The Language of Confusion in Hypnosis

Now normally we don’t like to try to confuse people.  When done purposefully it can seem in a way cruel.  However, confusion related to Conversational Hypnosis can be a fascinating and powerful tool as the master hypnotist Milton Erickson has shown us throughout history.

Milton Erickson was a great hypnotist and one of the pieces of his profession he was most admired for was his ability to get the most stubborn and resistant people into a state of hypnosis.  His secret weapon in this was simply to confuse them.  Confuse them to the point that the critical factor within them is too busy trying to get unconfused and make sense of it all.  This allowed him to simply slip past the critical factor and induce a hypnotic trance in those who were very resistant.