the problem up, assists in inducing trance and bypassing the critical factor.
Next would be the step of active solution. This will be an induced state either and emotion or feeling that can be achieved through framing, stories, emotional triggers, past experiences and visualizations. You can use these concepts to search the past for a solution to the problem; a way to actively change the things the person wishes to change.
Lastly you will use the transformation step. This is simply the process of attaching the problem to the solution for the outcome to be achieved. You will attach the ‘A’ to the ‘P’ which will give you the ‘T’ in the end for a positive life change.
Future memories are a great tool to integrate into the PCAT Formula. Future memories are when you will place a memory within the person you are hypnotizing as if it has already taken place. This will help the mind to become formatted to create the events that will lead to that memory and making it a real memory to be carried out and remembered truly.
The COMILA is the second type of trance process you will be using in your hypnosis in order to get what you want. In the COMILA Formula you will be captivating the person’s attention through the various techniques you have practiced in story telling and inductions. The next step in this process is to outflank the resistance through bypassing the critical factor. Again you can use any resource you have learned such as confusion, trance induction or story telling to do this.
The next step in the COMILA Formula is to set the mood. You have learned that in order to change a person’s mind you must first change their mood and that is the same within the COMILA Formula. Then you will move on to intensifying the mood you have captured, the more intense and absorbing the mood is the more likely you will get the behaviors you are attempting to get from the person you are speaking with.
After you have done all this you will want to link that mood that you have captured and intensified to a motivating factor. You will use this by setting emotional triggers that can be activated either while you are present or when you are not. And finally you will move into the action phase; this is the trigger you set that will be fired and the action you were seeking will take place.
The most important part of the COMILA Formula is to be sure to set your trigger correctly. You can create all the perfect states you want but if there is no good trigger point to set that state into action then your efforts will fail. The general rule of thumb here is to start small.
Find the smallest trigger that would be considered the first step in setting the person into action. When you start with the biggest and most profound trigger you know of you may be failing because the trigger must be something simple and natural that the person can adequately cope with.
As you use and perfect these trance formulas and all the concepts that accompany them you will begin to see that you will have become very skilled in getting people to do what you want. You will see life improving changes in your subjects and you will become a great hypnotist as long as you study and practice these small steps that will create a vast difference in the results you see in your work.
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How to Use Frame Control in Hypnosis
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In Conversational Hypnosis you must know that language and circumstance are both very important and powerful ways of influencing the unconscious. Learning to control frames is a process that you should refine simply because it is so powerful.
Frame control in hypnosis is one of the most important things you can do with a subject. In one way to control the frames of various interactions is to take control of the interactions themselves. This is because frames are the ways in which you view things, they are the contexts that give meaning to all the interactions you have. If you stop to thing about how you consider things you will realize that without a frame, without a context to put a statement, idea or interaction into, the thing would be meaningless to you.
A great example of this is the same one we have used before. If you are driving along and a car speeds by you and cuts you off you would more than likely be irritated or upset about the matter of inconsideration from the other driver.
If you are given more information, one of the things that can help to change a frame and you now know the car has a child in it that was just hit by a drunk driver. You have been told they are speeding to the hospital in order to save the child’s life; your frames will more than likely change. Because you have retained a new set of facts about the reason for the inconsideration you may be more forgiving and sympathetic to the situation. This is an example of the power in changing a frame.
There are different ways in which you can control and manipulate frames. There are essentially four options you have, to maintain your frame, preframe, reframe and deframe. Of the four framing options maintaining your frame and preframing are the most important and powerful in Conversational Hypnosis.
Maintaining your frame is the first option you would usually want to exercise. In order to maintain your frame you will always arm yourself with non-reaction. To act as if the frame that someone else is suggesting simply doesn’t exist will cause them to raise question in their frame and put more value in yours. Ignoring the fact that their frame is even a consideration will only reinforce your stance and cause insecurity in their own frame to rise.
Maintaining your frame is a skill you have practiced both in the frames section of these articles and in the hypnotic gaze. In the hypnotic gaze induction you learned to hold a steady stare even though it is at times uncomfortable and seems to defy social boundaries, this is maintaining your frame in a different way. When it comes to thoughts and interactions you will simply not back down. You will be so convinced of your frame being the only true frame that there is no other possibility in truth in the other person’s frame.
This is an interesting stance to take and will be one you use in hypnotism to benefit you both. The funny thing about frames though is that when it comes to right or wrong the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. Because frames are based on the contexts we put them into that means there is no clear cut right and wrong to them. Take the idea of organized religion.
Many people believe in it very deeply and others contradict it as a way of control. Now neither is right or wrong, the answer is probably somewhere in the middle. Some religious facilities may exercise an excess of control through their power as an establishment others however are truly in belief that there is only one way to be and that is of whatever religious nature they are, they do good things and that is their context.
So on to the second most valuable way to use frames in Conversational Hypnosis and that is to preframe. Preframing takes a bit more calculation and thought than maintaining your frame. If preframing you will need to know the outcome of the situation you are looking for before you start working. To know the outcome or purpose you are trying to achieve will affect the way that you preframe a thing.
Once you know the outcome you will next ask yourself that if that were the only possible truth in the world what would have to happen to make it so. Once you have answered the numerous questions that come from that one thought you will set your preframe up to convince a person to see things your way before actually diving into the frame itself.
Create a yes set on or tell a story about the things that would have to be true in order for your frame to stand true. This is a way of controlling the frame before you get to the objection of why it is not so.
A good way to maintain and preframe is to become good with implications and assumptions. If you can imply and assume then many times your frame will be taken at your word as the unconscious usually registers assumptions and implications as truth. This is a way of stating the natural order of things and getting little resistance because the frame slips in on the coattails of the assumption or implication.
The next technique in framing is the reframe. This is the ability to look at things in a new way. Shed a positive light on a frame that was being viewed negatively by a person. The saying that every cloud has a silver lining is a simple way of saying to reframe your judgment.
There are two ways to reframe a context reframe is when you change the context that the frame is placed in. And a meaning reframe which is where you change the meaning of the frame itself. These are similar but useful in different ways as you will learn through out the course of your profession as a hypnotist.
Deframing is the last way in which you will control and manipulate frames. Deframing is to turn the table on the person who is raising an objection to your frame. You simply switch the role, reverse the challenge. As a challenge is raised to your frame instead of explaining it away you will challenge the frame they are set in.
This is unexpected most of the time and will set the person into a defensive mode. When in defense mode they will be unconsciously taking in more of your frame than they will be defending their frame. Causing it to eventually become true for them as well. Presto you have deframed a situation.
Now the only thing to be aware of in deframing is to maintain a positive or light attitude in that you can easily come off as aggressive or negative in other ways, this will only cause your subject to distrust and feel uncomfortable with you. Since that is not the relationship you wish to have in hypnosis you should take caution to the ways in which you react when deframing.
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How to Use Embedded Suggestions and Stacked Realities in Hypnosis
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Conversational Hypnosis you have learned thus far how to use your language expertly and how to use inductions to instill a state of trance. Now you will need to know how to integrate embedded suggestions and stacked realities into the inductions and stories you are using in your hypnosis.
Embedded suggestions and stacked realities are very powerful tools to master in your use of Conversational Hypnosis. They will help to indirectly and directly get responses from the unconscious mind to assist in the resolution of problems with the people around you. Part of learning to embed suggestions and stack realities successfully is to be a great story teller in the first place.
In your stories you must be continuing to use sensory rich descriptions with both of these concepts. You can use different tools in your stories to do this, but always making sure that you continue to access the visual, emotional, audible and physical touch senses. You can integrate all these sensory descriptions into the very direct approach or you can become increasingly indirect by using the ‘my friend John/Jane’ principal or extended quotes. These will be beneficial in the uses of embedded suggestions and stacked realities.
Stacked realities, or the ability to create many different realities for your listener, are a great way to bypass the critical factor. This is the skill of telling stories that are complicated in the sense that there are many things going on to the point of confusion. You will tell stories with many different characters, topics and other information.
As you do this you will not make it clear as to who is saying what or when events may have happened. You want your stories to take on a sense of running themes together to create a confusion that will start to overload and overwhelm the conscious mind.
A good example of this is when you are listening to a ‘he said she said’ story from one of your friends. As the person rattles on endlessly you begin to loose track of who is saying what and to whom. Another good example is when a person starts to explain their family to you, as you are trying to keep track of who is married to who and how many children they have as well as all their names things tend to start getting a little fuzzy around the middle of the story. This fuzziness is the effect you are looking for when you are stacking realities.
When you start to incorporate stacked realities into your stories you will also be using a large level of ambiguity. Ambiguity in hypnosis, if you remember can be a valuable practice when it is done right, here is a place to use it.
The ambiguity or vagueness of your comments will again cause enough confusion to bypass the critical factor, hide messages and through a person off enough that they will not follow the story as smoothly as they would if you were being very direct and clearer. However, it should not cause enough concern in following the story that the person you are talking to feels they must stop you to ask a question.
Once you have mastered stacked realities and how to work them into the themes and topics of your stories you will be moving on to the perfecting of embedded suggestions. Embedded suggestions are a tool that you can use in all different various types of stories and inductions. They are simply messages that are hidden within the words, themes and topics of your language.
You will use ambiguous messages in your embedded suggestions as a way of saying one thing to the conscious mind but letting the unconscious mind pull a completely different meaning from the words you used. When you thing of the word right you know it has several different meanings.
It can mean you are referring to something directionally as in you turn right at the corner. It can mean that you are correct in a thing, yes you are right that is correct, or it can be used to state you are writing down a thing. Now the word is spelled differently in this last example but remember you are conversing and even though your mind will associate different meanings with different spelling. If the words sound alike it can cause a trigger of different meanings in the conscious and unconscious minds.
When you use these ambiguous words and themes correctly it will send at least two different messages to the person you are talking to. One will be on the conscious level and will make sense in the context you are using it in. The other meaning that the unconscious mind perceives, when you use this technique correctly, will be perceived as a term associated with the problem at hand, the solution you are after, trigger you are setting or emotional state you are incorporating. Which of these it relates the word or theme to be completely dependant on your sub-communications and the construction of the suggestion and where it is directed by the unconscious mind?
If you are thinking about and constructing your embedded suggestions well you will be letting the unconscious mind read that there are at least two different meaning for what you have just said. The unconscious mind then knows that its job is to allow the conscious mind to have the idea that makes the most sense and the unconscious mind will attach a response to the less likely of the two. This process is more effective if you are consistent in embedding the suggestions repeatedly as you go through the hypnotic process.
With both of these new concepts fresh in your mind you will want to achieve the most success in your Conversational Hypnosis by adding them elegantly to the inductions and stories you are using. You and your clients will both benefit from them greatly.
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Conversational Hypnosis you have learned thus far how to use your language expertly and how to use inductions to instill a state of trance. Now you will need to know how to integrate embedded suggestions and stacked realities into the inductions and stories you are using in your hypnosis.
Embedded suggestions and stacked realities are very powerful tools to master in your use of Conversational Hypnosis. They will help to indirectly and directly get responses from the unconscious mind to assist in the resolution of problems with the people around you. Part of learning to embed suggestions and stack realities successfully is to be a great story teller in the first place.
In your stories you must be continuing to use sensory rich descriptions with both of these concepts. You can use different tools in your stories to do this, but always making sure that you continue to access the visual, emotional, audible and physical touch senses. You can integrate all these sensory descriptions into the very direct approach or you can become increasingly indirect by using the ‘my friend John/Jane’ principal or extended quotes. These will be beneficial in the uses of embedded suggestions and stacked realities.
Stacked realities, or the ability to create many different realities for your listener, are a great way to bypass the critical factor. This is the skill of telling stories that are complicated in the sense that there are many things going on to the point of confusion. You will tell stories with many different characters, topics and other information.
As you do this you will not make it clear as to who is saying what or when events may have happened. You want your stories to take on a sense of running themes together to create a confusion that will start to overload and overwhelm the conscious mind.
A good example of this is when you are listening to a ‘he said she said’ story from one of your friends. As the person rattles on endlessly you begin to loose track of who is saying what and to whom. Another good example is when a person starts to explain their family to you, as you are trying to keep track of who is married to who and how many children they have as well as all their names things tend to start getting a little fuzzy around the middle of the story. This fuzziness is the effect you are looking for when you are stacking realities.
When you start to incorporate stacked realities into your stories you will also be using a large level of ambiguity. Ambiguity in hypnosis, if you remember can be a valuable practice when it is done right, here is a place to use it.
The ambiguity or vagueness of your comments will again cause enough confusion to bypass the critical factor, hide messages and through a person off enough that they will not follow the story as smoothly as they would if you were being very direct and clearer. However, it should not cause enough concern in following the story that the person you are talking to feels they must stop you to ask a question.
Once you have mastered stacked realities and how to work them into the themes and topics of your stories you will be moving on to the perfecting of embedded suggestions. Embedded suggestions are a tool that you can use in all different various types of stories and inductions. They are simply messages that are hidden within the words, themes and topics of your language.
You will use ambiguous messages in your embedded suggestions as a way of saying one thing to the conscious mind but letting the unconscious mind pull a completely different meaning from the words you used. When you thing of the word right you know it has several different meanings.
It can mean you are referring to something directionally as in you turn right at the corner. It can mean that you are correct in a thing, yes you are right that is correct, or it can be used to state you are writing down a thing. Now the word is spelled differently in this last example but remember you are conversing and even though your mind will associate different meanings with different spelling. If the words sound alike it can cause a trigger of different meanings in the conscious and unconscious minds.
When you use these ambiguous words and themes correctly it will send at least two different messages to the person you are talking to. One will be on the conscious level and will make sense in the context you are using it in. The other meaning that the unconscious mind perceives, when you use this technique correctly, will be perceived as a term associated with the problem at hand, the solution you are after, trigger you are setting or emotional state you are incorporating. Which of these it relates the word or theme to be completely dependant on your sub-communications and the construction of the suggestion and where it is directed by the unconscious mind?
If you are thinking about and constructing your embedded suggestions well you will be letting the unconscious mind read that there are at least two different meaning for what you have just said. The unconscious mind then knows that its job is to allow the conscious mind to have the idea that makes the most sense and the unconscious mind will attach a response to the less likely of the two. This process is more effective if you are consistent in embedding the suggestions repeatedly as you go through the hypnotic process.
With both of these new concepts fresh in your mind you will want to achieve the most success in your Conversational Hypnosis by adding them elegantly to the inductions and stories you are using. You and your clients will both benefit from them greatly.
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The Big Secret of Milton Erickson’s Conversational Hypnosis Revealed
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Conversational Hypnosis is an art of hypnosis with many layers and much skill involved. The different language you must use as well as the atmosphere you create will both be very important to your success as a hypnotist. However there are also the different inductions you must learn to use well as they will be the key to bringing your subjects into trance.
Dr. Milton Erickson forged the way through many of the induction and brought them into the center stage of Conversational Hypnosis. Dr. Erickson’s reputation as a hypnotist is a revered and has made his name in hypnosis a common and popular one. Not only was he a front runner in the world of hypnosis but as such he founded the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and was noted for his unconventional approach to psychotherapy.
Dr. Erickson’s trance voice induction will be a powerful tool for you to learn well and use. He was also responsible for the hypnotic gaze induction and piggy back induction.
In the trance voice induction you will concentrate on improving your tonalities yet again. This induction is among the favorites of Erickson’s and will be a valuable addition to your hypnosis practices.
In the trance voice induction you will be first creating a trance voice, this voice will need to be clearly different from your normal conversational voice and the tones you use in it will need to be clearly defined. The trance voice you develop will be the tones you will smoothly acquire any time you are moving to put a person into trance.
You have read about the tones you will want to incorporate in this previously which is to include a deeper, smoother, calmer tone with slower speaking and very purposeful pauses and a soft rhythm. In this induction you will want to focus this way of speaking even more so.
One of the tone refinements is to know when to use your conscious and unconscious voices. Make sure the definition between the two is a clear and audible one and use them in the appropriate situations. The conscious voice for times of non trance and the unconscious voice will be used when inducing an altered state of mind.
Along with this refinement you will add another which will be to create many different hypnotic voices. This is important as your listeners will begin to associate different voices with different types of goals. You may have a hypnotic voice for learning, one for relaxation, one for excitement and one to bring your subjects in and out of trances.
These voices will be distinctly different enough for you to recognize the differences but you subjects may only notice the differences in their unconscious as they serve their hypnotic purposes. As you develop your different voices you will need to condition each one with your subjects.
Refining this hypnotic process even further will be to combine all three inductions of Dr. Erickson together to create a multi-level way of communicating. This will involve using the trance voice induction, the piggy back induction and the hypnotic gaze induction.
By combining all the techniques in a particular session you will be creating a very powerful effect. You will be embedding suggestions at all kinds of different levels for the unconscious to choose from.
Messages will be coming in through each induction in different ways, the ways you have learned to use each induction will layer in the suggestions you are making with each induction separately within the same hypnosis session.
As you are using these three very powerful inductions there will be many messages going in to the listener, there will be many different processes going on and too many things to keep track of for the subject to see all that you are doing. The conscious mind will become overloaded and shut down in turn bypassing the critical factor in the process.
As you have learned all these processes separately you will not be overloaded with this process. You will in fact be so skilled at it by the time you have practiced it that it will come quite naturally and smoothly. You see you will have already added all these concepts and the way to send them out to your listener that your unconscious mind will be doing a majority of the work for you.
Each of the inductions will be used and refined to be used together. They will give you the ability to embed many different suggestions at many different levels within the unconscious mind for your listener to respond to and put into action when the triggers you embed as well are fired off and the whole of the hypnosis begins to be put into a smooth flowing action toward resolution and reward.
Learning to use the hypnotic gaze induction, piggy back induction and trance voice induction together will become a powerful and highly sophisticated tool that will elevate the abilities you have in your hypnosis. It is a technique Dr. Milton Erickson relied on and will add to your successes as well.
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Master the Piggy Back Principle in Conversational Hypnosis
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The piggy back principal is very powerful and precise in what it can do for you in your Conversational Hypnosis. This is a way of making suggestions that others can agree with and accept when it is performed correctly.
The piggy back principal is the principal in which you will be attaching to your yes sets. You will create some sort of yes set, whether it is a series of compliments, facts or anything that listener will agree to. As the listener hears a few good yes sets and is in agreement with what you are saying you will make another ‘yes’ statement and attach a suggestion to the end of it.
The piggy back principal is a fairly easy one to use as long as you know a little something about your listener. You must have something to go on for the yes sets but other than that you simply need to use your language, which you have already mastered.
The reason the piggy back principal works well is that if you have a statement of agreement, one that the listener is saying ‘yes’ to then whatever is attached to that statement will be accepted as true on some unconscious level. This is a great principal for hypnosis and especially Conversational Hypnosis because you can use it as an induction.
The piggy back induction in Conversational Hypnosis will provide you with yet another way to really get the hypnosis underway as well as getting the suggestions you want into the mind. This induction will work along great with the hypnotic gaze induction and then of course with your hypnotic language skills, both of which you have already mastered. Once you have learned the subtleties of how to use the piggy back induction with these other two skills you will have captured the true heart of Conversational Hypnosis.
Now let’s really get in to the subtleties that you need to know in order to get everything you can out of using the piggy back induction along with the hypnotic gaze induction and your language skills. The first concept you will want to make sure to pay special attention to is to use multiple topics.
Multiple topics are a great way to use the piggy back induction. You can easily do this once you have learned to diversify your topics. One of the ways in which you previously learned to use piggy backing was to use very rich sensory descriptions that the listener can say yes to. You would use statements that were true and positive but still appealed to the senses so as to really drive home the experience you were giving the listener.
As you will remember this way of using sensory language can be done with multiple topics. Talk about a bunch of different things that they can say yes to and then start to attach your suggestions to those. You will also want to remember that you can choose to be very direct or indirect in this process. You can actually talk about trance or you can talk about hypnotic themes.
The next part of the piggy back induction that you will want to refine is in building your yes sets and adding in your piggy back suggestions. This is the basics you will always want to start with your four of five yes set statements, after that you will add your suggestion of going into trance somehow.
Each cycle you go through will get you talking more and more about trance and eventually that is the only topic you will be discussing because the need for the sensory information will no longer be necessary.
After you have refined the yes set and piggy back suggestion attachment you will move on to refine the directness or indirectness of your piggy back induction. Since you will usually begin with being direct you will want to refine this into a more indirect way of inducing trance. There are several ways of doing this; the first is to move from direct trance themes like hypnosis and trance to more indirect themes such as focus, relaxation and comfort.
Another way to switch things to a more indirect approach is to move your focus from the external to the internal. While you will start your yes sets focused on how the outside of them feels or the things around them you will move your focus to how they are feeling inside.
The air inside your lungs, the way your muscles feel heavy with relaxation; these are both good examples of course there are many others the list is very long. The main point here is turning their attention to the internal areas of themselves instead of the external.
Finally the last refinement you will add to the piggy back induction will be that of mind reads. This is anything you can use that you know about the person; their beliefs, experiences, expectations, truisms and just general things they have told you about themselves.
Mind reads are closely related to and will also assist in your yes sets as they are deep rooted in your emotional and intellectual areas of the unconscious. They are also easy topics to bring up as they are topics that are generally used in conversations all the time.
Once you have recognized, practiced and mastered these subtleties you will easily advance your Conversational Hypnosis and the piggy back induction to a more sophisticated process. These subtleties are very powerful yet easy enough to incorporate that the positives you will see from them greatly out weigh the negative in taking the time to learn and practice them.
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The piggy back principal is very powerful and precise in what it can do for you in your Conversational Hypnosis. This is a way of making suggestions that others can agree with and accept when it is performed correctly.
The piggy back principal is the principal in which you will be attaching to your yes sets. You will create some sort of yes set, whether it is a series of compliments, facts or anything that listener will agree to. As the listener hears a few good yes sets and is in agreement with what you are saying you will make another ‘yes’ statement and attach a suggestion to the end of it.
The piggy back principal is a fairly easy one to use as long as you know a little something about your listener. You must have something to go on for the yes sets but other than that you simply need to use your language, which you have already mastered.
The reason the piggy back principal works well is that if you have a statement of agreement, one that the listener is saying ‘yes’ to then whatever is attached to that statement will be accepted as true on some unconscious level. This is a great principal for hypnosis and especially Conversational Hypnosis because you can use it as an induction.
The piggy back induction in Conversational Hypnosis will provide you with yet another way to really get the hypnosis underway as well as getting the suggestions you want into the mind. This induction will work along great with the hypnotic gaze induction and then of course with your hypnotic language skills, both of which you have already mastered. Once you have learned the subtleties of how to use the piggy back induction with these other two skills you will have captured the true heart of Conversational Hypnosis.
Now let’s really get in to the subtleties that you need to know in order to get everything you can out of using the piggy back induction along with the hypnotic gaze induction and your language skills. The first concept you will want to make sure to pay special attention to is to use multiple topics.
Multiple topics are a great way to use the piggy back induction. You can easily do this once you have learned to diversify your topics. One of the ways in which you previously learned to use piggy backing was to use very rich sensory descriptions that the listener can say yes to. You would use statements that were true and positive but still appealed to the senses so as to really drive home the experience you were giving the listener.
As you will remember this way of using sensory language can be done with multiple topics. Talk about a bunch of different things that they can say yes to and then start to attach your suggestions to those. You will also want to remember that you can choose to be very direct or indirect in this process. You can actually talk about trance or you can talk about hypnotic themes.
The next part of the piggy back induction that you will want to refine is in building your yes sets and adding in your piggy back suggestions. This is the basics you will always want to start with your four of five yes set statements, after that you will add your suggestion of going into trance somehow.
Each cycle you go through will get you talking more and more about trance and eventually that is the only topic you will be discussing because the need for the sensory information will no longer be necessary.
After you have refined the yes set and piggy back suggestion attachment you will move on to refine the directness or indirectness of your piggy back induction. Since you will usually begin with being direct you will want to refine this into a more indirect way of inducing trance. There are several ways of doing this; the first is to move from direct trance themes like hypnosis and trance to more indirect themes such as focus, relaxation and comfort.
Another way to switch things to a more indirect approach is to move your focus from the external to the internal. While you will start your yes sets focused on how the outside of them feels or the things around them you will move your focus to how they are feeling inside.
The air inside your lungs, the way your muscles feel heavy with relaxation; these are both good examples of course there are many others the list is very long. The main point here is turning their attention to the internal areas of themselves instead of the external.
Finally the last refinement you will add to the piggy back induction will be that of mind reads. This is anything you can use that you know about the person; their beliefs, experiences, expectations, truisms and just general things they have told you about themselves.
Mind reads are closely related to and will also assist in your yes sets as they are deep rooted in your emotional and intellectual areas of the unconscious. They are also easy topics to bring up as they are topics that are generally used in conversations all the time.
Once you have recognized, practiced and mastered these subtleties you will easily advance your Conversational Hypnosis and the piggy back induction to a more sophisticated process. These subtleties are very powerful yet easy enough to incorporate that the positives you will see from them greatly out weigh the negative in taking the time to learn and practice them.
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How to Turn Regular Hypnosis into Conversational Hypnosis
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Becoming a Conversational Hypnotist is to go beyond average art and excel into masterpiece. In order to do this you must work on the parts of your masterpiece that truly make it a part of the world of art in Conversational Hypnosis.
In Conversational Hypnosis there are aspects that are very valuable and powerful that differ from that of other forms of hypnosis. Your mission will be to take what you have learned in being a hypnotist and refine the parts that will truly identify you as a Conversational Hypnotist.
It is important to master the language and use hypnotic themes to get your subject into trance. You will also want to perfect how and what type of atmosphere you will want to create for your listener. You must also master ways to create tension using authority strategies in order to put the unconscious mind into action.
Now you must add to and refine these skills as you learn them to make them more powerful and truly parts of Conversational Hypnosis. The first step in this area of refinement will be to add in the hypnotic gaze induction. This is one of the skills you will use to put a purpose behind the whole of your hypnosis. You have learned that it is very powerful and you should always keep that in mind.
The hypnotic gaze induction will also have you utilizing the 4 Stage Protocol. This is the concept that will add structure to your hypnosis. You will be making sure your listener has accomplished all four stages of the protocol in using the hypnotic gaze induction. It is critical that you are able to absorb attention, bypass critical factor, evoke an unconscious response and use that response to direct your listener into some sort of action. This will all add order and organization to the previous skills you have been mastering.
After you have perfected and know how to use the 4 Stage Protocol you will be using different techniques, such as the Sixty Second Hypnotist, to combine with your hypnotic gaze induction. Keep this simple by using rapport techniques and as you use your language with the hypnotic gaze induction you will start to see results.
In the hypnotic gaze induction you are going to want to focus in on several things. The first is to remember that the first part of the hypnotic gaze induction is that you need to hold your gaze. It is quite important that you are able to maintain a clear and calm gaze with the other person. You must not be or send any signals out that you are uncomfortable with the situation.
As long as you can hold a calm focused gaze you will be ready to move to the next step of this induction. The next step is to simply go into using your trance voice. Slow your rhythms and manner of speaking and adjust the tone and volume of your voice to become your trance voice.
After this you will want to work on focusing through the person you are working with. If you will remember you will start by looking into their eyes, then through their eyes to the back of their head, and finally at a spot somewhere three or four feet behind them. Give them the feeling you are looking deep within them, at their heart of matters, not just at their exterior.
Finally you will use the hypnotic gaze induction to explain the process of trance. You will elegantly describe the trance experience to your listener. As you do this you will incorporate the signal recognition skills you have learned to observe any trance signs and possibly include those in your speaking as well.
Next will be the refinement of the hypnotic gaze induction, once you have perfected all four steps in it you will want to start to make it more indirect. At first you will be using direct ways with the hypnotic gaze induction because it is simpler; but over time you will find that the indirect ways can be more powerful.
There are two specific ways that you can do this, both you have learned about previously. The first is the ‘my friend John’ or ‘my friend Jane’ techniques. In this concept you will use stories about different people you know or even fictional characters to convey a point or make indirect suggestions.
The second way to make the hypnotic gaze induction even more indirect is to use extended quotes. These are as easy as recalling information from articles, people, books and so on and so forth.
The reason this makes things more indirect is that it directs the attention away from the experience at hand in a way and has them focus on information taken from elsewhere, the information may still be relevant but you are directing their attention to the fact that you read it here or heard it there. It will make it much less obvious as to what you are doing, which is to use a very formal hypnotic induction on them.
Adding these few refinements should not be too difficult you have learned and practiced them all and now you are just adding them to your final work of art. Remember that these skills are what will help to set you apart from a hypnotist and give you the title in Conversational Hypnotism.
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Some Subtleties on Your Way to Mastering Conversational Hypnosis
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Conversational Hypnosis is a very complex art in which you are going to be painting a masterpiece with your words and language. Now when you consider mediocre art from exceptionally great art you will notice that there are certain details in the great art that are not present in the okay or good art. The same is true for Conversational Hypnosis. There are subtleties that you must pay attention to, add and perfect in order to become a true master of the masterpiece.
The atmosphere you must create in which you conduct your hypnosis is one of these subtleties. Atmosphere is a very important part of hypnosis. If you can create a very hypnotic atmosphere you will create an environment where your listeners will seem to simply fall right into trance for you. You need to learn to create an atmosphere, a feel, a seduction and a rhythm that helps in initiating spontaneous hypnosis.
One of the ways to do this is to go beyond rapport. In going beyond rapport you will want to train yourself to avoid certain aspects of rapport that most people will try failingly to use in generating relationships. The main concept here is to avoid trying too hard to be liked and trying too hard to be nice. Now in order to alleviate these signals you will use status, wide rapport, rapport hooks, fractionate rapport and instant rapport techniques.
When you are assuming status in a hypnotic relationship you will need to be cognizant of choosing the right status to be in. As you know there are two statuses, a high status and a low status. With some individuals you will need to make your atmosphere one of high status, commanding respect and in a sense arrogant. With others you will want to use a low status, seeming as if you are a servant or an admirer.
Always remember this is a role you are playing, neither status is right or wrong it is simply choosing the best status for the given situation that will benefit you both the most.
Wide rapport is the next way you will alter your atmosphere to make it more apt for an altered state of mind. You will want to always remember to use a wide rapport with your subjects instead of a deep rapport.
In a wide rapport you are making people comfortable with you in many different situations and environments not just very comfortable in one situation or environment. You can do this by using many different topics and telling stories that place you in different settings with different themes.
Rapport hooks will be very helpful to you in the creation of atmosphere in that they are designed to instigate conversation. These handy little tools will keep things interesting, make your listener more willing to get involved in the conversation and really find out why you are so easy to talk to.
Fractionate rapport will add to rapport hooks and atmosphere by making the listener work for your relationship. In this concept you will give your rapport and then take it away with a distraction of some kind. This will keep people coming back for more and holding their interest because they feel they need to complete the relationship; there is always more to find out.
Finally instant rapport techniques will assist in the atmosphere you need to create by using the unconscious connections you will be making with the person you are interacting with.
The next main topic of overlooked skill that will help you in the creation of your Conversational Hypnosis masterpiece is using signal recognitions. This is one of the most helpful skills you will develop, you will be able to recognize when people are going in and out of trance. This is useful to you in that once you see they are entering a trance you can begin with the real meat and potatoes of your problem resolution.
The best skill within this area that you will want to pay close attention to is the heightened state of awareness. This is a state you must learn to take on so you can use your senses and feelings to see all that is happening around you. You will want to use your eyes, ears and feelings to measure and identify the trance signals that you are getting from the person you are working with.
You will use your heightened sense of awareness to match the experiences they are having, if this goes unchecked or overlooked your language will often wander down the wrong path and throw your whole session off.
The third subtlety that you will want to direct your attention to is that of tonality. This includes not only the tones you are using in your language but also the rhythms. This is where you will pay attention to your performance, the ways you use and say your words as well as the order or sequences you use.
In this you will always want to remember to go first. One of the main parts of performance is that you are sub-communicating the right signals to your listener. If you do not go first, or enter your own type of trance to communicate these things you will not be producing the best hypnotic environment. This is very important and very powerful; you must always be willing to go first.
Another area of tonality is going to be making sure you are squeezing the meanings from all your words. When you combine this with the tone you are using you will begin to develop a great vocal atmosphere for hypnosis. Simply by speaking to a person in a meaningful way and using the right tone you will begin to create a hypnotic rhythm to the way you are speaking.
If everything you are saying sounds very important then your listener will be more apt to hearing what it is you have to say. This is beneficial for you both. When you combine all these factors along with the command tonalities you will be creating a very good atmosphere for your hypnosis to take place.
The final brush stroke in this part of your masterpiece is to use authority strategy to reinforce your atmosphere. In this you will be using power tactics. These will assist you in creating the personal power that is so important to leading a hypnosis session. As you become an authority in the world of hypnosis to your listeners you will also be using the consistency strategy to make them stand by what it is they say.
You can also use agreement tactics to reinforce authority. If you remember this has a lot to do with plausibility, you will judge the amount of trance your listener is in and you will determine plausibility from that. The more deep their state the less plausible your suggestions and ideas can be, if they are in a lesser state of trance you will be making your suggestions and ideas very plausible.
In this area you will also be using positive reinforcement. You will be awake to the signals they send and give them positive reinforcements for those signals. This is most important when a person is experiencing something they are not accustomed to, you need to let them know it is a good thing and something they are supposed to be feeling or doing.
You can choose to reinforce the person directly or indirectly. As you proceed with this atmosphere you will be creating yes sets and adding in the piggy back suggestions that will only add positively to your atmosphere.
After all this you will also want to use your persistence tactics, these tactics include hypnotic triples and the seeding of ideas. A hypnotic triple will create an atmosphere of repetition; you will be repeating the same things to them over and over again. This allows the information to sink much deeper than if you were to only state it once.
Seeding of ideas will be valuable in that it is planting an idea in the atmosphere that will continue to grow over time. You will of course be revisiting it to check that it is growing and adding to it as well. Seeding will help you grow the atmosphere so it is getting ever larger and more present with every re-visitation.
This seeding will lead you into the law of successive approximation, where you will add a little too each suggestion each time and in that making the idea or suggestion stronger every time you add to it. Asking for a small response in the beginning and slowly building on to that response through adding a bit more each time you return.
Last but not least you will also want to include the law of compounding effect in this masterpiece. This will ensure that every response tends to make the trance or effect grow bigger. This is much like a yes set in that every time you get a person to respond with a yes they are even more likely to keep that habit as your questions or statements become less and less agreeable.
All of these subtleties will help you in creating the best picture possible for hypnosis to occur and you to reach your final goals. Without these the road to success can be much longer and bumpier. These are all powerful and important tools for really creating the best environment possible for you hypnosis to take place in.
For more information please visit Conversational Hypnosis
Conversational Hypnosis is a very complex art in which you are going to be painting a masterpiece with your words and language. Now when you consider mediocre art from exceptionally great art you will notice that there are certain details in the great art that are not present in the okay or good art. The same is true for Conversational Hypnosis. There are subtleties that you must pay attention to, add and perfect in order to become a true master of the masterpiece.
The atmosphere you must create in which you conduct your hypnosis is one of these subtleties. Atmosphere is a very important part of hypnosis. If you can create a very hypnotic atmosphere you will create an environment where your listeners will seem to simply fall right into trance for you. You need to learn to create an atmosphere, a feel, a seduction and a rhythm that helps in initiating spontaneous hypnosis.
One of the ways to do this is to go beyond rapport. In going beyond rapport you will want to train yourself to avoid certain aspects of rapport that most people will try failingly to use in generating relationships. The main concept here is to avoid trying too hard to be liked and trying too hard to be nice. Now in order to alleviate these signals you will use status, wide rapport, rapport hooks, fractionate rapport and instant rapport techniques.
When you are assuming status in a hypnotic relationship you will need to be cognizant of choosing the right status to be in. As you know there are two statuses, a high status and a low status. With some individuals you will need to make your atmosphere one of high status, commanding respect and in a sense arrogant. With others you will want to use a low status, seeming as if you are a servant or an admirer.
Always remember this is a role you are playing, neither status is right or wrong it is simply choosing the best status for the given situation that will benefit you both the most.
Wide rapport is the next way you will alter your atmosphere to make it more apt for an altered state of mind. You will want to always remember to use a wide rapport with your subjects instead of a deep rapport.
In a wide rapport you are making people comfortable with you in many different situations and environments not just very comfortable in one situation or environment. You can do this by using many different topics and telling stories that place you in different settings with different themes.
Rapport hooks will be very helpful to you in the creation of atmosphere in that they are designed to instigate conversation. These handy little tools will keep things interesting, make your listener more willing to get involved in the conversation and really find out why you are so easy to talk to.
Fractionate rapport will add to rapport hooks and atmosphere by making the listener work for your relationship. In this concept you will give your rapport and then take it away with a distraction of some kind. This will keep people coming back for more and holding their interest because they feel they need to complete the relationship; there is always more to find out.
Finally instant rapport techniques will assist in the atmosphere you need to create by using the unconscious connections you will be making with the person you are interacting with.
The next main topic of overlooked skill that will help you in the creation of your Conversational Hypnosis masterpiece is using signal recognitions. This is one of the most helpful skills you will develop, you will be able to recognize when people are going in and out of trance. This is useful to you in that once you see they are entering a trance you can begin with the real meat and potatoes of your problem resolution.
The best skill within this area that you will want to pay close attention to is the heightened state of awareness. This is a state you must learn to take on so you can use your senses and feelings to see all that is happening around you. You will want to use your eyes, ears and feelings to measure and identify the trance signals that you are getting from the person you are working with.
You will use your heightened sense of awareness to match the experiences they are having, if this goes unchecked or overlooked your language will often wander down the wrong path and throw your whole session off.
The third subtlety that you will want to direct your attention to is that of tonality. This includes not only the tones you are using in your language but also the rhythms. This is where you will pay attention to your performance, the ways you use and say your words as well as the order or sequences you use.
In this you will always want to remember to go first. One of the main parts of performance is that you are sub-communicating the right signals to your listener. If you do not go first, or enter your own type of trance to communicate these things you will not be producing the best hypnotic environment. This is very important and very powerful; you must always be willing to go first.
Another area of tonality is going to be making sure you are squeezing the meanings from all your words. When you combine this with the tone you are using you will begin to develop a great vocal atmosphere for hypnosis. Simply by speaking to a person in a meaningful way and using the right tone you will begin to create a hypnotic rhythm to the way you are speaking.
If everything you are saying sounds very important then your listener will be more apt to hearing what it is you have to say. This is beneficial for you both. When you combine all these factors along with the command tonalities you will be creating a very good atmosphere for your hypnosis to take place.
The final brush stroke in this part of your masterpiece is to use authority strategy to reinforce your atmosphere. In this you will be using power tactics. These will assist you in creating the personal power that is so important to leading a hypnosis session. As you become an authority in the world of hypnosis to your listeners you will also be using the consistency strategy to make them stand by what it is they say.
You can also use agreement tactics to reinforce authority. If you remember this has a lot to do with plausibility, you will judge the amount of trance your listener is in and you will determine plausibility from that. The more deep their state the less plausible your suggestions and ideas can be, if they are in a lesser state of trance you will be making your suggestions and ideas very plausible.
In this area you will also be using positive reinforcement. You will be awake to the signals they send and give them positive reinforcements for those signals. This is most important when a person is experiencing something they are not accustomed to, you need to let them know it is a good thing and something they are supposed to be feeling or doing.
You can choose to reinforce the person directly or indirectly. As you proceed with this atmosphere you will be creating yes sets and adding in the piggy back suggestions that will only add positively to your atmosphere.
After all this you will also want to use your persistence tactics, these tactics include hypnotic triples and the seeding of ideas. A hypnotic triple will create an atmosphere of repetition; you will be repeating the same things to them over and over again. This allows the information to sink much deeper than if you were to only state it once.
Seeding of ideas will be valuable in that it is planting an idea in the atmosphere that will continue to grow over time. You will of course be revisiting it to check that it is growing and adding to it as well. Seeding will help you grow the atmosphere so it is getting ever larger and more present with every re-visitation.
This seeding will lead you into the law of successive approximation, where you will add a little too each suggestion each time and in that making the idea or suggestion stronger every time you add to it. Asking for a small response in the beginning and slowly building on to that response through adding a bit more each time you return.
Last but not least you will also want to include the law of compounding effect in this masterpiece. This will ensure that every response tends to make the trance or effect grow bigger. This is much like a yes set in that every time you get a person to respond with a yes they are even more likely to keep that habit as your questions or statements become less and less agreeable.
All of these subtleties will help you in creating the best picture possible for hypnosis to occur and you to reach your final goals. Without these the road to success can be much longer and bumpier. These are all powerful and important tools for really creating the best environment possible for you hypnosis to take place in.
For more information please visit Conversational Hypnosis
The Basics of Conversational Hypnosis
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There are certain cornerstones or foundations that are vital to the art of Conversational Hypnosis. In this article we will be covering those topics. As a hypnotist, especially a Conversational Hypnotist, these are the foundations on which your processes will be built.
It is very important that you understand not only how to use the information and skills in this article but that they are practiced to a point of natural function. You should have the ability to do them with little concentration and effort to master your hypnosis.
Part of the reason for understanding and second nature in this first step is that without these skills there will be nothing to hold your hypnosis structures together. This is the very powerful glue that makes it all stick.
The first master technique that you will want to master in this step will be the use of your linguistic bridges. These are powerful and important in that they will help you to create a smooth flow of ideas through your language. One of the resources you have been offered in perfecting this skill has been to use a set of linguistic bridge cards; these are tools you can use to start the process of practicing the flow of the language you will use in your hypnosis.
This is the most basic way to master the art of hypnotic language. It must be a smooth and comfortable ride that will make people around you want to listen. You will do this by not only using the linguistic bridges but using them with hypnotic themes. You will talk a majority of the time about things such as relaxation and trance, comfort and possibly even hypnosis.
As you use your linguistic bridges and hypnotic themes you will also be adding a basic structure of trance to your themes using a rich language that is still very smooth and powerful. This means you will be adding in a hypnotic tonality; as well as using that tonality to really squeeze the meanings from the words and language you are using.
Once you can easily flow through the language skills above you will have the very beginning foundation of Conversational Hypnosis accomplished. Then you will be ready to move on to the next level in this first step of mastery. The second step in this process is to start to pull skills from your precision language. One of the first skills will be to start to use hot words. If you recall hot words are words that are emotionally laden with meaning. They are more significant to a person than other words that mean the same thing. Infant is less emotionally packed than baby.
Another type of precision language you will include in this step is to start to use hypnotic words. These are words in which the meaning of the word actually implies a trance. Good examples of these hypnotic words would be focus, amazement, deep and fascinate. You will also begin to transform these words into complete themes.
One of the tools you will be able to use in the sharpening of your precision language is to amplify the language. You will be able to amplify the experience the listener is having by using words like suddenly, now and instantly. These words are action accelerators and will amplify the meanings behind your words and themes. In using these words you will be creating a dramatic tension that will greatly impact the unconscious once it is released and an action from the unconscious is demanded.
Anticipation builders are another amplification tool that will be very powerful. These are words that will inevitably frustrate the trance response. This is useful in that by the time you are ready for them to go into trance there will be an almost immediate reaction as they have been kept from it and now they want it more than ever.
Next you will use language softeners as an amplification tool. These are words that will make your language more comfortable. Maybe, perhaps and possibly will soften the effect of your statements allowing the listener to hear a soft frame and not feel forced into doing a thing. “Maybe you will begin to relax now.” In doing this you have the ability to soften the language a bit but still hold your yes sets strong.
All throughout this you will also be using your basic yes sets and piggy back suggestions, if you remember these are authority strategies. These will not be difficult to incorporate as they come naturally with the language you are already learning to use, they will likely just show up without you having to concentrate much attention on them.
The third master technique that you will be putting into action here is going to be the use of ambiguous messages. This is as simple as starting to integrate them into your language. Ambiguous messages again are words that posses more than one meaning. Like the word right or lie, bank or no/know; all these words are pronounced the same and have more than one definition.
The power in ambiguous messages is that they do indeed have two meanings; it is how you use those double meanings that will affect the person you are talking to. The double meanings will speak on one level to the conscious and on another to the unconscious so you can be sending a message unconsciously that has a completely different meaning than what the person hears.
As you do this you will be able to begin the priming of the unconscious responses through metaphorical instructions. This will all work together to prime the unconscious mind to respond to hypnosis in a hypnotic way.
The fourth and final master technique in this step is that of confusion language. This is the language of confusion, in case you were confused. In this valuable skill you will use amnesia techniques and double negatives in order to confuse the listener. Amnesia techniques will help them to forget certain things on the outside but remember them when the time is right. This is getting someone to remember to forget a thing.
Double negatives are a way of confusing the conscious mind into shutting down and accepting whatever is next in line. Double negatives will overwhelm the conscious mind with many minute details that are really of little importance.
You can also do this by changing the meanings of words and splicing two statements together at a word in the middle or beginning of the statement. Finally in this confusion language you can use shock and surprise to release the tension of the hypnotic cycle.
Now when you can combine and master all the principals and skills here you will be a great hypnotist by most Joe’s standards. But remember this is just the beginning of what we are going to cover here. This is your foundation, what you will build everything else upon so make sure it is a good strong foundation as you will be adding a huge amount of skills and refinements to this to create a master hypnotic structure.
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