How to Use Hypnotic Words to Double the Impact of Your Hypnosis Session
By Covert Hypnotist | December 6, 2010
Hypnotic words are another element of the Precision Language that you will want to work to develop in order to improve your Conversational Hypnosis. Hypnotic words are another type of hot word that are specifically designed to cause a person to begin to enter a trance or altered state of mind.
Hypnotic words can also be used in any stage of the 4 Stage Protocol. As you will see these are words that can be used in absorbing attention, bypassing critical factors, creating unconscious responses and using unconscious responses. These words can also be used to elegantly recreate experiences, express ideas in a hypnotic way and will create a smooth language for you to engage in your conversations.
So how do the hypnotic words work to engage a mini-trance or beginnings of an altered state of mind?
When you use a hypnotic word in conversation with a person they are required to access the experience that goes with the word you have said, at least to some degree. Their brain will unconsciously do this in order to really define the word you used. After they do this they can put the word and it’s meaning into the context of the statements you are making.
For example if you use the word ‘tired’ the person you are talking to will take that word out of the statements you made and access the emotion or feeling that defines for them. This is the only way they will really understand it the meaning it has for them.
Hypnotic words are words that are closely related and extremely important to hypnotic ideas. These are words that imply a fixation of attention and will always activate the neurology inside a person to begin a kind of trance response.
Hypnotic words are similar to words like fixation, curiosity, focus and mesmerized; any word that has the same meaning or connotation as these words will more than likely fall into the category of a hypnotic word. It is imperative as a conversational hypnotist that you build a strong library of these words to have and use as you need them.
As you are learning to use hypnotic words you will find that you can use them in layers like many of the other concepts we have discussed. When a hypnotic word is used alone there is a possibility that it will start the process of inducing a trance, however this is no guarantee.
However if you take the time to practice the words and add them into inductions they will become very powerful in capturing the themes of your conversation. This can be done repeatedly and will create an enormous impact in your hypnosis. The more you can get used to using hypnotic words in different instances the more opportunities your subject will have to access the experiences you are taking them into.
This is a powerful way to layer hypnotic words. The repetition that is created will give a variety of experiences and emotions to access while still using the hypnotic words to induce trances. These conversations will be memorable and easy to trigger for your subjects if the environment is right.
There are many hypnotic words to choose from that will fit into the contexts of all the stages of the 4 Stage Protocol. It is true, as you will find that many of the hypnotic words will fit well into the first stage. However other words such as fixation or attention can be used in many different instances and stories for intensification purposes. You will also easily be able to use hypnotic words in bypassing the critical factor and activating unconscious responses.
Spontaneous is a great word to use in bypassing the critical factor. Just the very meaning of the word implies that you will be bypassing any rational thought about the word or idea that is attached to it. Since the meanings of words are the emotion we incorporate with them the meaning of this word itself will simply slip a suggestion right past the critical factor and into the unconscious mind.
The word spontaneous also creates an unconscious response in itself, so now you have taken care of two steps in one with simply using one hypnotic word!
This is of course only one example; there are many words that you will find that will do the same type of thing with all the different stages of protocol. It is important that you put these words into a list and keep them handy as you will no doubt be using them on a regular basis. They will be a wonderful tool throughout your Conversational Hypnosis training and profession.
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How to Use Precision Language in Hypnosis
By Covert Hypnotist | November 6, 2010
Conversational Hypnosis is an art that is mostly made up of language and the ways in which you can use that language in order to impact lives in a positive manner. Precision language is a type of language that will help to create a series of conversational events in order to drive that impact home.
Precision language is really a language that is made up of words that have a greater impression on people. The impact that these words create will leave your listeners working to build a stronger state of mind.
Precision language is made up of words that not only bring out the emotion in people they tend to induce trance themselves at times. Precision words can do many things for your listener. They can be used to build anticipations, accelerate the action in an idea, as well as build softer language frames. (Building a softer language frame will make your suggestions and instruction of action more acceptable to the listener.)
The first skill that you will focus on in Precision language skills will be the ability to build a vocabulary of and use hot words in context. ‘Hot words’ are words that have a universal meaning to them that have been created from society and culture. They are words that are heavy with emotion and work to send a strong bold message that peaks interest and or curiosity.
The opposite of hot words is called neutral content language and this is what doctors use to communicate with patients. This blander language helps them to create emotional distance between themselves and their patients. This is not the type of language you want to use.
As a hypnotist you are walking on a path which is laden with emotional attachment. Attachment to stories, feelings and the betterment of life for those around you, to not get emotionally involved at some level would be a disservice to your patients.
At the same level of the way doctors speak most people have found a way to speak differently as well. Many speak in tones and words that are emotionally disengaging. This is a type of self protection from others reactions to what they may have to say. At times it is referred to saying what is politically correct, however politically correct and emotionally disengaging are not quite the same.
A hot word is a word that creates a powerful response and that is what you will need in this profession. They are also considered to be the vocabulary of the unconscious because they evoke emotion within people and this is the real domain of the unconscious mind. Remember that anytime you have an emotional response you are also having an unconscious response, this can be used in a hypnotic way to your advantage.
Hot words play a large role of importance in Conversational Hypnosis. This is because these words can change state of mind and move people dramatically. There are so many hot words that are hanging around us everyday that it would be impossible to list them all for you. But there are places that you can specifically find them. These are out of the mouths of politicians, teachers that move you to learn, motivational speakers as well as (believe it or not) the headlines of tabloids.
Some examples of hot words that are used everyday that you probably hear are baby, murder, drug addict, and so on and so forth. Any word that evokes a strong emotion with it’s meaning on a societal level. This means it must have a strong impact on the majority of people that hear it. If you are the only one who finds a word emotionally moving that may be a personal trance word for you (we will discuss these later).
A great way to use hot words is to put two or more together and create contrast with them. An example of this would be if you saw a headline on the paper that read, “A Mother’s Secret Life as a Baby Murderer”. This is a headline that is just exploding with hot words.
Most of the words in the headline have an emotional meaning attached to them; mother, secret, life, baby and murderer are all important words to most people.
Setting them next to one another makes the impact of them even stronger because are not used to seeing these words together and although the statement makes sense it seems unbelievable to us.
A mother is supposed to have unconditional love for her children and children in general. A murderer is viewed as a part of societies wretched. Secret is always a great connector as it draws in people with curiosity; we are conditioned to want to know all the secrets we can. The bottom line is using these words together creates a very strong and powerful impact, it brings up emotions inside people. Maybe it makes them angry or sad, whatever the emotion is it is there because of the impact the hot words have created in the statement.
Now hopefully you won’t be making statements like this to your subjects but words and how you use them will be pivotal in your hypnosis. It is important to have a wide vocabulary of hot words so you have a wide range of emotion evoking language to use with different people in different environments.
As you discover and build your hot word vocabulary start to use them in your everyday conversations and see the different ways people react compared to the way you are used to speaking. Even though you are not using them in hypnosis yet doesn’t mean you can’t study the effect they have on people in casual conversation.
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The ABSAIL Formula for Influences in Hypnosis
By Covert Hypnotist | October 12, 2010
So you are very aware by now that the purpose in being a hypnotist, at least in Conversational Hypnosis, is to create changes in behaviors. These changes should lead people to lead happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives. One of the key formulas in learning hypnosis that will help you reach these goals is the ABSAIL formula.
The ABSAIL formula is a simple set of words that will help guide you in creating behavioral changes for the people you are working with. Each letter in ABSAIL signifies a step in the somewhat challenging process of persuasion. The first two steps you will be familiar with as they are taken straight from the 4 Stage Protocol in learning hypnosis.
The A stands for Absorbed Attention. Like we said this from the 4 Stage Protocol, and is the first stage in this formula as well. This is simply the concept of focusing your subject’s attention.
This needs to be done to the point of all their thoughts being focused on you and the states you are inducing. All their thoughts, ideas and emotions should be following along the parameters you are setting with in the conversation you are having with them. Draw them into you and fill their senses with what you are saying. Make sure that you ‘go first’ so as to provide information they can adequately follow along as you are sub-communicating the experiences you want them to focus on.
The B in ABSAIL stands for the second stage in the 4 Stage Protocol, and that is to bypass the critical factor. Now this is imperative, because before they can begin to respond to you unconsciously their critical factor must be asleep.
Critical factor is the mechanism inside our heads that makes conflict with information. It criticizes and analyzes all the information that consciously flows through our minds. Critical factor must be bypassed in order for you to be able to access a hypnotic trance. If this is not done then you will not be able to successfully place suggestions within the minds of the people around you.
S in this formula is where we start to veer away from the 4 Stage Protocol. S stands for State change. This is an important part of your objective because you need to access different states within the mind in order to sow the seeds of suggestion in the right places. If you have no way to help your clients change their state of mind then you will not be able to advance in the session.
State change will happen when you change the mood of a person. You change moods not minds, remember. So as you change the moods of your listener you will have more freedom in establishing the state you would like them to enter.
A and I in ABSAIL are paired to stand for augmentation and intensify. In the idea of augmentation you are simply trying to expand the state of mind. Make it encompass more of the emotion and experience your subject is having.
Intensity can also be augmented and made greater. However the actual definition of intensify is to increase the amount of feeling behind the story, feeling or emotion; that is why these two go together so nicely.
After you have augmented the state you want to intensify it as well. You also want to intensify the responses you are getting from your subject. By intensifying these things you are making the experience more real for them. You are creating a vivid picture that they can lose themselves in. The greater the intensity of the state the better and quicker you can set an emotional trigger, making this an important step in this formula and in hypnosis.
That leaves us with the L. The L in ABSAIL is to Link to Action. There is a choice in this step you can either set a trigger or go directly to the linking to action. This happens after you have ignited the neurology within the brain and it is aglow with the action of the experience you are creating for your subject. You simply take the emotion that they are filled with and link it to the action you want them to take.
Now that you have all the components of the ABSAIL Formula it would be nice if you could picture it in action. The best, and most common, example of ABSAIL we see everyday in the form of advertisements. Advertisements take you through every step of ABSAIL in approximately 30 seconds to a minute.
Ads are a prime example of this in that they begin by absorbing our attention and then move into bypassing the critical factor simply because they are usually uninteresting at the start. After that they change state and add intensity by teasing you with the things you most desire.
Usually there are fast cars, beautiful women and glamorous lifestyles in advertisements. They heighten the intensity by showing you what you want to see, what many would like to have. Then they simply link their product to the action that is taking place with in the ad.
It is important to learn the ABSAIL Formula as it will be a foundation for you to check yourself against when you are using conversational hypnosis. These steps are easy to remember and designed to offer you success in the field of hypnosis.
As you build on each one of these skills you will learn to set the conditions up in just the right ways to access states properly. Usually this is done with ASP in mind. As well as combining them with the other techniques you have been learning throughout.
These are all skill that can be used together to create a powerful and impacting change to better a persons life. These techniques will assist in a successful point of action where your subject takes the reigns and learns to have a more fulfilling life because of their work with you.
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How to Intensify States in Hypnosis
By Covert Hypnotist | September 15, 2010
The state of mind in Conversational Hypnosis is really at the forefront of the battle you are beginning. In order to have a positive outcome from your hypnosis you must get the person you are working with to access a pure and clear state of mind that involves the emotion you are targeting to react to an emotional trigger.
One of the ways to do this is to intensify the state you are using in each different session. Intensifying the state of mind for your subject is really going to help them in many different areas of their hypnosis. It will also greatly improve your abilities as a hypnotist.
There are several different reasons why you would want to intensify the state of your listener. To start with you can use intensification in the change moods not mind concept. The more intense you make the mood they are experiencing the more dramatically they will change their course of thinking.
This is helpful because the reason for changing moods in the first place is because it allows the mind to follow without interference of the critical filters. This alone is a reason for needing to know how to intensify a state and is a big step when getting a person into a different state of mind.
States of mind are similar to different rooms in a house. In each room you keep certain stuff and you are only able to access that stuff when you are in that room. The mind works much in the same way. Different states of mind will allow you to access the different memories, experiences, feelings and definitions that are associated with that state. If you do not have a pure and clear state of mind you will have limited access to the stuff you need for that experience.
Now intensifying the state of mind comes in as a big help because the more clear your subjects state of mind is the more efficiently your triggers will be implanted. As we all know by now the emotional trigger is a very important step to accomplish as it will eventually lead to the changes the person wants to make in their life. The more you can amplify and intensify the state of a person the more powerful your suggestions will end up being.
So let’s get down to it, how do you work on intensifying the state of a person in order to help in hypnosis? One of the first ways is to intensify the response you are getting from your subjects. It is important to know how to intensify this response in order to be accessing a state that is strong enough for you to spend time setting an emotional trigger to.
There are basically four techniques to make a response more intense. These concepts can be used together or separately and it is important to know how to use your basic hypnosis knowledge before wading into these four concepts.
Some of the skills you will want to be practiced at before hand are first to realize that some people have a much easier time getting into states than others. This is important to know simply so you are aware that getting in and out of good clean states may take practice for some people.
Another tool you will need to be working well with is the absorption of attention. You need to make it your responsibility to have their complete attention locked in to access a clear state.
After all there is no need to intensify a state that will not be useful and the better the state the more useful it will be to you and your subject. The more attention you have from them the better they will be able to access the state you are looking for. That in turn means you will be able to set a more proficient trigger.
Now you are ready to get into how to intensify a state. The first way to do this is a simple concept of direct suggestion. This is very easy; you simply suggest directly that they intensify an emotion.
This can be done with many different principals you have learned including the piggy backing of suggestions, hot words, linguistic bridges and trance words. You can put all these things, ideas, together to make a direct request to intensify a feeling. The more they notice and pay attention to the feeling you wish to make more intense the more this will take place unconsciously.
Keep in mind you are not going to be telling them what experience to have this will take place as a result of you telling them to intensify a feeling. This is a simple suggestion that can be done very directly or less directly and smooth depending on the person you are working with.
The second way to add intensity to your hypnosis is to layer emotional triggers. By laying different emotional triggers, one right on top of the other, you will be taking the intensity level to a new high for your listener.
Two ways to do this, the first is to start with all the different emotions your listener has in the experience and start to set triggers to each one individually. After you have done that you can combine them all into one trigger and you will end up with a nice array of positive states being set off by one trigger.
Another way to do this, a much simpler way, is to layer your emotional triggers to access different experiences each of the same state. This may sound complicated but it is really quite simple. Start by going first, tell a story that involves the state you are wanting to access. Then as you hit the climax of the story set a trigger. After that you will ask your listener to relay a similar experience, you will then revivify it for them and as they enter the experience of revivification you will set your trigger again.
In this example you have doubled the emotional impact of that trigger as there are now two different experiences associated with it. Think about the power this can have if you continue the loop five or six times.
The third technique for adding intensity is to use modular enhancers. These are non-verbal ways to intensify and experience. They use things such as tone, gesture, body language and facial expressions to imply a suggestion.
Tone is a big one here as you change the tonality you use it will send signals to intensify an experience. You can use this skill with any of the senses, experiment with it and see how you can intensify things with the non-verbal actions listed above.
The final technique for increasing intensity is to control the inner pictures the listener receives. In this concept you will take hold of all the senses in the stories and amplify them to make them more real. Use statements that imply or ask them to make things more focused, bigger, brighter, sharper, louder, and more vibrant.
The idea here is to be sure to build up every sensation and sense that is in the experience. These include sounds, smells, physical touches, taste, sight and emotions. There are two ways to accomplish this; directly tell them to do it with detailed instruction or combine the amplifications into your story as if they were a part of the story itself.
In this technique you can use gestures to assist you in getting the point across, this helps as it creates the sense for you and you begin to go first as you tell the story.
All these things will give you the skills in how to make a thing more intense. Make sure to keep in mind that these are powerful ways to access states and be positive when you are working with them as they intensify emotions as well.
Now go forth and be intense!
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