Experiencing Reality - NLP, Hypnosis, Personal Change
  • BLOG
  • ABOUT
  • STORE
    • BOOKS
    • AUDIOS
    • DVDS
  • CONTACT
  • DISCLOSURE

Cataleptic Thinking

4/24/2011

0 Comments

 
The other day I was doing a trance induction on a friend (when people think you’re a hypnotist there is always a line to be hypnotized).  To me experiences such as these gives a person an opportunity to practice skills that they don't always get to try out.  It’s been a long time since I’ve induced a ‘formal trance’.  So for fun I thought I would start with hand levitation just to see what would happen.  I let them decide which hand they wanted to allow defy gravity and to allow to float seamlessly into the air.

They chose their right hand and we sat there and watched with amazement at how their hand was lifting without any effort on their part.  I’m always amazed when I watch a good hand levitation it always just seems so magical to me.  Now I’ve seen many hypnotists elicit arm catalepsy from clients but I have never seen them make anything more than an arbitrary use of this phenomena.  My thinking when ever eliciting something from someone is how many different ways can I use this.  I know that I don’t think of every way to use it but it at least gives me some different options that I wasn’t thinking about before.

As I sat there watching their hand levitate I began to think about instances and scenarios in my own life where I was fairly stiff and rigid in my thinking or in my responses to a particular situation.  I began to think of this arm catalepsy as an example of rigid thinking or as a rigid response to a particular situation.  I told my friend a story about how in certain situations in one’s life they can have rigid ways of thinking or relating to a particular situation and that they can feel the great deal of tension in the same way that they can feel it in their arm.  I further went on to elaborate as to how that when someone tenses themselves in too rigid of a matter that they can begin to feel fatigue.

I further went on to explain to him that sometimes the best thing to do is to relax one’s arm and to notice the type of comfort and relaxation that they can experience in that situation.  I continued to explain to him about how certain things in life can be reflections of other things and that people can use learnings that they acquire from one situation to another in the most useful way to themselves.  Then I told them to go ahead and to head out of trance while he made a full wealth of the recollections of all the implications of my statements and that I was sure that he would understand what I was referring to.


0 Comments

Encouraging Exploration

4/21/2011

0 Comments

 
I’m noticing that as I continue to develop my own style of working with people that there are a lot of things that I used to do that I’m failing to do any longer.  In the past I was very patterns driven.  Everything I did was within pre-ordained NLP patterning.  When I was working with people I was constantly looking to see what patterns I could fit them into.  Are they a person that I can run a change personal history pattern on?  Maybe reimprinting?  They look like parts integration person to me.  Stuff like that.  That was me in the beginning.

As I progressed in my experience I was constantly very outcome orientated.  Meaning everything I did was for a specific purpose.  Most of the time I was constantly looking to do something very specific when working with myself or a client.  Am I changing a belief here?  Am I trying to integrate some anchors?  What am I attempting to do?  That was my thinking.

Now, I’m progressing through much trial and error to exploration.  Producing specific results is not something that drives me in my work anymore.  Yes, can I and will I when working with someone produce a result, absolutely.  And at the same time you can only do something the same way so many times without variation.  The field of NLP and Hypnosis as robust as they might be and with as many different styles and personalities is only so big.

At some point in order to keep growing one’s skills they have to put themselves into a position where they are exploring phenomena and taking note of what occurs as they do.  That’s where they are going to continue to build their skill.  Playing with things like Amnesia and how many different ways can a person can use it.  How many different ways does it manifest?  What can you get people to forget and in what ways?  How specifically can you get someone to forget one aspect of one thing?  As well as how in general can you get them to forget something as well?  And what type of mixes of in between can you create as well?

I’ve studied a lot of work of Milton Erickson the one thing that really impresses me about him.  His collected papers those aren’t about his successes they are about his experiments and his explorations during his work.  There were a lot of things that occurred in his work that he had no idea would occur however he did have some sort of idea that something would occur.

And ultimately I think that is where people are going to build their skill.  Through exploration and experimentation.  As much as people love to go to courses and purchase new CDs and DVDs and things of that nature your real growth in your skills will not be from those things.  It will be from those times that you were messing around to see what you could do only to find out that you did something that you would never have thought of.  I think we need more of that in general.
0 Comments

Rationalizations of Hypnotic Realities

4/20/2011

0 Comments

 
Milton Erickson and  Linn Cooper in their book, ‘Time Distortion in Hypnosis’ conducted a series of experiments in order to explore the phenomena of expansion of one’s sense of time.  They would induce a trance whereby they would then give the person they were working with suggestions that were designed to give them the experience having more time than they really did.  They would then be assigned a task that they were to accomplish in a given hypnotic reality and told how long they would be given to accomplish the task.  They would then be given a starting signal and an end signal by which they were to immediately cease taking anymore action in their assigned task at which time they would then report back to Erickson and Cooper as to their progress.

For example in one experiment subjects would be instructed that they were in a room sitting at a table and that there was a box of pennies in from of them.  They were to begin to pull them out and put them one by one on the table and were to count the number of pennies as they put them on the table.  They were TOLD that they were going to be given ten minutes to accomplish this task.  In actuality they were given anywhere from 10 seconds – 1 second to accomplish the task through multiple trials.  With each trial the subject would make it into the hundreds when it came to counting.

During some other tasks some subjects were given similar counting tasks in which they were TOLD that they would be allotted a certain amount of time and then in ACTUALITY they were given far less quite often as little as 3 seconds to accomplish what they were suppose to do.  Quite often it was found that people could complete their task with as little as 3 second BUT when Erickson would cut their time even further people were unable to complete their task nearly as well as they had previously.  The interesting thing to me was when Erickson brought them out of trance everyone of them had elaborate explanations for why they had not fared as well in the completion in this task as previously.

I think there is an interesting parallel between these rationalizations that would occur when people were in hypnotic trances and with clients.  Whereas a client will come to a changeworker with very sound reasoning and logic and all sorts of explanations regarding their particular problem as subject in one of these hypnotic trances could explain what occurred in their situation in equally convincing terms.  In both instances their explanations are equally real and in both instances they are equally fabricated.
0 Comments
    Picture

    Subscribe to receive free stuff


RSS Feed

Archives

September 2021
May 2012
April 2012
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011

Categories

All
About Nlp
Abraham Maslow
Actioncoach
Amnesia
Analog Distinction
Anchoring
Andrew Austin
Andrew T Austin
Anger
Anlp
Anthony Robbins
A Psychic
Arm Catalepsy
Associations
Auditory Anchor
Behavior
Behavioral Metaphors
Behavioral Modeling
Behaviorism
Belief Change Pattern
Beliefs
Bill O'Hanlon
Blog
Blogger.com
Body Language
Body Signals
Bogus Claims
Brad Sugar
Brain
Brainwashing
Brain Washing
Breathing Patterns
Bufo Marinus
Building Skill
Business
Calibration
Carl Rogers
Central Intelligence Agency
Cerebral Cortex
Certification
Change Personal History
Changework
Charalatans
Charisma
Chi
Chris Cathey
Cia
Cia Mind Control
Client Sessions
Coaching
Coercion
Cold Reading
Colleague
Compliance
Concept Of The Self
Condiment Anchoring
Conditioned Responses
Conman
Conmen
Connirae Andreas
Cons
Consequence
Contempt
Context
Control
Core Transformation
Crap
Creative
Creative Problem Solving
Cults
Danie Beaulieu
Dave Dobson
David Gordon
David Matsumoto
Dealing With Stress
Deceit
Deception
Deception Detection
Decision Destroyer
Demonstrations
Depression
Derren Brown
Desmond Morris
Digital Distinction
Dr. David Matsumoto
Dr. Paul Ekman
Drug Of Choice
Dumb
Ecology
Effects Of Stress
Eft
Ekman
Emdr
Emdr Books
Emdr Therapists
Emi
Energy
Erich Fromm
Erickson
Ericksonian Hypnosis
Escape From Freedom
Ethically Questionable
Exercises
Experiential Array
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
Eye Movement Integration
Eye Movements
Face Training
Facial Expressions
Failure
Fear
Flexibility
Flight Or Flight Response
Followers
Forgetting
Forgiveness Pattern
Fractionation
Frank Abagnale Jr.
Fraud
Frauds
Freud
Freud On Dreams
Fritz Perls
Gabriel Radvansky
Generalizations
Generative Trance
Graham Dawes
Gurus
Guru Worship
Hand Levitation
Healing Hurt
Healing The Past
How To Do Mentalism
How To Read Body Language
How To Reduce Stress
Hyperbole
Hypnosis
Hypnosis How To
Hypnosis Training
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotic Amnesia
Hypnotic Induction
Hypnotist
Iemt
Impact Therapy
Impostor
Imprinted
Imprinting
Imprints
Influence
Integral Eye Movement Therapy
Intention
Internet
Jeff Hawkins
Joe Navarro
John Grinder
John Watson
Jonathan Altfeld
Jonathan Lebid
Jordan Belfort
Jorgen Rasmussen
Junk
Ki
Kim Mcfarland
Knowledge Engineering
Law Of Attraction
Liars
Lie Detection
Lies
Limbic System
Linn Cooper
Little Albert
L. Michael Hall
Lucas Derks
Lying
Manipulation
Mapping Across
Marketing
Marshall Sylver
Marshall University Tapes
Mass Media
Media
Memory
Memory Prediction System
Mentalism Tricks
Mentalism Tricks Revealed
Meta-Model
Meta-NLP
Meta-Outcome
Metaphor
Metaphorical Tasks
Metaphors
Metaphors Of Movement
Meta-States Model
Micro Expressions
Milton Erickson
Milton Erickson Essays
Mind Control
Mind Control Program
Modeling
Morphogenic Fields
Nac
National Geographic
Neocortex
Neuro-Associative Conditioning
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Neuro-Semantics
New Age
Nick Kemp
Nlp
Nlp Anchoring
Nlp Books
Nlp Coaching
Nlp For Dummies
Nlp Modeling
Nlp Programming
Nlp Therapy
Nlp Training
Nonverbal Communication
On Intelligence
Pacing
Patterns Of Repetition
Paul Ekman
Perceptual Position
Personal Development
Person Centered Therapy
Persuasion
Pnl
Polygraph
Positive Intention
President Obama
Primal Scream Therapy
Priming
Propaganda
Provocative Hypnosis
Psychic Research
Psychics
Psycho-Analysis
Psychology
Ptsd Emdr
Redemption
Regurgative Mind
Reimprinting
Repetition
Responsibility
Richard Bandler
Robert Dilts
Robert Sapolsky
Rupert Sheldrake
Sales
Scam
Scams
Self-Actualization
Self Destructive
Self Help
Self Help Book
Self Hypnosis
Sensory Deprivation
Seth Godin
Sheldrake
Sigmund Freud
Sliding Anchor
Sliding Anchors
Snap Judgments
Social Panorama Model
Spoof
Stanford University
Stephen Gilligan
Steve Andreas
Strategies
Stress
Stress And Anxiety
Stress Management
Stress-Response
Submodalities
Success
Tamara Andreas
Tasks
Telepathy
Terry Elston
The Association For Nlp
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
The Concept Of Self
The Daily Show
The Extended Mind
The Neocortex
The Rainbow Machine
Therapeutic Relationship
Therapist
Therapy
The Secret
The Self Concept
Thought Experiment
Time Distortion
Time Expansion
Tom Vizzini
Tony Robbins
Trance
Trauma
Tribes
Truth Wizards
Tucson Tragedy
Unconscious Mind
Unlimited Power
Vision
What Is Hypnosis
What Is Hypnosis?
What Is Memory
What Is Neuro
What Is Nlp
What Is NLP?
What Is Positive Thinking
What Is Self Concept
What Is Self Talk
What Is Stress
William Kamkwamba
Wolf Of Wall Street

© 2010-2012 ExperiencingReality.com All rights reserved.