Hypnosis
can be defined as Influential Communication : Hypnotic communication which is; a delicate balance between direct and indirect suggestion and induction techniques (realizing that communication occurs on multiple levels, including verbal content, and body language); along with content and process techniques (roughly those that are specific and those that are more generalized), best describes the hypnosis of "The Trance Dance".
"The world we live in is in the Dance of Creation!"
Our entire universe is engaged in endless motion and activity; in a continual Dance of energy. This Dance involves an enormous variety of patterns that, surprisingly, fall into a few distinct categories. With markedly different interaction strengths:
- The Strong interactions
- The Electromagnetic interactions
- The Weak interactions
- The Gravitational interactions.
All things are aggregations of atoms that Dance and by their movements produce sounds. When the rhythm of the Dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. Each atom perpetually sings its songs, and the sound, at every moment, creates dense and subtle forms!
Trance Dance
is a metaphor which exemplifies the Interpersonal Hypnotic Dance which takes place between individuals everyday, everywhere! It incorporates the ability to view our everyday experiences in the light of their associated Trance Phenomena, along with the ability to take charge of it! For every experience that one finds oneself envolved in, is actually a form of Trance, be it internally subjective or externally interpersonal!
"DANCING"
requires coordination, timing, and skill, since it's participants are compelled to move about, synchronously with each other, and with the music. The "Trance Dance" is much the same...... except the dance floor is within the mind. The participants each share common thoughts and feelings, around which they synchronously exchange ideas. The resultant pattern of ideas, thoughts and feelings created, is the Music. If the level of anxiety evoked by an individual is unacceptable, the recipient's response is unfavorable, and the "Dance" is discordant and desynchronously out of step. This is not to say there is no music. For it is well known that there is always a certain degree of order in chaos, and hence a certain degree of harmony is in any form of dysharmony! If one were to listen well enough. In a dance, each participant may well be keeping in step to a different beat!
The person who learns how to get others to do what he wants them to do is a person who can determine his own course in life. His success is guaranteed! While it is not necessary that you make everyone love you in order to influence them, it is however, absolutely necessary that they do not hate you! The man who must use force and coercion enjoys only temporary success because in forcing his own way, he generates a deep hostility in others, and in the long run, makes them his enemy. The purpose of Trance Dance Hypnosis is not to make people love you, but it is designed to show you how to get what you want from others, without making enemies. Our purpose is to show you how to influence people so that they like you, and you get what you want.
Forcefully bending an individuals will produces only a temporary victor. This method is usually unsuccessful since the idea you are trying to get across is being imposed upon the other person from the outside. The only really effective way another individual will truely accept your idea is if he grasps it from within his own mind. Your task is not to force him to agree with you, but to get him to reach out for your idea. Before he will do so, you must create a route of receptivity within him. For you to get a good picture on your television, there must be both a strong signal (sender) and a good receiver!
An individual's willingness to receive your ideas may be demonstrated in a variety of ways. He may ask questions, he may express doubt or even uncertainty. When you observe these signs of reaching out, then you know that the time is good for the injection of your ideas!
Before you can get the full picture of how to influence other people, it is important that you get a good look at yourself.
Be objective, and shine a critical light upon your own personality. You must remember that you influence the actions of others by your own actions and attitudes. You set the scene and develop the story right from the beginning.
Whatever your attitude is, it is reflected right back by the other person almost as if he were a mirror. If yor are positive; he will be positive. If you are enthusiastic; he will be enthusiastic. If you are calm; he too will be calm.
One must not ever allow the other person to set the scene so that you have to react to him. In order to establish control of the situation, you must take charge of it right from the very start! Even something as subtle as a comment about the weather can set the tone of a meeting. If one says, "Isn't it a lousy day!" a negative tone has been established to begin your discussion. If on the other hand, you were to say, "Doesn't this rainy day make you feel really good? It's really nice being indoors and in a comfortable room with pleasant company!" In even this simple statement, you have set up a positive situation.
When you act with confidence and assurance, you create confidence in the other person. When you have faith in yourself, others will have faith in you. The magic of believing in yourself must come from inside of you. It becomes even more necessary when you realize that to make other people fill important, you must feel important. To make someone think well of himself, you must first think well of yourself. When you do, it will not be necessary for you to feed your own ego and you can concentrate your full attention on other people.
Trance Dance Hypnosis
involves pattern interruption and pattern building which is accomplished by the choreography of the Hypnotist Dancer, whose role it is to establish new associations to the participants dysfunctionally inappropriate feelings, thoughts, or experiential dance. Having the ability to identify a trance phenomenon in association with the participant's symptoms, allows The Dancer to acquire more rapidly a comprehensive understanding of the circumstances. In so doing, one is given the ability to identify the "structure" of experiences, and not just their content. Recognition of the structure of an experience, is synonymous with recognition of the steps in The Dance. Knowing the steps involved in the creation of our Experiential Dance, provides us with the opportunity to choose at which point in its progression, we may wish to introduce an interruption or change that alters the sequence in some beneficial way. Therefore improving The Dance!
Trance Dance Hypnosis
utilizes the delicate lace of conscious and unconscious mental processing, generated by the brain's left and right hemispheres, respectively. Information that is integrated at an unconscious level, can be more influential upon it's recipient than information that is processed at the conscious level. The left side of the body is more suggestible in hypnosis because it is controlled by the right hemisphere.
Emotional expressions are accentuated on the left side of the face, which is predominantly controlled by the right hemisphere, and a left visual-field advantage exists for the identification of emotional expressions. The left side of an image is usually addressed by the dominant right eye, which is controlled by the left hemisphere. In the language of Trance, the left side of an image carries the connotation of dominance, agression, and a progressive movement. The right side addressed by the left eye and hence the right hemisphere, carries the connotation of passivity, defensiveness, and blocked movements.
Trance Dance Language
is specifically designed to cause a cognative mental shift from the dominant left hemispheric way of thinking, to that sense of timelessness, feelings of confidence and lack of anxiety; all of which are the aura of
Right Brain Thinking. Right hemispheric thinking maintains a sense of close attention to shapes, spaces and forms yet remaining
nameless. The participant thinks and reacts characteristicly literal, and can accept suggested realities, however illogical and improbible they may seem, because he lacks a need to objectify his experience.
Given the opportunity to "act as if" something were real, can be the behavioral pathway to deeper feelings and issues that are important to the participant.
The basic assumption of Trance Dance Language is that the nature of any task may be influenced by which of the two hemispheres is in control and takes-on the job, (while inhibiting the other). Trance experience involves dissociating the critical nature of the conscious left brain and the pre-conscious
"Hidden Observer"
long enough to allow the "Right Brain" to take control.
Only you can experience for yourself this congitive shift, this change in your subjective state. You may experience a sense of mental conflict at first, but by relying upon your Hidden Observer, a process of self-justification is engaged (on a pre-conscious level), which explains how such an experience could happen. Then you can look for those subtle signs from your brain, which confirm that you are shifting modes of information processing. As you begin to recognize when you have shifted cognitive modes, you will have taken that first step toward learning to take control over which side of the brain you use for any given task. By setting up the conditions for this mental shift and experiencing the different feeling it produces, you will be able to recognize and generate this state in yourself (by conscious volition), and also in others!
What factors determine which of the two hemispheres will be on and in control? There appear to be two:
Speed; Which hemisphere will get the job done first?
and,
Motivation; Which hemisphere cares most for the task?
Techniques for guiding the subject into
The Trance Dance involve narrowing the individual's field of attention to that of his inner experiences. The use of spoken language is more descriptive, colorful, emotional and based upon the use of our five senses, and consiquently more Right Brain oriented. While in Trance, the individual responds to information in a literal manner. The skilled manipulation of those nonverbal components of the Trance Dancer's communication is yet another major factor in The Dance. Those changes in the tone of voice, eye contact, posture, gaze, breathing patterns, and other Analogical Communications , while shifting into the induction - serve as associations or Anchors to entering trance.
Reframing:
is a process which changes the meaning of an experience by changing the way that event is perceived! It is a process that can be used to deliberately disrupt a dancer's usual "mind-set", thereby inducing a spontaneous trance (or giving rise to catalepsy, ideodynamic responses, time distortion, dissociative responses, and attention to shapes, spaces, and forms that remain nameless). Psychotherapy, regardless of its particular form, is a liberal application of this process. A skilled clinician can accomplish the onset of reframing with a single well placed remark. The skill involved in the reframing process is to suspend the subject's belief system just long enough for him to be able to consider an alternative veiwpoint, or have a different perspective on a given problem. The underlying assumption for the use of reframing as a strategy for intervention is that every experience (ie, thought, feeling, behavior) has some positive intrensic value to it somewhere. The focus upon the positive value of an experience gives the dancer an alternative viewpoint on that experience, and in so doing, establishes the beginning of a new step or "mind-set"! One that can be directed toward an enriched and fulfilling experience, if viewed in it's proper prospective.
Time Distortion:
is another important aspect of The Dance. The experience of time distortion relies heavily upon the fact that, the passage of time is a purely subjective experience. The passage of time can seem much longer or much shorter than is objectively true, depending on one's focus of attention. Such distortions of time take place in "everyday trances" all people experience, and like all experiences that are subjective, the experience of time can be significantly altered in deliberate ways, Hypnotically.
There are always two forces warring against each other within us. One force tells us to do those things we should not do; and the other urges us to do those things we should do, the things that seem most difficult!
Anxiety:
Anxiety is a state of apprehension, tension, or uneasiness that arises from the anticipation of danger, which may be internal or external. The manifestations of anxiety are muscular tension, autonomic hyperactivity, apprehensive expectation, vigilance and scanning. Anxiety may be focused on an object, situation, or activity, which is avoided (phobia), or may be unfocused (free-floating anxiety). It may be experienced in discrete periods of sudden onset and be accompanied by physical symptoms (panic attacks). When anxiety is focused on physical signs or symptoms and causes preoccupation with the fear or belief of having a disease, it may be termed Hypochondriasis .
Sources of stress and anxiety are numerous and inevitable; stress cannot be prevented, only managed. Hypnosis can build relaxation states, and a sense of self-control. Simply knowing one has the ability to relax deeply and reorganize ones thoughts, feelings, and experiences can have a powerful effect in helping one manage stress and anxiety. Stress is often in the subject's interpretation of events, not just in the events themselves. Hypnosis can facilitate alternative perspectives and thus alternate responses. Managing anxiety effectively allows for better concentration and study, better self-esteem, better time management, better job performance, and greater receptivity to new ideas.
Depression:
Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but primarily upon ones mental attitude. One should have good health, a well-balanced mind, a prosperous life, the right work, a thankful heart, and above all, the wisdom or knowledge of The Divine. A strong determination to BE HAPPY will help. Don't wait for your circumstances to change, thinking falsely that in them lies the trouble!
Memories can either push you forward or hold you back! Part of any depressed state of mind requires our remembering or holding on to the past. Depression invariably involves remembering the past in the light of the future. The differences we see between the two casts a shadow on our perceptions of what is in our presence. It is the shadow that is cast which demarkates depression. If we allow ourselves the opportunity to shift our focus from comparing the past to the future, to that of remembering a very specific part of the past and re-experiencing that in the present, even if initially for only a moment, we can change the present and our future. Not only can we change that prophetic future, but we can also sculpt that future into one that is befitting of our past. 
Myth
States
Dance Of Life
Here
"Trance Dance"