Getting the Subject to Be Curious With Hypnosis and Rapport Hooks
September 10, 2009
Any good hypnotist will be a good master of the rapport. It’s a skill that allows you to make the subject more open to the hypnotic communications and suggestions.
To explain the rapport is easy. It’s basically just the harmonious relationships you have with other people. You are able to relate and understand the ideas and feelings of other people, as well as communicating with them. Each and every day you are having a rapport with your family, friends or co-workers.
Perfecting a number of skills is needed if you want to be able to build a wide and strong rapport with the subject. In a regular circumstance, making a rapport is pretty easy. Remember how easy it is to talk with your best friend or your wife and you will understand what I mean.
Unfortunately hypnosis is not as casual or normal as a regular relationship. There is a lot more trust, comfort or familiarity needed for a hypnosis rapport. Since they need to let you inside their minds and you are a stranger, there is a lot more work to be done.
As you continue to learn hypnosis, you should focus a lot on the different strategies you can use to build a rapport with your subject. Using rapport hooks is a good method of getting people to trust you. They have two main roles, to help you get acquainted with the subject and to draw him into you.
They are made in such a way that people will come back and help you build the relationship further. They will make people value the built relationships and they will make them work harder to keep them. If someone works hard at building something they tend to keep working on it, so the success they had in the past isn’t lost.
Rapport hooks will make the subject come back for extra information, and they will make him ask questions to fill the gaps you left intentionally in the stories. Giving them incomplete information pieces is one way to do that. As you tell them a story, it needs to leave them with questions. Don’t force feed them information though. You should first make them interested in what you’re saying.
The fractionate rapport is helped by the use of rapport hooks as well. This is when you give and take the rapport you built.
For example, give the subject the attention he needs, then take it away by getting distracted. Either look around or pay attention to something else and the subject will want to re-engage with you. If he does that, the beginning of an advanced rapport is there.
You have to make the subject want your attention and they need to work if they want to get it. Since you’re not forcing the relationship on them, it has more value. They are actually working to get it and they want it.
Practicing and owning these skills will allow you to get a high level of trust and comfort, building relationships with the subjects with the help of wide and good rapports. When the relationship is there, you can build on it and start to work towards the proposed objectives.
