Conversational Hypnosis
Hypnosis – Improve Your Performance In Hypnosis
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Improving in the art of hypnosis is always going to be a great idea. When you are working in the area of hypnosis it is not
only important to know what you are doing but perfecting the ways or the HOW you do it is vital. Know how and what to
do will create an unbreakable base for you as a hypnotist.
Hypnosis is a performance art so learning the performance part of hypnosis is a given. Part of performance in learning
hypnosis is to understand the elements of hypnotic language. One of those elements is tonality. Tonality is the key to
unlocking a great deal of information in hypnosis.
It is vital that you spend time learning what words to say but equally important to know how to say those words in order to
get your point across. A helpful study by Mr. Birdwhistell is the study of how the actual meanings of words were broken
down between words, tonality and body language. The conclusion of the study was surprising for many.
The study showed that choice of words is very important but the words themselves really only accounted for 7% of the
meaning in the word. However the way you say the word, or the tonality you use, was responsible for 38% of the words
meaning. And astonishing 55% of the meaning derived from statements and words comes from the body language you
use, your nonverbal communications.
This study tells us that if you focus only on the choice of words you use you will more than likely be a poor hypnotist.
However if you focus on the words and the performance of those words you will capture more of the elements to becoming
a great hypnotist.
In order to study the performance area of hypnotism you must first understand that hypnosis is something you do with a
person. You must learn how to convey the presentation of your statements and this is where we start.
The use of differing tonality in the language you use as a hypnotist will change the meanings of the statements you are
saying to your subjects. It is important to play with the different ways you can say words as the meanings will change as
your delivery of the word changes.
Take the word ‘no’ for instance. There is technically only one meaning for the word itself; however you can change that
meaning if you change your tone as you say the word. Play with, it say ‘no’ in ways that would imply yes or maybe.
There is a way to say ‘no’ that is stern and serious and a way to say it playfully and so on and so forth.

Now that we know the importance behind the way we say different things we can go over the principals of performance.
The first principal of performance is to ‘go first’. This is the best and most simple way to deliver your statements and
words accurately and with fine precision.
‘Going first’ is a good place to start because it is important to really feel what you are going to say in order to make it true
for your subject. In ‘going first’, you will immerse yourself in the emotion, situation or come to agree with the story you
will be telling, this will help your story in delivering it in a believable way.
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If you are not in the correct state of mind, meaning one of agreement with your statements, you will not be convincing.
Every thought you have will always affect you emotionally and behaviorally. For instance if you are trying to imply that
there is danger in a situation and you are conveying a feeling of carefree happiness your point will be lost to the true
emotion you are feeling.
This is where BMIR’s come into play. BMIR is a shorter way of saying Behavioral Manifestation of an Internal
Representation. What this means is when you think of something, every time your thoughts change it will show the new
thought through your movements, body language, breathing and tonality. Because of this reaction to thought the best way
to perform anything is to enter that particular state of mind. Imagine yourself in the situation, use the same tone of voice
you would if you were actually going through the motions of that particular situation. This will help you to accurately
deliver the thoughts and ideas you want to.
So this was a vast amount of information for a simple task, to review ‘going first’ you must first take the hypnotic theme
you are working with and put it into motion within your mind. Use your imagination to put yourself into situations where
what you want to convey is true. When you do this the delivery will be accurate representation of the feelings, ideas and
thoughts you are pursuing.
The second performance principal we are going to cover here is the principal of squeezing the meaning. In this factor of
performance you are going to do just as it sounds, squeeze all of the meaning out of key words you use in your language.
In order to accomplish this you will want to match the tone and feel of your voice with the feelings or ideas you are
attempting to convey. When you learn how to accurately do this and practice it into perfection you will be able to bring
your words to life for your listener.
The language you use will begin to be filled with the actual meaning and feelings that come from your choice of words and
the way you say them. For instance if you want your subject to relax, you don’t scream relax at them while jumping up
and down you would draw the word out using a mellow and calming tone of voice.
In doing this you are letting the tone of your voice do the hard work and you convey a state of mind or feeling. Rhythm in
what you are saying is also accomplished here with very little effort, it just happens naturally as you say the words with the
meanings they posses