Conversational Hypnosis With The Milton Model – Embedded Questions
Can You Imagine Your Potential With These Patterns?
Today’s pattern from the Milton Model set of language patterns, what is likely the most useful and persuasive set of language patterns and communication strategies, is the “Embedded Question.”
Embedded questions are very similar to embedded commands, in that you take a short, imperative phrase, (e.g. Use These Patterns) and embed them within a larger phrase, marking them of with a change in tonality or gestures.
With embedded questions, you embed them inside a question, rather than a statement like with embedded commands.
This can be more powerful for a couple of reasons. One reason is when you use commands, you can use them any way you like. Quoting other people, telling a story about something that happened to you before, or anything else you can think of. So long as you slip the command in there somewhere, and mark it off correctly, you’re good to go.
When you use them that way, you usually need to use quite a few of them to start to get some “movement” in the other persons mind. It is entirely possible to be talking about baseball, and giving commands that are leading the person to lose weight, or something else completely unrelated. When done this way, the commands, and the actions they generate, will usually be a hundred percent unconscious.
In the above example, the person might decide a day or so later to go on a diet, and may think it has to do with something completely different than your conversation.
However, sometimes you’d like to use these to get quicker and more direct results, with more participation from your listener.
Here’s where embedded questions come in.
You simply structure the question so you’re asking the person to think or consider or imagine something along the same lines as your theme. Then simply embed the command within the question. That way you are talking to them, on two different levels, conscious and unconscious, about the same general idea.
This can be extremely powerful. Basically you’re asking them a question on a conscious level, and giving them the command within the question to help them come up with the answer that you want them to.
Some examples. (Commands in bold)
Can you imagine the possibilities when you start to use these patterns on a regular basis?
Do you understand the significance of these patterns?
Can you become curious about how many different ways you can use these patterns?
Do you appreciate yourself, and all the potential you really have?
Can you understand the power that these patterns offer when you incorporate them into you daily conversations?
Can you understand how much easier it is to lose weight with exercise compared to all those nonsense commercials you see on late night TV?
Do you understand the value of dollar cost averaging to help you get rich in the stock market over time?
Can you feel compelled to not only read this blog every day, but to click the “share” button below to help others to learn these powerful patterns?
Are you beginning to understand how you can use these patterns every day for fun and profit?
Remember whenever you say the “command” part, change your tonality so it’s slightly different than the rest of the sentence, and also mark it off with gestures, or anything else you can think of.
Now, can you imagine the fun you’ll have when you try these patterns with your friends to make them feel really good whenever they’re around you?
