language and metaphors: speaking the language of the unconscious hypnovations intermediate workshop...
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Language and Metaphors:Speaking the Language of the UnconsciousHypnovations Intermediate WorkshopVermont, April 2010Molly DeLaney, [email protected]
Learning objectives
Participants will learn to identify direct from indirect hypnotic suggestions
Participants will understand the basics of creating direct and indirect suggestions
Participants will understand how the use of metaphors in hypnosis can bypass resistance and engage the creative mind
Indirect suggestions are intended to bypass the conscious mind
“Conscious = whatever you’re aware of at any moment in time”
“Unconscious is just about everything else.”
Phil and Norma Barretta
Elements of Direct Inductions
Commanding voiceAuthoritative languageConcrete languageSuggesting specific outcomesConcrete hypnoprojectivesUnequivocal post-hypnotic
suggestions
Elements of Indirect Inductions
Calm, soothing voicePermissive languageDissociative languagePredicting the inevitableAbstract hypnoprojectivesOpen, post-hypnotic
suggestions
Types of Indirect Suggestion
PresuppositionsYou really don’t know when you are going to….
Embedded commandsI don’t want you to tell me everything about your problem, until you are ready
Conscious/unconscious dissociative statementsYour conscious mind can be wondering just what the heck I am talking about, while your unconscious mind absorbs and utilizes whatever is of interest to you
DirectSuggestion:
BUY THIS DOG
IndirectSuggestion:
You really don’t knowwhen you will buy thisdog…
The Hero’s Journey: metaphor in
everyday life
Restlessness
Dark night of the soul
Redemption
Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle
Metaphor
What’s a metaphor for, anyways?
The ‘magical’ properties of metaphor Entering a new world: the client’s reality Sensory Language Everyone is a ‘Multiple’ personality Gatekeepers vs. ‘resistance’ and anticipating
safety concerns about the change process
Creating Stories: Finding treasures
Metaphors are everywhere: Relating everyday experiences such as:
Quenching a thirstThe relief of paying off a mortgage or
car loan The itch of healing wound
Learning to play an instrument Being part of a team Experiencing nature
Life experiences such as : starting school or a new job
pride in learning a skill Stories about your
‘clients’ your kids
pets in-laws, ad infinitum
Things you and your client love: Literature
Movies Cartoons
Resources
Metaphors for Children and the Child Within by Mills and Crowley
Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers’ PBS series: The Power of Myth
101 Healing Stories: Using Metaphors in Therapy by George W. Burns
Anything by Clarissa Pinkola Estes!