Hypnosis For Kids - Language and Suggestion

Language and the Art of Hypnotic Suggestion

The art of suggestion depends upon the use of words and the varied meanings of words. Dr. Milton Erickson had spent a great deal of time reading dictionaries. When you read the various definitions that the same word can have, it changes entirely your conception of that word and how language may be used.

You can run FAST and hold FAST. And then some (wo)men are FAST.

Take the word CHANGE. A CHANGE of mind is very different from CHANGE in your pocket, or a CHANGE of horses. And when you CHANGE horses in the middle of a river, that is a different kind of change. When you CHANGE clothes that is another different thing entirely. You are not CHANGING the clothes, you are CHANGING what you are wearing.

And on and on it goes. There are so many words with multiple uses!

When you begin to recognize them, you can then know the difference between REALLY and REALLY (spoken with a deeper and more emphatic intonation).

REALLY for REAL means something certain to a small child.

ref. Experiencing Erickson

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