Vivification

Vivification is when a persons attention is highly focused and turned inward resulting in the internal thoughts and images becoming so absorbing and convincing that they are subjectively indistinguishable from ordinary reality. These internally derived memories, ideas, imagined events, emotions, definitions and experiences are experienced so vividly that they are responded to as real, while the ordinary ‘real’ […]

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Multiplicity of Meaning

This occurs when one sentence, phrase, or word has more than one possible meaning. “Multiplicity of Meaning is an important tool that can result in a mild confusion and disorientation which is useful in inducing altered states.” Anytime you can makes it possible for the listener to internally process a message in more than one way, you require […]

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Commentary Adjectives and Adverbs

Fortunately, Naturally, Luckily, Innocently, Happily, Necessarily, etc. “Fortunately, there’s no need for me to know the details of what you want in order for me to help you get it.” “Naturally, you will begin to see the value of what I am saying to you right now”! “Luckily, you have met me today, because I can help […]

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Brain Twister Story

“Did I ever tell you about my brother, Chris? It seems he was at this golf outing, and he was at the bar called the 19th hole. And the bartender was telling a story about his buddy who had two brothers. One was really good at dealing with people, but the other had problems until he met this […]

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Effective Trigger Components

Intensity of the state accessed • Access state fully and intensely. • Associate into the state. • Seeing what you are seeing. • Hearing what you are hearing. • Feeling what you are feeling. Purity of the state • One specific set of feelings or emotional state. Timing of the Trigger • Start the trigger […]

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Setting Potent Triggers (Stimulus Response Conditioning)

Have you ever heard a song from when you were back in High School or College, or maybe it was the song that you and a former girlfriend or boyfriend shared? When you hear the song, a flood of emotions, memories and recollections come back immediately as if you were back in the day. Everyone experiences these […]

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Suggestive Phrases

Here is a basic list of suggestive phrases without the other elements added. You can use a template to add the presuppositions, embedded commands and any other elements.  These phrases themselves cause a semi-hypnotic state due to the processing that must take place to respond. I don’t want you to be… I want you to learn… I know you […]

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Sleight of Mouth Patterns

Redefine 1.  What other meaning could the equation have? 2. A # B, A = C, and that’s D   Consequence What will happen to them if they continue to think this way?   Intention 1. Why are they saying this? 2. What is the secondary gain? 3. What are they trying to get?   […]

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Cartesian Questions

Cartesian Questions is a method for defining and loosening boundaries by using questions derived from Cartesian Logic. The purpose of Cartesian questions is not only to notice what answers the client gives you, it is also to begin to loosen up their model of the world as they begin to examine the limits of their […]

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Conscious/Unconscious Distinction

Erickson often made distinctions between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Then he might frame a problem as being in the conscious mind and the solution in the unconscious. Then he would assist the patient in eliciting an unconscious resource to help them solve the problem. Example distinctions. hears/understands wonders/chooses may or may not […]

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