“Once upon a time there was a wizard and this wizard had a secret book of spells, but the secret book had a very special enchantment. You see, it was given to him by his master teacher when he was very young.
The Wizards master had to go live in a distant land, but he wanted to make sure that his young apprentice continued to learn the ways of magic and grow up to become a powerful wizard and do good things for people.
So he created a very special magic spell book to train the young wizard.
Each time the young wizard opened the book, he was given a new magic lesson to learn and practice; and the magic of the book was such that he would never let the young wizard turn the page until he had reached a certain level of skill with each particular lesson … and in this way, the master wizard made sure that his young apprentice learned at the right pace, at the right time.
And that he would do the lessons and learn the skills in the proper order to ensure that the young wizard became skilled and powerful in a way that was good and natural, and that each new lesson served as a reward for a job well done, to be done. whatever. was asked and required,
… and so the young wizard worked diligently and reveled in each new lesson and the powers, abilities, and wisdom gained from learning, actually learning, both from the book and from having to discover certain things that were not directly stated.
The young wizard learned to become highly perceptive, to read between the lines and discover the hidden wisdom that lurks just below the obvious. “…
Now,
Let me ask you a question.
How absorbed were you in the story now?
Go back and remember the short story I just told you. What color was the wizarding robe? Did she have a dress? What did the Master Magician look like? And the magic book?
All of these things were happening inside your head, making the story come alive inside your mind.
Such is the power of stories, even short stories like the one above not only grab your attention, but also keep you focused, take you out of your rational and logical analytical mind and directly associate you with the story.
Stories or “metaphors” can be powerful vehicles for offering powerful hypnotic suggestions, without even telling someone to go into a trance.
The stories automatically induce a hypnotic state.
Remember that our definition of covert conversational hypnosis is the deliberate use of hypnotic operators for the express purpose of circumventing or redirecting the critical factor of the conscious mind and establishing acceptable selective thinking.
During those brief moments in time you were suspended and absorbed by my story, in just a few sentences I could have given you any number of suggestions, expertly hiding them within the structure of the story and ultimately you would have thought that they were his own idea. simply because I did NOT say them directly, but her unconscious mind got the message.
Now,
When it comes to the “magic” of covert and conversational hypnosis, the vast majority of conversational hypnosis falls into one of two categories.
Category 1 – Assumptions.
Category 2 – Metaphor.
Today’s lesson at STEALTH HYPNOSIS will cover the ever seductive and subtly seductive secret of stories.
The stories will effectively hypnotize anyone who hears them.
The problem is that to get your specific result you have to construct your stories in a certain way.
Now I’ll be honest, I’m a huge fan of presuppositional hypnosis.
Especially in a business context. But we will save it for another item silo.
In case you don’t know what presuppositional hypnosis is, they are hypnotic language patterns that make the brain respond in a certain way. For the most part, they are the linguistic equivalent of assumptions.
But I’ll tell you that if you’re going to be doing some kind of hypnotic writing, speaking to a group of ethnically or linguistically diverse people …
You better tell some stories.
Especially if you like marketing or any form of copywriting.
Stories are by far the most universally compelling way to get around the critical factor of a person. Some languages are more difficult to perform presuppositional hypnosis because the structure of some languages does not work the same in all cultures.
But every country and every culture tells stories …
And for good reason.
They work, induce an instantaneous altered state, and transmit powerful messages to a person’s unconscious mind.
Hypnotic metaphors or stories come in two basic varieties.
Isomorphic metaphors and analogies
Isomorphic metaphors are metaphors in which everything has a one-to-one correspondence, for example, in an isomorphic metaphor. A covert hypnosis teacher could be a master magician, and a covert hypnosis student could be a young apprentice.
A spell book can be an article or series of articles that are only published after certain conditions are met.
Get it?
In an “isomorphic metaphor” the process is the same, only the names and identities have been changed.
Then of course we have analogies and similes.
The analogies have a more indirect correlation with the theme.
Instead of a magician being the hypnotist, it could be a mother bird, who has to leave the nest for a while and leaves small piles of food in various places that the little bird can only reach after he is old and strong enough. to get it. to the next level on their own, until they finally get to a point where the now strong young bird really has to spread his wings and fly to the next place to get the treats mom left behind.
Do you see the process?
At the beginning of the article I gave you an isomorphic metaphor, compare it to the bird analogy I just gave you. Notice that underneath the apparent differences, how similar the process is.
Now while you were doing that, I bet it never occurred to you to think how absorbed you were by the bird story, even when you were analyzing it, I bet you had a wonderful little bird movie inside. your head.
Okay, I know. I’m crafty that way.
But what you probably didn’t know I knew or maybe you didn’t even realize yourself, but you probably also identified with the wizard / mama bird or (as is more likely) with the young apprentice / baby bird.
This identification process is called the Thorndike Effect and it is one of the most powerful and subtle hypnotic operators out there. Every human being who goes through the process of a story automatically imagines himself as one or all of the characters in the story.
Stop for a moment and think about what that really means and what you could do with a power like that.
Until next time …
Trance the world and take names!