Agreement tactics in conversational hypnosis are very functional. You will learn to use these for two different reasons. The first reason to use agreement tactics is to put the critical factor in your subject’s mind to sleep.

The critical factor which tells people whether or not something is believable needs to be turned off in order to induce a good trance and to make suggestions that will hold true when the person is not under hypnosis.

This is the second reason you will use agreement tactics. Once the critical factor is turned off you will want your suggestions to seem realistic, agreement tactics do just that. They get the listener in the habit of agreeing with you and lend you the authority in their altered state of mind.

The agreement tactics, and there are four of them, build an agreement factor in the listener’s mind. They will help you to open up the side of the mind that likes to agree and make them want to agree with what you are saying.

The four agreement tactics include plausibility, the agreement habit, ‘yes sets’ and piggy backing suggestions. In this article we will look at the plausibility tactic and the agreement habit tactic. We will begin to explore how and why these will add impact to your suggestions when a person is under hypnosis.

The first agreement tactic of Plausibility is the idea of getting a person to agree with what you are saying repeatedly so eventually you can introduce an idea that may not be considered a truth. As long as it is a plausible statement they will agree with it because they are already in the habit of agreeing with you.

Agreement at this point is easier because you have put the person’s critical factor to sleep and there is no analysis of the idea you are presenting. This in turn allows the listener to keep with the general flow of the conversation without interrupting it to disagree.

The goal here is to have the critical factor turned off as much as possible. The more the critical factor is on the more plausible your statements must be. The more it is off the more implausible your statements can be. When a person is in a full state of trance the plausibility of a statement is no longer required, plausibility can be nonexistent and the subject will still take your statement for truth.

You can utilize your signal recognition skills here to see how much of your listeners critical factor is in place. Always keep in mind that your listener may seem to be totally awake, but this does not mean their critical factor is awake.

The second agreement tactic that we will be looking at is the Agreement Habit. Agreement habit is essentially based on the concept of ‘going first’. If you remember ‘going first’ is when you create a reality that you immerse yourself in first and then lead your listener through it.

In the Agreement Habit tactic you want to be able to set up a pace and have your listener follow along, agreeing all the way. This sets a pattern inside the head to agree, causing your listener to agree even when they may not agree with the entire statement.

Part of the Agreement Habit is the Agreement Habit Principal which has everything to do with positive reinforcement. What you put into something will help it to flourish and grow. Now this works the same for both positive effects and negative effects. When you reinforce a positive behavior or thought it will grow just as much as if you give attention to a negative behavior or thought which can be counterproductive for your purposes as a hypnotist.

In the agreement habit you will want to provide a response to the positive things and avoid responding to the negative. When you agree with ideas or statements, respond with a verbal ‘yes’, nodding your head or even a smile. When you disagree with an idea or statement do absolutely nothing, give it no response at all.

The act of response to the positive things will foster positive reinforcement and cause your subject to make more positive statements than negative ones. People like to get responses, whether they are positive or negative, so by only reacting to the positive thoughts you are greatly improving your agreement with the other person.

Another reason to respond to positive aspects of thoughts and ideas is the Access State Principal. In this principal the idea is that changing moods changes what information within the mind you have access to, as well as influencing the behaviors you exhibit.

When you change your mood to a positive mood you will access more positive thoughts and behaviors. Again everyone craves reactions and by altering you mood to receive the reaction that is favorable you will be advancing in the art of hypnosis.

Agreement habit and positive reinforcement when used correctly will casually leave behind the negative behaviors or things you do not respond to. These are all extremely powerful ways to induce agreement and keep it going. In this they are consciously registering the agreement and not the disagreement.

There is so much that the agreement habit can do that it is hard to keep it all in your head as you read this. So to review, agreement habit unconsciously presents the information you agree with, puts the critical factor out of commission, and sets a pattern of agreement that your listener can easily follow.

Plausibility and agreement habit are powerful tactics that you should perfect in order to become a great hypnotist. You should examine how, when and know why to use them. They assist in the beginnings of bringing out the objectives you have as a hypnotist.

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The performance art of hypnosis is a constant skill you must practice to perfect.  The skills of what to do and how to do it will need to be perfected if you are to become a great hypnotist.  There are different performance principals of hypnosis you should be practicing to sharpen your skills. 

The first four performance principals we have talked about are worth perfecting.  Principals of going first, meaning you first immerse your self into the idea that you wish your subject to become a part of through your language. 

Squeezing the meaning from your words, in which you make the words you use sound and feel like the true nature of their meanings. 

Emphasis, which is learning when and what words to lean on in order to accentuate your point. 

And finally, the principal of rhythm and tone, in which you add a unique style to your conversation that will help your listener to get lost in your voice and language.  These are all ways to enhance your performance as a hypnotist so you are a part of what you are doing with a subject. 

These principals not only help lead your subject through a trance they will help you become the authority figure within their trance.  By becoming the authority figure you will be able to control your subjects trance and produce the outcome that is favorable for you and the subject.

Now that you are acquainted with the four principals of performance you will need to learn how to use tonality to enhance your hypnosis abilities even further.  One of the tonality concepts that will help here is to develop a trance voice.

Developing a trance voice is not a tool that will immediately switch your subject’s brain off and put them under a sort of instant spell.  What it will do is help you to develop a tonality to your voice that will educate the unconscious mind as to when to go into trance.

Music is a prime example of this.  When you hear certain songs or types of music it brings in a flood of memories, thoughts and ideas.  This happens because the music has set off a certain trigger in the head that recalls related experiences.  As your subjects work with you they will begin to unconsciously recognize your trance voice and eventually learn to enter an altered state of mind on its cue.

You will be learning to develop different types of trance voices that will signal to your subjects when they should or should not be in trance.  This dropping into trance when they hear a certain tonality in your voice will happen because their unconscious mind will suggest that it is time to come in to play.

Your hypnotic voice or trance voice should be of a tone that people will enjoy listening to.  It should be easy to portray your words smoothly and elegantly when you use this voice.  It is also important to remember to only use your trance voice when you want people to go into trance.  You should never use this voice if you are speaking with someone who needs to be concentrating on a specific task such as driving or operating heavy equipment.

As you develop your trance voice you will notice that emotional triggers will assist you in setting the stage for your hypnotic voice to the full extent.

Tonality is a large part of trance voice.  Your tone of voice can range between three types; upward inflection, straight and level and downward intonation.  When you are using any one of these three different types of tone your meanings will change and your message will change.

If you are using upward inflection your statements will take on the sound of a question.  Using a straight and level tone will make a simple statement.  And if you incorporate downward intonation, usually at the end of a sentence, you words will take on that of a command. 

The questioning tonality will help you in developing what we call a nonverbal ‘Yes Set’.  This is pretty straight forward; you are using tonality to ask a question that the person will inherently answer yes to, or nod in agreement. 

The yes set is a great way to check in on your subject to make sure they are following along with you.  You can also use it to list a series of items, ideas or thoughts.  The yes set will more likely than not force you’re subject to keep up with you as you speak.

Another way to use the questioning tonality is to use it as a tool to ‘Create Doubt’ in your subjects mind.  You can cast a shadow of doubt on many things and ideas simply by breaking one simple question down into several well emphasized questions.

You can also create doubt by repeating the statements of the people around you and adding emphasis to different areas of the repeated statement.  When you repeat with emphasis what someone has just said to you, you are accessing a powerful way in which you can cast doubt or suspicion without actually having to say that is what you are doing.

The hypnotic principal of ‘Imply Don’t Assert’ is another way to use the questioning tonality.  This is a powerful way of getting your point across again without actually having to state the exact words.  Implication is always more pointed than actually saying what you would imply. 

‘Keep Em Talking’ is a questioning tonality that uses nonverbal communication along with a question or statement to extract more information from a person.  If you make a statement or question and add raised eyebrows to your facial features you are nonverbally asking for them to add new information to what they have just said.  Because you are adding no new information in this, just repeating what they have said along with a nonverbal cue, they will automatically be inclined to add more information for you.

The next type of tonality that is useful is the command tonality.  The command tonality is used to cement everything into place; it gives you an instruction to make the thought or idea a permanent one.  It activates the side of the brain that wants to respond to you by fulfilling a request.

This tonality will not make everyone you command do everything you command them to.  It will however entice people to do things when you do the right steps.  In command tonality you will be most successful if you use downward intonation and use them with a question.  This will get the most bang for your buck.  Experiment with a question, any question, as you do so change the upward and downward intonations in your voice as you state the command.

You will see that ‘command tone down’ has a powerful implication where action is being asserted.  This is a great tool for conversational hypnosis and one you should practice.  When you start to master how to ‘command tone down’ you will see a reaction in people that many want to do what you are telling them to.

Questioning and command inflections will greatly improve the level of response you get from people.  They will tend to respond more powerfully to what you are asking if you learn how to use tonality and inflection to phrase your statements.

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Hypnosis is a great and valuable performance art. It is important to not only know what you are doing but how to do it. As we look at tonality you should always remember that only 7% of the meaning derived from your words actually comes from the word itself. The other meanings, and vast majority, come from the tonality you use and the body language that accompanies your speaking.

It is also important to remember as we move on with this subject that you must always begin with the first two principals of performance being ‘go first’ and squeezing the meanings from your words. Both of these principals when paired with the next two principals of emphasis and rhythm and tone will be monumental in perfecting your performance as a hypnotist.

The third performance principal that you will need to know how to perform is the emphasis you put on different words and how that emphasis affects your language. Emphasis is when you lean on a word with your voice. You make that word stand out in your statement. This can be done in writing by underlining or italicizing words. When you do it with your speaking though it has a much more dramatic effect.

For example, take the simple statement “Did you drive the car to the store today?”. Here I have written it with a very even tone, there appears to be no emphasis made on any particular word. However, if I said “Did you drive the car to the store today? The meaning of the entire statement goes from a simple question to an inquiry about who drove the car to the store.

Let’s look at one more example of the same statement to really drive the point home here. “Did you drive the car to the store today?” here the meaning becomes more of a question or surprise that the car was driven to the store today. If you took each word of the same statement and put emphasis on them one at a time while reading it you will see that the meaning of the statement will change consistently to some degree.

In this we learn that your emphasis and how you say things to others will automatically show them what you find to be important information in the sentence. When you emphasize words you begin to open the process called ‘multiple levels of information’. This means simply that you can be saying one thing on one level and have a completely different meaning on another level. This is something that naturally happens when you speak and change your tonality.

While the emphasis you put on words often happens naturally it is also important to do this purposefully. When you are performing the art of hypnosis you can use emphasis to drive the meaning of each word you use into your listener. This use of emphasis will show the listener that there is a great deal of importance behind whatever it is you are saying.

A good example here is the difference between two different statements whose meanings are generally the same when we look at the words alone. But when we look at the way the words are said the statement becomes much more important.

“If you don’t listen to me you could get hurt.”
Or
“I need you to listen to what I am saying, it is important so you don’t get hurt.”
If you say both these statements you will hear the differences in the messages.

As you practice this principal you will begin to notice the effect it has on others depending on how you lean on the words. You will also likely notice an effect it has on yourself as well, both as you say things and as others make statements to you.

The fourth performance principal is about rhythm and tone. When you are putting someone into trance it helps to have a rhythm to your speaking, rhythms as we have learned help to take us away, relax us and let our minds drift. This principal is using tonality and rhythm together to create smoothness to your language, also called a ‘trance rhythm‘.

Trance rhythm has the same effect as when you listen to music, it creates an altered state of consciousness where the rhythm of the language pulls you into it.

Speaking in rhythm is much like emphasis as it changes the way you are perceived by those around you. The ways in which you change the rhythms of your speech will let your subjects know when they should and should not be in trance. There are many examples of this in poetry and music. A very good example of how rhythm can unconsciously pull you in is in the film, Cyrano de Bergerac.

In this film the manner of speech was written on poetic couplets. It is not so much poetry that you would hear it and notice rhyming and beat, however the rhythm of the couplets draws your ear to hear the elegance behind the language. It is very subtle yet very powerful.

It is important to improve your performance as a hypnotist by practicing rhythm and tone. Play with the language you use and building different rhythms into your speech. You can play with rhythms and tones that signify all sorts of feelings; excitement, sorrow, quiet, fast. Remember that your body must be in tune to the rhythms you are using. When your body and mind have the rhythm your language will be expressed with much more ease and clarity.

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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 possess.

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A key tool as hypnotists is the language you will use. It is very important to understand how vital it is for you to master the language and use it as a power foundation with your subjects.

Language and how you use it will create a solid base for putting people into an altered state of mind. The main objective in hypnosis is to have the ability to help people change their lives and this is accomplished through influence and persuasion to do certain things. Without the right language and skill you will struggle with accomplishing these goals.

The ability to use language to create an altered state of mind is key. Altered state of mind is defined as a special state of awareness in which the subject focuses on certain ideas and excludes other ideas from that focus. In this definition the meaning is that whatever a person is focusing on exclusively becomes real to them.

It is important to remember that within each human the will and imagination are always conflicting. It is equally important to remember that the imagination will always win this battle. In order to use this information in your language arsenal it is important to make direct contact with the imagination and lay your suggestions there.

Using language to zero in on the outcome you are striving for requires you to get people into a good ‘focus of attention’. This is one of the first concepts that early hypnotists discovered was responsible for causing trances. When you can accurately get and maintain the focus of a person they will often enter a trance for you.

After this has been accomplished you will be the tour guide of their trance. It is your responsibility as the hypnotist to lead them on an unforgettable journey into and through their trance. You will be influencing them to focus their attention on thoughts and ideas that will help them to arrive at their desired outcome. The arrival there will fulfill their purpose in changing behaviors to match their goals in life.

Now as we continue through this article you will learn how you do this. How do you create that powerful foundation of hypnotic language?

The first stage in this is to create an unbroken flow of ideas. This responsibility is all on you as the hypnotist. This flow of ideas should run smoothly, it should be practiced. The words you speak should be fluid, comfortable, enjoyable, and pleasant. Keep your listener wanting to hear more. There should be no words or ideas that cause your listener to want to stop your flow of language.

There are ways to accomplish what I have just explained. If you exercise these 4 principals you will begin to master the key tool in conversational hypnosis.

The first principal you must apply is to create verbal agreement with your subject. In order to do this the listener must be able to in some way agree with what you are saying. They do not have to literally say yes to everything you say but something inside of them has to recognize at some level your statements are true for them.

Part of this agreement is in you and your speaking. Your thoughts must flow easily without hesitation or disagreement. When you accomplish this you are much easier for your listener to follow, it is easier to come to agreement if things do not have to be thought out or deciphered.

The second principal to apply in your hypnotic language is ‘patterns and plausibility’.
In order to know the amount of work you need to do here it is important to remember the signs of trance. Once you have determined how deep in trance your subject is you will know how plausible or implausible your statements can be.

The deeper in trance the person is the less plausible your statements can be.

In the ‘patterns and plausibility’ principal you will start with agreement. Make statements that your subject must agree with simply because they are truth. You can use the weather outside, the time of day, subjects color of hair; anything that is a verifiable fact. After the person in trance has heard several true statements you will want to add a statement that may or may not be true.

This new statement only has to be plausible enough that they will follow along with it because it is easier to agree than to argue the possible disagreements. In this way the habit of agreeing to the true statements will sneak past the conscious filters that say it may not be true. Once you are past those filters the statement will then start to become true for them.

After the first two principals have been successful, you can start to work on the third principal; piggy back suggestions. The idea behind piggy backing suggestions is that you can adequately relate ideas or statements that may not necessarily be connected.

This again requires smoothness to your language, there needs to be no breaks in the conversation so there is no time to recognize the un-connectedness of the statements. Another advantage that piggy backing suggestions give is the ability to make comfortable transitions between thoughts and ideas. If you apply this principal correctly there will be no work involved for your listener, it should be an easy experience of transition through new ideas.

And finally the fourth principal of linguistic bridges is applied. Linguistic bridges are simply conjunctions that permanently connect two sets of information together. When you use linguistic bridges well the thoughts and ideas you are connecting will run through the listener smoothly.

One way to do this is to use the 4 Words of Power. The 4 words of power are four conjunctions that act like linguistic bridges. These are key in tying together hypnotic themes and help in cementing those ideas together in a nice package. Mastering the 4 words of power will give you the ability to create an endless variety of content and new hypnotic inductions.

So what are those 4 words of Power? As. And. Because. Which means. These 4 words will give you the ability to piggy back a vast variety of statements and thoughts. The way that these words work is to create a smooth way of communicating all the suggestions you want in a way that your subject will respond to hypnotically.

The 4 words of power are easy to use as you practice them you will see you can fit them easily between themes and connect statements that may otherwise seem un-connectable. They will make many statements seem more plausible and will add a new rhythm to your speaking.

There are a variety of other linguistic bridges that work much like the 4 words of power and as you learn them you will see your full capabilities in this area of conversational hypnosis. With the use of the 4 words of power and these other linguistic bridges you will experience a wide range of fluid expression.

There are lists of the linguistic bridges available and it would be an excellent idea to memorize these powerful words to use as tools in your language. The lists available for the linguistic bridges are great for learning to incorporate them into your speaking when you have the list with you.

You can also purchase a Street Hypnosis Deck, which is a deck of illustrated cards containing words on each card. This is a great way to carry the linguistic bridges you will be using so often with you.

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