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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An embedded suggestion is nothing more than a suggestion that is often repeatedly buried in the context of a conversation of miscellaneous words and uttering’s. The statements that contain the suggestion may vary in wording and meaning but the suggestion itself is focused on a particular aspect you and your subject will be working on together.

This practice was first discovered somewhere between the late 1940’s and early 1950’s by the famous master hypnotherapist Dr. Milton Erickson. The idea was presented to him through rumor that the random things that schizophrenics would walk around saying and muttering really had some deeper meaning to them. These undecipherable phrases were ways in which the afflicted were trying to communicate with whoever would listen.

At the time Dr. Erickson became aware of this rumor he happened to be working as a Doctor at the Worcester State Hospital with mentally disturbed inmates, many of which were themselves schizophrenics.

Upon realizing this theory Dr. Erickson decided to conduct a study of his own using the reams of texts recorded verbatim with what the schizophrenic patients were saying. As he poured through the vast amount of different transcripts all of uttering’s that had been recorded word for word from schizophrenics he discovered something.

As Dr. Erickson deciphered the many uttering’s he found that there were actually messages embedded among the majority of non sense words and sounds. The theory Dr. Milton Erickson came up with was that some of the words buried deep with in the non sense were meaningful and made sense once connected.

The doctor spent more time and found and recorded all these words and put them together to create what he thought were real attempts at communication. Usually the finished phrases included explanations of the patient’s conditions and asking for help.

Because this was only a theory it needed to be tested. Dr. Erickson knew of a secretary in the office that suffered from severe migraines, when she got a migraine she would have to immediately go and lie down to deal with the pain.

He prepared a file of the uttering’s from the schizophrenic’s files and inserted his own embedded messages in place of theirs. The next time the secretary needed to lie down because of the pain in her head Dr. Erickson insisted that she take dictation from him.

As he was a doctor she begrudgingly did so without putting up much of a fight. Amazingly, ten minutes into the dictation her head was completely pain free. Her migraine was gone.

She was amazed and Dr. Erickson had proven his theory within this study. Today this principal is known as unconscious priming in the psychological literature that circulates.

So what Dr. Erickson did was to prove that there was a way to get messages across hypnotically when embedded in a list of non sense. This happens because our unconscious minds have an extremely good ‘ear’ for ‘hearing’ or identifying and picking up patterns within life (including your conversations).

There have been many studies since Dr. Erickson’s study; some more complicated, that also prove his theory stands the test of time. Embedding suggestions works for many people at an unconscious level. The mind can pick out the patterns of the words that make sense and use those suggestions and respond to them.

Another example of how the unconscious mind picks up patterns in life is referred to as implicit knowledge. Implicit knowledge are those things you just seem to know, no one ever taught them to you directly you just somehow know how to do them. These are simply patterns that the unconscious mind has picked out of life and learned.

These are things that are learned in the background instead of the conscious forefront of learning. Such as shaking or nodding your head, you know what it mean but you were never exactly instructed on how to do it or what it meant.

Embedding suggestions in your Conversational Hypnosis will likely be a fantastic skill. This is a very powerful technique as it lets you speak directly to a person’s unconscious mind and instill the actions needed to get the responses you want.

Embedding suggestions is an art you should practice hard, often and well as it will be one of the defining factors in a novice hypnotist and a master hypnotist.

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Hypnotic words can also be used in any stage of the 4 Stage Protocol. As you will see these are words that can be used in absorbing attention, bypassing critical factors, creating unconscious responses and using unconscious responses. These words can also be used to elegantly recreate experiences, express ideas in a hypnotic way and will create a smooth language for you to engage in your conversations.

So how do the hypnotic words work to engage a mini-trance or beginnings of an altered state of mind?

When you use a hypnotic word in conversation with a person they are required to access the experience that goes with the word you have said, at least to some degree. Their brain will unconsciously do this in order to really define the word you used. After they do this they can put the word and it’s meaning into the context of the statements you are making.

For example if you use the word ‘tired’ the person you are talking to will take that word out of the statements you made and access the emotion or feeling that defines for them. This is the only way they will really understand it the meaning it has for them.

Hypnotic words are words that are closely related and extremely important to hypnotic ideas. These are words that imply a fixation of attention and will always activate the neurology inside a person to begin a kind of trance response.

Hypnotic words are similar to words like fixation, curiosity, focus and mesmerized; any word that has the same meaning or connotation as these words will more than likely fall into the category of a hypnotic word. It is imperative as a conversational hypnotist that you build a strong library of these words to have and use as you need them.

As you are learning to use hypnotic words you will find that you can use them in layers like many of the other concepts we have discussed. When a hypnotic word is used alone there is a possibility that it will start the process of inducing a trance, however this is no guarantee.

However if you take the time to practice the words and add them into inductions they will become very powerful in capturing the themes of your conversation. This can be done repeatedly and will create an enormous impact in your hypnosis. The more you can get used to using hypnotic words in different instances the more opportunities your subject will have to access the experiences you are taking them into.

This is a powerful way to layer hypnotic words. The repetition that is created will give a variety of experiences and emotions to access while still using the hypnotic words to induce trances. These conversations will be memorable and easy to trigger for your subjects if the environment is right.

There are many hypnotic words to choose from that will fit into the contexts of all the stages of the 4 Stage Protocol. It is true, as you will find that many of the hypnotic words will fit well into the first stage. However other words such as fixation or attention can be used in many different instances and stories for intensification purposes. You will also easily be able to use hypnotic words in bypassing the critical factor and activating unconscious responses.

Spontaneous is a great word to use in bypassing the critical factor. Just the very meaning of the word implies that you will be bypassing any rational thought about the word or idea that is attached to it. Since the meanings of words are the emotion we incorporate with them the meaning of this word itself will simply slip a suggestion right past the critical factor and into the unconscious mind.

The word spontaneous also creates an unconscious response in itself, so now you have taken care of two steps in one with simply using one hypnotic word!

This is of course only one example; there are many words that you will find that will do the same type of thing with all the different stages of protocol. It is important that you put these words into a list and keep them handy as you will no doubt be using them on a regular basis. They will be a wonderful tool throughout your Conversational Hypnosis training and profession.

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Precision language is really a language that is made up of words that have a greater impression on people. The impact that these words create will leave your listeners working to build a stronger state of mind.

Precision language is made up of words that not only bring out the emotion in people they tend to induce trance themselves at times. Precision words can do many things for your listener. They can be used to build anticipations, accelerate the action in an idea, as well as build softer language frames. (Building a softer language frame will make your suggestions and instruction of action more acceptable to the listener.)

The first skill that you will focus on in Precision language skills will be the ability to build a vocabulary of and use hot words in context. ‘Hot words’ are words that have a universal meaning to them that have been created from society and culture. They are words that are heavy with emotion and work to send a strong bold message that peaks interest and or curiosity.

The opposite of hot words is called neutral content language and this is what doctors use to communicate with patients. This blander language helps them to create emotional distance between themselves and their patients. This is not the type of language you want to use.

As a hypnotist you are walking on a path which is laden with emotional attachment. Attachment to stories, feelings and the betterment of life for those around you, to not get emotionally involved at some level would be a disservice to your patients.

At the same level of the way doctors speak most people have found a way to speak differently as well. Many speak in tones and words that are emotionally disengaging. This is a type of self protection from others reactions to what they may have to say. At times it is referred to saying what is politically correct, however politically correct and emotionally disengaging are not quite the same.

A hot word is a word that creates a powerful response and that is what you will need in this profession. They are also considered to be the vocabulary of the unconscious because they evoke emotion within people and this is the real domain of the unconscious mind. Remember that anytime you have an emotional response you are also having an unconscious response, this can be used in a hypnotic way to your advantage.

Hot words play a large role of importance in Conversational Hypnosis. This is because these words can change state of mind and move people dramatically. There are so many hot words that are hanging around us everyday that it would be impossible to list them all for you. But there are places that you can specifically find them. These are out of the mouths of politicians, teachers that move you to learn, motivational speakers as well as (believe it or not) the headlines of tabloids.

Some examples of hot words that are used everyday that you probably hear are baby, murder, drug addict, and so on and so forth. Any word that evokes a strong emotion with it’s meaning on a societal level. This means it must have a strong impact on the majority of people that hear it. If you are the only one who finds a word emotionally moving that may be a personal trance word for you (we will discuss these later).

A great way to use hot words is to put two or more together and create contrast with them. An example of this would be if you saw a headline on the paper that read, “A Mother’s Secret Life as a Baby Murderer”. This is a headline that is just exploding with hot words.

Most of the words in the headline have an emotional meaning attached to them; mother, secret, life, baby and murderer are all important words to most people.

Setting them next to one another makes the impact of them even stronger because are not used to seeing these words together and although the statement makes sense it seems unbelievable to us.

A mother is supposed to have unconditional love for her children and children in general. A murderer is viewed as a part of societies wretched. Secret is always a great connector as it draws in people with curiosity; we are conditioned to want to know all the secrets we can. The bottom line is using these words together creates a very strong and powerful impact, it brings up emotions inside people. Maybe it makes them angry or sad, whatever the emotion is it is there because of the impact the hot words have created in the statement.

Now hopefully you won’t be making statements like this to your subjects but words and how you use them will be pivotal in your hypnosis. It is important to have a wide vocabulary of hot words so you have a wide range of emotion evoking language to use with different people in different environments.

As you discover and build your hot word vocabulary start to use them in your everyday conversations and see the different ways people react compared to the way you are used to speaking. Even though you are not using them in hypnosis yet doesn’t mean you can’t study the effect they have on people in casual conversation.

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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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