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Power tactics that are used in hypnosis have been used for many, many years; they are strategies that are key in the influence and persuasion of those around you.  These tactics will help you to change the lives of those around you for the better, as well as your own. As you learn how to use power tactics you will want to keep in mind the different concepts of hypnotic language foundations, rapport skills and signal recognition skills.  Keep these in the back of your mind because as you learn power tactics you will want to start to combine them all to create a powerful way of being a hypnotist. It is important to realize that at some point you will want to converge all the information you are learning in to smooth flowing patterns that will enhance your overall ability to be a great hypnotist. Power tactics, which are very old and very useful, in hypnosis are the strategies that allow you to become the authority in a person’s trance.  They enable you to take on the role of high status, which is our first tactic. The power tactic of ‘High Status’ is a role you will take on with your subject in order to get them to follow your suggestions.  It is important to note here that high status has nothing to do with your person; it is not about wealth or moral judgment.  It is simply a place in the set of roles you take on in society everyday. High status, equal status and low status are all different roles we play within the relationships we have.  Some people are natural high status people; they are comfortable and are good at taking control of the conversation.  Others are low status people and are more of a passenger in conversations, they chime in when necessary but other than that mostly agree with what is being said by others. The different roles we choose varies depending on the people we are with and the situations we are in.  It is important for you as a hypnotist to understand these roles and know when you need to play that of high or low status.  The best part of choosing a role to play after you understand them is that it gives you the most flexibility in conversations you have and the people you are working with. Now of course as a hypnotist you will want to be in a role of high status, this will make you the authority figure.  As the authority figure people will want to do what you suggest and follow your advice. The problem with this is that some people are not flexible in the types of people they feel comfortable dealing with.  There are people who are comfortable being low status and others who are only comfortable in high status. You will need to determine what type of person you are dealing with to determine which role you will need to initially take on.  I say initially because you will want to eventually be of high status in your hypnotic relationships. However there will be time you need to start as a low status person.  If you are dealing with a person who distrusts or dislikes those of high status you will take on a low status role until the person trusts and likes you.  They need to feel comfortable with you. When you take on the role of low status you will be less assertive, feed them information subconsciously and set up the correct frames to gain their trust. When you take on the role of a high status you will need to include two distinct concepts in your authority role.  These are your body language and behavior, which include your tonality.  These are the two things that will signal others as to what status you are in, they will cause a difference in how you are perceived by the other people around you. When you give off signals of a high status people will respond to you more powerfully.  This is a good sign but it is also important to remember the situations where you need to play low status and change your signals to accommodate that need.  This is something you will have to do for as long as it takes until those around you are comfortable dealing with a high status person. It is also possible to need to change status when dealing with the same person depending on the situation you are in.  This is a powerful tactic in order to break down resistance. Now how do you become a high status person?  What mannerisms does a high status person give off?  You have encountered them countless times, and more than likely interact with high status people all the time. People who are in high status role are those who send out signals of relaxed manner.  They are very comfortable with themselves and are confident in the things they do and say.  Some distinguishing characteristics of high status people are easy to spot. High status individuals exhibit Calm Movements.  These people are calm and unhurried; they do not rush through their actions, words or thoughts.  And those around them respond to these people as if they are in control of the situations they are in. If you goal is to be a high status role in your hypnotic relationships then you need to take on these behaviors.  It is important to avoid being jumpy, jerky or nervous.  Many low status people will have repetitive movements or ticks, they will wring their hands or bounce a leg constantly, and these are behaviors to avoid. Another high status signal is the way you use the space around you.  High status people use their space widely.  Low status individuals take up as little space as possible by crossing their arms and legs and often sitting in corners. High status people will use large motions, stand in a room, sit in a room, and even lean back in chairs.  High status people are also not intimidated by occasionally invading others private space.  They will give you a pat on the back or unsuspected hug, they simply feel comfortable naturally. The third signal of a high status person is that they will expose the vulnerable parts of their body.  As humans we have vulnerable part we are constantly subconsciously aware of; these being the throat, abdomen and groin.  When we feel threatened we will unknowingly protect these areas.  We may cross our arms or legs, even if the attack is only a verbal one we will attempt to protect ourselves. Those in high status will leave these areas of the body open or exposed.  They feel confident enough in their defenses to not be worried.  Often they are so comfortable in their environments that they simply feel no danger of an attack. The fourth and final signal of a high status person is steady eye contact.  One of the most interesting things about human beings is that you can often tell exactly what emotion they are having by looking at their eyes.  The eyes are directly connected to the brain and therefore give away many clues to your thinking. Low status individuals will have nervous eyes, darting around, unable to focus on one thing for too long.  High status people will be able to fix their eyes on something; a person, place, thing or point in space without a problem.  They will have an unwavering steady gaze that is the signature of their calm state of mind. In order to take on a high status role you must study and embody these traits. In doing this people who are not intimidated by others of high status will feel more comfortable around you. You will find they are even more willing to open themselves up to you in many different situations. HypnosisBest Holiday Gifts

Hypnosis is a deep and complicated process where the hypnotist and subject must have a wide rapport to support.  When you participate in conducting a hypnotic trance your unconscious will be opened to them.  Because of this it is important to have the experience you wish them to partake in at the forefront of your mind when starting the rapport. Rapport is not a term generated just for use in hypnosis.  It happens with everyone you come into conversational contact with.  And the rapport you develop with your subjects is instrumental in conducting successful conversational hypnosis. Hypnosis is anything but a casual relationship between two people.  It is a deep connection that must be supported with good rapport.  Anything you feel will unconsciously be projected upon the person you are trying to hypnotize.  Because of this it is paramount that you learn to take your rapport skills out of the range of normal and beyond. Hypnotic rapport is a time tested relationship.  It has been present since people have been in existence.  It is not fully understood and may never be, but it is very powerful. Rapport is powerful in the sense that anytime a person around you experiences a trance they will inevitably take on a deeper connection with you and your unconscious mind.  This deepens the trust between the participants and offers a sense of comfort in your company. Going first, or ‘go first’ concept is an important one to become highly familiar with.  In ‘go first’ you as the hypnotist must first enter the environment and experience you want your subject to have. The reason you need to enter the experience before your hypnotic subject is so they will pick that experience up from your subconscious as they are in trance.  Because every time a person goes into trance around you they develop an unconscious connection with you, if you have the experience at the forefront of your mind they will bring it back with them after the hypnosis is concluded. As you begin to make hypnotic connections with other people you will be unconsciously exploring their mind as they will be making a connection with your unconscious as well.  This is a powerful part of hypnosis.  It allows each person to explore thoughts and ideas they never knew they had until that precise moment. An example of this is prevalent in our everyday lives.  We have all met people that we have a difficult time connecting with.  You may have the same conversations over and over with little success in a real connection.  It may seem that there is some sort of barrier up between the two of you.  You never quite get past the small talk questions because you are not comfortable enough to advance into a deeper relationship. This relationship is skewed because on an unconscious level these people are sub-communicating their sense of distrust and non ability to be comfortable around you.  This atmosphere within in a person you are trying to connect with will shut down your thoughts and ideas.  This will happen even before those thoughts and ideas have even had a chance to properly develop and come to your conscious. On the other hand you probably meet people that you seem to have an instant connection with.  In these situations it can seem that the thoughts and ideas are flowing from you endlessly.  Ideas you never even realized you had come easily and seamlessly carry your listener.  You are charismatic with these people, your ideas are good, and they come out well. Split personality?   No. This is the way most people work.  Those who are confident, comfortable and trusting in themselves often send out unconscious signals to others that produce the same effect in others.  People who are not sure of themselves or comfortable will unconsciously cut off successful communications before they have had a chance to even try. In hypnosis you will want to have the effect of the second situation.  If you have a good rapport with your subjects and they feel comfortable and trusting around you they will be able to easily open up to you.  You can aid in this process by making the mental environment even more comfortable by using the ‘go first’ method in hypnosis. It is important to remember that hypnosis is no casual relationship.  You want your clients and the people around you to feel as if they have known you for years and can open up to you anywhere. Developing and instant rapport with a complete stranger is a skill that will attribute to your success as a hypnotist. This is established through good rapport. Good rapport can be established through different methods such as the ‘go first’ method. Learn more Learn Hypnosis WP Autoblog Plugin

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 be too complicated for them to really grasp the objective you have in mind. The main point in Stealth Tactics 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. The first Stealth Tactic we will discuss is the Law of Reversed Effect; it will explain how we should be using something called the Hypnotic Challenge.  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. 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. This is important to understand as it is the basis of why the Law of Reversed Effect works.  The Law of Reversed Effect works because our conscious mind is trying to do something that we would normally use our unconscious mind for.  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. 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. Now this brings us to the Law of Imagination, 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. 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. 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. 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. A classic hypnotist would do this through suggestibility tests.  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. 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. 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. The best way to use this law in conversational hypnosis 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. 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. 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. 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. Learn Hypnosis
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Hypnosis is an art where it is vital that you know how to spot when someone is entering a trance.  This can be done with accurate signal recognition systems as well as knowing how to asses trance signals. Accurate signal recognition systems are important because they are your first clue that a person is responding to you hypnotically.  The signals you can pick up on can be quite obvious or very minute; anything from the glazed look of entering a trance, whether produced by you or an outside source, to the smallest detail physical change. Milton Erickson had a perfected eye for picking up on the smallest signals that people sent out.  This is a perfection you as a hypnotist should strive for. There are other obvious signals that a person is going into trance.  We will get to discuss these here and you will learn how to tune into the different signals your subjects will be showing when they are entering a hypnotic trance. During hypnosis when a person is very focused and beginning to enter a trance there are certain aspects of their physiology that will inevitably change.  These are unconscious changes that occur without the conscious control of the person being hypnotized. As we look at the different signs of trance it is important to note that not all signals will be the same for every person.  Signal recognition systems are not a specific set of rules to follow. It is your jobs as the hypnotist to attune yourself to the different subjects you have and realize what is different for each one.  This is not about seeing one or two distinct signs from your subject, but distinguishing what is different for that person from the norm. The most obvious signal that a person is entering into a highly focused state of trance is the change in their breathing.  Usually the rate of breathing will slow as they are becoming more relaxed under trance.  However there are subjects whose breathing will speed up as well. The rate of breathing the person is experiencing is often dependant on the focus of your conversation.  If you are asking them to relax into a trance their breathing will more than likely slow.  If you are taking them through an exciting chain of events or they feel imposing danger their rate of breathing may quicken. In order to tell if a persons breathing has changed you will undoubtedly have to be studying their body. There are ways of doing this without getting slapped or punched.  Of course you can monitor their chest to see the rate of breath, however this may seem offensive to some people.  If you are monitoring their chest it is a good idea to do this with your peripheral vision.  Staring straight on at someone’s chest, especially a female subject is never a good idea. Other means of monitoring rate of breath is to watch the rise and fall of a person’s shoulders or rib cage.  Both of these move with every breath you take and will be fairly obvious and easy to spot. The second most obvious sign that a person is entering a hypnotic state is the smoothing out of facial features.  If you have ever looked a person straight on in the face you will often notice that most people’s faces are not completely symmetrical. As a person goes into a trance they muscles in the face begin to relax and their face will start to appear more symmetrical.  The left side of the face will more closely match the right side. This is a fairly easy signal to spot, especially if you are prone to looking at a persons face while talking to them.  As they go into trance and you are looking at their face you will be able to see the muscles relaxing and the face visibly starts to even out. As you are watching your subjects face for signs of evening out you may very well be able to pick up on the third most obvious signal at the same time.  This is when a person’s attention is absorbed. When a subject is going into hypnosis and their attention is being fully absorbed there are slight changes in their eyes that you will be able to see.  The first is the eyes will become fixed on one spot in space.  It may look as though they are ‘zoning out’ or staring at nothing in particular. Another affect on the eyes of trance is they can become slightly glazed over or sleepy looking.  Sometimes a person will show no eye movement at all.  All these signs are showing you that a person’s attention is completely affixed and they are falling into a trance. The fourth obvious sign of trance is involuntary muscle twitches.  These are of course easy to spot and can almost be eye catching.  They can be seen straight on or be easily spotted through your peripheral vision.  Involuntary muscle twitches can affect any part of the body that has a muscle. The bigger the muscle twitching the easier it is to spot.  Many subjects will experience facial ticks or shoulder twitches, these are both within your line of vision and pretty noticeable.  The twitching of muscles is caused by the cathartic process that the muscles experience when completely relaxed. Number five on the list of obvious signs is almost the opposite of muscle twitches; it is the effect of immobility of the body.  Sometimes when a person is going into a hypnotic trance they will stop moving all together. This is easy to see especially if you are dealing with a person who normally makes a lot of hand gestures or has animated body language.  If you are dealing with someone who rarely sits still you will almost immediately notice the lack of mobility of the body.  If their movements begin to slow down or actually stop all together you will know they are entering an altered state of mind. The final obvious signal in the six most obvious is the increase in passive responses given by a person.  As many people enter an altered state of mind the will become less argumentative, more passive.  This more agreeable demeanor will be much more willing to follow your lead.  This is noticeable both as a changing personality trait and that it can ultimately make your job as the hypnotist easier. The six obvious signals we have gone over here are easy to spot.  Keep in mind as you experience new subjects and learn to put new people into trance you will probably discover other obvious signs that are unique to different individuals. As you learn to spot as many signals coming from those around you going into altered states of mind you will become seasoned and be able to conduct your hypnosis quicker and easier than ever. The skill of being able to spot when someone is entering a trance is really at the core of signal recognition systems and is easy to practice as people are constantly moving in and out of trances around you all the time. Learn Hypnosis to spot these signals will also aid you in the future when you are learning to borrow trances already in progress.