Precision Language In Hypnosis

Posted on by August 8, 2016

Use Language with Precision in Hypnosis

Using language with precision is going to be a key factor in your abilities as a hypnotist.  When you learn and study language in a way that teaches you to manipulate it to get across exactly what you want when you want to you will be a far better hypnotist than if you were to neglect this skill.

Precision language is going to work with the other elements of language you have been studying.  It is most often easily used in the 4 Stage Protocol and can be used with almost any concept here as you are learning Conversational Hypnosis.

Language is the number one tool you will be working with.  It is the vehicles that will take your thoughts, ideas and suggestions to the person you are working with.  Now you must learn new ways to manipulate and form those thoughts, ideas and suggestions so they serve the purpose you are looking for.

Action accelerating words are one of the new tools that will help you to create a new twist on how to add impact to your language.  As humans it is in our nature to want things as quickly and efficiently as possible.  Action accelerators are words that will create that need with in the unconscious mind.

Action accelerators are unconsciously connected within us to feel societal pressure to give a quick and complete answer to whatever the request or question may be.  They give off the feeling that response is needed immediately in the moment.  Some good examples of how actions accelerators work and sound are the words; now, fully, quickly and immediately.  Any time you insert one of these words in a statement or question you will evoke the emotion of quick action.

These words create a pressure for the listener to respond immediately and unconsciously.  If you are feeling hurried in your response you will often bypass the critical factor out of the feeling of urgent need to meet the request.  After the statement is made or the question is asked you are left with no time to second guess your decisions or statements.

In this alone action accelerators are very unconsciously powerful.  Because they are so powerful it is also important to consider that there are times when they are appropriate and times when they are not.  There is not hard core rule to tell you when it is ok to put this kind of pressure on a person.  This is determined by the context of the situation, the person themselves and the environment they are in mentally and physically.

Another way to improve precision in your language is to use Anticipation builders.  These are a great component to combine with action accelerators once you learn how to use them together.

Anticipation builders are exactly as they sound they assist you in building anticipation within your listener.  This is basically done by frustrating the response.  Consider how much more you are likely to want something after someone tells you that you cannot have it.  Think of a two year old and the way they often go on and on, “Can I have it, can I have it, how about now can I pleeeeeeease have it!”  The more you say no the more determined they are to pester you until they get it.

When you frustrate a response you are basically adding intensity to it.  Think of something that is right in front of you but you cannot have it.  There is anticipation that naturally and unconsciously starts to build within you simply because you cannot have it right now.  You know you will get it later but you want it NOW.

As soon as this happens and you have frustrated the response, even just a little, the desire to have it will grow stronger and stronger the longer you must wait.  So what words do you use to build anticipation with in other people?

Words that give a perception of time, eventually we will get to them.  In a moment we will go over some examples of these words, and eventually you will have a good start on this vocabulary.  Until then, keep anticipation acceleration in mind and sooner or later you will be able to recognize them in others conversations.  Finally, a little later we will gradually work them into some statements.

Now you have some samples, you have them in action and a little anticipation should have been created for you, maybe some frustration too.

You will notice these words have the ability of slowing you down, or holding you back from actually getting to the point.  This is the effect they are designed to have and there are many more words around that will do the same thing.

As you use these words you will be building the anticipation up and adding power to that with your other language skills.  Once you have created all this mental frustration and momentum you will then use action accelerators to release the potential of your idea and there is so much activity going on unconsciously at this point that there will be very little critical factor available to analyze what you have said.

The opposite of the first two language skills here would most likely be Language Softeners.  These are another way of using precise language.  They are words that are used to soften up commands or instruction and are usually placed at the beginning or middle of statements.  They are also most likely found somewhere within the instruction.  “Close the window to keep the heat in.” Versus, “You might close the window to keep the heat in.”

Other words that you can use to soften your language are perhaps, maybe and could. The reason you will want to know and build a good vocabulary of these words is you can avoid antagonizing people.  Some people, especially those of high status, do not like to hear commands and instruction from others.  With language softeners you can make your commands sound much more like polite requests which they are much more apt to put action to.

Finally there is a way to make the failure to respond to a suggestion seem irrelevant precision in language.  This includes and is related to softening language in that the impact will make your words and actions softer, less expectant.

There is always the likelihood that a subject will not respond to a suggestion that you have given them.  When you ask people to do a thing internally like imagine or feel they may not respond and this can result in a loss of the rapport you worked so hard to build.

The way to avoid this is to give your listener choices that are in all reality instructions.  These are statements that are soft, they are also going to be true which is where the opportunity for resistance and loss of rapport are immediately defeated.  This is ultimately done by building a yes set of choices that are really instructions.

You could say something to the effect of, “You could imagine yourself in a boat on the water”.  There is no argument here because it is true that they could do it.  Whether or not they actually do is really irrelevant, the important thing is the flow of conversation has not been interrupted by resistance and loss of rapport.  This is a great and powerful way to introduce new ideas or suggestions to a person while avoiding resistance.

Always remember there are times when each language style is appropriate.  This applies here as there are times to be soft in direction and times to be much more direct.  Even Milton Erickson knew this and practiced it.  You will have to rely on your interpretation of the person, circumstance and context to know when the different languages are needed and will be most helpful.

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Using The Hypnotic Challenge

Posted on by August 8, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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