How to Use Post Hypnotic Suggestions in Hypnosis

How to Use Post Hypnotic Suggestions in Hypnosis

Post hypnotic suggestions are the next tool in line for you to add to your set of skills in Conversational Hypnosis. These are very powerful suggestions that will give you the ability to place a suggestion of a behavior or action that will take place whether you are present or not. Post hypnotic suggestions are used to get things done when they need to be done without the hypnotist's presence.

Now these are very powerful but they are not a hypnotic device to think of as magical or all powering. The fact of ethical constraint still remains; you will not be able to program a person to do deeds that are against their ethical code. If you remember the ethical code within each person is unbreakable and post hypnotic suggestions are not a secret tool that will cause a person to do anything and everything you say if your intentions are not true and good.

What post hypnotic suggestions can do for you and your subject is to access a behavior when it is demanded. This happens as you use a trance to suggest a behavior that will take place when a specific trigger goes off in the person's mind. This tool is successful and powerful in the nature that it works in the same ways in which your unconscious mind works. The natural way the mind remembers to do a thing, a thought occurs, a trigger, and then the action that goes along with it is performed.

A great example of this is when a person stops using an addictive substance, such as alcohol or cigarettes. Often they will find that their willpower is in check until they are reunited with situations in which the addictive substance was involved in.

A smoker for example will quit smoking; they may show great willpower and resolve for a few weeks. When they are put in a situation where they would normally have a cigarette, let's say a night out with drinks and other smokers, their willpower dissolves and they return to the habit.

The ex-smoker may be able to fight off the urge at first but over time the unconscious takes over and the urge becomes more powerful than the will to continue on the path of not smoking. This is a prime example of a self induced post hypnotic suggestion.

Now you will want to take a look at why this happens, what is the reason that the person is so willed to do whatever the post hypnotic suggestion is? Well there are a few things happening that will clear this all up for you. By knowing how this works you will be able to attain the same accomplishment in setting a successful post hypnotic suggestion.

The first condition that must be set is to make a suggestion of behavior. When you suggest a behavior or action it will be one that you want to take place in the future. This is not stage hypnotism; you do not want your listener to start clucking about immediately after you suggest the action.

After you have selected and suggested the behavior you want to take place in the future you will need to set condition number two. This is to select a trigger. You will need to create a triggering point something that will set off that future behavior when the time is right.

Now that you have selected a behavior and a trigger to set off that behavior in the future you are ready to continue on with condition number three. Condition number three is to bypass the consciousness. If you do not do bypass the consciousness then the probability that the conscious mind will interfere with the action taking place is much greater.

Bypassing consciousness is going to create the urge to do the behavior. It will make the suggestion of the action a compulsive one, much like the compulsion to smoke the cigarette even though logic says ‘you've made it this far, don't smoke that cigarette'. This bypassing of the consciousness will ultimately compel the person to do the action regardless of the resistance they may display initially.

This is the nature of the unconscious mind, it really relates back to the access state principal as well. As you make the suggestion in trance when the time is right for the action to take place the person will partially slip back into the trance that it was suggested in. This is important because you must really pay attention to the trigger you are setting for this whole process to work correctly.

So your trigger essentially must be one that will set off the state of trance that was involved when the trigger was set, otherwise the trigger will not successfully trigger the correct suggestion. This brings us to the attention that must be involved when you are designing your post hypnotic suggestions.

Always be attentive to the state of mind you are creating and the action of the suggestion you are placing. Once you have mastered all these conditions you will use the COMILA Formula to complete the entire process from beginning to end.

Finally, again this must be emphasized, post hypnotic suggestion are only tools to use in a situation that will be positive for you and your listener. You will only cause harm if you try to use it for unethical purposes. The ethical code can not be broken, many before you have tried and to attempt it yourself will simply be a waste of your time. If you exercise the ethics of a win/win situation you will have a vast amount of success with post hypnotic suggestions.

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How to Use Hypnotic Words to Double the Impact of Your Hypnosis Session

How to Use Hypnotic Words to Double the Impact of Your Hypnosis Session

Hypnotic words are another element of the Precision Language that you will want to work to develop in order to improve your Conversational Hypnosis. Hypnotic words are another type of hot word that are specifically designed to cause a person to begin to enter a trance or altered state of mind.

Hypnotic words can also be used in any stage of the 4 Stage Protocol. As you will see these are words that can be used in absorbing attention, bypassing critical factors, creating unconscious responses and using unconscious responses. These words can also be used to elegantly recreate experiences, express ideas in a hypnotic way and will create a smooth language for you to engage in your conversations.

So how do the hypnotic words work to engage a mini-trance or beginnings of an altered state of mind?

When you use a hypnotic word in conversation with a person they are required to access the experience that goes with the word you have said, at least to some degree. Their brain will unconsciously do this in order to really define the word you used. After they do this they can put the word and it's meaning into the context of the statements you are making.

For example if you use the word ‘tired' the person you are talking to will take that word out of the statements you made and access the emotion or feeling that defines for them. This is the only way they will really understand it the meaning it has for them.

Hypnotic words are words that are closely related and extremely important to hypnotic ideas. These are words that imply a fixation of attention and will always activate the neurology inside a person to begin a kind of trance response.

Hypnotic words are similar to words like fixation, curiosity, focus and mesmerized; any word that has the same meaning or connotation as these words will more than likely fall into the category of a hypnotic word. It is imperative as a conversational hypnotist that you build a strong library of these words to have and use as you need them.

As you are learning to use hypnotic words you will find that you can use them in layers like many of the other concepts we have discussed. When a hypnotic word is used alone there is a possibility that it will start the process of inducing a trance, however this is no guarantee.

However if you take the time to practice the words and add them into inductions they will become very powerful in capturing the themes of your conversation. This can be done repeatedly and will create an enormous impact in your hypnosis. The more you can get used to using hypnotic words in different instances the more opportunities your subject will have to access the experiences you are taking them into.

This is a powerful way to layer hypnotic words. The repetition that is created will give a variety of experiences and emotions to access while still using the hypnotic words to induce trances. These conversations will be memorable and easy to trigger for your subjects if the environment is right.

There are many hypnotic words to choose from that will fit into the contexts of all the stages of the 4 Stage Protocol. It is true, as you will find that many of the hypnotic words will fit well into the first stage. However other words such as fixation or attention can be used in many different instances and stories for intensification purposes. You will also easily be able to use hypnotic words in bypassing the critical factor and activating unconscious responses.

Spontaneous is a great word to use in bypassing the critical factor. Just the very meaning of the word implies that you will be bypassing any rational thought about the word or idea that is attached to it. Since the meanings of words are the emotion we incorporate with them the meaning of this word itself will simply slip a suggestion right past the critical factor and into the unconscious mind.

The word spontaneous also creates an unconscious response in itself, so now you have taken care of two steps in one with simply using one hypnotic word!

This is of course only one example; there are many words that you will find that will do the same type of thing with all the different stages of protocol. It is important that you put these words into a list and keep them handy as you will no doubt be using them on a regular basis. They will be a wonderful tool throughout your Conversational Hypnosis training and profession.






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How to Create Irresistible Curiosity With Rapport Hooks Using Hypnosis

How to Create Irresistible Curiosity With Rapport Hooks Using Hypnosis

Rapport is a key skill that you will need to master to be a successful hypnotist. Without rapport your subject will not be open to your hypnotic suggestions and communications.

Rapport is the harmonious relationship that you share with people. In this relationship you understand and relate to people's feelings, ideas as well as communicate them well with one another. Everyone does this everyday with the different relationships they share with family, friends and co-workers.

In order to build a strong and wide rapport you will need to practice and perfect certain skills. Rapport in normal circumstances can often come easily. Think of how easily you share your life with a spouse or your best friend. The rapport here is focused and good, it comes easily and casually.

However hypnosis is not a normal or casual relationship. A deep amount of comfort, trust and familiarity must be established before you can reach your goals with a hypnotic subject. Remember they are going to let you into their mind this is not a place you open to just a perfect stranger.

As you are learning hypnosis you will want to focus on advanced strategies for building rapport. Creating and building on ‘rapport hooks' is a great skill that will get other people to build rapport with you. Rapport hooks are going to do the work of drawing your subject into you as you get acquainted.

Rapport hooks are developed in a way that will keep people coming back to you to build on the relationship. It causes people to work hard and value the relationships they are building. If a person feels that they are working hard to build something they will also continue to work to maintain the past success they have had.

When you put rapport hooks into action, they will keep the person coming back for more information. The hooks will get your subject to keep asking questions, and coming back to fill in the informational gaps in you are purposefully leaving in your stories.

One way to get a person to keep coming back for that information is to give them small pieces of information that may not be complete. Leave questions in their mind as you tell stories. Give a casual tone, but leave what, why and how open for your subject to dig with.

The key here is to avoid forcing information on to them. Get your subject interested but leave your topics open by adding suspense and unfinished information.

For example, if you are telling a story about a place you visited, use the name of the country but give no specifics about where you went. Tell them the scenery is beautiful but let them ask about the region or sites you saw. Let them probe for these answers. You can do this with almost any topic.

While you are talking remember to use a casual tone and present the information in a way that inclines them to ask for more. If your subject's curiosity is peaked they will be inclined to want to know more to the point of asking you.

In this manner you are elegantly giving them a good story and drawing them in as well. The more curiosity and interest the person has the more questions they will ask. Asking you questions is subconsciously earning them the right to the information and they begin to feel it is more important.

When you use rapport hooks it will also help you with fractionate rapport. Fractionate rapport happens when you giving rapport then consciously taking it away.

Give your subject your full attention for a while, then, distract yourself. Getting casually distracted by looking around or engaging your attention elsewhere will cause the subject to re-engage you. If the person does re-engage you then you are on board with the beginnings of a foundation for an advanced rapport.

Again this is causing the person to work for your attention. You give it, and then take your attention away. They then have to work to get it back. This makes the relationship more valued yet again because it is not being forced upon them. They are asking for it and earning it.

When using these advanced rapport building skills you will successfully push your rapport further, faster than normal. The more push and pull you involve in your conversations the quicker and deeper your rapport will go.

These skills will take your relationship to higher levels of comfort and trust quickly so a good and wide enough rapport is set to continue. Once this is founded and put into place you will be able to begin to put your subject into trance and begin the real work of hypnosis.

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How to Improve Your Nested Loops and Make Them More Sophisticated

How to Improve Your Nested Loops and Make Them More Sophisticated

Creating nested loops using three stories is a very important skill for your Conversational Hypnosis. Creating nested loops will deeply improve you skill as a Conversational Hypnotist. It will create a smooth way to navigate you and your subject through the 4 Stage Protocol and leave you and open space to place your suggestion to improve lives.

There are other types of nested loops other than the basic; here you will learn how to create and intermediate level nested loop and all the refinements and skills to add to your basic nested loops in order to do this.

First let's review the basic nested loop just to get you in the right frame of mind before diving into the intermediate nested loop. In a basic nested loop you are going to have three to twelve stories in mind, whatever the situation your listener is faced with requires. As you start each story you will tell the beginning 80% of the story.

After you come to the climax you will use a hard or soft loop and transition into the next story. You will repeat this process until you have told the beginning of each of your stories transitioning between each one. At the break of your last story you will add a direct suggestion and then complete each story starting with the last story first and work through the endings until you have completed the first story.

Starting and ending with the same story will create a bridge over the other information and your listener will be left with a sort of amnesia about all that happened within the middle.

In an intermediate nested loop you will use all of these steps, same structure of the basic nested loop, only with added refinements to it. The first refinement that you will make is to the basic structure of the stories you are telling.

You will begin to use your skills in language and emotional triggers to add an emotional factor to each story you tell. Your goal is to elicit an emotional state from your listener through each story you tell them.

In order to accomplish this you will embed your emotionally evoking triggers and language with in the stories you are telling. You can do this by dancing around themes and using your language skills to create experiences the listener can identify with on some level.

You can also use dramatic devices to help you instill emotion in your stories. These are the different aspect you see Hollywood using to get you emotionally involved in their theatrics. Anything from visuals, music and character composition to get your listener to get emotionally involved in the story you are telling.

You want to be able to create a true experience for your listeners, play a movie inside their heads with your words, and include all the senses and feelings that would be portrayed if the story were a motion picture on the big screen.

There are two different ways to tell a story, bland and exciting. It does not really matter what the content of a story is you can make that content exciting or you can make it boring. You want your stories to be as exciting in whatever emotion you are trying to arouse as possible.

The best way to get good at this is to practice it with an audience. If you practice alone you may be able to rehearse your stories better and memorize them but the point is to get a response out of another person. The only way to know you are doing that is to tell them to other people and monitor their responses.

You will be able to tell certain things from your audience like where to pause, where to talk faster, where to drop the tone of your voice and where to keep rhythm in your words. These stories should be practiced to the point of people not minding hearing the same story twice because you are so good at evoking emotion when you tell it; it will always be a fascinating experience.

This is important because a nested loop will only be as good as the story you are putting it into. If your stories are not strong enough to absorb attention then your loops will be equally as weak because you will fail to draw people into your stories world. You don't have to be the best story teller in the world just good enough to get responses out of those around you.

To recap, now you are telling three or more stories for your nested loop, each story is going to draw some type of emotional state in your listeners. Each time you go through a story beginning you will get an emotion to come up, and then you will break it with a transition and start a new story with a new emotion. You are creating a chain of emotional experiences within your stories.

This emotional rollercoaster you are creating with your stories is a complicated thing that is very useful in hypnosis. You are beginning the practice of evoking a negative emotion and then changing it into a positive one through the stories you are telling.

You are also functioning on multiple levels with your story telling. You are telling a story, that story is telling a story, providing information and rendering a trance state all through the telling of stories. This is a powerful process indeed.

This is where you will begin to work your stories much like the ancestors of our pasts. They would tell the same stories over and over again each time the stories would be slightly different depending on the state of the tribe at that particular junction. They would use the stock of ten to thirty stories to create a pattern of change within their lives, sound familiar?

As you do the same thing, you will come up with a set of stories that you use often, you will be able to change those stories to fit the confines of each person you deal with and the situations they are in to elicit a change in their lives. You will know how to change the stories by the types of reactions you are receiving from your listeners and a constant feedback loop is born.

You tell the story, they listen, they react, and you observe said reaction and monitor where to take your story from there.

The second thing you will add at the intermediate level of nesting loops is a trance process. This will be given instead of just a simple suggestion at the suggestion phase of the nested loops. The trance processes you will use will be very similar to the suggestions you have originally learned in the effect except it will entail more than a simple suggestion. The trance processes are created to take the listener's mind on an excursion, they are more sophisticated than just do this or feel that.

Trance processes can include any number of things from a set of instructions to following a simple trance process that you have read about or developed for your practice previously. The point is to make it more of a set of things to do instead of a simple suggestion.

At this time you can opt to stay on the direct side of suggestions and review and add the trance processes later. The point is now you have more to work with on a deeper level of trance that goes deeper into the art of nesting loops, a very valuable and powerful way to get the unconscious to respond to you.

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How to Use Hypnotic Stories to Get What You Want

How to Use Hypnotic Stories to Get What You Want

Stories are ancient; ever since there has been someone alive to talk about the things that have happened, will happen and will never happen there have been stories.

Stories are very powerful in Conversational Hypnosis, you have learned how to use stories to cover the 4 Stage Protocol and will continue to learn how stories can be more and more beneficial in the art of hypnosis.

By now you should be a fairly good story teller. You have had your whole life to practice as there isn't a day that goes by when you don't tell a story to someone. You have also had a brief period of time in your study of hypnosis to learn how to start to mold your stories so they accomplish certain tasks.

For instance you have learned to activate the conscious and unconscious thought processes specifically when you want with stories. You have also learned to use stories to evoke emotions from people, get reactions, as well as to run parallel to the problems and situations of people's lives. All the skills you have learned are not listed here but the point is you have learned a lot and can use those skills in your hypnosis.

Now you need to learn how to perfect a story in the manner of getting exactly what you want from it and the person you are working with. With the entire story telling experience you have you should be able to easily come up with stories whenever you need them.

You should also be flexible enough in your story telling that you can shape them with specific needed themes, settings and characters. You should be able to really make the stories you tell do what ever you want. So now you have all these stories and ways to use them, you need to know how to really get what you want with them.

The first way to make a story truly hypnotic is to use it to deliver an embedded suggestion. This is one of the easiest and strongest ways to plant or embed a suggestion in a listener, deliver it by way of story. This was of course discovered by the great hypnotist Milton Erickson.

He used embedded suggestion in many types of stories; he also used them in readings of what seemed like complete and utter nonsense. The only reason they were not complete nonsense on the technical side was that there were embedded suggestions placed throughout.

So you learn that if Erickson could use embedded suggestions within complete nonsense why can't we use them within stories, and the answer is you can and you will. In fact Milton Erickson did this as well with his famous tomato plant induction.

Dr. Erickson was asked by the family of a dying cancer patient if he would see him and try to ease the unbearable amounts of pain the man was in, he was on many drugs and there was nothing else anyone could do for the man.

This man was a florist and when Erickson went to see him he decided to talk to the man at length about the kinds of plants Erickson himself knew a bit about. Dr. Milton Erickson spent hours talking to the man about tomato plants, he talked about how they grew, and loved the rain, all the things tomato plants do. As he did this he was embedding messages of hope, ease, comfort and growth.

As the man's family listened they were growing more and more impatient and wondered when he was going to start the hypnosis to make their ailing friend better. They eventually decided enough was enough and went into the room to give Dr. Erickson a note about getting on with the reason they came.

Upon entering the room they realized that their family member was actually so deep in trance he did not even notice they had entered the room. After the hypnosis the man's condition improved drastically.

The moral of the story is that you like Dr. Erickson can embed ideas of any theme within the context of any story. Dr. Erickson used a theme of tomato plants because his subject took an interest in plants, and he embedded themes of hope, growth, comfort and being at ease.

He did this in a way that was not obvious to the subject and it certainly was not obvious to the man's family either, so these themes and suggestions were well hidden with in the stories subject of tomato plants and all the need and do.

You can do this too. It is fairly simple; the theme of your story really doesn't even have to relate to the suggestion your theme of your suggestions. It is in fact better if the two have no relationship at all because then the conscious mind will never know what was going on, it is not alerted and there for puts up no resistance.

The second way to use stories to get what you want is to install an emotional trigger in the story. This is much like taking your listener on an emotional rollercoaster ride. This idea is very powerful because people have no choice but to respond to their emotions in a powerful way.

When you take a person and put them through an emotional ringer you are activating their unconscious to get a response. This is a basic primal unconscious response. If you recall the 4 Stage Protocol you will see that once you have activated an unconscious response you are already at stage three.

You have learned how to absorb attention with a story and the story itself will often bypass the critical factor simply because it is a story. So here you sit and you have triggered an emotion which is an unconscious response, the only thing left to do is get a reaction to that response and you have completed the 4 Stage Protocol.

Setting off the emotional rollercoaster within someone can not only get you where you want to be in a hypnosis stance it will ultimately help your listener as well. By changing their emotional state you will influence the kind and quality of the decisions they make. In doing this you are in essence influencing their behaviors.

The biggest trick you want to be aware of in installing emotional triggers in stories is to be sure you are triggering the emotion you want. This is of course very important, if you want your listener to be excited tell them a story to excite them not relax them.

If you want relaxation and calm tell a story that will bring that emotion to light. This is important as these emotions are going to very strong influence in you hypnosis once they are accessed.

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How to Install a Post Hypnotic Suggestion

How to Install a Post Hypnotic Suggestion

It is important to point out the vast importance of post hypnotic suggestions. So you become very aware of how powerful they are as well as how important they are in your practices as a Conversational Hypnotist. A post hypnotic suggestion is a suggestion that calls for an action when a certain behavior, or trigger, is activated. The actual post hypnotic suggestion is of something that will take place in the future regardless of whether or not the hypnotist is present.

The protocol for how to use a post hypnotic suggestion is a page right out of Dr. Milton Erickson's book, so to speak. His instruction for using post hypnotic protocol was very similar to all that you are about to read.

The first step in placing a post hypnotic suggestion is to induce a trance; there are different aspects to this first step that we will review more in depth when we get to the COMILA Formula. In the meantime just know you must first induce a trance.

As you induce this trance you will want to concentrate on giving the unconscious many different options about how to do things. You will also want to include things that will motivate the listener to respond to the new behavior, in this you can use motivators like their beliefs and values. Another aspect of your training you will want to incorporate in the trance stage is to use your framing to get the right state for what you are attempting to accomplish.

After you induce a trance you are going to suggest a behavior. This is the second step in the post hypnotic suggestion process. Suggesting a behavior can be a very direct thing or you can do it more covertly. Covert and indirect will give you the best results, especially as you are starting out. In this step you will use the seeding of ideas skills you learned quite some time ago.

You will seed ideas about the behaviors you are suggesting to your listener. While you are seeding these ideas you will more than likely do it through stories either about yourself or others. As you get more into the depth of the ideas and behaviors you will slowly present them as things your listener should consider doing.

Suggesting behaviors is often done well when you use open ended questions or statements. As you use an open ended question or statement it leaves room for the person it is directed at to imply certain things as well as fill in the blanks, often more fully than they would if it were not an open ended question or statement.

Other helpful skills and tools in the behavior suggestion phase are to use frames and presuppositions to imply or assume certain things. You want them to tell you when something will happen, not if it will happen. You want the listener to simply assume from your language that it is inevitable that the behavior will happen and therefore the only question left is when. When you do this you are also going to be bypassing some resistance because you are implying a thing.

Now in this step you also need to remember to set a trigger for the listener, at this point it can be a series of options of triggers. This is the action or signal to the person that they will use in the future to put the post hypnotic suggestion into action. Anything can really be a trigger, a door shutting, a dog barking, a light turning on or off; really whatever you want that will signify the right time to put your suggestion into action.

Even though you will be giving you listener a list or set of options for triggers you will still want to make one of them a clear trigger point. You can be as direct or indirect as you want about the different triggers you are suggesting. You can say, ‘you will do this when', or you can say, ‘it may or may not happen when'.

The more options for trigger points you allow the more likely it is that they will be unable to resist putting the suggestion into action. This will happen because one of the many triggers will retain the majority of the resistance while the others still allow the action to take place. Another reason to give many different trigger options is that it will make the action you suggest seem more like a part of their everyday life; it will feel more natural to your listener when the triggers compel them into action.

The third step in the post hypnotic suggestion is to create some amnesia. This is something you have read about already and you will know how to do. Some ways to create amnesia are to tell stories and use nested loops, use a language pattern and change the topic as you are talking.

Remember that there is a certain amount of amnesia that will naturally take place simply because you are using a trance process; it is a type of side effect of hypnosis. This will be expounded upon if you are using fractionation as well. Fractionating, if you remember, is when you continuously take a person in and out of trance.

Amnesia is an important part of the post hypnotic suggestion process because it will in a way hide your suggestion so the listener is not too in tune to it. Once the suggestions are deeply embedded it is fine for the person to realize where they came from but in the beginning there can be resistance and then your suggestion is less likely to be put into action so storing it away with amnesia is a perfect camouflage in the meantime.

The fourth step is to return to the original trance you started with. This is much like using the two different trance processes in nested loops. You are creating a trance on both sides of the suggestion and sealing the top with amnesia so there is no escape for the suggestions you are planting.

Finally the fifth and last step in the post hypnotic suggestion process is to build up the listeners self esteem. This is a little bonus for both you and the subject. By building up and working on their self esteem they will correlate the suggestion and behaviors with words that make them feel good about themselves. People are more apt to do a thing if the believe it will make them better, stronger, smarter or what have you. You do things to improve yourself.

The other reason to do this is just because it is a nice thing to do for the person you are helping, like a little icing on the cake. This icing keeps the unconscious coming back for more cake, it makes listening to you a more rewarding experience.

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A Step by Step Guide to Using the Powerful Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

A Step by Step Guide to Using the Powerful Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction

When learning Conversational Hypnosis you will be building a bank of inductions that you will use at different times for different purposes with different people. One of those inductions that you find to be very useful will be the piggy back hypnotic induction.

In the piggy back hypnotic induction you find that you can accomplish all four stages of the 4 Stage Protocol easily and powerfully. Through the simple task of attaching suggestions to statements and yes sets you will successfully absorb attention, bypass critical thinking, solicit an unconscious response and use that response toward a specified outcome.

In the piggy back hypnotic induction you will do this mainly through making verifiably true statements about direct experiences. These will use sensory words like feel, notice, see and hear. You will use these words in a way the redirects awareness by way of taking control of their attention.

Let's take a look at a step by step guided way to use the powerful piggy back hypnotic induction. To begin this induction you will first start your session out with making verifiably true statements. These statements should contain words like notice, feel, see or hear.

You can use taste and smell but they are more difficult to work into a conversation where you are really having that experience. You will usually be using the sensations that are associated with hearing, seeing and feeling.

Each of these true statements should portray physical aspects all about the sensory experiences that are true. You do have a feeling in your leg; you can become aware of it when it is brought to your attention. Remember these are simple statements about the person's physical state that are true.

In the second step of the induction you will simply add a conjunction at the end of your set of statements and a word that makes a suggestion to do something. Conjunctions that you would use are words such as while, and, because or that means. After adding the conjunction you will simply add a word like relax, grow heavy or breathe.

When you use this induction you find it easier to accomplish the induction if you use your hypnotic language that you have been learning through out your training. In this induction all the other things you have learned are still going to be very useful, especially the language skills.

By the end of step two you have made your four or five sensory rich true statements and have added a suggestion to the end of them by way of using a simple conjunction. In doing this you have started a process of relaxation for your subject.

The next step will be to repeat the first two steps over again. In this step you need to be sure to keep your statements again a completely verifiably true about physical aspects of your listener. Then you will again attach a relaxing suggestion to the end by way of conjunction.

Each time you do this you will take the suggestion just one step further into whatever state of relaxation you used in the original set of statements. Using your hypnotic language you will continue to add to these suggestions throughout the induction.

The final step in the piggy back hypnotic induction will be to continue your statements each time making them less true. By this step you will have been creating a very strong and powerful yes set. You will make your verifiably true statements less true and your attached suggestion in a way that they will stand on their own.

Eventually as you progress through the continuous loop that is this induction you will be making only stand alone statement for your listener to take in and actualize.

Now that you know how to take your listener through the entire piggy back hypnotic induction there is one more concept to keep yourself aware of. That is that in this induction you have the option of making it a very direct or indirect type of induction.

When you use this induction as a very direct induction the suggestions you attach to the true statements will use terms that are directly related to hypnosis or going into trance. These will be words like hypnosis and trance; you will use them frequently and liberally within the induction.

To create a less direct induction you will use all the same steps only you will utilize more indirect trance themes. You have read about these before and they will be words like relax, imagine, go within or to make comfortable. There are many other examples and strings of words that you can create for yourself and use in this indirect way of performing the induction.

When you apply the indirect way of using the piggy back hypnotic induction you will be able to conduct the induction without ever really directly stating what it is you are doing, and all the principals will still be there.

Choosing to use the direct or indirect area of this induction will largely depend on the person you are working with and what you would like to accomplish. Either way will work and accomplish the goal you have in mind when it is done correctly.

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Improve Your Tonality to Improve Your Performance in Hypnosis

Improve Your Tonality to Improve Your Performance in Hypnosis

Improving in the art of hypnosis is always going to be a great idea. When you are working in the area of hypnosis it is not only important to know what you are doing but perfecting the ways or the HOW you do it is vital. Know how and what to do will create an unbreakable base for you as a hypnotist.

Hypnosis is a performance art so learning the performance part of hypnosis is a given. Part of performance in learning hypnosis is to understand the elements of hypnotic language. One of those elements is tonality. Tonality is the key to unlocking a great deal of information in hypnosis.

It is vital that you spend time learning what words to say but equally important to know how to say those words in order to get your point across. A helpful study by Mr. Birdwhistell is the study of how the actual meanings of words were broken down between words, tonality and body language. The conclusion of the study was surprising for many.

The study showed that choice of words is very important but the words themselves really only accounted for 7% of the meaning in the word. However the way you say the word, or the tonality you use, was responsible for 38% of the words meaning. And astonishing 55% of the meaning derived from statements and words comes from the body language you use, your nonverbal communications.

This study tells us that if you focus only on the choice of words you use you will more than likely be a poor hypnotist. However if you focus on the words and the performance of those words you will capture more of the elements to becoming a great hypnotist.

In order to study the performance area of hypnotism you must first understand that hypnosis is something you do with a person. You must learn how to convey the presentation of your statements and this is where we start.

The use of differing tonality in the language you use as a hypnotist will change the meanings of the statements you are saying to your subjects. It is important to play with the different ways you can say words as the meanings will change as your delivery of the word changes.

Take the word ‘no' for instance. There is technically only one meaning for the word itself; however you can change that meaning if you change your tone as you say the word. Play with it say ‘no' in ways that would imply yes or maybe. There is a way to say ‘no' that is stern and serious and a way to say it playfully and so on and so forth.

Now that we know the importance behind the way we say different things we can go over the principals of performance. The first principal of performance is to ‘go first'. This is the best and most simple way to deliver your statements and words accurately and with fine precision.

‘Going first' is a good place to start because it is important to really feel what you are going to say in order to make it true for your subject. In ‘going first' you will immerse yourself in the emotion, situation or come to agree with the story you will be telling, this will help your story in delivering it in a believable way.

If you are not in the correct state of mind, meaning one of agreement with your statements, you will not be convincing. Every thought you have will always affect you emotionally and behaviorally. For instance if you are trying to imply that there is danger in a situation and you are conveying a feeling of carefree happiness your point will be lost to the true emotion you are feeling.

This is where BMIR's come into play. BMIR is a shorter way of saying Behavioral Manifestation of an Internal Representation. What this means is when you think of something, every time your thoughts change it will show the new thought through your movements, body language, breathing and tonality. Because of this reaction to thought the best way to perform anything is to enter that particular state of mind. Imagine yourself in the situation, use the same tone of voice you would if you were actually going through the motions of that particular situation. This will help you to accurately deliver the thoughts and ideas you want to.

So this was a vast amount of information for a simple task, to review ‘going first' you must first take the hypnotic theme you are working with and put it into motion within your mind. Use your imagination to put yourself into situations where what you want to convey is true. When you do this the delivery will be accurate representation of the feelings, ideas and thoughts you are pursuing.

The second performance principal we are going to cover here is the principal of squeezing the meaning. In this factor of performance you are going to do just as it sounds, squeeze all of the meaning out of key words you use in your language.

In order to accomplish this you will want to match the tone and feel of your voice with the feelings or ideas you are attempting to convey. When you learn how to accurately do this and practice it into perfection you will be able to bring your words to life for your listener.

The language you use will begin to be filled with the actual meaning and feelings that come from your choice of words and the way you say them. For instance if you want your subject to relax, you don't scream relax at them while jumping up and down you would draw the word out using a mellow and calming tone of voice.

In doing this you are letting the tone of your voice do the hard work and you convey a state of mind or feeling. Rhythm in what you are saying is also accomplished here with very little effort, it just happens naturally as you say the words with the meanings they posses

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How to Access States in Hypnosis Using Revivification

How to Access States in Hypnosis Using Revivification

Conversational Hypnosis is a type of hypnosis where it is very important to access certain states of mind in order to set triggers to change lives for the better. In order to do this you must learn and know how to access those states to start the trigger process with a clean and pure state of mind.

Access State Principal plays a huge role in this process. This is because the clarity of the state of mind a person is in when the trigger is set will determine how well the trigger is going to work, if at all. When people access emotions they are really going back through their files of memories to re-experience memories that correlate with the emotion you are asking them to bring to mind.

If you are asking them to relax they will think of times and places where they felt this way. Accessing the state of mind you want is important. However it is equally important to make sure it is a pure state. You will have conflict in placing your suggestions and triggers if the state of the listener is not just in the mode of relaxation.

If your listener is experiencing relaxation along with anxiety it will cause the same combination of feelings when you set off the trigger again in the future. This can cause problems in accomplishing the changes you want to achieve throughout the course of hypnosis.

The main thing from previous articles you will want to remember as you learn to use revivification is that you need to know how to change the whole mood of a person before setting your emotional trigger. If you can keep this in mind and access a clear state of mind before setting those triggers it will aid in the process of accessing states with revivification as well.

The concept behind revivification itself is to bring an experience to life for the person having it. The listener needs to be able to experience the memory fully in order to access a completely pure state of mind. This means you will be using and developing different skills in this process that will make the experience as real as possible for your subjects.

The first state inducing method (and the only one we will focus on in this article) is the revivification process. This is a process of accessing a state is by asking revivification questions. These questions are used to give direction to your subject while they are attempting to emerge themselves fully in a particular emotional state.

In your practice as a hypnotist you will be asking questions of the people in your care, these questions will be the start of a journey through their experiences in order to answer each one. You see when you ask a question of someone they are required to re-experience the situations where they felt the way in which you are asking about. We all must experience the actual answer before our minds compute how to answer a question.

Revivification will run more smoothly if you apply the principal of ‘going first'. ‘Going first' in this situation means that you will first tell as story of your own that would get you into the same emotional state you are trying to get your subject into. If you want the person to feel happy you would tell a story of a thing that happened or a time when you were completely happy.

By ‘going first' your physiology will change, your body will sub-communicate that emotion on an unconscious level through tone, body language, movements and gestures. In turn the person you are talking to will unconsciously pick up on those signals and start to be open to accessing that emotion as well.

After you have told a story and you are now in the same state of mind you wish your listener to be in you prompt or ask them of a time when they felt that way. When you ask questions of the people around you, especially when using revivification you want to make each question sound meaningful.

If you sound bored or uninterested the person you are working with will be more likely to reserve their answers, meaning they will not be interested in reliving an emotion for you. When you ask a question make it sound like the answer is extremely important to you. You can use different tonalities and language suggestions to make this happen. This will cause the person to really get deeper into the experience and in turn give you a much more quality answer.

The next step in revivification questions is to listen closely to the answer the person is giving, and repeat it back to them. You want to do this in the exact same way they said it to you. Use the same tone, lean and emphasis on the words they used.

The reason for doing this is people will use words that are what we call trigger words, these words are important to them. When you repeat the same words back using the same tones and such it will help your listener to access the memory and experience it more fully.

As you are doing this you will notice that you are going to be able to create a kind of feedback loop. In this loop you will give a story to go first, then ask them to give an example of the same emotion, listen for the sensory information they are giving, repeat the answer back to them exactly as they have said it and then start again.

Each time you complete the loop you will be allowing the subjects to dive deeper and deeper into the state of mind you are accessing.

As you use the process of revivification remember that part of the goal is to make the experience as real as possible through the language and stories each of you are telling. This is a powerful scenario and will be a great help in accessing pure clean states of mind

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The Basics of Conversational Hypnosis

The Basics of Conversational Hypnosis

There are certain cornerstones or foundations that are vital to the art of Conversational Hypnosis. In this article we will be covering those topics. As a hypnotist, especially a Conversational Hypnotist, these are the foundations on which your processes will be built.

It is very important that you understand not only how to use the information and skills in this article but that they are practiced to a point of natural function. You should have the ability to do them with little concentration and effort to master your hypnosis.

Part of the reason for understanding and second nature in this first step is that without these skills there will be nothing to hold your hypnosis structures together. This is the very powerful glue that makes it all stick.

The first master technique that you will want to master in this step will be the use of your linguistic bridges. These are powerful and important in that they will help you to create a smooth flow of ideas through your language. One of the resources you have been offered in perfecting this skill has been to use a set of linguistic bridge cards; these are tools you can use to start the process of practicing the flow of the language you will use in your hypnosis.

This is the most basic way to master the art of hypnotic language. It must be a smooth and comfortable ride that will make people around you want to listen. You will do this by not only using the linguistic bridges but using them with hypnotic themes. You will talk a majority of the time about things such as relaxation and trance, comfort and possibly even hypnosis.

As you use your linguistic bridges and hypnotic themes you will also be adding a basic structure of trance to your themes using a rich language that is still very smooth and powerful. This means you will be adding in a hypnotic tonality; as well as using that tonality to really squeeze the meanings from the words and language you are using.

Once you can easily flow through the language skills above you will have the very beginning foundation of Conversational Hypnosis accomplished. Then you will be ready to move on to the next level in this first step of mastery. The second step in this process is to start to pull skills from your precision language. One of the first skills will be to start to use hot words. If you recall hot words are words that are emotionally laden with meaning. They are more significant to a person than other words that mean the same thing. Infant is less emotionally packed than baby.

Another type of precision language you will include in this step is to start to use hypnotic words. These are words in which the meaning of the word actually implies a trance. Good examples of these hypnotic words would be focus, amazement, deep and fascinate. You will also begin to transform these words into complete themes.

One of the tools you will be able to use in the sharpening of your precision language is to amplify the language. You will be able to amplify the experience the listener is having by using words like suddenly, now and instantly. These words are action accelerators and will amplify the meanings behind your words and themes. In using these words you will be creating a dramatic tension that will greatly impact the unconscious once it is released and an action from the unconscious is demanded.

Anticipation builders are another amplification tool that will be very powerful. These are words that will inevitably frustrate the trance response. This is useful in that by the time you are ready for them to go into trance there will be an almost immediate reaction as they have been kept from it and now they want it more than ever.

Next you will use language softeners as an amplification tool. These are words that will make your language more comfortable. Maybe, perhaps and possibly will soften the effect of your statements allowing the listener to hear a soft frame and not feel forced into doing a thing. "Maybe you will begin to relax now." In doing this you have the ability to soften the language a bit but still hold your yes sets strong.

All throughout this you will also be using your basic yes sets and piggy back suggestions, if you remember these are authority strategies. These will not be difficult to incorporate as they come naturally with the language you are already learning to use, they will likely just show up without you having to concentrate much attention on them.

The third master technique that you will be putting into action here is going to be the use of ambiguous messages. This is as simple as starting to integrate them into your language. Ambiguous messages again are words that posses more than one meaning. Like the word right or lie, bank or no/know; all these words are pronounced the same and have more than one definition.

The power in ambiguous messages is that they do indeed have two meanings; it is how you use those double meanings that will affect the person you are talking to. The double meanings will speak on one level to the conscious and on another to the unconscious so you can be sending a message unconsciously that has a completely different meaning than what the person hears.

As you do this you will be able to begin the priming of the unconscious responses through metaphorical instructions. This will all work together to prime the unconscious mind to respond to hypnosis in a hypnotic way.

The fourth and final master technique in this step is that of confusion language. This is the language of confusion, in case you were confused. In this valuable skill you will use amnesia techniques and double negatives in order to confuse the listener. Amnesia techniques will help them to forget certain things on the outside but remember them when the time is right. This is getting someone to remember to forget a thing.

Double negatives are a way of confusing the conscious mind into shutting down and accepting whatever is next in line. Double negatives will overwhelm the conscious mind with many minute details that are really of little importance.

You can also do this by changing the meanings of words and splicing two statements together at a word in the middle or beginning of the statement. Finally in this confusion language you can use shock and surprise to release the tension of the hypnotic cycle.

Now when you can combine and master all the principals and skills here you will be a great hypnotist by most Joe's standards. But remember this is just the beginning of what we are going to cover here. This is your foundation, what you will build everything else upon so make sure it is a good strong foundation as you will be adding a huge amount of skills and refinements to this to create a master hypnotic structure.

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How to Use Precision Language in Hypnosis

How to Use Precision Language in Hypnosis

Conversational Hypnosis is an art that is mostly made up of language and the ways in which you can use that language in order to impact lives in a positive manner. Precision language is a type of language that will help to create a series of conversational events in order to drive that impact home.

Precision language is really a language that is made up of words that have a greater impression on people. The impact that these words create will leave your listeners working to build a stronger state of mind.

Precision language is made up of words that not only bring out the emotion in people they tend to induce trance themselves at times. Precision words can do many things for your listener. They can be used to build anticipations, accelerate the action in an idea, as well as build softer language frames. (Building a softer language frame will make your suggestions and instruction of action more acceptable to the listener.)

The first skill that you will focus on in Precision language skills will be the ability to build a vocabulary of and use hot words in context. ‘Hot words' are words that have a universal meaning to them that have been created from society and culture. They are words that are heavy with emotion and work to send a strong bold message that peaks interest and or curiosity.

The opposite of hot words is called neutral content language and this is what doctors use to communicate with patients. This blander language helps them to create emotional distance between themselves and their patients. This is not the type of language you want to use.

As a hypnotist you are walking on a path which is laden with emotional attachment. Attachment to stories, feelings and the betterment of life for those around you, to not get emotionally involved at some level would be a disservice to your patients.

At the same level of the way doctors speak most people have found a way to speak differently as well. Many speak in tones and words that are emotionally disengaging. This is a type of self protection from others reactions to what they may have to say. At times it is referred to saying what is politically correct, however politically correct and emotionally disengaging are not quite the same.

A hot word is a word that creates a powerful response and that is what you will need in this profession. They are also considered to be the vocabulary of the unconscious because they evoke emotion within people and this is the real domain of the unconscious mind. Remember that anytime you have an emotional response you are also having an unconscious response, this can be used in a hypnotic way to your advantage.

Hot words play a large role of importance in Conversational Hypnosis. This is because these words can change state of mind and move people dramatically. There are so many hot words that are hanging around us everyday that it would be impossible to list them all for you. But there are places that you can specifically find them. These are out of the mouths of politicians, teachers that move you to learn, motivational speakers as well as (believe it or not) the headlines of tabloids.

Some examples of hot words that are used everyday that you probably hear are baby, murder, drug addict, and so on and so forth. Any word that evokes a strong emotion with it's meaning on a societal level. This means it must have a strong impact on the majority of people that hear it. If you are the only one who finds a word emotionally moving that may be a personal trance word for you (we will discuss these later).

A great way to use hot words is to put two or more together and create contrast with them. An example of this would be if you saw a headline on the paper that read, "A Mother's Secret Life as a Baby Murderer". This is a headline that is just exploding with hot words.

Most of the words in the headline have an emotional meaning attached to them; mother, secret, life, baby and murderer are all important words to most people.

Setting them next to one another makes the impact of them even stronger because are not used to seeing these words together and although the statement makes sense it seems unbelievable to us.

A mother is supposed to have unconditional love for her children and children in general. A murderer is viewed as a part of societies wretched. Secret is always a great connector as it draws in people with curiosity; we are conditioned to want to know all the secrets we can. The bottom line is using these words together creates a very strong and powerful impact, it brings up emotions inside people. Maybe it makes them angry or sad, whatever the emotion is it is there because of the impact the hot words have created in the statement.

Now hopefully you won't be making statements like this to your subjects but words and how you use them will be pivotal in your hypnosis. It is important to have a wide vocabulary of hot words so you have a wide range of emotion evoking language to use with different people in different environments.

As you discover and build your hot word vocabulary start to use them in your everyday conversations and see the different ways people react compared to the way you are used to speaking. Even though you are not using them in hypnosis yet doesn't mean you can't study the effect they have on people in casual conversation

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Power Tactics in Hypnosis: How to Use Consistency to Boost Your Authority

Power Tactics in Hypnosis: How to Use Consistency to Boost Your Authority

In Conversational Hypnosis it is important to choose the correct status role depending on the people you are dealing with.

High status is the role that you will strive for in your hypnotic relationships, but it is also important to know when to play a low status role too. The idea is to gain complete comfort from your subjects in a low status role before attempting to move into a high status role.

After you have attained the trust of your subjects and can attain the role of high status in each relationship you will want to maintain it. This is done by sending out the signals that are subconsciously associated with a high status person.

These signals include calm movements, use of space, exposing the vulnerable parts and steady eye contact. These principals will be the background for the next step to learn which is to use them consistently in order to boost your authority.

Now that you know how to behave in a way that people will perceive you as high status, you will want to learn how to activate this instantly. This is where the Consistency Principal is put into action. The principal of consistency is defined as this: when a person makes a declaration in public of a thing, then it is certain that they will have to act in a way to remain consistent with what they have said.

The easy way to say this is that once someone has stated something publicly to someone in high status they will feel that they need to fulfill that statement by acting according to it. Another part of this is to add that the more authority or higher status you are the more pressure the subject feels to live up to the standard they have set in front of you.

This is important for hypnotists as the more authority you have the harder they will work to attain the goals they have set in front of you. This also means that once they have made a change they wanted in their life they will work harder to maintain it.

This brings us the idea of Consistency Tactics, the first of which is to Demonstrate Authority. In using this tactic you will be able to test the willingness of your subjects, and anyone really, to go into trances. These are also widely known as suggestibility tests. When consistency tactic of demonstrating authority is used correctly it will give the hypnotist a great range of authority from the participant.

These tactics are also used on other people to see the amount of resistance they have to going into an altered state of mind. In this manner they can be used almost anywhere to demonstrate your knowledge on the subject of hypnosis.

The consistency tactic of demonstrating authority will help in the manner that it is a quick and easy way to test suggestibility. Once you do this successfully to one person in a room full of people they will usually no longer question your knowledge on the subject and trust that you are an expert in the area.

As humans it is our nature to trust those who prove they are educated in a field. In fact we are so trusting of this that once a person proves they are an expert in one field we generally will think they know a vast amount of knowledge in many different areas of life.

Another way that this skill is useful is that when you open yourself to show something to a crowd of people you automatically take on the role of a leader. This will add social pressure on you to perform but it will elevate your status in the room to one of high status very quickly.

It is important in this skill to find what works for you. Make sure you are performing something you can accomplish, so as not to appear uneducated on the topic. When you are successful in your ability to perform for strangers with social pressure and you can accomplish your objectives people will start to respond to you as an authority figure.

The concepts we have just gone over are very important in conversational hypnosis and are key in the elevation of your authority even in outside environments such as social gatherings. The simple need to posses a strong authority over people in conversational hypnosis is a strong one that will ease the time and effort put into hypnosis.

By creating ways to add impact to your authority you will be able to win people over more quickly and reach the goal of offering your suggestion. Once you accomplish that and you have the authority the suggestions you implant will be more powerful for your subjects and the people around you.




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