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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One of the ways to do this is to intensify the state you are using in each different session. Intensifying the state of mind for your subject is really going to help them in many different areas of their hypnosis. It will also greatly improve your abilities as a hypnotist.

There are several different reasons why you would want to intensify the state of your listener. To start with you can use intensification in the change moods not mind concept. The more intense you make the mood they are experiencing the more dramatically they will change their course of thinking.

This is helpful because the reason for changing moods in the first place is because it allows the mind to follow without interference of the critical filters. This alone is a reason for needing to know how to intensify a state and is a big step when getting a person into a different state of mind.

States of mind are similar to different rooms in a house. In each room you keep certain stuff and you are only able to access that stuff when you are in that room. The mind works much in the same way. Different states of mind will allow you to access the different memories, experiences, feelings and definitions that are associated with that state. If you do not have a pure and clear state of mind you will have limited access to the stuff you need for that experience.

Now intensifying the state of mind comes in as a big help because the more clear your subjects state of mind is the more efficiently your triggers will be implanted. As we all know by now the emotional trigger is a very important step to accomplish as it will eventually lead to the changes the person wants to make in their life. The more you can amplify and intensify the state of a person the more powerful your suggestions will end up being.

So let’s get down to it, how do you work on intensifying the state of a person in order to help in hypnosis? One of the first ways is to intensify the response you are getting from your subjects. It is important to know how to intensify this response in order to be accessing a state that is strong enough for you to spend time setting an emotional trigger to.

There are basically four techniques to make a response more intense. These concepts can be used together or separately and it is important to know how to use your basic hypnosis knowledge before wading into these four concepts.

Some of the skills you will want to be practiced at before hand are first to realize that some people have a much easier time getting into states than others. This is important to know simply so you are aware that getting in and out of good clean states may take practice for some people.

Another tool you will need to be working well with is the absorption of attention. You need to make it your responsibility to have their complete attention locked in to access a clear state.

After all there is no need to intensify a state that will not be useful and the better the state the more useful it will be to you and your subject. The more attention you have from them the better they will be able to access the state you are looking for. That in turn means you will be able to set a more proficient trigger.

Now you are ready to get into how to intensify a state. The first way to do this is a simple concept of direct suggestion. This is very easy; you simply suggest directly that they intensify an emotion.

This can be done with many different principals you have learned including the piggy backing of suggestions, hot words, linguistic bridges and trance words. You can put all these things, ideas, together to make a direct request to intensify a feeling. The more they notice and pay attention to the feeling you wish to make more intense the more this will take place unconsciously.

Keep in mind you are not going to be telling them what experience to have this will take place as a result of you telling them to intensify a feeling. This is a simple suggestion that can be done very directly or less directly and smooth depending on the person you are working with.

The second way to add intensity to your hypnosis is to layer emotional triggers. By laying different emotional triggers, one right on top of the other, you will be taking the intensity level to a new high for your listener.

Two ways to do this, the first is to start with all the different emotions your listener has in the experience and start to set triggers to each one individually. After you have done that you can combine them all into one trigger and you will end up with a nice array of positive states being set off by one trigger.

Another way to do this, a much simpler way, is to layer your emotional triggers to access different experiences each of the same state. This may sound complicated but it is really quite simple. Start by going first, tell a story that involves the state you are wanting to access. Then as you hit the climax of the story set a trigger. After that you will ask your listener to relay a similar experience, you will then revivify it for them and as they enter the experience of revivification you will set your trigger again.

In this example you have doubled the emotional impact of that trigger as there are now two different experiences associated with it. Think about the power this can have if you continue the loop five or six times.

The third technique for adding intensity is to use modular enhancers. These are non-verbal ways to intensify and experience. They use things such as tone, gesture, body language and facial expressions to imply a suggestion.

Tone is a big one here as you change the tonality you use it will send signals to intensify an experience. You can use this skill with any of the senses, experiment with it and see how you can intensify things with the non-verbal actions listed above.

The final technique for increasing intensity is to control the inner pictures the listener receives. In this concept you will take hold of all the senses in the stories and amplify them to make them more real. Use statements that imply or ask them to make things more focused, bigger, brighter, sharper, louder, and more vibrant.

The idea here is to be sure to build up every sensation and sense that is in the experience. These include sounds, smells, physical touches, taste, sight and emotions. There are two ways to accomplish this; directly tell them to do it with detailed instruction or combine the amplifications into your story as if they were a part of the story itself.

In this technique you can use gestures to assist you in getting the point across, this helps as it creates the sense for you and you begin to go first as you tell the story.

All these things will give you the skills in how to make a thing more intense. Make sure to keep in mind that these are powerful ways to access states and be positive when you are working with them as they intensify emotions as well.

Now go forth and be intense!

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In Access State Principal you are learning to change your mood which will in turn change the information you have access to. In this concept it is important to know how to change your own mood as well as the moods of the people you are working with.

It is important to understand how the mind works when accessing emotions set off from different moods. Every time you change your mood the path of the mind follows. When you change your mind you have the keys to different rooms in your mind with different feelings, experiences and emotions; without changing the mind you cannot access those different feelings, experiences and emotions.

As you develop your skill in unlocking the different states of mind you will see a positive change in the abilities of your subjects to perform, focus, solve problems and be generally inspired by things. All these improvements will help in changing the way a person feels which will impact changes in their behaviors as well.

Sensory rich descriptions will help you in accessing the states you are seeking. The general idea behind sensory rich descriptions is that you are going to be kicking the imagination into high gear.

Sensory rich descriptions are a way of using your language to appeal to all the senses of another person. The effects of your words will describe a vivid picture that will recreate within their mind exactly what you are talking about.

This should bring the word picture to life and really activate the person’s imagination. You want them to use all their senses in this state inducing method, to really get involved within the mind. As you do this you will also want to be sure to create smooth transitions between the words and ideas you’re using for the listener to focusing on.

There are several secrets in doing this and the first is to be sure to include descriptions of all the sense they would be experiencing within the context. Really paint the picture as if they were actually going through the motions of it.

Describe the things they will see, including descriptions of colors, scenes, objects and distances.

Describe all the things they would be hearing. For example you will want to include the sound of water, animals, conversations of others, pitches and rhythms.

Also be sure to include kinesthetic sensations. These are the feelings and emotions all the other subjects would cause or stir up inside of them. These would include not only feelings and emotions but also the physical feel of touch. How does the sand feel on your feet? Did someone brush against your arm as they passed? These are just as important in bringing a story to life as the other senses.

The second secret in using sensory descriptions is to really get the person to imagine the scene. The best way to start is for you to do so in ‘going first’. When you take the time to imagine what you want the listener to see it will make it much easier for you to describe in a way they can visually imagine it.

The final secret to this method of accessing states is to keep an even and flowing language from one idea to the next. Remember to utilize your language in a way that creates very smooth transitions so as not to disturb the flowing pictures in the person’s mind.

This will be easier to do the more a person is in trance. The less of a trance state you have the easier it is to get distracted by uneven language or lack of smoothness in flow. The more entranced the person is the better they will follow your story line no matter what the story or idea is. The better the trance the more abstract you can make your ideas.

So in review of accessing states through sensory rich descriptions you will want to always remember to ‘go first’. As you do this you will want to create distinct definitions of what you are seeing with specific details. These details should involve all the senses and use the best possible descriptions you can. This is what will truly bring a picture in the mind to life for your listener.

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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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It is important to realize that agreement tactics are very useful in conversational hypnosis, this is mainly because they bypass the critical factor and get the person to start to see things your way.

If the critical factor is not bypassed or put to sleep then the resistance of your subject will be in place and your suggestions will not make it through. Once you use the agreement tactics to get past the critical factor it will open the doors of suggestion. You will be able to present information, ideas, thoughts and suggestions to your subject that will seem completely plausible to them in their altered state of mind.

The first of the 4 Agreement Tactics is Plausibility, which is stated as when a person is in the habit of agreeing with you then the next statement doesn’t have to be one they would find as true as your last statements. Plausibility works on a sliding scale depending on the depth of trance a person is experiencing.

The second Agreement Tactic is the Agreement Habit. The Agreement Habit is based on ‘going first’. This is to immerse yourself in an idea before you invite your subject in so the experience is real for them. This is important for the Agreement Habit as it is to get someone in the habit of agreeing with you. You cannot do this fully if they do not believe you agree with the thoughts you are presenting to them yourself.

The third and fourth Agreement Tactics are brought to us by a master hypnotist Milton Erickson as he used these often in his hypnosis. The ‘Yes Set’ and Piggy Backing of Suggestion were among Erickson’s favored techniques.

The third of the Agreement Tactics, which is the ‘Yes Set’, is very useful in getting agreement from your subject’s. In a ‘Yes Set’ you will begin with statements that are true so you are activating the part of the brain that enjoys agreeing. Once you have gotten a person to start to agree with you it is likely that they will continue.

The ‘Yes Set’ can be demonstrated in three different ways. The first way to use a ‘yes set’ is to repeat what the person is saying to you. This is exactly as it sounds, use what the person has said to you by repeating it back to them so they agree that that is what they said or meant. This is accomplishing the goal of the ‘yes set’ by activating the agreement part of the brain.

The second way to put a ‘Yes Set’ into action is to state the obvious facts. Use in your conversation statements that are verifiable facts. If there is no question that what you are saying is a fact then you will again activate the yes neurology in the subject’s brain causing agreement.

The third and final way to produce a ‘Yes Set’ is to make truisms. Truisms are sayings that a culture has conditioned its inhabitants to believe as unmistakably true. The statements are a way that people view the world or a part of the world. These statements will largely be found true by almost all people you speak to.

The three different types of ‘Yes Sets’ are used very often in conversational hypnosis. This is partly because they are ideas that you can work into a conversation, they cause agreement and they can be manipulated to fit almost any context you may be working with your subject in.

The fourth Agreement Tactic is the Piggy Back Principal. This is the idea of attaching suggestions to other statements or ideas that are already going out to your listener. This is a very popular and successful way to get suggestions into the minds of your subjects.

This is done by first getting your listener into agreement with you, this can be done through compliments, yes sets, following along with their thoughts and repeating back. You goal here is to create an environment they are willing to accept, and then you add a suggestion to it. Compliment them on the great job they have been doing and then add how they can improve on it.

This works because as humans we are always willing to accept praise and agreement. And the fact is if you are accepting one part of the statement you must be accepting the whole statement on some unconscious level. Now that they have unknowingly accepted your suggestion they will at some point bring it into their behaviors, thoughts or actions.

The best part about this agreement tactic is the more you do it the stronger and more powerful your suggestion becomes. You can piggy back as many facts and suggestions as you want as long as you keep the meanings clear so as not to confuse your subject.

You can also piggy back suggestions onto yes sets. This is done simply by stating a single or series of verifiable facts and then adding a suggestion on to the end of the last statement. An example of this would be, “When you get out of the car, lock the doors.” This works because you will inevitably get out of the car at some point and because the mind accepts this as true you will be more likely to now lock the doors as well.

The third way you can piggy back suggestions is to present feedback to your subject that will have them accept it, this should be done in a smooth and elegant manner of speaking. This utilizes positive reinforcement by first creating a yes set, then adding a compliment and then attaching a suggestion to the end.

This way of piggy backing is successful because we all enjoy and accept compliments. Compliments in this sample are somewhat of a sugar coating for the suggestion; you cannot accept the compliment without also accepting the suggestion. Compliments also tend to extract positive behaviors from us and make us more agreeable and accepting anyway.

The Agreement Tactics of the Yes Set and Piggy Backing Suggestions are very important and useful in conversational hypnosis. They were among the top choices of the master hypnotist Milton Erickson. He brought us the perfected art of these two Agreement Tactics and used them often in his hypnosis practice as you should consider doing in yours.

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