Milton Model 1.tag questions: Isn't it? Have you? You know? Won't you? Can't you? 2.

Pacing Current Experience: You hear my voice. We are in this group. You will enjoy it more. As you notice each blink of your eyes. As you sit here now you can hear external sounds. ... 3. Double Binds: Do you want to begin now, or later? As you dream, or upon awakening. . .. Either before, or after, leaving this room .... When you go to bed you will either dream, or not. Will you begin to change now or after this session? 4. Conversational Postulate Can you imagine this? Will you just let go now? Can you picture doing this? Can you see what I am saying? Can you reach that level now? 5. Extended Quotes Last year, in San Diego, John Grinder was telling us about this African drummer who asked Judy if she had heard the village chief say how easy it is to generate extended quotes Last year, I met a woman who said she knew a man who had mentioned that his father told him... Bob said that in a training four years ago, he had told the story about when Richard Bandler was quoting Virginia Satir, who used to say that... I was speaking with a friend the other day, who told me of a conversation she had had with a therapist who told her

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about a session he'd had with a client who said... When I went to Charlotte, North Carolina the other day with Sam and Doris, one of them told a story about when his mother would sit down and explain to the children how father had said... 6. Selectional Restriction Violation: My rock said... The walls have ears. That nail hurt my tire. Flowers like to be picked. My car knows how to get here. 7. Phonological Ambiguities: you're/your there/their here/hear son/sun bare/bear bottoms there's no "their" in there He reddened as he read in it. You are the one who has won. And here today as you hear your unconscious mind 8. Syntactic Ambiguity: running water shooting stars babbling brook Hypnotizing hypnotists can be tricky 9. Scope Ambiguity: Your deep breathing and trance... Hearing Bob and John... Yesterday I was driving my car with tennis shoes on I was riding my horse with blue jeans on. 10. Punctuation Ambiguity (run-on sentences): Let me take your hand me the pen. See the butterfly drifting over the hilltop is a beautiful valley. She has freckles on her butt I like her anyway. (improper pauses): My wife left me... to go to Texas. I was looking for my tie... into this thought.

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If you hear any ambiguities, it's all right to write them right here. 11. Utilization Client: "I don't think I know/' Practitioner: "That's right, you don't think you know. Client: "I can't be hypnotized." Practitioner: "That's right. You can't be hypnotized yet. Client: "I'm not sold." Salesman: "That's right, because you haven't asked the one question yet that will let you be sold." 12. Embedded Commands: Erickson worked as a master at giving the unconscious mind directions through embedded commands. He would mark out such words that he wanted to go into the unconscious mind. To give such commands and mark out words, we have to both lower our tone and raise the volume of the voice. "It is possible for you to instruct a client's unconscious mind through embedded commands to get well, now." Say, did you get the command from the marked out words? When you have a client dissociated above their Time-Line, this offers a wonderful opportunity to send embedded commands to the unconscious mind. When using Time-Line processes, the client will have then entered into a rather deep trance. 13. Analogue Marking Erickson would mark out the words that he wanted to go into the unconscious mind. Marking out refers to emphasizing specific words or phrases by altering tonality. In giving these commands and marking out words, both lower your tone and raise the volume of your voice. It is possible for you to instruct a client's unconscious mind through embedded commands to get well, now. Did you get the command from the marked out words? 14. Spell Out Words John Burton says that by spelling out key words we draw attention to the word we are spelling out. This induces trance. And, you k-n-o-w that spelling out words does induce trance, doesn't it? 15. Linkage Language This refers to the verbal process of describing (pacing) observable and verifiable behavior in the listener. Then, by using a "linking word," the speaker goes on to describe (leading) the desired behavior. Different people, of course, respond differently to each pattern. Linkage language involves the process of utilization connected to specific linking words. a. Conjunctions Use a conjunction such as "and" to link observable behavior and desired experience. The conjunction links the pacing statement to the leading statement. ("X" and "Y"). Example: "As you sit there, breathing and reading this document and you can begin to breathe more deeply and become more relaxed." The purpose here involves linking

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the pacing statement to the leading statement so that the latter seems to follow logically from the former. Thus, the linkage collapses information boundaries to enhance the sense of continuity. Additional pacing statements further enhances the effect ("X" and "X" and "X" and "Y"). Examples: "As you sit in your chair (pacing) and read this paper (pacing) and I communicate to you (pacing) and you can breathe deeply and relax more thoroughly (leading)." b. Disjunction Using the contrasting or negative form of conjunctions can also sometimes achieve the same results. ("X" and "X" and "X" but "Y"). Examples: "I don't know whether you prefer to continue gazing at this paper (pacing), or, whether you'd like to look elsewhere (pacing), or whether you'd like to breathe deeper (pacing), but I do know that your conscious can develop a trance that will fit nicely your present needs (leading)."

c. Adverbial Clauses or Implied Causatives Causatives often exist as "time" words that imply that one event inevitably functions as linked in time with, or caused by the other. Key implied Causatives include: (1) Since "X" then "Y." Since you are now breathing deeper, you can begin to relax even more. (2) When "X" then "Y." When you settle comfortably into that chair, you can allow your eyes to slowly close. (3) While "X" then "Y" While you remember that very special time and place, you can comfortably begin to develop that trance. (4) After "X" then "Y" After you have become very comfortable, you can begin to allow your trance to develop. (5) Other implied causatives words include: often, as, before, during, following and throughout. Milton Model Language Patterns Using Meta-Model Violations 1. Mind Reading 2. Lost Performative 3. Cause-Effect 4. Complex Equivalence 5. Presuppositions 6. Universal Quantifiers 7. Modal Operators of Necessity 8. Modal Operators of Possibility 9. Nominalizations 10. Unspecified Verbs 11. Simple Deletions 12. Lack of Referential Index 13. Comparative Deletions

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Milton Model Continued 14. Tag Questions 15. Pacing Current Experience 16. Double Binds 17. Conversational Postulate 18. Extended Quotes 19. Selectional Restriction Violation 20. Phonological Ambiguities 21. Syntactic Ambiguity 22. Punctuation Ambiguity 23. Utilization 24. Embedded Commands 25. Spelling Out Words Linkage Language 25. Conjunctions "X" and "Y" 26. Disjunctions "X" and "X" and "X" but "Y 27. Adverbial Clauses (implied causatives) a. Since "X" then "Y" b. When "X" then "Y c. While "X" then "Y d. After "X" then "Y"

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