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Trance-Formations Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and the Structure of Hypnosis Trance-formations Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and the Structure of Hypnosis by John Grinder and Richard Bandler edited by Connirae Andreas Real People Press Box F1 Moab, Utah, 84532 ISBN: 0-911226-22-2 clothbound $9.00 ISBN: 0-911226-23-0 paperbound $5.50 Cover Artwork by Rene Eisenbart Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data: Grinder, John. Trance-formations• 1, Hypnotism—Therapeutic use—Problems, exercises, etc. I. Bandler, Richard. II. Andreas, Connirae. III. Title. RCA-95.G76 615.8:512 81-15342 ISBN 0-911226-22-2 AACR2 ISBN 0-911226-23-0 (pbk.) Other useful books from Real People Press: REFRAM1NG: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. 220 pp. 198) Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 A SOPRANO ON HER HEAD: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life—and Other Perfor- mances, by Eioise Risiad. 184 pp. 1981 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 FROGS INTO PRINCES, by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. 197 pp. 1979 Cloth $9.00 Paper$5.50 NOTES TO MYSELF, by Hugh Prather. 150 pp. 1970 Cloth $6.00 Paper $3.50 WINDOWS TO OUR CHILDREN, by Violet Oaklander. 325 pp. 1978 Cloth $9.00 GESTALT THERAPY VERBATIM, by Frederick S. Perls. 280 pp. 1969 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 DON'T PUSH THE RIVER, by Barry Stevens. 280 pp. 1970 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 EMBRACE TIGER, RETURN TO MOUNTAIN: the essence of T'ai Chi, by At Chung- Hang Huang. Illustrated. 185 pp. 1973 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 PERSON TO PERSON, Carl Rogers and Barry Stevens. 276 pp. 1967 Paper $5.50 AWARENESS, by John O. Stevens. 275 pp. 1971 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 GESTALT IS, by Frederick S- Perls. Wilson Van Dusen. and others. 274 pp. 1975 Cloth $9.00 Paper $5.50 The name Real People Press indicates our purpose; to publish ideas and ways that a person can use independently or with others to become more real—to further your own growth as a human being and to develop your relationships and communication with others, 123456789 10 Printing 85 84 83 82 81 Contents Foreword 1-4 I Introduction 5-33 Exercise 1 8 Exercise 2 11 Exercise 3 27 Summary 33 II Simple Inductions 34-69 Verbal Pacing and Leading: 5-4-3-2-1 Exercise 35 Nonverbal Pacing and Leading 43 Overlapping Representational Systems 44 Accessing a Previous Trance State 49 Naturally Occurring Trance States 50 Exercise 4 54 Discussion 56 Anchoring Trance States 61 Analogue Marking 63 Exercise 5 66 Discussion: Negative Commands and Polarities 67 III Advanced Inductions 70-98 Leverage Inductions and Pattern Interruption 70 Overload 80 Stacking Realities 85 . Exercise 6 88 Incorporation and Dealing with Abreactions 90 Benediction 97 IV Utilization 99-136 Process Instructions 99 Generative Change 116 Exercise 7 118 Clean-up Routines 120 V Reframing in Trance 137-177 Introduction 137 Reframing 147 Reframing Outline 159 Discussion 160 VI Specific Utilization Techniques 178-200 New Behavior Generator 178 Deep Trance Identification 185 Pain Control 189 Amnesia 192 Recovering Personal History 196 VII Calibration 201-212 Exercise 8 202 Exercise 9 204 Exercise 10 205 Crystal Ball Gazing 206 VIII Self-Hypnosis . 213-223 Discussion 219 IX Questions 224- 237 Benediction 235 Appendix I 238-239 Appendix II 240-250 Note 251-252 Bibliography 253 Index 254-255 Foreword Hypnosis is a word that usually gets strong responses from people- some positive and some negative. Some people think it's a hoax or only good for making people act like chickens, some people think it will cure everything from dandruff to flat feet, and others think it is so danger- ous that it should be left alone completely. Trance experiences have existed in different forms for centuries, usually surrounded by a mys- tique of something "magical" and unexplainable. What is unique about this book is that it turns the "magic" of hypnosis into specific understandable procedures that can be used not only in doing "hypno- sis" but also in everyday communication. When John Grinder and Richard Bandler do a seminar on hypnosis together, one of them usually says "All communication is hypnosis" and the other says "I disagree, nothing is hypnosis; hypnosis doesn't exist." There is a sense in which they are both right, and both are saying the same thing. If I tell you about going snorkeling on my recent honeymoon in the Yucatan and describe to you the swift movements of the brightly- colored tropical fish, the rhythmic sound of the gentle waves against the shore, and the feeling of rising and falling with the warm waves as I scan the underwater scenery, hopefully I will alter your state of con- sciousness so that you can experience some representation of what I experienced. If you become excited about going there yourself, I will have used the same patterns of communication that are used by suc- cessful hypnotists . and by successful poets, salesmen, parents, 1 2 politicians, religious leaders, etc. If you think of hypnosis as altering someone's state of consciousness, then any effective communication is hypnosis. One of the simpler hypnotic patterns is the "negative command." If I say "Don't think of blue," you have to think of blue in order to understand my sentence. If a hypnotist says "I don't want you to relax too soon" the listener often finds himself beginning to relax as a way of understanding what those words mean. Beginning with a negation simply takes any pressure to respond off the listener. The same pattern is often inadvertently used to get unwanted responses. The well-meaning parent may say to her child "Don't spill the milk," or "Don't stumble." The well-meaning husband may say "Don't get upset," or "I don't want you to worry about what happens while you are gone." The listener has to represent the unwanted behav- ior somehow in order to understand what has been said, and this makes the unwanted behavior more likely. Unknowingly, he or she in a sense "hypnotizes" the child or spouse into an unwanted response. The same pattern can be used to get more useful responses from people, whether they are in "trance" or not. "Don't be too curious about what you'll learn from reading this book." "I wouldn't tell you to be eager to discover how you'll change comfortably in the coming weeks." Since hypnosis is fundamentally no different than any effective communication, "There is no such thing as hypnosis" as a separate and distinct process. Most books present hypnosis as something that you sit down and do with yourself or someone else for a discrete period of time, usually to solve problems. Then you get up and do something else. If you still think of hypnosis in that way after you have read this book, you will be depriving yourself of the most important ways you can use these tools—in your living. The communication patterns described in this book are far too useful to leave on a hypnosis chair somewhere. Most of the satisfactions that we all want in life don't take place in a hypnosis chair; they happen with the people we love, the work that we do, and the ways that we play and enjoy life. You can use the information in this book in many ways, both personally and professionally. One way is to make remedial changes by solving problems and removing limitations. This is the way hypnosis is usually used to stop smoking, lose weight, deal with unreasonable fears, and so on. 3 But you can also use this information in evolutionary ways to devel- op yourself and continually increase your abilities and choices in life— learning to do better what you already do well. You can do this in simple ways such as learning to communicate with family and asso- ciates more effectively, make love more enjoyably, learn new skills more easily, and so on. You can also learn how to make even more pervasive changes in how you live. Much of the material in this book is derived from Bandler and Grinder's careful and systematic observation of the work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Until his death in 1980, Erickson was widely con- sidered to be the world's greatest medical hypnotist. He was widely known for his successful and often "miraculous" work with "impossi- ble" clients, as well as for his extensive writings on hypnosis. Several years ago I went to visit Milton Erickson at his home in Phoenix. After he described some of his remarkable work with clients, I asked him how he knew to use one approach with one client, when he had used an opposite approach with another client who apparently had the same kind of problem. He responded "You just trust your uncon- scious mind," That approach to hypnosis works great if you have Milton Erickson's unconscious mind. But how is it possible to learn to automati- cally and unconsciously respond as effectively as Milton Erickson did—to have an unconscious mind like Erickson's? Grinder and Bandler's special genius is the ability to observe someone like Erickson and then describe in detail what Erickson does, what cues he responds to, and how it all fits together. This makes it possible for others to learn how to repeat the same procedures and get similar results. After a period of practice, these patterns can become as automatic as knowing which muscles to move in order to reach across a table and pick up a glass.
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