An Introduction to Hypnosis & Trance

An Introduction to Hypnosis & Trance

Hypnosis and Conversational Hypnosis are simply natural experiences that occur all the time. People spend their days going in and out of different trances and altered states of mind. If you think about it you probably access trances many times each day; when you day dream, become absorbed in a show or movie, when you become deep in thought or even immerse yourself fully in something you are reading. So hypnosis is complete and natural ways of letting your consciousness go free.

Humans are made as any animal with instincts for survival and in a world where our minds are constantly on and going it is a natural cycle of the body to produce trances to give your mind time to reset and reorganize.

These cycles are thought to happen every ninety minutes and really just give your mind a break from what it is required to do all day long. It gives the mind time to organize the events that have happened and file them in the proper places. Now it is said that these cycles are very much needed almost as required by your body as REM sleep. Without these cycles your body would become too stressed and tired.

Hypnosis is a great natural healthy experience to have, although it has been an attraction for myths of evil. It is important to know what hypnosis is not so you may then know what it really is. Hypnosis is not an evil magical trick that is played on the mind. It is not a way to dominate the world with hypnotic zombies that you control. It is not a way to program a person to do evil bidding or assignations.

What hypnosis is is a powerful and valuable mind and body connection that enables the hypnotist to accomplish the things that seem impossible to those who are struggling with them. There have been examples of the power of hypnosis in procedures like surgery without anesthetic, a person being completely awake and calmly watching as the operation is performed. This is the power of the body's natural ways of using the mind to change the world you live in.

Hypnosis is not only used for health and physical pain suppression, it can also expand your mental abilities and functions. This is clear as in a trance state you can often study better and faster as well as remember information more clearly. Hypnosis can also increase the capacity of your creativity far beyond what you would ever expect. The point in all this is to show you how powerful the art of hypnosis can be in the light that it should truly be shown in. Not evil but a powerful art form of discipline that has an endless amount of opportunity within.

Within hypnosis we have to look at the purpose of the unconscious mind as it is highly involved in this process of hypnosis. The unconscious mind is responsible for many, many processes our bodies and minds need in order to survive. If you consider that the conscious mind can only comfortably handle five to nine processes at a time then the amount of processes that must be handled by the unconscious is very vast.

It is important to know the realms of the unconscious mind as you will be ultimately be dealing with the unconscious on a very regular basis. The unconscious mind is responsible for body, emotion, memory, communication and performance. All these huge categories are handled by the unconscious and most often all at the same time.

In the category of body the unconscious in left with the responsibility of preserving your body, it keeps your heart beating, lungs breathing, blood pressure regulated, blood temperature in check, food digested and so on. It takes care of all the things you often take for granted, that your body just does automatically because the unconscious is telling it to do so.

Emotion is another function that is handled by the unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind is responsible for all the different emotions you feel and the firing of those emotions. This is always happening, constantly; if you stop to think about it there is never a time when you are feeling no emotion at all. You are happy, sad, content, bored, depressed or excited at all times of your life. You experience these and many other emotions throughout your life and they are all put into effect by your unconscious mind.

In memory your unconscious mind spends time to organize and store all your memories. It is also responsible for the suppression of memories. It does this when your body and conscious mind are not strong enough to handle the traumatic events that take place in your life. It will restore or bring back those memories when you are strong enough to handle them in a healthy way.

The unconscious mind is also responsible for communication. This is where the information you receive from the outside world comes in and is perceived by the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind analyzes it and maps it for you to understand the interpretations. It does not directly process negativity and caters the information's to your conscious mind. The unconscious mind must work in a way that serves the conscious mind for all to work properly in the body.

Lastly we have performance, in this area the unconscious mind is responsible for creating instincts for the body to act on. This is put into action through repetition and will use these instincts to complete and create the whole picture of reality because that is the level the unconscious mind functions on. The unconscious mind will work toward the goals and instances it can integrate into the bigger picture of life causing things and processes to come together for you naturally.

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Stealth Tactics in Hypnosis: What Are Stealth Tactics

Stealth Tactics in Hypnosis: What Are Stealth Tactics

Conversational Hypnosis is an art of communicating suggestions to other while they are in a state of trance. The suggestions you are giving to audience should be ones that will help them to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. The question becomes how to get the very suggestions in to a persons mind when they reject them.

Everyone has what we refer to as a critical filter. This is the mechanism inside your mind that analyzes and criticizes information coming in from outside sources. The critical filters decide what is safe to allow inside our minds. They are also responsible for creating resistance for hypnotists. They look at all the messages being sent to the mind and either reject or accept them.

There are times when a person's critical filter has become overactive and will start to reject even the good and wise suggestions coming from anyone. A good example of this is when a friend, someone you would normally trust, gives you a great piece of advice and you just outright reject and discard it with no thought. The critical filter has come to a point where it is simply not allowing any information in.

Stealth Tactics are the tool hypnotists and you will use to get past the critical factor. They were created in a way to assist in helping to influence people in a positive way that still bypasses the critical factor inside the mind. There are other ways to get past the critical factor although they are largely damaging and can cause emotional and mental hardship which should not be your goal in hypnosis. In fact quite the opposite.

Stealth Tactics are a secretive way of getting past the critical factor that doesn't resort to bullying. These concepts are based on a set of principals that will allow you to use people's strengths against them in ways that will help them to improve their lives in the ways they want. True they are a bit sneaky, as you will see, but all intentions with Stealth Tactics are truly good intentions. It is simply an alternative way to get inside the mind so you can begin your work as a hypnotist.

There are five Stealth Tactics that we will give a brief explanation of here and then dive further into in future articles.

The first Stealth Tactic is the Law of Reversed Effect. This principal is very powerful like most of the Stealth Tactics. In the Law of Reversed Effect the concept is that the harder you try to do something the more likely it is you will fail.

This happens mainly because a person that is consciously trying to do something that should be taking place unconsciously. The effect of the conscious mind interfering with the fluid movements of the unconscious mind is confusion and failure.

The reason the Law of Reversed Effect works for Conversational Hypnotists is that when put into action it causes a person to fail at something, you cause a person to fail at a requested task. That failure will cause the person to step away from their resistance and allow your suggestions in.

The second Stealth Tactic is to Redirect Resistance. Redirecting Resistance is the art of giving a person something they can resist you over so they feel validated and powerful in their abilities to control their own mind.

Now the beauty here is that while they are busy resisting you over an idea that you are really not concerned with you have the opportunity to give your suggestions to them. Many times they will be so busy consciously resisting the one aspect that the important suggestion is never even noticed going in.

Refocusing Attention is the third Stealth Tactic and it can be used right along with Redirecting Resistance. We will cover that aspect in a future article. The importance here is that you have a brief summary of Refocusing Attention.

Refocusing Attention is when you subtly place the suggestion you want to get across in conversation and then distract or refocus the listener's attention elsewhere. This is a simple and easy process once you get the hang of it but can be very powerful when put to full use.

The fourth Stealth Tactic is Implication. Implication is the power of how to use body language, facial expressions and tone of voice in order to imply a thing. This is considered a Stealth Tactic because when you imply something to someone it usually bypasses the critical filter simply because we assume implications are true.

People don't typically stop to analyze them because this is a lot of hard work and effort to put in to an implied idea. This tactic is used everyday in the natural ways we speak and can be a great tool in hypnosis.

Presuppositions are the fifth Stealth Tactic we will eventually cover in depth. As for a quick introduction, presuppositions are simply linguistic assumptions. These are the things that are automatically assumed to be true based solely on the language we use to convey them.

This may sound complicated at first but once you get into the habit of using presuppositions they are very easy to use and you in fact use them everyday. Presuppositions have a lot in common with implications simply because they are assumptions. Again this Stealth Tactic is very powerful and can be like all the Stealth Tactics layered with the others to make a more powerful affect than when used alone.

Finally the sixth Stealth Tactic is called Binds and Double Binds. Binds and Double Binds are a strategic way of phrasing a statement or question that gives the illustration of a choice but that choice really does not exist. It was thought in the 1970's that binds and double binds were the cause of schizophrenic symptoms resulting from childhood.

A bind or double bind is a sneaky way of redirecting the resistance of a person because they simply do not have a choice in the matter. You sound as if you are asking a question or giving a choice but you are really getting a much bigger question answered in the process.

A famous Marx Brothers line that is a double bind is when a man asks the hotel manager, "So are you still beating your wife, yes or no?" The bind is in that no matter how he answered the question he would be admitting guilt of beating his wife.

Binds and double binds are a very powerful way to bypass the critical factor as are all the other Stealth Tactics. You will learn much more about these and how to use them as you progress through the next five articles. Until then the main concept you need to know is that these are principals that can be combined with one another and the other language skills you have been learning in order to really know how to begin to communicate hypnotically.


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The Secret of Master Hypnotists Revealed: The Yes Set & Piggy Back Principal

The Secret of Master Hypnotists Revealed: The Yes Set & Piggy Back Principal

It is important to realize that agreement tactics are very useful in conversational hypnosis, this is mainly because they bypass the critical factor and get the person to start to see things your way.

If the critical factor is not bypassed or put to sleep then the resistance of your subject will be in place and your suggestions will not make it through. Once you use the agreement tactics to get past the critical factor it will open the doors of suggestion. You will be able to present information, ideas, thoughts and suggestions to your subject that will seem completely plausible to them in their altered state of mind.

The first of the 4 Agreement Tactics is Plausibility, which is stated as when a person is in the habit of agreeing with you then the next statement doesn't have to be one they would find as true as your last statements. Plausibility works on a sliding scale depending on the depth of trance a person is experiencing.

The second Agreement Tactic is the Agreement Habit. The Agreement Habit is based on ‘going first'. This is to immerse yourself in an idea before you invite your subject in so the experience is real for them. This is important for the Agreement Habit as it is to get someone in the habit of agreeing with you. You cannot do this fully if they do not believe you agree with the thoughts you are presenting to them yourself.

The third and fourth Agreement Tactics are brought to us by a master hypnotist Milton Erickson as he used these often in his hypnosis. The ‘Yes Set' and Piggy Backing of Suggestion were among Erickson's favored techniques.

The third of the Agreement Tactics, which is the ‘Yes Set', is very useful in getting agreement from your subject's. In a ‘Yes Set' you will begin with statements that are true so you are activating the part of the brain that enjoys agreeing. Once you have gotten a person to start to agree with you it is likely that they will continue.

The ‘Yes Set' can be demonstrated in three different ways. The first way to use a ‘yes set' is to repeat what the person is saying to you. This is exactly as it sounds, use what the person has said to you by repeating it back to them so they agree that that is what they said or meant. This is accomplishing the goal of the ‘yes set' by activating the agreement part of the brain.

The second way to put a ‘Yes Set' into action is to state the obvious facts. Use in your conversation statements that are verifiable facts. If there is no question that what you are saying is a fact then you will again activate the yes neurology in the subject's brain causing agreement.

The third and final way to produce a ‘Yes Set' is to make truisms. Truisms are sayings that a culture has conditioned its inhabitants to believe as unmistakably true. The statements are a way that people view the world or a part of the world. These statements will largely be found true by almost all people you speak to.

The three different types of ‘Yes Sets' are used very often in conversational hypnosis. This is partly because they are ideas that you can work into a conversation, they cause agreement and they can be manipulated to fit almost any context you may be working with your subject in.

The fourth Agreement Tactic is the Piggy Back Principal. This is the idea of attaching suggestions to other statements or ideas that are already going out to your listener. This is a very popular and successful way to get suggestions into the minds of your subjects.

This is done by first getting your listener into agreement with you, this can be done through compliments, yes sets, following along with their thoughts and repeating back. You goal here is to create an environment they are willing to accept, and then you add a suggestion to it. Compliment them on the great job they have been doing and then add how they can improve on it.

This works because as humans we are always willing to accept praise and agreement. And the fact is if you are accepting one part of the statement you must be accepting the whole statement on some unconscious level. Now that they have unknowingly accepted your suggestion they will at some point bring it into their behaviors, thoughts or actions.

The best part about this agreement tactic is the more you do it the stronger and more powerful your suggestion becomes. You can piggy back as many facts and suggestions as you want as long as you keep the meanings clear so as not to confuse your subject.

You can also piggy back suggestions onto yes sets. This is done simply by stating a single or series of verifiable facts and then adding a suggestion on to the end of the last statement. An example of this would be, "When you get out of the car, lock the doors." This works because you will inevitably get out of the car at some point and because the mind accepts this as true you will be more likely to now lock the doors as well.

The third way you can piggy back suggestions is to present feedback to your subject that will have them accept it, this should be done in a smooth and elegant manner of speaking. This utilizes positive reinforcement by first creating a yes set, then adding a compliment and then attaching a suggestion to the end.

This way of piggy backing is successful because we all enjoy and accept compliments. Compliments in this sample are somewhat of a sugar coating for the suggestion; you cannot accept the compliment without also accepting the suggestion. Compliments also tend to extract positive behaviors from us and make us more agreeable and accepting anyway.

The Agreement Tactics of the Yes Set and Piggy Backing Suggestions are very important and useful in conversational hypnosis. They were among the top choices of the master hypnotist Milton Erickson. He brought us the perfected art of these two Agreement Tactics and used them often in his hypnosis practice as you should consider doing in yours.

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How to Use Reality Strategies When You Are Challenged As a Hypnotist

How to Use Reality Strategies When You Are Challenged As a Hypnotist

As a Conversational hypnotist you will use different skills in different areas of your expertise. There will be those who resist you and those who challenge you as you attempt to do your work. These are things that you need to be prepared for. Frames and they different ways you can use them and manipulate them will help you in this area of your hypnotism.

Frames are the ways in which you reference information and bring meaning from all your interactions. There are frame wars that you will encounter, as a person and as a hypnotist, in which you will need to become the dominate reality in. You will use your strategies and tactics to go to combat in these frame wars.

You will also encounter frame testing on a regular basis, as a hypnotist and as an individual. Frame testing is what happens when two people first start to interact with one another, they test each other out to see who is being truly genuine and sincere in the frames they hold true.

As you come across each of these obstacles you will use different tactics to maintain your frame, reset, preset and dislodge the frames of those you interact with. Maintaining your frame is the best way to become the dominant reality in any situation. If you have the ability to stand strong on the beliefs and contexts you have created in your frames you will convince others that this is the way of reality. This is what passionate people do and they are very successful in it.

Preframing is another tactic you will use in frame wars. This is the ability to set in advance what others should be looking at or paying attention to. From there you have the next tactic which is to reframe. Reframing is when you take a situation and ask a person to look at it in another way. This will shed new light on what was thought of as a bad or negative situation. And finally you will be working with deframing which is to simply turn the tables of the frame and direct the attention elsewhere.

All of these tactics are very useful in your hypnosis and will help you in situations where you are resisted or opposed when it comes to the frames you hold and the frames you would like to instill in your subjects.

It is true that all the above information is valuable and certainly powerful in your work as a hypnotist, however there is another set of tactics you can use. These tactics are not as well known but just as powerful as the others. They are simply known as the frame tactics and will be of use when you are being challenged as a hypnotist.

Before you really get into these tactics there is some information you will need to prepare for how you will come upon them and deal with issues before the tactics are necessary.

The first thing you will encounter when you are being challenged is a great amount of pressure coming from those around you to conform to the frame they hold as true. This is something you need to learn to recognize and not to give into. Once you give into this pressure you will lose the battle before it is truly begun.

In order to counter this type of pressure you must firs recognize it then learn how to deal with it. Even more powerful than that you must learn to send the right signals to communicate that you are not affected by the pressure that is being placed on you. These signals are important because this is a reality test.

It is something that everyone does unconsciously and it accomplishes the task of sanity in a large world. These are signals people send out to check to see if all is still as they believe it is in the world, you do this to other people to see that your assumptions are accurate and correct.

Because this happens most when pressure is applied to you that is when you are most vulnerable to change your frame to fit that of those around you. And don't be fooled because your grasp of reality can be altered so much by pressure and influence that you will do things that sound foolish just to conform to what is supposed to be.

In order to keep sanity and not conform to ideas that are foolish and untrue simply from influence and pressure you must maintain your frame. The big secret here is to send out the right signals. Sub-communicate that your frame is the only on that is truly right and real in the world.

And this brings us to the tactics you must know in order to stand strong in the face of challenge. The first tactic is, do not react. This is just as it sounds you must remain without reaction to the challenge, calm and impassive. This is done simply by convincing yourself that the challenge and the person challenging you just doesn't exist.

Send no communication what so ever that a challenge was perceived. Do not blink, shift your gaze, alter your breathing or change your body language in any way. You need to teach yourself to completely ignore the challenge as if it does not exist in any way.

The second tactic that is little known is to ‘give them ‘the look". This is the next tactic you use in your line of defense against pressure and influence to change your frames. If there is no change in the persistence of the person challenging you and they continue to do so you will give them the look.

This is a simple communication of a look that communicates to the other person that they are behaving in an odd or unacceptable manner. It speaks for itself in saying, "what are you doing??" Now let's be clear here you do not say this you just send a look that communicates it. Saying it aloud really wields very little power but sub-communicating it in a look speaks volumes.

This look puts the person you are interacting with under a different type of pressure to conform, a social pressure that says your demeanor is not acceptable at this time. This alone will often collapse their reality and they will conform under the idea that they are doing something that is not normal and unacceptable.

The final little known tactic you will use is to handle the genuine objection. This is again next in line in your tools of combat. If the person you are interacting with is still persisting with their challenge you will know it is a genuine challenge.

This is the realization that there is a real and true objection within their challenge that should be dealt with. So that is what you do, you deal with the genuine challenge. You can do this by reframing it, or you can deframe it the option is yours depending on the challenge and which you think is better suited for that challenge.

These are all great valuable tools to use when dealing with frames. But you should always, always remember that the best way to handle a challenge to your frame is to first maintain your frame. This is the most powerful and will have the longest lasting impact of any of the tactics and tools you have read about.

If you can maintain your frame in a light that is so strong that there is no other way to see it but as reality you will save time and energy and be viewed as a more genuine person overall.

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How to Refine the Powerful Hypnotic Gaze Induction

How to Refine the Powerful Hypnotic Gaze Induction

The Hypnotic Gaze Induction is powerful indeed and know in how to use it will be a wonderful tool for you in your practices. The hypnotic gaze induction in itself covers and accomplishes the 4 Stage Protocol all wrapped into one induction.

It does this through a series of phases which you will lead a person through using eye contact, body language and tone of voice. A quick review of the four steps in the induction will help you to get into the mode for this article.

The first step in hypnotic gaze induction is to go first. You will develop an instant rapport rich with feelings of comfort and good will. You will put yourself in an outside trance to create external focus.

The second stage is to apply your hypnotic gaze. In this you should display with your signals complete confidence in your ability to induce trance. It is important to keep your gaze calm and clear, but most of all steady and unwavering.

The third step in this induction is to alter your voice to a trance tonality. Use all the aspects you can to create a calm voice that slows everything down. Make good use of your hypnotic language and create a relaxing environment with the words and tones you use.

Finally the fourth step in hypnotic gaze induction is to still use your hypnotic language as you create a double feedback loop for your subject. Tell them what you want them to do as far as trance signals, and as they unconsciously put them into effect repeat back to them what it is they are doing. This will reinforce their actions and lead them deeper into trance.

Now that you know how to do a hypnotic gaze induction you will want to not only practice it but refine and perfect it as well. This is where this article comes in, you will learn techniques to make your hypnotic gaze inductions run very smoothly and eventually go undetected by the person you are putting into trance.

The first area of refinement that you will want to concentrate on is how to make your inductions less direct. This is done through the art of overt and covert hypnotic voices. In learning this concept keep in mind that your actual language will not change, this only really works on the tonality you are using.

This is simply slowing the rate at which you change your tonality down so it is less obvious that you are converting into a hypnotic tone. A good way to do this is to only change your regular conversational voice slightly to be smoother on the ear.

When you do this there will be very few people who will actually notice you are using a hypnotic tonality with them. The voice tone in this is much more normal but can have the same impact as the very deep, slow, low trance voice people are used to hearing.

The idea of overt is the more obvious hypnotic tone of voice that you may use in some situations and the covert is the more indirect and less obvious tonality you will use. Many times you will make the decision of which to use based on the person and environment in which you are dealing.

The second refinement technique that you will focus on is called my friend John/Jane technique. In this technique you are not changing the words of the experiences you describe you simply change who they are happening to.

Instead of describing a trance they will be or are going into you would describe the experience your friend John or Jane had. This converts your instruction to a story about an experience someone else had. It still sends the same message of the signals and such you want them to experience, except it is easier to agree to as it is someone else's experience.

In this technique you are essentially creating a double reality for your listener. They are aware on some level that you are really talking about them and the things they are experiencing or doing but it is presented in a story about someone else.

The third and final refinement skill for hypnotic gaze inductions are to talk in extended quotes. When you talk in extended quotes you are really just putting words into another person's mouth. You use this to quote what another person may have said about something. In this the listener hears you giving them information, almost as if it fact just because another person said it.

Because they view it as a statement that they can agree with, you can't deny what someone else said there is little resistance. It goes in to their unconscious and becomes an embedded suggestion that will help to send your listener into trance and actually have the experiences you are leading with your quotes.

So in refining the hypnotic gaze induction you really have three concepts to put into action. The first refinement is to change your tone of voice to create new voices that are less or more covert and overt. The second refinement technique is to tell stories and experiences that happened to other people to make embedded suggestions. And the third and final refinement is to use extended quotes to make a thing agreeable and put into action by the subconscious.

In using these three refinements you will increase the power behind your hypnotic gaze inductions to make them more efficient and powerful. This in the world of hypnosis is always a positive aspect.

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What Hypnosis is NOT!

What Hypnosis is NOT!

We live in a world today that is full of perceptions, deceptions and misconceptions; it is often hard to tell one from the other when learning about new things.

Hypnosis is no stranger to an incredible amount of misconceptions, which is why it is important to really understand what those misconceptions are before assuming you can or cannot accomplish an objective through hypnosis. To really understand what hypnosis, or anything for that matter, is you must first understand all that it is not.

Once you know what hypnosis is not, everything you are left with is what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis has been given many false pretenses through the media, movies and just plain rumor. Hypnosis is not the ability to have complete domination over one's mind, nor is it domination over another human being.

Another thing hypnosis is not is the ability to dominate another's will. In a nutshell there is nothing about hypnosis that will lead you to complete domination of the world or human kind, so if this is your intention you should stop here and embark on a new path.



The misconceptions that surround hypnosis can seem almost endless, which can often be the case when you consider any type of work that is associated with power over ones mind, thoughts, ideas and actions.

There are all kinds of associations and false ideas that are created when society acknowledges that power accompanies any way of life, this include hypnosis. For example money carries the connotation of power, however unless you are knowledgeable about how to be powerful with money you will fail.

The misconceptions about hypnosis must be wiped from the slate if you are serious about becoming an eloquent and masterful hypnotist.

The most common misconception in the field of hypnosis is that associated with power. Yes it is true that you will own a sort of power over the mind of your subjects, however this is not to say you will be able to control them completely.

Quite the opposite, part of hypnosis that few are aware of is that hypnosis is actually a type of negotiation with the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is where you store your base of morals and ethics, and while you can as a hypnotist negotiate with the unconscious, you will never be able to change or control one's morals and ethics.

The ethical code stored in the unconscious is unbreakable, these are the ideas, beliefs and moral standards that every person chooses to live their life by.

Among the common myths of hypnosis is the idea that one can completely control another, this is a myth simply because a person, whether in hypnotic trance or not, will only do what they want to do.

A good example of this is the common entertainment of stage hypnotists. Stage hypnotists will ask for volunteers from their audience, volunteers know on some level that they will be asked while in a hypnotic state to do things that they may not be aware that they are doing, they may even be embarrassing.

However on some level in their minds they are volunteering because they crave the attention that comes from being exhibitionists. The volunteers know they will be controlled by the hypnotist and they are consciously okay with that because it does not cause conflict with their moral code.

Another common myth about the art of hypnosis is that you can create a person so controlled that they will do your evil bidding, or acts that a hypnotist may not want to be personally responsible for. This again is untrue on the level that this will most often conflict with the moral standing and ethics of most people, therefore is not possible.

All this leaves us with what is left, which is what hypnosis really is. Conversational hypnosis is a way of healing and helping people to live better, healthier and happier lives through the art of language and suggestion. Hypnosis is used to its full potential when all parties are prospering from it; the ‘hypnotic messenger' is a prime example of this.

The ‘hypnotic messenger' was created when two hypnotists who were seeing the same subject and exchanged messages through the subject.

The messages were placed in the subconscious while the person was in a hypnotic state. As the subject visited each hypnotist and relayed the messages back and forth the hypnotists gave him free treatments as they felt a little shame in the amusing yet harmless game they were playing.

The subject continued to deliver the messages and everyone learned from the situation. The subject was receiving free therapy, and the hypnotists were not only amusing themselves but learning in the process.

This process worked because there was no moral rule being broken or violated in the process of message relay, subconsciously the subject was in agreement or had not conflict with the messages the hypnotists were sending back and forth.

On the other hand a client that is given the subconscious message to do harm to another will not carry out the suggestion because it will often conflict with their morals.

A subject that is asked to commit an act that is forbidden by their religion will not do so even if it is something that may seem harmless to many people, such as dancing. All suggestions and whether they are carried out or not depends on the moral code of the subject and whether or not they truly, ethically believe it is an acceptable behavior.

As a hypnotist it is important to focus on the fact that your goal is to help the mind fulfill what is important to that person, find and fulfill it's purpose, in this the unconscious mind will do all that is necessary and possible to reach that goal and work with the hypnotist for complete success.




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The Core Skills You Need To Learn Hypnosis

The Core Skills You Need To Learn Hypnosis

Conversational Hypnosis is an art that takes a certain set of skills in order to master. These skills are quite attainable when the correct instruction and study of hypnosis has been focused on.

Conversational hypnosis is the practice of inducing hypnotic trances through the focused skills learned in language, speech and suggestion. The primary objective is to induce a trance in order to accomplish a motivated outcome or reach a specific purpose; for example ease emotional pain, enhance health, and lead a happier life.

The skills most required of you as the hypnotist are to master a signal recognition system, develop a relationship with your subject beyond rapport, learn the foundations of hypnotic language and advanced hypnotic language, develop authority strategies, recognize emotional triggers, destroy resistance as well as become skilled in conversational induction, conversational trance formulas and advanced frame control.

All of these skills will help you attain the highest level of success in conversational hypnosis and achieve a better life for your subjects as well as for yourself.



Signal recognition systems are the foundation in hypnosis training from which you will start to see when a subject is entering a hypnotic trance. These skills will aide you in opening your senses to the signs given by your subject when becoming hypnotized.

Signal recognition will save you time in that you will be able to quickly asses when your subject is in trance instead of using unnecessary time to talk you subject into hypnosis. You will learn to see, hear and feel when people are responding to you hypnotically.

This skill will also allow you to see those around you moving in and out of hypnotic trances produced everyday by their environments. The signal recognition system is important to master and continue to study as it is a core fundamental skill you will use throughout your study and practice of hypnosis.

Everyday we develop rapport with people, friends, family and strangers. In conversational hypnosis it is important to learn to move on beyond the normal constraints of typical rapport and to develop deeper relationships with your subjects.

In hypnosis you and your subject are developing an intimate relationship that allows you as the hypnotist into your subject's mind, to understand and ultimately control certain thoughts through suggestion and language.

In order to accomplish this you must go beyond rapport and embody an intense connection that allows your subject the unconscious freedom to do something simply because it pleases them to please you.

This can be considered an abnormal or skewed relationship in that the subject allows you into their world and will follow your lead through the conversations, language and suggestions you give to them. This is a very powerful and unique connection.



Conversational hypnosis is just that, there is an art to the language you as the hypnotist need to master. Part of this skill is found in hypnotic language foundation and advanced hypnotic language. The main idea is that conversational hypnosis is attained through language.

You need to learn how to shape the conversation you are having with your subject in a way that makes the words you speak themselves hypnotic, causing your subjects mind to set off into hypnotic state that responds to you in hypnotic ways. This skill should get strong focus from you as you master hypnosis techniques.

In the language you use for hypnosis you will also want to develop your authority strategy. Authority strategy is a tactic that is required in order to be a successful hypnotist.

It allows you to phrase suggestions in a way that the conscious mind of your subject responds, without this skill you will not be able to attain your goals as a hypnotist.

The authority strategy gives your subject the will and wants to carry out your hypnotic suggestions, if you are not the authority within their trance the subject will not listen to your suggestions. This skill is fundamental as it will be a large piece of the puzzle that will aide in your success as a hypnotist and allow you to achieve your goals in hypnotism.

Emotional triggers are the way to your subject's unconscious responses, once you learn to control emotional triggers you will have the power to control the pictures and feelings that govern a subjects mind and ultimately change their life.

This skill will give you access to pictures and feelings from within your subjects mind. As you perfect this skill you will be able to be able to alter feelings that lead to a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life for your subject. This will aide in your objective to create rewarding and wonderful happiness for those who attain your services.

In conversational hypnosis there is often resistance and this brings us to the next fundamental skill you will need to acquire. How you as the hypnotist will destroy this resistance, the most popular way being through the telling of stories.

Destroying resistance through story telling involves you becoming the story teller to bypass the minds usual filtering systems that tell a person, "this is not right", or "this can't be happening". Once you have mastered story telling that will create a hypnotic trance you will be allowed into your subjects mind to place new ideas, perceptions and thoughts dealing with their lives and how they ultimately live them.

Conversational hypnosis will require you to also learn how to deal directly with the unconscious mind; this is done through conversational inductions. This concept is a way to formulate how to induce a trance through conversation, the real core of conversational hypnosis.

Conversational induction will provide you with the skill of moving from normal speech into a conversational hypnotic induction with ease. In doing this you will then be dealing directly with the unconscious mind of your subject which is what your job as a hypnotist is ultimately all about.

This technique will teach you to mold conversation that sounds completely ordinary to others into something much more intense for you and your subject; this in itself will take a grand amount of understanding and skill.



Conversational trance formulas are paramount in the art of hypnosis. These are formulas that will get you exactly where and what you want from your subject. Getting your subject into a trance come very easily to you but then where do you go from there, this is where conversational trance formulas are required.

The formulas consist of the P-CAT formula, which is used for personal change in a subject. This is handy for those rough days, bad times in relationships and even when ending a relationship.

The COMILA formula is used mainly for persuading and influencing people. This formula is helpful to people in their professions such as influencing an individual to want to learn, sales, education, management as well as for general inspiration.

Next in the list of helpful formulas is the LIFE checklist. This is a checklist developed to help you know you are actually engaged in a hypnotic conversation. The LIFE check list consists of four steps that will help you identify quickly and efficiently that hypnosis is underway.

Conversational hypnosis will also require you to master such techniques as "future memories" and "stacking realities". Future memories are memories you place in your hypnotized subject's mind that have not taken place yet.

The goal is that they will become memories as the subjects unconscious brings them to their conscious mind as events that have already happened. The art in this is to make the future memory so compelling that the unconscious mind will want the memory to have happened and eventually follow your suggestion to make the memory a real instance that has happened in the past.

"Stacking realities" and "accidental trance identification" are other techniques that help hypnotists to slip past the resistance and interference within a subjects mind that prevent hypnosis.

Advanced frame control will also be paramount to master. This is the art of leading all your hypnotic interactions in the direction you desire. Without this skill you will not be able to control the direction of conversation, hampering your goal of creating a more peaceful, happy, healthy mindset for your subjects. All of these strategies, once mastered, will help you in the ease of your conversational hypnosis.

There are many exciting and great skills involved in becoming a successful conversational hypnotist, while this information may seem overwhelming at first it is just a taste of the powerful skills that you will enjoy perfecting as you assume your role as a hypnotist.

Once mastered many of these skills will provide you with a life time of learning and development personally and professionally, as well as help you to change lives for the better.

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