Stories have been one of the secure rocks in the foundation of hypnosis. They exhibit all the elements that you are taught to use and do so on an unconscious level that evades resistance. The language and art of story telling is deeply embedded in the concepts and ways in which we use hypnosis.

The story telling tips and strategies in this article are straight from the horse’s mouth these are real techniques used by master story tellers and they will enrich the ways in which you practice and tell stories to those around you.

The first strategy is to let your own stories ‘slip out’ naturally. In this strategy you will begin to see that over time you will have trained your brain how to tell stories. As you do this your own stories will begin to naturally flow.

Your mind will start to relax as you get more accustomed to telling stories and you will begin to be reminded of the stories in your life that fit into the contexts that have been set. As you tell stories you will remember events and times in your life that you will be moved to insert into the story you are telling.

This will happen more often the more used to telling stories you are and before you know it you will be telling stories that are completely taken from your own true experiences.

The second master story tellers’ strategy is to collect a storehouse of great stories. There will be stories that you tell that will become your favorites. These will be the stories that have a great impact on yourself and those around you.

They will evoke a response and stir emotions. Regardless of whether these stories are from your life, the lives of others or completely fictional it does not matter. These are stories you should write down, record the highlights of them so they are captured.

The one thing you don’t want to do is to memorize your stories, let the little changes happen as long as the big things stay the same if it a truly great story already. Reciting stories word for word is one of the best ways to completely kill a story.

As you do this you will be rehearsing the story so it will provide practice as well as a great library for you to access whenever you need it. This will also reinforce your ability to remember and revisit the stories that are perfect for situations you run across with the people you are helping.

The third story telling master’s strategy is to remember the highlights of each story. This concept is a time tested one that emphasizes that we should carry the highlights of a story with us but be negotiable in the other details.

Story tellers through out history have always had audiences that returned repeatedly to hear the same stories over and over again. This is because they never told the story in the same way, small details change. Sometimes it would take hours to finish a story and other times the same tale could be told in mere minutes.

Use your hypnosis tools to help these ever changing details to unfold; things like sensory rich descriptions, tone of your voice and your linguistic skills. Let changes take place in the rhythm and pace of the story, all these things will re-excite your audience over and over again, it will keep them coming back for more.

Finally the fourth master story teller’s strategy is to use your signal recognition systems.

This is all about watching and observing the signals that the listeners are giving to you about what they want to hear, what they need to hear.

As long as your signal recognitions system is on and alert you will be able to tune change your stories in the ways that will fit your audience. The reason your signal recognition system is so important here is because you will be looking for the unconscious signals that the story is right or wrong for the listener.

Once you determine how you need to tweak your story you will be telling the right story to the right person or people, again want they want and need to hear.

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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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Stories and hypnosis go together very well and story telling will be a powerful and important part of your job. The stories you tell will be used to do many things you have already learned. They can assist you in any of the steps in the 4 Stage Protocol. A good hypnotic story will absorb attention, bypass critical factor, create an unconscious response and put the unconscious response into action.

Stories will also give you a place to seed ideas and place suggestions. They will allow you to have a frame set in order to mirror the problems and experiences of the people around you so they can identify with the characters and put the solutions you suggest into action.

All of these things are just the tip of the iceberg in what good story telling can do for you in Conversational Hypnosis. The stories you tell will often be the backbone of your interactions with the very people you are trying to help to better their lives. In this context it only makes sense that you should be the best possible story teller you can be in to influence people in the best possible way. Good story telling is in essence a win-win situation for you and your clients.

As you have been learning you have probably been practicing telling stories in some way or another. Since you have had a little experience it is time to start to polish up those stories and really make them shine. One of the most important things you will need to remember to do this is to avoid at all costs the restriction of your unconscious, your creativity.

There are tricks that will help you to keep your creativity flowing and free. The first trick to this is don’t try to be good. This may sound a little odd when the purpose of this article is to enhance your story telling abilities.

What this means is that there is a set of rules that we have covered previously and you need to stick to those rules. Trying too hard to be good at telling a story can often times be self defeating in that you will diminish the natural flow of the story. Don’t destroy your stories by trying too hard to make them the best stories ever heard. If you stay with the rules instead of trying to be good you will tell stories that are good.

The second trick to telling hypnotic stories is to let the muck come out. There will be a certain amount of muck within you that will need to seep out in the beginning phases of your story telling.

This muck is made up of all the things you think of and ponder that are not socially acceptable to say in conversations with the people you interact with on a regular basis. This is a natural process that happens to all story tellers that are really great, so just let the much flow.

Don’t be surprised when the muck comes. This muck is dirty. It can be a combination of obscenities, morbid thinking, swearing, sexual perversions and all other types of socially unacceptable thoughts that we never discuss with other people. The fact is this is going to be unavoidable and you ultimately are not responsible for your stories.

Stories are created by the unconscious so you need to free yourself here completely. Adopt the attitude that you don’t care what others think of your dirty, dirty muck. Do not criticize yourself for the stories that evolve from this muck. Do not censor yourself in your story telling, just open your mouth and let the muck fly.

If you don’t get it out you will pollute the flow of your creativity and that is the first no-no you were warned of in this article.

The third trick is going to be for you to visualize the scene. You can probably tell I am now going to tell you to ‘go first’ for this trick. You are right it is important that you can not only visualize the scene but also put yourself into it. Make sure to visualize it all so you are creating a reality for yourself and your listener.

The fourth trick to story telling is to keep things inside ‘the circle’. This is a simple idea that is fairly easy to follow. When you are telling a story each piece of information you give will have natural associations attached to it.

These associations are the things in the circle. All the rest of the things that are not associated with the pieces of information you are giving need to be left out of your story.

The best way to illustrate this is to give you an example. If you are telling a story and you set the scene as you are living in the ocean there are automatically going to be associations that go with that idea. Things that will be around you will be fish, water, sand and seaweed.

There is also a broader aspect to this circle of surroundings that the listener may not expect that can also be possible. These things could include a submarine, a body floating in the water and a pirate ship. These are all in the circle.

Things that are not going to be in the circle are dogs, furniture, semi trucks and camels. Remember that all the things in the circle are going to have associations as well.

This is an easy way to follow your own story; all the future twists and turns in the story will already be laid out for you in the things that are associated with every thing that comes before it.

Finally the last trick to follow for story telling is to just keep talking. You will always have subject matter in the associations with the elements you have previously told in the story so let it flow. Just keep talking.

Now that we know the insider tricks to polishing your stories lets add a few insights to them to get the complete story on polishing your stories.

The best way to become an exceptional story teller is to train your brain. In this you are conditioning your brain to grow new neurology and make new connections that will let the stories come naturally with practice.

A good insight to keep in mind with this is to avoid blocking or wimping out. These are ways that will hold up your story telling and bring it to a stall, boring. Blocking is when you keep doing the same activities over and over again simply because you are afraid of moving on to the next idea in your story.

Wimping out is when you keep circling around the same idea repeatedly running in the same circle. Remember that you have a preset story line provided by you unconscious and the association with the aspects of the already existing story. You should not be afraid to move on.

The final concept and second additional insight into story telling is to just take it one step at a time. There is no need to panic because you don’t know the rest of your story as you tell it. Taking it one step at a time will be easier for you and your listener.

Each next step is presented to you in the list of associations that spring from the previous step. If you are keeping it inside the circle you will have all the answers you need. There is no need to know the whole story at any time in your story telling.

By following these insights and tricks and combining them with the rules for telling a story you will advance in this area powerfully. The best thing to do is just stick to the rules, tricks and insights and your stories will grow from your unconscious beautifully.

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Stories absorb your attention, they bypass critical factor simply because you recognize them as stories and they create unconscious responses in everyone. When you tell a story you will incorporate hypnotic themes, sometimes without even trying, and seed a strategy in the minds of others. You can use stories as a way to embed suggestions, emotional triggers and link these suggestions and triggers to a specific action or outcome.

Stories can help you to suspend reality as well as merge realities together. They can offer a quiet resemblance to your life and the situations and problems you find yourself experiencing. All these aspects of story telling run right along the lines of the skills you will practice and master in hypnosis.

Stories are an important part of what you will be doing as a hypnotist. They are an art form and there is as much a method to good story telling as there is to hypnotic story telling. Remember as you read this information that we are focusing on the telling of stories, this is much different than the writing of stories. What you will do as a hypnotist is tell stories in order to invoke change in the people around you.

There are certain aspects that need to be involved to tell a hypnotic story, there are different actions and ideas that need to take place, at least to some degree. Even the simplest stories are still recognized as stories because they follow a type of formula that you hear and think, okay so that was a story.

You may think it was a bad story or you may think you heard a great story. Either way you are not able to deny that it was a story.

Hopefully you will be creating and telling great stories. In order to get on your way to telling good stories there are parts of a story that you need to be consciously aware of. A simple set of instruction that will help you in creating the most basic principal of what a story is. From there you can build and add to the story as you feel necessary, but it must contain these few instructions in order to fall into the category of a hypnotic story.

The first rule you must include in all your stories is to begin with a routine. This can be a very simple routine or a complicated one; it does not matter as long as there is a routine placed at the beginning of your story. In this article we will build an example story together. So the beginning routine of our story will be, “I was driving my car down the highway.” This is a routine that will start the story we are going to build here.

The second rule for building a hypnotic story is that you must break that routine. Whatever routine you found to begin your story with must be broken. There needs to be an interruption in the action.

“I was driving my car down the highway when I heard an unexpected noise coming from the back seat.” Here we have broken the routine, something other than driving down the highway has happened.

The next rule to this formula for story building is to change someone. There needs to be a character in the story that is changed. This means they need to have some type of emotional effect. Something needs to happen to affect the character you are changing that will produce an impact on that character as a result of an event.

“I was driving my car down the highway when I heard an unexpected noise coming from the back seat.
As I looked in my rear view mirror I saw a small black dog, she was holding her paw in an odd way.
I immediately pulled the car over and got out to see what the situation was. The little dog was bleeding and was in great need of medical attention.
I decided that I would have to postpone my plans to go out and take the little dog to the animal hospital.”

The part of my story where my character decides to take the dog to the hospital is where the change is taking place. There is a clear decision made and an emotion is attached to it.

Now there is a fourth and final rule to hypnotic story telling that you have the option of including or leaving out. If you can find a way to incorporate it into your stories you will be glad you did.

This is called re-incorporation and it really pays off in the end. Re-incorporation is when you add a seemingly meaningless detail to the beginning of the story and then re-incorporate it at the end. This is a way to usually add a riveting effect to your stories.

If you can follow all the rules of story telling you will come up with a story every time that will be recognizable as a story. Your listener will have no question about what you have just said and it will meet the expectations of a story for anyone who hears it.

Now there are many ways to tell stories. If you find one that works better for you and incorporates all that a story need then you should stick with what works for you. But these are the rules that will rest assured give you a good story frame, the rest is up to you

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The idea of telling stories has been around as long as humans have. There is sufficient evidence of this from cave drawings to modern day books and the internet. There is not a person on earth who can speak in full sentences that has not at one point or another told a story. They happen everyday, countless times.

You tell the mechanic about the funny noises your car is making. You tell the grocery clerk about how frustrated you were trying to find the eggs. You tell your child about sharing and your spouse about your day. These are all examples of stories that happen daily.

All these stories also have something in common, they are all powerful. Every story speaks directly to the unconscious mind. You feel emotion for a story as simple as not being able to find the eggs at the super market. You may identify with the story tellers frustration or dismay. Emotion is the language of the unconscious and stories evoke emotion.

Stories do several things in hypnosis first they bypass the critical factor. The critical factor recognizes a story and really pays no more attention to it simply because it is a story. There is no resistance to stories.

The other thing that stories do for you is to take your reality away and suspend it as you enter a new reality. This new reality is not really defined and can blend realities together to confuse them. You often find yourself identifying with the characters the speaker is talking about and experiencing their lives and emotions as if they were your own. They allow you to live in the character’s experience.

This is why you feel emotion when we read particular stories. It is because you identify with the characters at some level. This is important as you put into the context of telling stories to improve your hypnosis, you can use a story to conjure a hypnotic effect in another person.

Once you pass up the critical factor you have the ability to create identification with characters and the person you are conversing with. After these two things are accomplished you are in a very powerful position, a listener with no resistance and a story they will want to listen to.

Because story telling is so pivotal in hypnosis, especially Conversational Hypnosis, you should really concentrate on getting experienced and good at it. Practice with those you know, everyone like to hear a good story.

Now lets look at hypnotic stories, how exactly do you tell a hypnotic story? The first thing a story does for you in the area of hypnosis is to seed ideas or set up a frame work of ideas that will lead your listener into experiences. To seed ideas in your stories be sure to embed suggestions within the story. The story itself can really be on any topic as long as you are focused on inserting your suggestions.

You should be aware to use trance themes within your stories as this will have a greater impact on your listener if they are coaxed into a trance. Trance themes that you can start out with are relaxation on vacation, being drawn into a movie or suspenseful ideas. These are hypnotic themes that will help to draw your listener into a hypnotic state.

Isomorphic stories are another helpful skill set to keep in your library. These are stories that portray likeliness to the situation or person you are telling the story to. This goes back and relates to mirroring.

Really be cognizant of mirroring your listener and their situation in the story you are telling about other characters. An isomorphic story will also offer a solution or plan of action to take about the problem or situation within the story, which is in essence your listener’s situation or problem. This type of story will send your listener away analyzing what has happened and eventually find their own meaning stemming from the story you have told.

Finally the last aspect of story telling you will want to practice is that of priming the unconscious mind. This is the art of forming the unconscious mind to be aware of a thing before you actually tell it in the story. This is a technique that is used in many different areas including competitive sports, teaching and sales.

Competitive sportsmen talk about how they will win and this is responded to on some level of the unconscious. The same goes for teaching a teacher can plant the teachings in a form of pre-teach before they actually teach the lesson they want their students to learn. Sales does this through testimonials of products, they convince the customer that they will be happy with the product before they even purchase it.

This concept actually inserts the idea of the motions the person would be going through so they think they have experienced it even before it has actually happened. A sales man shows you want you will need to do for the paper work of buying your car before you actually fill it out.

All the story telling skills and types we have covered are very, very powerful. They will help you in bringing in hypnotic themes and plant processes in the minds of your subjects. They will also assist you in embedding suggestions, accessing states, setting emotional triggers and producing productive positive outcomes.

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