An Introduction to Hypnosis & Trance

An Introduction to Hypnosis & Trance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Stealth Tactics in Hypnosis: What Are Stealth Tactics

Stealth Tactics in Hypnosis: What Are Stealth Tactics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How to Refine the Powerful Hypnotic Gaze Induction

How to Refine the Powerful Hypnotic Gaze Induction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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What Hypnosis is NOT!

What Hypnosis is NOT!

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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The Core Skills You Need To Learn Hypnosis

The Core Skills You Need To Learn Hypnosis

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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