Using Hypnosis to Learn Hypnotic Language Patterns

A short while ago I posted an article about a hypnosis recording that Andrew Milne has made on my behalf and how it has had an impact on my use of NLP Language Patterns. We gave away a few free copies. Here is what’s happened so far including how to get free drinks using embedded commands:

John Charles Robinson 06 March at 16:05
http://www.coachingandhypnosis.com

Rintu - I have enjoyed the opportunity to sample Andrew Milne’s hypnotic confidence session. Thank you both for making it available. My experience with it is outlined below:While I did notice an immediate impact, I found that repetition of use worked even better for me. In other words, the more I listened, the more increase in confidence I felt.

There were improvements to my use of complex linguistics, but I was more impressed and amazed at the feedback and comments I received from others over the course of the past week.

The first (unsolicited) comment that I seemed to be standing taller and yet more relaxed was followed a few days later by an even more emphatic expression from a co-worker “I am glad to see you are feeling better. I can really see how you have become more energized lately”.

Regardless of your line of work or condition in life, your confidence and energy are a big part of leading the way for others and this audio program, in my experience, will give you an increase in both areas.

Please share my thanks with Andrew. Kindest Regards, JCR

And then I got this:

Kathleen Rodman 08 March at 12:46
http://www.kathleenrodman.com

Rintu,

Thank you for the hypnotic patterns motivator MP3 download. After I received the Motivation to Use Hypnotic Patterns MP3 download, I decided I needed to reread your book, The Persuasion Skills Black Book. About half of the way through rereading your book, it occurred to me I should listen to the hypnotic patterns motivator to see if it downloaded properly - so I listened to about 10 minutes of it.

The next morning I posted something from my blog at kathleenrodman.com with “diet” in the title. One of the comments I received was, “I don’t believe in diets.” I immediately responded, “I agree the issue is really about having a healthy lifestyle.” Up until that point I had either picked a pattern and written it down to practice or looked through your book until I could find a pattern that was appropriate to the situation I wanted to deal with at the time.

The hypnotic pattern motivator worked very well after only ten minutes listening time. Just think what will happen when I have completed rereading your book and listen to the entire MP3 I am very impressed and believe it would be skilful to make the MP3 available for sale in addition to your book which is also excellent.

Take good care of yourself.

Kathleen Rodman, LPC, CCMv

I have been a little backed up with work at the moment so have been a little slow getting the new to Andrew. But then I got two emails from him.

Andrew Milne 10th March at 13:42
http://www.happy-minds.co.uk/

Hi Rintu,

I had an interesting experience last week, where I got two pints of lager and two coffees free in Weatherspoons, the other day. I laughed about it afterwards completely bemused, saying wow just when I never used any language patterns when carina pointed out to me that I had used quite a few. In particular the embedded command ‘it’s nice to give me something for free.”

any way to save bogging you down in this busy period, my point is that it was unconscious competence I think mainly caused by the hypnosis recording that I made, well I was telling this tale to Mark and he said you should write it up for Rintu ? Would this be of benefit to write up?

I obviously asked him to write up more details and Andrew responded with

the whole event went like this….

we ordered two pints and two coffee’s, the barman said “would you like a coffee card, you get a coffee free for every 5 you buy,”

I thought great yeah, it was in my mind that I might get an extra stamp, so I started to say things like ‘it’s nice to get something for free.’ and ‘it’s not often YOU give ME something for free’

Then the barman handed me the card, looked at my money and walked of, we waited a while till he gave me a dirty look as much as saying; “what you still doing here”

And then I walked off. Thinking cool. I now have plans to always discuss how I just got something for free when ordering drinks, it seems a easy pattern to work in.

The main thing that struck me was I was unaware of what language I used when the whole transaction was going through.

Looks Like this Recording is Dangerous

Include the fact that I suddenly started using pattern interrupts with shopkeepers in a way that completely surprised me and I think we have to conclude that this hypnosis recording certainly does have some impact on your learning of hypnotic language patterns.

I don’t know if this also happened, but knowing Mark it is a good guess. In Andrew’s first email I have bolded the embedded command that I suspect Mark used several times over with Andrew in their conversation.

Next week I will be giving certain people an opportunity to get a copy of this recording for free so look out on the blog and in your email for a very exclusive offer.

Dangerous Persuasion Techniques, The ShopKeepers’ Revenge

A little while ago I wrote an article about how I used a pattern interrupt on a Shopkeeper and he managed to pay me to take his goods away. Here is a link to the original persuasion skills article.

My good friend and great NLPer Pablo wrote me a response highlighting the dangers of using pattern interrupts. Pablo runs his own blog about using Conversational Hypnosis in Spanish. He is really good at this stuff in English so I suspect he is blindingly brilliant in his native language. If you are Spanish speaking then take the opportunity to have a look at Pablo’s Spanish Persuasive Hypnosis Blog.

Losing Money with NLP Techniques

Pablo sent me an email which not only highlights a complete pattern interrupt process, but also shows you how this sort of persuasion technique is fraught with danger. Here is the email in full:

From: Pablo Vázquez
Date: 01 March at 20:48

Hi, Rintu,

I have just read your blog post about the shop, the change and the confusion pattern you ran on him. And it´s great.

The thing is that I lived something very similar a few months ago. I went to have an ice cream at the mall. It was late (maybe 23:00 or so). We had our ice creams and, when it was time to pay, my friend approached the waiter to pay (I had paid the pizzas and the beers!) and handed a 10 Euro bill.

The thing went like this: The waiter, which was not the one who had brought the ice creams, asked what we had had. And my friend said: “Well, if you don´t know, then we just had two glasses of water”. We three laughed the joke (my friend uses to be serious and that made it even funnier!).

So I said: “Two ice creams, really. One of this kind, one of that one”. And the waiter put the data on the computer and voilá: “It was 10 Euros and a few cents”. So I went and looked for the cents (20, I think) and handed them to the waiter.

And then it happened… He stayed there, just waiting. And then he asked for 10 Euros. And my friend said: “I have handed a 10 Euro bill to you”. And the waiter said: “No”. And I said: “Yes, check it”. And the waiter replied: “No.”. And, in the end, we were almost in doubt.

So we asked the waiter if they had a cam and a phone number. We told him to check the cam or the figures of the day and we added that we would phone him the next morning. And we did. And my friend´s note was inside the box, where the waiter had put it -I had seen it.

What happened? I told my friend about it when we left. He had interrupted the pattern of the waiter. He handed the 10 Euro bill -he didn´t know that the ice creams were a bit more expensive than that- and when asked about our order, he played his joke about the two glasses of water. And, meanwhile -I saw it!-, the waiter put the 10 Euros on the box and laughed.

Then he went back to his “program”, but everything had happened and the mess was just there. He didn´t want to fool us, nor did we want to fool him. It just happened: he didn´t remember anything about the 10 Euros. And, no matter what we told him, he didn´t believe he had put the bill on the box. Amnesia! And my friend doesn´t know about hypnosis or NLP!

It was great and, when I read your post, I remembered about it. A nice moment, no doubt. See you, Rintu. Keep posting, my friend. And writing, of course. I want to read your 2 next books. OK?

Finding Out More

If you want to find out more about these types of persuasion tactics a great place to start would be the Advance Persuasion Patterns Course. This is a download course that covers many important areas of Hypnotic Persuasion Skills.

NLP Techniques, Using Spatial Anchoring in Training

For those of you that are not NLP Jargon Junkies this article is about how you can use your hands, body and gestures to help move people along your agenda. At their most powerful you can use these techniques to install or trigger emotional states.

In the video connected to this article you will see some subtle use of these techniques in a training context. Below I will deconstruct what I am doing, why I am doing it and the impact I expect it to have on my audience.

NLP Anchors, a Quick Foundation

Anchors are NLP Jargon for a trigger that creates a response in your subject. For example consider when your favourite song is played on the radio, the alarm clock goes off first thing in the morning or someone you intensely like / dislike walks into the room. My guess is that in each case there is a particular internal reaction in you that might even be followed by a physical reaction.

Can you imagine what would happen if you could set up these anchors and then fire them off at will? If you are using them on yourself you might have a confidence anchor to fire off when you are facing a problem, a giggle anchor to cheer yourself up or an anchor to fire off that makes you focused and ready for work when you need to be.

Anchoring Others

Rather than repeat myself here are some links to previous anchoring articles that really deconstruct the process:

• Installing Emotional States using Anchoring
• Using Chaining Anchors in Training
• NLP Sales Techniques, Using Anchors to motivate a Sale Team
• NLP Poker Playing Using Anchors

All of these articles will explain different ways of overtly and covertly using anchors with others.

Video Demonstration of Spatial Anchors

This link will take you to a short video clip from a Persuasion Skills Workshop where you will see me covertly demonstrating some more subtle applications of spatial anchors.
Here is a short review of what I was doing and why.

Connecting with the Audience

This is a common pattern that I use when training. My intention is to connect more directly with my audience and I know some people build a wall between themselves and the guy out the front of the room.

To deal with this I deliberately get the whole audience to visualise a wall between me and them. This means now everyone has a wall that I can then step through. This is a very deliberate way of breaking down the barrier between my audience and me. In this clip you will see me do this and then start talking about drawing out emotions.

Boxing and Moving Learning into the Past

When training it is sometimes useful to box a subject up, move it into the past so the audience can open the box containing the new subject up and start cleanly with it.

Earlier in this workshop I set up the audience to locate the past towards their left and the future on their right. Since we read from left to right the majority (but not all) will tend to favour this so I may as well work with the norm. This is easy to do as all I have to do is reference the past whilst indicating to the audience’s left side and reference the future on the right. Once you have done this a couple of times it is safe to say the audience will get the idea.

What you see me do in this clip is box up the last topic, move it into the past, bring out the next topic and open the box. This keeps each of the topics we discuss on the course clean and separate from each other.

Spatial Anchors Made Easy

The examples in this video clip are simple straight forward and are not designed for a huge emotional response. They are a simple way of using your gestures to carry the meaning of your conversation and to keep your audience up with your agenda.

Finally here is another application of the same sequence. In sales I will talk about typical objections to buying, put them in a box and move them into the past. As an alternative I might build the objections into a wall and either step through the wall or even better get the prospect to step through the objections to see the benefits.

To get more ideas on how to use anchoring in the real world come and have a look at the Advanced Patterns of Persuasion. This is a comprehensive course on all aspects of NLP Persuasion Skills.

Using Confusion Patterns as a Covert Persuasion Skills

A couple of days ago I mentioned in my NLP Techniques blog how I got a shopkeeper to pay me to take his goods. This article outlines the process I used to get this result.

Overview

Note: I gave the shopkeeper his money back a few minutes later, explained what I was doing and set him up to buy a copy of my book. Whilst I love practicing patterns I firmly believe in creating win / win situations.

The situation happened by accident and was as a result of me listening to a hypnotic recording about boosting your confidence in delivering hypnotic language patterns. There is a competition running for you to be able to win a copy of the recording about developing your hypnotic persuasion skills.

The process uses patterns and concepts fully explored in the Advanced Persuasion Patterns Programme.

The Situation

I had gone to my local shop to buy a drink. I was still half in trance from listening to the Confidence in Language Patterns MP3 that Andrew Milne from Happy Minds has created for me. I am often in the shop, have good rapport with the shopkeeper, and we talk regularly.

I paid for the drink with a five pound note which he rang up on the till and I was due to get £4.21 change, which was showing on the till display. We were just flapping our gums at each other as I paid and the shopkeeper obviously distracted only gave me the 21p.

I don’t usually run confusion patterns without some preparation but I had just been handed a golden nugget, a perfect opportunity to practice some patterns on the fly. Normally it would not even have occurred to me until long after the event had occurred… but remember I had just been listening to an MP3 Trance Recording about developing confidence in practicing patterns.

First Stab at the Result

I noticed the change was wrong. The shopkeeper is not doing this deliberately so from his perspective he is following his normal transaction process. You might already have worked out when I point out I have the wrong change we will have interrupted his process (a pattern interrupt for those NLP Jargon Junkies).

Interrupting a pattern has the potential to lead the subject into a direct trance and that means you have the opportunity to embed some commands. I said to the shopkeeper, “You’ve given me the wrong change - (pause and then into slow hypnotic tonality including the embedded command in bold) - You need to give me another ten pounds”
The shopkeeper laughed embarrassedly, opened up the till and stared getting a ten pound note out. He then stopped part way through obviously figuring out something was wrong and told me that can’t be right as the till was registering change of £4.21

Second Attempt

Normally I would have been happy to stop here but remember I had been listening to a Trance Recording about developing your persuasion skills. The shopkeeper obviously still a little confused asked me how much I had given him. I replied “Twenty pounds. How much change am I owed from that?”

Notice I have asked the shopkeeper a question that forces an internal representation on him about the amount of money he “owes” me. He answered me with £19.21 hesitantly and was obviously not sure. He said as much to me.

Third Attempt for the Result

I paused for a moment, got out my wallet, looked inside and said “You are right, I must have given you a tenner. How much change do you actually owe me?”

Notice I have used an agreement frame that opens him up, switched the amount again and directed his mind with an assumptive question. He told me £9.21 and gave me back my fiver plus four more pound coins.

I deliberately stayed and chatted for a few minutes to make sure that the transaction was complete in his mind as I wanted to know that I had completely gotten away with it. I then gave him the five pound note back and explained what I had been doing.

There is no way I would have stayed working this situation if I had not been listening to that confidence in language patterns recording, so I told the shopkeeper and suggested he ban Andrew from the shop as it was entirely his fault. So if you are reading this Andrew be warned.

NLP Resources

There is a competition for you to win a copy of the confidence in hypnotic language patterns on my last NLP Techniques post.

If you want to learn how to use these types of patterns in lots of different situations then download my course on advanced persuasion skills.

Hypnotic Trance Scripts for Confidence

I get a lot of mail about ways to become confident in using the Hypnotic Language Patterns from The Persuasion Skills Black Book. The reality is playing with the patterns builds familiarity, experience and eventually confidence. The more you use them the more it becomes easy to use them until you get to a point where you are just doing it naturally. That said I have had on my mind the idea of creating a special hypnotic recording that will accelerate the process. This article is about the powerful effects of well constructed hypnotic scripts in developing confidence.

If you want a free copy of a powerful recording designed to boost your skills and confidence in hypnotic language patterns then there is an offer on this page.

Happy Minds

I have been considered creating a recording of my own but I recently caught up with Andrew Milne, a good friend and excellent NLPer Hypnotist that I had not seen since before Christmas. Andrew specialises in all things emotional as you will see when you click through to his website at Happy Minds.

When I met up with Andrew he told me that he has been recording some great products using leading edge research in brainwave frequencies and hypnotic theories. After hearing and analysing some of the recording he is producing it made sense to get him to produce the recording on my behalf.

NLP Techniques - Start with the End in Mind

Like the good NLPers that we are Andrew and I prepared a comprehensive brief of what the results the recording should create. This included using patterns and concepts from the book to:

• Create a profound deep hypnotic learning state
• Remove the anxiety or fear of using language patterns
• Install a desire to play and practice patterns in a state of playfulness
• Make the process generative so the more you do the better you feel creating a propulsion system to your desired results
• Future Pace becoming a hypnotic persuasion skills master
• Notice how much better you are becoming

It sounds like a lot but it took Andrew less than two weeks to come up trumps and for me to find a new found energy in practicing my own patterns. Here is what happened to me listening to the recording.

The Field Test

The first time I listened to the recording a strange thing happened to me. My initial listening was just to check the levels, sound quality and get an overview of what Andrew had created. I remember thinking that it will be difficult staying out of deep trance with the rhythms that are playing at the beginning of the recording. I then remember waking up at the end of the session. To date I have listened to the recording six times. I am getting better at staying awake right the way through it but I still do not have a clear idea of all patterns outside of what Andrew has explained to me. I just can’t stay awake long enough to register them consciously.

But the issue is not how powerfully this recording sends you into trance but is all about the results you get from it. Personally I have noticed that I am firing off patterns constantly. That does not sound like a lot in my life, but the context, emotions and my reactions have changed. And I was not expecting any personal changes as I would say I am reasonably confident in using and practicing patterns.

One of the funniest, most profound and coolest results happened an hour ago when I used a confusion pattern to get my local shopkeeper to pay me to take his goods (I gave him the money back a little later, I prefer win / win situations). But there was so much good stuff going on in that situation that I will write it up as a separate article later.

The Competition

Andrew has tried out the recording with a few people that he knows and has had some great feedback. I have listened to it and had some great results, but we want some case studies of the results that you get with it. As such I have decided to give away three free copies. Before you apply for your free copy you need to meet some criteria. You have to:

• Be a member of the Persuasion Skills Black Book Facebook Page
• Have read The Persuasion Skills Black Book and are putting at least some of the material into practice
• Be prepared to listen to the recording and get some results within the next two weeks
• Write a review / testimonial including some detail of the results you achieved using the recording and be prepared to have this published on my blog within the next three weeks. No contact details will be published but if you have a web page you want to promote that can be a feature of the article we publish.

If you are willing to meet all the criteria above then all you need do is go to the Facebook page and write on the wall the results you expect from using this recording. The best three by the end of the week will get a free copy of the recording to try out. At the end with the case studies published the best overall results will win a copy of the three hour Persuasion Skills on Steroids Workshop Video as well.