How to Hypnotize a Person 3

So you’ve already given yourself the intention of sleep sound and be fully rested, I’ll wake up 7:00, and you walk yourself all the way through it and you’ll relax all the way up, there may come a time, I know there did for me, when relaxed my body completely and my brain is still conscious and I’m thinking, Well, this didn’t work this time.

The thing to do is not panic and to not say, Oh, it didn’t work. Say, Okay, now I’m relaxed, now we’ll do it again and go even deeper now. And then you go through the relaxation process again. So in that respect I suppose you could say it’s kind of like counting sheep except that you have a specific intention and a specific outcome in mind and the unconscious mind recognizes this and so it gets you to where you want to be.

It’s not really difficult to perfect. It just requires the time to work with it within the parameters of what works well for you. For instance, I’ve been doing it for so long and I have given myself the post- hypnotic suggestion that any time I need to get some rest or to sleep I can take a couple of deep breaths and count backwards from five, 5-4-3-2-1, and when I reach one I’ll drop into a nice deep sleep. And –
I haven’t tossed and turned since I was nine years old, since I learned these techniques –

A trigger is a different word for an anchor, and an anchor is an NLP term. A trigger would be a hypnosis term. you know, you might use, if you had no training whatsoever you’d say, Wow, that really hit a hot button, didn’t it? Or a sore spot. Or something along those lines, okay.

So basically triggers or anchors or hot buttons are implanted in the unconscious mind when the person is in a specific state, whether they’re in a really hyperactive state ’cause a trance state also, or if they’re in a very sad or depressed state, that’s a trance state also. and something unique is done with a, with a verbal cue or an emotional cue. For instance, if you were at a really, really sad funeral and somebody came up and patted you on the shoulder and said, Oh, wow, I feel really bad for you, and they touched you on the shoulder in a certain way, that’s setting an anchor.

You’re deep in a depressed state and they’ve touched you on the shoulder. They said a specific thing, Gee, I feel really sad for you, and six months later, a year later, somebody comes up and in the same tonality of voice says, Hey, how you doing? Or Wow, that’s just terrible, and taps you, hits you on the shoulder in the same spot – they fire off that anchor.
They set off that trigger, and you’ll find your emotional state hitting that same place that you were in way back then.

By the same token, if you’re in a really happy state, you’re in a really ecstatic state and somebody says, Wow, that was great! Or if you, you know, you, you’re playing a sport, and you, you kick a field goal and you clench your fist and you go,
“Yes!”

Six months down the road if you’re having a bad day and you still do that, you clench that fist and you say to yourself, or even out loud, you say,
“Yes!”

It will change your emotional state. It will change the way you feel. It’ll, it’ll kick off the brain and will send off the same endorphins and you will feel as if you just kicked that goal again.

We plant triggers all the time. We plant good ones, we plant bad ones. You know, people do it to us all the time. Good ones and bad ones. So it’s really good to be aware of them so that you can collapse them, as we say, or you can plant enough good ones that you can overcome the bad ones.