Showing posts with label What Is Hypnosis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What Is Hypnosis. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Favored Sensory Channels

Most people have a favored sensory channel—a preferred sense for processing their thoughts. Again, let me say that all people use all senses available to them but do tend to have a dominant or favorite one.
If a person’s favored sensory channel is the visual channel, then they rely on that channel to process the majority of their thoughts. Seeing pictures in their head is how they “make sense” of their world. This is “normal” for them. This is natural for them. This is comfortable for
them.

If you talk using words that “speak to” the visual channel (see, look, picture, clear, bright, big, etc.) your subject will easily and readily process the information you are offering. You are “speaking their language”. You are talking in terms which they automatically understand.
If, however, you speak using words that are auditory channel oriented, you will make your subject experience their internal reality differently. Using auditory words makes a visually oriented person think differently—in a way they are not accustomed to. What this does is induce an instantaneous altered state.

Any state that is common or ordinary is “normal”—such as when they process information “their way”. If you cause them to process information in a manner inconsistent with what is normal, for them, you cause them to enter an altered state. By definition, an “altered state” is any state altered from their normal state of consciousness. By switching from one sensory channel to another, you cause your subject to go inside their mind and think in a way they are not accustomed to. By continuing to speak using a sensory channel your subject does not normally/regularly use, you are altering their internal experience.
Very often this causes the subject to become internally focused and absorbed in your story. This state of internal focus and absorption is exactly what you want to occur.
If you use the repackaging sensory input technique while telling a long, meandering organized multiple story, very often you will see your subject’s eyes glaze over as they become absorbed in your tale. This glazed eye look is evidence of internal focus and absorption, commonly known as daydreaming or being lost in one’s thoughts. Of course, you are directing that daydream and surreptitiously guiding their thoughts.

Monday, December 10, 2007

What Is Covert Hypnosis

 

C onversational Model
O rganized Multiple Stories
V erbal-Breathing Synchronization
E ncrypted Instructions
R epackaging Sensory Input
T rigger Post-Hypnotic Instructions

I hope you don't forget it now!

Saturday, November 10, 2007

What is hypnosis?

If you look up the word hypnosis in the dictionary you will read something along the lines of “a sleep-like state”, or “to be in a state that resembles sleep”. Most hypnotists though will disagree with the contention that hypnosis has anything to do with sleep. Many hypnotists will
tell you that hypnosis is the opposite of sleep, a heightened state of acute awareness.

Some hypnotists have talked about hypnosis as “an altered state of consciousness”, or “a state that is neither full consciousness nor full unconsciousness”. These are very vague descriptions of a state that has no agreed upon definition. The problem, of course is that if you
can’t define it, how do you know when it is or is not present?

“The Amazing Kreskin” has a definition of hypnosis that is, in my opinion, is the best one to come along yet. Kreskin has said that hypnosis does not exist--that its existence is a myth. In his book Secrets of the Amazing Kreskin, he states, “hypnosis is persuasion to accept a suggestion”. That is a very insightful, well thought out and accurate definition. What I believe
Kreskin means by that definition is that the “trance state” often believed to be associated with “hypnosis” is in fact completely separate from hypnosis, and has nothing to do with hypnosis. In other words, when a person is “hypnotized” they are simply following your suggestions. You
have persuaded them to do what you say.