Anodynic Hypnotic Inductions - Entrance others with just four little words!

Hypnotic inductions are where the rubber meets the road in hypnosis! Induction is the process of bringing the four components of hypnosis together in such a fashion, that you become part of the feedback of sensory information that the subject is feeding themselves.

The four little words are the components themselves: Subject, Conduit, Attitude and Suggestion. Now, I don't mean that you say these words to the subject! But understand what these three words mean in your hypnotic entrancement!

As I've stated in the previous blog entries, by understanding the sensory language dominance the subject is speaking to themselves in. And selecting the right method from the massive amount of amount of Conduits/Inductive Methods. As well as having the right attitude and suggestion composed from the subject's process of "How's," will easily induce one to enter a deep state of trance.

If you haven't read my previous blog entries on these components, I suggest you go back and plow through them.

For the rest of you who have read through, Attitude is something I haven't spoken in detail. There is a large body of hypnotist that mechanically know how to induce someone and themselves into trance. However, they are plagued with abreactions and "Pop-outs!" A Pop-out is just as it sounds. The subject pops out of trance and has a reaction/abreaction that you the therapist, didn't expect or want! There's nothing more frustrating to a mechanical styled hypnotherapist; than to have a pop-out occur in front of the rest of the family or professional setting.!

So, how do we develop the "right" attitude as a hypnotist and/or hypnotherapist? Attitude comes from drinking the Kool-aid you're using on your clientele! As well as the understanding that everyone! And I mean everyone! Is in some level of entrainment 24/7-365! Just understanding that everyone is entrained on something at some level will carry you quite far! However, even only with that understanding, you'll have a higher percentage of pop-outs that those that actually practice their craft!

Practice taking each and every emotion you have as a reaction to some activator. And, breaking that emotional reaction down into a series of steps. Of hows! Remember the belief you have that is associated with that activator as well! You can become very lost just examining the hows!

Let's say it's being cut off in traffic! Most of you can relate to this! You believe that you should be able to continue in your lane without being interrupted abruptly! Now, break down the steps you go through from when the cut off occurs. To when that driver is no longer affecting your emotions. How are you breathing? What does you face look like? How are you holding yourself posture-wise? What are you feeling?

Once you have all that catalogued. And make sure that you take several incidents ranging in intensity just to make sure you have a good cross section! Examine your beliefs as you go through your how steps. What are the consequences at the end of the emotional reaction? What would you change?

Good! Now you have your hows to build your suggestion of what you will change. Let's select say..., reframing method. That's where you see the movie in your head of the cut-off, the emotional reaction and the unsuccessful consequence. Next, we construct the same movie in our head except one with a successful positive consequence. Simply let the unsuccessful movie be overrun with the successful one! Some people explode the unsuccessful with the successful. Or they interrupt it like a loud blasting advertisement right in the middle of the unsuccessful movie! You decide what feels right for you! And of course this is all done with the understanding and attitude that you in fact, are always at some level of entrainment/suggestibility! Now your unconscious can easily accept the newer more pleasurable movie always! Hypnotic induction is just that effortless and pleasurable! And with just four little words, you practice what you preach so to speak! After a short time of practicing everyday, just establishing rapport with someone else will take them deeply into the level of entrainment that you are without very much effort!

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

What is Hypnosis?

The dictionary defines hypnosis as: an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by heightened susceptibility to suggestion. That may be the stage version of hypnosis however, it's not the hypnotheraputic version! Hypnosis is the process of transitioning from one thought to another. From one state of mind, to another. I guess that's not as sexy as the dictionary definition but, it is more realistic.

Hypnosis is composed basically of three components:

1. The person being hypnotized,
2. The suggestion,
3. And, the conduit.

The person being hypnotized can be yourself or someone else or a whole crowd of people. The suggestion, is a whole study in itself. And we'll expand on that over a multitude of blogs. And finally, the conduit is the method of delivery of the suggestion. Again, another whole study in itself!

Let's start with the person being hypnotized. Each person has their own private biological computer called their brain. They also have a wonderful set of senses. The five senses are known as the VAKOG. Or, Visual, audible, kinesthetic, olfactory and gastric. Each of these senses communicate with the brain it their own language. The brain takes the messages the senses send it, and translates the messages with the appropriate algorithm; that the conscious mind can understand.
From the hypnotheraputic standpoint, the brain/mind is broken down into several components. The conscious mind, conscious filter and the subconscious mind

The conscious mind processes the waking and sleeping world from three standpoints:

1. The Somatic - Doer,
2. The Cognitive - Witness,
3. Awareness - neither doer or witness.

It processes about 10 to 20 bytes of information per second which is about a thought or two worth of information.

The conscious filter is just as it sounds. It filters the world's flood of sensory information so that we don't become overloaded with information as we did as babies. It generalizes, deletes and distorts information into only the most immediate information that we need to interact at the moment.
The subconscious, which I also call the Super Being:

* Never sleeps,
* Experiences the full force of the messages coming in from the senses,
* Supports and controls all functions of the mind and body,
* And cannot lie or deceive.

That last item, is the basis of a multitude of problems between the conscious mind and the subconscious. And the items I just described are only a few of the Super Being's talents! The Super Being also processes about 2,000,000 bytes of information per second as well!

I'm not trying to under sell the conscious mind which is also broken down into a government of it's own. There is the Primal Mind component which issues 8 basic urges: sleep, sex, fight, flee, power, fame, wealth, hunger. The Emotional Mind, which filters each and every thought via the 7 basic emotions: acceptance, control, security, inclusion, interaction, sympathy and empathy. And the Intellect, which bifurcates thought/messages into synchrones and asynchrones patterns.

So, how do all these components produce what we call hypnotic state? All of us continually transition from one thought to another! Why is that hypnosis?

Well, when that train of thought starts to loop and become fixated. And the mind becomes open to suggestion. As the mind becomes more entrained on a fixated thought. The person fixated allows the conscious filter to move out of the way and thereby opens a more direct path to the subconscious mind. As the conscious filter moves more and more out of the way, it also retains less and less memory of the events taking place!

A light hypnotic state equivalent to being road zoned and missing your turn. This state is known as the Hypnodial State. The mind loses about 20% of the events and doesn't remember them in this state. A more intense fixation, say, about the level of seeing the love of your life and being blown away, you lose about 60% of what's going on around you.
Now, in deep trance. Or being totally absorbed in true meditation, you lose about 80%.

Now, the logical question should be, how does one get themselves or another into this hypnotic state? I'll answer that in the next blog! Tune in next time as the old radio announcer use to say!

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison M.Ht., M.AHt.
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com