The Persuasive Power of Nested Loops in Hypnosis

The Persuasive Power of Nested Loops in Hypnosis

There are all types of different story telling methods and skills to incorporate in you inductions as a Conversational Hypnotist. All of these methods are very powerful. You can accomplish all four of the stages within the 4 Stage Protocol as well as use stories for many different aspects of hypnosis.

Embedding suggestions and isomorphic stories are an indirect way to come to the conclusion you and your clients are looking for. You can use your stories to relax and excite people in the types of trances you are inducing.

To recall emotions and experiences through story telling is a powerful and useful skill in the art of hypnosis. You have also learned how to construct certain aspects of your stories to extract the conclusions and outcomes that your are looking for so you attain the exact things you want from the sessions you hold with different subjects.

The next aspect you must learn to conquer is the art of nested loops. The different ways to tell stories has taught you to accomplish the four stages in hypnosis and nested loops or nested stories will give you another way to do this.

When telling nested stories or nesting loops within a set of stories is to design a tale that will require more of the unconscious attention than a simple story would. These aspects will make the unconscious concentrate more and work harder. The other things these nested loops will do is to become less consciously detectable for your listener and are a more hypnotic route than the simple stories you have previously learned about.

The beauty of the nested loop when it comes to critical factor is that they tend to bypass the critical factor more efficiently in just the fact that there is more to concentrate on and confuse the conscious mind.

Nested loops are a combination of many different stories that in the end impact the unconscious even more fully than a simple story with one conclusion or suggestion. In a nested loop you will have many conclusions and suggestions that will activate the unconscious to be more fully in action.



The way nested loops work is to have your three, four or five stories in mind. As you tell each story you will come to the climax of the story and then switch to another story. Each story you repeat the same method with tell the story all the way up to the greatest turning point and then switch to the next story again.

As you do this telling and breaking into each new story you are pushing the unconscious into working overtime. Because each story is left unfinished the unconscious is going to be working even harder to finish the details and attempt to figure out the end of all your stories.

When you are creating these stories and leaving them unfinished you are going to be accessing a special principal called the Zeigarnik Effect. The Zeigarnik Effect is what happens when the unconscious assigns a higher level of importance to a matter, thought or story simply because it is left unfinished.

The consequence of this is that the unfinished business becomes remembered more fully or done better simply because of the importance placed upon it to want to be finished.

If a thing is finished, let's say a story or thought, the mind will shut down afterward because it now has all the answers it needs, there is no reason to probe further. This can be a problem when there is new information discovered about the thing that the mind has shut off to. Because the mind feels complete in that matter then the new information is harder to get across and accepted.

If you use nested loops and always leave an open end or a sense of may be there is more to this then you will leave the door open for more or new information in the future. You will also be activating the unconscious much more so it is remembered more fully and done with more precision.

As you use this method you are creating multiple realities for the listener, you are confusing the conscious with many details and hence bypassing the critical factor.

As you confuse the mind and bypass the critical factor you have the opportunity to slip in all the suggestions and emotional triggers you want. You can also prime the unconscious with your many story lines and do this quite undetected as the conscious is too busy trying to keep all the details in order it will miss the opportunity to reject everything you are saying.

This is a very powerful way to use story telling and should be practiced in the right ways so you do not use it wrongly. It requires a bit of finesse to confuse the mind this adequately and you will learn how exactly to do this as we go on. For now think about how powerful this is and how you may be able to use it in your practices in the future.

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The Subtle Art of Implication in Hypnosis

The Subtle Art of Implication in Hypnosis

The language you use in Conversational Hypnosis is key to your success as a hypnotist. The Stealth Tactics you have been learning are important as you learn to implant your suggestions while bypassing the critical factor that causes the mind t reject or analyze what is not it's own. As you continue to learn more concepts and principals of Stealth Tactics along with other language skills all the parts will start to come together to create a complete picture that is Conversational Hypnosis.

The idea behind all the Stealth Tactics is to enter the mind unnoticed or overload the mind once you are there so you can leave your suggestion. When you learn to carry this out successfully you will have the ability to change lives and obtain your goals as a hypnotist.

Implication is the next Stealth Tactic you will need to add to your arsenal of mind tools. Implication is largely based on the use of body language; however both body language and voice are at the heart of Conversational Hypnosis. Both of these elements must be mastered in order to accomplish the goals you have with people.

In Implication you will see that anything you imply to a listener will automatically bypass the critical factor. The mind does not process and analyze implications they way it does things you say outright. If you make a statement a loud the very sounds of the words you use are instantly being checked by the critical factor for agreement. When an implication is made it is done so with body language and tone and is less likely to be checked and often is not at all.

The reason for this is that it takes a vast amount of effort to analyze an implication. This doesn't mean it never happens, however it is rare. For the conscious mind to analyze an implication there is simply more work and effort involved, many times people will not do this out of habit, too tired or just overloaded with information in the first place.

Implications are very common, you use them everyday. They are statements you make that are accompanied by a certain tone, body language or look. How you use an implication is very important, especially in Conversational Hypnosis.

This brings us to the Implication Tactics, which are simply ways of using the Stealth Tactic of Implication. The first Implication Tactic is called Implied Directives. This is the art of asking someone to do something without actually asking them a question. A good example would be to say, "I know you parked the car in the garage." This is quite obviously a statement and not a question but when said in a specific tone it implies a question.

The second Implication Tactic is to Create an Expectation. This happens when you use an implication to set up an expectation. A common example of this is when a teacher asks if her students have any questions. Often after one person has raised a hand and asked a question there will be others to follow.

The teacher has made the implication and expectation that there are probably questions about the subject matter. The other students are following the set expectation by the first student to ask a question. It all has a pattern and a flow to it.

The third Implication Tactic is the Tacit Authority. The concept behind Tacit Authority is to imply thing about you as an individual. This changes how people respond to you in different ways and environments. An everyday example of this tactic is when you visit the office of a doctor or lawyer and they have numerous certifications and articles displayed about the type of work and their successes.

The items that are displayed don't require the professional to tell you how skilled they are at their profession, but sets an expectation within your mind of the type of service you will receive. Many times charismatic people are very good at tacit authority. They are not inclined to brag about themselves they display their achievements and allow others to draw their own conclusions.

Another way to use Tacit Authority is to tell a story and allow the listeners to draw conclusions about your personality from that story. If you tell a story about rescuing a puppy from a river, and make it believable, they will automatically assume you are brave and loving of animals.

These three smaller tactics will help you in applying the Stealth Tactic of Implication. The main concepts here are to remember that in Implication you are using the tone of your voice, body language, mannerisms, things around you and facial expressions to imply a thing. Raised eyebrows, a change in voice, certificates and so on will all tell their own stories about you or what you are asking of the person.

Implication is a very powerful way of making a statement without actually having to find the words to say it outright. If people are drawing their own conclusions about you from implications they are more likely to believe them than if you were to simply say "I am brave."

The implication is more believable for the simple fact that it is their own idea, they came up with a view of you that is all their own. You can steer that view and invite confidence, trust and comfort with the Implications you coax from them.




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Persistence Tactics in Hypnosis: Laws of Successive Approximations & Compounding Effect

Persistence Tactics in Hypnosis: Laws of Successive Approximations & Compounding Effect

There are many different tactics you will learn to use in your conversational hypnosis. Persistence Tactics are some of the tools you will begin to combine with many other various skills and tools that will begin to draw all your learning together to create a cohesive whole to hypnosis.

When you learn to combine the four Persistence Tactics with other tactics, signal recognition, the foundations of hypnotic language and rapport skill you will be building the foundation for conversational hypnosis.

There are four Persistence Tactics; we have covered the first two tactics which are the Hypnotic Triple and Seeding Ideas. These both have to with repetition and are very powerful ways to slip ideas, thoughts and suggestions into the minds of your listeners.

The Hypnotic Triple is the art of stacking up the same word or idea to place a suggestion. If you want someone to buy something you would relentlessly use the idea of buying, say the word buy and continue to triple up the effect of that one word. The Hypnotic Triple is a great repetitive use of language that will steer your listener to your suggestion.

The second Persistence Tactic we have covered is Seeding Ideas. In this tactic you will place thoughts in the minds of your listeners through casual conversation. Each time you plant an idea you will continue to revisit it and help it to flourish to what will eventually be a full suggestion. This is a technique that will gently coax your subject into feeling comfortable with what may begin as an overwhelming suggestion.

The final two Persistence Tactics are the Laws of Successive Approximations and the Compounding Effect. These will continue to help you build persistent skills into your conversational hypnosis.

In the Law of Successive Approximations is used when you want to present a large concept or idea to someone who may seem overwhelming. It is similar in its purpose to the idea of seeding, just a different way to confront the issue of a large change.

The Law of Successive Approximation offers you the idea of breaking the big idea down into smaller pieces that will eventually equal a large result. Breaking down the information down makes it easier to swallow, an easier transition.

A good example of when to use the Law of Successive Approximation is if you wanted to induce a hallucination. This is a very big step for someone to take when they know logically that the hallucination, whatever it may be, is not really in front of them. By using the Law of Successive Approximation you will be giving them little pieces of the hallucination to picture one at a time.

As you build the different aspects of the hallucination; the smell of it, feel of it, the way it sounds. As you give the listener all these suggestions it will start to become real for them and when it is time to really induce the hallucination they will be more prepared to actually take a larger step and see what it is you have given them bit by bit.

There is a possibility in this process that you may lose your listener; if this happens and it will eventually you only need to backtrack as far as the last point of agreement. In this situation you would then create a new ‘yes set' and build on that thought and behavior until the person is ready to move on to the next step.

This is very easy as you can create a constant pattern. This pattern would consist of taking a small step, step, lose listener, and go back to agreement, ‘yes set' then move on to the next step. This is an easy pattern to follow as it will create a constant loop for you to travel on. The key is to be sure the listener is following your lead before moving on from the ‘yes set'.

The final Persistence Tactic is the Law of Compounding Effect; this is also very similar to the ‘yes set'. Each time you have your listener put a specific suggestion into action they will in turn become more suggestible. This compares to the ‘yes set' in that each time your subject says yes to one thing they are more likely to say yes to the next statement. You are building a habit of agreement.

In the Law of Compounding Effect you continue to piggy back suggestions and the person continues to carry out those suggestions as they become more suggestible with each one. The more they carry on in this manner the more resistance is broken down and the more likely it is they will continue responding to your suggestions.

Over time the Law of Compounding Effect and the suggestions made with it will become a natural way to react to the ideas you place before your listener. This is another very powerful tactic in conversational hypnosis and one you will have the ability to use often as it accomplishes two things at once. It not only allows your suggestions to be carried out in thoughts and behaviors it also diminishes resistance.

These two Persistence Tactics when combined with the other persistence tactics and concepts we have learned will start to bring your knowledge together to create a smooth flow of suggesting behaviors and seeing those behaviors come to life in your subjects.




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Reframing in Hypnosis

Reframing in Hypnosis

It is important to know that frames are very powerful and will be a valuable tool as you practice your Conversational Hypnosis.

A frame is the standard of reference that people use to measure the meanings of all the things around them. It is also important to keep in mind that frames are different for everyone and that there are different ways in which to present and look at each different frame.

The power of frames in hypnosis is great because you are learning to change, preset and extinguish frames based on the language you use, both physically and verbally.

Reframing in hypnosis is going to be another powerful aspect of the idea of frames. This will be another important way for you to change and overpower the frames of others to impact a positive outcome with in your hypnosis practice.

Reframing is the next tool you will use in your quest to conquer the frames of others. Reframing is simply just a way to get a person to look at the same idea or situation in a different light or way. In the area of reframing there are two different types of reframe you can use. There are context reframes and meaning reframes, in both your goal is to change the outlook of the person you are dealing with.

A context reframe is the ability to put the subject of the frame into a new context. An example of this is if you were selling a suit to a business man, executive of a big company. You are attempting to sell him a very nice sharp, not to mention expensive suit. He decides he would like to see something else because the suit you are showing him is a little too flashy.

You may reply in a manner that implies that he is more comfortable wearing a suit that will blend in with what everyone else is wearing, no need to stand out in a crowd maybe he doesn't like to be noticed as much when he walks into a room. Now since you are dealing with a business man this seems like a silly thing to say because part of his role as an executive is to look sharp and stand out as a leading figure in his company.

In this example, you have taken the problem of the suit being too flashy and turned it around to imply that as an executive you assumed he would want to stand out in the crowd. The idea of flashy was the problem but now it is brought to mind that as an executive it could be a plus to stand out in the crowd.

Another good example of a context reframe would be if a woman was looking at a sports car and decided that the speed would just be too much for her to handle. You can context reframe this by offering the example of the quick maneuvering of such a car would be useful in the situation of speeding up to get around a careless driver.

Here again you take the problem and make it a plus, a desirable aspect of the subject. In doing this in both examples you are taking the conflict the part they disagree with and putting it in a new light where it becomes a reason to buy the item. This is context reframing you have changed the context to alter the frame.

In the second type of reframing, meaning reframing, you will change the meaning behind the frames you wish to change. You will want someone to look at something from another point of view, don't look at it this way but look at it that way. This is very similar to context reframing. The difference is you change the actual meaning of the frame.

Meaning reframing is a powerful way to deal with objections or problems where there could be multiple ways of interpreting the meanings. If you have a boss who is very strict and every time you come in a minute late he really jumps on you, the first way and probably the most popular way to interpret that is that he is a jerk and doesn't like you.

Although there are many other reasons why this situation may be happening. Maybe he is under pressure from his superiors to make sure timeliness is at 100% or there will be consequences for him. Another situation could be that he has a promotion in mind for you and the only way to get it passed by the guys up stairs is if your timeliness improves. This puts a whole new light on the subject and you would then be very open to his support in razing you to be on time.

Reframing on the whole is a way to create positive outlooks for problems that others are only seeing in a negative light. In hypnosis this will come in very valuable as you will have the ability to give your listener enough positive choices to choose from that they can drastically improve their view of certain aspects of their lives.

Reframing is powerful in its ability to enrich and add to the enjoyment of life instead of walking around always thinking the worst. It can make people more successful, influential and altogether happier as their outlook changes to a more positive one.

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Mechanics, Engineers & Magicians: Don't Just Learn Hypnosis, Master Hypnosis!

Mechanics, Engineers & Magicians: Don't Just Learn Hypnosis, Master Hypnosis!

There are concepts and principals that you can learn and have been learning in order to educate yourself on the art of hypnosis. But the question becomes when you have already learned so much on the subject of hypnosis why not master it instead of just learning it? Conversational Hypnosis is an art that is best conveyed and conducted when you have educated yourself to the point of mastery.

You have learned that changing moods changes minds and that your reality is simply the set of frames you choose to live your life in. Because of this simple fact it is given that if you change the ways in which you think about things you will also be changing the ways in which you perceive the world you live in.

This may take time or it may happen quickly depending on the frame that you are adjusting. Some of these adjustments may last a lifetime and others may fade with time or only be short term. In any case the amount of expertise you have as a hypnotist will ultimately be judged against the level of change you can create for your clients.

Therefore you will want the level of expertise you have to be at a mastery level and not just something you learned well. In order to do this you are on the right track, you must educate your self through the various levels of advancement in order to climb to the top of the mastery mountain. You must learn above all else how to manipulate the area of expertise you have embarked on, Conversational Hypnosis, to the most defined and refined level of achievement.

There was a time when the journey you took through any given profession was marked by certain titles; however in this day hypnosis is no longer marked in these same ways. You would be wise to compare yourself to the titles of the old days and use it to mark your progress as you journey through your education in hypnosis. You should constantly be looking to increase your successes through improved effectiveness, excellence and elegance in your language and other skills.

Now this is not something that you should only apply to the techniques you are using. Level of technique will only get you so far, in fact it has been more apt to limit those who focus on it solely. The type of hypnotist that focuses only on the technique of hypnotism is focusing only on the mechanics of it. This is what you would call a reality mechanic.

A reality mechanic is one who carries around with them a convenient bag of tricks and tools that usually get the job done. However when a tool fails they spend all their time blaming the tool for the failure instead of looking to the fact that they have limited themselves through only focusing on the mechanics of the tool. When the tool works they are pleased with it and consider themselves to be somewhat magical.

The problem with this lies in the tool you are blaming for the failure. The tool, being the processes and techniques of hypnosis, are not going to be broken. The problem is that the hypnotist has limited themselves by simply only focusing on the techniques involved.

This person has not educated themselves on anything except the tools to use and if the wrong tool is chosen and fails they look to the tool for answers and it is not the tools fault for failure it was the choice that was originally at fault.

A reality mechanic can do a lot of good things but they will never do great things until another person has done them first because they are in need of the tools to be handed to them, already developed. In order to rise above the level of reality mechanic you need to become a reality engineer, this is like a well earned promotion. How do you get the promotion?

Reality engineers focus not only on technique but on principal as well, understanding how the processes work by studying them and seeing the inner workings of each one. In doing this you allow yourself the freedom of the knowledge in how to create new techniques when the time is right. If you can do this then you are more likely to get the results you want more often because you have expanded the tools in which you are able to work with, you can create new tools and understand how they work as well.

A reality engineer in essence will have the confidence and ability to meet unexpected and new situations with self assuredness. They have the knowledge to look for the information they need in order to pinpoint the best and most appropriate principals to use for each situation. The engineer has the ability to dissect the technique or process and then put it back together in a new way that will work for the current situation much more effectively and efficiently.

Now there is one more level and that is the level you should constantly be striving to be at, reality magician. A reality magician goes beyond the techniques and principals and is educated and open minded enough to have the ability to create new principals as well as manipulate the boundaries of existing principals to fit the situation they are in.

Now this does not mean that you disregard principals or think that only your principals are best, no it is a way of knowing how to create what you need even when it is undiscovered. Reality magicians can create new principals and bend the old ones to fit together to assist in any situation.

When you reach this level you are the embodiment of hypnosis, you do it naturally and things seem to happen solely because you intend them to happen. The best way to define reality magician is to use the words of Dr. Milton Erickson. "You become the scenery to which the other people naturally respond to in the way that you intend them to."

This is where you want your level of Conversational Hypnosis to be, reality magician. This is a powerful set of shoes to fill; it is a complete way of thinking that will elevate your mastery endlessly. You must be able to appreciate this power as well as grow it responsibly. To do this, hands on training is suggested.

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Influence & Persuasion in Hypnosis: Changing Moods Not Minds

Influence & Persuasion in Hypnosis: Changing Moods Not Minds

Conversational Hypnosis is really the art of changing lives, when you get down to it your purpose as a hypnotist will be to help people to make positive changes for themselves in their lives. Unfortunately you cannot just tell someone to change, as this will not be effective. There are places in the mind you must learn to access, moods to change and triggers to pull. Once you learn how to set these events into action you will be closer to making happier lives for everyone.

One of the most important things you need to learn as a hypnotist is how to change behaviors; this is really a way to change learning as well. The vital key in changing behavior and learning is to know the Access State Principal or ASP. Access State Principal which really says within those very words what you will be doing with it. You will be accessing different states in order to change people's moods which will in turn change the ways in which they think about things.

Access State Principal will give you the knowledge to change the way people think and behave in any given set of circumstances.

Behind the Access State Principal is the idea of changing moods, not minds. You see most people believe that in order to change someone's thinking about a particular subject you need to change their mind. They will most often try to do this with logical arguments, persuasion and facts. However there is a more efficient way to change minds.

If you have the tools to change their mood you will be more successful in changing their mind quicker and more thoroughly. When you learn to change a person's mood their mind will follow because it is all connected in the mind, provoke a new set of emotions the state of mind changes.

This all relates to the Access State Principal.

There was a scientific study done on ASP in the 1970's. It was used to study state of mind and performance. Basically the researchers got together two groups of students and asked them to study and memorize a list of nonsense syllables. The first group of students took on this task sober; the second group was given a few shots of alcohol to get them a little intoxicated before they began.

The students then had a few hours to study and after were sent off to take the test. The students who were studying sober performed better on the test. But then the researchers had the students take the test again after giving all the students a few new shots of alcohol. In the second test the students that had studied while intoxicated did better than those who had studied sober.

Since the 1970's many tests of like nature have been conducted. And in most of these studies it shows that the ways in which people code the behaviors they have is dependant on the state of mind they are in when learning that behavior. Therefore when you change the state of mind all the behaviors and information that individual has access to changes.

The best way to picture this is that the mind is made up of many different rooms; every room is a different state where you have learned, acted or behaved in different ways. So in theory each separate room stores the information for all those different states. In order to have access to that information you need to enter that state or room with in the mind. This is why changing moods changes minds.

Your state of mind, your listener's state of mind is really the control center for everything you do. The state of mind is what controls your behaviors within that state of mind, where you store the information you learn, how you learn it and how to access the information you want to share consciously.

Part of your job as a hypnotist is to learn the secret paths to access those states of mind. You must be able to help your subjects to access each state you need in order to accomplish your goals together. The different states of mind hold the ability for individuals to improve on focus, performance, knowledge and inspirations.

When it comes to changing minds the science behind it can be broken down simply, at least for our purposes. Each time a different state of mind is accessed a different or new set of neurology is lit within our brains. Every state is a little different in some way as each state of mind allows you access to different sets of information.

State is of course more complicated than just a bunch of lights going off in your brain. It has to do with your emotions and your physiological state as well. This means the ways you move. When your body either stays in one position or moves to a new position this too is involved in accessing or shutting down information in different states of mind. When your body move the neurology in your brain changes.

Now this is all important to Access State Principal because when you are attempting to change a subjects mind about a thing you will need to access their state of mind. You will need to lead them into changing their body movements, mental images and behaviors in order to access those states of mind.

Part of this accessing of state of mind will be learning to hit their emotional triggers in order to cue the responses that control these behaviors. This will create a great starting point in amplifying their experiences and make the most intense experience for them. The more intense the experience the better the state of mind you can access.

With the Access State Principal you can improve your life and the lives of those around you in numerous ways. Access State Principal will be a tool that you will learn to combine with many other skills, each affecting the other, to make a powerful set of hypnotic tools

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How to Use Embedded Suggestions in Hypnosis

How to Use Embedded Suggestions in Hypnosis

Embedded suggestions are an important aspect that will provide a very great amount of power within your Conversational Hypnosis practices. This is a skill you will use over and over again to create suggestions that are unrecognizable to the conscious mind.

An embedded suggestion is nothing more than a suggestion that is often repeatedly buried in the context of a conversation of miscellaneous words and uttering's. The statements that contain the suggestion may vary in wording and meaning but the suggestion itself is focused on a particular aspect you and your subject will be working on together.

This practice was first discovered somewhere between the late 1940's and early 1950's by the famous master hypnotherapist Dr. Milton Erickson. The idea was presented to him through rumor that the random things that schizophrenics would walk around saying and muttering really had some deeper meaning to them. These undecipherable phrases were ways in which the afflicted were trying to communicate with whoever would listen.

At the time Dr. Erickson became aware of this rumor he happened to be working as a

Doctor at the Worcester State Hospital with mentally disturbed inmates, many of which were themselves schizophrenics.

Upon realizing this theory Dr. Erickson decided to conduct a study of his own using the reams of texts recorded verbatim with what the schizophrenic patients were saying. As he poured through the vast amount of different transcripts all of uttering's that had been recorded word for word from schizophrenics he discovered something.

As Dr. Erickson deciphered the many uttering's he found that there were actually messages embedded among the majority of non sense words and sounds. The theory Dr. Milton Erickson came up with was that some of the words buried deep with in the non sense were meaningful and made sense once connected.

The doctor spent more time and found and recorded all these words and put them together to create what he thought were real attempts at communication. Usually the finished phrases included explanations of the patient's conditions and asking for help.

Because this was only a theory it needed to be tested. Dr. Erickson knew of a secretary in the office that suffered from severe migraines, when she got a migraine she would have to immediately go and lie down to deal with the pain.

He prepared a file of the uttering's from the schizophrenic's files and inserted his own embedded messages in place of theirs. The next time the secretary needed to lie down because of the pain in her head Dr. Erickson insisted that she take dictation from him.

As he was a doctor she begrudgingly did so without putting up much of a fight. Amazingly, ten minutes into the dictation her head was completely pain free. Her migraine was gone.

She was amazed and Dr. Erickson had proven his theory within this study. Today this principal is known as unconscious priming in the psychological literature that circulates.

So what Dr. Erickson did was to prove that there was a way to get messages across hypnotically when embedded in a list of non sense. This happens because our unconscious minds have an extremely good ‘ear' for ‘hearing' or identifying and picking up patterns within life (including your conversations).

There have been many studies since Dr. Erickson's study; some more complicated, that also prove his theory stands the test of time. Embedding suggestions works for many people at an unconscious level. The mind can pick out the patterns of the words that make sense and use those suggestions and respond to them.

Another example of how the unconscious mind picks up patterns in life is referred to as implicit knowledge. Implicit knowledge are those things you just seem to know, no one ever taught them to you directly you just somehow know how to do them. These are simply patterns that the unconscious mind has picked out of life and learned.

These are things that are learned in the background instead of the conscious forefront of learning. Such as shaking or nodding your head, you know what it mean but you were never exactly instructed on how to do it or what it meant.

Embedding suggestions in your Conversational Hypnosis will likely be a fantastic skill. This is a very powerful technique as it lets you speak directly to a person's unconscious mind and instill the actions needed to get the responses you want.

Embedding suggestions is an art you should practice hard, often and well as it will be one of the defining factors in a novice hypnotist and a master hypnotist.


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How to Design Nested Loops and Hypnotic Stories Part One- the five stories

How to Design Nested Loops and Hypnotic Stories

Part One- the five stories

Nested loops are very important to your Conversational Hypnosis. They will be a part of you hypnosis that if used correctly will help you to draw in your subject, bypass their critical factor, offer you a place to leave your suggestions and create amnesia. All these are important parts of the hypnotic process and will be valuable in accomplishing your goals.

The general structures of all four types of nested loops from basic to master level are important to your hypnosis. The question now is how do they look when they are in use, how do you go from knowing what the structure looks like to actually constructing it yourself? That is what you will be taking a look at here, how to combine all the tools you have learned in the area of nested loops to build a nested loop and know the process of doing so.

The first step that you will want to consider is how many stories you will be using, this can change as you go through your nested loop as you can build loops inside of loops but after you reach the suggestion and trance process phase you will not be adding any more stories. Because you are limited there it is a good idea to start out with a rough idea of how many stories you will be including.

In this article you will be looking at the construction of a nested loop with five stories in it. You will learn how to create a five story nested loop because it is important to know the different types of stories and what they can accomplish for you in a set of nested loops.

The five types of stories will be first a very short example; this will be a true life story from your experiences. It can be an example of how to tell a story or something that happened to you at the grocery store. The important thing to do with this first story is to keep it short and conversational. The reasons for this are two fold, you want your story short so the listener is really drawn in to it without getting too much, you don't want them to feel overloaded, yet.

You also want to use a short story that is true because it will make an impact on the listener. The reason for keeping your very first story one that can be conversational goes for any type of story you choose to tell first and that is you want an easy start. This is a smooth way to flow into all your stories, the listener knows they are hearing a story but it is interesting and something they would normally hear in an every day conversation, there is a comfort in that.

The second story you will use for this example is an anecdote. An anecdote is a story that is a true life event that happened to you but with more story telling aspects to it than the previous story. When you hear an anecdote you will immediately recognize it as a story because there are some story characteristics built in to it. You use more of the sensory rich descriptions to set an entire scene, who was there, where were they, how did things happen, what were the causes and effects within the story.

The third story you will use in this nested loop will be what is called a direct story. This is a story that has all the specific characteristics of a real story. It will never present itself in a way that can be interpreted any other way than it is a story. It will display that there is no question about the fact that it is an invented story that has been made up and told as a story.

The fourth story in the five story loop you are working with here will be a fairy tale. Fairy tales are great stories to use, almost everyone can relate to them on some level because most people grew up listening to them. The fairy tale will bring a childhood comfort to your listener because they have been conditioned through out life to hear fairy tales and know how to listen to them.

Because fairy tales are so familiar to most people they will in a way start to form a trance for the person simply because of the type of story it is. As you decide to tell fairy tales you must always remember to shape them in a way that targets the adult audience if that is who you are working with, you don't want them to feel weird or out of place listening to a ‘child's story'.

Finally the fifth story in this nested loop instruction will be another type of direct story. You can tell a hybrid of the genuine story and the made up story. This can be a direct story in the sense that it is a true event with story characteristics that are recognizable to your listener. But it can also have fictional counterparts added in, a story teller for example that is obviously a fictional character. Stories like this can be easily turned into completely direct stories or anecdotes too.

So now you have your five stories to use in the actual construction of your nested loop. It is important to remember that the types of stories here are not set in stone. You will want to use a series of types of stories that best serves the purpose of your hypnosis session. These are simply good examples to get some ideas and thoughts flowing through your head. You can also change stories, you don't always have to tell the story the same, make it customized for you listener so you can really pull the emotion or state you are looking for from them.

In the five stories you have above to use in your nested loop you will notice that naturally as you tell these stories in order the length of them will be important. You have read and been told that a story can last a few minutes or hours upon hours. For this instruction you will make your first story very short, the second short but a bit longer than the first, the third story around the same length as the second, the fourth story will be longer than the all the preceding stories and the fifth story will be the longest of the whole bunch.

This is one natural way of drawing your listener in, you have worked up to the longest story making each one before it shorter and because of this it is easy to follow your lead and keep an uninterrupted flow.



Part Two- What to do with the five stories

Now you have your five stories and you need to know what to do with them. Remember the five stories you are using are merely examples when you come to the point of constructing your own nested loops you will choose stories that fit the event, problem or occasion your client is dealing with. They do not have to be told in this order nor do they have to be the same types of stories as long as you put thought into the reasons why you are choosing the stories you are choosing, which you will read about in a little bit.

So now you will get into the structure and sequence of the stories you have as well as how to choose the stories you will use once you start to construct nested loops without an example. You will use the same type of structure as you have learned on how to use nested loops. You will begin with story one tell it partially, then move to story two, and then story three.

Now as you get to story four you will do something new that is a refinement on how to use a nested loop, you don't always have to do this but it is an option you can keep in mind as you construct your loops. Story four, the fairy tale, you will tell completely. You will begin and end it as if you were just telling a normal story without stopping 80% of the way through.

In doing this you are creating a loop inside of your nested loops. This is called a mini loop. You can do this because as you are working with the master level of loops, as you are here, you will want to break up the rigid schedule of the regular nested loop. It will be more natural if you open and close some loops with in, this is common among storytellers in that your audience will finally get a resolution to something.

It may not be a complete resolution as you still have three other stories open but this mini loop will become a closed up loop within the structure of the bigger nested loop picture. Because it is story four and it is somewhere in the middle you are not hindering the amnesia that will eventually be created by closing the other four stories in reverse.

After you tell story four completely you will transition with a hard or soft loop as you will do between all your stories and move back into a piece of story three then into the beginning of story five. This will keep the flow for when you close these remaining four stories, there will be a connection for the mind between story three and five.

Now you come to the space where you will leave your suggestion and use your trance process. After that you will start to tell the endings to your stories in the reverse order; first story five, then story three (because story four is already a complete entity), then story two and finally story one.

Designing your loop in this fashion with a mini loop within it will make your nested loops more interesting, less mundane and rigid. It will add some color and a little gratification for your listener when they get some resolution to the fourth story before the entire nested loop is completed.

Now you have completed your nested loop and you can see how it all works together. The next step will be for you to start to create your own nested loops and you will need some pointers in how to design and create the stories so you can serve the purpose you are trying to serve.

When you begin to design your nested loops and the stories with in you will not always start with the first story. This specific nested loop was created with the third story in mind first and then the two stories were added to the beginning to make the introduction to the third story more flowing, all the while still bringing in topics within those first two stories that were both applicable and helpful.

The first story, the true experience, was added to create a smooth and flowing conversational beginning to the nested loop. The second story was created because of the first story as a second lead in, one more useful pillow to cushion the way into the third story.

You want to be sure to add other Conversational Hypnosis aspects to these stories as you create them; the piggy back principal, seeding, rapport hooks, really any of the principals you have learned to get the listener all drawn in and tied up in your stories.

As you start to create new stories and select the stories you will use you want to keep a theme in your mind. Know what it is you want to embed inside you listener before you get to the big bombshell of open space, suggestions and trance processes. Use ambiguity to make the themes less obvious but still apparent to the unconscious so you listener takes one thing from the meaning they consciously hear and a completely different thing from the interpretations of the unconscious.

It is also important as you construct your nested loops and choose the stories you will use to have a stock of stories you really love, ones you find personal value in. Remember you always want to go first in the state you wish to project onto and bring out of your subject. When you are using some stories you find personal value in that also fit the context in which you are working they will be beneficial for both of you.

Another thing you will want to do with your stories as you create a stock of them is to make them adaptable. You want stories that you can mold in order to produce different state and extract different emotions from your listeners.

Adaptable stories will make your job as a hypnotist easier in the fact that you will have certain stories you can use for many different purposes. They will be able to fit the different environments and circumstances presented to you by the clients you are working with.

This is one of the best ways to select and construct stories for your nested loops. It is not the only way of course and you will grow into what works best for you. This should at least give you a starting point until you refine the selection and sequencing processes that work best for you personally.

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How to Use Hypnotic Themes & Personal Trance Words in Your Hypnotic Sessions

How to Use Hypnotic Themes & Personal Trance Words in Your Hypnotic Sessions

When really getting at the heart of Conversational Hypnosis we not only need to talk about the words we use in language but how we actually put those words together. Hypnotic words are great tool for you to build on. They will help you very much in your ability to induce states and trances for the end effect of life change for the better.

But now that we have a list of words, hypnotic words, which are specifically designed to induce the beginnings of trance we need to, broaden your horizon. You will do this next by learning about hypnotic themes.

Hypnotic themes are by nature the big brothers of hypnotic words; they are stronger, bigger and more powerful. A hypnotic theme takes the hypnotic words we have been working with and puts them together into a new context. The idea or activity in the themes is loaded with hypnotic characters and as I give you some examples you will see what I mean.

There are many, many hypnotic themes. You see and are confronted by them everyday probably without even noticing it. A hypnotic theme that is very common is when you sit down to watch a movie, whether at the movie theatre or on your television at home. As you are engulfed in the movie's action you are eventually so absorbed that the very activities around you go unnoticed.

You are too busy experiencing within yourself the lives of the characters you are watching. You are feeling the emotions they are feeling and closely following their story as if it were your own life being played out for the world to see.

This is an example of a hypnotic theme; another example would be if you are a person who enjoys reading. As you sit down with your book you usually end up so wrapped up in the story line that you don't even notice that you are actually reading words. Instead there is only a picture playing out in your mind, and nothing happens around you except what the characters in your book are doing and saying. Often you will lose track of time and continue reading because the story line is too captivating to put down.

Now the two examples I just gave you are common everyday samples of how a hypnotic theme happens, feels and looks like. These are activities that are loaded with the hypnotic concepts found in the 4 Stage Protocol. Your attention is completely absorbed and the critical factor is bypassed mainly because you believe it is a story, therefore needs no or little analysis.

The activity is also getting an unconscious response from you in that it is evoking emotions, sometimes strong emotion if you can identify with the characters and sometimes just the sharing of the experience. You are also putting the uncommon response into action, you are taking in the experience you are watching or reading about and making it your own, adding it to your file of the way things feel, look, sound and the way they affect you.

Reading books and watching movies are both experiences that will be categorized in the hypnotic themes section of life. We usually don't view them this way and no one expects them to change your life for the better, but that is because they are simply themes and not the whole process of hypnosis.

As you begin to use hypnotic themes in your practice you will be giving rich and deep descriptions of things, ideas and activities. The more you focus in on these things in your stories the more focused and interested your listener will become in your words. The more you speak in hypnotic themes the more your listener will become engaged in what you are saying. Their neurology and the related matters within them will begin to activate and start buzzing them with excitement about what will be happening next. They will be lost to your conversation much like they are pulled into a book or movie.

This in itself is the activation of a trance. It usually isn't going to be the type of trance where a person falls on there face because they are so hypnotized but it is defiantly an altered state of mind. They will seem awake with their eyes open and they will respond to your words with slight nods of the head, an occasional word of agreement or facial expressions.

However, you may notice the eyes slightly more dilated and glazed over, and a difference in their breathing. This is because the signal recognitions systems you have learned about will be present even in this sort of trance.

Hypnotic themes are a very powerful way of conveying a story and engaging people in only what you are saying. They will be very helpful in creating a positive environment for other Conversational Hypnosis skills. They are very powerful and can have a dramatic impact on the lives of those around you.

Look for these signals the next time you are in a deep conversation or telling a good story to a friend and you will see that you are probably inducing these everyday without even being aware of it.

Another skill that we need to discuss is that of personal trance words. These are again related to hypnotic words but they are different in that they are words important to the person. Hypnotic words have a universal meaning to them, one that most people understand in a broad sense within the culture.

Personal trance words on the other hand are words that people will lean on unconsciously because they are words that are defining to them. People will find their personal trance words without even knowing it and they will use them over and over again. Each time they use the words they will lean on them in the same ways, using the same tone, emphasis, body language and even the same facial expressions. These words become natural triggers for the people that they belong to.

The bottom line is personal trance words are unique to the individual my personal trance words will likely be different than yours and they will have a special meaning or significance to each person as well. Now there are both positive and negative personal trance words and as you work with people you will begin to pick up on these.

For your purposes in hypnosis you will want to use only the positive personal trance words as you interact with your subjects, you want a positive experience. When you are in a session with a subject and you are using personal trance words you will not have the same trigger effect if you simply state the word.

You must pay attention to the mannerisms, tonality, rhythm and general way they express the word to be effective. Then when you use the word or repeat it back to them you need to do it as closely to how they say the word as possible. This will give you the greatest effect and will allow you to use these words in your language to your advantage.




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How the Master Storytellers' Strategies can Help Hypnotists Master Hypnotic Stories

How the Master Storytellers' Strategies can Help Hypnotists Master Hypnotic Stories

Master story tellers are the best that you could possibly hope to learn from, their ideas and strategies will help you to excel far beyond the norm of story telling practices. The strategies that you will learn here will still be encapsulated by all the things that stories help hypnotists do in their line of work.

Stories have been one of the secure rocks in the foundation of hypnosis. They exhibit all the elements that you are taught to use and do so on an unconscious level that evades resistance. The language and art of story telling is deeply embedded in the concepts and ways in which we use hypnosis.

The story telling tips and strategies in this article are straight from the horse's mouth these are real techniques used by master story tellers and they will enrich the ways in which you practice and tell stories to those around you.

The first strategy is to let your own stories ‘slip out' naturally. In this strategy you will begin to see that over time you will have trained your brain how to tell stories. As you do this your own stories will begin to naturally flow.

Your mind will start to relax as you get more accustomed to telling stories and you will begin to be reminded of the stories in your life that fit into the contexts that have been set. As you tell stories you will remember events and times in your life that you will be moved to insert into the story you are telling.

This will happen more often the more used to telling stories you are and before you know it you will be telling stories that are completely taken from your own true experiences.

The second master story tellers' strategy is to collect a storehouse of great stories. There will be stories that you tell that will become your favorites. These will be the stories that have a great impact on yourself and those around you.

They will evoke a response and stir emotions. Regardless of whether these stories are from your life, the lives of others or completely fictional it does not matter. These are stories you should write down, record the highlights of them so they are captured.

The one thing you don't want to do is to memorize your stories, let the little changes happen as long as the big things stay the same if it a truly great story already. Reciting stories word for word is one of the best ways to completely kill a story.

As you do this you will be rehearsing the story so it will provide practice as well as a great library for you to access whenever you need it. This will also reinforce your ability to remember and revisit the stories that are perfect for situations you run across with the people you are helping.

The third story telling master's strategy is to remember the highlights of each story. This concept is a time tested one that emphasizes that we should carry the highlights of a story with us but be negotiable in the other details.

Story tellers through out history have always had audiences that returned repeatedly to hear the same stories over and over again. This is because they never told the story in the same way, small details change. Sometimes it would take hours to finish a story and other times the same tale could be told in mere minutes.

Use your hypnosis tools to help these ever changing details to unfold; things like sensory rich descriptions, tone of your voice and your linguistic skills. Let changes take place in the rhythm and pace of the story, all these things will re-excite your audience over and over again, it will keep them coming back for more.

Finally the fourth master story teller's strategy is to use your signal recognition systems.

This is all about watching and observing the signals that the listeners are giving to you about what they want to hear, what they need to hear.

As long as your signal recognitions system is on and alert you will be able to tune change your stories in the ways that will fit your audience. The reason your signal recognition system is so important here is because you will be looking for the unconscious signals that the story is right or wrong for the listener.

Once you determine how you need to tweak your story you will be telling the right story to the right person or people, again want they want and need to hear.


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The COMILA Formula for Motivation and Influence with Hypnosis

The COMILA Formula for Motivation and Influence with Hypnosis

The post hypnotic suggestion protocol is a great way to influence a person hypnotically to give you an action at any given point and time that is initiated by a specific trigger or set of triggers.

This is a great accomplishment as well as a vast amount of power and it would be nice to say that it works every time without fail. However, there are times when other factors get in the way of the suggestions you are making. There are instances when you will need to do more as you are experiencing more resistance than usual.

One of these interferences is the problem of motivation. This means that a person is not doing something you are suggestion for a lack of motivation. Maybe the payoff isn't big enough; maybe the punishment isn't severe enough. The actions you are suggesting to a person have all sorts of obstacles that can get in the way of the action actually being carried out.

There are some ways to medicate the problem of motivation in a person. If you recall the access state principal in which you must be in a certain mood or state to access certain behaviors. If you work to change the mood of the person you will change their state in doing this you will likely get a better response in the actions you are soliciting from your listener.

An example of this would be if you want a person to be excited about a thing and they are actually depressed when you tell them, you may not achieve the excitement you were looking for. This is because the state of the person is simply wrong.

To be depressed because you just suffered a loss and to go to instant excitement that a friend passed the bar exam is a big leap for anyone. The state of a person will have a vast amount of determination on whether or not you can motivate a person into action. Once you have the right mood in a person it will be much easier to get the response you want from them.

It is also important to understand that there are two different types of motivation, pleasure and pain. Some people are motivated because the reward is big enough to accomplish the task at hand. On the other hand there are people who could care less about the rewards and would be more motivated by avoiding a type of pain.

Now pleasure and pain can be anything from the rewards of health, money, material objects or self satisfaction. The same goes for pain it can be debt, physical pain, emotional trauma or a blow to the self esteem. It all depends on the person it is pertaining to. Most people in the world will fall in the middle of this spectrum some pleasure will be enough and some pain will be enough to motivate them.

This is where the COMILA Formula that you have heard from time to time comes in. The COMILA Formula is a set of concepts that will lead you to using motivation to get an action from a person. Let's define each part of COMILA so you may get a grasp on what it entails.

The ‘C' in COMILA is for captivating attention. This should be something you are both familiar with and good at by now. It is a corner stone of Conversational Hypnosis and is the easiest way to influence another person. You must have the ability to captivate the listener's attention to get the behaviors and responses you are seeking.

The next letter is the ‘O' and it is to outflank resistance. Again this is a very popular topic that you have been learning about from the beginning of your hypnosis studies. All the excuses that a person will give as to why they may not be motivated to do a thing all stem from their resistance.

You must be able to bypass the critical factor in order to reduce and eliminate the resistance if you want to see your suggestions in action. You have learned many, many different ways to do this with confusion, stories, assumptions and so on to bypass the critical factor in a person. You must use them.

‘M' in COMILA is for mood changes. As we just talked about previously in this article you must have the right mood to have the right attitude in a person. You have learned several ways to change the mood of a person, one you just read and that is the concept of pleasure and pain. If you reward or give consequence to a person they will usually be motivated to change their mood.

Another skill you have learned in the area of mood changing is to use emotional triggers. Once you know what motivates the person you are working with to change things you can alter their mood using either the pleasure or pain and create the mood you are in need of to set a suggestion. There are essentially two things you need to know in changing a person's mood.

The first is whether they are motivated by pleasure or pain and the second is what state they need to be in to initiate the behavior you are asking for. Once you have discovered the answers to these two questions you will be able to create the best environment to extract the behavior you are seeking.

Next step is the ‘I' and it is to intensify the mood. After you have found the state you need, the idea of intensifying that state as much as possible is best. The more intense the state the better your chances of cooperation and non resistance. There is the chance that you will have to work at this a bit in order to get the right intensity, loop through a few times and really create the intense state that will best suit your purpose.

The fifth step in COMILA is the ‘L' and it is short for linking the mood. If you do not link the mood do a trigger you will only have the desired response while you are motivating the person yourself. You are looking to set triggers to motivate your subject when you are not around therefore you must link the mood to a trigger which is linked to a behavior.

When you link the mood to a trigger then the action can take place when you are in the bathroom or in Italy, it doesn't matter because the trigger is not motivating the person.

Finally the ‘A' in COMILA is for action. This is it the climax you have been waiting for. A very important step as if you don't do this you will have worked real hard for nothing. The action is the releasing of the behavior, you must have your trigger set so the action will fire and take place while you are in Italy, or the bathroom, or a bathroom in Italy.

The action step in COMILA is the most important and often the one that most hypnotists mess up. Choosing the right action is vital. This is what will begin the sequence of behaviors you are setting within the unconscious, getting it right is important. Throughout this process you have used your states and suggestions to set up the chain of action that will fire once the right trigger is set.

The best way to choose the right trigger is to take a look at the little things. This is where most hypnotists go wrong; they go for the big firecracker right off the bat. The secret here is to aim at asking for the smallest step in the chain of events that will lead a person in the direction you want. Think of instructing a two year old.

You don't just tell them to feed the dog, who knows what will happen if you say that! You start by telling them to get the dogs bowl; you may even have to point it out to them. After they see the bowl they will generally put together the rest of the sequence of what you are asking. But starting with the smallest request saved you a lot of time and frustration.

All people, two year olds and up will have an easier time taking in the beginning, middle and end of a sequence rather than having to sort the whole thing out alone. Once this is done because you have previously set up the embedded suggestions, state and post hypnotic suggestion the rest of the events will likely follow smoothly and naturally.

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How to Destroy Resistance with Stories: Master Level Nested Loops in Hypnosis

How to Destroy Resistance with Stories: Master Level Nested Loops in Hypnosis

It is important know about stories and how to tell them, you should be practicing this and becoming quite good at it as you do it daily without even thinking about it. The telling of basic and intermediate nested loops and how to use them is also vital. All these things are very valuable and powerful to your work as a Conversational Hypnotist.

The stories that you tell will help you to bring out emotion in people as well as absorb attention and bypass the critical factor. This will help you to induce a state of hypnosis and drop in the suggestions that will eventually have positive life changing effects for the people you deal with. Using your nested loops, basic and intermediate, will aid in this process by tying it all together into a nice process that is smooth and comfortable for you both.

The nested loops you have covered so far have taught you to use three to twelve stories with in a session. They have taught you how to use the process in telling each story to its climax and then beginning the next. They have shown you where to drop the suggestions, between all the beginnings and endings of the stories you are telling.

These two types of nested loops have also taught you that you can create amnesia in order to safely seal your suggestions within the person you are working with. This is done by the order in which you finish your stories from last to first, creating a bridge and smooth closure to all the stories with in the nested loops.

And finally you have learned how to observe and use the constant feedback loop created from telling your stories and how to modify them to fit the situation of the person you are in session with.

Now you must learn the next step in nesting loops, the advanced and master level nested loops. As with the first two types of nested loops you are going to be using the same structural processes and adding refinements to those processes.

The first refinement you are going to make is to take the trance processes in intermediate nested loops a bit further. In the intermediate nested loops you began to use trance processes in the suggestions you are giving at the suggestion phase. Now you are going to take it a step further and use those same trances processes, any of them you have learned previously, and use them in the actual stories you are telling.

You will take each story you tell and use it as a trance process all in itself. This will create a much more powerful impact on your listener than simply using them in the suggestion phase. In order to do this you will still be working within an emotional theme. This will keep your emotional rollercoaster ride going.

However you can also use other tools such as metaphorical resolutions and pre-teaching within the stories you are telling. When you use a metaphorical resolution you will use your stories to mirror a situation the listener is having, the suggestion or story itself will offer a type of resolution that will be set in their unconscious to be put into action later.

If you decide to use pre-teaching you will have the ability to indirectly explain the processes that need to take place in order to insure success within the situation. Either of these options, along with others you have learned, will set up a structural frame work that will help the entire nesting loop process to define a means at the end.

Another plus of using pre-teaching as a trance process is that while it instructs their unconscious mind of what direction to take it also sets up intuitions that are unarguable by the critical factor.

This structural frame work you create in the trance processes of your stories and other tools will be the guide for the final outcome. You won't need to use only stories to do this but the stories can act as pieces to the puzzle that will be the final conclusion of the entire process.

The nest refinement you will add to the nested loops is going to be what is called post hypnotic suggestion protocol. When you arrive at the point in your nested loops where you use the trance processes from the intermediate loops you will also incorporate post hypnotic suggestion protocol. This is a very valuable tool for getting people to do a behavior when a specific cue is performed.

This is a very powerful thing to incorporate in your nested loops. The reason post hypnotic suggestion protocol is so powerful is that even when you are not around to influence the behavior as soon as they interpret the set cue they will execute a set behavior. This is a concept we will cover in depth later on in these articles.

Finally the last thing you will add to your refinements of advanced nested loops is a new way of closing your loops. Now as you have learned you will still close all your loops from end to beginning, you will still seal the amnesia within by incorporating emotional and complete stories. But now as you close each loop you will begin to incorporate future memory processes.

Future memory processes are similar to pre-teaching in that you will guide your listener though an imaginary future where all the changes and suggestions have already taken place. You will show them what these changes will do for them. You will be showing them how their lives will change by using their imagination and your stories as a tool to place those pictures in their head.

Your goal here in future memory process is to give your listener a realistic experience of what their world will look like once they have made the necessary changes. This is a powerful way to use presupposition, give them a visual of what success looks like. The other benefit of future processes is that it convinces the unconscious to assume success; this will cause it to do whatever is necessary to complete the tasks to get to that success because it is assumed.

Now the next step is the mastery level nested loop. Again you will be making more refinements to the last three types of nested loops you have learned about. You will use all the same structures and processes of the basic, intermediate and advanced level nested loops. But you will be adding refinements that will create an even bigger impact and make your nested loops even more powerful.

The first thing you will do is add to your stories the conversation induction protocol. These are the conversational hypnosis inductions that were very indirect, these can be put to use here in your stories as well.

You can do this in two different ways; first you can simply create the structure of all the stories in a way that it follows one of those protocols. The other way to use this is to use a different protocol for each story to create a very elaborate and elegant set of loops that will likely guarantee a very deep state of hypnosis in your listener.

The second refinement you will add to create a master level nested loop is to add embedded suggestions to your process. This can be done in a variety of different ways. You can use them very directly; ambiguity, quotes, stacked realities or any of the other ways you have learned to embed suggestions. You can even use them within the emotional states you have been creating with your stories; this is a very powerful way to use embedded suggestions.

As you are embedding these suggestions you will be embedding emotional triggers as well. These triggers will be set to go off whenever you trigger them later on. As you master all these concepts you will eventually learn to modify the rigid structure you have read about here and begin to create loops within loops. All intertwining and weaving to tell stories within stories, all to improve the lives of your subjects.

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How to Use Hypnotic Trance Formulas in Hypnosis to Get What You Want

How to Use Hypnotic Trance Formulas in Hypnosis to Get What You Want

Getting what you want out of your Conversational Hypnosis is basically going to be reaching the goals that have been set forth by you and your client. So it is safe to say that this is a very important thing to master if you want to be a successful Conversational Hypnotist. In Conversational Hypnosis you can start to structure your trance themes in way that will get the most and essential all that you are looking to achieve out of your hypnosis sessions with all your clients.

There are various trance formulas that you have been learning and working with to induce and conduct your hypnosis. As you start to assess which formulas you will be using with different clients you will want to begin to become very strategic in the ways you are thinking and communicating with each person you are helping.

As you do this you will begin to layer all the different trance processes you have learned in a way that will achieve your goals as a hypnotist and those of your subjects. The structure of your hypnotic interactions with people will rely in part on the structures you use in the trance processes you select and combine. You will have the power to include the processes you think will be the most beneficial and exclude those that may not be needed for each person's particular needs.

You can use any combination of trance processes in your hypnosis sessions. However this is not something you must do, you can select a few or use all as you decide what is appropriate. If you have a difficult situation or problem to solve you may want to consider using every trance process available. If you have a problem that you can get to quicker and easier using only a few or even one you may want to do that.

You will decide which combination of trance processes is the simplest way to accomplish what you have set out to accomplish. From there you will take that route how ever it may differ from the sessions you have held in the past or will hold in the future.

The two trance processes you will be using at this time will most likely be the PCAT and the COMILA Formulas. These are two different types of trance process that generally have two different reasons for using; this doesn't mean you cannot combine them to get a more through goal accomplished. You will also be working with future memories and post hypnotic suggestions.

First you will want to review the PCAT Formula; this is the formula most often used when you want to help a person to create personal change for them. This is an easy process to use as the way to introduce it is a very natural way of communicating on a regular basis.

The PCAT Formula is the process of problem, confusing the critical factor, active solution and transform. In this formula you will first start out by identifying the problem which is usually very simple as people will often bring it up as a topic of conversation without much prompting on your part.

After the problem has been identified you will want to use confusion to bypass the critical factor. There are three purposes for the confusion and those are to create smaller building materials by breaking the problem up, assists in inducing trance and bypassing the critical factor.

Next would be the step of active solution. This will be an induced state either and emotion or feeling that can be achieved through framing, stories, emotional triggers, past experiences and visualizations. You can use these concepts to search the past for a solution to the problem; a way to actively change the things the person wishes to change.

Lastly you will use the transformation step. This is simply the process of attaching the problem to the solution for the outcome to be achieved. You will attach the ‘A' to the ‘P' which will give you the ‘T' in the end for a positive life change.

Future memories are a great tool to integrate into the PCAT Formula. Future memories are when you will place a memory within the person you are hypnotizing as if it has already taken place. This will help the mind to become formatted to create the events that will lead to that memory and making it a real memory to be carried out and remembered truly.



The COMILA is the second type of trance process you will be using in your hypnosis in order to get what you want. In the COMILA Formula you will be captivating the person's attention through the various techniques you have practiced in story telling and inductions. The next step in this process is to outflank the resistance through bypassing the critical factor. Again you can use any resource you have learned such as confusion, trance induction or story telling to do this.

The next step in the COMILA Formula is to set the mood. You have learned that in order to change a person's mind you must first change their mood and that is the same within the COMILA Formula. Then you will move on to intensifying the mood you have captured, the more intense and absorbing the mood is the more likely you will get the behaviors you are attempting to get from the person you are speaking with.

After you have done all this you will want to link that mood that you have captured and intensified to a motivating factor. You will use this by setting emotional triggers that can be activated either while you are present or when you are not. And finally you will move into the action phase; this is the trigger you set that will be fired and the action you were seeking will take place.

The most important part of the COMILA Formula is to be sure to set your trigger correctly. You can create all the perfect states you want but if there is no good trigger point to set that state into action then your efforts will fail. The general rule of thumb here is to start small.

Find the smallest trigger that would be considered the first step in setting the person into action. When you start with the biggest and most profound trigger you know of you may be failing because the trigger must be something simple and natural that the person can adequately cope with.

As you use and perfect these trance formulas and all the concepts that accompany them you will begin to see that you will have become very skilled in getting people to do what you want. You will see life improving changes in your subjects and you will become a great hypnotist as long as you study and practice these small steps that will create a vast difference in the results you see in your work.

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The Great Hypnosis Secret: How to Use the Hypnotic Gaze Induction

The Great Hypnosis Secret: How to Use the Hypnotic Gaze Induction

The Hypnotic Gaze Induction is a powerful piece of language that requires more thought behind your actions and composure rather than words.



The hypnotic gaze induction can and will be used in many instances to run through the 4 Stage Protocol with many of your subjects. This is a skill that once learned will absorb attention, bypass critical factor, provoke an unconscious response and set the scene for you the direct that response.

It really takes care of it all when you learn to do it correctly. You must keep an eye on, no pun intended, the sub-communications you send and go first in the feeling of good will. You want to transmit through your body language that you mean for this to be a pleasant experience of mutual cooperation.



Finally you also need to be aware of the direct or indirect approach to take with each different individual you are working with. For now you should be concentrating on the more direct method of the hypnotic gaze but as time goes on you will be able to be less direct in this skill.

Keep in mind to have your confidence up and your insecurities checked at the door. All of this will help insure the best hypnotic gaze environment for both you and the person you are working with.

Now you have heard and read in depth all about what the hypnotic gaze is and what it will do for you as a hypnotist. Next, in this article, you will really dive into what this will technique can do for you. You will travel along the lines of what the hypnotic gaze induction procedure is; how it starts, where it goes and where it ends.

You should not be surprised when the first step of this induction as with any induction is ‘going first'. The things you will want to go first in are the projection of feelings like comfort, ease and good will. You will use instant rapport techniques to project these feelings and states of being to your listener through your sub-communications.

Of course you want to do this because these are the feelings and attitudes that are necessary for you're subject to feel upon entering hypnosis. You also want to go first in these matters because you also need to enter a sort of trance. You will want to access an outside trance where as your subject will be going into an inside trance. These are both very different and necessary in an induction.

The outside trance that you will be entering into will not be a picture of you slumped in your chair feeling all glossy and glazy. The way you go into an outside trance or a ‘hypnotist's trance' is to expand yourself into the room.

Open up your senses. Expand your vision, hearing, and feelings into the room and really have a sense of open awareness. Your attention should be focused outward and you will have no trouble functioning in your environment.

In doing all this you really have just set up the environment for your subject, yourself and the art of hypnosis. You have instilled a sense of comfort, ease and good will between you and your subject and projected it into your environment as well using your instant rapport skills.

The next step in the hypnotic gaze induction is to focus your hypnotic gaze. You will do this by first making eye contact. As you maintain that eye contact make sure you are aware to keep the sense of good will and comfort flowing from your eyes.

You can do this by making them ‘soft' or through ‘smiling eyes'. No cold hard forced stares just a soft focus with gently upturned corners of the eyes. This is a comfortable non intimidating feeling. It may be helpful to remember this is a gaze not a staring contest.

As you start your induction you need to start on the outside and slowly move inside and then beyond. This means you will start with the eye contact, and then slowly shift your gaze to looking within them. It will seem as though you are looking 3-4 inched inside their head. This will sub-communicate that you are going deeper within them and they should do the same.

After that you will again want to shift your gaze to looking at the back of their head and finally completely through their head as if you are focused on an object 3-4 feet directly behind them; as though you are staring right through their entire head.

What you are doing in all this shifting, focusing and re-shifting of your gaze is telling them with your unconscious communications that it is time to go within. The deeper they see you go within them the deeper they will unconsciously recognize they need to go.

This is a very important part of the induction and you must practice it and learn it well.

You can practice this with different objects or with people you are conversing with on a regular basis. Practice the focus and shifting of your gaze, see how it changes and changes within you. Get comfortable with it.

The third step in this induction is to use a hypnotic tonality. This should be an easy step to put into action as you have probably been practicing this from the beginning of your hypnosis study. To use your tonality you will use your voice to slow everything down and create space in your language.

Tonality in the hypnotic gaze induction should be soft, calm and soothing. Think of how you would consol an injured child or animal. You want to project yourself as trustworthy and exhibit kind calming sounds in your voice. You will use these as you speak to your subject and as you gaze at them.

The fourth and final step is to describe the trance experience. This is where you begin to really verbally let your subject know they are entering a trance. You will want to remember all the signal recognition signs so you can describe in detail to the person what is happening or what should be happening to them.



As you describe these signals it will let the person you are working with know that they are entering a trance. The types of subjects to focus on here are the relaxation of the face, muscles and eyes, as well as changes in their breathing and the way they perceive their environment. Any of the trance signals in signal recognition are acceptable topics in this phase of induction.

Be sure to keep a good focus on your subject as you do this. If they actually begin to do any of the things you are describing or other trance signals you will want to take advantage of describing those exact things back to them in order to reinforce the trance induction.

This creates a strong double feedback loop; you tell them what they should be doing, they do it, you describe it back to them, so on and so forth. This is a strong sign that they are going into a trance.

Entailing all of these steps and recognizing all the responses in the hypnotic gaze induction is the recipe for a very strong, powerful induction into a hypnotic trance.

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What is Hypnosis?

What is Hypnosis?

While hypnosis is not a word we hear everyday, it is a word that many people seem to have a preconceived definition for. The most common thought is that hypnosis is an altered state of mind that brings the subject to a trance like state.

The rest of the definition not quite as well known is subject is vulnerable to suggestions in order to change their lives. When combined this is a correct assumption and a rather accurate description.

However hypnosis entails more than just the trance like state you see depicted in many movies and television shows, it is a deep and complicated relationship held between hypnotist and subject that comes complete with a desired set of goals to achieve.

Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. When a subject is under hypnosis they are much more responsive as they experience their inner world the subject's thoughts and ideas become more vivid and actionable through the art of suggestion and language.

The responsiveness in a hypnotic trance is much more sensitive than that of a normal state of being; thoughts and suggestions presented by you, the hypnotist, will become part of your subject's inner world creating a pallet for you to work with and mold into the desired outcome.

This is important to remember, because as you sharpen your skills as a hypnotist you will always be affecting your subject, everything that becomes a part of your clients inner world will eventually become a part of their outer world as they put your hypnotic suggestions into action.

Another thing that hypnosis is is a very natural way of being, it is not magical or strange, and in fact many people spend a large amount of their days in hypnotic trances, as you learn to entrance people you will start to notice those around you who are experiencing hypnotic trances in everyday life.

An example of an everyday experience that can often result in a hypnotic trance is driving. Many times we get behind the wheel and know where we started, and suddenly we are at our destination. We don't recall how we got there or any of the events that happened along the drive, this is a hypnotic trance.

The rhythms we are used to, such as the feel of the car, can relax us to the point that our subconscious takes over and does the work for use while we, excuse the term as many like to call it, ‘zone out'. This may sound strange at first but when you really consider all the activities we do everyday we have been conditioned all through out our lives to enter hypnotic trances.

Have you ever watched a movie and later realized that the only thing in your mind and field of vision was a 15 inch screen, obviously you can see the rest of the room, people, cat and dog while focusing on the screen but the concentration and trance that is produced makes it seem as though the only thing that exists in the room is that little screen and the action it is producing.

Reading a book, we often get lost in the story and never realize what the ‘real world' is doing around us. As you read you experience changing emotions, happiness, fear, suspense, sadness and tears. This interaction with the words and information being relayed to your mind alters your state of mind and becomes a hypnotic process in itself.

There is almost always the effect that the book you are reading will change either your mood, emotion, ideas and ultimately could change how you live your life, such is the objective of a hypnotist.

This emotional response is unconscious, the changing of your emotions, ideas and life, is one of the fundamental and guiding themes when learning hypnosis. You have no choice in your emotions, you do not get to choose how you feel about a thing, it is simply a conscious response by your unconscious mind as a reaction to the suggestions you are presenting to yourself.

Hypnosis can and usually will result from any repetitive task you enjoy engaging in. Runners experience runners high, they alter their mind and experience a trance like state while their body works they feel healthy and alive. Entering this altered state of mind is a form of self hypnotherapy which is a very powerful place to put yourself, and a powerful thing to be able to accomplish for yourself.

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