Stealth Tactics are a way of doing just this.  These tactics are used for distracting critical factor or overwhelming it to the point that the suggestion goes in undetected.  The stealth tactics you learn here will eventually be combined with all the other language concepts to create a larger picture of how everything works together smoothly to create better lives for everyone.

The final Stealth Tactic you are going to learn is called Binds and Double Binds.  The Bind and Double Bind come from a line of thought called the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia.  This was a theory that came from a famous Anthropologist in the 1970’s named Gregory Bateson. 

Bateson investigated the cause of schizophrenia in our society and came up with the Double Bind Theory of Schizophrenia.  This theory came to the conclusion that schizophrenia was a way that children developed to cope when presented impossible decisions by their parents.  An example would be a parent that beats their child and explains it by saying the violence is just a way I show I love you. 

The child is presented with an impossible choice that of a desire to be loved by their parent versus the desire to avoid violence.  The study concluded that this impossible choice caused schizophrenic conditions in children presented with these choices.

So the question comes, how will schizophrenia help you in your hypnosis?  The answer is the creation of binds and double binds.  As we have just set out a bind is giving someone a choice that doesn’t actually exist, it is an impossible set of choices to choose from.  These of course can create some rather unpleasant experiences if you do not proceed correctly with this concept.

Although you are creating the illusion of choice you are not really giving the person you are conversing with a real choice.  When you learn to do binds correctly you will make your listener feel empowered by the fact that there is a choice and still be acquiring the information or lack of resistance you initially wanted.  This is a way of redirecting resistance in you are giving a choice that implies the very thing you want but gives them a choice about the thing you want.  Either way you are getting what you want, it really doesn’t matter which option they end up choosing.

Now in a double bind you will use the word “or” to create the actual double bind.  Let’s take the example that you are a jewelry sales person and you say to a customer, “Would you like your diamond set in gold OR silver?”  In this double bind you are giving the customer a choice but you are still implying that the customer will be buying the diamond. 

It is important that you are aware of the word “or” so you can consciously create double binds as well as notice when they are being used on you.  If you recognize when someone is using a double bind on you, once you recognize it there is a way out.  If you decide not to accept the bind or double bind on any level you will be denying it and creating a new freedom for yourself. 

Now double binds are very common and at times it is not negative to fall into one.  Regardless of whether you are deciding to accept or deny the double binds you hear daily you can still maintain awareness for them.  Remember that a double bind is an illustration of choice, usually using the word or to separate the options.

Within this Stealth Tactic there is a Special Tactic included called Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds.  This is merely a way of using double binds hypnotically.  In this concept you will be able to allow some aspects of the subject’s behavior to be controlled consciously and others unconsciously.  No matter which way it goes, which behaviors are being consciously and unconsciously controlled the behavior is still being implied.

Within this same concept of Conscious-Unconscious Double Binds it is important to understand that you can do things two different ways.  We can all do things two different ways, those are unconsciously or consciously.  You can read the words on this paper focus on them and think about them or you can read them and daydream about what it would be like to put them into action.

In understanding binds and double binds it is important to recognize the conscious and unconscious minds and how they work.  As hypnotists we work with the conscious and unconscious minds on a regular and consistent basis, however defining these is difficult. 

Now the trouble here is no one really knows how the human mind works.  There is no philosopher or psychological researchers who have been able to define the human mind in concrete terms.  There are so many ways to interpret the word mind that giving it a definition is extremely difficult.

Although no one can accurately and concretely say what actually happens inside our heads we know from life experience that certain results come from certain effects.  As to why the results are what they are can only be theorized about but we know that trauma causes pain, denial and other defense mechanisms. 

As hypnotists it is important for you to have an understanding of the conscious and unconscious minds.

A simple way to describe the process of the mind we know are that consciousness is the type of awareness you can focus on.   It is known that the conscious mind can hold up to 5-9 ideas, experiences or thought processes at one time.  The conscious mind is also responsible for making choices and plans.

The unconscious mind however is responsible for a huge amount of tasks.  It holds all our memories, experiences, insights, habits and wisdoms that we have built up over the span of our lives. 

We have discovered that it is safe to say that everything that happens within our minds and bodies are unconscious or semi-unconscious events.  Our unconscious is the master controller but will also take commands from the conscious mind.  The instructions that the unconscious will take from the conscious must be presented in the right way in order for it to stick; this is the art of suggestion.  We either made suggestions to ourselves or others make suggestions to us. 

As a hypnotist you can disguise those suggestions with Stealth Tactics, and one of those is the bind and the double bind we have discussed here.

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Conversational Hypnosis is an art of communicating suggestions to others while they are in a state of trance. The suggestions you are giving to audience should be ones that will help them to live happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. The question becomes how to get the very suggestions in to a person’s mind when they reject them.

Everyone has what we refer to as a critical filter. This is the mechanism inside your mind that analyzes and criticizes information coming in from outside sources. The critical filters decide what is safe to allow inside our minds. They are also responsible for creating resistance for hypnotists. They look at all the messages being sent to the mind and either reject or accept them.

There are times when a person’s critical filter has become overactive and will start to reject even the good and wise suggestions coming from anyone. A good example of this is when a friend, someone you would normally trust, gives you a great piece of advice and you just outright reject and discard it with no thought. The critical filter has come to a point where it is simply not allowing any information in.

Stealth Tactics are the tool hypnotists and you will use to get past the critical factor. They were created in a way to assist in helping to influence people in a positive way that still bypasses the critical factor inside the mind. There are other ways to get past the critical factor although they are largely damaging and can cause emotional and mental hardship which should not be your goal in hypnosis. In fact quite the opposite.

Stealth Tactics are a secretive way of getting past the critical factor that doesn’t resort to bullying. These concepts are based on a set of principals that will allow you to use people’s strengths against them in ways that will help them to improve their lives in the ways they want. True they are a bit sneaky, as you will see, but all intentions with Stealth Tactics are truly good intentions. It is simply an alternative way to get inside the mind so you can begin your work as a hypnotist.

There are five Stealth Tactics that we will give a brief explanation of here and then dive further into in future articles.

The first Stealth Tactic is the Law of Reversed Effect. This principal is very powerful like most of the Stealth Tactics. In the Law of Reversed Effect the concept is that the harder you try to do something the more likely it is you will fail.

This happens mainly because a person that is consciously trying to do something that should be taking place unconsciously. The effect of the conscious mind interfering with the fluid movements of the unconscious mind is confusion and failure.

The reason the Law of Reversed Effect works for Conversational Hypnotists is that when put into action it causes a person to fail at something, you cause a person to fail at a requested task. That failure will cause the person to step away from their resistance and allow your suggestions in.

The second Stealth Tactic is to Redirect Resistance. Redirecting Resistance is the art of giving a person something they can resist you over so they feel validated and powerful in their abilities to control their own mind.

Now the beauty here is that while they are busy resisting you over an idea that you are really not concerned with you have the opportunity to give your suggestions to them. Many times they will be so busy consciously resisting the one aspect that the important suggestion is never even noticed going in.

Refocusing Attention is the third Stealth Tactic and it can be used right along with Redirecting Resistance. We will cover that aspect in a future article. The importance here is that you have a brief summary of Refocusing Attention.

Refocusing Attention is when you subtly place the suggestion you want to get across in conversation and then distract or refocus the listener’s attention elsewhere. This is a simple and easy process once you get the hang of it but can be very powerful when put to full use.

The fourth Stealth Tactic is Implication. Implication is the power of how to use body language, facial expressions and tone of voice in order to imply a thing. This is considered a Stealth Tactic because when you imply something to someone it usually bypasses the critical filter simply because we assume implications are true.

People don’t typically stop to analyze them because this is a lot of hard work and effort to put in to an implied idea. This tactic is used everyday in the natural ways we speak and can be a great tool in hypnosis.

Presuppositions are the fifth Stealth Tactic we will eventually cover in depth. As for a quick introduction, presuppositions are simply linguistic assumptions. These are the things that are automatically assumed to be true based solely on the language we use to convey them.

This may sound complicated at first but once you get into the habit of using presuppositions they are very easy to use and you in fact use them everyday. Presuppositions have a lot in common with implications simply because they are assumptions. Again this Stealth Tactic is very powerful and can be like all the Stealth Tactics layered with the others to make a more powerful affect than when used alone.

Finally the sixth Stealth Tactic is called Binds and Double Binds. Binds and Double Binds are a strategic way of phrasing a statement or question that gives the illustration of a choice but that choice really does not exist. It was thought in the 1970’s that binds and double binds were the cause of schizophrenic symptoms resulting from childhood.

A bind or double bind is a sneaky way of redirecting the resistance of a person because they simply do not have a choice in the matter. You sound as if you are asking a question or giving a choice but you are really getting a much bigger question answered in the process.

A famous Marx Brothers line that is a double bind is when a man asks the hotel manager, “So are you still beating your wife, yes or no?” The bind is in that no matter how he answered the question he would be admitting guilt of beating his wife.

Binds and double binds are a very powerful way to bypass the critical factor as are all the other Stealth Tactics. You will learn much more about these and how to use them as you progress through the next five articles. Until then the main concept you need to know is that these are principals that can be combined with one another and the other language skills you have been learning in order to really know how to begin to communicate hypnotically.

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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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Agreement tactics are a great tool in conversational hypnosis. Not only are they a way for you to keep the conversation going, they get your subject into the habit of agreeing with what you are saying.

Without agreement the person you are making suggestions to will not bring them in as true ideas that they can use to change their lives. There must be something in the words you suggest that they find agreement with on some level in order to put them into action.

Agreement tactics will help you to really get into your subjects head. One of the first things an agreement tactic will assist you with is to distinguish the alertness of a person’s critical factor.

If the critical factor is in full swing they will still be able to criticize and analyze the information you are giving to them. Not only does the critical factor turn on the analysis of ideas it also starts to conform them to the ways in which that person views the world. They will see your suggestions only as they feel the world should work and not for the simplicity they need to make changes.

If they are doing this it may be difficult for them to find agreement in your suggestions and therefore they will not take them. The bottom line on critical factor is that if it is awake and functioning it will prevent change in your subject, which is the opposite of your goals as a hypnotist.

The answer to this is to have the ability to bypass the critical factor with your words, put that part of the mind to sleep. Once you have accomplished this you will be able to present information to the person and make everything seem acceptable on the basis of it can be. Everything needs to be taken in as plausible and possible so your suggestions will stick.

Agreement is the art of putting the critical factor to sleep. This will make it easier to bring in new ideas and create new realities where change can occur. There are four agreement tactics that will help you to lull the critical factor to sleep and we will do a short introduction of them here, these will be discussed more in depth in another article.

The first agreement tactic we will discuss is Plausibility. Once people are in the habit of agreeing with you it is much easier to get them to agree to ideas that they may not have completely agreed with if you were to just start with and state that idea.

This has happened to most people when trying to convince someone to see something our way. Take a moment to remember conversations you have had in the past, maybe you were in deep conversation with a friend on a point you view differently or debating a topic with a work colleague.

When you do this you would first lay out the ideas of the topic that you know they agree with, and then you would slowly work into the parts that they may or may not agree with and finally hit them with the big point that you are debating.

Now you may or may not have been successful in getting the agreement from them. If you were not this segment will help you with that ability.

In plausibility the easiest way to get a person to agree with you is if they are already in the flow of agreeing with the things you are saying. Once you have made several statements they can agree with your next statement can be one that they would find as true as your first statements. If it is a plausible idea they will tend to agree or just go along with it because you have turned off a part of their critical factor.

It is important to know that plausibility is based on a sliding scale; the more of an altered state of mind the person is in the less plausible your statements must be. The less entranced they are the more plausible your statements must be. It works to your advantage if you can get and hold a good altered state of mind.

If your subject is in a full state of trance then the plausibility of your statements can be zero and they will still be in a full state of agreement with your suggestions.

The second agreement tactic is the Agreement Habit. This tactic is largely based on the ‘go first’ concept. In going first you will start to create realities for your subjects to enter into and share with you.

This is vital as it is hard to get a person to believe a set of circumstances if you yourself do not believe them. You can act as if you believe them however your sub-communications will show people that you are not truly in agreement with your own ideas, or those you are trying to convey.

In this you need to take the lead and believe your thoughts and ideas first so as to pave the way for the people you are lending the suggestions and ideas to. Once you are in agreement with the suggestions or stories then your external behaviors will show this agreement.

The third agreement tactic is the ‘Yes Set’. This is a technique that is used simply to get your subjects in the habit of saying yes. Start with true simple statements that are verifiable facts, yet fit into the frame work of your conversation. This is important; after all you are using conversational hypnosis.

These ‘yes sets’ are created by stating the obvious, repeating what they have said and stating truisms. Truisms are ideas that are generally found true and created by the culture you live in.

The fourth and final agreement tactic is the ‘Piggy Back Principal’. Piggy backing is simply attaching a statement to an idea that is already going on or in. If your subject accepts an entire statement because the first part is true then they will on some level accept the rest of the statement that has made it in.

The trick in this tactic is to create contexts that your subject will want to accept. This is done by practicing the concepts we have been reviewing. You can create acceptable contexts by using compliments, yes sets, agreement habits and following the subject’s line of thinking.

At the end of each of these simply attach a suggestion. You are attaching a suggestion to something that is going to take place regardless. “The sun is out today and it will be a great day to start your diet.” The first part of the statement is a verifiable fact and the second part is going in simply because the first is true and correct.

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Power tactics that are used in hypnosis have been used for many, many years; they are strategies that are key in the influence and persuasion of those around you.  These tactics will help you to change the lives of those around you for the better, as well as your own. 

As you learn how to use power tactics you will want to keep in mind the different concepts of hypnotic language foundations, rapport skills and signal recognition skills.  Keep these in the back of your mind because as you learn power tactics you will want to start to combine them all to create a powerful way of being a hypnotist.

It is important to realize that at some point you will want to converge all the information you are learning in to smooth flowing patterns that will enhance your overall ability to be a great hypnotist.

Power tactics, which are very old and very useful, in hypnosis are the strategies that allow you to become the authority in a person’s trance.  They enable you to take on the role of high status, which is our first tactic.

The power tactic of ‘High Status’ is a role you will take on with your subject in order to get them to follow your suggestions.  It is important to note here that high status has nothing to do with your person; it is not about wealth or moral judgment.  It is simply a place in the set of roles you take on in society everyday. 

High status, equal status and low status are all different roles we play within the relationships we have.  Some people are natural high status people; they are comfortable and are good at taking control of the conversation.  Others are low status people and are more of a passenger in conversations, they chime in when necessary but other than that mostly agree with what is being said by others.

The different roles we choose varies depending on the people we are with and the situations we are in.  It is important for you as a hypnotist to understand these roles and know when you need to play that of high or low status.  The best part of choosing a role to play after you understand them is that it gives you the most flexibility in conversations you have and the people you are working with.

Now of course as a hypnotist you will want to be in a role of high status, this will make you the authority figure.  As the authority figure people will want to do what you suggest and follow your advice.

The problem with this is that some people are not flexible in the types of people they feel comfortable dealing with.  There are people who are comfortable being low status and others who are only comfortable in high status.

You will need to determine what type of person you are dealing with to determine which role you will need to initially take on.  I say initially because you will want to eventually be of high status in your hypnotic relationships.

However there will be time you need to start as a low status person.  If you are dealing with a person who distrusts or dislikes those of high status you will take on a low status role until the person trusts and likes you.  They need to feel comfortable with you. 

When you take on the role of low status you will be less assertive, feed them information subconsciously and set up the correct frames to gain their trust.

When you take on the role of a high status you will need to include two distinct concepts in your authority role.  These are your body language and behavior, which include your tonality.  These are the two things that will signal others as to what status you are in, they will cause a difference in how you are perceived by the other people around you.

When you give off signals of a high status people will respond to you more powerfully.  This is a good sign but it is also important to remember the situations where you need to play low status and change your signals to accommodate that need.  This is something you will have to do for as long as it takes until those around you are comfortable dealing with a high status person.

It is also possible to need to change status when dealing with the same person depending on the situation you are in.  This is a powerful tactic in order to break down resistance.

Now how do you become a high status person?  What mannerisms does a high status person give off?  You have encountered them countless times, and more than likely interact with high status people all the time.

People who are in high status role are those who send out signals of relaxed manner.  They are very comfortable with themselves and are confident in the things they do and say.  Some distinguishing characteristics of high status people are easy to spot.

High status individuals exhibit Calm Movements.  These people are calm and unhurried; they do not rush through their actions, words or thoughts.  And those around them respond to these people as if they are in control of the situations they are in. 

If you goal is to be a high status role in your hypnotic relationships then you need to take on these behaviors.  It is important to avoid being jumpy, jerky or nervous.  Many low status people will have repetitive movements or ticks, they will wring their hands or bounce a leg constantly, and these are behaviors to avoid.

Another high status signal is the way you use the space around you.  High status people use their space widely.  Low status individuals take up as little space as possible by crossing their arms and legs and often sitting in corners. 

High status people will use large motions, stand in a room, sit in a room, and even lean back in chairs.  High status people are also not intimidated by occasionally invading others private space.  They will give you a pat on the back or unsuspected hug, they simply feel comfortable naturally.

The third signal of a high status person is that they will expose the vulnerable parts of their body.  As humans we have vulnerable part we are constantly subconsciously aware of; these being the throat, abdomen and groin.  When we feel threatened we will unknowingly protect these areas.  We may cross our arms or legs, even if the attack is only a verbal one we will attempt to protect ourselves. 

Those in high status will leave these areas of the body open or exposed.  They feel confident enough in their defenses to not be worried.  Often they are so comfortable in their environments that they simply feel no danger of an attack.

The fourth and final signal of a high status person is steady eye contact.  One of the most interesting things about human beings is that you can often tell exactly what emotion they are having by looking at their eyes.  The eyes are directly connected to the brain and therefore give away many clues to your thinking. 

Low status individuals will have nervous eyes, darting around, unable to focus on one thing for too long.  High status people will be able to fix their eyes on something; a person, place, thing or point in space without a problem.  They will have an unwavering steady gaze that is the signature of their calm state of mind.

In order to take on a high status role you must study and embody these traits.  In doing this people who are not intimidated by others of high status will feel more comfortable around you.  You will find they are even more willing to open themselves up to you in many different situations.

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