Language

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Language

• Language in hypnosis takes advantage of the way
  we create our internal realities

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Create the Story Trance

• Personalize
• Individual sense language
• Individual metaphorical language
• Interview to discover what these are.

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Indirect Suggestions

• If suggestions are too specific, interior reality
  may not match, which induces anxiety
• Permissive language, filled with choice, allows
  the person to go to that interior space with
  comfort
• There are language structures that contribute to
  the permissive experience

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Indirect Suggestions

• The yes set. Stating things with which a
  person agrees, which makes it more likely they
  will agree to the next suggestion. Related to
• Truisims. Small stipulated truths with which we
  dont bother to quarrel Sunrise is beautiful,
  isnt it?, you know how to relax, dont you?

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Indirect Language

• These help us create conditional statements
  Because you know how to relax, you are more
  likely to relax now.
• Note that the terms are vague. Nominalizations
  are a form of unspecified nouns. The term refers
  to verbs or adjectives that are turned into
  nouns, vague enough that they allow for a
  persons own interpretation a relaxation, a
  teaching, a distancing.

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Vaguaries

• People can relax (which people not specified).
• things can change
• the situation can get better
• this is easier than it looks

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Creative Language

• In some sense, these are words that allow a
  person to create a reality, rather than
  prescribing it for them.
• Language patterns that are used Double Binds.
  A suggestion will you do this now or in a
  minute.
• Tag questions isnt it?
• Embedded Suggestions YOU find yourself in a
  woods where there ARE creatures who are ABLE to
  talk.

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Language Patterns

• Negative commands Its important that you cant
  RELAX too soon.
• Dont QUIT SMOKING.