Language Patterns: What are language patterns?

• Structures within human language that are a verbal mirror of the way a person thinks
• Thought Structure = Verbal Structure
• Verbal Structure = Thought Structure

How do they work?

• Language patterns force the mind of the listener to have a specific structure to the thoughts they are having.
• In order to understand what is being said to them a person MUST create a thought inside their own mind that mirrors the structure of the language pattern.
• This is done at the pre-conscious level
• Trans-derivational Search – When the mind receives a sentence, it instantly searches each word in the sentence to find the relative meaning or associations to each word.
• Presupposition – The linguistic equivalent of assumptions
• The suggestion is completed the moment it is heard.
• It is processed long before it reaches the awareness of the conscious mind.

There are over 31 or more discrete language patterns and most are difficult to use without sounding forced.

There are only 7 “must-have” hypnotic language patterns you need in order to be practically unstoppable with conversational hypnosis.

These patterns are so powerful they can literally blast hypnotic suggestions into a person’s mind even if they know what you are doing.

They are completely covert and totally natural sounding regardless of context or usage.

They turn everything you say into an utterly compelling hypnotic induction

They even work, in writing, over the phone and in email

They influence large groups just as easily as they influence a single person.

All compelling communication works this way:

• Capture and Lead the imagination
• Vivid Description = Direct Command

The consequence of not speaking with these language patterns

• People will only revise their internal pictures for a limited time before they start to get tired
• Fall out of rapport
• Stop paying attention
• The begin miss-matching and analyzing what you are saying

Rapport is equal to trance. The degree of rapport is equal to the degree of trance. The amount of resistance you encounter is inversely proportional to the amount of rapport you have.

The more rapport you have the less people analyze what you say, the less rapport you have, the more they analyze what you say.

The 7 Patterns

Adverb/Adjective

• Eliminates mental friction
• Forces mental pictures to be exactly what you want them to be
• Everything that follows is presupposed

Examples

• Easily
• Naturally
• Unlimited
• Simply
• Utterly

Awareness

• Directs focus of attention
• One of the most powerful of the seven
• Automatically causes the target to undergo the process stated in the sentence
• Anything following the awareness verb is pre-supposed in the sentence

Examples

• Notice
• Realize
• Understand
• Recognize
• Comprehend

Temporal/Ordinal

• Presupposes choice
• Utilizes some aspect of time or numerical order to create presuppositions of choice
• Times, Durations and Numbers presuppose things and actions

Examples

• Before
• During
• After
• While
• First

Spatial

• Vivid and compelling spatial relationships
• Evokes powerful mental imagery

Examples

• Overall
• Beyond
• Among
• Enter
• To
• From

Cause and Effect

• Mirrors the structure of belief
• All beliefs are stated in cause and effect terms
• Anything stated using this structure tends to install direct suggestions into the mind of the subject
• Tend to be accepted as true
• Seem completely logical
• Go unchallenged
• Creates compliance
• X => Y
• Any X can cause any Y
• X is usually a pace
• A pace is anything that is verifiably or cognitively true
• Y is usually a lead
• A lead is the effect you want associated to the cause

Examples

• And
• As
• Cause
• Because
• Since
• As soon as

Complex Equivalence

• X = Y
• X means Y rather than Y being the result of X
• Any X can mean any Y
• Structure of beliefs
• X => Y = Z
• Simply hearing my voice (x) causes you to absorb this material completely (y) which means you will become even more effective at these language patterns (z).

Direct Commands

• Pattern interrupt, Redirect, and Implement
• This pattern is used to interrupt any ongoing mental process
• Insert a new direction or process
• Have the target undergo that process or train of thought immediately

The 3 Words for this Patter are: (Don’t use language softeners; otherwise the suggestions may not be strong enough)

• Stop – stops the current process
• Start – redirects them and embeds the command
• Now – commits the suggestion and brings them out of trance

Use to fractionate between internal awareness (downtime) and external awareness (up time)

Examples

• Stop for a moment
• Start to imagine all the ways you could be using this material
• Now…isn’t that cool?

Michael C. White, C.Ht.