hypnosis

Hypnosis is a deep and complex process where the hypnotist and his subject must have a wide rapport to support.  When you participate in conducting a hypnotic trance, your unconscious will be opened up 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 highly important that you learn to take your rapport skills out of the range of normal and beyond.

What is hypnotic rapport?

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 any time 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.

The “Go First” concept

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 the 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 an 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.

Building rapport is integral to becoming a master hypnotist and powerful persuader. As you improve your rapport skills, you will find that your ability to bring people under your spell becomes stronger, and your powers of influence grow. As such, it is important to avoid common mistakes made building rapport.

The ability to have great rapport with your subjects is one of the first tools you will need to exert influence and control.  Common mistakes made in this area are hard to identify as ‘mistakes’ unless you are aware of what they are.

Common Rapport-Building Mistake #1

The first most common mistake made is simply trying to be too nice.  Of course you should be nice to people.  But there is a point in time in certain relationships when the line must be drawn. 

In order to develop a deep rapport with people you need to have full communication.  This means that everything that needs to be said must be said, even if it is unpleasant.  Not having full communication can disable you from sharing important thoughts, ideas and feelings.

The basic rule to follow here is to be nice but not at the expense of real communication.  Say what needs to be said.  If you do not the rapport will break down and a barrier will start to go up. 

Most people have experienced one end or the other of trying to be too nice.  One example is we are often too busy with politeness to show our true selves. 

The other end of the spectrum is we encounter people who are trying too hard to be nice to us.  Either way you look at it, a wall is constructed and these people remain casual acquaintances.  We often have the same exact conversations with these people and never truly build a lasting rapport with them because there is no real communication happening.

Common Rapport-Building Mistake #2

The second mistake that is often made when attempting to build rapport is trying too hard.  Yes this is closely related to the first mistake.  When we try too hard we send signals of desperation.  It shows that we are too eager to please or desperate for company.

No one likes to be surrounded with desperate people.  The air of desperation often causes those around it to feel obligated or under a lot of pressure.  Both of these feelings can completely shut down communication.

Trying too hard is a mistake that can lead to the “Law of Reversed Effect”.  The “Law of Reversed Effect” means the harder you try, the more likely you will fail.  This is because you are actually interfering with the unconscious process.

When you try too hard you are not falling into a gentle rhythm where rapport is produced you are trying to force a relationship that is not ready yet.  Maintaining a sense of what needs to happen to create rapport is essential to your success.

 Once you recognize what needs to happen you should let your unconscious take over and implement the steps itself.  ‘Instant rapport technique’ will help with this later in another article.

Common Rapport-Building Mistake #3

The third mistake that is common in hypnosis is to want something from someone too much.  This mistake is again closely related to the first two mistakes. 

When we want something too much we often become pushy and overwhelming, especially so to the subconscious.  Once an individual has pushed too much their counterpart will back off or become disinterested.  Salesmen encounter this often. 

There is a solution for this.  ‘Fractionating rapport’ will help you to pace yourself in the amount of intimacy you seek.  In fractionation you work on building a little rapport and then leave it alone for a while.  Let the subject come and re-engage you.  Each time you repeat the process you will be digging deeper and deeper into a comfort zone and building a strong rapport with the person.

This technique keep people in their comfort zones, and you are only stretching that zone a little each time you go through the motions.  Soon conversation, give and take, push and pull will become a natural and familiar habit.

Being too nice to people, trying too hard and wanting something too much, all have simple solutions to help you become successful.

If you are being too nice to your subjects, stop and remember there is a point at which you must stop being nice to save the rapport.

If you are trying too hard with your subjects implement the ‘instant rapport technique’.  This will allow the unconscious to send the normal rapport signals to you through your subject.

And if you want something too much, stop doing it and use fractionation.  Soon over a small amount of time you will have built many steps to great rapport.

Being aware of these three common mistakes in building rapport will help you to not only avoid them but to improve you hypnosis skills further.

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This method is used by the most powerful persuaders in the world. It can be learned quickly and implemented immediately, and if you choose to learn more about this and other persuasion methods, the possibilities are endless.

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I warn you now that this method is covert. The people you release this on will not realise what you are doing. They will feel inclined to obey you, but not be able to explain why.

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Matching and Synchronization

The matching and synchronization technique. This is a proven and powerful technique for getting into the unconscious mind of someone else and creating an instant bond, rapport and attraction. Your chosen person will feel a special connection with you and not know why, enabling you to guide their actions. The main reason for this is that you will be communicating on a subconscious level. There are just 2 steps.

Step 1: Physiological Matching

The first step is to match your physical movements to theirs. Very simply, do what they do. Sit like they sit, breathe like they breathe, move like they move, and talk like they talk. People find comfort in similarities. The more similar you can make yourself to them physically, the more they will fall under your spell, whilst being unaware that it is happening. The more you can match your unconscious communication, the stronger your connection will be. People are naturally attracted to other people who are similar in some way, and this is an incredibly powerful way to simulate this covertly.

 
Step 2: Verbal Synchronization

Now this is where the real power comes in…, and it is unusual for this secret to be given away like this. It’s normally part of careful training after a vetting process, so  …Please use this responsibly. Once you have matched your physical movements, synchronize your words when they exhale – that is, speak when your subject is breathing out, remain silent when they’re breathing in. You can tell when most people are breathing by watching the rise and fall of their shoulders. Match their breathing with your words, even if you have to break a sentence in the middle to do so. It’s very hypnotic. The reason this works is that during exhalation, we are most relaxed and open to cleverly worded influences.

The Effect

Whoever you release this on will be subtly but powerfully under your spell, and far easier to persuade or influence. This person will feel an urge to please you. When you make a suggestion or command, synchronized with their breathing you’ll see amazing results.

Imagine knowing how to release this technique when you want to attract someone you like, and draw them to you like a magnet. Or in careful negotiation over the price of something, whether you are the buyer or the seller. These are just two common examples of how this technique has been used – and you have probably been subject to this yourself. When you use this method with, say, the Embedded Command technique you simply won’t believe people’s reactions. Once you become an expert, you will always have the advantage.

While hypnosis is not a word we hear everyday, it is a word that many people seem to have a preconceived definition for. The most common thought is that hypnosis is an altered state of mind that brings the subject to a trance like state.

The rest of the definition not quite as well known is subject is vulnerable to suggestions in order to change their lives. When combined this is a correct assumption and a rather accurate description.

However hypnosis entails more than just the trance like state you see depicted in many movies and television shows, it is a deep and complicated relationship held between hypnotist and subject that comes complete with a desired set of goals to achieve.

Hypnosis is an altered state of mind. When a subject is under hypnosis they are much more responsive as they experience their inner world the subject’s thoughts and ideas become more vivid and actionable through the art of suggestion and language.

The responsiveness in a hypnotic trance is much more sensitive than that of a normal state of being; thoughts and suggestions presented by you, the hypnotist, will become part of your subject’s inner world creating a pallet for you to work with and mold into the desired outcome.

This is important to remember, because as you sharpen your skills as a hypnotist you will always be affecting your subject, everything that becomes a part of your clients inner world will eventually become a part of their outer world as they put your hypnotic suggestions into action.

Another thing that hypnosis is is a very natural way of being, it is not magical or strange, and in fact many people spend a large amount of their days in hypnotic trances, as you learn to entrance people you will start to notice those around you who are experiencing hypnotic trances in everyday life.

An example of an everyday experience that can often result in a hypnotic trance is driving. Many times we get behind the wheel and know where we started, and suddenly we are at our destination. We don’t recall how we got there or any of the events that happened along the drive, this is a hypnotic trance.

The rhythms we are used to, such as the feel of the car, can relax us to the point that our subconscious takes over and does the work for use while we, excuse the term as many like to call it, ‘zone out’. This may sound strange at first but when you really consider all the activities we do everyday we have been conditioned all through out our lives to enter hypnotic trances.

Have you ever watched a movie and later realized that the only thing in your mind and field of vision was a 15 inch screen, obviously you can see the rest of the room, people, cat and dog while focusing on the screen but the concentration and trance that is produced makes it seem as though the only thing that exists in the room is that little screen and the action it is producing.

Reading a book, we often get lost in the story and never realize what the ‘real world’ is doing around us. As you read you experience changing emotions, happiness, fear, suspense, sadness and tears. This interaction with the words and information being relayed to your mind alters your state of mind and becomes a hypnotic process in itself.

There is almost always the effect that the book you are reading will change either your mood, emotion, ideas and ultimately could change how you live your life, such is the objective of a hypnotist.

This emotional response is unconscious, the changing of your emotions, ideas and life, is one of the fundamental and guiding themes when learning hypnosis. You have no choice in your emotions, you do not get to choose how you feel about a thing, it is simply a conscious response by your unconscious mind as a reaction to the suggestions you are presenting to yourself.

Hypnosis can and usually will result from any repetitive task you enjoy engaging in. Runners experience runners high, they alter their mind and experience a trance like state while their body works they feel healthy and alive. Entering this altered state of mind is a form of self hypnotherapy which is a very powerful place to put yourself, and a powerful thing to be able to accomplish for yourself.

We live in a world today that is full of perceptions, deceptions and misconceptions; it is often hard to tell one from the other when learning about new things. 

Hypnosis is no stranger to an incredible amount of misconceptions, which is why it is important to really understand what those misconceptions are before assuming you can or cannot accomplish an objective through hypnosis.  To really understand what hypnosis, or anything for that matter, is you must first understand all that it is not. 

Once you know what hypnosis is not, everything you are left with is what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis has been given many false pretenses through the media, movies and just plain rumor.  Hypnosis is not the ability to have complete domination over one’s mind, nor is it domination over another human being. 

Another thing hypnosis is not is the ability to dominate another’s will.  In a nutshell there is nothing about hypnosis that will lead you to complete domination of the world or human kind, so if this is your intention you should stop here and embark on a new path.
           
The misconceptions that surround hypnosis can seem almost endless, which can often be the case when you consider any type of work that is associated with power over ones mind, thoughts, ideas and actions. 

There are all kinds of associations and false ideas that are created when society acknowledges that power accompanies any way of life, this include hypnosis.  For example money carries the connotation of power, however unless you are knowledgeable about how to be powerful with money you will fail. 

The misconceptions about hypnosis must be wiped from the slate if you are serious about becoming an eloquent and masterful hypnotist. 

The most common misconception in the field of hypnosis is that associated with power.  Yes it is true that you will own a sort of power over the mind of your subjects, however this is not to say you will be able to control them completely. 

Quite the opposite, part of hypnosis that few are aware of is that hypnosis is actually a type of negotiation with the unconscious mind.  The unconscious mind is where you store your base of morals and ethics, and while you can as a hypnotist negotiate with the unconscious, you will never be able to change or control one’s morals and ethics. 

The ethical code stored in the unconscious is unbreakable, these are the ideas, beliefs and moral standards that every person chooses to live their life by. 

Among the common myths of hypnosis is the idea that one can completely control another, this is a myth simply because a person, whether in hypnotic trance or not, will only do what they want to do. 

A good example of this is the common entertainment of stage hypnotists.  Stage hypnotists will ask for volunteers from their audience, volunteers know on some level that they will be asked while in a hypnotic state to do things that they may not be aware that they are doing, they may even be embarrassing.

However on some level in their minds they are volunteering because they crave the attention that comes from being exhibitionists.  The volunteers know they will be controlled by the hypnotist and they are consciously okay with that because it does not cause conflict with their moral code.

Another common myth about the art of hypnosis is that you can create a person so controlled that they will do your evil bidding, or acts that a hypnotist may not want to be personally responsible for.  This again is untrue on the level that this will most often conflict with the moral standing and ethics of most people, therefore is not possible.

All this leaves us with what is left, which is what hypnosis really is.  Conversational hypnosis is a way of healing and helping people to live better, healthier and happier lives through the art of language and suggestion.  Hypnosis is used to its full potential when all parties are prospering from it; the ‘hypnotic messenger’ is a prime example of this. 

The ‘hypnotic messenger’ was created when two hypnotists who were seeing the same subject and exchanged messages through the subject. 

The messages were placed in the subconscious while the person was in a hypnotic state.  As the subject visited each hypnotist and relayed the messages back and forth the hypnotists gave him free treatments as they felt a little shame in the amusing yet harmless game they were playing. 

The subject continued to deliver the messages and everyone learned from the situation.  The subject was receiving free therapy, and the hypnotists were not only amusing themselves but learning in the process. 

This process worked because there was no moral rule being broken or violated in the process of message relay, subconsciously the subject was in agreement or had not conflict with the messages the hypnotists were sending back and forth.  

On the other hand a client that is given the subconscious message to do harm to another will not carry out the suggestion because it will often conflict with their morals. 

A subject that is asked to commit an act that is forbidden by their religion will not do so even if it is something that may seem harmless to many people, such as dancing.  All suggestions and whether they are carried out or not depends on the moral code of the subject and whether or not they truly, ethically believe it is an acceptable behavior. 

As a hypnotist it is important to focus on the fact that your goal is to help the mind fulfill what is important to that person, find and fulfill it’s purpose, in this the unconscious mind will do all that is necessary and possible to reach that goal and work with the hypnotist for complete success.

Conversational Hypnosis is an art that takes a certain set of skills in order to master.  These skills are quite attainable when the correct instruction and study of hypnosis has been focused on. 

Conversational hypnosis is the practice of inducing hypnotic trances through the focused skills learned in language, speech and suggestion.  The primary objective is to induce a trance in order to accomplish a motivated outcome or reach a specific purpose; for example ease emotional pain, enhance health, and lead a happier life. 

The skills most required of you as the hypnotist are to master a signal recognition system, develop a relationship with your subject beyond rapport, learn the foundations of hypnotic language and advanced hypnotic language, develop authority strategies, recognize emotional triggers, destroy resistance as well as become skilled in conversational induction, conversational trance formulas and advanced frame control. 

All of these skills will help you attain the highest level of success in conversational hypnosis and achieve a better life for your subjects as well as for yourself.
           
Signal recognition systems are the foundation in hypnosis training from which you will start to see when a subject is entering a hypnotic trance.  These skills will aide you in opening your senses to the signs given by your subject when becoming hypnotized. 

Signal recognition will save you time in that you will be able to quickly asses when your subject is in trance instead of using unnecessary time to talk you subject into hypnosis.  You will learn to see, hear and feel when people are responding to you hypnotically. 

This skill will also allow you to see those around you moving in and out of hypnotic trances produced everyday by their environments.  The signal recognition system is important to master and continue to study as it is a core fundamental skill you will use throughout your study and practice of hypnosis.

Everyday we develop rapport with people, friends, family and strangers.  In conversational hypnosis it is important to learn to move on beyond the normal constraints of typical rapport and to develop deeper relationships with your subjects. 

In hypnosis you and your subject are developing an intimate relationship that allows you as the hypnotist into your subject’s mind, to understand and ultimately control certain thoughts through suggestion and language. 

In order to accomplish this you must go beyond rapport and embody an intense connection that allows your subject the unconscious freedom to do something simply because it pleases them to please you. 

This can be considered an abnormal or skewed relationship in that the subject allows you into their world and will follow your lead through the conversations, language and suggestions you give to them.  This is a very powerful and unique connection.
           
Conversational hypnosis is just that, there is an art to the language you as the hypnotist need to master.  Part of this skill is found in hypnotic language foundation and advanced hypnotic language.  The main idea is that conversational hypnosis is attained through language. 

You need to learn how to shape the conversation you are having with your subject in a way that makes the words you speak themselves hypnotic, causing your subjects mind to set off into hypnotic state that responds to you in hypnotic ways. This skill should get strong focus from you as you master hypnosis techniques.

In the language you use for hypnosis you will also want to develop your authority strategy.  Authority strategy is a tactic that is required in order to be a successful hypnotist. 

It allows you to phrase suggestions in a way that the conscious mind of your subject responds, without this skill you will not be able to attain your goals as a hypnotist. 

The authority strategy gives your subject the will and wants to carry out your hypnotic suggestions, if you are not the authority within their trance the subject will not listen to your suggestions.  This skill is fundamental as it will be a large piece of the puzzle that will aide in your success as a hypnotist and allow you to achieve your goals in hypnotism.

Emotional triggers are the way to your subject’s unconscious responses, once you learn to control emotional triggers you will have the power to control the pictures and feelings that govern a subjects mind and ultimately change their life. 

This skill will give you access to pictures and feelings from within your subjects mind.  As you perfect this skill you will be able to be able to alter feelings that lead to a healthier, happier, and more fulfilling life for your subject.  This will aide in your objective to create rewarding and wonderful happiness for those who attain your services.

In conversational hypnosis there is often resistance and this brings us to the next fundamental skill you will need to acquire.  How you as the hypnotist will destroy this resistance, the most popular way being through the telling of stories. 

Destroying resistance through story telling involves you becoming the story teller to bypass the minds usual filtering systems that tell a person, “this is not right”, or “this can’t be happening”.  Once you have mastered story telling that will create a hypnotic trance you will be allowed into your subjects mind to place new ideas, perceptions and thoughts dealing with their lives and how they ultimately live them. 

Conversational hypnosis will require you to also learn how to deal directly with the unconscious mind; this is done through conversational inductions.  This concept is a way to formulate how to induce a trance through conversation, the real core of conversational hypnosis. 

Conversational induction will provide you with the skill of moving from normal speech into a conversational hypnotic induction with ease.  In doing this you will then be dealing directly with the unconscious mind of your subject which is what your job as a hypnotist is ultimately all about. 

This technique will teach you to mold conversation that sounds completely ordinary to others into something much more intense for you and your subject; this in itself will take a grand amount of understanding and skill.
           
Conversational trance formulas are paramount in the art of hypnosis.  These are formulas that will get you exactly where and what you want from your subject.  Getting your subject into a trance come very easily to you but then where do you go from there, this is where conversational trance formulas are required. 

The formulas consist of the P-CAT formula, which is used for personal change in a subject.  This is handy for those rough days, bad times in relationships and even when ending a relationship. 

The COMILA formula is used mainly for persuading and influencing people.  This formula is helpful to people in their professions such as influencing an individual to want to learn, sales, education, management as well as for general inspiration.

Next in the list of helpful formulas is the LIFE checklist.  This is a checklist developed to help you know you are actually engaged in a hypnotic conversation.  The LIFE check list consists of four steps that will help you identify quickly and efficiently that hypnosis is underway.

Conversational hypnosis will also require you to master such techniques as “future memories” and “stacking realities”.  Future memories are memories you place in your hypnotized subject’s mind that have not taken place yet. 

The goal is that they will become memories as the subjects unconscious brings them to their conscious mind as events that have already happened.  The art in this is to make the future memory so compelling that the unconscious mind will want the memory to have happened and eventually follow your suggestion to make the memory a real instance that has happened in the past.

“Stacking realities” and “accidental trance identification” are other techniques that help hypnotists to slip past the resistance and interference within a subjects mind that prevent hypnosis. 

Advanced frame control will also be paramount to master.  This is the art of leading all your hypnotic interactions in the direction you desire.  Without this skill you will not be able to control the direction of conversation, hampering your goal of creating a more peaceful, happy, healthy mindset for your subjects.  All of these strategies, once mastered, will help you in the ease of your conversational hypnosis.

There are many exciting and great skills involved in becoming a successful conversational hypnotist, while this information may seem overwhelming at first it is just a taste of the powerful skills that you will enjoy perfecting as you assume your role as a hypnotist.

 Once mastered many of these skills will provide you with a life time of learning and development personally and professionally, as well as help you to change lives for the better.