Karen Hand - Magic Words and Language Patterns: The Hypnotist’s Essential Guide to Crafting Irresistible Suggestions

Praise For Magic Words and Language Patterns

At last! Magic Words takes on the subject of hypnotic language with a refreshing ease of use that makes this book stand out for its simplicity. Not only does it present the language plainly, Karen teaches you how to work without scripts, spontaneously and effortlessly in hypnosis and in your life.

~Michael Watson, International NLP and Hypnosis Trainer, award-winning development of Generative Hypnosis and Past President of the Hypnosis Education Association

Get ready to weave a beautiful tapestry of powerful ideas and make all the difference in the world. Karen Hand-Harpers fine book is the magic thread that makes it happen. Magic Words is a must read for anyone who wants to really motivate themselves or others.
~Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD
President of the International Hypnosis Federation

"This book is a must read for anyone who wants to learn how to make the best use of hypnosis and hypnotic techniques. Any serious hypnotist or therapist MUST read this book if they want to expand their influence and help more people. The only problem I have with this book is that I wish I would have written it! By the way, don't just buy this book, utilize every aspect of it!"

~William Horton, Psy.D. MCAP author of Mind Control, Secret Mind Control , and The Secret Psychology of Persuasion

Karen offers a dictionary of powerful words and language patterns in an easy to digest method and style. The reader will learn skills that few if any have put into print quite as Karen has. It is easy, informative and Karen anchors skills as she teaches these concepts. I know without a doubt she will receive great praise for a project that has been needed for a long time. I have not read anything as powerful and basic of word skills in hypnosis or, as she enforces, with any and all communication. A great aspect of this book is it will benefit all readers even without hypnosis skills. Karens book will be a wonderful manual for all CIs to offer their students.

~Larry Garrett, BCH, OB, Owner Garrett Hypnosis and Wellness Center, Chicago

"I love this book. It's captivating, I'm getting so much out of it, and it's so easy to read."

~Erika Flint, BCH, A+Cphi, CEO Cascade Hypnosis Center

This wonderfully written book has made me aware of just how easily and naturally these magic words and language patterns can augment our communication - whether being used in our hypnosis suggestions or in our general everyday lives. Karen has presented the words and patterns in an organized format riddled with examples throughout. Her great sense of humor is reflected on the pages and in her brief stories.

The dependence on scripts takes focus away from clients and the suggestions appropriate to them. Over my years of teaching, I have met many hypnotists and students who were afraid to do Scriptless Hypnosis. Karens approach stands to be confidence-boosting to the practitioner, by building a simple framework of words and patterns which are simple to follow.

Whether you are new to hypnosis or NLP, or have been using it for years, there are many nuggets to be gained by reading this book. This is an excellent and easy reference which I intend to keep handy in my office and classroom.

Not a hypnotist? No problem. Whether a hypnotist or not, as you absorb the words and patterns Karen Hand-Harper has presented, you will notice an interesting change in your effectiveness of communicating with colleagues, family members, clients and friends.

This book can increase your effectiveness in communicating in every walk of your life and is a must-have for any library.

~Cheryl Elman, CH, CMT, International Hypnosis Traine r

Magic Words

And

Language Patterns

The Hypnotist's Essential Guide to Crafting Irresistible Suggestions

By

Karen Hand

ReMind Publishing

Chicago, Illinois

2017 Karen Hand

Magic Words: The Hypnotists Essential Guide to Crafting Irresistible Suggestions

Handbook for Scriptless Hypnosis Series

ReMind Publishing. All rights reserved

Edited by Kelly Epperson

Interior and Cover Design by Jess Marion

No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. For further information, please contact Re-Mind Publishing at

Dedication

To Gertrude and Victor Hand for a great start in life;

my husband, Mark A. Harper, for holding on,

encouraging and helping me on our wild and often erratic ride;

and my daughter, Jessica Graham for keeping me inspired to succeed.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Over my 15 years studying hypnosis, time and again I come across three common trends particularly among new hypnotists: concern over giving the right suggestion, belief that the magic is in the words alone, and an obsession with Milton Model language. Each of these trends is detrimental to the hypnotists skills development. For example, if we look at the idea of the right suggestion, often new hypnotists believe that if their suggestions arent perfectly worded and flow like a hypnotist with years of experience then hypnosis will not work. The hypnotists who fall into this category are those who after an initial consultation scour the internet looking for the perfect script for the client. The unspoken fear is that the hypnotist wont know what to say when the client comes for her or his session.

The second trend is closely related to the first. This is the belief that the clients change is completely reliant on the words the hypnotist uses. For these hypnotists the words and the clients non-resistance are the only elements responsible for the change. We know through countless studies that words in reality only make up a tiny part of communication. While they are useful, there are other far more powerful aspects of hypnotherapy, particularly deep rapport and the Placebo Effect.

The final trend is the one I would have been most tempted to fall into in my early days, the obsession with Ericksonian language. Many people who are interested in Milton Ericksons work never move beyond the language patterns that Bandler and Grinder modeled from him. They become so consciously enthralled with the correct pattern names and structures that they treat the Milton Model as being something that is done to a client like a technique instead of seeing the bigger picture that we use this language throughout most of our daily communication. In fact, Ive used many of the patterns unconsciously while writing this!

These trends are something that my colleagues and I frequently address when planning our hypnosis trainings, so when I was asked to write the foreword for Magic Words I was intrigued with how Karen Hand would present hypnotic language in a way that moved beyond how hypnotic language is typically addressed. Little did I know I was about to read a hypnotic gem. From the first page Magic Words is a delightful journey in which the reader is engaged consciously and unconsciously.

From the outset the reader understands that there are no right or wrong words. Instead this book offers the hypnotist a way of understanding language that creates more flexibility and fluidity. The magic of the language presented is not in that it creates the right suggestions but that it expands the hypnotists comfort in working without a script.

Milton Erickson described the root of all problems a client could possibly have is a loss of rapport between the conscious and unconscious mind. Another way of describing this is an incongruence between the conscious and unconscious. One of the key elements to creating an effective session is to model to the clients unconscious mind the desired outcome including states and behaviors throughout the session. For example, when doing an induction, it is the hypnotists job to model trance for the client. When helping a client to create congruence or rapport between the conscious and the unconscious it is the hypnotist who must model it first. Magic Words frees up your conscious mind from needing to read or track suggestions. Instead by being in the right state yourself you can allow these words to connect ideas naturally. The true magic in the language presented in this book is that your sessions become a conversation between two unconscious minds in the most wonderful way.