A Special Hypnosis Secret: 4 Tactics to Win the Frame War

A Special Hypnosis Secret: 4 Tactics to Win the Frame War

Frames are a set of ideas that everyone has, you can help but to have frames in your life. These are the beliefs and the contexts in which you put situations in order to form a judgment. Frames rule your thoughts and decisions about any particular situation. Frames will be very powerful for you as a hypnotist as well.

Every frame there is has an opposite, depending on the person these may seem logical or illogical to you. That is beside the point; the point is in fact that if there is an opposite way to view something then there must be a set of information to change that view that can be introduced in order to do so.

If you can master a way to control frames in your hypnosis you will be able to lead interactions in any direction you want. The power to do this will come from learning to be successful in frame war tactics.

There are four primary fame war tactics that you need to learn to use in order to successfully change other people's frames and take the dominate end of the interaction. They are to maintain your frame, preframe, reframe and deframe. All of these will be powerful ways to influence the contexts and ways in which those around you create their frames or change them.

Maintaining your frame is simply to stand firm in whatever frame it is that has presented itself. To keep strong and unwavering in the views you have of the world and your reality. This is much like drawing a straight line from where you stand in being challenged in your frame and not moving from the path of that line you have drawn. No matter what is presented to you, you will keep a steady stand and move along the original frame you have set.

This is one of the most powerful ways to win a frame war. The objections and challenges you meet from others are often a way to test how sincere you are in your stance, if you are unwavering then the other person will assume you know that this is just the way things are. They will submit to your powerful stance on the subject, idea or situation you are at war over.

The second tactic of preframing is a way to set the context so it falls true in your favor. If you do this correctly you will be convincing the other person that your thought process is right before the interaction of the frame war has even presented itself. You can do this by simply telling people in advance what it is to look for, what they should be paying attention to, so the frame is preset to fall in your favor.

This tactic is often used along with the first tactic of maintaining your frame; these two agree well and can be very useful together. This happens because in the preset frames that are challenged you will need to be consistent in maintaining those frames until the other person simply assumes you are correct.

The third tactic is to reframe, this is a therapeutic pattern in which you take the frame that is offered by the other person and you simply deal with it. The best way to describe this tactic is that you are changing the point of view for the other person.

You put a new spin on the same situation. Sure you were frustrated that you were late for work because you had to wait for a red light, but what if you had ran it and never made it to work again due to a fatal accident by the car that was speeding toward the intersection

If you stop and look at the frame from another angle you are moving the context about in a way that is easier to handle. So for instance, ‘every cloud has a silver lining' is a new way of looking at a problematic situation, this is a classic embedded reframe.

The fourth and final tactic is deframing. Deframing is used when someone is outright challenging your frame. In this tactic you will be making the other person justify their frame; get them to defend the ways they are viewing the situation or idea. This will create the opposite effect that they will inevitably take on more of the frame you wish them to use in their thought processes.

Framing and the tactics for winning frame wars is going to be a powerful way for you to change the way people are interpreting situations, ideas and decisions. They will also assist in giving you the lead role in the relationship as you convince others time and time again through the techniques shown here to see things your way.

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How to Intensify States in Hypnosis

How to Intensify States in Hypnosis

The state of mind in Conversational Hypnosis is really at the forefront of the battle you are beginning. In order to have a positive outcome from your hypnosis you must get the person you are working with to access a pure and clear state of mind that involves the emotion you are targeting to react to an emotional trigger.

One of the ways to do this is to intensify the state you are using in each different session. Intensifying the state of mind for your subject is really going to help them in many different areas of their hypnosis. It will also greatly improve your abilities as a hypnotist.

There are several different reasons why you would want to intensify the state of your listener. To start with you can use intensification in the change moods not mind concept. The more intense you make the mood they are experiencing the more dramatically they will change their course of thinking.

This is helpful because the reason for changing moods in the first place is because it allows the mind to follow without interference of the critical filters. This alone is a reason for needing to know how to intensify a state and is a big step when getting a person into a different state of mind.

States of mind are similar to different rooms in a house. In each room you keep certain stuff and you are only able to access that stuff when you are in that room. The mind works much in the same way. Different states of mind will allow you to access the different memories, experiences, feelings and definitions that are associated with that state. If you do not have a pure and clear state of mind you will have limited access to the stuff you need for that experience.

Now intensifying the state of mind comes in as a big help because the more clear your subjects state of mind is the more efficiently your triggers will be implanted. As we all know by now the emotional trigger is a very important step to accomplish as it will eventually lead to the changes the person wants to make in their life. The more you can amplify and intensify the state of a person the more powerful your suggestions will end up being.

So let's get down to it, how do you work on intensifying the state of a person in order to help in hypnosis? One of the first ways is to intensify the response you are getting from your subjects. It is important to know how to intensify this response in order to be accessing a state that is strong enough for you to spend time setting an emotional trigger to.

There are basically four techniques to make a response more intense. These concepts can be used together or separately and it is important to know how to use your basic hypnosis knowledge before wading into these four concepts.

Some of the skills you will want to be practiced at before hand are first to realize that some people have a much easier time getting into states than others. This is important to know simply so you are aware that getting in and out of good clean states may take practice for some people.

Another tool you will need to be working well with is the absorption of attention. You need to make it your responsibility to have their complete attention locked in to access a clear state.

After all there is no need to intensify a state that will not be useful and the better the state the more useful it will be to you and your subject. The more attention you have from them the better they will be able to access the state you are looking for. That in turn means you will be able to set a more proficient trigger.

Now you are ready to get into how to intensify a state. The first way to do this is a simple concept of direct suggestion. This is very easy; you simply suggest directly that they intensify an emotion.

This can be done with many different principals you have learned including the piggy backing of suggestions, hot words, linguistic bridges and trance words. You can put all these things, ideas, together to make a direct request to intensify a feeling. The more they notice and pay attention to the feeling you wish to make more intense the more this will take place unconsciously.

Keep in mind you are not going to be telling them what experience to have this will take place as a result of you telling them to intensify a feeling. This is a simple suggestion that can be done very directly or less directly and smooth depending on the person you are working with.

The second way to add intensity to your hypnosis is to layer emotional triggers. By laying different emotional triggers, one right on top of the other, you will be taking the intensity level to a new high for your listener.

Two ways to do this, the first is to start with all the different emotions your listener has in the experience and start to set triggers to each one individually. After you have done that you can combine them all into one trigger and you will end up with a nice array of positive states being set off by one trigger.

Another way to do this, a much simpler way, is to layer your emotional triggers to access different experiences each of the same state. This may sound complicated but it is really quite simple. Start by going first, tell a story that involves the state you are wanting to access. Then as you hit the climax of the story set a trigger. After that you will ask your listener to relay a similar experience, you will then revivify it for them and as they enter the experience of revivification you will set your trigger again.

In this example you have doubled the emotional impact of that trigger as there are now two different experiences associated with it. Think about the power this can have if you continue the loop five or six times.

The third technique for adding intensity is to use modular enhancers. These are non-verbal ways to intensify and experience. They use things such as tone, gesture, body language and facial expressions to imply a suggestion.

Tone is a big one here as you change the tonality you use it will send signals to intensify an experience. You can use this skill with any of the senses, experiment with it and see how you can intensify things with the non-verbal actions listed above.

The final technique for increasing intensity is to control the inner pictures the listener receives. In this concept you will take hold of all the senses in the stories and amplify them to make them more real. Use statements that imply or ask them to make things more focused, bigger, brighter, sharper, louder, and more vibrant.

The idea here is to be sure to build up every sensation and sense that is in the experience. These include sounds, smells, physical touches, taste, sight and emotions. There are two ways to accomplish this; directly tell them to do it with detailed instruction or combine the amplifications into your story as if they were a part of the story itself.

In this technique you can use gestures to assist you in getting the point across, this helps as it creates the sense for you and you begin to go first as you tell the story.

All these things will give you the skills in how to make a thing more intense. Make sure to keep in mind that these are powerful ways to access states and be positive when you are working with them as they intensify emotions as well.

Now go forth and be intense!




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How to Create a Powerful Foundation of Hypnotic Language to Master Your Hypnosis Training

How to Create a Powerful Foundation of Hypnotic Language to Master Your Hypnosis Training

A key tool as hypnotists is the language you will use. It is very important to understand how vital it is for you to master the language and use it as a power foundation with your subjects.

Language and how you use it will create a solid base for putting people into an altered state of mind. The main objective in hypnosis is to have the ability to help people change their lives and this is accomplished through influence and persuasion to do certain things. Without the right language and skill you will struggle with accomplishing these goals.

The ability to use language to create an altered state of mind is key. Altered state of mind is defined as a special state of awareness in which the subject focuses on certain ideas and excludes other ideas from that focus. In this definition the meaning is that whatever a person is focusing on exclusively becomes real to them.

It is important to remember that within each human the will and imagination are always conflicting. It is equally important to remember that the imagination will always win this battle. In order to use this information in your language arsenal it is important to make direct contact with the imagination and lay your suggestions there.

Using language to zero in on the outcome you are striving for requires you to get people into a good ‘focus of attention'. This is one of the first concepts that early hypnotists discovered was responsible for causing trances. When you can accurately get and maintain the focus of a person they will often enter a trance for you.

After this has been accomplished you will be the tour guide of their trance. It is your responsibility as the hypnotist to lead them on an unforgettable journey into and through their trance. You will be influencing them to focus their attention on thoughts and ideas that will help them to arrive at their desired outcome. The arrival there will fulfill their purpose in changing behaviors to match their goals in life.

Now as we continue through this article you will learn how you do this. How do you create that powerful foundation of hypnotic language?

The first stage in this is to create an unbroken flow of ideas. This responsibility is all on you as the hypnotist. This flow of ideas should run smoothly, it should be practiced. The words you speak should be fluid, comfortable, enjoyable, and pleasant. Keep your listener wanting to hear more. There should be no words or ideas that cause your listener to want to stop your flow of language.

There are ways to accomplish what I have just explained. If you exercise these 4 principals you will begin to master the key tool in conversational hypnosis.

The first principal you must apply is to create verbal agreement with your subject. In order to do this the listener must be able to in some way agree with what you are saying. They do not have to literally say yes to everything you say but something inside of them has to recognize at some level your statements are true for them.

Part of this agreement is in you and your speaking. Your thoughts must flow easily without hesitation or disagreement. When you accomplish this you are much easier for your listener to follow, it is easier to come to agreement if things do not have to be thought out or deciphered.

The second principal to apply in your hypnotic language is ‘patterns and plausibility'.

In order to know the amount of work you need to do here it is important to remember the signs of trance. Once you have determined how deep in trance your subject is you will know how plausible or implausible your statements can be.

The deeper in trance the person is the less plausible your statements can be.

In the ‘patterns and plausibility' principal you will start with agreement. Make statements that your subject must agree with simply because they are truth. You can use the weather outside, the time of day, subjects color of hair; anything that is a verifiable fact. After the person in trance has heard several true statements you will want to add a statement that may or may not be true.

This new statement only has to be plausible enough that they will follow along with it because it is easier to agree than to argue the possible disagreements. In this way the habit of agreeing to the true statements will sneak past the conscious filters that say it may not be true. Once you are past those filters the statement will then start to become true for them.

After the first two principals have been successful, you can start to work on the third principal; piggy back suggestions. The idea behind piggy backing suggestions is that you can adequately relate ideas or statements that may not necessarily be connected.

This again requires smoothness to your language, there needs to be no breaks in the conversation so there is no time to recognize the un-connectedness of the statements. Another advantage that piggy backing suggestions give is the ability to make comfortable transitions between thoughts and ideas. If you apply this principal correctly there will be no work involved for your listener, it should be an easy experience of transition through new ideas.

And finally the fourth principal of linguistic bridges is applied. Linguistic bridges are simply conjunctions that permanently connect two sets of information together. When you use linguistic bridges well the thoughts and ideas you are connecting will run through the listener smoothly.

One way to do this is to use the 4 Words of Power. The 4 words of power are four conjunctions that act like linguistic bridges. These are key in tying together hypnotic themes and help in cementing those ideas together in a nice package. Mastering the 4 words of power will give you the ability to create an endless variety of content and new hypnotic inductions.

So what are those 4 words of Power? As. And. Because. Which means. These 4 words will give you the ability to piggy back a vast variety of statements and thoughts. The way that these words work is to create a smooth way of communicating all the suggestions you want in a way that your subject will respond to hypnotically.

The 4 words of power are easy to use as you practice them you will see you can fit them easily between themes and connect statements that may otherwise seem un-conncetable. They will make many statements seem more plausible and will add a new rhythm to your speaking.

There are a variety of other linguistic bridges that work much like the 4 words of power and as you learn them you will see your full capabilities in this area of conversational hypnosis. With the use of the 4 words of power and these other linguistic bridges you will experience a wide range of fluid expression.

There are lists of the linguistic bridges available and it would be an excellent idea to memorize these powerful words to use as tools in your language. The lists available for the linguistic bridges are great for learning to incorporate them into your speaking when you have the list with you.

You can also purchase a Street Hypnosis Deck, which is a deck of illustrated cards containing words on each card. This is a great way to carry the linguistic bridges you will be using so often with you.

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How Schizophrenics Can Help Your Hypnosis: Binds and Double Binds

How Schizophrenics Can Help Your Hypnosis: Binds and Double Binds

The art of Conversational Hypnosis is much about language; the ways you use the language, when to use certain skills and how to apply those skills. All of these factors are important to learning how to have a smooth interaction and insert undetected and agreeable suggestions into the mind of your clients.

Stealth Tactics are a way of doing just this. These tactics are used for distracting critical factor or overwhelming it to the point that the suggestion goes in undetected. The stealth tactics you learn here will eventually be combined with all the other language concepts to create a larger picture of how everything works together smoothly to create better lives for everyone.

The final Stealth Tactic you are going to learn is called Binds and Double Binds. The Bind and Double Bind come from a line of thought called the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia. This was a theory that came from a famous Anthropologist in the 1970's named Gregory Bateson.

Bateson investigated the cause of schizophrenia in our society and came up with the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia. This theory came to the conclusion that schizophrenia was a way that children developed to cope when presented impossible decisions by their parents. An example would be a parent that beats their child and explains it by saying the violence is just a way I show I love you.

The child is presented with an impossible choice that of a desire to be loved by their parent versus the desire to avoid violence. The study concluded that this impossible choice caused schizophrenic conditions in children presented with these choices.

So the question comes, how will schizophrenia help you in your hypnosis? The answer is the creation of binds and double binds. As we have just set out a bind is giving someone a choice that doesn't actually exist, it is an impossible set of choices to choose from. These of course can create some rather unpleasant experiences if you do not proceed correctly with this concept.

Although you are creating the illusion of choice you are not really giving the person you are conversing with a real choice. When you learn to do binds correctly you will make your listener feel empowered by the fact that there is a choice and still be acquiring the information or lack of resistance you initially wanted. This is a way of redirecting resistance in you are giving a choice that implies the very thing you want but gives them a choice about the thing you want. Either way you are getting what you want, it really doesn't matter which option they end up choosing.

Now in a double bind you will use the word "or" to create the actual double bind. Let's take the example that you are a jewelry sales person and you say to a customer, "Would you like your diamond set in gold OR silver?" In this double bind you are giving the customer a choice but you are still implying that the customer will be buying the diamond.

It is important that you are aware of the word "or" so you can consciously create double binds as well as notice when they are being used on you. If you recognize when someone is using a double bind on you, once you recognize it there is a way out. If you decide not to accept the bind or double bind on any level you will be denying it and creating a new freedom for yourself.

Now double binds are very common and at times it is not negative to fall into one. Regardless of whether you are deciding to accept or deny the double binds you hear daily you can still maintain awareness for them. Remember that a double bind is an illustration of choice, usually using the word or to separate the options.

Within this Stealth Tactic there is a Special Tactic included called Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds. This is merely a way of using double binds hypnotically. In this concept you will be able to allow some aspects of the subject's behavior to be controlled consciously and others unconsciously. No matter which way it goes, which behaviors are being consciously and unconsciously controlled the behavior is still being implied.

Within this same concept of Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds it is important to understand that you can do things two different ways. We can all do things two different ways, those are unconsciously or consciously. You can read the words on this paper focus on them and think about them or you can read them and daydream about what it would be like to put them into action.

In understanding binds and double binds it is important to recognize the conscious and unconscious minds and how they work. As hypnotists we work with the conscious and unconscious minds on a regular and consistent basis, however defining these is difficult.

Now the trouble here is no one really knows how the human mind works. There is no philosopher or psychological researchers who have been able to define the human mind in concrete terms. There are so many ways to interpret the word mind that giving it a definition is extremely difficult.

Although no one can accurately and concretely say what actually happens inside our heads we know from life experience that certain results come from certain effects. As to why the results are what they are can only be theorized about but we know that trauma causes pain, denial and other defense mechanisms.

As hypnotists it is important for you to have an understanding of the conscious and unconscious minds.

A simple way to describe the process of the mind we know are that consciousness is the type of awareness you can focus on. It is known that the conscious mind can hold up to 5-9 ideas, experiences or thought processes at one time. The conscious mind is also responsible for making choices and plans.

The unconscious mind however is responsible for a huge amount of tasks. It holds all our memories, experiences, insights, habits and wisdoms that we have built up over the span of our lives.

We have discovered that it is safe to say that everything that happens within our minds and bodies are unconscious or semi-unconscious events. Our unconscious is the master controller but will also take commands from the conscious mind. The instructions that the unconscious will take from the conscious must be presented in the right way in order for it to stick; this is the art of suggestion. We either made suggestions to ourselves or others make suggestions to us.

As a hypnotist you can disguise those suggestions with Stealth Tactics, and one of those is the bind and the double bind we have discussed here.

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How to Design a Series of Nested Loops in Hypnosis

How to Design a Series of Nested Loops in Hypnosis

Conversational Hypnosis is an art form that is based around the language you use to speak to others. Part of that language is going to include stories, telling stories in Conversational Hypnosis will be very powerful especially when you learn to do it using nested loops.

Nested loops can be done at four different levels; all are very similar in structure they just get more advanced as you go from basic to intermediate to advanced and finally master level. A nested loop is simply a way to tell stories that involves a variety of different stories that are told in series stopping at the climax of each story to start another.

When you reach the end of your set number of stories, usually between three and twelve, you will stop to add a direct suggestion or trance process. After that you will continue by finishing each of your stories in the reverse order so you begin the process and end the process with the same story.

When you use nested loops you will soon see that there will be a lot of things going on for both you and your listener. Your listener will be giving you their undivided attention, through which you will bypass their critical factor make suggestions and then bring them back from an altered state of mind.

You on the other hand have an overwhelming amount of work to do. You must have a stock of stories to tell and be able to modify each one to the person you are working with. You are also going to be using many of the past skills you have learned in order to make those stories the best stories you can.

These include emotional triggers, metaphors, ambiguous stories, pre-teaching hypnotic trance processes, embedded suggestions, future memories, seeding and post hypnotic suggestion protocol. All of these aspects will more than likely be included in the ways you tell your stories.

So now that you know how the structures of nested loops work you should learn a fail safe way to design them so you are ready whenever you need to use them. Just knowing the structure and what it is you need to have in the design is much different than actually creating a set of nested loops.

The first step in creating any of the nested loops is going to be that you will want to begin with the end in mind. The unconscious mind does not work in a linear and logical way, even though the structure of nested loops may look that way, you will need to start where the unconscious is ready to start.

The way you do this is to first realize what you want the conclusion of the situation to be. Once you have figured out where you want your nested loop to get you then your unconscious mind will be much more obliged to take you there, you have given it directions to its destination.

The next thing you will want to do in creating nested loops is to really imagine your audience. If you know who your story is intended for you will have a good idea of where they are starting from and what knowledge they do and don't have. Understanding your audience will clue you into the problems they are facing and what they want out of life.

Nested loops are two fold they are created for a specific audience in mind and they are created to achieve set outcomes, these are things you need to remember as you go through this creative process.

To review the first two steps in this process you should now have a picture of your audience, a place to start, a purpose, a finishing place and end all in mind. These are all accomplished in the first two steps in creating nested loops if you have missed any of these you should go back and reread the last few paragraphs, it is important to understand exactly how to do this because it is a powerful tool you will use often.

The third step is going to be to over come the hurdles. Now that you have an outline of what you need to create you will also have a sense of what problems or hurdles you may face along the way. Identifying those now will be very helpful. Because you have your audience in mind and you know their problems, their dilemmas you can start to figure out ways to resolve those problems within your stories.

You can use your stories to set up ways to resolve their problems through the suggestion stage, use your stories as resources to build to those stories. You can think of your suggestions as the point of transformation, what do you want to do at this stage? This is important because after all your stories are finished you will merge right into the desired outcome.

The fourth step in creating nested loops is going to be brainstorming. This will be the processes of deciding in what order to tell your stories so they are most beneficial for your subject. You don't have to tell your stories in order or even the same order every time.

Use your brainstorming phase to write down all the things and stories that come to mind that apply to the situation of the person you are working with. Not all the things you brainstorm will actually end up in your stories but a good amount will and it will usually give you enough ideas to complete your processes.

Remember that these are going to be your starting points for the rest of your structure. As you create stories with these ideas you will let each idea evolve and grow with your story. You should also be using these stories individually to test out on a variety of different people.

The fifth step in your creation of nested loops is going to be starting in the middle. This is not set in stone it simply means to find the story out of your set that inspires you most and start with that one. This is very, very important inspiration will lead you to whatever story is best to begin with in your nested loops.

The starting story has to be inspiring to you, go first, if you are telling it because you have to that will come through in your sub-communications and create the wrong environment for your session. The idea of using the inspirational story to start your nested loops will activate the creative processes in you unconscious and overall allow you more success in what you are doing.

Next you will fill in the blanks this is the sixth step. So basically you start with whatever story inspires you in the first place, as you tell it you come to a point where the second story is appropriate to start. When this time comes for your second story to start you will have formulated ideas for it through your inspirations from the first story.

This sounds a little impossible but as you are telling each story you will be thinking of all your resources in your skills and things you want and need to express will come to mind. This will fuel your stories and the themes you use with in them to help you resolve the problems at hand for your listener.

The seventh and final step in creating a nested loop is to actually use the creative loop. In order to do this you will need time to let your unconscious mind formulate and work through the things you will want to incorporate in your loops. If you don't have time to sleep on this you can always use self hypnosis in order to clear your mind to make things come together easier. The point is to allow your mind the time to get the creative processes going.

In this whole process of creating nested loops you will need to become a natural story teller. This is important to be able to mold your set stock of stories, the ones you will use over and over again, and form them in different ways so they can be used in different ways for different things with different people. Many of your stories will come to you by way of instant inspiration.

The way to become a natural story teller is simply to practice. Practicing will help to condition the muscles in your mind to access the creative channels you need to be more at ease with this process. The main thing to remember in this whole process is that it is a creative process and you will eventually discover your own ways of going about it all. It is important that you take the time to figure out what works for you it will only make you stronger and your nested loops and hypnosis more powerful.










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How to Establish a Hypnotic Framework

How to Establish a Hypnotic Framework

Frames are very important in what you will be doing as a Conversational Hypnotist. Frames are apparent in everything you and others do everyday.

In a way they shape the lives and realities that we choose to live in. If someone's frame of mind is that murder is unacceptable they will tend to live their lives in a reality where they do not choose to murder other people, possibly even other animals.

Frames are what set us apart from one another they are the individual beliefs and ideas that you hold true in your world for yourself. They control the meanings behind the various interactions you have with people everyday. In this light it is genuinely correct to say that frames are a very powerful aspect of your life.

Because of this simple fact learning to control frames as well as structure them will be even more powerful as you will then have the upper hand in the matter of frames. You will be able to be the dominating frame holder in your interactions with others.

The simple power behind frames is the amount of control over interaction it gives you, this is why you must not only learn how to deconstruct and reformat frames of other but also how to build a frame to start with.

Learning how to establish a frame, a good frame, is really quite simple. The first step is to determine how you would like the situation to end. If you are a realtor, you want to sell a house, or if you are a car salesman you want to sell a car. These are simple examples that everyone should be able to relate to on some level.

After you have established what it is you want people to do you can move on to the next step which is to ask what would have to be true in order for people to do that. Let's say you are a teacher and you want your students to learn.

What is the first thing that would have to be absolutely 100% true in order for your students to want to learn a concept? It would have to catch their interest in some way, be desirable information to work hard enough to retain. If the information is desirable and interesting your students will more than likely be enthusiastic about learning it.

In this example the frame that you have ruled out with that one simple truth is that they will be bored in learning the information. If the information is interesting it will catch their attention and rule out boredom and lack for luster of learning.

The next question is no longer whether or not the students want to learn the information but how will they learn it, how much effort and concentration will they put into it in order to walk away educated?

The power of making a thing desirable, in this case information, is something that you will want to do indirectly so as not to call suspicion to what you are doing. If you walk into your class room and say, "Look this is really interesting information so you better pay attention and learn," chances are you will look presumptuous and egotistical.

The people in the class will analyze that and criticize it just from your statement. This is something you will display in your attitude, in your assumptions. If you display the air that the information is really interesting and desirable then those sub-communications will be unconsciously picked up by those around you.

This is a very important part of setting up frames if you do not show in your actions that your assumptions are true you will be looked on as a fraud or an untrustworthy person.

The sub-communications that you send out are the true force behind setting up the frame in whatever situation you are in.

You have to be aware to make your preframes set up in a way that opposing them will seem like the most unlikely thing the person you are dealing with could do. In this action alone it will create an environment where the opposite frame, the one you are trying to avoid, will not even be entertained because it is so strange.

In doing this your sub-communications will be so strong in the ways you use your body language, expressions and stories that the very objections you are trying to avoid will cease to exist to the person you are speaking to. The new reality you have created will not allow for such a strange objection.

In the end if this is all done correctly it is very likely that you will end up with the desired conclusion you set at the beginning of this whole process. Setting up a frame is very powerful as you can see; it is a way to in essence predict the future of the goal you have set through a process of steps.

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The 3 Worst Mistakes Hypnotists Make in Building Rapport

The 3 Worst Mistakes Hypnotists Make in Building Rapport

When building a rapport with other people there are various mistakes that can be detrimental to the developing relationship. Three of the most common mistakes made when building rapport are trying too hard, being too nice and wanting something too much. All of these are easily remedied as are the three worst mistakes you can make when building a rapport with people. The key is being able to recognize the mistake and know the solution.

When refining the skill of building rapport the first of three detrimental mistakes you can make is to show a lack of genuine interest. This is shown through signals given off by body language.

When you are focused and genuinely interested in what another person is saying your body responds in ways others pick up on a subconscious level. These signals range from a change in body language and pupil dilation to your actual focusing signals.

If you are bored or showing disinterest people will often respond by turning off. They may show you that they are annoyed with you or simply lose interest as well. Two people having a conversation where neither is interested will damage rapport to say the least.

There are two solutions to this first problem. One is the idea of ‘tracking back'. Track back is similar to active listening. In track back you repeat the same words back to the speaker, in the same language they used. This shows you are interested, keeps your mind on track and clarifies what is being discussed.

You can also apply a track back frame in this skill. This is simply a set of words that frame the exact phrase you are repeating back. "So what you're saying is…"

Active listening is different in that you repeat back what the speaker has said using your own words. The dilemma with this is that when you change the words and language you will often change the emotional meaning and tone of the words.

All language has a neurological effect on people and when you change the emotional meaning of a phrase you can accidentally change the entire meaning. If you change or lose the meaning of what your speaker is saying it may appear that you weren't listening at all. Again creating the idea that you are disinterested in your speaker's thoughts and ideas.

The other solution to this problem is to take the advice of Carl Rogers. Rogers was a great psychologist in the early 1900's. Carl Rogers said that you should always have a high regard for the other person.

No matter what you think of them under other circumstances, if you are trying to build a lasting rapport you must find a way to convince yourself 100% what they are saying is worthy of respect.

When you accomplish this you will accomplish the task of opening up your speaker. You are saying with your body and subconscious signals that they will not be criticized or attacked; you are in a safe place. In order to develop rapport your subject needs to feel safe in order to share feelings and ideas with you.

The next horrible mistake you can make while trying to build rapport is to play the wrong role within a relationship. When two people are building rapport their relationship can fluctuate.

There are three different roles you can take on in every relationship you are creating. These consist of a high status, low status and equal status. This has nothing to do with your annual income it is merely a place within a relationship. For example an instructor usually has the high status in interaction with a student, and the student has the lower status.

Now it seems that status would naturally fall into place within conversation, right? The problem with this is that there are people who are unable to take on different status themselves. They need to be led into a new status.

If you are dealing with a person who only likes to be in a high status and you attempt to take away their role for yourself they will not be comfortable. In fact this will usually result in them disliking you and distrusting you.

You must learn to be a flexible communicator. If you have the ability to take on whatever status is necessary you will be able to open communication with anyone and start a rapport. Once you have done this you can slowly change your levels as they follow your lead and adapt to you.

Keep in mind the ‘pacing and leading' principal here. You can only travel through the different status roles as quickly as your subject will comfortably follow.

The final vital mistake you can make in your rapport building is to neglect a wide rapport and build only a deep rapport. A deep rapport is when you base your entire interaction with a person on one subject, interest or environment. This type of rapport will get you deep in that area alone quickly.

It is in your better interest to have a wide rapport so people can relate to you on many different levels. A wide rapport gives a person many different experiences of you in many different environments, interests and subjects.

This is important as it does not limit you. Your subject can feel comfortable talking with you in many places about many different ideas, feelings and thoughts.

There are two ways to create wide rapport. One is to meet in different locations to conduct your interactions. This could be enjoyable but time consuming. The other is to develop wide rapport through story telling.

Story telling offers you an endless amount of places, topics, themes and ideas you can open your subject up to. The more sense of your complete personality they have the more comfortable they will be in building rapport.

As you continue to talk about different topics your subject will eventually be willing to open up to you about anything. There are many different techniques and uses for story telling that you will learn throughout your hypnosis training.

Now that you are aware of the common mistakes and pitfalls of building rapport you can use the simple solutions provided to refine your skills. Always keep in mind that the better your rapport building skills the better you will be in the act of hypnosis.

Now go forth and build elegant and beautiful rapport with everyone you know.

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Some Subtleties on Your Way to Mastering Conversational Hypnosis

Some Subtleties on Your Way to Mastering 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.

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