Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 6, 1 December 2018 | Page 12

Saturday, 24 November 2018
went up in the elevator, relieved and without fear - of the elevator - and
could ride one from then on
And, I would like to sum this up, in his own words.
In all my techniques, almost all, there is a confusion.
“Milton Erickson"
• Confusion technique
A confused person has their conscious mind busy and occupied, and is very
much inclined to draw upon unconscious learnings to make sense of things.
A confused person is in a trance of their own making - and therefore goes
readily into that trance without resistance. Confusion might be created by
ambiguous words, complex or endless sentences, pattern interruption or a
myriad of other techniques to incite transderivational searches.
Scottish surgeon ‘James Braid’, who coined the term "hypnotism", claimed
that focused attention was essential for creating hypnotic trances; indeed,
his thesis was that hypnosis was in essence a state of extreme focus. But it
can be difficult for people racked by pain, fear or suspicion to focus on
anything at all. Thus other techniques for inducing trance become
important, or as Erickson explained:-
... long and frequent use of the confusion technique has many times
effected exceedingly rapid hypnotic inductions under unfavourable
conditions such as acute pain of terminal malignant disease and in persons
interested but hostile, aggressive, and resistant…
Personally as a Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner, I have taken three
very powerful things from this “Emperor of Hypnosis”.
1. Emphasis on Positive (Which he has shown by his own example)
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