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 absorb your attention, they bypass critical factor simply because you recognize them as stories and they create unconscious responses in everyone. When you tell a story you will incorporate hypnotic themes, sometimes without even trying, and seed a strategy in the minds of others. You can use stories as a way to embed suggestions, emotional triggers and link these suggestions and triggers to a specific action or outcome.

Stories can help you to suspend reality as well as merge realities together. They can offer a quiet resemblance to your life and the situations and problems you find yourself experiencing. All these aspects of story telling run right along the lines of the skills you will practice and master in hypnosis.

Stories are an important part of what you will be doing as a hypnotist. They are an art form and there is as much a method to good story telling as there is to hypnotic story telling. Remember as you read this information that we are focusing on the telling of stories, this is much different than the writing of stories. What you will do as a hypnotist is tell stories in order to invoke change in the people around you.

There are certain aspects that need to be involved to tell a hypnotic story, there are different actions and ideas that need to take place, at least to some degree. Even the simplest stories are still recognized as stories because they follow a type of formula that you hear and think, okay so that was a story.

You may think it was a bad story or you may think you heard a great story. Either way you are not able to deny that it was a story.

Hopefully you will be creating and telling great stories. In order to get on your way to telling good stories there are parts of a story that you need to be consciously aware of. A simple set of instruction that will help you in creating the most basic principal of what a story is. From there you can build and add to the story as you feel necessary, but it must contain these few instructions in order to fall into the category of a hypnotic story.

The first rule you must include in all your stories is to begin with a routine. This can be a very simple routine or a complicated one; it does not matter as long as there is a routine placed at the beginning of your story. In this article we will build an example story together. So the beginning routine of our story will be, “I was driving my car down the highway.” This is a routine that will start the story we are going to build here.

The second rule for building a hypnotic story is that you must break that routine. Whatever routine you found to begin your story with must be broken. There needs to be an interruption in the action.

“I was driving my car down the highway when I heard an unexpected noise coming from the back seat.” Here we have broken the routine, something other than driving down the highway has happened.

The next rule to this formula for story building is to change someone. There needs to be a character in the story that is changed. This means they need to have some type of emotional effect. Something needs to happen to affect the character you are changing that will produce an impact on that character as a result of an event.

“I was driving my car down the highway when I heard an unexpected noise coming from the back seat.
As I looked in my rear view mirror I saw a small black dog, she was holding her paw in an odd way.
I immediately pulled the car over and got out to see what the situation was. The little dog was bleeding and was in great need of medical attention.
I decided that I would have to postpone my plans to go out and take the little dog to the animal hospital.”

The part of my story where my character decides to take the dog to the hospital is where the change is taking place. There is a clear decision made and an emotion is attached to it.

Now there is a fourth and final rule to hypnotic story telling that you have the option of including or leaving out. If you can find a way to incorporate it into your stories you will be glad you did.

This is called re-incorporation and it really pays off in the end. Re-incorporation is when you add a seemingly meaningless detail to the beginning of the story and then re-incorporate it at the end. This is a way to usually add a riveting effect to your stories.

If you can follow all the rules of story telling you will come up with a story every time that will be recognizable as a story. Your listener will have no question about what you have just said and it will meet the expectations of a story for anyone who hears it.

Now there are many ways to tell stories. If you find one that works better for you and incorporates all that a story need then you should stick with what works for you. But these are the rules that will rest assured give you a good story frame, the rest is up to you

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The idea of telling stories has been around as long as humans have. There is sufficient evidence of this from cave drawings to modern day books and the internet. There is not a person on earth who can speak in full sentences that has not at one point or another told a story. They happen everyday, countless times.

You tell the mechanic about the funny noises your car is making. You tell the grocery clerk about how frustrated you were trying to find the eggs. You tell your child about sharing and your spouse about your day. These are all examples of stories that happen daily.

All these stories also have something in common, they are all powerful. Every story speaks directly to the unconscious mind. You feel emotion for a story as simple as not being able to find the eggs at the super market. You may identify with the story tellers frustration or dismay. Emotion is the language of the unconscious and stories evoke emotion.

Stories do several things in hypnosis first they bypass the critical factor. The critical factor recognizes a story and really pays no more attention to it simply because it is a story. There is no resistance to stories.

The other thing that stories do for you is to take your reality away and suspend it as you enter a new reality. This new reality is not really defined and can blend realities together to confuse them. You often find yourself identifying with the characters the speaker is talking about and experiencing their lives and emotions as if they were your own. They allow you to live in the character’s experience.

This is why you feel emotion when we read particular stories. It is because you identify with the characters at some level. This is important as you put into the context of telling stories to improve your hypnosis, you can use a story to conjure a hypnotic effect in another person.

Once you pass up the critical factor you have the ability to create identification with characters and the person you are conversing with. After these two things are accomplished you are in a very powerful position, a listener with no resistance and a story they will want to listen to.

Because story telling is so pivotal in hypnosis, especially Conversational Hypnosis, you should really concentrate on getting experienced and good at it. Practice with those you know, everyone like to hear a good story.

Now lets look at hypnotic stories, how exactly do you tell a hypnotic story? The first thing a story does for you in the area of hypnosis is to seed ideas or set up a frame work of ideas that will lead your listener into experiences. To seed ideas in your stories be sure to embed suggestions within the story. The story itself can really be on any topic as long as you are focused on inserting your suggestions.

You should be aware to use trance themes within your stories as this will have a greater impact on your listener if they are coaxed into a trance. Trance themes that you can start out with are relaxation on vacation, being drawn into a movie or suspenseful ideas. These are hypnotic themes that will help to draw your listener into a hypnotic state.

Isomorphic stories are another helpful skill set to keep in your library. These are stories that portray likeliness to the situation or person you are telling the story to. This goes back and relates to mirroring.

Really be cognizant of mirroring your listener and their situation in the story you are telling about other characters. An isomorphic story will also offer a solution or plan of action to take about the problem or situation within the story, which is in essence your listener’s situation or problem. This type of story will send your listener away analyzing what has happened and eventually find their own meaning stemming from the story you have told.

Finally the last aspect of story telling you will want to practice is that of priming the unconscious mind. This is the art of forming the unconscious mind to be aware of a thing before you actually tell it in the story. This is a technique that is used in many different areas including competitive sports, teaching and sales.

Competitive sportsmen talk about how they will win and this is responded to on some level of the unconscious. The same goes for teaching a teacher can plant the teachings in a form of pre-teach before they actually teach the lesson they want their students to learn. Sales does this through testimonials of products, they convince the customer that they will be happy with the product before they even purchase it.

This concept actually inserts the idea of the motions the person would be going through so they think they have experienced it even before it has actually happened. A sales man shows you want you will need to do for the paper work of buying your car before you actually fill it out.

All the story telling skills and types we have covered are very, very powerful. They will help you in bringing in hypnotic themes and plant processes in the minds of your subjects. They will also assist you in embedding suggestions, accessing states, setting emotional triggers and producing productive positive outcomes.

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Access State Principal plays a huge role in this process. This is because the clarity of the state of mind a person is in when the trigger is set will determine how well the trigger is going to work, if at all. When people access emotions they are really going back through their files of memories to re-experience memories that correlate with the emotion you are asking them to bring to mind.

If you are asking them to relax they will think of times and places where they felt this way. Accessing the state of mind you want is important. However it is equally important to make sure it is a pure state. You will have conflict in placing your suggestions and triggers if the state of the listener is not just in the mode of relaxation.

If your listener is experiencing relaxation along with anxiety it will cause the same combination of feelings when you set off the trigger again in the future. This can cause problems in accomplishing the changes you want to achieve throughout the course of hypnosis.

The main thing from previous articles you will want to remember as you learn to use revivification is that you need to know how to change the whole mood of a person before setting your emotional trigger. If you can keep this in mind and access a clear state of mind before setting those triggers it will aid in the process of accessing states with revivification as well.

The concept behind revivification itself is to bring an experience to life for the person having it. The listener needs to be able to experience the memory fully in order to access a completely pure state of mind. This means you will be using and developing different skills in this process that will make the experience as real as possible for your subjects.

The first state inducing method (and the only one we will focus on in this article) is the revivification process. This is a process of accessing a state is by asking revivification questions. These questions are used to give direction to your subject while they are attempting to emerge themselves fully in a particular emotional state.

In your practice as a hypnotist you will be asking questions of the people in your care, these questions will be the start of a journey through their experiences in order to answer each one. You see when you ask a question of someone they are required to re-experience the situations where they felt the way in which you are asking about. We all must experience the actual answer before our minds compute how to answer a question.

Revivification will run more smoothly if you apply the principal of ‘going first’. ‘Going first’ in this situation means that you will first tell as story of your own that would get you into the same emotional state you are trying to get your subject into. If you want the person to feel happy you would tell a story of a thing that happened or a time when you were completely happy.

By ‘going first’ your physiology will change, your body will sub-communicate that emotion on an unconscious level through tone, body language, movements and gestures. In turn the person you are talking to will unconsciously pick up on those signals and start to be open to accessing that emotion as well.

After you have told a story and you are now in the same state of mind you wish your listener to be in you prompt or ask them of a time when they felt that way. When you ask questions of the people around you, especially when using revivification you want to make each question sound meaningful.

If you sound bored or uninterested the person you are working with will be more likely to reserve their answers, meaning they will not be interested in reliving an emotion for you. When you ask a question make it sound like the answer is extremely important to you. You can use different tonalities and language suggestions to make this happen. This will cause the person to really get deeper into the experience and in turn give you a much more quality answer.

The next step in revivification questions is to listen closely to the answer the person is giving, and repeat it back to them. You want to do this in the exact same way they said it to you. Use the same tone, lean and emphasis on the words they used.

The reason for doing this is people will use words that are what we call trigger words, these words are important to them. When you repeat the same words back using the same tones and such it will help your listener to access the memory and experience it more fully.

As you are doing this you will notice that you are going to be able to create a kind of feedback loop. In this loop you will give a story to go first, then ask them to give an example of the same emotion, listen for the sensory information they are giving, repeat the answer back to them exactly as they have said it and then start again.

Each time you complete the loop you will be allowing the subjects to dive deeper and deeper into the state of mind you are accessing.

As you use the process of revivification remember that part of the goal is to make the experience as real as possible through the language and stories each of you are telling. This is a powerful scenario and will be a great help in accessing pure clean states of mind.

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In order to create a new Emotional Trigger in a person there are skills and concepts you must learn to do first to be successful in implanting an Emotional Trigger. Before you start to practice the concepts in this article be sure to have the principal of 4 Stage Protocol mastered. The 4 Stage Protocol will help you to set the right environment to set a successful Emotional Trigger.

Aside from the 4 Stage Protocol you must also be able to understand and utilize the technique of ‘going first’. Both these concepts will help your subject to enter the clearest state of mind to whatever emotion you are trying to provoke. Once you have mastered these two skills and are well practiced at the other beginning skills you will have the ability to smoothly set successful Emotional Triggers.

When you have a listener and you are ready to set an Emotional Trigger in them you must first utilize the 4 Stage Protocol. If you will remember this is used to bypass the critical filter and keep the listener from analyzing your trigger. If you cannot use the 4 Stage Protocol then your attempts at setting triggers may likely go unsuccessfully for the simple fact that the conscious mind will be too involved to let the trigger in.

Your trigger may not even make it past the critical thinking of the person and be rejected before it is even set. Setting Emotional Triggers is an act that needs to happen when the conscious mind is not aware of what you are doing. This way it will take less time and effort to set a successful Emotional Trigger.

On the other hand it is possible to set a trigger when someone is consciously aware. The danger here is that it will activate the Law of Reversed Effect. The Law of Reversed Effect if you remember is the harder you try at a thing the more likely it is you will fail. The harder they are trying to consciously activate the state you are trying to trigger the more likely it is they will fail.

Another pitfall of setting triggers while the conscious awareness is checked in is that it will take more and more repetitions to set the trigger. The reason for this is you will have to work harder to bypass the critical filters as they will still be in place if the person is consciously aware.

So the first step in setting Emotional Triggers is to use the 4 Stage Protocol, the second step is to induce a State. This is done by actually giving direction to the person’s inner experiences; this will assist you in accessing hypnotic experiences.

Inducing a State is easiest done by asking questions that will be vivid enough to bring the experience back to life. There are other tools in your language that will help you with this. The main language skills you will want to use are detailed descriptions that bring a set of vivid pictures and feelings to the forefront of the listener’s mind.

By doing these detailed descriptions in vivid detail you will be triggering an already existing emotional trigger. This is a trigger that was previously developed through environmental experiences or because you created it purposefully in a previous session to trigger the state you are looking for.

Pre-existing triggers, whether created environmentally or by you, will be helpful in your job as a hypnotist especially when working with the same subject consistently. This happens because once a person is used to or recognizes your hypnotic tone or auditory shift to a hypnotic voice it will tend to trigger responses much quicker.

This shift to your hypnotic voice when working with your regular clients will help them in accessing hypnotic experiences.

This is why you must develop several different voices. Your speaking voice must have a different tonality than your normal speaking voice otherwise you could send people into trance at inappropriate times.

Think about if you were to always use your hypnotic tone with people who are conditioned to go into trance when they hear it. It can produce dangerous situations for you and your subjects. Hypnotic states should only be accessed when the person is in a situation where they are not consciously concentrating on any other thing.

At this point we should add that it is important to really polish your skills so that you are aware that you are only setting triggers and inducing hypnotic states when the outcome will have a positive effect. These should be used to bring to light positive changes in a person and because these triggers are set accidentally around you and possibly by you everyday it is important to become aware to only do it when the time is right.

The third step in creating Emotional Triggers is to intensify the State. This is pivotal; you must produce the cleanest, clearest and most pure state of mind possible in order to get the best result in setting your trigger. The stronger your subject’s state the easier it will be to not only set the trigger but also to activate that trigger to access the state again later.

Finally the fourth step in creating an Emotional Trigger is to associate the State to the Emotional Trigger. This is just as it states, you will be attaching the clean state of mind to the emotional trigger you want it associated with. After you accomplish this you will use the ABSAIL formula to link it all to an action that is carried out by the person you are working with.

After you have accessed a clear state of mind you will set your trigger, this is done simply by firing the trigger. Do whatever it is you want the trigger to be, if it is your voice use that voice. If you want the trigger to be a gesture or mannerism use that specific gesture or mannerism.

Remember that your tone of voice is important and will often work alone with those you have been in hypnosis with before. It is also important to remember that the trigger you set should be something you can use within the context of a normal conversation. This way it is easy for you to fire the trigger later with little to no extra effort.

It is important to also remember that setting and creating Emotional Triggers in people is a powerful action and will be one of the key elements in the basis of your hypnosis.

A quick review of the vast amount of information here is that you will set Emotional Triggers by accessing a pure state of mind. At the height of their emotional experience you will set off the trigger you have chosen, this attaches that state to that trigger meaning whenever you want to access that set of emotions in a person you will use that trigger to do so.

It may be possible that with some subjects you will need to repeat or condition the trigger, this is simply done through repetition. Always keep in mind that the more powerful the state is the easier the trigger will set.

After you have set your trigger you will want to test it to be sure it was set correctly and accessing the correct emotional state. This is done by breaking the state the person is currently in and re-firing the trigger, then observe. If the person re-enters the same state, meaning you see the signals that show you they have re-entered that state, your trigger was successfully set.

You will remember these signs from the Signal Recognitions System we reviewed earlier in these articles.

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