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How to Build a Hypnotic Language Pattern from Scratch

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Watch over my shoulder as I create a hypnotic language pattern using key conversational hypnosis fundamentals, in this post I’ll create a language pattern and you will see exactly the formula I use to generate it. This is going to be like a cheat sheet that you can use to create your own hypnotic language patterns that is far more organized and structured than my other post How to Create Your Own Hypnotic Language Patterns. Persuasive Themes

So you are talking with someone you would like to influence about the weather, or a movie, or things you are both interested in, or whatever and you find something that you can use to start a language pattern. You want to start talking about something interesting, something that is rich with meaning and or requires imagination.

Examples of good conversational themes:

• Progress
• Improvement
• Communication
• Transformation Sales
• Inspiration
• Spirituality
• Motivation
• Attraction
• Adventure
• Happiness
• Vacations
• Exotic Places
• Doing what you love
• Relaxation Dreams
• Poetry
• Arts (dancing, singing, acting etc)
• Love
• Destiny
• The Mind
• Desire
• Passion

I live in Los Angeles and there are a lot of actors here, so I’ll use that one. So lets say she’s an actress and she’s talking about how much she loves acting. So I am going to use acting as the focus of my pattern.

Transitional Phrases

Once you have your theme picked out the next thing you do is transition smoothly from the current topic to your language pattern topic, by using a transition phrase, so it sounds more natural and conversational.

Here are some examples of transitions:

• It’s just like
• This reminds me of
• This makes me think of
• Here is something else
• It’s interesting you mention that because…
• It sounds a lot like…
• Another fascinating story is…
• Now this goes right along with what you were saying…
• Since we’re on that subject
• We can also look it this way.

So perhaps in the acting example where I can tell she is really passionate about the art of acting I might start by saying.

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of…

Quotes are Your best Friend in Persuasion

I love quotes because you can get away with saying pretty much anything by saying someone else said it. I use quotes so I can separate myself from what is being said, as well as you some other persuasion strategies I’ll mention in a moments.

Here are some examples of ways to structure quotes:

• My friend, sister, cousin niece, etc. was saying
• This (some guy girl) was saying
• A teacher of mine once said
• I was watching this show the other day and the person they were interviewing said
• I was having a dream the other night and this person in my dream said
• I was reading an article, book, magazine and the writer/ author said

I also like to put quotes within quotes, like “I was watching a TV show and they were interviewing a man who was an expert in psychology and he was telling a story about a little boy who overcame blindness, and this little boy said…” it is easy to put quotes in quotes and when you do the conscious mind has trouble keeping up and this confusing creates a light trance state.

Now when I add quotes my pattern becomes:

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of article I was reading the other day, and the author was talking about acting and actors and the difference been actors and great actors. He said actors memorize their lines find a neat way to say them and then just parrot what they memorized when the camera starts to roll, but great actors he said experience acting in a totally different way.

Great actors he said memorize the lines, but they have no idea how they will deliver the line when the camera starts to roll because they are totally in the moment. You know what it’s like when you…

I cheated a little here and added another strategy that I didn’t intend to initially. I compared two things that are similar but different. Whenever you compare two things that are similar but different it forces the person to listen very closely to what you are about to say, this narrowing of focus also adds to the trance state.

Pronoun Sifts

Part of the reason for using quotes is that now you can use the I YOU shift. If you don’t remember what the I YOU shift is it is talking about something your or someone else has experienced and using your language to speak about it in the second person. So instead of saying I feel relaxed when I go on vacations say I love going on vacations, it’s like you can just leave your world behind and you can step into a place of relaxation and peace.

This is so irresistibly persuasive because the unconscious mind does not know which you you are referring to and treats it like a suggestion.

Here are some examples of I You Shifting also called Pronoun Shifting:

• What’s it like when you
• What happens when you
• You know what it’s like when you
• Just like when you
• And you could
• As if you could
• They were saying that when you
• And they told me; you…
• So I thought to myself you
• I could hear the voice inside say; you…
• And the lyrics said; you…
• And it was like just as if you

Read more about this persuasion strategy How to Combine Hypnosis with Stories for Covert Persuasion DYNAMITE

Hypnotic Lead-Ins

Hypnotic lead in are any type of phrase that requires a person to go inside and access their imagination. Any time you say something require use of the imagination the person must go into a trance.

A hypnotic lead-ins here are some examples:

• Imagine yourself
• Pretend that you
• Think about how you
• Notice yourself
• Observe yourself
• Let yourself
• Allow yourself
• Anticipate what it would be like
• See yourself
• Allow yourself to
• Give yourself permission to
• Imagine what it is like to
• Realize what it is like to
• Realize what it is like to
• Utilize your ability
• Embrace your ability
• Access your ability
• Expect to choose to
• Decide to
• Commit to
• Begin to
• Beginning to
• Start to

Here is my example with pronoun shifts and hypnotic lead-ins:

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of article I was reading the other day, and the author was talking about acting and actors and the difference been actors and great actors. He said actors memorize their lines find a neat way to say them and then just parrot what they memorized when the camera starts to roll, but great actors he said experience acting in a totally different way.

Great actors he said memorize the lines, but they have no idea how they will deliver the line when the camera starts to roll because they are totally in the moment. You know what it’s like when you are on stage and…

Descriptive Language

Now the next step is one of my favorites because this is where persuasion becomes an art, using beautiful and descriptive language that creates a state. You do this by describing a state very thoroughly. If you say it with tonality that matches the state the person will go into that state.

To describe a state ask your self questions about the state you want to create ask

• What triggers it?
• How does it happen?
• Where does it happen spatially or in the body?
• How quickly does it happen?
• What does it lead to next?

So when I add descriptive language to my pattern:

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of article I was reading the other day, and the author was talking about acting and actors and the difference been actors and great actors. He said actors memorize their lines find a neat way to say them and then just parrot what they memorized when the camera starts to roll, but great actors he said experience acting in a totally different way.

Great actors he said memorize the lines, but they have no idea how they will deliver the line when the camera starts to roll because they are totally in the moment.

You know what it’s like when you are on stage and you are in that beautiful magical moment right before you get on to perform you feel that adrenaline rush flowing all through your body . And then (snaps fingers) instantly your mind just goes to a different place, a place where you aren’t worried about what people think, you aren’t thinking about what happened yesterday, you aren’t worried about tomorrow, you just step into that magical place inside your mind…

Embedded Commands

Next come the embedded commands. If you want a quick lesson on embedded commands I just posted a video tutorial about how to use embedded commands. Remember that embedded commands work best in patterns, so try to use at least three.

Here are some examples of embedded commands.

• Feel Better
• Find solutions
• Make progress
• Achieve your goals
• Do your best
• Become calmer
• Change
• Enjoy life
• Have fun
• Be at peace
• Feel successful
• Feel good
• Feel happy
• Appreciate yourself
• Feel stronger
• Buy now
• Listen to me
• Believe me
• Trust me
• Like me
• Open to me
• Do it
• Go for it

Here is my hypnotic language pattern example now with embedded commands.

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of article I was reading the other day, and the author was talking about acting and actors and the difference been actors and great actors. He said actors memorize their lines find a neat way to say them and then just parrot what they memorized when the camera starts to roll, but great actors he said experience acting in a totally different way.

Great actors he said memorize the lines, but they have no idea how they will deliver the line when the camera starts to roll because they are totally in the moment.

You know what it’s like when you are on stage and you are in that beautiful magical moment right before you get on to perform you feel that adrenaline rush flowing all through your body . And then (snaps fingers) instantly your mind just goes to a different place, a place where you aren’t worried about what people think, you aren’t thinking about what happened yesterday, you aren’t worried about tomorrow, you just step into that magical place inside your mind where you just become one with the moment to the point where you begin to feel free, just completely free.

And the more you feel free the more you feel passion the more you feel passion the more you feel that feeling of being in the moment…

Anchor the State to You Using Binder Commands

When you use your language to anchor the state you created to yourself, you will be associated with all those good feeling emotions.

Here are some examples of binder commands:

• …Now…
• …Right Now…
• …Here…
• …Now, here…
• …To me…
• …With me…
• …And me…
• …For me…
• …before me…(be for me)
• …Me and You…
• …Like me…

So now my hypnotic language pattern is complete using persuasive themes, transitions, quotes, pronoun shifts, hypnotic lead-ins, embedded commands, descriptive language, and binder commands:

I can tell you really love acting. It reminds me of article I was reading the other day, and the author was talking about acting and actors and the difference been actors and great actors. He said actors memorize their lines find a neat way to say them and then just parrot what they memorized when the camera starts to roll, but great actors he said experience acting in a totally different way.

Great actors he said memorize the lines, but they have no idea how they will deliver the line when the camera starts to roll because they are totally in the moment.

You know what it’s like when you are on stage and you are in that beautiful magical moment right before you get on to perform you feel that adrenaline rush flowing all through your body . And then (snaps fingers) instantly your mind just goes to a different place, a place where you aren’t worried about what people think, you aren’t thinking about what happened yesterday, you aren’t worried about tomorrow, you just step into that magical place inside your mind where you just become one with the moment to the point where you begin to feel free, just completely free.

And the more you feel free the more you feel passion the more you feel passion the more you feel that feeling of being in the moment…Now with me I never had been interested in acting but I can see why people like you love it so much.

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