CHPH Manual Week 12
Week 12
Lesson Week #12 How to Control Attention The Non Awareness Set – Simplified Version The very basic concept is that you are moving their attention (energy) from where their mind was to where it wasn’t. Because wherever it is, is conscious, wherever it isn’t, is unconscious. And by moving from the conscious the unconscious over and over again creates a trance effect, as it is a form of fractionation. At the same time, you are loading it with implications, because the implications are going to create the conviction that something is happening, and the implications create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Important: Do not use a problem as the focus point of the NAS. You are increasing unconscious attention on whatever you are working on with the NAS, and you certainly do not want to create new problems for people! NAS Basic Structure 1. 2. 3. 4.
Orienting question Echo effect Reframe Deepening question
NAS Exercise #1 Remember H+, hypnotic eye contact, go first. 1. Ask one of these orienting questions • Scan your body, notice what is different. • What’s going on now? • How are you doing right now? • How are you feeling at this moment? 2. Write down their answer verbatim
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NAS Exercise #2 1. 2. 3. 4.
Ask one of the orienting questions above. Echo effect Reframe: I wonder what this means. Ask a Deepening question: What’s going to happen next?
The point is to keep these four basic steps in mind: orient, echo, reframe and deepen. Additional questions will be provided later.
Non Awareness Set Basic Questions Orienting Questions • Which X is more Y o Which hand is heavier? o Which hand is lighter? o Which hand is more in trance? • Which X feels most unusual? o Which part of your body feels most unusual? o Which hand feels more unusual? • Did you know you were X? o Did you know that your breathing slowed down a moment ago? o Did you know that you are tapping your foot right now? • I noticed your doing X at this moment. o I noticed that you are smiling at this moment. • How are you feeling at this moment? • How are you doing at this moment? Deepening-Questions • What is happening now? • What just happened? © 2008 (Under License) Streethypnosis Publishing, All Rights Reserved
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• How do you feel about that? When you notice a shift in their breathing or another trance signal, ask “What just happened?” Asking questions about unconscious activity reinforces the activity, and forces them to acknowledge that it happened. If you ever don’t know what to do next you can ask this question: What’s happening now? Example: 1. 2. 3. 4.
[Client takes a deep breath] Hypnotist: What was that? Client: Oh I dunno, I just took a deep breath. Hypnotist: So you just took a deep breath. And what’s happening NOW?
Hypnotic Attention How do you get their attention and move it to somewhere useful? • Basic Non-Awareness Set Questions • Echo effect o Reinforces unconscious things once they come up. • Revivification o Brings their attention to things that they weren’t conscious of or times where they were less conscious in their life. • Switch sensory modalities (VAK: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic; also smelling, tasting) o While you were licking that ice cream, what weren’t you seeing? o What sounds weren’t you aware of at the time you were licking your ice cream? • Figure-ground o Tunnel vision vs. peripheral vision. o Whatever you are focusing on is the figure; everything else is the background. o Change what is being focused on, and you completely change the background Now pay attention to what you were not paying attention to... • External-internal
Switch their focus from the outside to the inside
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How To Control Attention Language can have a very powerful effect on people. The problem is that blindly using language without a feel for the context, situation and people you are with, is like trying to paint a house by throwing pots of paint at the wall – the results are just patchy! What is context? 1. H+, ALWAYS start with H+ 2. Using this language to orient them to an unconscious process, otherwise you are wasting the manoeuvre! Sense an area of growing comfort inside your body. Think about how your breathing can change. Be aware of the changing sensation in your left hand. Just notice that tingling, and pay attention to what happens to it. (implication that it will intensify in some way). It is not enough to just use the language. Language is the vehicle that will get you there. But if you have no fuel in the vehicle, it will just stay put. H+ is the fuel. The unconscious process is the destination, because you have to go somewhere. If you have a car and you are driving in circles, you’re going nowhere. You need to have a destination (unconscious process), the fuel (H+), and the vehicle (attention shifting language). Now you have a practical and powerful tool! Attention Controlling Language Think
Notice
See
Be Aware Of
Hear
Pay Attention To
Feel
Observe
Sense
Perceive
H+
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Lesson Week #12 How to Control Attention The Non Awareness Set – Simplified Version The very basic concept is that you are moving their attention (energy) from where their mind was to where it wasn’t. Because wherever it is, is conscious, wherever it isn’t, is unconscious. And by moving from the conscious the unconscious over and over again creates a trance effect, as it is a form of fractionation. At the same time, you are loading it with implications, because the implications are going to create the conviction that something is happening, and the implications create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Important: Do not use a problem as the focus point of the NAS. You are increasing unconscious attention on whatever you are working on with the NAS, and you certainly do not want to create new problems for people! NAS Basic Structure 1. 2. 3. 4.
Orienting question Echo effect Reframe Deepening question
NAS Exercise #1 Remember H+, hypnotic eye contact, go first. 1. Ask one of these orienting questions • Scan your body, notice what is different. • What’s going on now? • How are you doing right now? • How are you feeling at this moment? 2. Write down their answer verbatim
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NAS Exercise #2 1. 2. 3. 4.
Ask one of the orienting questions above. Echo effect Reframe: I wonder what this means. Ask a Deepening question: What’s going to happen next?
The point is to keep these four basic steps in mind: orient, echo, reframe and deepen. Additional questions will be provided later.
Non Awareness Set Basic Questions Orienting Questions • Which X is more Y o Which hand is heavier? o Which hand is lighter? o Which hand is more in trance? • Which X feels most unusual? o Which part of your body feels most unusual? o Which hand feels more unusual? • Did you know you were X? o Did you know that your breathing slowed down a moment ago? o Did you know that you are tapping your foot right now? • I noticed your doing X at this moment. o I noticed that you are smiling at this moment. • How are you feeling at this moment? • How are you doing at this moment? Deepening-Questions • What is happening now? • What just happened? © 2008 (Under License) Streethypnosis Publishing, All Rights Reserved
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• How do you feel about that? When you notice a shift in their breathing or another trance signal, ask “What just happened?” Asking questions about unconscious activity reinforces the activity, and forces them to acknowledge that it happened. If you ever don’t know what to do next you can ask this question: What’s happening now? Example: 1. 2. 3. 4.
[Client takes a deep breath] Hypnotist: What was that? Client: Oh I dunno, I just took a deep breath. Hypnotist: So you just took a deep breath. And what’s happening NOW?
Hypnotic Attention How do you get their attention and move it to somewhere useful? • Basic Non-Awareness Set Questions • Echo effect o Reinforces unconscious things once they come up. • Revivification o Brings their attention to things that they weren’t conscious of or times where they were less conscious in their life. • Switch sensory modalities (VAK: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic; also smelling, tasting) o While you were licking that ice cream, what weren’t you seeing? o What sounds weren’t you aware of at the time you were licking your ice cream? • Figure-ground o Tunnel vision vs. peripheral vision. o Whatever you are focusing on is the figure; everything else is the background. o Change what is being focused on, and you completely change the background Now pay attention to what you were not paying attention to... • External-internal
Switch their focus from the outside to the inside
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How To Control Attention Language can have a very powerful effect on people. The problem is that blindly using language without a feel for the context, situation and people you are with, is like trying to paint a house by throwing pots of paint at the wall – the results are just patchy! What is context? 1. H+, ALWAYS start with H+ 2. Using this language to orient them to an unconscious process, otherwise you are wasting the manoeuvre! Sense an area of growing comfort inside your body. Think about how your breathing can change. Be aware of the changing sensation in your left hand. Just notice that tingling, and pay attention to what happens to it. (implication that it will intensify in some way). It is not enough to just use the language. Language is the vehicle that will get you there. But if you have no fuel in the vehicle, it will just stay put. H+ is the fuel. The unconscious process is the destination, because you have to go somewhere. If you have a car and you are driving in circles, you’re going nowhere. You need to have a destination (unconscious process), the fuel (H+), and the vehicle (attention shifting language). Now you have a practical and powerful tool! Attention Controlling Language Think
Notice
See
Be Aware Of
Hear
Pay Attention To
Feel
Observe
Sense
Perceive
H+
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