Indirect Suggestions & Binds

Indirect Suggestions & Binds:
Examples 3
Age regression: “Your conscious mind can recall some important early experience while your unconscious mind
develops a reliving of it.”
Learn from experience: “An unconscious learning from the experience may be developed in the conscious mind
as well.”
Use learning after trance: “Your conscious mind might already have some ideas of where you will use this while
your unconscious handles the job of doing it correctly.”
9. Double dissociative conscious/unconscious double binds
Beginning orientation: “Your conscious mind may have begun with the aid of your unconscious or perhaps your
unconscious is ready to begin with any aid you can offer consciously.”
Developing trance: “Your conscious mind may focus on some one spot while your unconscious initiates trance or
your unconscious may select the actual location on which to focus your attention while your conscious mind
helps you go into trance.
Arm levitation: “Your conscious mind can choose which arm to raise up while your unconscious makes alterations
in sensation, but perhaps the unconscious mind selects which arm to raise and the conscious mind will notice
the sensation.”
Age regression: “Your unconscious may allow you to relive some aspect of your past while your conscious mind
has a learning about it or maybe your unconscious mind will store a learning while you consciously remember
and relive the past experience.”
Learn from experience: “Your conscious mind can be interested in what you learn from the experience and your
unconscious mind can take care of really learning from it, or perhaps your unconscious mind only allows
you to develop interest as your conscious mind develops a learning.”
Use learning after trance: “And one might let the conscious mind select the site for using the learning while the
unconscious is trusted to carry it out, or one may allow the conscious mind to carry out a learning and let the
unconscious select the location, and time.”
10. Non-sequitur double bind
Begin Orientation: “Let’s begin now or use the time constructively.”
Developing trance: “You may be able to either go into trance as we speak or you will alter your consciousness and
experience.”
Arm levitation: “Your unconscious will either raise the hand off your lap or your conscious mind will notice it half
way to your face.”
Age regression: “The memory may be from the age of five or about the time you entered grammar school.”
Learn from experience: “You can either learn from this experience or use the learning in a directed fashion
for our own benefit.
Use learning after trance: “Will you use these learnings after trance or change your maladaptive behavior?”
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