Some Useful Frames for Hypnotists to Live By

Some Useful Frames for Hypnotists to Live By

Frames are a very powerful and valuable tool in Conversational hypnosis. Frames will assist you in many different areas of your study and practice simply because they are what they are. Frames are the points of reference in that we all use to understand all the things and interactions that happen around us.

If there were no frames in life then everything you did would be meaningless in a very literal sense. If there is nothing to reference an interaction by then there is not meaning to it, no context to pull that meaning from. If you have no view or opinion on a statement then it would really not matter to you how another person viewed it.

Take an example, if you simply sitting next to a stranger on a park bench and he blurted out, "Abortion is murder." If you had no opinion on this matter it would mean absolutely nothing to you. However most people have some sort of view on this matter and so that is your frame of mind about abortion, you have a context to put it in to.

Maybe you feel very strongly either way, the point is this statement will probably arouse some emotion in you and that is your frame and the context you have put this statement and probably person into. Likewise there is no real right or wrong frame only the truth, which usually lies somewhere between the very positive and negative ends of each frame.

So a frame is simply a reference that varies with each person that is used to give meaning to the thoughts, ideas, statements and opinions each person has. There are frames for every interaction you have and those frames can be useful for you in your hypnosis.

So what are these frames you should live by? Well there are a few you should really consider making your own, making them a part of the everyday life you live. These are frames that will improve your life and the ways in which people respond to you so you should really begin to believe in them and give them a good positive effort.

In essence they will improve others lives as well simply because you will know how to use them and yourself be a happier person making those around you happier to be in your presence. This happens because once you take on a new frame you will start to sub-communicate that frame on to others. This sub-communication will project your frame on to others and they will respond to you in the ways that you are treating them. Plain and simple, usually if you give a smile you get a smile.

The first frame you should start to practice and make your own is the frame of abundance versus scarcity. If you are a person who practices a frame of scarcity you are constantly in need. There is never enough stuff around to satisfy you. People stuck in this frame will lie, cheat and steal to get what they want.

This is a negative behavior of course and if you act in this way it is what you will get returned to you by the rest of the world. You see the frame you project as your own comes back on you from others as they perceive the frames you are in. This is why going first is always such a helpful tool as well. A frame of scarcity is not one that will elevate you in the standards of others nor is it healthy as it is a very negative way to be.

If you are a person who takes on a frame of abundance you will likely see it returned to you in the world as well. A person of abundance has what they need; they tend to show this in the dignity they display. They will not lie, cheat or steal from you as that is not their standard of living.

They know that there is enough to go around and will be comfortable in what they get because abundance will be returned to them by way of others. A frame of abundance allows others to want to be around you, want to listen to you; it makes you more charismatic and that is the world you should desire to be in.

The second frame you should be interested in practicing is that of the cause versus effect frame. The effect frame is a way of thinking that if only everyone else would fix themselves you would be much happier. Every problem you encounter is never your fault it is always someone else at fault for your misfortunes.

Effect frames are unhealthy because if you really want something in your life to change it is you who must to take charge and make the changes yourself not wish someone else would. In this frame you are giving your control away, you are relying on others to fix your life when there is no guarantee that they will. They think that everything is out of their control and they sub-communicate this very much.

If you are a person of the cause frame of mind do not blame the world for their problems, they simply try to fix them. The way they do this is they take the problem, accept that it is what it is and then ask themselves how can I fix this?

The moral of the story here is that most problems that come along in your life are going to be purely coincidental and there are very few instances where another random coincidence will come along to fix said problem.

You need to take charge and control and fix what you can so you are not dwelling on the problems and waiting on the rest of the world to get its act together to please you. Take responsibility for the things you want to change in your life and change them.

The third frame you need to keep in check is a very personal one and that is to be the type of person that others look up to, a type of respect for the enthusiasm you have for life. It can really be anything passion, enthusiasm or just nice to be around. If you sub-communicate this sort of frame people will want to be around you and hear what you have to say.

A good example of this is if you look at any really successful person you will often notice that they demand a sort of respect that people seem to want to give to them. That is because others enjoy being around them, they are happier in this persons presence.

If this is difficult at first, in fact if any of these frames are difficult at first you should start by pretending to take on these frames. The more you pretend or practice these frames the more you will start to believe them and become them. You will soon forget that you are pretending at all and be the embodiment of the things you have set before you here.

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A Step by Step Guide to Mastering Conversational Hypnosis

A Step by Step Guide to Mastering Conversational Hypnosis

One of the first things to remember before you dive into this overview is that Conversational Hypnosis is a very complex and highly sophisticated art. There will be many pieces for you to master as you continue through the articles. You must be sure to take the time to truly master each step before moving on to the next step.

If you do this through out you will find that putting the puzzle together will come much more naturally. As you learn each step fully you will then be ready to add the refinements and additional concepts found in the next step. Remember that feeling overwhelmed and awkward at first with this amount of information will be natural, but you will soon see that you probably already have most of the steps down and they just need to be fine tuned through a bit more concentration and practice.

Through out this article and the following articles you will be making every piece of Conversational Hypnosis a completely natural process, you will know it well enough that it will come spontaneously and easily. As you do this you will be adding other pieces that will all fit together to create a beautiful hypnotic flow of language and become a master of Conversational Hypnosis.

When you come upon steps that you are having troubles with you will want to return to those articles and reread and more fully embody the information there. After you understand it and can practice it comfortably you will be ready to move forward.

If you do not take care of the pieces that need your attention as the present themselves you will have problems fitting all the pieces together in the end. So take the time to really understand and accomplish each set of steps before you move on.

This is an overview of the nine steps in mastering Conversational Hypnosis; you will have a more in depth look at each step in future articles this is to get you prepared for the journey ahead.

Step one in mastering Conversational Hypnosis is really the foundation of your education. This step includes all the concepts that will hold your hypnosis together. In this step you will learn to use your linguistic bridges, the purest of language. You will begin to combine those with precision language including hot words and amplification languages.

You will also start to incorporate ambiguous messages and confusion languages. This will be done with other language skills you have learned such as shock and surprise and tension release cycles. All this language will come together to complete step one of the nine step process in mastering Conversational Hypnosis.

In the second step of the nine step process you will simply be adding to the concepts in the first step. In this step you will be creating the right environment, a hypnotic atmosphere. The tools you will use in order to seduce people into trance will include going beyond rapport using status, wide rapport, rapport hooks, fractionate rapport as well as instant rapport techniques.

As you incorporate all these things you will also be adding in all you have learned about signal recognition. Using signal recognitions will include using a heightened state of awareness. Tonality will be added to this as well using ‘going first', squeezing the meaning from your words and command tonalities.

Finally you will add in the authority strategies by using power tactics, agreement tactics and persistence tactics. All of these powerful skills will come together to create the type of atmosphere you need for whatever hypnotic interaction you are attempting to achieve.

In step three you will be refining your process by adding in the element of solidarity. You will do this by again taking from the skills you have learned and adding them to the big picture we are creating as an entire process. This will come in the inductions you have learned.

You will begin to add in the hypnotic gaze induction using the 4 Stage Protocol. This will also include all aspects that you learned with the hypnotic gaze; holding the gaze, lowering your tone, focusing through your listener and describing the trance experience.

You will also refine the process by making everything more indirect. You will do this using concepts you have learned including the ‘my friend John/Jane' and extended quotes techniques. All these concepts will come together to add a solid effect to your hypnotic interactions.

In step four of the nine steps you will be introducing the next induction, the piggy back induction. In this induction you will be using multiple topics, yes sets and piggy back suggestions. You will continue with making the induction more indirect by way of hypnotic themes, moving the focus from the external to the internal as well as mind reads. This step is very important as the piggy back induction is a powerful and important part of your hypnosis after you learn it well you will move on to step five in the nine step process.

Step five is adding yet another induction, the trance voice induction. This will include creating trance voices that include conscious and unconscious voices and multiple hypnotic voices. From there you will move on to add the embedding of multiple levels of suggestion by way of all three inductions and including different trance themes within each. As all the steps come together and become a natural part of your hypnotic process you will be ready to move on to step six.



In this next step, step six you will be refining the process even further using stories and sensory rich descriptions to layer in your suggestions and trance themes. You will do this using sensory rich descriptions, stacked realities and the learned story skills you have taken from your studies. You will also use this step to embed suggestions using ambiguous messages both directly and indirectly.

After the mastery of step six you will move on to step seven which will start to incorporate the frames controls. This will include all the framing aspects of maintaining your frame, preframing, reframing and deframing. You will also use assumptions and implications to strengthen the frames you are using. These are all the refinements you will add to step seven and once you have integrated them comfortably you can move on to the next step.

Step eight is going to be adding in your trance processes yet again. You will use the trance formulas you have learned including the PCAT and COMILA formulas. In these you will add future memories, post hypnotic suggestions and starting with the smallest steps. You are almost there; you have a nearly complete sophisticated hypnotic process at this point.

Finally you will move on to step nine which will involve all the steps one through eight and then adding to that nested loops in step nine. You will use all the basic, intermediate, advanced and master level loops. You will also be utilizing the hard and soft loop to transition between your loops and stories. And you are complete.

It is important to remember that although this process seems very complicated and in depth you will be perfecting one step at a time until it comes naturally. Once each completed step come as a natural process you will begin to master the next step. This way of refining and perfecting the process will make it easy to digest and a flowing way of integrating all these powerful and important steps into one masterpiece called Conversational Hypnosis.




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How To Spot When Someone Is In Hypnosis: The Most Obvious Hypnotic Trance Signals

How To Spot When Someone Is In Hypnosis: The Most Obvious Hypnotic Trance Signals

Hypnosis is an art where it is vital that you know how to spot when someone is entering a trance. This can be done with accurate signal recognition systems as well as knowing how to asses trance signals.

Accurate signal recognition systems are important because they are your first clue that a person is responding to you hypnotically. The signals you can pick up on can be quite obvious or very minute; anything from the glazed look of entering a trance, whether produced by you or an outside source, to the smallest detail physical change.

Milton Erickson had a perfected eye for picking up on the smallest signals that people sent out. This is a perfection you as a hypnotist should strive for.

There are other obvious signals that a person is going into trance. We will get to discuss these here and you will learn how to tune into the different signals your subjects will be showing when they are entering a hypnotic trance.

During hypnosis when a person is very focused and beginning to enter a trance there are certain aspects of their physiology that will inevitably change. These are unconscious changes that occur without the conscious control of the person being hypnotized.

As we look at the different signs of trance it is important to note that not all signals will be the same for every person. Signal recognition systems are not a specific set of rules to follow.

It is your jobs as the hypnotist to attune yourself to the different subjects you have and realize what is different for each one. This is not about seeing one or two distinct signs from your subject, but distinguishing what is different for that person from the norm.

The most obvious signal that a person is entering into a highly focused state of trance is the change in their breathing. Usually the rate of breathing will slow as they are becoming more relaxed under trance. However there are subjects whose breathing will speed up as well.

The rate of breathing the person is experiencing is often dependant on the focus of your conversation. If you are asking them to relax into a trance their breathing will more than likely slow. If you are taking them through an exciting chain of events or they feel imposing danger their rate of breathing may quicken.

In order to tell if a persons breathing has changed you will undoubtedly have to be studying their body.

There are ways of doing this without getting slapped or punched. Of course you can monitor their chest to see the rate of breath, however this may seem offensive to some people. If you are monitoring their chest it is a good idea to do this with your peripheral vision. Staring straight on at someone's chest, especially a female subject is never a good idea.

Other means of monitoring rate of breath is to watch the rise and fall of a person's shoulders or rib cage. Both of these move with every breath you take and will be fairly obvious and easy to spot.

The second most obvious sign that a person is entering a hypnotic state is the smoothing out of facial features. If you have ever looked a person straight on in the face you will often notice that most people's faces are not completely symmetrical.

As a person goes into a trance they muscles in the face begin to relax and their face will start to appear more symmetrical. The left side of the face will more closely match the right side.

This is a fairly easy signal to spot, especially if you are prone to looking at a persons face while talking to them. As they go into trance and you are looking at their face you will be able to see the muscles relaxing and the face visibly starts to even out.

As you are watching your subjects face for signs of evening out you may very well be able to pick up on the third most obvious signal at the same time. This is when a person's attention is absorbed.

When a subject is going into hypnosis and their attention is being fully absorbed there are slight changes in their eyes that you will be able to see. The first is the eyes will become fixed on one spot in space. It may look as though they are ‘zoning out' or staring at nothing in particular.

Another affect on the eyes of trance is they can become slightly glazed over or sleepy looking. Sometimes a person will show no eye movement at all. All these signs are showing you that a person's attention is completely affixed and they are falling into a trance.

The fourth obvious sign of trance is involuntary muscle twitches. These are of course easy to spot and can almost be eye catching. They can be seen straight on or be easily spotted through your peripheral vision. Involuntary muscle twitches can affect any part of the body that has a muscle.

The bigger the muscle twitching the easier it is to spot. Many subjects will experience facial ticks or shoulder twitches, these are both within your line of vision and pretty noticeable. The twitching of muscles is caused by the cathartic process that the muscles experience when completely relaxed.

Number five on the list of obvious signs is almost the opposite of muscle twitches; it is the effect of immobility of the body. Sometimes when a person is going into a hypnotic trance they will stop moving all together.

This is easy to see especially if you are dealing with a person who normally makes a lot of hand gestures or has animated body language. If you are dealing with someone who rarely sits still you will almost immediately notice the lack of mobility of the body. If their movements begin to slow down or actually stop all together you will know they are entering an altered state of mind.

The final obvious signal in the six most obvious is the increase in passive responses given by a person. As many people enter an altered state of mind the will become less argumentative, more passive. This more agreeable demeanor will be much more willing to follow your lead. This is noticeable both as a changing personality trait and that it can ultimately make your job as the hypnotist easier.

The six obvious signals we have gone over here are easy to spot. Keep in mind as you experience new subjects and learn to put new people into trance you will probably discover other obvious signs that are unique to different individuals.

As you learn to spot as many signals coming from those around you going into altered states of mind you will become seasoned and be able to conduct your hypnosis quicker and easier than ever.

The skill of being able to spot when someone is entering a trance is really at the core of signal recognition systems and is easy to practice as people are constantly moving in and out of trances around you all the time.

Learning to spot these signals will also aid you in the future when you are learning to borrow trances already in progress.

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Hypnosis Training - Learn the 4 Stage Hypnosis Protocol

Hypnosis Training - Learn the 4 Stage Hypnosis Protocol

Hypnosis is a widely acknowledged process that can change the lives of many, by using hypnosis you can change your ways of life to be happier, healthier and more personally satisfying.

Hypnosis is created when a person is so intensely focused that it creates a freedom within the unconscious mind to act beyond the normal restrictions of what the conscious mind deems possible, real and proper

Hypnosis training is best started by learning about the past and present of hypnosis itself. The history of hypnosis reaches centuries back; it wasn't until the 1880's that hypnosis advanced from the ‘Dark Ages' and into a more scientific realm.

It was then that a Scottish neurosurgeon by the name of James Braid came up with the term hypnotism. Not only is James Braid responsible for coining the term hypnotism he is also responsible for the study that proved that hypnotism was not a product of magnetic fluids flowing through our bodies.

Braid spent time studying Animal Magnetism and Mesmerism and concluded from those studies that hypnosis could be induced by anyone as long as they followed a certain set of simple rules.

As Braid experimented and studied hypnosis he coined the term hypnosis for reasons that the subjects undergoing it looked to be sleepy. After further study he found that one could be hypnotized and still be wide awake, at this time he attempted to change the term hypnotism to monoidealism; mono- meaning one, and idealism for the focus on a particular idea.

This term made better sense as the act of hypnosis is created by complete focus on one idea to the extent that it eventually becomes a reality for the subject. The term monoidealism did not take and hence today hypnosis is still known as hypnosis.



As James Braid has shown us through history there are rules to follow and steps to take to induce a person into a hypnotic state. These steps are known today as the 4 Stage Formula. The 4 Stage Formula begins with Stage 1, to Absorb Attention. Absorbing attention is simply to capture the focus of your subject.

This requires intense concentration and the ability to draw your subject into you and to keep them following your lead with suggestions and language, after you have accomplished this you can move on to the second stage.

The second stage of the 4 Stage Formula is to Bypass the Critical Factor. Critical factor is known in hypnosis as the reasoning of the conscious mind that says, "this is not possible".

Resistance to hypnotic trance is created when the critical factor stands between your subject and their hypnotic state. This must be bypassed in order for your subject to respond to you on an unconscious level.

Once you have bypassed the critical factor, which you will learn as we move through different articles, you will be able to present hypnotic suggestions in the form of advice. As long as no critical factor is standing in the way the suggestions will resonate with your subject and the advice will come out through the conscious mind and take effect.

After you have bypassed all critical factors stage 3 of the 4 Stages is to Activate an Unconscious Response. Activating unconscious responses is your sign that you have successfully led your subject into a hypnotic state.

Any unconscious response is a positive sign for you as a hypnotist, as well as for your client, because you are doing your job. Unconscious response can vary; a good example of an unconscious response is an emotional response.

Emotional responses are derived from an unconscious level, you have no choice in your emotions they are simply a product of your unconscious reacting to and implementing the thinking and understandings you posses.

Make sure to note that if you are dealing with a subject that is in a heightened state of emotion, say a breakup or recent loss, the subject is already in their own hypnotic process.

You as the hypnotist will have no control over a person in hypnotic process of which you are not the authority. They will not listen to you or attempt to follow your suggestions, they are immune to your reasoning and need time to emerge from the state they are in before you can induce a hypnotic state of which you are in control of.

You must be able to access and retrieve a response from the unconscious before you can begin working toward any desired outcome. This brings us to the fourth and final step in the 4 Stages; the fourth stage is to Lead Unconscious to Desired Outcome.

This step is simple to explain really it is as it sounds. Once you have your subject in a hypnotic state and have accomplished the three previous stages you will lead your subject through their unconscious by way of suggestions to obtain your desired outcome. When you successfully combine all four of the 4 Stage Formula you will be engaging with your subject in a conversational hypnotic interaction.






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The Fundamental Hypnosis Skills Every Hypnotist Should Know

The Fundamental Hypnosis Skills Every Hypnotist Should Know

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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How to Use Erickson's Secret Trance Voice Induction - a step by step hypnosis training guide

How to Use Erickson's Secret Trance Voice Induction - a step by step hypnosis training guide

In the study of Conversational Hypnosis there are various inductions and tools you can use to help your subject's to enter into an altered state of mind. Hypnosis is just like any other profession or activity; there are steps to take to set up the environment and get people to respond to you in the ways that you want.

The trance-voice hypnotic induction is one of the tools that you will use to get hypnosis underway. The trance-voice hypnotic induction is the skill of changing your voice into your hypnotic voice in order to induce a trance. It is a very powerful way to condition people to enter an altered state of mind just by the tone of your voice.

In this induction you will spend time conditioning your subject to recognize and respond to the particular tone, rhythm and pitch of your voice. Once they are conditioned correctly they will respond much like Pavlov's dogs in that the response will come with little coaxing and the reward will not even have to be in sight.

Milton Erickson, however not credited with the discovery, was the great hypnotist to discover the power of trance-voice hypnosis.

The steps you must take for this induction are pretty simple once you are acquainted with them. The first step to the trance-voice hypnotic induction is to compare the conscious and unconscious minds.

This is as easy as making a list of things to do; instead you are going to recite a list of concepts. The concepts you will include in this list are going to be comparisons between the conscious mind and unconscious mind's activities.

Conscious mind activities are going to include things that happen when you are awake, logical things, processes you work through on a daily basis. These are things you choose to do, or you do on purpose.

Unconscious mind activities are going to be the things that take place when you are dreaming like sleep and dreams themselves. An unconscious activity is anything that you do automatically; you don't choose to dream, breath, keep your heart beating or control the temperature of your blood.

As you do this list recital you will move on to step two; use a conscious voice and an unconscious voice to do this. As you read each conscious mind's activities you will use your conscious voice, like wise as you read the unconscious mind's activities you will switch to using your unconscious voice.

The differences between these voices will be that your conscious voice is the same as your normal tone of voice. Everything about this voice will be the same as your natural conversational voice. You will use the same pitch, tone and rhythm that you would if you and your best friend were discussing the dates you had last night.

Your unconscious voice however, will be different. It will typically be slower and more comforting. This is your hypnotic voice. In the beginning of the inductions you will typically be using your normal or conscious voice more often.

This is because you are still working in the conscious frame of mind, which is the activity that is really going on. As you work through the induction a little way you will be using your unconscious slower voice more frequently. This is really bringing us to the third step in this induction.

The third step to the trance-voice hypnotic induction is going to be going between the conscious and unconscious minds. As you are primarily talking about the conscious activities in your conscious you will work in this step.

This is going to be gently including an unconscious mind activity from time to time. You will switch to your unconscious mind voice and with its slow and smooth tones include unconscious mind activities.

As you read before you will be primarily working with the conscious mind in the beginning of the induction. As you begin to weave more and more unconscious mind activities into the conversation, always being sure to change your voice, you will eventually be only talking about unconscious mind activities. In this you are conditioning the mind to respond hypnotically to your trance-voice.

The fourth step in this process is simply reversing the process at the end of the trance. When you are ready for your listener to emerge out of their trance you will simply change the direction in which you were going previously.

You will start with unconscious mind activities in your trance-voice and slowly integrate conscious mind activities back in with your normal voice. Soon you will be speaking only of conscious mind activities in a normal voice which will bring your subject out of their altered state.

Now that you know the full process for the trance-voice hypnotic induction you can practice it, think about it and more fully grasp the different minds and their activities.

Just remember as you do this that the conscious mind had a small capacity of 5 - 9 processes at once and is the planner, doer, and the analyzer.

The unconscious mind has an enormous capacity of up to 2.3 billion process it can handle at a time. It is the more holistic side of things and likes to take a look at the bigger picture of things, put the pieces together instead of separate them and be more spontaneous.

These little facts will help you in deciding when to use which voice. It is important that you not only know when to use which voice but that you also make a clear distinction between your voices so as to never confuse them or your listener.

This is because when you start in on unconscious topics you unconscious mind will always be in the conversation more fully and start to respond, getting the voices confused or making them so unclear that your listener is confused can be an unfortunate event for both of you.

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The LIFE Checklist for Better Conversational Hypnosis

The LIFE Checklist for Better Conversational Hypnosis

As a great Conversational Hypnotist you need be able to use your conversations in order to easily put those around you into a trance in order to help them with their problems. But once you can do this the question remains where to go from here.

The fact of the matter is you not only need to know how to put a person into trance but you must also have tools that will assist you in making the changes with in a person to influence their lives. There is one thing that you must always keep in mind and live by as a Conversational Hypnotist; if you want to influence a person purposefully you must have one of two goals.

The first is to help them to overcome or correct some type of problem in their lives.

The second is to assist them into creating a better future for themselves.

There are ways you can learn to help you to accomplish these two goals. The first is the PCAT Formula; this was developed to help you help people in the area of overcoming problems in their lives. The other formula which is the COMILA Formula is to help with the betterment of a person's future. Now these are formulas that you will learn about more in depth later but for now you need to know that they are there to assist you in these two vital areas of Conversational Hypnosis.

To go along with the help you will get from these two formulas the unconscious will be helping you along the way as well. Part of the reason for the unconscious, part of its job is to help you to survive and thrive in the world. Whatever environment you are in your unconscious should be helping you to grow in the best ways possible with in that environment.

Given this job of the unconscious, if you as a Conversational Hypnotist are genuinely attempting to help someone to better their life or a positive result in some way you will have the unconscious mind of that person already on your side. Your influence as a hypnotist will team up with the unconscious mind to produce the best possible way for the person to thrive in their world.

Now it is a definite plus to have the unconscious mind of your listener on your side but you will also need some tools to go along with that. Aside from the PCAT and COMILA Formulas you can also keep in mind the LIFE Checklist. The LIFE Checklist is a way of checking yourself to ensure that you are using your full education to help the person you are working with.

This is simply a short and simple list of items you will keep in your mind to check that you are doing all the necessary steps in your hypnosis sessions. The LIFE Checklist is the best way to maximize the hypnotic conversations you are having with your clients. This is a tool that will keep your hypnosis training in check with four simple steps to remember.

The LIFE Checklist stands for language, induction, frames and emotion. If you incorporate all these items into your hypnotic conversations you will have a positive outcome time and time again. The LIFE Checklist is a tool that you will use along with all your other tools including the PCAT, the COMILA, future memories, post-hypnotic suggestions and everything else you have learned to incorporate into your conversations.

Now you just need to take a closer look at what each of these means and you will be set to use the LIFE Checklist as soon as you wish.

The ‘L' is for language. In this simple model this letter L is simply there to remind you to use all the different language tools you have learned in your training. In this mental process you will want to question things like are you using your tonality, rhythm, flow and suggestions all in the best possible ways to do with language.

The ‘I' in LIFE stands for Induction. In this step you will want to check to see that you are using the 4 Stage Protocol. First you will want to be sure you are using some sort of induction method, whether it is formal or informal it does not matter as long as you are using one.

Are you absorbing the attention of your listener? Have you bypassed their critical factor? If so, have you received an unconscious response from the person and are you attempting to direct that response to an action? Do you have an outcome or goal set and are you working your way toward it?

Next is the ‘F' and it is for frames. In this step you will want to be sure you are setting up the right frames, if you are not you may need to check to see if you really do have an outcome in mind. If you aren't setting up frames you are likely lacking purpose in your conversation. If there is no purpose in your conversation then you will also likely babble on and use very poor communication skills.

The best thing to do here is have a clear picture of the frames you need to set by knowing a specific and pointed outcome you are reaching for. If you have a clear purpose and know exactly what it is you are trying to achieve then your frames will almost come naturally. They will be very easy to set up in that you will be communicating very pointedly.

Finally the ‘E' in the LIFE Checklist is for emotion. Are you using your stories and conversation to evoke some sort of emotional state from the person you are working with? Emotion is very important and powerful. It is what makes humans do things; emotion is the sole driver of interaction, if you have no emotional content in your hypnotic conversation then you will likely be led astray in your communications.

Now here this list looks long but once you have the basic knowledge of it, it will become a very quick and efficient way to check to see that you are utilizing all your tools in Conversational Hypnosis. Going through this list in your head will literally only take you a few moments, seconds really.

If you session or communication seems to be a little off you can quickly run through the four letters and see what it is you are lacking in your conversation. This checklist will help you to critique what is happening within the interaction you are having with your listener and correct the things you may be forgetting.

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The Importance of An Accurate Signal Recognitions System in Hypnosis

The Importance of An Accurate Signal Recognitions System in Hypnosis

There are signs and signals that surround all of us everyday. Some of those signals come from people and others come from objects. There are signals that are concrete. These signals tell us when it is okay to cross the street, when to eat and when we should be sleepy.

There are also signals all around us that are not as obvious; an innocent flirtation, needs and feelings within others they need met and the signals of trance. It is true there are people around you everyday falling in and out of trances. Many times people do not realize the signals that are coming from those in trance.

At the beginning of hypnosis it is vital that you learn to recognize these signals. But before you can easily spot signals coming from others you must first teach yourself a few things.

You need to learn to see the world as it is. Plain and simple. Most people view the world as they want it to be. If you can learn to view things as they actually are you will be opening your mind to the truth of the world. When we see things the way in which we believe, or want to believe, things are we are deceiving ourselves.

As humans we are accustomed to seeing what we expect. We filter out what we don't want and view the world, our lives and the lives of others in skewed terms. In order to see things as they truly are there are two things you must do for yourself.

The first is to recognize what is actually out there, whether you are viewing the world or your front yard. Keep your view simple and true, factual.

The second thing you need to do is to learn to recognize the signals that come when you are successful in a thing. Look for the signals that tell you are being successful in whatever it is that you are doing.

After you have learned to open your mind and do these two things successfully on a consistent basis you will be able to attune your ‘accurate signal recognition' even further.

Milton Erickson was practiced and precise in his accurate signal recognition. Erickson was a leading psychiatrist, born in the early 1900's. He specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy. Erickson believed as many hypnotists do today that the unconscious was completely separate from the conscious. This included that the unconscious mind possessed its own awareness, interests, responses and learning abilities.

Milton Erickson was so precise in his recognition of signals that he could tell things about a person that they perhaps had only discovered moments earlier. He used his keen sense of signal recognition as he closely watched people and noticed things others would never see.

Erickson could tell a woman was expecting a child in the first weeks of pregnancy just by the tilt of her hips and movement of her hairline. When a woman is pregnant these things change in very small ways. The hair line moves by fractions, so little unless you were keen to the idea you would never notice. There are also changes within the body that affect the pelvis and its structure.

Erickson's ability to read signals was so attuned he could read signals from subjects that other doctors never even realized. Once a woman visited him and was very skeptical about seeing yet another psychiatrist because no other psychiatrist had recognized her dilemma as of yet. Erickson told her immediately that he needed to know how long she had been a woman for.

He could tell simply from the signals she was sending out that she was really a man. Her body language was that of a girls who had not yet figured out how to work around new breasts. She would bump them as she moved her arms and gestured with her hands. Many people would just attribute this small signal as something that happens when one is not comfortable in their body. Or many may not have even noticed it at all, depending on the size of her chest I am sure.

Milton Erickson was noted for his signal recognition and it was fundamental in his success as a hypnotist. He knew, as you need to know now, that the smallest signals a person gives off can send a large amount of information your way.

Noticing changes in your subjects and the people around you is an important skill to perfect. Acute visual recognition can show you changes in the smallest detail. These changes and details are very important.

As you learn more about hypnosis and signal recognition systems it is important to focus on and develop them for yourself. This will aid you greatly in seeing the signals that someone is entering trance. It will also help in showing you when people are responding to your ideas and suggestions in the ways you want them to.

Signal recognition systems are a key tool in hypnosis. They can tell you volumes about a person once you learn to recognize and read the signals properly.

After all it is always good to know when a woman is actually a man, and if signal recognition can help you here it can more than likely help you any where.






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How to Use Embedded Suggestions and Stacked Realities in Hypnosis

How to Use Embedded Suggestions and Stacked Realities in Hypnosis

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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How to Turn Regular Hypnosis into Conversational Hypnosis

How to Turn Regular Hypnosis into Conversational Hypnosis

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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Insider Tricks: Polishing Your Hypnotic Stories

Insider Tricks: Polishing Your Hypnotic Stories

Story telling is not only an age old process it is an important part of hypnosis. In your studies to become a great hypnotist it is important to really focus on your ability to tell a good story.

Stories and hypnosis go together very well and story telling will be a powerful and important part of your job. The stories you tell will be used to do many things you have already learned. They can assist you in any of the steps in the 4 Stage Protocol. A good hypnotic story will absorb attention, bypass critical factor, create an unconscious response and put the unconscious response into action.

Stories will also give you a place to seed ideas and place suggestions. They will allow you to have a frame set in order to mirror the problems and experiences of the people around you so they can identify with the characters and put the solutions you suggest into action.

All of these things are just the tip of the iceberg in what good story telling can do for you in Conversational Hypnosis. The stories you tell will often be the backbone of your interactions with the very people you are trying to help to better their lives. In this context it only makes sense that you should be the best possible story teller you can be in to influence people in the best possible way. Good story telling is in essence a win-win situation for you and your clients.

As you have been learning you have probably been practicing telling stories in some way or another. Since you have had a little experience it is time to start to polish up those stories and really make them shine. One of the most important things you will need to remember to do this is to avoid at all costs the restriction of your unconscious, your creativity.

There are tricks that will help you to keep your creativity flowing and free. The first trick to this is don't try to be good. This may sound a little odd when the purpose of this article is to enhance your story telling abilities.

What this means is that there is a set of rules that we have covered previously and you need to stick to those rules. Trying too hard to be good at telling a story can often times be self defeating in that you will diminish the natural flow of the story. Don't destroy your stories by trying too hard to make them the best stories ever heard. If you stay with the rules instead of trying to be good you will tell stories that are good.

The second trick to telling hypnotic stories is to let the muck come out. There will be a certain amount of muck within you that will need to seep out in the beginning phases of your story telling.

This muck is made up of all the things you think of and ponder that are not socially acceptable to say in conversations with the people you interact with on a regular basis. This is a natural process that happens to all story tellers that are really great, so just let the much flow.

Don't be surprised when the muck comes. This muck is dirty. It can be a combination of obscenities, morbid thinking, swearing, sexual perversions and all other types of socially unacceptable thoughts that we never discuss with other people. The fact is this is going to be unavoidable and you ultimately are not responsible for your stories.

Stories are created by the unconscious so you need to free yourself here completely. Adopt the attitude that you don't care what others think of your dirty, dirty muck. Do not criticize yourself for the stories that evolve from this muck. Do not censor yourself in your story telling, just open your mouth and let the muck fly.

If you don't get it out you will pollute the flow of your creativity and that is the first no-no you were warned of in this article.

The third trick is going to be for you to visualize the scene. You can probably tell I am now going to tell you to ‘go first' for this trick. You are right it is important that you can not only visualize the scene but also put yourself into it. Make sure to visualize it all so you are creating a reality for yourself and your listener.

The fourth trick to story telling is to keep things inside ‘the circle'. This is a simple idea that is fairly easy to follow. When you are telling a story each piece of information you give will have natural associations attached to it.

These associations are the things in the circle. All the rest of the things that are not associated with the pieces of information you are giving need to be left out of your story.

The best way to illustrate this is to give you an example. If you are telling a story and you set the scene as you are living in the ocean there are automatically going to be associations that go with that idea. Things that will be around you will be fish, water, sand and seaweed.

There is also a broader aspect to this circle of surroundings that the listener may not expect that can also be possible. These things could include a submarine, a body floating in the water and a pirate ship. These are all in the circle.

Things that are not going to be in the circle are dogs, furniture, semi trucks and camels.

Remember that all the things in the circle are going to have associations as well.

This is an easy way to follow your own story; all the future twists and turns in the story will already be laid out for you in the things that are associated with every thing that comes before it.

Finally the last trick to follow for story telling is to just keep talking. You will always have subject matter in the associations with the elements you have previously told in the story so let it flow. Just keep talking.

Now that we know the insider tricks to polishing your stories lets add a few insights to them to get the complete story on polishing your stories.

The best way to become an exceptional story teller is to train your brain. In this you are conditioning your brain to grow new neurology and make new connections that will let the stories come naturally with practice.

A good insight to keep in mind with this is to avoid blocking or wimping out. These are ways that will hold up your story telling and bring it to a stall, boring. Blocking is when you keep doing the same activities over and over again simply because you are afraid of moving on to the next idea in your story.

Wimping out is when you keep circling around the same idea repeatedly running in the same circle. Remember that you have a preset story line provided by you unconscious and the association with the aspects of the already existing story. You should not be afraid to move on.

The final concept and second additional insight into story telling is to just take it one step at a time. There is no need to panic because you don't know the rest of your story as you tell it. Taking it one step at a time will be easier for you and your listener.

Each next step is presented to you in the list of associations that spring from the previous step. If you are keeping it inside the circle you will have all the answers you need. There is no need to know the whole story at any time in your story telling.

By following these insights and tricks and combining them with the rules for telling a story you will advance in this area powerfully. The best thing to do is just stick to the rules, tricks and insights and your stories will grow from your unconscious beautifully.

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