Increasing sensory acuity
Why more sensory acuity? To increase your sensory acuity is to increase the number of distinctions that you can make with your senses. It also increases the amount of data that you…
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Associate into your goals
When you are imagining/visualizing your goals, most people make the mistake of seeing an image as if it were on a movie screen, so you are looking at it. While that’s great…
Read articleThe Dave Elman Induction – Steps and Explanation
One of the first inductions that most hypnotists should be taught in a hypnosis course today is the Dave Elman induction. Unfortunately, a lot of courses start with a progressive relaxation or…
Read articleMeditation versus Hypnosis
I’ve recently started meditating, and indeed it’s a very relaxing process. Once I’ve started talking about it, some people have wondered why I might do both meditation and self-hypnosis, or what the…
Read articlePacing representational systems
Pacing is something that we often do naturally in which we reflect back characteristics of a person’s behavior or internal map in order to build rapport. With pacing you are reinforcing where…
Read articleThe Handshake Induction
I’m often asked if I use Milton Erickson’s famous Handshake Induction. It is said that psychologists wouldn’t shake Milton’s hand because they were afraid they’d go into trance. I’ve also heard that…
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