Hypnotic Interruption
Technique -
Overload Technique
The overload technique is a five-step process:
(1) behavioral patterns, especially trance-inhibiting ones, are identified;
(2) the person is paced appropriately;
(3) involvement in a dominant pattern is intensified and overloaded, thereby making it difficult to continue to process information at a normal rate;
4) the ensuing confusion is amplified to create more uncertainty and consequent response potential; and
(5) the confusion is utilized to introduce a simple directive to which the person can respond in order to reduce the uncertainty.
The intent in overloading is to dissolve attachments to fixed ways of thinking, feeling, acting or being, in order to open the way for the new way of thinking, feeling, acting, being.
This disorientation can involve temporal referents, external or internal spatial referents, surreal imagery, conceptual disorientation or verbal overloading.
Because overload techniques are usually ways of talking about unavoidably basic ideas, special attention must be paid to employing a delivery style meaningful enough to develop and maintain attentional absorption.
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