The Power of Stories in Hypnosis

Stories are a wonderful and powerful tool that you use often now and you will use often in the art of Conversational Hypnosis. Story telling is a broad range of things, especially in hypnosis. The stories you tell as a hypnotist will not be all princesses and castles, nor will they all even be fictional. Stories can be true life like antidotes, jokes, parables, similes, metaphors, facts, or informational stories. All of these will be useful in hypnosis depending on the person and subject matter you are dealing with.

How to Overload the Conscious Mind for Better Hypnosis

Overloading the conscious mind is a task that is quite easily done. In Conversational Hypnosis you will be doing this in order to confuse the mind so the conscious aspect is overloaded with trying to figure out what you have said. After you have accomplished that your suggestion will bypass the critical factor and move right into your mind without being noticed.

It is a fact that on average the conscious mind can concentrate, and keep straight 5-9 items at one time. Five things are generally pretty easy for a person to remember and nine is beginning to become quite difficult. As you can see this is not a great number when you put it into the amount of items, facts or ideas you can rattle off in a conversation.

Ambiguity in Hypnosis

Ambiguous messages are a hypnotists dream when they are learned and practised correctly.  First let’s define these words and messages.  There are a vast amount of words in the English language that will have several different meanings or definitions to them.  And as you become aware of them you will be able to create a bank of words that can be used in this manner.

Ambiguous messages are simply these words put into a context that will deliver a suggestion or message to the person you are speaking to.

How to Structure a Hypnotic Story That Appeals to the Unconscious Mind

Stories are a powerful and essential building block for Conversational Hypnosis. Stories have been around since the dawn of man. All through history life has been documented with some type of story telling. Telling a story, whether it is a hypnotic story or not, is a way of bringing a person out of their own world and into an altered state of mind.

Stories absorb your attention, they bypass critical factor simply because you recognize them as stories and they create unconscious responses in everyone. When you tell a story you will incorporate hypnotic themes, sometimes without even trying, and seed a strategy in the minds of others. You can use stories as a way to embed suggestions, emotional triggers and link these suggestions and triggers to a specific action or outcome.

How to Create Emotional Triggers with Hypnotic Stories

Hypnotic stories are essential to your practice and profession as a Conversational Hypnotist. The art of telling stories is a time tested tradition that has been alive as long as humans have been alive. You need only to look as far as cave drawings to know this is true. Story telling has evolved since then and is now available for you to use in practices such as hypnosis.

Story telling gives you an insurmountable amount of power with in hypnosis. Story telling is a way for you to access states through the unconscious without triggering the critical factor as well as seeding ideas for future use to change lives.

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