Using Agreement Tactics in Hypnosis
October 9, 2009
Agreement tactics are often used in conversational hypnosis. They are a great way to keep the conversation going but also to make the subject agree with what you are saying. Without getting the other person to agree with you, you will not be able to change their lives. This means you will have to use all your expertise and all your tone of voice and body language to make them agree.
The Agreement tactics have the purpose of getting you straight inside the subject’s mind. The first thing about this is to help you to distinguish the alertness of a person’s critical factor. You must see how the critical factor is going before moving much further. If you are not doing this analysis, then you do not have the proper information to star with.
The critical factor will keep your subject alert and he will not be able to take in suggestions. So, use your words to get by the critical factor and put him to sleep. Once you do that, you can begin with the suggestions. You need to make plausible statements so that they will stick to the person’s head. Agreement is also an art and it deals with getting pass the critical factor. Plausibility is the first agreement tactic we shall talk about. This refers to the fact that once a person started to agree with something, they will agree much further also, to other ideas.
This is a very common technique used to convince people of something. First “feed” them many credible ideas and then the less credible. For sure, you have done that too in the past with a colleague or friend. When you are doing this, you have to lay down the ideas and layer them slowly in the other person’s mind.
This article will help you with the ability of getting one person to agree with you. It is easy to get the subject to agree with you if they are already doing that with another flow of ideas. Make several statements that you know he will agree with and then make another one. Plausibility is based on the sliding scale. And it works better on a good altered state of mind. This means that if the subject is in a full state of trance, he will agree much faster to your suggestions.
The second agreement tactic is called the Agreement Habit and it is based on “go first” concept which means creating realities for the subject and letting them enter and share with you what he feels. It is a very powerful technique and it is also a hard one because you will have to make the other person believe a lot of things. Sometimes, you will have to prove that you too believe in that scenario and also immerse yourself into it. Take the lead and make the other person believe.
The third agreement is called ‘Yes Set’ and this means creating in your subject’s mind the habit of saying the yes word. First begin with some true and also simple statements that can be easily verified and put them into the conversation. State the obvious with your questions and make the person say yes repeatedly. You can also create truisms that are ideas generated by the culture and believed to be true.
The fourth tactic is called the ‘Piggy Back Principle’ and it means attaching another idea to a statement that is already believed by the subject. In this way, he will believe what you have suggested. He will accept the rest of the statement too and not just the first part. The trick about all this is to make believable contexts for the subject to trust and accept. This means you will have to practice all the concepts and get better at your techniques. Also using compliments helps a lot because people like praising.
So try to attach a suggestion at the end of every true and believable statement. An example is: “The sun is out today and it will be a great day to start your diet.” This first part is true and the second one will be in your subject’s mind.
