In our final post we are going to talk about some specific examples of hypnotic language patterns and how they can be used in real life. As I stated before, hypnotic language patterns can be broken up into two fundamental categories based on the processes that they create and/or work with within the mind of the recipient.
1. Cognitive Dissonance / Certainty – These types of patterns either create confusion in the mind with ambiguity or overtly reinforce preexisting rules to “grease” the acceptance of certain information. The wonderful side effect of that confusion is that as the subconscious mind is “making sense” out of the statement, its critical thinking system is “occupied” for lack of a better term. This provides the communicator with an open and unimpeded channel in which to implant their suggestions into the busy mind of the recipient.
2. Rapport Building / Pattern – These types of patterns create predictability through familiarity, pattern and rhythm in not only the phonology of your speech but also the content/verbiage. The resulting “predictability” that occurs creates a safe and comforting environment to the subconscious mind of the recipient and thus lowers their critical thinking radar. This in turn, again, provides the communicator with and open and unimpeded channel in which to implant their suggestions into the busy mind of the recipient.
So let’s get right into it with Cognitive Dissonance / Certainty Milton-based patterns. The ones we will talk about here today are Complex Equivalences, Lack of Referential Index and conversational postulates.
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1. In order for the person’s mind to make complete sense out of this type of statement they need to work with a number of different parameters in their Lexicon and memory retrieval subsystems to understand it. Again, during the brief period of retrieval and confusion the person is in an open state of suggestibility.
2. The broad and open slate that an ambiguous statement like this provides creates a much higher probability that what you communicating is readily accepted. Let’s look at the subject of riding a motorcycle. As a polarized example, if you say “Riding your motorcycle on a busy street without a helmet while running from the cops is dangerous” the recipient will most likely have far fewer experiences relating to this than they would the statement “It is dangerous”. When there are no obvious experiences by which to reference your statements, critical thinking fires right up and aids in keeping the person in a Beta-state. The result is a LOW suggestibility state.
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So, there you have it. Although these are great examples, remember that there are just a ton of other hypnotic patterns that a Communication Expert can use. To get all of them, you will have to wait for my book later this fall.
To learn more about Hypnotic Language and other forms of communication that can help you refine your own effective communication skills, please explore the rest of my blog The Communication Expert or if i’m online, contact me on Skype.
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