Stealth Tactics are a set of ways that will help you to enter the mind of a subject and leave your suggestion either without detection from the critical factor or by overloading the conscious mind in a way that it will not object to your statements presence. 

As you learn the Stealth Tactics you will also be learning how to combine those tactics with other language principals and concepts.  All of which will help you in creating a full process or picture of how hypnosis works.  Once you master all the language skills including Stealth Tactics you will be on your way to becoming a more skilled and accomplished hypnotist.

The fourth Stealth Tactic used in Conversational Hypnosis is the concept of Presuppositions.  So what exactly is a presupposition?  A presupposition is a linguistic assumption.  Presuppositions are used everyday by you and everyone you know.  These are things you assume given the statements you hear and make.  They are believed to be true just because of the language you are using. 

Almost every statement you make has a presupposition built into it.  The best way to explain a presupposition is to show you an example.  If you were to state, “The kids are riding in the back of the car.”  This is a fairly common statement, and there is a few presuppositions built into it.  The first is that there is a car.  The second is there is a back and front to the car.  And the third is that there is more than one child in the car.  All these things are things you assume from that simple common statement.

Another way that presuppositions work is once the information is implied you no longer consciously try to disagree with these facts.  Once the statement is made you are not questioning whether or not there are kids or a car, you are busy thinking about where the kids are in the car. 

Now there are many different types of presuppositions that can be made in many different ways, we will go over some of the most valuable for your needs in the art of hypnosis.

The first type of presupposition is one of awareness.  When you take the time to imply that you are aware of a certain thing it will immediately draw your listener’s attention to it.  In this presupposition you are taking the focus off the subject and redirecting their focus to where or why it is that way.  In this concept if resistance does take place it will happen on the level of awareness not on the subject itself.  Words you can use to imply awareness are know, aware, realized and noticed. 

The second type of presupposition uses time and time sequence with in the statement.  The presupposition that uses time and time sequence will state a chain of events in sequence or a time that they took place.  You can use numerical order to do this; first, second and third. 

You can also accomplish this by using words like begin, end, as soon as, prior to, after, before, continue and so on.  Any words that describe a time sequence or time something happened.

The reason this works to distract resistance is that your listener gets caught up in organizing the events and when they took place.  Even though this is not really necessary or important it does allow time for your suggestions and ideas to quietly slip by the critical factor.

As you are learning the three types of presuppositions you can also practice stacking presuppositions.  When you stack presuppositions, one on top of the other you are sending and overwhelming amount of information out for the conscious mind to make its way through.  This is a great way to distract the conscious mind from noticing the suggestion you are slipping in. 

Usually when you stack presupposition the listener’s conscious mind will get over loaded with information and generally revert back to just going with the flow of your speaking.  This means they are not going to take the time to critically think or analyze what you are saying, making resistance nonexistent.

The final presupposition you need to know is that of adverbs and adjectives.  These are used to imply quality or action.  They are descriptive words like fortunately, luckily, curious and sadly.  In this presupposition you are making your listener more aware of the quality of a thing than the thing itself.  “Luckily, I did catch the train.” 

There is no question about the train’s existence; the attention is drawn to the lucky part.  If you made this statement alone your listener would not resist the fact there was a train but want to know why you almost missed it.  The resistance is newly placed on the how; how did the action happen, how did you almost miss the train.  In this presupposition there is no need to know how to use or stack them because the conscious graciously does it for you.

It is important to remember that these are not just statements they are valuable tools for you to sneak into the mind past the critical factor.  This can be done with one presupposition but is more likely to work when you stack three or more together.  This will adequately overload the conscious so your suggestions are firmly planted.  In doing three or more presuppositions you will override the conscious’ ability to keep up with you and there will likely be no critical analysis at all.

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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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