NLP & HYPNOSIS 2014

Latitude Training’s

The difference between NLP & hypnosisPresented By

Grant Hamel (BCom Hons, NLP Trainer)

Agenda – NLP & Hypnosis Welcome & Introductions

Definitions

Comparisons

Case Studies

Conclusion

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s.

Its creators claim a connection between the neurological processes ("neuro"), language ("linguistic") and behavioral patterns learned through experience ("programming") and that these can be changed to achieve specific goals in life.

Wikipedia, 18/08/2014

What is NLP?

What is NLP? Definition #01:

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Definition #02:NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques (Richard Bandler)

Definition #03:NLP is a Science and an Art of communication and excellence.

Definition #04:“The study of the structure of our subjective experience and what can be calculated from it.”

Albert Einstein on Our Thinking

“The Problems of Today

Were Created byThe Thinking of

Yesterday”

Hypnosis is a psychological state with physiological attributes superficially resembling sleep and marked by an individual's level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state.

Another description of the phenomenon is that of an altered mental state, while another links it to imaginative role-enactment

Wikipedia, 18/08/2014

What is Hypnosis?

Definition #01:Hypnosis is largely a question of your willingness to be receptive and responsive to ideas, and to allow these ideas to act upon you without interference. Theses ideas we call suggestions. (Weitzenhoffer,AM & Hilgard,ER, 1959 )

Definition #02:Hypnosis is a state of intensified attention and receptiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas. (Erickson, MH, 1967)

Definition #03:Hypnosis is a particular alterted state of selective hypersuggestibility brought about in an individual by the use of a combination of relaxation, fixation of attention and suggestion (Ansari, M, 2006)

Definition #04:Hypnosis is a process which produces relaxation, distraction of the conscious mind, heightened suggestibility and increased awareness, allowing access to the subconscious mind through the imagination. It also produces the ability to experience thoughts and images as real. (Krasner, AM, 2002)

What is Hypnosis?

Milton Model

“You can pretend

anything and master it.”

Milton Erickson

Kasner said“Belief + Expectation = Hypnosis”

Don’t think of a pink elephant

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RESULTS Action

Belief

ResourcesLeveraged

What you believe is true

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Hypnotists say that subjects under hypnosis are a lot like little kids:

playful and imaginative, fully embracing bizarre suggestions.

Suggestion Box

Theta brain waves, measured at 4-7 Hz, are the brain state of REM sleep (dreams), hypnosis, lucid dreaming, and the barely conscious state just before sleeping and just after waking

While in the Theta state, the mind is capable of deep and profound learning, healing, and growth

Theta Hypnotherapy

Therapies & Techniques

Hypnosis Origins back to ancient Babylon, India

& Egypt (1500 B.C)

Modernised by Erickson in 60’s

Hypnosis has much scientific and medical credibility

±30 Mil Pages in Google

About facilitating a clients change

Comparing NLP & Hypnosis NLP Origins in fields such as linguistics

and anthropology

Was established in early 70’s

NLP has little scientific and medical credibility

±10 Mil Pages in Google

About facilitating a clients change

Powerful Use of Language

Neuro-Linguistic Programming ?

Hypnotherapy ?Greek word hypnos, meaning "sleep."

During hypnosis, your body relaxes and your thoughts become more focused

Hypnosis can actually teach people how to master their own states of awareness

NLP Communications Model

Hypnosis Model

Swish Pattern Chaining Anchors Logical Levels Belief Change 6 Step Reframe Parts Integartion VK Dissociation Reframing

Techniques used in NLP

Reframing Reframing is a technique in Neuro-Linguistic

Programming (NLP) where an undesirable behaviour or trait is conferred a positive intention.

A knife is but a knife …

Context Reframe:◦ A: "I procrastinate all the time; I just can't get things

done."B: "That's a great skill to have; especially when you apply it to overeating - just put off having that second helping. Lucky you."

Content Reframe:◦ How can going to college improve your hockey?

Linguistic Chains

Trance Preparation (Have you ever been …) Indirect Suggestions Catalepsy Suggestibility Tests Induction Post Hypnotic Suggestion Reframing

Techniques used in Hypnosis

Full body catalepsy

Meta Model

Discussion on Ethics within Hypnosis

Coffee & Snacks

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind

Stores memories Organises all your memories Represses memories with unresolved negative emotions Presents repressed memories for resolution Runs the body

◦ Has the blueprint of the body now & of perfect health Preserves the body - maintains the integrity of the body Makes associations (links similar things and ideas), and learns quickly May keep the repressed emotions repressed for protection Is the domain of the emotions Is a highly moral being (the morality you were taught and accepted) Enjoys serving, needs clear orders to follow Perception:

◦ controls and maintain all perceptions – regular and telepathic ◦ receives and transmits perceptions to the conscious mind

Generates, stores, distributes and transmits "energy" Maintains instincts and generates habits Needs repetition until the habit is installed Functions best as a whole integrated unit - does not need parts to function Is symbolic - uses and responds to symbols Takes everything personally. (The basis of Perception is Projection) Does not process negatives

The code of behaviour for NLP

Adopt a counseling based approach to ethics within NLP from Carl Rodgers:

1. Unconditional positive regard2. Empathy and beyond to compassion3. Congruence & Integrity - what you think,

say and do is aligned4. Empowerment5. Permissive based work

The NLP Presuppositions (Beliefs)

Ecology

What Is Ecology?◦ the distribution and abundance of life and the

interactions between organisms and their natural environment – Wikipedia

◦ Ecology in NLP is about respecting the integrity of the system as a whole when assessing a change to that system – John Grinder

◦ Ecology in NLP deals with the relationship between a client and his or her natural, social and created environments – Wikipedia

Presupposition #14 states:Behaviour and change are to be evaluated in terms of context, and ecology

Ecology is thus about the context of the change / communication

A breech presentation at delivery occurs when the fetus did not turn to a cephalic presentation

(ECV) External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first

Research: (2009 – 2011)Conducted at Faculty of Medicine, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt

Aim:To examine the effects of clinical hypnosis versus NLP intervention on the success rate of ECV procedures in comparison to a control group

Case Study #01 (2012)Saving Babies

Control Group - 27.3% successful ECV Hypnosis prior to ECV - 40.5% successful

ECV NLP prior to ECV - 44.7% successful ECV

These findings suggest that prior clinical hypnosis and NLP have similar success rates of ECV procedures and are both superior to standard medical care alone

Case Study #01Findings

Mother Theresa believed “peace begins with a smile.”

Paramahamsa Yogananda’s prayer to, “Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”

Wishing you a lifetime of smiles.

Inner Smile

Coffee & Snacks

Aim:To investigate the effect of matching primary representational system predicates on hypnotic relaxation

Result:Michael D. Yapko, 1991 investigated if use of similar language structures while interacting increase rapport and influence.

Subjects objectively obtained greatest relaxation when experiencing hypnotic inductions containing predicates corresponding to their PRS

Identifying and matching PRS language structures appears to enhance rapport and influence.

Case Study #02Building Rapport

Modalities – Our Senses V – Visual A – Auditory K – Kinesthetic Ad – Auditory Digital O – Olfactory G - Gustatory

LIST OF PREDICATE PHRASES VISUAL AUDITORY KINESTHETIC An eyeful Afterthought All washed up Appears to me Blabbermouth Boils down to Beyond a shadow of a doubt Clear as a bell Chip off the old block Bird’s eye view Clearly expressed Come to grips with Catch a glimpse of Call on Control yourself Clear cut Describe in detail Cool/calm/collected Dim view Earful Firm foundations Flashed on Give an account of Get a handle on Get a perspective on Give me your ear Get a load of this Get a scope on Grant an audience Get in touch with Hazy Idea Heard voices Get the drift of Horse of a different color Hidden message Get your goat In light of Hold your tongue Hand in hand In person Idle talk Hang in there In view of Inquire into Heated argument Looks like Keynote speaker Hold it! Make a scene Loud and clear Hold on!

Predicates

VISUAL AUDITORY KINESTHETIC Mental image Manner of speaking Hothead Mental picture Pay attention toKeep your shirt on Mind’s eye Power of speech Know-how Naked eye Purrs like a kitten Lay cards on table Paint a picture State your purpose Pain-in the neck See to it Tattle-tale Pull some strings Short sighted To tell the truth Sharp as a tack Showing off Tongue-tied Slipped my mind Sight for sore eyes Tuned in/tuned out Smooth operator Staring off into space Unheard of So-so Take a peek Utterly Start from scratch Tunnel vision Voiced an opinion Stiff upper lip Under your nose Well informed Stuffed shirt Up front Within hearing Too much of a hassle Well defined Word for word Topsy-turvy

LIST OF PREDICATE PHRASES

Predicate Test

Aim:To investigate the effect of simple hypnotically based NLP technique used with two clients in criminal justice settings.

Result:Cureen, MP, 2005 discovered in two cases (both criminals who were resistant to other therapies and had lower verbal/social skills) that NLP combined with hypnotherapy significantly reduced stress levels. (APA, PsycNet, 2012)

Case Study #03Stress Reduction

 The arrows indicate the tone of voice used in the sentence.  

W W W. = Question  

W W W. = Statement  

W W W. = Command   You can also form a sentence in a syntactic pattern in the form of Question, Statement and

Command, while using any of the above tonalities. By far, the most powerful syntax in the English Language is a Questioning Syntax and a Command

Tonality

Intonation Patterns

Choice C > E

The best you can do for someone is to take them back to choice

Reframing:Changing the contextThe knife is but a knife – surgeon vs murderer

If at first you don’t succeed – change your strategyStory: Blind Man & Art Director

AHA That Makes Sense

Managing our State

Elements of State Control

Using NLP to accelerate your own success

Success is....Get the recipe that works!

Consolidation & Conclusion