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Language and Metaphors: Speaking the Language of the Unconscious

Language and Metaphors: Speaking the Language of the Unconscious. Hypnovations Intermediate Workshop Vermont, April 2010 Molly DeLaney, PsyD delaneydoc@aol.com. Learning objectives. Participants will learn to identify direct from indirect hypnotic suggestions

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Language and Metaphors: Speaking the Language of the Unconscious

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  1. Language and Metaphors:Speaking the Language of the Unconscious Hypnovations Intermediate Workshop Vermont, April 2010 Molly DeLaney, PsyD delaneydoc@aol.com

  2. Learning objectives • Participants will learn to identify direct from indirect hypnotic suggestions • Participants will understand the basics of creating direct and indirect suggestions • Participants will understand how the use of metaphors in hypnosis can bypass resistance and engage the creative mind

  3. Indirect suggestions are intended to bypass the conscious mind “Conscious = whatever you’re aware of at any moment in time” “Unconscious is just about everything else.” Phil and Norma Barretta

  4. Elements of Direct Inductions • Commanding voice • Authoritative language • Concrete language • Suggesting specific outcomes • Concrete hypnoprojectives • Unequivocal post-hypnotic suggestions

  5. Elements of Indirect Inductions • Calm, soothing voice • Permissive language • Dissociative language • Predicting the inevitable • Abstract hypnoprojectives • Open, post-hypnotic suggestions

  6. Types of Indirect Suggestion • Presuppositions You really don’t know when you are going to…. • Embedded commands I don’t want you to tell me everything about your problem, until you are ready • Conscious/unconscious dissociative statements Your conscious mind can be wondering just what the heck I am talking about, while your unconscious mind absorbs and utilizes whatever is of interest to you

  7. Direct Suggestion: BUY THIS DOG Indirect Suggestion: You really don’t know when you will buy this dog…

  8. The Hero’s Journey: metaphor in everyday life Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle

  9. Metaphor What’s a metaphor for, anyways? • The ‘magical’ properties of metaphor • Entering a new world: the client’s reality • Sensory Language • Everyone is a ‘Multiple’ personality • Gatekeepers vs. ‘resistance’ and anticipating safety concerns about the change process

  10. Creating Stories: Finding treasures Metaphors are everywhere: Relating everyday experiences such as: • Quenching a thirst • The relief of paying off a mortgage or car loan • The itch of healing wound • Learning to play an instrument • Being part of a team • Experiencing nature

  11. Life experiences such as : • starting school or a new job • pride in learning a skill • Stories about your • ‘clients’ • your kids • pets • in-laws, ad infinitum • Things you and your client love: • Literature • Movies • Cartoons

  12. Resources Metaphors for Children and the Child Within by Mills and Crowley Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers’ PBS series: The Power of Myth 101 Healing Stories: Using Metaphors in Therapy by George W. Burns Anything by Clarissa Pinkola Estes!

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