Lesson Week #14 Non-Awareness Set Orienting & Reframing Questions Non Awareness Set Advanced Questions Reframe Questions o How did you know X was the right thing to do in order to go into trance? o How did you know X helps you go into hypnosis more quickly? o How did you know to do that? o Do you always X? o Did you know X is a sign of trance? o I wonder what it means? o How do you feel about that? o I am curious about X? o I am wondering about X? o Something seems to be happening there! o You did X and you didn’t even know it! Remember that tonality is important, you need it to imply that something “hypnotic” is going on! Example 1: 1. Hypnotist: How did you know to do that? Did you know that blinking was going to get you into trance more quickly?
2. Client: No. 3. H: And yet you did it…. Something must know what its doing?
Example2: Did you know X is a sign of trance? • • • • •
Did you know blinking is a sign of trance? Did you know breathing rhythmically is a sign of trance? Did you know that feeling comfortable is a sign of trance beginning? Did you know that not wanting to talk is a sign of trance beginning? I wonder what it means?
Example 3:
Do you always X? This question gets them to agree that something is happening, or prove to themselves that something is happening. • Do you always have your hand floating in midair?
Example 4: Something seems to be happening here. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Hypnotist: Did you notice your hand twitching? Client: no. H: Look, there, it happened again. Did you notice it then? C: yes. H: I wonder what it means. C: I don’t know. H: Something seems to be happening there, doesn’t it? So while you are sitting there watching you hand twitching, something seems to be happening there. I wonder what else is happening to you right now that you won’t be aware of until it does...
You are essentially creating a little dissociation and allowing the trance to spread from the hand into the rest of the body at that point. Or at least that is the implication.
Example 5: You did X, and you didn’t even know it. 1. Hypnotist: Did you know that you are blinking more quickly 2. Client: no. 3. Hypnotist: So your blinking greatly increased, and you didn’t even know it.
This is a great implication of unconscious activity increasing. Example 6: How do you feel about that? Hypnotist: Your left hand feels heavier than your right hand. How do you feel about that?
They won’t know what to feel about that - that’s exactly why you’re asking them. It causes more conscious/unconscious dissociation.