Presents

Module 1:
Language Patterns

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Dark Side of Covert Hypnosis Module 1: Language Patterns

Language patterns to practice with and use

Conscious/Unconscious Dissociation Language Exercise

Mix-and-match one conscious statement with a causal link and an unconscious statement.
Person A puts together a statement per the above.
Then person B responds with a statement of their own.

Practice doing this with a partner. And practice until you can do it smoothly and easily for
as long as you want.

Conscious Causal Link Unconscious

Is listening to and hearing my
words
Maybe interested in learning
one thing
May have that doubt
Creating the results in your belief
And
systems that we talked about
And Is interested in whats relevant
While Is developing a line of thought

Is possibly curious And Isnt even interested

Operates linearly And Thinks globally

Wont do much thats very
interesting
Is interested in one depth of
trance
Can focus on one spot
Doesnt know how things will
culminate
Is sorting categorizing and
pigeonholing
May be easily distracted
May be wondering about
certain things
Is oriented to situations of the
moment
Is willing to experiment
As Is really doing a lot for you
While
Has its own idea of what you need
While
Is learning a great deal
Makes things happen in your best
Since
interest
Just As Understands the context
Can let your conscious mind
Because
discover later, or not
Holds a vast storehouse of
Because
learnings, dreams, and potentials
Is completely zeroed in on my
At The Same Time voice and accomplishing the tasks
I have given you
As Is excited to begin

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Here are a couple of examples to get you started.

1. Your conscious mind is listening to and hearing my words while youre unconscious is
excited to begin.

2. Your conscious mind is willing to experiment with this process while youre unconscious
locks onto my every word.

3. Your conscious mind can focus on one spot or one irrelevant detail while your
unconscious communicates directly with me, taking you into a completely receptive
profound trance.

4. Your conscious mind thought it understood something about the depth of trance while
your unconscious processes what Im saying, creating the ability for you to follow my
instructions precisely and creates greater abilities to follow my suggestions with every
moment that passes.

Note: you can make these as complex as you would like.

Write at least 10 of these.

Practice Establishing a Learning Set

There is a number of ways of doing this. The gist of them all is that they refer to
experiences that you may have forgotten that everybody goes through as a child when they
learn.

Here is a quote from Dr. Erickson: And in the trance state you can let your unconscious
mind survey that vast store of learnings that you achieved, that you have achieved during
your lifetime. There are many learnings that you have made without knowing it. And many
of the learnings that were important to you consciously have slipped into your unconscious
mind.

You can talk about learning the ABCs, learning how to tie your shoe until it becomes
automatic, learning to put your pants on or your clothes, learning to comb your hair, or
even something like learning to play ping-pong until the paddle just felt like it was an
extension of your arm.

Write several examples that you can use for this purpose.

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11 Language Patterns and Applications

Now lets examine 11 different types of language patterns and how they apply to the
following areas of trance.

Beginning trance orientation:

Developing trance:
Arm levitation:
Age regression:
Learning from experience:
Using learning after trance:

For each of these 11 patterns, write your own examples as they apply to every one of these
areas of trance.

Writing your own examples and then repeating them over and over and over will help you
significantly to get the patter of hypnosis down.

Here is another great way to use what follows. Select a desired response that you want to
get from the person you are working with in trance. Use several of the following patterns to
tell the person what to do. When you repeat it using different patterns, it will become far
more powerful.

Pattern 1: Open Ended Suggestions

Beginning trance orientation: You can learn in many ways.

Developing trance: Hypnosis is a way of learning about yourself at a different level of

being.

Arm levitation: A person can show a wide variety of movement and posture.

Age regression: Your personal history can be experienced and the learnings can be used.

Learning from experience: You can develop a line of thought for your own use.

Using learning after trance: And keep your learnings and memorize them and use them
in the days and years to come.

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Pattern 2: Implication

Beginning trance orientation: Since you began when you arrived in my office

Developing trance: The first thing people do when they go into a trance

Arm levitation: Before you find out if your arm raises all the way to your face

Age regression: You may find the most influential experience of your childhood

Learning from experience: Which lesson do you imagine you will learn first?

Using learning after trance: The more you find ways to use the learnings now, the more
youll likely use them each year.

Pattern 3: Questions or Statements That Focus or Reinforce Awareness

Beginning trance orientation: I wonder if you experience yourself ready to begin.

Developing trance: Have you been in trance before?

Arm levitation: Can you feel your arm getting lighter?

Age regression: One might wonder what five-year-old experience will be remembered.

Learning from experience: What can a person learn from experience?

Using learning after trance: Have you decided when youll use this learning?

Pattern 4: Truisms

Beginning trance orientation: Chairs are intended to be comfortable and serve a function.

Developing trance: Each person goes into trance in a unique manner.

Arm levitation: Sooner or later you will want to raise an arm up in the air.

Age regression: Everybody knows what the world was like at five.

Learning from experience: Experience is a great teacher.

Using learning after trance: Everyone knows the importance of doing some homework.

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Pattern 5: Suggestions Which Cover All Possible Alternatives

Beginning trance orientation: You might be able to sit there with your arms on your lap
or folded, or your hands apart or together, with your feet flat on the floor or crossed, with
your eyes open or closed.

Developing trance: You can go into trance slowly, gradually, suddenly, with your eyes
open or closed, or not at all.

Arm levitation: Your arm may rise up to your face, it may stay right there, it may float up
halfway to your face, it may raise only slightly, it may get heavier and drop, or it may find
its own unique location.

Age regression: A time may be selected, or it may be prescribed; it may come into your
mind or only intuitively occur to you; you may not know at all what age youll select.

Learning from experience: You may learn some or all of the material, and you may know
what you learn or not know what you learn, and you might learn nothing at all.

Using learning after trance: You may not use this or you might use this learning; you
might modify it when you use it; and you can use all of it or only part of it; or you might mix
the distinction between what you learn and what you invent.

Pattern 6: Apposition of Opposites

Beginning trance orientation: Its fine to take a long time beginning, as we may get to the
solution with less waste.

Developing trance: The less you notice the tension, the more you have the capacity to
concentrate on relaxation.

Arm levitation: The lighter the left arm becomes, the heavier the right army feel.

Age regression: The older you feel, the younger your thoughts may often be.

Learning from experience: The more you have been in the dark, the more enlightening a
learning may be.

Using learning after trance: Since you waited so long for relief from the problem, you are
entitled to use it throughout your vast future.

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Pattern 7: Binds of Comparable Alternatives

Beginning trance orientation: Would you prefer to have me begin talking or would you
prefer to begin talking?

Developing trance: You may develop trance immediately or gradually.

Arm levitation: Perhaps your left arm or maybe its your right arm will rise upward your
face.

Age regression: I dont know if you will recall something during your fifth year or
something during your sixth.

Learning from experience: You may learn from the experience or merely use the
experience.

Using learning after trance: You can select the way you will use this after trance or
discover the way you will use this after trance.

Pattern 8: Conscious/Unconscious Double Binds

Beginning trance orientation: The conscious mind may not notice when the unconscious
mind is beginning to work toward a solution.

Developing trance: Your conscious mind may think you desire or need one level of trance,
while your unconscious mind develops the proper depth of trance.

Arm levitation: Your conscious mind may not notice how your unconscious will raise your
arm up to your face.

Age regression: Your conscious mind can recall some important early experience while
your unconscious mind develops a reliving of it.

Learning from experience: An unconscious learning from the experience may be

developed in the conscious mind as well.

Using learning after trance: Your conscious mind might already have some ideas of
where you will use this while you're unconscious handles the job of doing it correctly.

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Pattern 9: Double Dissociative Conscious/Unconscious Double Binds

Beginning trance orientation: Your conscious mind may have begun with the aid of your
unconscious or perhaps your unconscious is ready to begin with any age you can offer
consciously.

Developing trance: Would you prefer to let your conscious mind lead your unconscious
into trance or your unconscious lead your conscious mind into trance?

Arm levitation: Your conscious mind didn't know that your unconscious would choose
your right or left arm to raise up, but the conscious mind could wonder which arm the
unconscious chose.

Age regression: Your unconscious may let your conscious mind know how you lived in the
past or your conscious mind may already know what your unconscious can relive.

Learning from experience: Your conscious mind can be interested in what you learn from
the experience and your unconscious mind can take care of really learning from it, or
perhaps your unconscious mind only allows you to develop interest as your conscious
mind develops a learning.

Using learning after trance: And one might let the conscious mind select the site for using
the learning while the unconscious is trusted to carry it out, or one may allow the conscious
mind to carry out a learning and let the unconscious select the location, and time.

Pattern 10: Reverse Conscious/Unconscious Double Binds

Beginning trance orientation: Because it is really too soon to get started with your
treatment

Developing trance: You ought not go into a trance anytime soon

Arm levitation: It would be most useful if you left your arms right where they are

Age regression: Most important, you are not to feel like the child you once were when you
re-examine that earlier memory.

Learning from experience: You probably won't know how to generalize from and use
your knowledge and your unconscious experience. And you certainly would not be
expected to apply any such nonsense to your real-life.

Using learning after trance: You wouldnt want to let the thought stay with you when you
leave the office.

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Pattern 11: Non Sequitur Double Bind

Beginning trance orientation: Lets begin now or use the time constructively.

Developing trance: You will be able to either go into trance as we speak or you will alter
your consciousness and experience.

Arm levitation: Your unconscious will either raise the hand off your lap or your conscious
mind will notice it halfway to your face.

Age regression: The memory may be from the age of five or about the time you entered
grammar school.

Learning from experience: You can either learn from this experience or teach it to your
children.

Using learning after trance: Will you use these learnings after trance or change your
maladaptive behavior?

Reorienting to waking state.

There are several things to consider Reinforce the dissociation, posthypnotic suggestion,
amnesia, and continuing to integrate all that they have been taught during the session.

Write out several examples of how to do these things as you bring the person back to
normal waking consciousness.

* These patterns were taken and/or adapted from the book The Answer Within: A Clinical
Framework of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy by Stephen R. Lankton and Carol H. Lankton. I
highly recommend you pick this book up if at all possible.

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