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 […]
Category: Linguistics
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 […]
Suggestive Statements with Presuppositions
The following are patterns that were put together by combining a “suggestive statement” (in red) with a pattern that contains presuppositions, embedded commands, and others that have been discussed. It is suggested that you take each of these and work on them for your own area of learning suggestive language. You will notice that most are from […]
Unspecified Verbs
No verb is completely specified, but verbs can be more or less specified. They mentally get them to think of exactly what you want to get across. If you use relatively unspecified verbs, the listener is again forced to supply the meaning in order to understand the sentence. Words like: Do, Fix, Solve, Move, Change, Feel, Wonder, Think, […]
Metaphor Patterns
Metaphors are used extensively in storytelling, song lyrics and poetry. They can also be used effectively in business communication to illustrate complex points. Speaking in metaphorical terms is a very powerful way of getting your message across, both in hypnosis and in everyday communication. Metaphorical communication causes the listener to relate to the subject of […]
Indirect Elicitation Patterns
Indirect elicitation literally means getting a specific response without overtly asking for that response. Direct elicitation is often seen as being very blunt or authoritarian, whereas indirect elicitation is a way of softening up your communication. Indirect elicitation patterns elicit a desired response indirectly; asking for an outcome without making it obvious that a) you […]
Inverse Meta Model
The Inverse Meta Model language patterns are used to describe experience in vague terms. The Inverse Meta Model language patterns can be broken into three distinct classes: Deleting Information, Semantic Ill-Formedness Limits of the Speaker’s Model Deleting Information Where information is deleted, the listener must fill in the deleted information from their own unique experience. […]
Non Sequiturs
A non sequitur is a statement presented in the form of ’cause leads to effect’, A > B, but where there is in fact no logical connection between A and B. The structure of the statement fools the listener by starting with a statement of something that is true and then specifying an outcome that […]
Negative Suggestions
Negative suggestions are similar to conversational postulates in that they ask for one thing but really expect a different behavior. The Milton Model works because the unconscious mind does not deal with negatives well, and tends to ignore the words ‘don’t and not’ and instead focuses on the object of the sentence. The sentence ‘Don’t […]
Inanimations
Inanimations are Milton Model statements that assign feelings or actions to things that cannot have any. Technically these are called Selectional Restriction Violations. A sofa cannot think, a plant cannot talk, but sentences can be constructed that sound that way and because our minds are specially tuned to metaphor, this type of suggestion will be […]