A Special Look at Little Known Tonality Secrets That Will Help You Learn Hypnosis

A Special Look at Little Known Tonality Secrets That Will Help You Learn Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a great and valuable performance art. It is important to not only know what you are doing but how to do it. As we look at tonality you should always remember that only 7% of the meaning derived from your words actually comes from the word itself. The other meanings, and vast majority, come from the tonality you use and the body language that accompanies your speaking.

It is also important to remember as we move on with this subject that you must always begin with the first two principals of performance being ‘go first' and squeezing the meanings from your words. Both of these principals when paired with the next two principals of emphasis and rhythm and tone will be monumental in perfecting your performance as a hypnotist.

The third performance principal that you will need to know how to perform is the emphasis you put on different words and how that emphasis affects your language. Emphasis is when you lean on a word with your voice. You make that word stand out in your statement. This can be done in writing by underlining or italicizing words. When you do it with your speaking though it has a much more dramatic effect.

For example, take the simple statement "Did you drive the car to the store today?". Here I have written it with a very even tone, there appears to be no emphasis made on any particular word. However, if I said "Did you drive the car to the store today? The meaning of the entire statement goes from a simple question to an inquiry about who drove the car to the store.

Let's look at one more example of the same statement to really drive the point home here. "Did you drive the car to the store today?" here the meaning becomes more of a question or surprise that the car was driven to the store today. If you took each word of the same statement and put emphasis on them one at a time while reading it you will see that the meaning of the statement will change consistently to some degree.

In this we learn that your emphasis and how you say things to others will automatically show them what you find to be important information in the sentence. When you emphasize words you begin to open the process called ‘multiple levels of information'. This means simply that you can be saying one thing on one level and have a completely different meaning on another level. This is something that naturally happens when you speak and change your tonality.

While the emphasis you put on words often happens naturally it is also important to do this purposefully. When you are performing the art of hypnosis you can use emphasis to drive the meaning of each word you use into your listener. This use of emphasis will show the listener that there is a great deal of importance behind whatever it is you are saying.

A good example here is the difference between two different statements whose meanings are generally the same when we look at the words alone. But when we look at the way the words are said the statement becomes much more important.

"If you don't listen to me you could get hurt."

Or

"I need you to listen to what I am saying, it is important so you don't get hurt."

If you say both these statements you will hear the differences in the messages.

As you practice this principal you will begin to notice the effect it has on others depending on how you lean on the words. You will also likely notice an effect it has on yourself as well, both as you say things and as others make statements to you.

The fourth performance principal is about rhythm and tone. When you are putting someone into trance it helps to have a rhythm to your speaking, rhythms as we have learned help to take us away, relax us and let our minds drift. This principal is using tonality and rhythm together to create smoothness to your language, also called a ‘trance rhythm'.

Trance rhythm has the same effect as when you listen to music, it creates an altered state of consciousness where the rhythm of the language pulls you into it.

Speaking in rhythm is much like emphasis as it changes the way you are perceived by those around you. The ways in which you change the rhythms of your speech will let your subjects know when they should and should not be in trance. There are many examples of this in poetry and music. A very good example of how rhythm can unconsciously pull you in is in the film, Cyrano de Bergerac.

In this film the manner of speech was written on poetic couplets. It is not so much poetry that you would hear it and notice rhyming and beat, however the rhythm of the couplets draws your ear to hear the elegance behind the language. It is very subtle yet very powerful.

It is important to improve your performance as a hypnotist by practicing rhythm and tone. Play with the language you use and building different rhythms into your speech. You can play with rhythms and tones that signify all sorts of feelings; excitement, sorrow, quiet, fast. Remember that your body must be in tune to the rhythms you are using. When your body and mind have the rhythm your language will be expressed with much more ease and clarity.




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How Emotional Triggers Can Boost the Impact of Your Hypnosis

How Emotional Triggers Can Boost the Impact of Your Hypnosis

Emotional Triggers are a very powerful part of what you will be doing as a hypnotist. They are an unconscious response that is triggered within the body to develop a physical or emotional behavior. As a hypnotist you will want to be able to imbed these triggers in your subjects so you will have the ability to produce behaviors in them that will lead to the positive outcomes set in your goals.

Emotional triggers were discovered at the turn of the century, sometime between 1901 and 1902. A Russian researcher named Ivan Pavlov is credited with the discovery of unconscious responses, which are in essence an emotional trigger. In his experiment known to us now as Pavlov's Dogs emotional triggers were presented to the world.

In this experiment Pavlov would ring a bell directly before sending food to them through a shoot. The dogs developed an emotional trigger in a short period of time. The dogs began to associate the ringing of the bell with the expectation of food. After a while just the sound of the bell would cause the dogs to salivate.

This was a profound discovery in that it astounded people to actually be able to see such an unconscious event controlled by the nervous system to take place on cue. Salivation is a bodily function that can be consciously controlled. It is an automatic nervous system function that was being triggered due to the ringing of a bell. It was a very graphic example of emotional triggering and one that is still talked about in history today.

Before Pavlov and his dogs were recognized for this discovery of unconscious responses or emotional triggers there was an American doctor by the name of William Twitmeyer who is considered the unsung hero of discovery in unconscious responses. William Twitmeyer discovered the Knee-jerk reflex.

The knee-jerk reflex is when you firmly tap the soft part of the knee cap to extract a reflex in which the leg jumps and straightens out. Twitmeyer also realized in his discovery that after around 50 to 100 times of repeating the process just holding the hammer in a position that suggested he was about to tap the knee the person's leg would automatically jump and straighten out.

This accidental and unconscious response was the first discovery of unconscious responses and emotional trigger. It is also a very powerful example of an unconscious trigger that was either intentionally or unintentionally implanted in the patient.

This research by both Twitmeyer and Pavlov shows us today that there is a truth in the conditioning of unconscious responses and emotional triggers. These are referred to as post hypnotic suggestions.

Post hypnotic triggers are emotional triggers that can be set by a hypnotist within another individual to create a specific reaction. Many times these triggers are created by environments and sometimes they are created unintentionally by other people. No matter how they come about they are there and they can be created by you.

Emotional triggers that are created by our environments naturally occur on a daily basis. This can be something as simple as hearing a song that brings back specific memories of a time in your life. Any time you hear that particular song you are instantly taken back to a certain memory or set of memories. When this happens you are reliving the memory as you think of the events and feelings it brings to mind.

Some very common examples of naturally occurring emotional triggers are songs, the smell of perfume or cologne, smell of cookies baking, pictures, phrases or even the voice of someone familiar.

One of the most common examples of an emotional trigger is in advertising. The advertisements we see everyday utilize this principal by way of packaging. They access the unconscious response through the recognition of boxes in the advertisements, when we see those boxes or packages on the shelves of the supermarket we instantly recognize them. The package seems to stand out from the others surrounding it.

This is just one example of the many unconscious responses and emotional triggers that are common to us everyday. It is your job as a hypnotist to learn how to recognize and develop this skill for yourself so you too can create these emotional triggers in the people around you.

In order to do this you must learn to create your own hypnotic triggers that will access emotional states from the people you are helping. Triggering people into an emotional state is a powerful technique to learn. It will give you the ability to obtain certain behaviors or thoughts put into action from the people around you.

In learning how to implant an emotional trigger in your subjects you must take certain specific steps to ensure you are doing it correctly. The first of those steps is to follow the 4 Stage Protocol. In the 4 Stage Protocol you will absorb the attention, bypass the critical thinking, activate an unconscious response and be rewarded with a desired behavior or thought pattern.

After you have successfully done this you will have set the scene for creating an emotional trigger later on. Before you can actually set the emotional trigger there are conditions that you must be aware of in order to be skilled in this area.

The first condition you must we aware of is that you must have access to a clear state of mind. Without this you will have difficulties in the future accessing the exact strong state of mind you were originally seeking. If you want your listener to relax you must access it fully, there is no room for mixed states of mind here. Whatever state of mind you have access to when you set your trigger will be the state of mind that is presented once your trigger is fired.

After you have successfully done this you will want to continue with the next condition. This is to set the trigger. The trigger you are setting can be anything you can work in to a casual conversation.

It can be a word, gesture, smell taste, touch or sound. However it is good to know that while you can use any of these the easiest to work with are the touch, sound and sight triggers. Examples of these are simple. Do something they can see you do, hear you do or feel you do physically. Once you have decided on a trigger you set the trigger simply by doing it.

After you have set the trigger you will want to condition it through repetitive actions. This is the third condition for setting an emotional trigger.

The final step and one of the most important is to test the trigger. You can do this by simply breaking the concentration with a distraction. It doesn't matter how you do this as long as you leave them with a clear state of mind. This is important because once they are in a clear state of mind you will set off your trigger once again and then watch to see if it has taken effect.

When you fire the trigger and the previous emotional state returns you will know you have accomplished this short term goal of setting an emotional trigger. If the state does not return you simply need to start over from the beginning and try again. Keep in mind this is a very powerful technique of accessing states of mind and should be done with caution.




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The Power of Stories in Hypnosis

The Power of Stories in Hypnosis

Stories are a wonderful and powerful tool that you use often now and you will use often in the art of Conversational Hypnosis. Story telling is a broad range of things, especially in hypnosis. The stories you tell as a hypnotist will not be all princesses and castles, nor will they all even be fictional. Stories can be true life like antidotes, jokes, parables, similes, metaphors, facts, or informational stories. All of these will be useful in hypnosis depending on the person and subject matter you are dealing with.

The idea of telling stories has been around as long as humans have. There is sufficient evidence of this from cave drawings to modern day books and the internet. There is not a person on earth who can speak in full sentences that has not at one point or another told a story. They happen everyday, countless times.

You tell the mechanic about the funny noises your car is making. You tell the grocery clerk about how frustrated you were trying to find the eggs. You tell your child about sharing and your spouse about your day. These are all examples of stories that happen daily.

All these stories also have something in common, they are all powerful. Every story speaks directly to the unconscious mind. You feel emotion for a story as simple as not being able to find the eggs at the super market. You may identify with the story tellers frustration or dismay. Emotion is the language of the unconscious and stories evoke emotion.

Stories do several things in hypnosis first they bypass the critical factor. The critical factor recognizes a story and really pays no more attention to it simply because it is a story. There is no resistance to stories.

The other thing that stories do for you is to take your reality away and suspend it as you enter a new reality. This new reality is not really defined and can blend realities together to confuse them. You often find yourself identifying with the characters the speaker is talking about and experiencing their lives and emotions as if they were your own. They allow you to live in the character's experience.

This is why you feel emotion when we read particular stories. It is because you identify with the characters at some level. This is important as you put into the context of telling stories to improve your hypnosis, you can use a story to conjure a hypnotic effect in another person.

Once you pass up the critical factor you have the ability to create identification with characters and the person you are conversing with. After these two things are accomplished you are in a very powerful position, a listener with no resistance and a story they will want to listen to.

Because story telling is so pivotal in hypnosis, especially Conversational Hypnosis, you should really concentrate on getting experienced and good at it. Practice with those you know, everyone like to hear a good story.

Now lets look at hypnotic stories, how exactly do you tell a hypnotic story? The first thing a story does for you in the area of hypnosis is to seed ideas or set up a frame work of ideas that will lead your listener into experiences. To seed ideas in your stories be sure to embed suggestions within the story. The story itself can really be on any topic as long as you are focused on inserting your suggestions.

You should be aware to use trance themes within your stories as this will have a greater impact on your listener if they are coaxed into a trance. Trance themes that you can start out with are relaxation on vacation, being drawn into a movie or suspenseful ideas. These are hypnotic themes that will help to draw your listener into a hypnotic state.

Isomorphic stories are another helpful skill set to keep in your library. These are stories that portray likeliness to the situation or person you are telling the story to. This goes back and relates to mirroring.

Really be cognizant of mirroring your listener and their situation in the story you are telling about other characters. An isomorphic story will also offer a solution or plan of action to take about the problem or situation within the story, which is in essence your listener's situation or problem. This type of story will send your listener away analyzing what has happened and eventually find their own meaning stemming from the story you have told.

Finally the last aspect of story telling you will want to practice is that of priming the unconscious mind. This is the art of forming the unconscious mind to be aware of a thing before you actually tell it in the story. This is a technique that is used in many different areas including competitive sports, teaching and sales.

Competitive sportsmen talk about how they will win and this is responded to on some level of the unconscious. The same goes for teaching a teacher can plant the teachings in a form of pre-teach before they actually teach the lesson they want their students to learn. Sales does this through testimonials of products, they convince the customer that they will be happy with the product before they even purchase it.

This concept actually inserts the idea of the motions the person would be going through so they think they have experienced it even before it has actually happened. A sales man shows you want you will need to do for the paper work of buying your car before you actually fill it out.

All the story telling skills and types we have covered are very, very powerful. They will help you in bringing in hypnotic themes and plant processes in the minds of your subjects. They will also assist you in embedding suggestions, accessing states, setting emotional triggers and producing productive positive outcomes.




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The Secrets of the Hypnotic Gaze Induction Revealed

The Secrets of the Hypnotic Gaze Induction Revealed

The art of hypnosis and learning hypnosis are all about learning how to use language, body language, gestures and unconscious sub-communications. In Conversational Hypnosis you are going to be inducing trances.

These inductions will largely be taking place through your ability to use your language in certain ways. However there are other important aspects and skills that you will combine with language in order to alter the state of mind for your subjects.

One of those other various skills will be using the Hypnotic Gaze. This is not a certain look you will shoot across the room at a person and they will suddenly slump over into a deep sleep. Quite the contrary, this is a skill you will practice, perfect and use to invite a person into the world of induced hypnotic trance.

This is a skill you will learn to use in the context of normal conversation. You will use it along with your language skills to induce a hypnotic trance and produce an outcome.

The hypnotic gaze induction is a tool you will first learn to use very directly, people will see you are doing it. They may not know quite what you are doing but the actual gazing will be detected, it must be as you will be looking directly into their eyes. As time goes on you will be able to refine your gazing skills to become more indirect and conversational as you apply your hypnotic gaze.

Again this is not a will power type of thing that you read about in story books. You will not be able to simply look at a person and ‘will' them into a trance. There is not form of overpowering an individual with a simple look that will produce a trance alone.

What you will do is get their attention by making direct eye contact with them. This direct eye contact will affect them on many different levels allowing you to coax them into an altered consciousness.

Eye contact, as you will soon see, does have a very powerful effect on people. Because of this simple fact you will need to be aware of the different signals you can send with it and be sure to send the signals that will have the best intentions for both of you.

It needs to be clear in your mind that you are not overpowering someone with your will. You are not producing a mind controlling magnetism. And you are not creating any type of occult condition; you are having a natural effect on another person through the very natural effects of eye contact.

The first thing that a hypnotic gaze will do for you is to absorb the attention of the person you are applying it to. It is a great and powerful way to do this. Hypnotic gaze can assist in the first stage of the 4 Stage Protocol, absorbing the attention of your subject.

How does it do this, well the simple fact is when you make and maintain eye contact with another person it obligates them to respond in some way. That very thing, that obligation is what begins the trance response; it gives you the ability to turn that eye contact into a hypnotic induction!

The simple unspoken demand for attention through eye contact begins the trance process.

The second thing that will take effect in the Hypnotic Gaze is it raises tension in the other person. This is a response; the eye contact increases responses through the tension it raises in the person you are locked in with.

This does two things in your favor as the hypnotist. The first is the tension that is being produced from the constant eye contact will drive a feeling of obligated response from your subject. The second thing this tension accomplishes is the bypass of the critical factor.

Remember the more tension that builds, the more unconscious the person's thinking will be meaning the less critical factor will be in place. This direct unconscious way of thinking allows you to move smoothly into the suggestion phase, the third phase of hypnotic protocol.

In this we find the third secret of the hypnotic gaze that is to subtly suggest a hypnotic trance. The way to incorporate this new step is to find it in you first, yes ‘go first'. If you are accessing and sending out the signals of hypnotic trance it will non-verbally invite the other person to do the same.

Going first in this instance is to alter your eye contact that you have been diligently maintaining to look through them. Instead of focusing your eyes on their eyes look to the backs of their eyes. This will give the person the feeling that they are no longer being looked at but that they are being looked inside. This will sub-communicate that you are in a sort of trance and unconsciously they will want to follow that lead.

The next step that you need to be very aware of is that you should not just be sub-communicating that they go into a trance but that there is a connotation of good will involved. Projecting good will to the person you are involved with is very, very important.

You will get back whatever you are projecting through your gaze; if the person feels you are hostile they will be defensive, if the feel intimidated you will start to loose rapport. These are not good things and so to be conscious of the feelings you are projecting is important for the process to continue.

Projecting good will onto the person you are gazing at is as easy as feeling it yourself. Think about how you want them to feel that feeling of good will, will it to them. In doing this your body language will change with your mood and give subtle suggestions about the interaction you would like to have with them.

The fifth secret of the hypnotic gaze it that confidence breed's success. To be confident in your actions will result in success from your actions. If you do not have expectations, positive expectations, going into this trance you will not get positive results. The sub-communication of insecurity and hesitation will affect the success of your induction badly.

You must expect the other person to go into a trance, to do this there are things you need to watch in yourself to be sure you are sending the right signals out. The simple fact is you must avoid showing any automatic defense mechanisms.

These are things like blinking too much, yawning, shifting your gaze excessively, fidgeting and so on. Basically the things that make you look nervous and unsure of yourself, you want to project good will and confidence. This is done by having softer features in your face, eyes relaxed, breathing normally and comfortably.

On the other hand you want your subject to be doing the opposite, when they are showing the automatic defense mechanisms it is a signal to you they are building pressure within. That pressure means they are beginning to respond to you hypnotically.

As this tension builds they will lose the will to want to escape it, they will be open to your suggestions. When you see the signals that this is happening you will make a clear and concise direct instruction for them to go into trance.

In building up to this suggestion to go into trance you will maintain a constant gaze. You will keep it in a friendly manner that is conveyed softly to them. This will keep them comfortable and relaxed enough to agree with your suggestion when the time is right.

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The Secret of Conversational Hypnosis: the Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

The Secret of Conversational Hypnosis: the Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

In the art of Conversational Hypnosis you will begin to file away many different ways of inducing trance in your clients. These are great to keep on hand as skills that will assist and guide you as you need new techniques for new people that you come across and want to help.

The Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction is of course closely related to the piggy back principal which is the process of attaching a suggestion on to ideas or thoughts that have already been accepted and granted passage through the critical factor. In the piggy back principal a suggestion is attached to an accepted idea the suggestion just slides riding on back of the information that the listener has already accepted.

When speaking of induction you know that they must all include the 4 Stage Protocol. That is they must absorb the attention of the listener, bypass their critical factor, cause an unconscious response and lead that response to the agreed upon outcome. The piggy back hypnotic induction does all these things and will be an important tool in your tool box of hypnosis.

Using the piggy back hypnotic induction mainly relies on direct experiences, which are things you can see, feel or hear. This can also be used with taste and smell at times but those are a little more complicated and less likely as they are sense less used in hypnosis.

In this induction you will use these senses to draw attention to unconscious things and this in turn brings them to your conscious. You will use words like notice, feel, hear and see to draw attention to things that are already in existence but the listener is not being consciously aware of.

For example if you ask someone to notice the rate at which they are breathing, you will be redirecting their awareness to a process that is happening unconsciously, you will be bringing it to their conscious attention. The second thing this type of statement or question does is it allows you to take control of their attention.

Keep in mind that the first stage of the 4 Stage Protocol is to absorb attention, if the person in session is listening to you at all you have just completed the first stage. The word notice itself requires you to make some kind of comparison and you can not do this without accessing the feeling behind whatever it is you are comparing. You cannot compare something you are not aware of.

And that is where you start to see the happenings of the piggy back principal; there is no way to argue with your own experience. If you are noticing or comparing a thing you are experiencing it, every time without fail.

It is now that you can see in doing this suggestion you will have already bypassed the critical factor as well. This is most likely to happen because you have made a statement that is true simply because it is their experience, they will be breathing and so to notice it is a suggestion, the fact of breathing and noticing it both usually get by the critical factor on the sole principal that the first is agreeable. They are breathing, there is no denying that.

Now it isn't a guarantee that the suggestion will get in, it is not inevitable. But there are no guarantee's in hypnosis. If you use the piggy back principal correctly and to its full potential you will be making it increasingly more difficult for someone to resist the statements you make, in that you are actually building a yes set. The more yeses you get the harder it is for the listener to say no.

The more time you can coax your subject into saying yes the better. The more yeses you get the less likely you will get a no as it will interrupt the flow of things, people like to do what is easy and fighting a statement that is easy to say yes to becomes a lot of work in these situations.

When your subject is caught in the yes set and continues to follow the loop you are leading them in their unconscious will begin to make your statement true for them. The key factor here in this induction is that you are attaching suggestions to these yes sets.

The suggestions you are attaching need to be strong enough to provoke a response but subtle enough that they will not stop to say no to them. This is a fine balancing act that you will need to learn. The suggestions you piggy back need to require less work to put into action than saying no to the suggestion altogether.

A great example of this in action would be if you said

"Close your eyes and relax"

"Every time you hear me say relax you will get heavier and heavier until you are completely relaxed."

In these two statements is a piggy back, a yes set and an experience. The yes set comes at the beginning. The simple act of closing your eyes is easy to respond to it is something your subject will likely say yes to.

The word relax will automatically be spoken because you have the control to say it, whether or not the person you are speaking to complies will depend greatly on how strong your yes set has been up to this point.

However you must notice that the word ‘relax' is the piggy back in these statements. It is attached to the original statement and therefore will more than likely get past the critical factor and become a part of the experience the listener is having.

Now in just these few steps you can see that you have absorbed the attention of your listener by using one of the key words to draw attention and make a comparison. You have successfully bypassed the critical factor by attaching your suggestion to a true statement that has already been granted passage in.

You have also drawn out an unconscious response in the experience you are relaying to them then again with the piggy backing of a suggestion you are creating an action to go with that response.

It all seems to happen very quickly here and it will be better understood when you really get to practice a piggy back hypnotic induction for yourself.

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The Law of Reversed Effect in Hypnosis: How to Use the Hypnotic Challenge

The Law of Reversed Effect in Hypnosis: How to Use the Hypnotic Challenge

As you dive into the deep art of conversational hypnosis you will find that there are a set of Stealth Tactics that can be used in order to bypass the critical factor in people's minds. Stealth Tactics are used in a way that either will be unnoticed by your subject or will be too complicated for them to really grasp the objective you have in mind.

The main point in Stealth Tactics is that this is a way of disguising what you are doing in order to defeat the critical factor and get your message through a person's resistance. Because these tactics are a little on the sneaky side you will want to be sure to exercise the best judgment in using them. If you do not it is likely that your listener's unconscious will start to distrust or dislike you in the actions you are taking.

The first Stealth Tactic we will discuss is the Law of Reversed Effect; it will explain how we should be using something called the Hypnotic Challenge. The Law of Reversed Effect is simply that the harder you try to do something the more likely it is that you will fail. This is not to be confused with persistence. It is not the more your try to do a thing it is the harder you try to do a thing that will result in failure.

There is a reason this failure will take place and that is that our conscious minds work in a way that it executes doing things. Our unconscious mind acts on the things we decide to do and works out the navigation of how to actually do them. For instance you decide to read a book, you read the words consciously but your unconscious deciphers them and adds the emotions and feelings that accompany the words.

This is important to understand as it is the basis of why the Law of Reversed Effect works. The Law of Reversed Effect works because our conscious mind is trying to do something that we would normally use our unconscious mind for. The conscious mind works on the simple things, things that only require 5 - 9 steps to accomplish. The unconscious mind makes the more complicated functions of life run more smoothly as it can handle much more complicated procedures.

It is only when the conscious mind starts to get into the unconscious mind's territory that failure begins to take place. When the conscious mind starts to interfere with the fluid motions of the unconscious the result is failure.

Now this brings us to the Law of Imagination, which is yet another reason for failure. The best way to describe this law is to give you an example. We are all humans and in that we want things. If you think of something you want but should not have you start to set yourself up for the failure in this law.

The way this works is when you state that you do not want something or you shouldn't do something, you are reminded of it often as you think about how you shouldn't have it. Usually if you want something the thought of it will bring a mirage of good experiences to mind. If you like cake the taste, if you like cars the excitement of owning a new car.

These are good feelings and experiences that you relate to the thing you are trying to avoid. The more you think about preventing yourself from getting the thing you shouldn't have the more positive associations are ignited in your head. Eventually you will be overloaded by the positive images of the thing you shouldn't have and your unconscious will give in and get the thing you shouldn't have.

Now in this comes the Hypnotic Challenge. In the Hypnotic Challenge you are going to be setting your listener up for failure by using the Law of Imagination and the Law of Reversed Effect. The Hypnotic Challenge is a way that you will ask someone to try to fulfill a suggestions and you watch to see how they fail.

A classic hypnotist would do this through suggestibility tests. The test is not within the suggestions themselves it lies within the challenge and failure to complete that challenge attached to the end of the test. When a person try's and fails a challenge you have set before them they will unconsciously start to believe that resistance is not within their means.

As long as the listener believes that resistance is not within them to control, that control will be given over to the hypnotist. As long as they continue to believe this one thing it will continue to ring true for them. Now all the suggestions you make will easily flow to the unconscious because there is no resistance in place to stop and examine the suggestions.

This is where the reversed effect comes in; by showing a person that they have no resistance and that they will fail you have actually, in a very sneaky way, passed up the barrier that causes failure. They have no resistance; they failed because you set it up that way, now they will believe they have no control over failure. Because they believe this you now have the power to avoid all failure in your objective as you have bypassed all their resistance.

The best way to use this law in conversational hypnosis is to use a linguistic trick by using words that imply "try". "Try" itself implies failure and to imply the failure is to stack the odds in your favor that they will actually fail at a preconceived task.

Now let's review this as there is a lot of action going on in this Stealth Tactic. The Law of Reversed Effect says that the harder you try to do a thing the more likely it is you will fail.

To put this law in action you need to require that the subject make a conscious interference with a normally unconscious process. You will add to this basing the odds in your favor by asking them to complete a task it is likely they will fail at. As you do this you will use subtle hints to imply they will fail, such as the word try or something with a like meaning.

All of these steps will cause a conflict in their resistance to your suggestion. The critical factor and resistance will be completely bypassed in the process.

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How to Maintain Your Hypnotic Frame

How to Maintain Your Hypnotic Frame

Framing is a powerful thing to master. When you learn the pros and cons of using frames with in the practices of your Conversational Hypnosis you will be learning skills that will enrich your practices nearly ten fold. As you learn different ways to maintain, set, reset and diminish frames you will be building a very powerful tool that will aid you in your hypnosis until you retire.

Frames as you have discovered by now are the ways in which people understand things, they are references we use to measure ideas, thoughts and statements by in order to decide whether we are in agreement or disagreement with them. Without frames and the contexts they are put into there would be only meaningless chatter among us as nothing would really have a meaning.

Because frames revolve around context and meaning to have control of a person's frame is a very powerful thing. This means that you can ultimately control the meanings behind the interaction with that person. You can derive two completely different conclusions from one frame as long as you alter the context in which it sits.

Another valuable insight into frames is that with changing details you have the power to change frames. The more information you give a person about an interaction the more likely it is that you will be able to change the frame in one way or another. If you give them the right type of information you will be able to direct the change of frame to fall in your favor.

You can do this by keeping the same event but adding information to it which will ultimately change the meaning behind what has taken place. The example of a car speeding down the road and cutting you off is a good example.

This would irritate most people. If you were to provide the information that there is a dying child in that car and they are on their way to the hospital, the meaning behind the same action is changed, and so the frame has changed.

The power of frames is based in that they are really a set of assumptions that tend to go unquestioned; they are used to measure the world in which we live within that frame's context.

Most frames however have two polar opposites and neither is right or wrong, the truth is usually located somewhere in the middle. This is why frames are changeable there is not true right or wrong answer to most frames it is simply opinion set in assumption.

Now in learning about frames there are frame wars and frame tests. A frame war happens nearly constantly somewhere or another. A frame war is the conflict created between two different sets of frames that meet and disagree. The war is won when one frame is proven to dominate the other.

It is a war about who is right in their view of the world. Prime examples of this that everyone encounters are through politicians and on subjects like religion and abortion. However these can happen over smaller things as long as two frames are in disagreement and battling for the territory of which is right.

Frame tests are a little more subdued than full on frame wars. In frame tests, usually when two people meet, they will test one another out to see where each stand and if they are solid in their frames. This happens both consciously and unconsciously as it is a very natural thing to do.

This will decided the ways in which these two people look at reality and who is really genuine. After the initial testing one frame will become dominant and this will be the norm until some new information is presented by or about one of the people in the interaction.

Now in hypnosis you have learned that there are four tactics for frame war success. It is important that you are successful in your frame wars so you can direct your interactions with others. In order to do this you must have the dominate frame in most instances.

The first tactic is the most important one and that is simply to maintain your frame. You will be unwavering in the ways in which you view the world. No matter what argument or information is presented you will stand true to your frame and not move an inch in either direction. This sends the signal that you are confident in your views and makes them assume you must know the right reality to view things from.

The second tactic in fighting frame wars is that of preframing. This is when you actually tell a person in advance where their attention should be focused. This will take the focus off of the original frame they would have presented and they will just assume the frames you have set before them are the right ones. This often goes right along with the maintaining of your frame.

The third tactic is to reframe a frame. In reframing you will simply put a new spin on it. You will take the objection of the other person and tell them to look at it in a new way, possibly a more positive way. This is reminiscent of ‘every cloud has a silver lining'. You will be pointing out the silver linings in the clouds when you reframe.

The final tactic in framing wars is that of deframing. In this tactic you use the frame presented and turn the challenge around to offer a new challenge. You will in essence be getting the other person in the interaction on the defensive justifying their frame while you spoon feed them more of your frame.

Now all of these are useful and will be powerful and valuable skills throughout your career in hypnosis. But it is important to understand the most beneficial and best way to work in frames is to simply maintain your frame without doing anything at all. You need to know how to do this as it is the most powerful way to maintain a frame, and that is how to do nothing at all to maintain your frame.

Maintaining your frame simply sub-communicates very thoroughly that you are a secure person in where you view the world from. There are two important categories of people who maintain their frames and those are people who are slightly psychotic and people who are passionate.

A psychotic person lives there lives by the rules that exist in only their reality. There is really nothing anyone can do or say to change the frames they function in. This is the unhealthy way to maintain your frame.

The healthy way to do it is to be a very passionate person. Passionate people are carried through life on the enthusiasm they feel for the beliefs they have. They believe that all negativity will pass as things will even out in the end. Doubts and challenges are looked on as untrue and disprovable. They are so firmly planted in their convictions that nothing seems to shake them.

Passionate people sub-communicate that all is good and right in their reality and that joining them will give you this reality as well. As you speak to a passionate person you are bombarded with the thought that what they say is real and over time that will become a part of your reality too. This communication is very appealing to people and will lapse into their reality to cause them to start to think along the same lines.

The bottom line in maintaining your frame is that it is the strongest because if sends the sub-communications that you are right and genuine in what you believe. Over time this will rub onto those around you and become apart of their reality as well. This is the strongest way to maintain your frame in that you are doing nothing at all, just believing what it is you believe.




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The Big Secret of Milton Erickson's Conversational Hypnosis Revealed

The Big Secret of Milton Erickson's Conversational Hypnosis Revealed

Conversational Hypnosis is an art of hypnosis with many layers and much skill involved. The different language you must use as well as the atmosphere you create will both be very important to your success as a hypnotist. However there are also the different inductions you must learn to use well as they will be the key to bringing your subjects into trance.

Dr. Milton Erickson forged the way through many of the induction and brought them into the center stage of Conversational Hypnosis. Dr. Erickson's reputation as a hypnotist is a revered and has made his name in hypnosis a common and popular one. Not only was he a front runner in the world of hypnosis but as such he founded the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and was noted for his unconventional approach to psychotherapy.

Dr. Erickson's trance voice induction will be a powerful tool for you to learn well and use. He was also responsible for the hypnotic gaze induction and piggy back induction.

In the trance voice induction you will concentrate on improving your tonalities yet again. This induction is among the favorites of Erickson's and will be a valuable addition to your hypnosis practices.

In the trance voice induction you will be first creating a trance voice, this voice will need to be clearly different from your normal conversational voice and the tones you use in it will need to be clearly defined. The trance voice you develop will be the tones you will smoothly acquire any time you are moving to put a person into trance.

You have read about the tones you will want to incorporate in this previously which is to include a deeper, smoother, calmer tone with slower speaking and very purposeful pauses and a soft rhythm. In this induction you will want to focus this way of speaking even more so.

One of the tone refinements is to know when to use your conscious and unconscious voices. Make sure the definition between the two is a clear and audible one and use them in the appropriate situations. The conscious voice for times of non trance and the unconscious voice will be used when inducing an altered state of mind.

Along with this refinement you will add another which will be to create many different hypnotic voices. This is important as your listeners will begin to associate different voices with different types of goals. You may have a hypnotic voice for learning, one for relaxation, one for excitement and one to bring your subjects in and out of trances.

These voices will be distinctly different enough for you to recognize the differences but you subjects may only notice the differences in their unconscious as they serve their hypnotic purposes. As you develop your different voices you will need to condition each one with your subjects.

Refining this hypnotic process even further will be to combine all three inductions of Dr. Erickson together to create a multi-level way of communicating. This will involve using the trance voice induction, the piggy back induction and the hypnotic gaze induction.

By combining all the techniques in a particular session you will be creating a very powerful effect. You will be embedding suggestions at all kinds of different levels for the unconscious to choose from.

Messages will be coming in through each induction in different ways, the ways you have learned to use each induction will layer in the suggestions you are making with each induction separately within the same hypnosis session.

As you are using these three very powerful inductions there will be many messages going in to the listener, there will be many different processes going on and too many things to keep track of for the subject to see all that you are doing. The conscious mind will become overloaded and shut down in turn bypassing the critical factor in the process.

As you have learned all these processes separately you will not be overloaded with this process. You will in fact be so skilled at it by the time you have practiced it that it will come quite naturally and smoothly. You see you will have already added all these concepts and the way to send them out to your listener that your unconscious mind will be doing a majority of the work for you.

Each of the inductions will be used and refined to be used together. They will give you the ability to embed many different suggestions at many different levels within the unconscious mind for your listener to respond to and put into action when the triggers you embed as well are fired off and the whole of the hypnosis begins to be put into a smooth flowing action toward resolution and reward.

Learning to use the hypnotic gaze induction, piggy back induction and trance voice induction together will become a powerful and highly sophisticated tool that will elevate the abilities you have in your hypnosis. It is a technique Dr. Milton Erickson relied on and will add to your successes as well.

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How to Refine the Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

How to Refine the Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

The piggy back hypnotic induction is a perfect induction for many different clients. When it has become a skilled and practiced technique it will cover all of the stages in the 4 Stage Protocol; these include absorb attention, bypass critical thinking, get an unconscious response and direct an outcome from that response.

In the piggy back hypnotic induction you will absorb attention through four or five statements you make that are verifiable facts about the sensations and sense in their physical being. These are statements about how their hand my feel or comment on their breathing. At the end of the statements you will attach a suggestion.

This is why it is called the piggy back hypnotic induction. The induction and placing of suggestions happens using the piggy back principal. As you attach suggestions to your true statements they will generally be accepted as truth simply because it is easier to accept than deny them.

As you make the true statements you are taking control of the person's attention by directing it to the true sensations of the body and its experience. Those statements are accepted which sets the critical factor up for bypass. As the suggestions are attached the slip in unnoticed to the listener and an unconscious response is usually the result. After you have attained an unconscious response you can go ahead with the hypnosis and embed your life changing suggestions.

This is a brief overview of how the induction works and how it utilizes the 4 Stage Protocol. Now it is time for you to refine the method, reading in detail about the piggy back hypnotic induction is suggested. After you have studied the process you should be ready to refine it with the remainder of this article.

The first way to improve this induction is to talk about indirect hypnosis themes. When you decide it is time to go in a more indirect route with your induction you will use these suggestions to do so. The best way to alter your induction so that it is more indirect is to go from talking about trances and hypnosis to talking about comfort and relaxation.

As far as the induction itself goes it doesn't matter whether you choose to go the indirect or direct route. You will choose your approach depending on which is more suitable for the situation. You will get more skilled at making these determinations as time goes on, for now just do what is comfortable to you. There is always the option of merging the two, direct and indirect, to come up with something in the middle.

The second refinement that you should be aware of is to use the ‘my friend John/Jane' technique. This is the same as in the hypnotic gaze induction. This addition to the induction will also take your piggy back hypnotic induction in a more indirect direction.

This becomes more indirect because you are no longer talking about them in the audible sense. You are describing someone else's experience. However the listeners sub-conscious will pick up that you are speaking about them on some level and internalize the experience as if you were telling them it was their own.

Refinement number three is to start with external awareness and move to the internal awareness. This again makes the induction much more indirect by starting your statements with the external things that are going on. These things may include things that are seen, heard and felt outside of the body.

As time goes by you will move your statements to bring attention to the more internal thing that are going on within them. These would include subjects like bringing attention inside themselves, feeling the way relaxation affects the way their body feels on the inside. This would include anything you can direct to the feelings and senses that happen within the body.

The final refinement for the piggy back hypnotic induction is to read minds. Yes you need to learn how to read minds. But not quite in the sense you see in old movies and Hollywood. Reading minds in this sense is the same but then again different.

In this refinement you be changing the type of true statements that you are making, you will give them a ‘guessed' truth instead of the sensory rich statements you have been using up until this point. The statements you have been using are all about things the person can see, hear and feel. These can become very tired and predictable pretty quickly.

So your other option is to use the mind read statements. These are thoughts that you retrieve from their experiences, you pretend to be at the library in their mind checking out and using their experiences on a more intellectual level as opposed to a sensory level.

There are several different types of mind read statements. The first is that of personal experience. The way this works is to use themes that everyone must go through in their lives, and make true statements about those themes.

An example might be that they have met both nice and not so nice people through out the course of their lives, or they have disagreed with a parent. These two statements are true for nearly everyone you speak to, the only thing to beware of in this is to know the area you are in and know the common practices there.

To say to someone in America that they have know freedom for the majority of their lives would be true, but to say that to someone who lives or has lived in China may not apply. Just be aware of your surroundings and the customs there and in the environment your listener is from.

This mind read is in a nut shell like making a very, very accurate guess at the personal experiences they have had in their lives. It is determined by cultural experiences and common themes that run along the lives of many.

The second mind read technique has to do with beliefs and expectations. The same principal applies, that you will be making an accurate guess involving the beliefs and expectations of your listener. The difference is simply the subject matter.

Beliefs and expectations that you may use in your mind read are political views, religion and religious beliefs or anything you may know their personal view on. In order to use this mind read you will have to be more than just casually acquainted with your listener, you will really need to know something about them; this is not a huge requirement but nonetheless it is necessary to know a little.

You can usually use just about anything you know about them, especially things they have personally told you, in this mind read

The third type of mind read is one called truisms and generalizations. These are simply statements in each culture that is generally accepted as true due to passed down belief. A great example of a truism is ‘better safe than sorry', or ‘better late than never'. These are both things that most people would agree with and have agreed with since they heard it.

And finally the last form of mind read is cultural assumptions. This category is quite similar to the beliefs and expectations; these are the things that most will assume to be true given the culture they are in.

Remember that these will of course vary depending on the area and culture you are in. Do not make assumptions that could be ill conceived. Keep in the cultural reference points of where you are that they accept.

As you now take these refinements of the piggy back hypnotic induction with you, you will realize all the different ways that people internalize and experience things. You can use any of these mind reads in regular conversation and you should in order to see how they work and get a good grasp of them.

This will be good practice as you will soon be using them in your hypnosis.

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An Overview on How to Use Nested Loops in Hypnosis

An Overview on How to Use Nested Loops in Hypnosis

Nested loops are very important and powerful tools that you can integrate into your hypnotic processes within Conversational Hypnosis. Nested loops are going to provide a deep level of assistance to you within your hypnosis by doing several things.

The first and most important thing that nested loops or nested stories do for you is to cause the unconscious mind to work harder by getting it much more interested than a simple single story. Nested loops are also known to cause a thing called the Zeigarnik Effect, in which a thing is left incomplete causing it to evolve to a level of much higher importance within the mind.

Other things that a series of nested loops will offer you is a more secure hypnotic set of stories as well as being difficult to identify and trace. Because of all this nested loops also bypass the critical factor just because there is so much action going on.

If you recall a nested loop is a series of three or more stories that are told in a manner together to cause the unconscious mind to be impacted greater. Each story you involve in your nested loop will be told up to the climax and then you will use a soft or hard loop to continue on to the next story. The reason the unconscious mind is working harder here is because the stories are momentarily left unfinished the unconscious mind will work extra hard to try to finish them off.

After you have climaxed each story you will have an open space in which to leave a suggestion for your subject and then you will move in reverse closing the last story first, the second to last story next and so on until you reach the first story and finish it.

Moving in reverse through the end of the stories will help to create amnesia for the listener. This happens because the mind tends to forget the middle stories after the beginning of the first story and its ending have been reunited.

There are four different types of nested loops that you will begin to or may have already begun to navigate your way through. They range from basic to master level with intermediate and advanced in the middle. Each type of nested loop will entail the same general structure only adding refinements and a few concepts to each one.

The basic nested loop is the simplest and will be where you start when you want to integrate nested loops in to your hypnosis. The basic nested loop is composed of three or more stories, each told to its climax and then transitioned into the next story through a hard or soft loop.

A note on hard and soft loops which are going to be the very important transitions you make from one story to the next. A hard loop is a transition with no real warning at all. You simply go from telling the climax of the story you are on to the beginning of the next story, no explanation or excuse as to why. A soft loop is when you lead into the next story with the one you are telling.

You may go from taking a walk in the wood to seeing a bunny, using the bunny as a transition into the next story about how you received a bunny for your fourth birthday. You will use these loops between every story you tell in nested loops. They offer you a way to change stories with very little effort.

After you tell all your story beginnings using the hard and soft loops to transition between each you will come to an open space that separates the beginnings of your stories from the endings. In this open space you will leave your suggestion and then continue on closing each story in reverse. Starting with the last story first and working your way back to the beginning story.

It is important to remember that you will use this basic nested loop structure in all your nested loops. The next three types of nested loops will only have things added to them, nothing taken away, in order to advance the sophistication of the structure.

The next type of nested loop is the intermediate nested loop. Again you will follow all the same steps for the basic nested loop but with two additions. In the intermediate nested loop you will add state to your stories. Each of the three or more stories you tell will evoke a different state or emotion from your listener.

This is where you start to get their emotions going up and down and sideways, you really want to give them a ride on different emotions that you evoke through your story telling.

The second thing you will add is at the space in the middle where you were originally only leaving suggestions you will now leave a trance process first, either the COMILA or PCAT and then adding your suggestion is already built into these formulas. You still leave the suggestion only you do it in the way the formula calls for.

The advanced nested loops are going to be repeating the process of the intermediate nested loop and adding to it the trance formulas into the actual stories you are telling. You will do this so those trance formula's start to format the unconscious mind similar to the way the story is taking place. As you do this the trance processes will become embedded in the stories you are telling and making the trance that much more powerful.

Finally we come to the master level nested loops. In this series of nested loops you will follow the some protocol as in the advanced nested loops but refine it even further by adding in conversational induction protocols.

You will integrate these into your stories as well as the trance processes. This will make your stories consciously entertaining and unconsciously they will have deeply embedded suggestions that will start to work in the mind.

All of the nested loops are great and wonderful tools to use in your hypnosis. Of course the more advanced you get in you learning the more benefit you can acquire from using the master level nested loop instead of the basic. These are important things to practice and can be easily done simply by telling stories to your friends and family with nested loops integrated into them.

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How to Use the PCAT Formula in Hypnotic Stories

How to Use the PCAT Formula in Hypnotic Stories

The PCAT Formula will become a valuable and useful tool for you to utilize once you have practiced and are aware of how to use it in your hypnosis. It will be valuable in improving your Conversational Hypnosis because it will assist you in being a better story teller.

To really improve your skills as a hypnotic story teller you must first know all the steps and how to use the PCAT Formula. As you know the PCAT Formula is most often used to create personal change in a person. It will assist most in improving an area of their lives such as becoming better at a thing or changing something about themselves.

The PCAT Formula stands for problem, confuse, access resources and transform. The best way to use this formula is to begin by knowing the change you are attempting to achieve. Just like in your stories and nested loops you need to determine the outcome that will grow from the work you are doing with an individual.

You will do this by first setting the parameters with the person you are working with. This entails a time of orientation, get to know the person you are working with and find out about the problem they are attempting to change.

By getting involved in a general orientation you are establishing the beginnings of rapport and setting up the framework to correct the problem or make the change they are looking for.

After you have gotten a general orientation and are ready to move on the next step will be the actual problem. As you begin the use of the PCAT Formula you will want to use your stories to get the problem activated within the person you are working with. Use one of your first stories to bring this problem up and focus on it a little with either a direct or indirect approach.

The next step will be to cause some confusion. In this step you will use several different methods in order to confuse the person you are working with so you can get into the realm of their unconscious. You will use ambiguity in your language to confuse the conscious and send alternate messages and meanings to the unconscious mind.

You will also use embedded suggestions and the questions of what the problem really means. These two levels of confusion will begin to break the problem down into pieces that are easier to manipulate and work with.

The fourth step is to activate a resource or resources. In this step you will use your second story to begin to activate solutions to the problem. You will often still use a bit of the same confusion you were using in step three, this is mainly to ensure that everything flows together nicely, so it is not noticeable that you were using confusion for a specific reason and then just quit. This will also allow you to move fluidly into the last step of the PCAT Formula.

Here you will begin your hypnotic induction. This is part of activating resources in the way as the induction is used to go within the person and really locate the resources you will need for the change to occur. You will focus on using words repetitively that will draw the attention and instruct the unconscious mind.

The best way to break down the activation of resources is to think of it in layers that you will begin to slowly lay on top of your subject. The first of those layers is going to be to get them to relax and take it easy. You will begin a trace process in which relaxation and taking it easy are the common themes. As you do this these words will begin to become emotional triggers that will start to activate the very resources you are looking for.

The second layer in this step is to begin seeding ideas to your listener. There are two purposes to this layer and they are to first extract a matching experience from your listener which will cause anticipation to build within them. The second purpose is to be giving clues as to where the solution they are looking for is going to come from. This will become your embedded suggestion, you will embed the core concepts of the idea behind the problem you are attempting to solve.

The third resource layer you will add to this list of refinements will be to get inspired when you are going to tell your stories. Really be excited to give the stories you have chosen to your listener, and always go first.

The fourth and final layer here will be to include an isomorphic metaphor in your series of stories. An allegory or isomorphic metaphor is a story in which the story itself mirrors the experiences your listener has in relation to the structure of the story you are telling.

The person you are telling the story to should see some type of resemblance in the story to the ways in which they need to work to create the changes they are searching for. This is a conclusion they will draw from the unconscious interpretations of your stories, part of the wonder behind stories is that your subjects will never be told exactly what they mean the listener is left to decide for themselves about the meanings.

Now this may sound like the person may take the incorrect or wrong meaning from a story right? Well the truth of the matter is that as long as you are good at constructing your stories they will get the right meaning one way or another.

The conscious mind will create a meaning for the story but the unconscious mind will make more sense of it than the conscious will. Even when the conscious mind has exhausted all meanings and possibilities the unconscious mind will continue to grow and define the meanings found within the stories.

Finally you will move on to the last step in the PCAT Formula which is to transform. In this step of PCAT you will continue to layer in resources that will assist in the transformation. The first of those layers is to embed suggestions. These are going to be very direct suggestions for the point of the actual transformation. When embedding these suggestions you will use a soft language that is almost friendly and coaxing.

You will also want to provide some instruction to your unconscious as to where to find the inspiration it is looking for to carry out the transformation. You will be amazed as to how much your unconscious mind will carry you through these stories, even making them up on the spot at times.

One last thing you should include in your story telling and the transformation step is to use parallel processes. This is a form of story that will tell the unconscious mind what to do and where to go but to the conscious mind it sounds as if were just another part of the story you are telling. You will use this to achieve deeper meanings in the stories you tell. You can use it to display one deeper meaning to the unconscious or many depending on the story and the outcome you are attempting to achieve.

Now you have completed the PCAT Formula and you are ready to bring your subject out of trance. As you do this you will want to set in some future memories about how this will all play out for the person you are hypnotizing. The future memories and compliments you set at the end will be motivators and will show the unconscious a memory that it will strive to bring to life for the person in hypnosis.

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The Role of Hypnotic Rapport in Hypnosis

The Role of Hypnotic Rapport in Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a deep and complicated process where the hypnotist and subject must have a wide rapport to support. When you participate in conducting a hypnotic trance your unconscious will be opened to them. Because of this it is important to have the experience you wish them to partake in at the forefront of your mind when starting the rapport.

Rapport is not a term generated just for use in hypnosis. It happens with everyone you come into conversational contact with. And the rapport you develop with your subjects is instrumental in conducting successful conversational hypnosis.

Hypnosis is anything but a casual relationship between two people. It is a deep connection that must be supported with good rapport. Anything you feel will unconsciously be projected upon the person you are trying to hypnotize. Because of this it is paramount that you learn to take your rapport skills out of the range of normal and beyond.

Hypnotic rapport is a time tested relationship. It has been present since people have been in existence. It is not fully understood and may never be, but it is very powerful.

Rapport is powerful in the sense that anytime a person around you experiences a trance they will inevitably take on a deeper connection with you and your unconscious mind. This deepens the trust between the participants and offers a sense of comfort in your company.

Going first, or ‘go first' concept is an important one to become highly familiar with. In ‘go first' you as the hypnotist must first enter the environment and experience you want your subject to have.

The reason you need to enter the experience before your hypnotic subject is so they will pick that experience up from your subconscious as they are in trance. Because every time a person goes into trance around you they develop an unconscious connection with you, if you have the experience at the forefront of your mind they will bring it back with them after the hypnosis is concluded.

As you begin to make hypnotic connections with other people you will be unconsciously exploring their mind as they will be making a connection with your unconscious as well. This is a powerful part of hypnosis. It allows each person to explore thoughts and ideas they never knew they had until that precise moment.

An example of this is prevalent in our everyday lives. We have all met people that we have a difficult time connecting with. You may have the same conversations over and over with little success in a real connection. It may seem that there is some sort of barrier up between the two of you. You never quite get past the small talk questions because you are not comfortable enough to advance into a deeper relationship.

This relationship is skewed because on an unconscious level these people are sub-communicating their sense of distrust and non ability to be comfortable around you. This atmosphere within in a person you are trying to connect with will shut down your thoughts and ideas. This will happen even before those thoughts and ideas have even had a chance to properly develop and come to your conscious.

On the other hand you probably meet people that you seem to have an instant connection with. In these situations it can seem that the thoughts and ideas are flowing from you endlessly. Ideas you never even realized you had come easily and seamlessly carry your listener. You are charismatic with these people, your ideas are good, and they come out well.

Split personality? No.

This is the way most people work. Those who are confident, comfortable and trusting in themselves often send out unconscious signals to others that produce the same effect in others. People who are not sure of themselves or comfortable will unconsciously cut off successful communications before they have had a chance to even try.

In hypnosis you will want to have the effect of the second situation. If you have a good rapport with your subjects and they feel comfortable and trusting around you they will be able to easily open up to you. You can aid in this process by making the mental environment even more comfortable by using the ‘go first' method in hypnosis.

It is important to remember that hypnosis is no casual relationship. You want your clients and the people around you to feel as if they have known you for years and can open up to you anywhere.

Developing and instant rapport with a complete stranger is a skill that will attribute to your success as a hypnotist. This is established through good rapport. Good rapport can be established through different methods such as the ‘go first' method.

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How to Set Goals for a Hypnosis Session

How to Set Goals for a Hypnosis Session

Hypnosis is an art that goes beyond just something that you do. In Conversational Hypnosis you are working to change people's lives. Whether you are serving people who want to be healthier, happier or improve a certain behavior you are reaching to help people to enrich their lives, make them more fulfilling in some way.

Because this is such an important and large thing to do you really must know how to set your goals for each session? If you go into your sessions without any goals it is likely that you will get nowhere as that is where you set out to be. Without goals you really don't have much direction.

Setting goals for your hypnotic sessions can be made simple by following a few important steps in order to obtain the results you and your client is looking for. It is well documented in many studies that those who are successful in their business are those who had goals, they wrote them down and put them into action within their unconscious mind.

One way to look at goal setting is to remember the PACE Formula. PACE is a formula used for success and can be used in goal setting. If you remember it stands for purpose, adapt, calibrate and engage.

Purpose, this is one of the most important parts of goal setting. You must know what it is you want. If you don't know what it is you want to get out of each session with each of your clients then you are doing you both a disservice because you will likely go nowhere or end up somewhere that you are not wanted.

If you know your purpose, where you want to go you will be helping your mind out a great deal. You mind is constructed in a way that is goal oriented making the focus you have become your reality. In other words if you know what you want and you focus on it you will have the power already instilled in your mind to make it a reality.

Now this doesn't mean it just happens right away. You can't focus your mind for a few minutes and then presto all your wishes are granted. But by knowing what you want and writing it down puts the wheels of the unconscious into motion, helping you to recognize the natural opportunities that arise that will assist you in some way to reaching your goal.

If you don't write down what you want or actualize it in some way your unconscious will float on unaware of what it is you want and continue to skip by those natural opportunities because it is unaware that they would be helpful in goals that you have.

The reticular activating system in your brain responsible for awareness will not zero in on the natural opportunities and will continue to simply delete them from your awareness as they don't seem to be useful at that time.

PACE is one of the goal setting systems that many other goal setting systems are based off of, the general concept of these four steps are a good place to start with setting goals. Any other system you choose will be a refinement of the PACE formula, it doesn't really matter what system you choose as long as it is a complete one and works for you.

The biggest pitfall of the PACE formula is that people tend to follow it until they reach the final step which is to engage. You must always take that last step, without engaging or taking action you will never reach the full potential of your goals. Engagement is necessary for completion.

Another set of rules for setting your goals is the SMART Goals system. In this you have the steps of specific, measurable, affect, realistic and timed. In this acronym you have a perfect lay out of the information that the brain needs in order to get the goal setting process under way.

The first step is to be specific. Having a vague goal is like saying you want to be liked. Well there are many people who may like you, but if you get down to it and the only person who likes you is the axe murderer down the street then technically your goal has been accomplished. You never said who you wanted to like you only that you wanted to be liked. Once your goal is achieved your brain will look at it as complete and file it away in the ‘I did it!' file. You must be specific for you unconscious to continue until the true goal is met and to pick up on the best natural opportunities for actualizing your goal.

The next rule is measurable. This is the way of knowing when your goal is complete you will want to make goals that are measurable. This rule is closely related to the first rule in the best way to make a goal measurable is to be specific. Not only do you want to finish the race but you want to finish in under thirty minutes time. This is measurable it gives a limit and a turning off point for your brain to acknowledge whether the goal has been met or not.

Another great item to add to measurement is to use sensory rich specific terms about what will take place when your goal is complete. This means to let your mind know what you will see, hear, smell and feel when the goals is accomplished. If you finish your race in less than thirty minutes you will probably see other runners finishing with you, taste the water at the end of the race, feel the sweat of hard work and a job well done. Let you mind know what success will look like for you.

The third rule in SMART is the affect. This is simply the emotions or feelings you get when you think about your goal. This is what motivates you, the stronger the emotion you feel when you think about your goal the stronger the motivation you will have. This means you unconscious will also be driven by that same motivation and will put more of the resources it finds available to work for your achievement.

Next is realistic. This means you should simply be realistic in your setting of goals. This can be a hard thing to judge but the goal needs to be realistic in the real world and realistic for you. This is not an excuse to not go for the highest goals you have it is simply asking that you step back and check the realizations of those goals before you embark down a path of predicted failure.

Finally the last step in SMART is the step of timed. You need to be sure to set a time frame for your goals so you have a deadline. If there is not cutoff point then there is no rush to complete your goals. Your timeline should still be realistic but if you don't have one you could spend your entire life trying to reach one goal and never accomplish it only because you were again not specific enough when you set the goal in the first place.

One last note to leave you with on goal setting. Now that you know the rules or at least a set of rules to go by, remember that you can sabotage yourself simply by trying too hard. As with anything else you can cause conscious interference that will inhibit you ability to reach the goals you have set. Be sure not to try too hard, let your unconscious take care of the things it knows how to do and you just focus on the bigger picture of bringing the goal to mind and making wise but relaxed choices.

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