Access State Principle

Influence & Persuasion in Hypnosis: Changing Moods Not Minds

by Jack on August 28, 2009

Conversational Hypnosis is really the art of changing lives, when you get down to it your purpose as a hypnotist will be to help people to make positive changes for themselves in their lives. Unfortunately you cannot just tell someone to change, as this will not be effective. There are places in the mind you must learn to access, moods to change and triggers to pull. Once you learn how to set these events into action you will be closer to making happier lives for everyone.

One of the most important things you need to learn as a hypnotist is how to change behaviors; this is really a way to change learning as well. The vital key in changing behavior and learning is to know the Access State Principal or ASP. Access State Principal which really says within those very words what you will be doing with it. You will be accessing different states in order to change people’s moods which will in turn change the ways in which they think about things.

Access State Principal will give you the knowledge to change the way people think and behave in any given set of circumstances.

Behind the Access State Principal is the idea of changing moods, not minds. You see most people believe that in order to change someone’s thinking about a particular subject you need to change their mind. They will most often try to do this with logical arguments, persuasion and facts. However there is a more efficient way to change minds.

If you have the tools to change their mood you will be more successful in changing their mind quicker and more thoroughly. When you learn to change a person’s mood their mind will follow because it is all connected in the mind, provoke a new set of emotions the state of mind changes.

This all relates to the Access State Principal.

There was a scientific study done on ASP in the 1970’s. It was used to study state of mind and performance. Basically the researchers got together two groups of students and asked them to study and memorize a list of nonsense syllables. The first group of students took on this task sober; the second group was given a few shots of alcohol to get them a little intoxicated before they began.

The students then had a few hours to study and after were sent off to take the test. The students who were studying sober performed better on the test. But then the researchers had the students take the test again after giving all the students a few new shots of alcohol. In the second test the students that had studied while intoxicated did better than those who had studied sober.

Since the 1970’s many tests of like nature have been conducted. And in most of these studies it shows that the ways in which people code the behaviors they have is dependant on the state of mind they are in when learning that behavior. Therefore when you change the state of mind all the behaviors and information that individual has access to changes.

The best way to picture this is that the mind is made up of many different rooms; every room is a different state where you have learned, acted or behaved in different ways. So in theory each separate room stores the information for all those different states. In order to have access to that information you need to enter that state or room with in the mind. This is why changing moods changes minds.

Your state of mind, your listener’s state of mind is really the control center for everything you do. The state of mind is what controls your behaviors within that state of mind, where you store the information you learn, how you learn it and how to access the information you want to share consciously.

Part of your job as a hypnotist is to learn the secret paths to access those states of mind. You must be able to help your subjects to access each state you need in order to accomplish your goals together. The different states of mind hold the ability for individuals to improve on focus, performance, knowledge and inspirations.

When it comes to changing minds the science behind it can be broken down simply, at least for our purposes. Each time a different state of mind is accessed a different or new set of neurology is lit within our brains. Every state is a little different in some way as each state of mind allows you access to different sets of information.

State is of course more complicated than just a bunch of lights going off in your brain. It has to do with your emotions and your physiological state as well. This means the ways you move. When your body either stays in one position or moves to a new position this too is involved in accessing or shutting down information in different states of mind. When your body move the neurology in your brain changes.

Now this is all important to Access State Principal because when you are attempting to change a subjects mind about a thing you will need to access their state of mind. You will need to lead them into changing their body movements, mental images and behaviors in order to access those states of mind.

Part of this accessing of state of mind will be learning to hit their emotional triggers in order to cue the responses that control these behaviors. This will create a great starting point in amplifying their experiences and make the most intense experience for them. The more intense the experience the better the state of mind you can access.

With the Access State Principal you can improve your life and the lives of those around you in numerous ways. Access State Principal will be a tool that you will learn to combine with many other skills, each affecting the other, to make a powerful set of hypnotic tools

How To Get Agreement From Anyone: Boost Your Suggestions With Plausibility and The Agreement Habit

by Jack on March 20, 2009

Agreement tactics in conversational hypnosis are very functional. You will learn to use these for two different reasons.

Reason Number 1:

To put the critical factor in your subject’s mind to sleep.

The critical factor which tells people whether or not something is believable needs to be turned off in order to induce a good trance and to make suggestions that will hold true when the person is not under hypnosis. shakehands

Reason Number 2:

Once the critical factor is turned off you will want your suggestions to seem realistic. Agreement tactics do just that. They get the listener in the habit of agreeing with you and lend you the authority in their altered state of mind.

The agreement tactics, and there are four of them, build an agreement factor in the listener’s mind. They will help you to open up the side of the mind that likes to agree and make them want to agree with what you are saying.

The Four Agreement Tactics

The four agreement tactics include plausibility, the agreement habit, ‘yes sets’ and piggy backing suggestions. In this article we will look at the plausibility tactic and the agreement habit tactic. We will begin to explore how and why these will add impact to your suggestions when a person is under hypnosis.

The first agreement tactic of Plausibility is to get a person to agree with what you are saying repeatedly so eventually you can introduce an idea that may not be considered a truth!

As long as it is a plausible statement they will agree with it because they are already in the habit of agreeing with you.

Agreement at this point is easier because you have put the critical factor to sleep and there is no analysis of the idea you are presenting. This in turn allows the listener to keep with the general flow of the conversation without interrupting it to disagree.

The goal here is to have the critical factor turned off as much as possible.

The more the critical factor is on the more plausible your statements must be. The more the critical factor is OFF the more implausible your statements can be. When a person is in a full state of trance the plausibility of a statement is no longer required, plausibility can be nonexistent and the subject will still take your statement for truth.

You can utilize your signal recognition skills here to see how much of your listeners critical factor is in place. Always keep in mind that your listener may seem to be totally awake, but this does not mean their critical factor is awake.

The second agreement tactic that we will be looking at is the Agreement Habit. Agreement habit is essentially based on the concept of ‘going first’. If you remember ‘going first’ is when you create a reality that you immerse yourself in first and then lead your listener through it.

In the Agreement Habit tactic you want to be able to set up a pace and have your listener follow along, agreeing all the way. This sets a pattern inside the head to agree, causing your listener to agree even when they may not agree with the entire statement.

Part of the Agreement Habit is the Agreement Habit Principal which has everything to do with positive reinforcement. What you put into something will help it to flourish and grow. Now this works the same for both positive effects and negative effects. When you reinforce a positive behavior or thought it will grow just as much as if you give attention to a negative behavior or thought which can be counterproductive for your purposes as a hypnotist.

In the agreement habit you will want to provide a response to the positive things and avoid responding to the negative. When you agree with ideas or statements respond with a verbal ‘yes’, nodding your head or even a smile. When you disagree with an idea or statement do absolutely nothing, give it no response at all.

The act of response to the positive things will foster positive reinforcement and cause your subject to make more positive statements than negative ones. People like to get responses, whether they are positive or negative, so by only reacting to the positive thoughts you are greatly improving your agreement with the other person.

Another reason to respond to positive aspects of thoughts and ideas is the Access State Principal. In this principal the idea is that changing moods changes what information within the mind you have access to, as well as influencing the behaviors you exhibit.

When you change your mood to a positive mood you will access more positive thoughts and behaviors. Again everyone craves reactions and by altering you mood to receive the reaction that is favorable you will be advancing in the art of hypnosis.

Agreement habit and positive reinforcement, when used correctly, will casually leave behind the negative behaviors or things you do not respond to. These are all extremely powerful ways to induce agreement and keep it going. In this they are consciously registering the agreement and not the disagreement.

There is so much that the agreement habit can do that it is hard to keep it all in your head as you read this. So to review…

agreement habit unconsciously presents the information you agree with
puts the critical factor out of commission, and
sets a pattern of agreement that your listener can easily follow.

Plausibility and agreement habit are powerful tactics that you should perfect in order to become a great hypnotist. You should examine how, when and know why to use them. They assist in the beginnings of bringing out the objectives you have as a hypnotist.