What is your Model of Hypnosis? - General Discussions on IAYH

LeoGopal

Do you have a model of hypnosis that works for you?
Please let us know what it is in detail. :)

rdoetjes

As you know I have been a non-state theorist for the last 3 or 4 years now.

I believe that hypnosis is nothing more that the mother of all suggestions, the rest is based on conditioning and exploiting expectation and ignorance.

Daniel_Langeveld1

I'm guilty of following the standert model, though I use a technique called calibration (learned that in the speed seduction sector).

Basically:

Induction

immidiate ''simple'' deepner.

Boilerplate.

Simple skit.

Complex deepner.

Complex Skit.

PHS/creating a special place in which he/she can come back to relax.

Awakening.

Thats pretty much it.

Boilerplate = Nothing bothers you, everything makes you go deeper: The deeper you go the better you feel, the better you feel the deeper you go, every breath you take bla bla bla

aceofmagic · Post edited by aceofmagic at 2011-12-01 08:42:04

OH awesome question!

The model I have learned and altered . . . quite a bit . . . has an awesome success rate to it. Success meaning responsiveness of the person I'm communicating with. Really exciting.

It has a few presuppositions to it:

Trance is accomplished to evocative language

Suggestibility of the participant is dependent on how you structure your language

The power comes from within them, not you

Respect the ecology of the person's lifestyle and frame of reference their speaking from

Work with any belief the person we're speaking with has instead of forcing them to believe in hypnosis etc

Create affective imagery instead of boring inductions

Keep them interested. Not just focused, but intriqued. Make what you say interesting to the person listening

Be productive. Trance is a means to an end, not the end itself. Use trance FOR accomplishing whatever goal you or the other person has set.

There is no entity, thing or place called "the unconscious". The "unconscious" is a metaphor relating to certain observable behaviors. So its more about unconscious processes not about relating to some imaginary mind. Human beings operate in a radically whole way. No need to dissect them into parts. The nervous systems is a closed system which is whole.

Covert communication is relative and subjective to the individual you're communicating with. What's obvious to me may be covert to someone else or vice versa

The meaning of your communication is the response it elicits. If something isn't working, its you not them so change what you're doing.

Use suggestibility tests as an example of how our nervous system responds to ideas instead of proving whether or not someone is suggestible (see number 2) This may be useful in persuading someone that their negative thoughts affect their health etc

Refrain from using classical hypnosis words: deeper, trance, hypnosis etc in a command form, "Go deeper and get sleepy" That's a no no

Keep it conversational. There shouldn't be a noticeable difference between when you're inducing trance and casually speaking about relevant things.

We are feedback and relational beings. We feedback what the person says so they may get a different perspective or for us to pretend to "fully understand". We cannot fully understand because we are not them. They are subjectively experiencing the world through their own frames of reference which they built over a lifetime of cause&effect patterning and experiences which we do not possess since we're not them. (redundancy has its place)

Rapport is not a verb and not a technique. Rapport is a dance between people which elicits certain expectations, states and what someone is willing to say, explore, discover, hear and do with you.
We are working toward relating with and to the people we communicate with. All our work is relationship based. We work to ensure we are relating to them in such a way where we can establish rapport and mutual agreements about their current experience of reality. This enables us to work more flexibly with the person depending on our goal.

"Resistant" people don't exist. If someone isn't responding to you in the way you want, then you need to change how you're communicating with them in order to create a CONTEXT in which they CAN respond in a certain way with you.

Notice the affect the person's words have on them. These are very powerful resources in which we can leverage to create change through feedback etc.

Change is a two part predicate. You need to know what you're changing from to what you're changing TO.

Thoroughly map out your work. Make sure you know exactly where the person wants to go and where they are in relation to that goal or desire.

Context is state dependent. The particular state a person is in when speaking about problem "a" will yield different resources if they speak about problem "a" in a different state. How they're willing to view something is state dependent. Change the state around a particular idea, change the response to the idea.

There's a lot more but that's kinda the premise I work from. So far so good.

How about you Leo?

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