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Product reviews for Understanding Advanced Hypnotic Language Patterns
Fidelity Magazine
This book is a follow-up to -˜Hypnotic Language'.
Not having read this earlier work 1 feel unable to shed much light on how this new book moves on from the first.
In this volume, the author takes us on a journey exploring the different -˜perceptual positions' a client may be taking, e.g. the -˜egocentric position'. He demonstrates how such a position will affect the client's experience of life or problems they are encountering.
After exploring such a position, whilst drawing on styles such as Piaget and Gestalt, the author gives an example of the hypnotic language he would use to help move the client forward and help change their perspective or -˜perceptual position'. A great wordsmith, this is where Burton comes into his own, frequently injecting humour into the scripts. He addresses one client who held a belief, -˜everybody tells me it (her life) will never work' with a script including the following: - -˜Just who is this everybody' anyway, five people? How many of the Chinese are of this opinion? What about the Russians and the people living in the Middle East' - Priceless!
He then moves on to examples of hypnotic language scripts set out in four different sections addressing: emotional states, perception, time and behaviour. However, this is not set out simply as a collection of scripts. This book clearly advocates the fine tuning and tailoring of language, encouraging the therapist to encompass the broad spectrum of a clients own experiences, wishes and needs into hypnotic language.
One excellent chapter discusses smoking cessation. Rather than focusing purely on health risks etc. the author digs deep into the states the client may experience prior to lighting a cigarette and the altered states they may wish to achieve by lighting up. In one example he demonstrates the use of hypnotic language to guide the client to a highly pleasant state demonstrating they can achieve such a state without reaching for a cigarette.
1 would not say the book was an -˜easy' read. For me, the highly detailed descriptions could be perplexing at first glance - however, 1 would then find the scripted examples of hypnotic language would help click my understanding into place.
It would be easy to summarise the book's theme as -˜expanding a client's cognitive awareness through the use of hypnotic language'. However, that would only pay lip-service to the treasure trove of ideas and hypnotic language techniques that can be found within.
Not having read this earlier work 1 feel unable to shed much light on how this new book moves on from the first.
In this volume, the author takes us on a journey exploring the different -˜perceptual positions' a client may be taking, e.g. the -˜egocentric position'. He demonstrates how such a position will affect the client's experience of life or problems they are encountering.
After exploring such a position, whilst drawing on styles such as Piaget and Gestalt, the author gives an example of the hypnotic language he would use to help move the client forward and help change their perspective or -˜perceptual position'. A great wordsmith, this is where Burton comes into his own, frequently injecting humour into the scripts. He addresses one client who held a belief, -˜everybody tells me it (her life) will never work' with a script including the following: - -˜Just who is this everybody' anyway, five people? How many of the Chinese are of this opinion? What about the Russians and the people living in the Middle East' - Priceless!
He then moves on to examples of hypnotic language scripts set out in four different sections addressing: emotional states, perception, time and behaviour. However, this is not set out simply as a collection of scripts. This book clearly advocates the fine tuning and tailoring of language, encouraging the therapist to encompass the broad spectrum of a clients own experiences, wishes and needs into hypnotic language.
One excellent chapter discusses smoking cessation. Rather than focusing purely on health risks etc. the author digs deep into the states the client may experience prior to lighting a cigarette and the altered states they may wish to achieve by lighting up. In one example he demonstrates the use of hypnotic language to guide the client to a highly pleasant state demonstrating they can achieve such a state without reaching for a cigarette.
1 would not say the book was an -˜easy' read. For me, the highly detailed descriptions could be perplexing at first glance - however, 1 would then find the scripted examples of hypnotic language would help click my understanding into place.
It would be easy to summarise the book's theme as -˜expanding a client's cognitive awareness through the use of hypnotic language'. However, that would only pay lip-service to the treasure trove of ideas and hypnotic language techniques that can be found within.
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15/06/2007 01:00
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