{"id":368,"date":"2009-11-21T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:32:43","slug":"conscious-and-unconscious-mind-positioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/conscious-and-unconscious-mind-positioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious and Unconscious Mind Spatial Communication (for Coaching and Hypnosis)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trancedout.com\/images\/client-conscious-unconscious.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a client and therapist engaged in unconscious communication\" class=\"magnify\" data-magnifyby=\"1.5\"><\/figure><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a quick hypnosis and coaching technique that I often use for improving rapport, which is about organizing your communication spatially. When someone comes to you for hypnosis, they&#8217;re asking you to work with their unconscious mind. Spatial anchoring gives you a way to structure which messages are directed where.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When explaining the pre-talk to the person, tap a space on the table that is closer to them, and label it the &#8220;conscious&#8221; mind. Then refer to a space closer to you, and label it the &#8220;unconscious mind.&#8221;  This way when you&#8217;re talking, you can put things into the space for the unconscious mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: When I say &#8220;label&#8221; it, I mean that you are referring to it in an ambiguous way. You say &#8220;your unconscious mind&#8221; while gesturing to the space closest to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unconscious space is closer to you, so it presupposes that if things come from that direction, they must be intended for the unconscious mind. You are essentially creating a submodality shift, by aligning things on a line, for which close to you means &#8220;unconscious&#8221; and away from you means &#8220;conscious&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can also indicate messages to be for the unconscious mind by using tonal marking and by referring to a visual location with our eyes (example: looking over the person&#8217;s right shoulder every time a message is meant for the unconscious mind)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick hypnosis and coaching technique that I often use for improving rapport, which is about organizing your communication spatially. When someone comes to you for hypnosis, they&#8217;re asking you to work with their unconscious mind. Spatial anchoring gives you a way to structure which messages are directed where. When explaining the pre-talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,23,22,14],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypnlp","tag-coaching","tag-hypnosis","tag-milton-erickson","tag-nlp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trancedout.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}