Mastering Hypnotic Language - Further Confessions of a Rogue Hypnotist by The Rogue Hypnotist

Author:The Rogue Hypnotist [Hypnotist, The Rogue]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Book
Published: 2013-10-20T06:00:00+00:00

Assumptions in trance.

Let’s talk about presuppositions. Again an awareness of presuppositions far predated NLP. What is a presupposition? Anything that is assumed, anything that is pre-supposed, taken for granted as being so. Let’s take the innocuous sentence…

‘I am writing this book.’

What does this statement assume?

That there is an individual (me!).

That he is writing.

And that he is writing a book. Let’s try another.

So we assume someone/something is doing something (verb/action) for some purpose.

‘The cat sat on the rat.’

So we assume a cat, a rat and that the cat sat on the rat. Now, how do we make use of this in trance?

‘Everyone goes into trance sooner or later.’

‘Eventually we all rest and drift into a daydream do we not?’

What is presupposed? That you will go into trance! Not if but when. Both are truisms: see book 1 ‘How to hypnotise anyone,’ to understand truisms fully.

‘How soon will your trance deepen?’

We assume that trance already exists and can only deepen.

‘How much deeper into trance can you really go?’

Assumption: you’re already in trance but how deep can you really go? It suggests you don’t yet know how deep you can go, in other words you can go a whole lot deeper Mr! It also assumes discovery: discovery is hypnotic! As is curiosity.

‘And where will that feeling of comfort spread to next?’

Assumes comfort already exists, to whatever degree (they have to feel a degree of comfort right? Even in the big toe, who knows!?); comfort is a sign of trance, and that it will spread. It’s just a more precise way of using words. Words are your tools to achieve objectives. People with a wider vocabulary have a richer mental life, can think and communicate clearly and can experience reality with more depth. Don’t believe me?

‘The sky is blue.’

‘The sky was a soft Septembral blue. The cool autumn clouds caressed its surface like people sleeping on lilos (US: air matress).’

Now that’s too flowery for ordinary speech and a bit pretentious but how much more involved do you feel? Hypnotists should have some knowledge of word history. The word confidence comes from the Latin: the prefix – ‘con’ (meaning ‘with emphasis’), version of ‘com’ and ‘fidere’ (meaning faith) – so confidence literally means ‘having faith in oneself.’ Think about the meaning of words. Know that the meaning of words changes over time. Those who have never befriended the dictionary before may need to do so. A 100 year old dictionary may seem a foreign language – original definitions are deliberately altered. Read amply: fiction and non-fiction. Have a wide range of interests. You must become an interesting person. By the way a good therapist will have a grasp of current affairs, history and approaching trends; if you don’t you will be a-historical, out of touch and unable to understand why people are coming to see you in the first place. Drug addiction was not a ‘pandemic’ fifty years ago: you need to know why it is now.

By the way good therapists need a full, rich life outside of work.

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