The Laws of Compounding Effect and Successive Approximations Explained
September 25, 2009
When you learn hypnosis and conversational hypnosis you will learn that there are many useful tactics. Some of these tools are called Persistence Tactics and they are used in combination with other tools and skills. In this way, you will develop for yourself a cohesive approach to hypnosis. The foundation for conversational hypnosis will be built in the moment when you will manage to combine the four Persistence Tactics with some other tactics: the foundations of hypnotic language, signal recognition, and rapport skill.
Like we have said before, there are four Persistence Tactics. We have already dealt with the first two: Hypnotic Triple and Seeding Ideas. Both of them are very powerful and you can use them to slip ideas into the subject’s mind.
The Hypnotic Triple is all about stacking up the same idea or word in order to place the suggestion. For example, if you want somebody to buy something from you, you will use the word and the idea of buying all the time. You will say the word whenever you get the chance and in this way you will double or triple the effect of that single word. With the Hypnotic Triple, it is quite the same and the repetitive use of language will turn the listener towards your suggestions.
The second Persistence Tactic we talked about before was the Seeding Ideas tactic and it was used to place suggestions into the mind of the subject by having a casual conversation. Every time you planed the idea, you were supposed to go back and see what happened to it, see if it turned into a full suggestion.
Finally, the last two tactics are the Laws of Successive Approximations and the Compounding Effect. They are both used to create and fortify the persistent skills using conversational hypnosis.
When you want to present a large concept or idea to your subject, you use the Law of Successive Approximations so that the concept does not seem overwhelming. It is a bit like the seeding tactic but it is different when the issue of a large change is confronted. This law breaks the big idea into smaller pieces but it will all become a large result in the end.
Smaller pieces of information are easier to digest. A very good way to use this law is when you want to induce the state of hallucination. This is a very hard state to induce. Using this law you give them small pieces of the whole amount. They will feel a bit of the hallucination, smell it and get acquainted with it. When the actual hallucination state will be induced, the subject will be more prepared.
Sometimes, the downfall of this law is that the listener loses attention and you have to go back and explain. When you lose the agreement, you have to bring back the patient and move to the next step.
