a common everyday approach after Erickson
using likes as an invitation into hypnosis
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It's usually more like a surprising experience rather than peak - more like discoverthing that your car keys are just where you left them, and then forgetting that you had been looking for them.
…learning how to “be hypnotic” rather than simply “do hypnosis” is an interesting added value. Thank you Rob. Today you’ve been in session with us.
… Let the learning continue…
a pleasure, MariaSole.
... as the learning continues ...
I used this process with a 15 year old who was having problems with a subject at school. He is an avid archer, so I used that to get him to a place where I could work with him further. I really enjoyed it much more than the straight Elman Induction. I just sometimes feel that I am also in trance as i use this method. Interestingly I think it is when I do my best work.
In the example and discussion of using likes, it almost sounds like you are evoking some sort of ecstatic or peak experience, as opposed to the less exciting but fully absorbing trances we can experience while driving, while reading, reminiscing, or (less usefully) worrying. Those would be evoked in the conversational approach, most likely.