There are many ways to hypnotize your clients. Everything from the wildly popular Fractional Relaxation; whereby you lead your client to consciously relax everything step by step from their toes all the way up to the tips of their hair.
Any hypnotist worth their salt also knows, that if you don't establish rapport with your client before the session, you'll have a very rough time relaxing anyone!
Rapport is one of the most important features or characteristics of unconscious human interaction. It is commonality of perspective: being "in sync" with, or being "on the same wavelength" as the person with whom you are talking.
There are a number of techniques that are supposed to be beneficial in building rapport such as: matching your body language (ie, posture, gesture, and so forth); maintaining eye contact; and matching breathing rhythm. Some of these techniques are explored in neuro-linguistic programming.
A classic if unusual example of rapport can be found in the book Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley, about the psychotherapeutic intervention techniques of Milton Erickson. Erickson developed the ability to enter the world view of his patients and, from that vantage point (having established rapport), he was able to make extremely effective interventions (to help his patients overcome life problems).
Breath Pacing Rapport technique is a very powerful method of combining synchronization of breathing with your client and delivering your suggestions on one or both sides of the breath cycle. And this technique is a favorite of mine! The rules for it's use are very simple.
1. MIrror the posture and respiration of your client. If they are breathing fast, you breathe at the same speed. If they are breathing slow, do the same. As you deliver your suggestions you can slow down or speed up the breathing when you've taken over the lead in pacing your client.
2. If you want to raise the energy and thereby energize your client, speak on the inhalation part of their breath cycle.
3. If you want to relax them, speak on the exhalation part of their cycle.
4. If you want to make a point, pick a point to stare at such as a point on their head or on the wall just behind them and speak on whatever part of the breath cycle you're working with (e.g., raising or relaxing energy).
Now some other points are:
1. If you want to anchor a statement when you're making a point. Just raise the pitch or lower the pitch of your voice. You can alternatively use a louder or softer tone as well to anchor the point. Or snap your fingers, clap your hands! Anything to mark the point!
2. Ask a rhetorical obvious questions: Don't you want to feel more peaceful and fulfilled right now? Of course you do!
3. Provide easy to remember rhymes to your point: Everyday in every way you'll always feel better and better won't you?
4. Dr. Milton Erickson stated that we love anything with "ing" and "ee": This is the most relaxing state you can achieve! You don't have to be push-ee about self-hypnosis.
Conversational Hypnosis uses all of these rules including:
1. Either/or rules,
2. Splitting alternatives,
3. Time and scale choices,
4. Double and Triple TDS.
I'll write more about these in the next article.
Have fun with Breath Pacing Rapport with your friends. Decide before hand what suggests you want to add into your point statements and let the breath deliver them effortlessly and easily.
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