Conversational Hypnosis With The Milton Model – Introduction
The Milton Model
For those of you who have heard of Milton Erickson, and would like to learn precisely the same language patterns he used to cure his patients of all kinds of emotional (and sometimes physical) troubles, you’ve come to the right place.
Over the next month or so, I’ll be posting, in detail, the secrets behind his seemingly magical language patterns that allowed him to talk his clients out of their problems in as little as a few minutes.
For those of you who haven’t heard of Milton Erickson, he’s likely the greatest hypnotist to ever walk the face of the earth. He developed his own style of hypnosis, which is now commonly referred to as “conversational hypnosis,” or “covert hypnosis.”
The other kind of hypnosis, which you have likely seen on TV, or perhaps as a stage show, is referred to as “direct,” or “authoritative” hypnosis. This involves telling the subject that you are going to hypnotize them, getting their consent, and then having them close their eyes, count down from ten, etc.
Conversational hypnosis is just what it sounds like. A normal conversation, talking about this or that, but done skillfully, it can have profound effects.
Often times Erickson would tell his clients long winded stories that seemingly went nowhere, and jumped around from story to story, but they were carefully crafted metaphors, filled with powerful language patterns, that guided the patients subconscious to find the inner resources he or she needed to overcome his or her problem.
One of my favorite case studies was when a kid came to see him, with a problem of bed-wetting. Erickson started talking about baseball, and how when you catch the ball you have to “squeeze” at the right time, and when you throw the ball you have to “release” just at the precise moment.
The kid was entertained, enthralled, mesmerized, and when he left Erickson’s office that day, he never wet the bed again.
Richard Bandler, and John Grinder, the two “founders” or “inventors” of NLP are the one that painstakingly studied Erickson’s work, and transcripts of his therapy sessions, and codified all of his language patterns.
Each day or so I’ll post a video and a short article explaining a particular language pattern. All in all, there are 30 or 35, depending on how you group them together.
To get a feel for how powerful they are, if you’ve read my recent series on presuppositions (which are twenty eight patterns in and of themselves), they are only ONE category in Erickson’s magical language patterns. One out of about 30.
So check back here whenever you get a chance, and whenever you hear a pattern that sounds interesting, try it out on some of your friends, and see what happens.
The best attitude to take with these is to simply have fun with them, and see what happens. They can be fantastic party tricks.
For those of you that are into sales or any other kinds of professional persuasion, it would be a good idea to write out each pattern several times to really burn it into your brain. Many of these patterns work just as well in writing as speaking, so these (as well as the previously covered presuppositions) are fantastic for copywriting, or writing text on your web pages if you are an Internet marketer.
So you can look forward to some mind bending language patterns that will give you an incredible amount of conversational power.
All for free.
