The ability to alter the state of mind has been something you probably have been reading about and possibly practicing for some time now.

If this is true then the next logical step in your education will be to refine and sharpen the trance induction skills you have been learning. To do this you must take all the skills you have been learning and keep them as fresh in your mind as possible. Many of these skills you will be able to use in trance induction as you learn to broaden your horizons in this area.

For now you should focus on the basics of becoming great, a great Conversational Hypnotist that is. The 4 Stage Protocol along with a couple of secret tips will give you the important and basic specifics for inducing a hypnotic trance. The skills and tips in this article will nearly guarantee you the ability to send you subject and those around you into hypnotic trances.

These are all skills you should already be familiar with and if you are not then a brief refresher may help before you carry on. On another note, remember that these are the basics and you will be learning many more layers of skills to add to these as your education continues.

The 4 Stage Protocol is really the meat and potatoes of getting someone into a hypnotic trance. This set of rules or concepts contain all you need in order to create hypnotic trance in another person.

The first step is to Absorb Attention. No matter what hypnotic effect or process you want to do with your subject you must always first absorb their attention. Without the attention of your listener you will not be able to continue in the area of inducing a trance. So make sure to practice getting people’s attention.

You will learn ways to do this as you go on to other articles, all you need to know now is you simply must be able to get a persons attention focused on you to bring them into an altered state of mind or hypnotic trance.

The second stage in the 4 Stage Protocol is a very important one, Bypass the Critical Factor. As you have read before the critical factor is the filter of the conscious mind that criticizes and analyzes all the information being sent in from outside sources.

It is imperative to make any type of progress with the betterment of life that you bypass the critical factor. Your listener must be able to agree and accept your suggestions on some level so you can not only seed them in but get a response from those suggestions.

That brings us to the third stage, which is to Activate an Unconscious Response. This is simply getting any type of unconscious response from the person you are inducing. It can be any of the signals found in the signal recognitions system, an emotion or reaction to your suggestion that is communicated from an unconscious mind level.

A change in breathing, blinking and so on, as long as it is unconscious. This is important because without attaining the unconscious response you will have a difficult time leading it to a desired outcome.

This brings you to the fourth and final stage in the 4 Stage Protocol, being to Lead the Unconscious Response to a Desired Result. When you recognize the different signals or unconscious responses you must take them and lead them into your desired result.

That result can be a thought process, action, idea or anything you want that will help in the person’s goals of life change.

Now that you have been reminded of the four stages you can set those stages in the back of your mind and concentrate on how to get someone’s attention. The fixation of attention can be done in many different ways. The method you use largely depends on the person and circumstance you are in.

You can attract their attention by telling them something that will interest them. You can attract their attention by asking questions that instill some curiosity. You can attract them down the rabbit hole by showing them something they want so they in turn want to follow you. All these are ways of attracting attention.

The above list of ways to attract attention is great but sometimes it is just good to be direct. Simply ask them to direct their attention to what it is you are saying, doing or asking them to do. Humans by nature like to comply, most like to please others and in asking a very direct and easy thing will certainly get your listeners attention.

Being simple and direct in asking for attention may seem like a contradiction since in Conversational Hypnosis you are usually trying to learn how to be indirect. But if you take a step back and think about the greatest hypnotists like Milton Erickson and others even they knew when to be direct. They knew when to just simply make a direct request of a subject.

Being very direct is one of the best kept secrets in hypnosis. You should have no reason not to be direct, and often it can give you the best results. Making a clear concise request without embarrassment or hesitation is an important way to start in getting peoples attention.

The second secret in hypnosis that relates to this is to learn how to move from being very direct to indirect as you improve your skill. After you have refined your ability to get attention with directness you will learn to move to more indirect ways of still getting the attention you need.

This is a way to make things less blatant and more smooth, more like they are taking place in the background of what you are really doing. You will learn how to accomplish the art of absorbing attention with more subtle communications.

These things will happen in the background of conversation and be harder to spot by your listener. This is something that you will want to move on to after you have mastered the direct routes of absorbing attention.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Story telling gives you an insurmountable amount of power with in hypnosis. Story telling is a way for you to access states through the unconscious without triggering the critical factor as well as seeding ideas for future use to change lives.

It allows you to implant emotional triggers, which you learn more about later on in this article. It is a way to express many different types of situations, feelings and solve problems.

There is no real limit to the power behind a story, hence it is a very powerful tool for you to use in you quest as a hypnotist. In this article you will learn how to create an emotional trigger with a hypnotic story. This will serve only to strengthen your story telling ability and assist in propelling you into new areas of the telling of stories.

Hypnosis is a way of altering your experiences to become more responsive in a focused and calm mind. The unconscious is the house where your emotions dwell and when you create an unconscious response you are in effect creating an emotional response as well. Just in this you have already accessed an altered state of mind.

When you embark on telling a story your objective will be to get an emotional response from those around you. You want to revivify the experience for your listeners, really make them come alive in your ideas placed in the story. Context of the story will play a big part in this. You must access the correct contexts for the emotions you are trying to coax from the people around you.

The best way to do this is to ‘go first’. In doing this you will sub-communicate the experiences that you want your listeners to have. If you can make the events, ideas and characters of your story real for yourself in turn your listener will have a better chance of tuning into that same picture.

In going first here you are not just going to be visualizing the story you need to really place yourself within the story in your mind. You need the experience to convey the emotions you wish to extract from those around you. In fact you need to experience the emotions as well.

Remember the things you have been learning as they will be valuable tools for this process. All the tools still count in this type of story telling. You will need to use the three rules of story telling as well as the re-incorporation of events.

You will find that ‘going first’ to visualize the story will heighten the awareness of your listener. Keeping in tune with your creativity and how to let it flow freely from your unconscious to create the story will be pivotal. All of these aspects along with keeping inside the circle and never stop talking will get your story telling to a new level.

As you use all these concepts in your building of stories you will be more apt and more able to let your unconscious mind freely create the story straight from the creative wells with in you.

There are other aspects you have learned that you will want to work into this web of story telling as well. These include the hypnotic language, precision language, hypnotic themes and sensory rich language.

In practicing your story telling you will be making up stories and telling true stories at the same time. The more you create stories to tell the more your unconscious mind will relate those fictional stories to true events that have taken place in your own life.

Soon you will have the capability to tell genuine stories that will also induce hypnosis and present hypnotic themes. You will be able to embed the suggestions you want your listeners to put into action, and see a response to that action.

When you start to combine all these aspects of hypnosis you will be actively creating emotional triggers within your stories. The story itself will set off emotional triggers and open the people around you to suggestion and change.

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Stories and hypnosis go together very well and story telling will be a powerful and important part of your job. The stories you tell will be used to do many things you have already learned. They can assist you in any of the steps in the 4 Stage Protocol. A good hypnotic story will absorb attention, bypass critical factor, create an unconscious response and put the unconscious response into action.

Stories will also give you a place to seed ideas and place suggestions. They will allow you to have a frame set in order to mirror the problems and experiences of the people around you so they can identify with the characters and put the solutions you suggest into action.

All of these things are just the tip of the iceberg in what good story telling can do for you in Conversational Hypnosis. The stories you tell will often be the backbone of your interactions with the very people you are trying to help to better their lives. In this context it only makes sense that you should be the best possible story teller you can be in to influence people in the best possible way. Good story telling is in essence a win-win situation for you and your clients.

As you have been learning you have probably been practicing telling stories in some way or another. Since you have had a little experience it is time to start to polish up those stories and really make them shine. One of the most important things you will need to remember to do this is to avoid at all costs the restriction of your unconscious, your creativity.

There are tricks that will help you to keep your creativity flowing and free. The first trick to this is don’t try to be good. This may sound a little odd when the purpose of this article is to enhance your story telling abilities.

What this means is that there is a set of rules that we have covered previously and you need to stick to those rules. Trying too hard to be good at telling a story can often times be self defeating in that you will diminish the natural flow of the story. Don’t destroy your stories by trying too hard to make them the best stories ever heard. If you stay with the rules instead of trying to be good you will tell stories that are good.

The second trick to telling hypnotic stories is to let the muck come out. There will be a certain amount of muck within you that will need to seep out in the beginning phases of your story telling.

This muck is made up of all the things you think of and ponder that are not socially acceptable to say in conversations with the people you interact with on a regular basis. This is a natural process that happens to all story tellers that are really great, so just let the much flow.

Don’t be surprised when the muck comes. This muck is dirty. It can be a combination of obscenities, morbid thinking, swearing, sexual perversions and all other types of socially unacceptable thoughts that we never discuss with other people. The fact is this is going to be unavoidable and you ultimately are not responsible for your stories.

Stories are created by the unconscious so you need to free yourself here completely. Adopt the attitude that you don’t care what others think of your dirty, dirty muck. Do not criticize yourself for the stories that evolve from this muck. Do not censor yourself in your story telling, just open your mouth and let the muck fly.

If you don’t get it out you will pollute the flow of your creativity and that is the first no-no you were warned of in this article.

The third trick is going to be for you to visualize the scene. You can probably tell I am now going to tell you to ‘go first’ for this trick. You are right it is important that you can not only visualize the scene but also put yourself into it. Make sure to visualize it all so you are creating a reality for yourself and your listener.

The fourth trick to story telling is to keep things inside ‘the circle’. This is a simple idea that is fairly easy to follow. When you are telling a story each piece of information you give will have natural associations attached to it.

These associations are the things in the circle. All the rest of the things that are not associated with the pieces of information you are giving need to be left out of your story.

The best way to illustrate this is to give you an example. If you are telling a story and you set the scene as you are living in the ocean there are automatically going to be associations that go with that idea. Things that will be around you will be fish, water, sand and seaweed.

There is also a broader aspect to this circle of surroundings that the listener may not expect that can also be possible. These things could include a submarine, a body floating in the water and a pirate ship. These are all in the circle.

Things that are not going to be in the circle are dogs, furniture, semi trucks and camels. Remember that all the things in the circle are going to have associations as well.

This is an easy way to follow your own story; all the future twists and turns in the story will already be laid out for you in the things that are associated with every thing that comes before it.

Finally the last trick to follow for story telling is to just keep talking. You will always have subject matter in the associations with the elements you have previously told in the story so let it flow. Just keep talking.

Now that we know the insider tricks to polishing your stories lets add a few insights to them to get the complete story on polishing your stories.

The best way to become an exceptional story teller is to train your brain. In this you are conditioning your brain to grow new neurology and make new connections that will let the stories come naturally with practice.

A good insight to keep in mind with this is to avoid blocking or wimping out. These are ways that will hold up your story telling and bring it to a stall, boring. Blocking is when you keep doing the same activities over and over again simply because you are afraid of moving on to the next idea in your story.

Wimping out is when you keep circling around the same idea repeatedly running in the same circle. Remember that you have a preset story line provided by you unconscious and the association with the aspects of the already existing story. You should not be afraid to move on.

The final concept and second additional insight into story telling is to just take it one step at a time. There is no need to panic because you don’t know the rest of your story as you tell it. Taking it one step at a time will be easier for you and your listener.

Each next step is presented to you in the list of associations that spring from the previous step. If you are keeping it inside the circle you will have all the answers you need. There is no need to know the whole story at any time in your story telling.

By following these insights and tricks and combining them with the rules for telling a story you will advance in this area powerfully. The best thing to do is just stick to the rules, tricks and insights and your stories will grow from your unconscious beautifully.

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It is a fact that on average the conscious mind can concentrate, and keep straight 5-9 items at one time. Five things are generally pretty easy for a person to remember and nine is beginning to become quite difficult. As you can see this is not a great number when you put it into the amount of items, facts or ideas you can rattle off in a conversation.

This is why when you are having a conversation with a person about their car being in the shop and they start to give you a bunch of different facts about the car they drive, the car their parents drive, the car Uncle Tom drives and the car Aunt Hilda drives you may get confused.

You will so busy trying to keep the different cars, the people who drive them and the facts about them straight that you will miss the point of the conversation in the first place. Your speaker was talking about his car being in the shop.

Overloading the mind with any information will cause the critical factor to either get distracted with unimportant information or shut down all together. This is a plus for you as a hypnotist because then you can attach a suggestion and it will flow right on in.

If a person is able to keep track of the information they will more than likely be focusing on the wrong information which will still distract the critical factor and again allow your suggestion in anyway.

The idea behind overloading people with details is just that. No matter what the subject or how it is being presented, whether it be fact, fiction or just random information, you want to really give them a lot of details to use this powerful concept to its full advantage.

The next language trick or confusion pattern you will use to overload the mind is called the spontaneous change of meaning. This is done by the sudden and unexpected combining of two different statements. When you take two statements that end and begin with the same word you can mush them together to make one sentence that just doesn’t quiet add up.

For example, “I’m going to the store is out of milk.” In this statement the meaning at the beginning and end are fine, they make sense. But somewhere in the middle things get a little confusing, just confusing enough that you have to stop and think about what I have just said.

If you take the statement apart you see that ‘I’m going to the store’ is quite average and normal; as is ‘The store is out of milk.’ This sudden change in how people are used to hearing things causes critical factor to stop for the confusion. When that happens you can simply add your suggestion to the flow of conversation and it will again go in unnoticed.

Another way to incorporate spontaneous change of meaning into your Conversational Hypnosis is to introduce a suggestion in your conversation and then continue speaking as if it never happened. This again causes enough confusion for critical factor that it wants to stop to figure it out.

This is overridden by the fact that you are still talking and there is no time to go back to figure it out. Now the unconscious does pick up the suggestion and stores it away for future use. Again your suggestion gets in to the mind as it bypasses the confused critical factor.

As you include more and more of these spontaneous changes the mind will not only pick up the conversation you are having aloud it will begin to recognize the pattern being created within through the hidden messages.

Yet another way to use this change of meaning is to avoid the ambiguity all together and just combine two statements that end and begin with the same word together. These statements will make more sense and be a little less confusing but still distracting. The key here is to make sure to add these statements casually into conversation otherwise they will be noticed and detected.

Also remember to use these when you need to, not for every other statement. If you use this spontaneous change of meaning too often it can become annoying and overbearing, which is true for most confusion language tactics. Becoming too confusing can be counterproductive in that your listeners will no longer have an interest in listening to you.

Lastly we come to the language confusion concept of shock and surprise. This is a fascinating concept, any time you really shock or surprise someone you will automatically run over the critical factor and make it in. Shock and surprise will create their own type of trance induction.

Just by being shocked and surprised your conscious thinking will immediately overload and shut down leaving only the unconscious open to suggestion and ready to follow instruction, which is perfect for a hypnotist.

There is a caution in shock and surprise method. Some people do not like to be shocked and surprised so be sure you are picking and choosing wise times and the right people to use this technique on.

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