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Hypnotic Language

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"You can, by just saying some words, send people into wild and wonderful places and give them altered experiences, and possibly change their lives, empower them with new abilities and much more."

This is a well-researched book on hypnotic language patterns. The first part of the book provides an in-depth analysis of perception, communication, hypnotic language and trance states.

The rest of the book provides examples demonstrating applications and effect of hypnotic language patterns.

The purpose of hypnotherapy is to help the individual dissolve inner limitations which are creating the problem. Since these limitations arise from one's perception, hypnotic language is for the most part directed at altering one's perception, helping the individual to rise above the limitation and become aware of the solution.

Many examples in this book include metaphors where specific hypnotic language patterns have been incorporated. The author provides an insightful analysis of the problems presented together with hypnotic language patterns used and the solutions that manifested as a result of them.

At the end of the book is an overview of the Milton Model - meta-model violations: deletions, distortions, generalizations, complex equivalences, cause-effect, etc. followed by specific language patterns for artful vagueness: double binds, phonological ambiguities, embedded commands, conversational postulates, etc.

I bought this book after reading the rave reviews. Maybe I was expecting too much but I found the book overly academic, abstruse, rarefied, laden with jargon and poorly written. It begins with a review of some devleopmental psychology (Piaget, Gestalt theory, etc.). I had not read anything this dry and boring since my college intro psych course. The authors present a model of hypnotic language that appears to be their personal theory with little reference to any evidence. The case examples are somewhat more interesting but the proposed dialogue is so academic that it's hard to imagine anyone in the real world taling like that. I suppose this book would appeal to overyly intellectualized NLP nerd types who get off on playing with jargon somewhere up above cloud 9 and with little grounding in reality. For us practical, flesh-based, earth folk, this book is a jargonized disappointment. Can you imagine saying the following to a living, breathing human being: "Just how is it that you know what you think you know...and before that? You must find some reference to which you pay deference. ... Now you know you must contain the where with all within for performing as desired because you know you are not yet you will, won't you?" Got it? Then buy the book and you can read a lot more sentences like the ones quoted above.

After reading a lot of books on hypnosis and NLP, I would have to say that this is by far the best one when it comes to learning the depth of language of it. I think page for page there is just far more intricate language than most other books on hypnosis. I believe this book is very thorough and stands out for its ability to teach an array of hypnosis language unlike some other books which teach things like very basic guided meditation. I think if you own this book, Wordweaving Volume One by Trevor Silvester and The Language Pattern Bible by Kerin Webb, I think you're well on your way to getting a thorough understanding of how the language of hypnosis really works.

The keynote of this book is to show and explain the elements of hypnotic language and how to blend and develop them for healthy psychotherapeutic interventions. For anyone reading this title will become alert to how many forms of persuasion are used to (mis)direct our judgments and even the constructs of a healthy self. The strength of this title is that it provides practical instruction and concrete exercises so that the mystification of need not be that hypnosis works or how it works but that it works so well we resist learning about it.

This a book on hypnosis therapy not creating speech patterns that can help your public speaking. this was not what I was expecting.

The structural and academic (rather clinical) approach adopted by the author successfully chunk down rather coarse and large concepts into tasty , easy to swallow chewy bits.
A must have text for further practice of both the meta and milton model interventions. Tons of examples that you can use even on yourselves...now...won't you?