ting a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem

Hypnosis was accepted by the American Medical Association in 1958 as an effective system for treating worry, and stress related symptoms. But does it really work, and what should a person look for when seeking a hypno-technician, or buying hypnosis tapes & CDs?

There are many different hypnotic techniques that are used to reach the subconscious mind to invoke change. Each method has its pros and its cons. Everyone is different, so it only makes sense that the best results will be obtained by utilizing the methods that each individual will have the most success with.

Most people who sell hypnosis cd's and tapes offer products that consist of standard traditional hypnosis techniques. A few vendors offer much more fresh and effective Ericksonian Hypnosis techniques. And fewer still offer NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques.

The most effective technique is video hypnosis. Video hypnosis makes use of the latest Nlp thought strategies to create instant change in an individual. Video hypnosis techniques are not subliminal in nature.

With "Traditional Hypnosis," we simply command to the subconscious mind. In case you are wondering, as far as I'm concerned, the term unconscious, and subconscious are indistinguishable -- they refer to the same part of the mind. This type of hypnotic suggestion works well for a person who generally accepts what they are told without a lot of questions.

Most hypnosis programs sold today are based on "Traditional Hypnosis" methods. The reason for this is that it really doesn't take much schooling to write a script and just command an individual to do something. Unfortunately Traditional Hypnosis is not very compelling for people who are analytical in their thinking processes.

By contrast, Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP methods work far more effectively for most members of today's generation! This is because today people are taught to question everything, rather than just do what they are told to do. So these technologies do work well on people who are analytical in their method of thinking.

While it's true that these modalities have a greater success rate at reaching and influencing the unconscious, it's also true that it can can take a great deal of experience to learn how to apply these techniques effectively. So this is a challenge accepted only by dedicated hypnotists.

With "Ericksonian Hypnosis," we use little stories, we call hypnotic metaphors, to present new ideas to the unconscious mind. This is a effective and powerful avenue, because it usually eliminates the mental blockage of suggestions that is often caused by the conscious mind. There are two types of metaphors, "Isomorphic," and those of the imbedded command or "interspersal" nature.

Isomorphic metaphors offer direction to the unconscious by telling a story with a moral. The unconscious draws a one to one relationship between ingredients of the story and contents of a bad behavior. For example, if a child is telling a lot of lies, the hypnotherapist might tell the child the story about the "Boy who cried wolf." The subconscious would draw a comparison between the boy in the story and the child, and realize that telling lies could lead to disaster, so the child would probably stop lying.

With the Embedded Command technique, the hypno-therapist tells an interesting story that engages and distracts the consciousness. The story includes secret suggestions that are usually accepted by the unconscious. For example: While the client is in hypnosis, he might hear the hypnotist say something like: I'm going to tell you a story about a [beach that has feelings. Isn't that] strange to [you]? It's a warm summer's day, and the beach [feels great].

The hypnotist pauses, shifts his voice tonality, and emphasizes the bracketed text. The unconscious recognizes a "Selectional restriction violation." Beaches can't have feelings. So it's like the unconscious says to itself: "Wait a minute, a beach can't feel anything, so that must mean that I'm supposed to feel something, and I'm supposed to [feel great]." Since the suggestions are embedded in a theme that is distracting the conscious mind, its unlikely that the conscious will realize that it has just received a command, so it won't block it or resist it.

"Process Instructions" direct the unconscious to remember the experience of an appropriate learning experience from the past, and then apply that learned experience to making a change in the present.

With "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" (NLP), rather than using post-hypnotic commands, we use the same methods of thinking that are creating a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem t

m concerned, the term unconscious, and subconscious are indistinguishable -- they refer to the same part of the mind. This type of hypnotic suggestion works well for a person who generally accepts what they are told without a lot of questions.

Most hypnosis programs sold today are based on "Traditional Hypnosis" methods. The reason for this is that it really doesn't take much schooling to write a script and just command an individual to do something. Unfortunately Traditional Hypnosis is not very compelling for people who are analytical in their thinking processes.

By contrast, Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP methods work far more effectively for most members of today's generation! This is because today people are taught to question everything, rather than just do what they are told to do. So these technologies do work well on people who are analytical in their method of thinking.

While it's true that these modalities have a greater success rate at reaching and influencing the unconscious, it's also true that it can can take a great deal of experience to learn how to apply these techniques effectively. So this is a challenge accepted only by dedicated hypnotists.

With "Ericksonian Hypnosis," we use little stories, we call hypnotic metaphors, to present new ideas to the unconscious mind. This is a effective and powerful avenue, because it usually eliminates the mental blockage of suggestions that is often caused by the conscious mind. There are two types of metaphors, "Isomorphic," and those of the imbedded command or "interspersal" nature.

Isomorphic metaphors offer direction to the unconscious by telling a story with a moral. The unconscious draws a one to one relationship between ingredients of the story and contents of a bad behavior. For example, if a child is telling a lot of lies, the hypnotherapist might tell the child the story about the "Boy who cried wolf." The subconscious would draw a comparison between the boy in the story and the child, and realize that telling lies could lead to disaster, so the child would probably stop lying.

With the Embedded Command technique, the hypno-therapist tells an interesting story that engages and distracts the consciousness. The story includes secret suggestions that are usually accepted by the unconscious. For example: While the client is in hypnosis, he might hear the hypnotist say something like: I'm going to tell you a story about a [beach that has feelings. Isn't that] strange to [you]? It's a warm summer's day, and the beach [feels great].

The hypnotist pauses, shifts his voice tonality, and emphasizes the bracketed text. The unconscious recognizes a "Selectional restriction violation." Beaches can't have feelings. So it's like the unconscious says to itself: "Wait a minute, a beach can't feel anything, so that must mean that I'm supposed to feel something, and I'm supposed to [feel great]." Since the suggestions are embedded in a theme that is distracting the conscious mind, its unlikely that the conscious will realize that it has just received a command, so it won't block it or resist it.

"Process Instructions" direct the unconscious to remember the experience of an appropriate learning experience from the past, and then apply that learned experience to making a change in the present.

With "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" (NLP), rather than using post-hypnotic commands, we use the same methods of thinking that are creating a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem

h "Ericksonian Hypnosis," we use little stories, we call hypnotic metaphors, to present new ideas to the unconscious mind. This is a effective and powerful avenue, because it usually eliminates the mental blockage of suggestions that is often caused by the conscious mind. There are two types of metaphors, "Isomorphic," and those of the imbedded command or "interspersal" nature.

Isomorphic metaphors offer direction to the unconscious by telling a story with a moral. The unconscious draws a one to one relationship between ingredients of the story and contents of a bad behavior. For example, if a child is telling a lot of lies, the hypnotherapist might tell the child the story about the "Boy who cried wolf." The subconscious would draw a comparison between the boy in the story and the child, and realize that telling lies could lead to disaster, so the child would probably stop lying.

With the Embedded Command technique, the hypno-therapist tells an interesting story that engages and distracts the consciousness. The story includes secret suggestions that are usually accepted by the unconscious. For example: While the client is in hypnosis, he might hear the hypnotist say something like: I'm going to tell you a story about a [beach that has feelings. Isn't that] strange to [you]? It's a warm summer's day, and the beach [feels great].

The hypnotist pauses, shifts his voice tonality, and emphasizes the bracketed text. The unconscious recognizes a "Selectional restriction violation." Beaches can't have feelings. So it's like the unconscious says to itself: "Wait a minute, a beach can't feel anything, so that must mean that I'm supposed to feel something, and I'm supposed to [feel great]." Since the suggestions are embedded in a theme that is distracting the conscious mind, its unlikely that the conscious will realize that it has just received a command, so it won't block it or resist it.

"Process Instructions" direct the unconscious to remember the experience of an appropriate learning experience from the past, and then apply that learned experience to making a change in the present.

With "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" (NLP), rather than using post-hypnotic commands, we use the same methods of thinking that are creating a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem

t hear the hypnotist say something like: I'm going to tell you a story about a [beach that has feelings. Isn't that] strange to [you]? It's a warm summer's day, and the beach [feels great].

The hypnotist pauses, shifts his voice tonality, and emphasizes the bracketed text. The unconscious recognizes a "Selectional restriction violation." Beaches can't have feelings. So it's like the unconscious says to itself: "Wait a minute, a beach can't feel anything, so that must mean that I'm supposed to feel something, and I'm supposed to [feel great]." Since the suggestions are embedded in a theme that is distracting the conscious mind, its unlikely that the conscious will realize that it has just received a command, so it won't block it or resist it.

"Process Instructions" direct the unconscious to remember the experience of an appropriate learning experience from the past, and then apply that learned experience to making a change in the present.

With "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" (NLP), rather than using post-hypnotic commands, we use the same methods of thinking that are creating a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem

ting a problem, like nail-biting or stress, to delete the problem. NLP in the hands of an trained and experienced nlp'er can be very effective.

NLP Anchoring: Have you ever heard an old song and had it remind you of feelings from the past? When you originally heard the music, you were feeling those feelings, and they subconsciously became attached to the melody of the song. So the song became an Anchor for the feelings. Now when you hear the song, it triggers the same feelings again.

Anchoring can be a very effective method. Suppose that you have a memory of being commended for having done a great job in the past. If you get back into that memory, you'll be able to revivify the feelings of self-esteem that you had at that time. If you touch two fingers together while you re-experience those feelings of self-esteem, that touch will become an anchor for the feelings of self-esteem.

Now suppose that you want to create motivation to stick to a diet and lose weight. If you make a mental image of yourself with a thin, sexy body, and simultaneously trigger the anchor - (press the two fingers together again), your unconscious will associate together the feelings of self-esteem to the image of you with the thin body and your level of motivation to lose weight will grow exponentially.

NLP Flash: This is a very effective and powerful Nlp technique that can be used to turn things around in the subconscious, so that thoughts and experiences that used to trigger feelings of stress actually trigger relaxation instead.

The NLP Flash technology is also a fast way to extinguish conditioned responses. For example: If a smoker has a cigarette while drinking coffee, his/her subconscious will connect the behaviors together so that he/she automatically gets an urge fora cigarette anytime he/she has a cup of coffee. The Flash will cause the smoker's mind to disconnect the image of a cigarette from the cup of coffee so that he/she does NOT get a compulsion to smoke just because he/she is drinking coffee.

With "subliminal" programs, the recording has two tracks. One track contains a cover sound that is heard by the conscious mind. The cover sound could be anything from music to the sound of a thunder storm. The second track contains direct commands that are listened to by the subconscious mind. These post-hypnotic commands are repeated hundreds of times during a session.

Subliminal programs can be played while you are driving or working. You don't have to stop what you are doing and relax like you do with suggestion therapy or NLP. Subliminals can be used in addition to hypnotism. But Subliminals will never replace Hypnosis or Neuro-linguistic programming because they are not as effective! They're not even in the same universe!! Some studies have claimed that it can take up to 80 hours of listening to a subliminal tape before it will have any effect on many people.

The last form of hypnosis that we're going to discuss is "Video Hypnosis." Video Hypnosis is the most practical form of hypnosis! The techniques used in video hypnosis are based on the Nlp technology, which works based on the utilization of a person's existing ways of thinking instead of post-hypnotic suggestion.

Over 70% of the people on the planet learn much more automatically by seeing, rather then by hearing. Think about it. If you feel an urge to smoke or snack when watching tv, it's because your unconscious mind recorded the video image of either food in your hand, or a cigarette in your hand, and then interlinked that image with the visualization of the TV. You never spoke to yourself and told yourself in words to associate them together, correct?

And that's why the Video Hypnosis method is so compelling. Video Hypnosis is not hypnotic in the traditional sense, relying on the spoken word. But if you've ever cried when watching a depressing movie, then you know how useful Video Hypnosis can be at reaching the subconscious mind. With this mechanism, results usually start with the very first viewing!

© 2006 By Alan B. Densky