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 largely made up of the language you use. As a hypnotist you must learn to bypass the critical factor using a set of Stealth Tactics in order to enter people’s minds. Stealth Tactics are very helpful in the field of conversational hypnosis in this manner. Once you learn how to use them you will be able to deal with your subjects in a way that you have never experienced before.

Stealth Tactics are simply a way to do one of two things; get into the mind unnoticed by your listener or complicate them to the point of allowed entry. You really want to learn how to mask what you are doing in order to enter the mind and leave your suggestions. This takes a fine skill as it means you must bypass the critical factor and defeat resistance.

While it is important to know how to sneak in bypassing all resistance. Now you need to learn how to go beyond that. You must learn how to use resistance in a way that is helpful to you as the hypnotist. Believe it or not, resistance can actually help you to get where you need to be inside the mind to carry out your purpose.

The Law of Reversed Effect is very useful tool however it can also create problems in your hypnotic relationship. It can really bring out the worst relationship in a hypnotist and subject when used too often or in the wrong way. The problem with this tool is it puts your listener in a combative frame of mind. It becomes a question of you versus them and can be damaging to the self esteem.

Let’s face it no one likes to be controlled by someone else, it makes them feel weak and can ultimately give a person a poor psychological frame to continue to grow from. As people we feel we need to have control of our lives, if we don’t we start to overcompensate with feelings of low self esteem and destructive behaviors in our relationships and with ourselves.

The bottom line is the more a person feels out of control the more they will fight to take that control back. When they put this instinct into motion the Law of Reversed Effect happens and they will fail causing more damage and hardship to the self esteem

There is a solution to this and it is not to abandon all you just learned about the Law of Reversed Effect! The best way to combat this problem is to use the resistance you are stealing from them to uplift the person’s self esteem. The idea is to build on your rapport at the same time you are sneaking your suggestions in. Use your tools and skills to get the person to like you more, give them a feeling of control back in their life.

The best way to do this is by redirecting resistance. Redirecting resistance is very simple in the idea of it. It is to purposely give a person something to resist that will fail. This will give them the feeling of power back, they were not at the mercy of all outside influence and they defeated some external suggestion making them in control of something.

A good example of this would be if you were a real estate agent and you have a client that wants to buy a house. He has found the house he wants but is still having some second thoughts, he hasn’t quite signed on the dotted line just yet. As a fantastic real estate agent you give him many options to consider when purchasing a house, one of which being a variety of upgrades. After hearing about the upgrades, new kitchen tile, fireplace so on and so forth. Next thing you know he decides on no upgrades but he buys the house.

Now here you have redirected the resistance. You have given your client something to resist other than the suggestion you initially wanted to take place. Your desired outcome was for the man to buy the house. As he was having resistance to that you gave him the upgrades to resist. It really doesn’t matter to you if he upgrades his fireplace just that he buys the house.

The beautiful thing here is you both win. The person resisting feels as if they have regained control of their life again and you get to slip in the suggestion with little to no resistance.

Redirecting resistance is solely about finding the things people will be able to resist instead of your original purpose. As the conscious mind focuses on the idea of resisting your new idea the old one goes in unnoticed and usually becomes valid. “When you do this, you can do this as well.” By accepting the invitation to resist the second part of the statement you are automatically making the first part true.

There are thousands of ways to use this principal, and it will be combined with all the other principals you are learning in order to create a whole. As a Stealth Tactic redirecting resistance is very powerful and will be an awesome skill to store in your toolbox, especially when it is combined with other stealth tactics.

The next Stealth Tactic that we will cover here is that of refocusing attention. The concept here is to make a suggestion and implant it and then refocus their attention elsewhere. This principal is similar to seeding ideas but creates a more powerful effect.

In refocusing attention you will plant the seed in their mind then before it is noticed you will focus attention on something other than resisting the original idea. The power in this tactic is that the original idea will go unnoticed and start to grow as you focus the person elsewhere. The key is to refocus the attention before the critical factor gets a hold of it and starts to criticize it.

When you put this skill into action you will drop in the suggestion and refocus the attention repeatedly. Suggest, refocus, suggest original idea, refocus and so on and so forth. If there is no conscious information coming from them then the suggestion will have the time it needs to grow within without time for resistance. Eventually it will appear to them as their own idea and people tend to agree with ideas they think are their own.

An example of how this works is if you were having a conversation with a friend and they suggest an idea or make a statement in passing. The statement is only a small part of a much larger conversation but it is still there. Then maybe 5 months down the road you are having a similar conversation and you state the idea as your own. You may not even know the idea came from your friend because you were not focused on the statement itself you were focused on the entire conversation that was taking place.

You see here how this one layer effect of refocusing attention can be powerful and has probably happened to you at one time or another. Now think about the same idea but in layers of five, six or seven layers of different topics, much, much more powerful. This idea of layering creates an overload of information to the point of lack in ability to keep and focus on the original idea.

There are ways of distracting attention that will make this tactic even easier. The first way to do this is to simply change the topic, a new set of information to focus on. You can also confuse them. This will focus them on trying to decipher what you have said and again focus will be distracted.

Another way to distract attention is to overload the person with details and facts. An overload of information will cause their conscious to focus on finding a place for all the details you are giving them, when really these details are probably unimportant.

Now it is very important to remember to use repetition in this process. On the other hand, it is also equally important not to come back to the idea so often that they figure out on a conscious level what you are up to.

There are degrees with which you must alter your repetitions. If you are working with a very sharp minded individual you will need to repeat less and mask your suggestion more. The opposite happens for the simpler minded; you will need more repetitions and can make your suggestion in more blatant statements.

You will be able to determine how often repetition is necessary from experience with each person you work with.

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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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