Indirect Suggestions & Binds

1. Open ended suggestions
Indirect Suggestions & Binds:
Examples 1
Beginning orientation: “Chairs were intended to be comfortable and serve a function.”
Developing trance: “Hypnosis is a way of learning about yourself at a different level of being.”
Arm levitation: “A person can show a wide variety of movement and posture.”
Age regression: “Your personal history is rich with a wide range of experience.”
Learn from experience: “You can develop a line of thought for your own use.”
Use learning after trance: “An experience can be represented in various ways over time.”
2. Implication
Beginning orientation: “Since you began when you arrived in my office...”
Developing trance: “The first thing people do when they go into trance...”
Arm levitation: “Before you find out if your arm raises all the way to your face...”
Age regression: You may find the most influential experience of your childhood.”
Learn from experience: “Which lesson do you imagine you will learn first?”
Use learning after trance: “The more you find ways to use the learnings now the more you’re likely to use them
each year.”
3. Questions or statements that focus or reinforce awareness
Beginning orientation: “I wonder if you experience yourself ready to begin.”
Developing trance: “Have you been in trance before?”
Arm levitation: “Can you feel your arm getting lighter.”
Age regression: “One might wonder what five year old experience will be remembered.”
Learn from experience: “What can a person learn from an experience?”
Use learning after trance: “Have you decided when you’ll use this learning?”
4. Truisms
Beginning orientation: “You’ve always had your own thoughts.”
Developing trance: “Each person goes into trance in a unique manner.”
Arm levitation: “Sooner or later you will want to raise an arm up in the air.”
Age regression: “Everybody knows what the world was like at five.”
Learn from experience: “Experience is a great teacher.”
Use learning after trance: “Everyone knows the importance of doing some homework”.
5. Suggestions which cover all possible alternatives
Beginning orientation: “You might be able to sit there with your arms on your lap or folded, with your hands apart
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