Covert Metaphor

This is similar to an Illusion of Choice, but instead of only two choices, your subject is given a small range of possibilities. Depending on the objective, each response should fit within your chosen frame.

Perhaps you are interested in using these techniques at work, in your daily conversation, with friends or family, or just to be more persuasive in your intimate relationships.

All the reasons I have just given may have absolutely nothing to do with why you are interested in these techniques, but if you had made any of those choices they would have been acceptable for me.

I have often used a class of responses in past interviews:

Would you need me to begin with project management, the network, perimeter security, or haven’t you made the decision on where I could begin positively supporting your team?

Milton Erickson is famous for using hand levitation:

Shortly your right hand, or it may be your left hand, will begin to lift up, or it may press down, or it may not move at all; but we will wait to see just what happens. Maybe the thumb will be first, or you may feel something happening in your little finger, but the really important thing is not whether your hand lifts up or presses down or just remains still; rather it is your ability to sense fully whatever feelings develop in your hand.

When you are given those range of possibilities for movement, you have to obviously pick on of them, which most likely will lead you deeper into trance.

I don’t know whether you will integrate all of these techniques that I write about, pick only what is relevant to you, or concentrate only on a few of my posts at a time.

admin :: Aug.03.2007 :: persuasion, covert hypnosis, advanced language patterns :: No Comments »

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