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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

A key tool as hypnotists is the language you will use.  It is very important to understand how vital it is for you to master the language and use it as a power foundation with your subjects. Language and how you use it will create a solid base for putting people into an altered state of mind.  The main objective in hypnosis is to have the ability to help people change their lives and this is accomplished through influence and persuasion to do certain things.  Without the right language and skill you will struggle with accomplishing these goals. The ability to use language to create an altered state of mind is key.  Altered state of mind is defined as a special state of awareness in which the subject focuses on certain ideas and excludes other ideas from that focus.  In this definition the meaning is that whatever a person is focusing on exclusively becomes real to them. It is important to remember that within each human the will and imagination are always conflicting.  It is equally important to remember that the imagination will always win this battle.  In order to use this information in your language arsenal it is important to make direct contact with the imagination and lay your suggestions there. Using language to zero in on the outcome you are striving for requires you to get people into a good ‘focus of attention’.  This is one of the first concepts that early hypnotists discovered was responsible for causing trances.  When you can accurately get and maintain the focus of a person they will often enter a trance for you. After this has been accomplished you will be the tour guide of their trance.  It is your responsibility as the hypnotist to lead them on an unforgettable journey into and through their trance.  You will be influencing them to focus their attention on thoughts and ideas that will help them to arrive at their desired outcome.  The arrival there will fulfill their purpose in changing behaviors to match their goals in life. Now as we continue through this article you will learn how you do this.  How do you create that powerful foundation of hypnotic language? The first stage in this is to create an unbroken flow of ideas.  This responsibility is all on you as the hypnotist.  This flow of ideas should run smoothly, it should be practiced.  The words you speak should be fluid, comfortable, enjoyable, and pleasant.  Keep your listener wanting to hear more.  There should be no words or ideas that cause your listener to want to stop your flow of language. There are ways to accomplish what I have just explained.  If you exercise these 4 principals you will begin to master the key tool in conversational hypnosis. The first principal you must apply is to create verbal agreement with your subject.  In order to do this the listener must be able to in some way agree with what you are saying.  They do not have to literally say yes to everything you say but something inside of them has to recognize at some level your statements are true for them. Part of this agreement is in you and your speaking.  Your thoughts must flow easily without hesitation or disagreement.  When you accomplish this you are much easier for your listener to follow, it is easier to come to agreement if things do not have to be thought out or deciphered. The second principal to apply in your hypnotic language is ‘patterns and plausibility’. In order to know the amount of work you need to do here it is important to remember the signs of trance.  Once you have determined how deep in trance your subject is you will know how plausible or implausible your statements can be. The deeper in trance the person is the less plausible your statements can be. In the ‘patterns and plausibility’ principal you will start with agreement.  Make statements that your subject must agree with simply because they are truth.  You can use the weather outside, the time of day, subjects color of hair; anything that is a verifiable fact.  After the person in trance has heard several true statements you will want to add a statement that may or may not be true. This new statement only has to be plausible enough that they will follow along with it because it is easier to agree than to argue the possible disagreements.  In this way the habit of agreeing to the true statements will sneak past the conscious filters that say it may not be true.  Once you are past those filters the statement will then start to become true for them. After the first two principals have been successful, you can start to work on the third principal; piggy back suggestions.  The idea behind piggy backing suggestions is that you can adequately relate ideas or statements that may not necessarily be connected. This again requires smoothness to your language, there needs to be no breaks in the conversation so there is no time to recognize the un-connectedness of the statements.  Another advantage that piggy backing suggestions give is the ability to make comfortable transitions between thoughts and ideas.  If you apply this principal correctly there will be no work involved for your listener, it should be an easy experience of transition through new ideas. And finally the fourth principal of linguistic bridges is applied.  Linguistic bridges are simply conjunctions that permanently connect two sets of information together.  When you use linguistic bridges well the thoughts and ideas you are connecting will run through the listener smoothly. One way to do this is to use the 4 Words of Power.  The 4 words of power are four conjunctions that act like linguistic bridges.  These are key in tying together hypnotic themes and help in cementing those ideas together in a nice package.  Mastering the 4 words of power will give you the ability to create an endless variety of content and new hypnotic inductions. So what are those 4 words of Power?  As. And. Because. Which means.  These 4 words will give you the ability to piggy back a vast variety of statements and thoughts.  The way that these words work is to create a smooth way of communicating all the suggestions you want in a way that your subject will respond to hypnotically. The 4 words of power are easy to use as you practice them you will see you can fit them easily between themes and connect statements that may otherwise seem un-conncetable.  They will make many statements seem more plausible and will add a new rhythm to your speaking. There are a variety of other linguistic bridges that work much like the 4 words of power and as you learn them you will see your full capabilities in this area of conversational hypnosis.  With the use of the 4 words of power and these other linguistic bridges you will experience a wide range of fluid expression. There are lists of the linguistic bridges available and it would be an excellent idea to memorize these powerful words to use as tools in your language.  The lists available for the linguistic bridges are great for learning to incorporate them into your speaking when you have the list with you. You can also purchase a Street Hypnosis Deck, which is a deck of illustrated cards containing words on each card. This is a great way to carry the linguistic bridges you will be using so often with you. Learn HypnosisWordpress Autoblogging 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.