Lesson Week #2 Power Words & Trance Themes 5 Words of Power • • • • •
Every Time Because Means When And
These are examples of words of power. It is not just the words that matter, these are ways of building experiences, linguistic bridges between ideas.
Hypnotic Themes Now, the words of power by themselves aren’t really very useful unless you are trying to achieve something with it. The something we are trying to achieve is what I call a trance theme, or hypnotic theme. A hypnotic theme is the thing you talk about as a form of suggestion, and then you use your linguistic bridges peppered in with the hypnotic trance themes in order to get someone to experience whatever it is you want to have for them. The core hypnotic themes are: • • •
Relax Comfort Focus
A few more examples outside of the core themes: safety, security, ease, automatic, unconscious, and peace. For more words than these, you can look in a thesaurus for additional related words, and you will find that there are lots of related hypnotic themes that you can come up with.
Here is an example of putting together the 5 words of power with the core hypnotic themes: Every time you breath, your body can feel more comfortable because you have felt comfortable before, which means that it is so easy for you to focus on my words when you know that relaxation and comfort are pleasant experiences.