How to hypnotise – let’s be permissive
So, if you haven’t already read my previous post “the two different styles of hypnosis“, go ahead and do so.
Now, I’m going to be permissive (hypnotically speaking) here and introduce a key linguistic setup for you to go away and play with. In learning how to hypnotise the permissive way the key is to offer choice at the same time as you build your authority in the persons mind.
That may sound complicated or a bit deep so let’s explore what I mean by way of an example.
“You may or may not be beginning to relax or you may not even be aware of just how relaxed you are right now”
A number of things are happening here with this sentence. I’m offering choice. I’m offering choice that covers every possibility. I’m not saying which possibility is the ‘correct’ one, but I’ve covered all bases. And because naturally the person being hypnotized will ‘identify’ with one of the possibilities, they will naturally build trust in me. I’ve demonstrated choice. Even if they weren’t aware of how relaxed they currently were (the 3rd possibility in the sentence above), they will be now as I’ve directed their attention to one of the other two possiblities.
(More importantly I’ve reflected back to them something that is already happening in their experience … and we’ll look at that in a future post).
So the take-away lesson here is that offering choice that covers all possibilities builds trust and authority in you as the ‘hypnotist’. This is what I mean by a permissive style of hypnosis.
When you learn how to hypnotize someone then it much easier to start with a permissive style like this. Try this in everyday conversation and see what sort of effect it has. And we’ll continue this exploration in a future post.
Have a good trip
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