How Emotional Triggers Can Boost the Impact of Your Hypnosis
By Covert Hypnotist | May 30, 2010
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Emotional Triggers are a very powerful part of what you will be doing as a hypnotist. They are an unconscious response that is triggered within the body to develop a physical or emotional behavior. As a hypnotist you will want to be able to embed these triggers in your subjects so you will have the ability to produce behaviors in them that will lead to the positive outcomes set in your goals.
Emotional triggers were discovered at the turn of the century, sometime between 1901 and 1902. A Russian researcher named Ivan Pavlov is credited with the discovery of unconscious responses, which are in essence an emotional trigger. In his experiment known to us now as Pavlov’s Dogs emotional triggers were presented to the world.
In this experiment Pavlov would ring a bell directly before sending food to them through a shoot. The dogs developed an emotional trigger in a short period of time. The dogs began to associate the ringing of the bell with the expectation of food. After a while just the sound of the bell would cause the dogs to salivate.
This was a profound discovery in that it astounded people to actually be able to see such an unconscious event controlled by the nervous system to take place on cue. Salivation is a bodily function that can’t be consciously controlled. It is an automatic nervous system function that was being triggered due to the ringing of a bell. It was a very graphic example of emotional triggering and one that is still talked about in history today.
Before Pavlov and his dogs were recognized for this discovery of unconscious responses or emotional triggers there was an American doctor by the name of William Twitmeyer who is considered the unsung hero of discovery in unconscious responses. William Twitmeyer discovered the Knee-jerk reflex.
The knee-jerk reflex is when you firmly tap the soft part of the knee cap to extract a reflex in which the leg jumps and straightens out. Twitmeyer also realized in his discovery that after around 50 to 100 times of repeating the process just holding the hammer in a position that suggested he was about to tap the knee the person’s leg would automatically jump and straighten out.
This accidental and unconscious response was the first discovery of unconscious responses and emotional trigger. It is also a very powerful example of an unconscious trigger that was either intentionally or unintentionally implanted in the patient.
This research by both Twitmeyer and Pavlov shows us today that there is a truth in the conditioning of unconscious responses and emotional triggers. These are referred to as post hypnotic suggestions.
Post hypnotic triggers are emotional triggers that can be set by a hypnotist within another individual to create a specific reaction. Many times these triggers are created by environments and sometimes they are created unintentionally by other people. No matter how they come about they are there and they can be created by you.
Emotional triggers that are created by our environments naturally occur on a daily basis. This can be something as simple as hearing a song that brings back specific memories of a time in your life. Any time you hear that particular song you are instantly taken back to a certain memory or set of memories. When this happens you are reliving the memory as you think of the events and feelings it brings to mind.
Some very common examples of naturally occurring emotional triggers are songs, the smell of perfume or cologne, smell of cookies baking, pictures, phrases or even the voice of someone familiar.
One of the most common examples of an emotional trigger is in advertising. The advertisements we see everyday utilize this principal by way of packaging. They access the unconscious response through the recognition of boxes in the advertisements, when we see those boxes or packages on the shelves of the supermarket we instantly recognize them. The package seems to stand out from the others surrounding it.
This is just one example of the many unconscious responses and emotional triggers that are common to us everyday. It is your job as a hypnotist to learn how to recognize and develop this skill for yourself so you too can create these emotional triggers in the people around you.
In order to do this you must learn to create your own hypnotic triggers that will access emotional states from the people you are helping. Triggering people into an emotional state is a powerful technique to learn. It will give you the ability to obtain certain behaviors or thoughts put into action from the people around you.
In learning how to implant an emotional trigger in your subjects you must take certain specific steps to ensure you are doing it correctly. The first of those steps is to follow the 4 Stage Protocol. In the 4 Stage Protocol you will absorb the attention, bypass the critical thinking, activate an unconscious response and be rewarded with a desired behavior or thought pattern.
After you have successfully done this you will have set the scene for creating an emotional trigger later on. Before you can actually set the emotional trigger there are conditions that you must be aware of in order to be skilled in this area.
The first condition you must we aware of is that you must have access to a clear state of mind. Without this you will have difficulties in the future accessing the exact strong state of mind you were originally seeking. If you want your listener to relax you must access it fully, there is no room for mixed states of mind here. Whatever state of mind you have access to when you set your trigger will be the state of mind that is presented once your trigger is fired.
After you have successfully done this you will want to continue with the next condition. This is to set the trigger. The trigger you are setting can be anything you can work in to a casual conversation.
It can be a word, gesture, smell taste, touch or sound. However it is good to know that while you can use any of these the easiest to work with are the touch, sound and sight triggers. Examples of these are simple. Do something they can see you do, hear you do or feel you do physically. Once you have decided on a trigger you set the trigger simply by doing it.
After you have set the trigger you will want to condition it through repetitive actions. This is the third condition for setting an emotional trigger.
The final step and one of the most important is to test the trigger. You can do this by simply breaking the concentration with a distraction. It doesn’t matter how you do this as long as you leave them with a clear state of mind. This is important because once they are in a clear state of mind you will set off your trigger once again and then watch to see if it has taken effect.
When you fire the trigger and the previous emotional state returns you will know you have accomplished this short term goal of setting an emotional trigger. If the state does not return you simply need to start over from the beginning and try again. Keep in mind this is a very powerful technique of accessing states of mind and should be done with caution.
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Influence & Persuasion in Hypnosis: Changing Moods Not Minds
By Covert Hypnotist | April 30, 2010
Conversational Hypnosis is really the art of changing lives, when you get down to it your purpose as a hypnotist will be to help people to make positive changes for themselves in their lives. Unfortunately you cannot just tell someone to change, as this will not be effective. There are places in the mind you must learn to access, moods to change and triggers to pull. Once you learn how to set these events into action you will be closer to making happier lives for everyone.
One of the most important things you need to learn as a hypnotist is how to change behaviors; this is really a way to change learning as well. The vital key in changing behavior and learning is to know the Access State Principal or ASP. Access State Principal which really says within those very words what you will be doing with it. You will be accessing different states in order to change people’s moods which will in turn change the ways in which they think about things.
Access State Principal will give you the knowledge to change the way people think and behave in any given set of circumstances.
Behind the Access State Principal is the idea of changing moods, not minds. You see most people believe that in order to change someone’s thinking about a particular subject you need to change their mind. They will most often try to do this with logical arguments, persuasion and facts. However there is a more efficient way to change minds.
If you have the tools to change their mood you will be more successful in changing their mind quicker and more thoroughly. When you learn to change a person’s mood their mind will follow because it is all connected in the mind, provoke a new set of emotions the state of mind changes.
This all relates to the Access State Principal.
There was a scientific study done on ASP in the 1970’s. It was used to study state of mind and performance. Basically the researchers got together two groups of students and asked them to study and memorize a list of nonsense syllables. The first group of students took on this task sober; the second group was given a few shots of alcohol to get them a little intoxicated before they began.
The students then had a few hours to study and after were sent off to take the test. The students who were studying sober performed better on the test. But then the researchers had the students take the test again after giving all the students a few new shots of alcohol. In the second test the students that had studied while intoxicated did better than those who had studied sober.
Since the 1970’s many tests of like nature have been conducted. And in most of these studies it shows that the ways in which people code the behaviors they have is dependant on the state of mind they are in when learning that behavior. Therefore when you change the state of mind all the behaviors and information that individual has access to changes.
The best way to picture this is that the mind is made up of many different rooms; every room is a different state where you have learned, acted or behaved in different ways. So in theory each separate room stores the information for all those different states. In order to have access to that information you need to enter that state or room with in the mind. This is why changing moods changes minds.
Your state of mind, your listener’s state of mind is really the control center for everything you do. The state of mind is what controls your behaviors within that state of mind, where you store the information you learn, how you learn it and how to access the information you want to share consciously.
Part of your job as a hypnotist is to learn the secret paths to access those states of mind. You must be able to help your subjects to access each state you need in order to accomplish your goals together. The different states of mind hold the ability for individuals to improve on focus, performance, knowledge and inspirations.
When it comes to changing minds the science behind it can be broken down simply, at least for our purposes. Each time a different state of mind is accessed a different or new set of neurology is lit within our brains. Every state is a little different in some way as each state of mind allows you access to different sets of information.
State is of course more complicated than just a bunch of lights going off in your brain. It has to do with your emotions and your physiological state as well. This means the ways you move. When your body either stays in one position or moves to a new position this too is involved in accessing or shutting down information in different states of mind. When your body move the neurology in your brain changes.
Now this is all important to Access State Principal because when you are attempting to change a subjects mind about a thing you will need to access their state of mind. You will need to lead them into changing their body movements, mental images and behaviors in order to access those states of mind.
Part of this accessing of state of mind will be learning to hit their emotional triggers in order to cue the responses that control these behaviors. This will create a great starting point in amplifying their experiences and make the most intense experience for them. The more intense the experience the better the state of mind you can access.
With the Access State Principal you can improve your life and the lives of those around you in numerous ways. Access State Principal will be a tool that you will learn to combine with many other skills, each affecting the other, to make a powerful set of hypnotic tools
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How Schizophrenics Can Help Your Hypnosis: Binds and Double Binds
By Covert Hypnotist | March 30, 2010
The art of Conversational Hypnosis is much about language; the ways you use the language, when to use certain skills and how to apply those skills. All of these factors are important to learning how to have a smooth interaction and insert undetected and agreeable suggestions into the mind of your clients.
Stealth Tactics are a way of doing just this. These tactics are used for distracting critical factor or overwhelming it to the point that the suggestion goes in undetected. The stealth tactics you learn here will eventually be combined with all the other language concepts to create a larger picture of how everything works together smoothly to create better lives for everyone.
The final Stealth Tactic you are going to learn is called Binds and Double Binds. The Bind and Double Bind come from a line of thought called the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia. This was a theory that came from a famous Anthropologist in the 1970’s named Gregory Bateson.
Bateson investigated the cause of schizophrenia in our society and came up with the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia. This theory came to the conclusion that schizophrenia was a way that children developed to cope when presented impossible decisions by their parents. An example would be a parent that beats their child and explains it by saying the violence is just a way I show I love you.
The child is presented with an impossible choice that of a desire to be loved by their parent versus the desire to avoid violence. The study concluded that this impossible choice caused schizophrenic conditions in children presented with these choices.
So the question comes, how will schizophrenia help you in your hypnosis? The answer is the creation of binds and double binds. As we have just set out a bind is giving someone a choice that doesn’t actually exist, it is an impossible set of choices to choose from. These of course can create some rather unpleasant experiences if you do not proceed correctly with this concept.
Although you are creating the illusion of choice you are not really giving the person you are conversing with a real choice. When you learn to do binds correctly you will make your listener feel empowered by the fact that there is a choice and still be acquiring the information or lack of resistance you initially wanted. This is a way of redirecting resistance in you are giving a choice that implies the very thing you want but gives them a choice about the thing you want. Either way you are getting what you want, it really doesn’t matter which option they end up choosing.
Now in a double bind you will use the word “or” to create the actual double bind. Let’s take the example that you are a jewelry sales person and you say to a customer, “Would you like your diamond set in gold OR silver?” In this double bind you are giving the customer a choice but you are still implying that the customer will be buying the diamond.
It is important that you are aware of the word “or” so you can consciously create double binds as well as notice when they are being used on you. If you recognize when someone is using a double bind on you, once you recognize it there is a way out. If you decide not to accept the bind or double bind on any level you will be denying it and creating a new freedom for yourself.
Now double binds are very common and at times it is not negative to fall into one. Regardless of whether you are deciding to accept or deny the double binds you hear daily you can still maintain awareness for them. Remember that a double bind is an illustration of choice, usually using the word or to separate the options.
Within this Stealth Tactic there is a Special Tactic included called Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds. This is merely a way of using double binds hypnotically. In this concept you will be able to allow some aspects of the subject’s behavior to be controlled consciously and others unconsciously. No matter which way it goes, which behaviors are being consciously and unconsciously controlled the behavior is still being implied.
Within this same concept of Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds it is important to understand that you can do things two different ways. We can all do things two different ways, those are unconsciously or consciously. You can read the words on this paper focus on them and think about them or you can read them and daydream about what it would be like to put them into action.
In understanding binds and double binds it is important to recognize the conscious and unconscious minds and how they work. As hypnotists we work with the conscious and unconscious minds on a regular and consistent basis, however defining these is difficult.
Now the trouble here is no one really knows how the human mind works. There is no philosopher or psychological researchers who have been able to define the human mind in concrete terms. There are so many ways to interpret the word mind that giving it a definition is extremely difficult.
Although no one can accurately and concretely say what actually happens inside our heads we know from life experience that certain results come from certain effects. As to why the results are what they are can only be theorized about but we know that trauma causes pain, denial and other defense mechanisms.
As hypnotists it is important for you to have an understanding of the conscious and unconscious minds.
A simple way to describe the process of the mind we know are that consciousness is the type of awareness you can focus on. It is known that the conscious mind can hold up to 5-9 ideas, experiences or thought processes at one time. The conscious mind is also responsible for making choices and plans.
The unconscious mind however is responsible for a huge amount of tasks. It holds all our memories, experiences, insights, habits and wisdoms that we have built up over the span of our lives.
We have discovered that it is safe to say that everything that happens within our minds and bodies are unconscious or semi-unconscious events. Our unconscious is the master controller but will also take commands from the conscious mind. The instructions that the unconscious will take from the conscious must be presented in the right way in order for it to stick; this is the art of suggestion. We either made suggestions to ourselves or others make suggestions to us.
As a hypnotist you can disguise those suggestions with Stealth Tactics, and one of those is the bind and the double bind we have discussed here.
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Changing Hypnotic Realities Without a Word: The Power of Presuppositions
By Covert Hypnotist | February 28, 2010
Conversational Hypnosis illustrates its power mostly through the language you use. It is vital to learn how and when to use certain aspects of language to be successful in hypnosis. Stealth Tactics are some of the most valuable concepts you will learn in the time you spend studying hypnosis.
Stealth Tactics are a set of ways that will help you to enter the mind of a subject and leave your suggestion either without detection from the critical factor or by overloading the conscious mind in a way that it will not object to your statements presence.
As you learn the Stealth Tactics you will also be learning how to combine those tactics with other language principals and concepts. All of which will help you in creating a full process or picture of how hypnosis works. Once you master all the language skills including Stealth Tactics you will be on your way to becoming a more skilled and accomplished hypnotist.
The fourth Stealth Tactic used in Conversational Hypnosis is the concept of Presuppositions. So what exactly is a presupposition? A presupposition is a linguistic assumption. Presuppositions are used everyday by you and everyone you know. These are things you assume given the statements you hear and make. They are believed to be true just because of the language you are using.
Almost every statement you make has a presupposition built into it. The best way to explain a presupposition is to show you an example. If you were to state, “The kids are riding in the back of the car.” This is a fairly common statement, and there is a few presuppositions built into it. The first is that there is a car. The second is there is a back and front to the car. And the third is that there is more than one child in the car. All these things are things you assume from that simple common statement.
Another way that presuppositions work is once the information is implied you no longer consciously try to disagree with these facts. Once the statement is made you are not questioning whether or not there are kids or a car, you are busy thinking about where the kids are in the car.
Now there are many different types of presuppositions that can be made in many different ways, we will go over some of the most valuable for your needs in the art of hypnosis.
The first type of presupposition is one of awareness. When you take the time to imply that you are aware of a certain thing it will immediately draw your listener’s attention to it. In this presupposition you are taking the focus off the subject and redirecting their focus to where or why it is that way. In this concept if resistance does take place it will happen on the level of awareness not on the subject itself. Words you can use to imply awareness are know, aware, realized and noticed.
The second type of presupposition uses time and time sequence with in the statement. The presupposition that uses time and time sequence will state a chain of events in sequence or a time that they took place. You can use numerical order to do this; first, second and third.
You can also accomplish this by using words like begin, end, as soon as, prior to, after, before, continue and so on. Any words that describe a time sequence or time something happened.
The reason this works to distract resistance is that your listener gets caught up in organizing the events and when they took place. Even though this is not really necessary or important it does allow time for your suggestions and ideas to quietly slip by the critical factor.
As you are learning the three types of presuppositions you can also practice stacking presuppositions. When you stack presuppositions, one on top of the other you are sending and overwhelming amount of information out for the conscious mind to make its way through. This is a great way to distract the conscious mind from noticing the suggestion you are slipping in.
Usually when you stack presupposition the listener’s conscious mind will get over loaded with information and generally revert back to just going with the flow of your speaking. This means they are not going to take the time to critically think or analyze what you are saying, making resistance nonexistent.
The final presupposition you need to know is that of adverbs and adjectives. These are used to imply quality or action. They are descriptive words like fortunately, luckily, curious and sadly. In this presupposition you are making your listener more aware of the quality of a thing than the thing itself. “Luckily, I did catch the train.”
There is no question about the train’s existence; the attention is drawn to the lucky part. If you made this statement alone your listener would not resist the fact there was a train but want to know why you almost missed it. The resistance is newly placed on the how; how did the action happen, how did you almost miss the train. In this presupposition there is no need to know how to use or stack them because the conscious graciously does it for you.
It is important to remember that these are not just statements they are valuable tools for you to sneak into the mind past the critical factor. This can be done with one presupposition but is more likely to work when you stack three or more together. This will adequately overload the conscious so your suggestions are firmly planted. In doing three or more presuppositions you will override the conscious’ ability to keep up with you and there will likely be no critical analysis at all.
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