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		<title>The Law of Reversed Effect in Hypnosis: How to Use the Hypnotic Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Covert Hypnotist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Smath As you dive into the deep art of conversational hypnosis you will find that there are a set of Stealth Tactics that can be used in order to bypass the critical factor in people’s minds. Stealth Tactics are used in a way that either will be unnoticed by your subject or will [...]]]></description>
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<p>As you dive into the deep art of <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">conversational hypnosis</a></strong> you will find that there are a set of Stealth Tactics that can be used in order to <strong>bypass the critical factor in people’s minds</strong>. Stealth Tactics are used in a way that either will be unnoticed by your subject or will be too complicated for them to really grasp the objective you have in mind.</p>
<p>The main point in <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/stealth-tactics-in-hypnosis-what-are-stealth-tactics/" target="_blank">Stealth Tactics</a></strong> is that this is a way of disguising what you are doing in order to defeat the critical factor and get your message through a person’s resistance. Because these tactics are a little on the sneaky side you will want to be sure to exercise the best judgment in using them. If you do not, it is likely that your listener’s unconscious will start to distrust or dislike you in the actions you are taking.</p>
<p>The first Stealth Tactic we will discuss is the <strong>Law of Reversed Effect</strong>; it will explain how we should be using something called the <strong>Hypnotic Challenge</strong>. The Law of Reversed Effect is simply that the harder you try to do something the more likely it is that you will fail. This is not to be confused with persistence. It is not the more your try to do a thing it is the harder you try to do a thing that will result in failure.</p>
<p>There is a reason this failure will take place and that is that our conscious minds work in a way that it executes doing things. Our unconscious mind acts on the things we decide to do and works out the navigation of how to actually do them. For instance you decide to read a book, you read the words consciously but your unconscious deciphers them and adds the emotions and feelings that accompany the words.</p>
<p>This is important to understand as it is the basis of why the Law of Reversed Effect works. <strong>The Law of Reversed Effect works because our conscious mind is trying to do something that we would normally use our unconscious mind for</strong>. The conscious mind works on the simple things, things that only require 5 – 9 steps to accomplish. The unconscious mind makes the more complicated functions of life run more smoothly as it can handle much more complicated procedures.</p>
<p>It is only when the conscious mind starts to get into the unconscious mind’s territory that failure begins to take place. When the conscious mind starts to interfere with the fluid motions of the unconscious the result is failure.</p>
<p>Now this brings us to the <strong>Law of Imagination</strong>, which is yet another reason for failure. The best way to describe this law is to give you an example. We are all humans and in that we want things. If you think of something you want but should not have you start to set yourself up for the failure in this law.</p>
<p>The way this works is when you state that you do not want something or you shouldn’t do something, you are reminded of it often as you think about how you shouldn’t have it. Usually if you want something the thought of it will bring a mirage of good experiences to mind. If you like cake, the taste, if you like cars, the excitement of owning a new car.</p>
<p>These are good feelings and experiences that you relate to the thing you are trying to avoid. The more you think about preventing yourself from getting the thing you shouldn’t have the more positive associations are ignited in your head. Eventually you will be overloaded by the positive images of the thing you shouldn’t have and your unconscious will give in and get the thing you shouldn’t have.</p>
<p>Now in this comes the Hypnotic Challenge. In the Hypnotic Challenge you are going to be setting your listener up for failure by using the Law of Imagination and the Law of Reversed Effect. The Hypnotic Challenge is a way that you will ask someone to try to fulfill a suggestions and you watch to see how they fail.</p>
<p>A classic hypnotist would do this through <strong>suggestibility tests</strong>. The test is not within the suggestions themselves it lies within the challenge and failure to complete that challenge attached to the end of the test. When a person try’s and fails a challenge you have set before them they will unconsciously start to believe that resistance is not within their means.</p>
<p>As long as the listener believes that resistance is not within them to control, that control will be given over to the hypnotist. As long as they continue to believe this one thing it will continue to ring true for them. Now all the suggestions you make will easily flow to the unconscious because there is no resistance in place to stop and examine the suggestions.</p>
<p>This is where the reversed effect comes in; by showing a person that they have no resistance and that they will fail you have actually, in a very sneaky way, passed up the barrier that causes failure. They have no resistance; they failed because you set it up that way, now they will believe they have no control over failure. Because they believe this you now have the power to avoid all failure in your objective as you have bypassed all their resistance.</p>
<p>The best way to use this law in <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">conversational hypnosis</a></strong> is to use a linguistic trick by using words that imply “try”. “Try” itself implies failure and to imply the failure is to stack the odds in your favor that they will actually fail at a preconceived task.</p>
<p>Now let’s review this as there is a lot of action going on in this Stealth Tactic. The Law of Reversed Effect says that the harder you try to do a thing the more likely it is you will fail.</p>
<p>To put this law in action you need to require that the subject make a conscious interference with a normally unconscious process. You will add to this basing the odds in your favor by asking them to complete a task it is likely they will fail at. As you do this you will use subtle hints to imply they will fail, such as the word try or something with a like meaning.</p>
<p>All of these steps will cause a conflict in their resistance to your suggestion. The critical factor and resistance will be completely bypassed in the process.</p>
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		<title>Power Tactics in Hypnosis: How to Use Consistency to Boost Your Authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Covert Hypnotist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consistency Principal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by marcn In Conversational Hypnosis it is important to choose the correct status role depending on the people you are dealing with. High status is the role that you will strive for in your hypnotic relationships, but it is also important to know when to play a low status role too. The idea is [...]]]></description>
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<p>In <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">Conversational Hypnosis</a></strong> it is important to choose the correct status role depending on the people you are dealing with.</p>
<p>High status is the role that you will strive for in your <strong>hypnotic relationships</strong>, but it is also important to know when to play a low status role too. <em>The idea is to gain complete comfort from your subjects in a low status role before attempting to move into a high status role</em>.</p>
<p>After you have attained the trust of your subjects and can attain the role of high status in each relationship you will want to maintain it. This is done by sending out the signals that are subconsciously associated with a high status person.</p>
<p>These signals include <strong>calm movements, use of space, exposing the vulnerable parts and steady eye contact</strong>. These principals will be the background for the next step to learn which is to use them consistently in order to <strong>boost your authority</strong>.</p>
<p>Now that you know how to behave in a way that people will perceive you as high status, you will want to learn how to activate this instantly. This is where the <strong>Consistency Principal</strong> is put into action. The principal of consistency is defined as this: when a person makes a declaration in public of a thing, then it is certain that they will have to act in a way to remain consistent with what they have said.</p>
<p>The easy way to say this is that once someone has stated something publicly to someone in high status they will feel that they need to fulfill that statement by acting according to it. Another part of this is to add that the more authority or higher status you are the more pressure the subject feels to live up to the standard they have set in front of you.</p>
<p>This is important for <strong>hypnotists</strong> as the more authority you have the harder they will work to attain the goals they have set in front of you. This also means that once they have made a change they wanted in their life they will work harder to maintain it.</p>
<p>This brings us the idea of <strong>Consistency Tactics</strong>, the first of which is to <strong>Demonstrate Authority</strong>. In using this tactic you will be able to test the willingness of your subjects, and anyone really, to go into trances. These are also widely known as <strong>suggestibility tests</strong>. When consistency tactic of demonstrating authority is used correctly it will give the hypnotist a great range of authority from the participant.</p>
<p>These tactics are also used on other people to see the amount of resistance they have to going into an altered state of mind. In this manner they can be used almost anywhere to demonstrate your knowledge on the subject of <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">hypnosis</a></strong>.</p>
<p>The consistency tactic of demonstrating authority will help in the manner that it is a quick and easy way to test suggestibility. Once you do this successfully to one person in a room full of people they will usually no longer question your knowledge on the subject and trust that you are an expert in the area.</p>
<p>As humans it is our nature to trust those who prove they are educated in a field. In fact we are so trusting of this that once a person proves they are an expert in one field we generally will think they know a vast amount of knowledge in many different areas of life.</p>
<p>Another way that this skill is useful is that <strong>when you open yourself to show something to a crowd of people you automatically take on the role of a leader</strong>. This will add social pressure on you to perform but it will <strong>elevate your status in the room to one of high status</strong> very quickly.</p>
<p>It is important in this skill to find what works for you. Make sure you are performing something you can accomplish, so as not to appear uneducated on the topic. <strong>When you are successful in your ability to perform for strangers with social pressure and you can accomplish your objectives people will start to respond to you as an authority figure</strong>.</p>
<p>The concepts we have just gone over are very important in <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">conversational hypnosis</a></strong> and are key in the elevation of your authority even in outside environments such as social gatherings. The simple need to possess a strong authority over people in <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">conversational hypnosis</a></strong> is a strong one that will ease the time and effort put into <strong><a href="http://inducetrance.com/conversational-hypnosis" target="_blank">hypnosis</a></strong>.</p>
<p>By creating ways to <strong>add impact to your authority</strong> you will be able to win people over more quickly and reach the goal of offering your suggestion. Once you accomplish that and you have the authority the suggestions you implant will be more powerful for your subjects and the people around you.</p>
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