{ "title": "The Nested Hall — Trance Formulas", "version": "2026-08-20", "howToUse": [ "This file is the whole labeled catalog. Copy a skeleton. Fill the brackets with their life. Keep the structure.", "Pick a door: Bandler (fast, blunt, named machines, closures out of order, one thread unexplained) or Erickson (slow, sensory, permission, wait, no moral).", "Do not mix the doors by accident.", "Commands are present tense, 2–6 words, verb first, replacement behaviors not absences. Not 'stop reaching.' Sit on your hands.", "Erickson marks at the clause seam. Bandler marks every 2–8 words.", "For each nested loop, know the job, the timing, the opening, and whether you will close it.", "Leave one thread unexplained." ], "maps": [ { "id": "erickson-rossi-five", "who": "erickson", "name": "Erickson / Rossi — Five-Stage Microdynamics", "formula": "1 Fixation of attention → 2 Depotentiating conscious sets → 3 Unconscious search → 4 Unconscious process → 5 Hypnotic response (ratify).", "does": "THE formula for formulating an Ericksonian trance. Every other Erickson move is a way of doing one of these five." }, { "id": "bandler-grinder-spine", "who": "bandler", "name": "Bandler / Grinder — Trance-formations Spine", "formula": "Pace current experience → distract / overload / interrupt the sequential mind → analog-mark present-tense verbs every 2–8 words → ratify → future-pace a real-life cue.", "does": "THE formula for formulating a Bandler trance. He talks faster than notes. The body takes the verbs." } ], "howToWriteATrance": [ "Pick the door (Bandler or Erickson).", "Pick the job of the trance (what should be true on their Tuesday when you stop talking).", "Pick one master map.", "Copy one full skeleton from tranceFormulas (stage: full).", "Fill brackets with their images and their verbs. Not ours.", "Ratify a real body response. Future-pace a cue that will actually happen.", "Leave one thread unexplained, or return to the first sensory place. Do not lecture." ], "stages": [ { "id": "map", "label": "Master map", "tell": "The whole architecture. Everything else is a piece of this." }, { "id": "full", "label": "Full trance — copy and fill", "tell": "A complete session skeleton. Replace the brackets. Keep the structure." }, { "id": "fixate", "label": "Fix attention", "tell": "Give the conscious one simple job: look, listen, feel, remember. Attention has to land somewhere." }, { "id": "depotentiate", "label": "Depotentiate the set", "tell": "Make the critic busy, dizzy, or unemployed so it stops running the meeting." }, { "id": "search", "label": "Unconscious search", "tell": "Send the mind inward to find something. Searching is already trance." }, { "id": "process", "label": "Unconscious process / response", "tell": "The response that ratifies: a swallow, a heaviness, a yes they did not decide." }, { "id": "deepen", "label": "Deepen", "tell": "In and out, down and down, story inside story. Each return is faster." }, { "id": "work", "label": "The work inside trance", "tell": "Once they are in, this is how you put the new thing in without yanking them out." }, { "id": "return", "label": "Return / keep it running", "tell": "Bring them back so the work can travel. Or leave a thread running." } ], "tranceFormulas": [ { "id": "rossi-five", "name": "Erickson / Rossi — Five-Stage Microdynamics", "who": "erickson", "stage": "map", "does": "THE formula for formulating an Ericksonian trance. Every other Erickson move is a way of doing one of these five stages.", "formula": "1 Fixation of attention → 2 Depotentiating conscious sets → 3 Unconscious search → 4 Unconscious process → 5 Hypnotic response.", "slots": [ "what they look at / listen to / feel", "how the critic is softened", "the inner question", "the process you don't manage", "the response you ratify" ], "steps": [ "Fix attention on something present: sensation, a story, a memory, your voice, a spot on the wall.", "Depotentiate the conscious set: confusion, not-knowing, humor, a story, 'you don't have to'.", "Start an unconscious search: I wonder, that feeling, which hand, when will you notice.", "Leave room for unconscious process. Wait. Do not fill.", "Ratify whatever response arrives (swallow, heaviness, stillness, a tear, a breath). Name it. That's right." ], "skeleton": "[FIXATE] You can [see/hear/feel] [present thing].\n[DEPOTENTIATE] And you don't have to [know / try / make it happen].\n[SEARCH] I wonder [inner question they will answer by going in].\n[PROCESS] [silence, keep describing the scene]\n[RESPONSE] That's right. [name what just happened]. You didn't have to make that happen.", "tell": "If you skip a stage the trance is thin. If you only do stage 1 you have attention, not trance. If you skip ratification they will later say nothing happened.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Master map" }, { "id": "bandler-map", "name": "Bandler / Grinder — Trance-formations Spine", "who": "bandler", "stage": "map", "does": "THE formula for formulating a Bandler trance. Pace what is, overload the sequential mind, mark the verbs, future-pace.", "formula": "Pace current experience → distract / overload / interrupt the dominant (sequential) process → analog-mark suggestions → ratify → future-pace.", "slots": [ "3 undeniable nows", "the overload or interrupt", "commands every 2–8 words", "a test", "a real-life cue" ], "steps": [ "Pace: three things that are already true (body, sound, time).", "Distract the sequential mind: nested story, stacked quotes, too-fast talk, a joke, a handshake that does not complete.", "While it is busy, analog-mark 2–6 word present-tense commands every 2–8 words.", "Ratify a body response. Claim the machine is in.", "Future-pace one cue that will actually happen in their life." ], "skeleton": "You're [body]. You can hear [sound]. [time truism].\n[Story / joke / interrupt that is too much to sequentialize]\n**[command]** … **[command]** … **[command]**\nThat's it. It's in.\nWhen you next [real cue], [the new response], and it will seem natural.", "tell": "Bandler does not wait for permission to be in trance. He talks faster than notes. The notes are the critic. The body takes the verbs.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Master map" }, { "id": "erickson-script", "name": "Erickson Session — Copy This Script Shape", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "A complete Ericksonian trance you can rebuild with anyone’s images. Slow. Sensory. No moral.", "formula": "Their landscape → pace now → seed one image → interspersal at seams → one confusion+pause → isomorphic tale or John → implied directive → ratify → harvest seed → wait → return to the first sensory place.", "slots": [ "their place (not water if they hate water)", "seed image", "marked seam-words", "one paradox", "a character who is them and is not", "inevitable cue", "return place" ], "steps": [ "Open in a sensory place taken from their life.", "Pace what is already true until it cannot be denied.", "Seed one image in one sentence. Do not explain it.", "Keep describing. At clause seams, mark relax / down / now / easy / that's right.", "One confusion. Pause longer than is polite. One simple suggestion.", "A short tale or My-Friend-John whose plot is their change.", "When [inevitable], [desired]. Silence.", "Name a response. Return to the first place. Harvest the seed. Stop. No lecture." ], "skeleton": "The [their place] is [sensory]. You can feel [undeniable], hear [undeniable].\nAmong that, [SEED IMAGE], and you never thought much about it.\nAs [ordinary continuation], you can **settle**, **go down**, that's right.\n[Paradox]. [pause]\n**[simple suggestion]**\nI knew a [person] who [their problem in other clothes]. What they did was [new behavior as plot].\nWhen the next [breath / sound / inevitable] happens, [desired change].\nThat's right. [SEED IMAGE] again — [what it has been doing].\nThe [first place] is still [here]. [silence]", "tell": "Do not use our pond. Use their kitchen, their shift, their actual dog. Keep this skeleton. Change every noun.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "bandler-script", "name": "Bandler Session — Copy This Script Shape", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "A complete Bandler trance: nests, quotes, analog-marked verbs, a laugh, a named machine, one unexplained image.", "formula": "Refuse biography → open 3 loops → quote-stack a command → mark verbs every 2–8 words → joke+command → name the machine → close out of order → leave one image → future cue.", "slots": [ "machine name", "story A B C", "innermost speaker", "replacement verbs", "one joke", "unexplained image", "real-life cue" ], "steps": [ "I do not care about your childhood. I build machines. This one is [NAME].", "Open story A. Before it ends, B. Before that ends, C.", "Innermost mouth says the command.", "At the bottom, **verbs** every 2–8 words. Replacement behaviors, not absences.", "A real joke. As they laugh, **command**.", "Name the machine. Claim it is in.", "Close C or B first, not in open-order. Leave one image unexplained.", "When you next [cue], [machine runs]." ], "skeleton": "I don't care about your childhood. This machine is [NAME]: [one line].\n[STORY A]…\nBefore that finished, [STORY B]…\nWhich reminds me, [STORY C]. [Speaker] told me [other] used to say \"**[command]**.\"\n**[verb]** … **[verb]** … **[verb]**\n[Punchline]\n**[command]**\n[Tag that keeps it a joke]\nAnd that is [NAME]. It's in.\nAnyway, [close B or C first]. [A last, or still open]\n[ONE IMAGE, never explained]\nWhen you next [real cue], [NAME] runs.", "tell": "Fill brackets with their Tuesday. Keep the cadence. If you explain the last image you killed it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "five-four", "name": "5-4-3-2-1 Sensory Overload", "who": "bandler", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Bandler/Grinder. Occupies working memory with sensory count until sequential tracking gives up and the next suggestion is relief.", "formula": "5 things you see, 5 you hear, 5 you feel. Then 4-4-4. Then 3-3-3. Then 2. Then 1. Then the lead.", "slots": [ "present see/hear/feel items", "the lead at the bottom" ], "steps": [ "Name five visible, five audible, five felt — all true now.", "Four of each, a little slower.", "Three. Two. One.", "And you can [lead]." ], "skeleton": "You can see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nHear [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nFeel [1], [2], [3], [4], [5].\nAnd four: [see] [hear] [feel] …\nThree… two… one…\nand you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Must be true. If you invent a sound they will catch you. This is pacing that becomes overload by counting.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "eye-fix", "name": "Eye Fixation", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Give the eyes one job. When they tire, that tiredness is the induction.", "formula": "Pick a spot. Look there. As the eyes [truism of strain], the rest of you can [lead].", "slots": [ "spot", "eye truisms", "lead when they blink or blur" ], "steps": [ "A spot slightly above eye-line.", "Pace: looking, blinking, watering, blurring — whatever happens.", "When the eyes want to close, that can be the way." ], "skeleton": "You can look at [spot], and keep looking.\nAnd as the eyes [blink / blur / water], you don't have to make them close,\nand when they want to, they can, and you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Erickson uses whatever the eyes already do. Bandler will tell them to stare until the pictures get interesting.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "breath-match", "name": "Match Breath, Then Slow", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Join their breathing. After three matched breaths, lengthen the exhale by a little. They follow.", "formula": "Match rate 3× → slightly longer exhale → 'and that breath can go a little further down.'", "slots": [ "their rate", "the slightly slower lead" ], "steps": [ "Watch the chest or shoulders. Speak on their exhale.", "Three cycles at their speed.", "Fourth cycle a fraction slower. Lead: and the next one can go down." ], "skeleton": "[speak on their exhale] That's right.\n[match, match, match]\nAnd this next breath can go a little further **down**.", "tell": "If you lead before you match, you are conducting. If you match first, you are weather.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "everyday-trance", "name": "Common Everyday Trance", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Uses a trance they already know (highway, book, dishes, waiting room) so you are not installing a special state. You are naming one they have.", "formula": "You already know what it is like to be absorbed in [ordinary]. This can be like that.", "slots": [ "their ordinary absorption", "this = that" ], "steps": [ "Ask or guess an ordinary absorption of theirs.", "Describe it until they are in the memory of it.", "And this can be that." ], "skeleton": "You already know the state of being absorbed in [driving / reading / waiting / a song],\nthe way the [miles / pages / minutes] go by and something else is doing the rest,\nand this can be like that.", "tell": "You do not need a velvet voice. You need their highway.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "remember-a-time", "name": "Can You Remember a Time… (Revivification)", "who": "both", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Accesses a previous trance or resource state by asking the mind to find it. The search is the induction.", "formula": "Can you remember a time when you [absorbed / safe / learned easily / forgot the room]. Be there. See what you saw.", "slots": [ "the past state", "V-A-K of being there", "and you can have that here" ], "steps": [ "Ask for a specific past absorption.", "Present tense: what do you see, hear, feel.", "And that can be here, now." ], "skeleton": "Can you remember a time when you were so [absorbed] that the room went away.\nBe there. What do you see. What do you hear. Where in the body is that.\nAnd you can have that **here**.", "tell": "If they remember trance from last week, use that. Previous trance is the shortest induction.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "access-previous", "name": "Access Previous Trance", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "If they have been in trance with you (or anyone) before, you do not start from zero. You recall the state.", "formula": "The last time, when [sensory of that trance], and you can go back there now, even more easily.", "slots": [ "sensory of last time", "permission that this time is easier" ], "steps": [ "Name one sensory from the previous trance (the log, the laugh, the heaviness).", "That's right. You know this place.", "And you can go there now, faster." ], "skeleton": "You remember [sensory from last time]. That's right.\nYou know this place. You have been here before.\nAnd you can **go there now**, even more easily.", "tell": "Fractionation across sessions. Each time the road is shorter.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "name-fix", "name": "Their Name as Fixation", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "A well-timed use of their name orients attention to you, then you immediately lead.", "formula": "[Name]. [pause]. And you can…", "slots": [ "name", "pause", "lead" ], "steps": [ "Say the name as if beginning a sentence that matters.", "Pause a beat.", "Lead." ], "skeleton": "[Name].\nAnd you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Do not pepper the name. Once, at the turn. Surprise without threat.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "seven-plus-minus", "name": "7±2 Overload", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Working memory holds about seven chunks. Give it nine. It delegates.", "formula": "More channels than they can sequentialize: story + commands + aside + joke + a dog, under one repeating payload.", "slots": [ "extra channels", "one payload underneath" ], "steps": [ "Start a story.", "Add a second story before the first is trackable.", "Add asides, a joke, marked commands.", "Do not give a map." ], "skeleton": "[Story A] and meanwhile [story B], which is also [aside],\nand **[command]**, and [joke], and **[command]**,\nand you don't have to keep track.", "tell": "The notes cannot keep up. That is the technique. The body can.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "tense-confusion", "name": "Confusion of Tenses", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Was, is, will be, had been, will have been — mixed until 'when' is no longer a job the critic can do.", "formula": "What was is what will have been, and you can notice now what you already will have learned then.", "slots": [ "past", "present", "future", "all in one sentence" ], "steps": [ "Start in past.", "Without warning, present.", "Then a future perfect that treats the change as already done." ], "skeleton": "You remember when you [past],\nand you are [present],\nand you will have already [future perfect of the change]\nbefore you even [present trivial].", "tell": "The critic tries to sort the clocks. While it sorts, the future perfect has already filed.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "double-task", "name": "Double Task (Count and Listen)", "who": "both", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Gives the sequential mind a counting job so the rest can hear the suggestions.", "formula": "Count backwards from 100 by 3s, and while that part does that, the rest of you can [lead].", "slots": [ "counting or other sequential job", "the lead for the rest" ], "steps": [ "Assign a slightly hard count (100 by 3s, or the alphabet backwards).", "They will lose their place. That's right.", "And the rest of you…" ], "skeleton": "You can count back from 100 by threes, out loud or in, and it's all right to lose your place,\nand while that part is busy, the rest of you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Losing the count is the yes-signal. Ratify the loss. Do not help them count.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "dual-induction", "name": "Dual Induction / Two Messages", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Two voices or two overlapping sentences so the sequential mind cannot follow both. It picks one. The other still ran.", "formula": "Voice A tells a story. Voice B marks commands. Or one mouth overlaps two sentences.", "slots": [ "story channel", "command channel" ], "steps": [ "Story in one stream.", "Commands in another (second person, other location, overlap).", "Do not synchronize on purpose." ], "skeleton": "[A] There was a man who [story]…\n[B, overlapping] **relax** … **go down** … **that's right**\n[A continues as if alone]", "tell": "On a page: **bold** inside ordinary. In a room: two operators, or one operator who changes chair.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "try-bind", "name": "The Try-Bind", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Try presupposes difficulty and failure. 'Try to keep your eyes open' installs closing.", "formula": "Try to [opposite of what you want]. See if you can [opposite].", "slots": [ "the opposite they will fail", "the thing that then happens" ], "steps": [ "Give the rebel something to try that is the opposite of the work.", "Wait for the failure of the try.", "Ratify: that's right." ], "skeleton": "Try to keep your eyes open just a little longer.\nSee if you can stay exactly as alert as you are.\nThat's right. And you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Use on the person who will not be led. The try is the toy. The failure of the try is the trance.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "now-after-confusion", "name": "Confusion → Now", "who": "both", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "After overload, the word now — analog-marked — is a sudden simple thing. The mind takes it as a place to land.", "formula": "[overload]. [pause]. **Now.**", "slots": [ "the scramble", "the marked now", "the simple suggestion that follows" ], "steps": [ "Scramble.", "Stop.", "Now. Then one simple verb." ], "skeleton": "[Paradox / too many numbers / reversal].\n[silence]\n**Now.**\n**[simple verb].**", "tell": "Now is a location. After confusion it is the only location left.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "i-wouldnt-until", "name": "I Wouldn't Tell You to X Until Y", "who": "bandler", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "A Bandler classic. The surface is caution. The payload is X, and Y is already happening or about to.", "formula": "I wouldn't tell you to [command] until [something already true].", "slots": [ "the command", "the until-clause that is already so" ], "steps": [ "I wouldn't tell you to…", "The command, analog-marked.", "Until [breath / sitting / hearing this]." ], "skeleton": "I wouldn't tell you to **[command]** until you [are sitting / have taken that breath / heard this sentence].", "tell": "The critic hears the wouldn't. The body hears the command plus a time that has already arrived.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "person-can-you", "name": "A Person Can… I Don't Know If You Can…", "who": "both", "stage": "search", "does": "Displaces the ability onto 'a person,' then wonders whether you can — which starts the search that performs it.", "formula": "A person can [X]. I don't know if you can [X] yet. I wonder how soon you will notice you already are.", "slots": [ "the ability", "the you that will volunteer" ], "steps": [ "State the ability as something people do.", "I don't know if you can.", "I wonder when." ], "skeleton": "A person can [ability].\nI don't know if you can **[ability]** yet.\nI wonder how soon you will notice you already are.", "tell": "The 'I don't know' is honest and is also a search instruction. Don't wink.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "before-you-x", "name": "Before You X, You Can Y (Time Bind)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "Presupposes X will happen. The only question is what to do first. Y is often the induction.", "formula": "Before you [desired trance or change], you can [small present action].", "slots": [ "the presupposed X", "the Y that is the induction" ], "steps": [ "Name the change as a when, not an if, using before.", "Give a small Y (breathe, sit, hear).", "X is no longer up for debate." ], "skeleton": "Before you **[go all the way down / have that change]**,\nyou can [take a breath / let the chair hold you / hear this].", "tell": "Before is a thief. It steals the whether.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "transderivational", "name": "Transderivational Search", "who": "bandler", "stage": "search", "does": "Vague words (that feeling, this experience, those thoughts) send the person in to find their own referent. The inward search is trance.", "formula": "You know, that feeling… this experience of… those thoughts that…", "slots": [ "a vague noun", "no specification", "wait" ], "steps": [ "Use that / this / those + a nominalization.", "Do not specify whose or which.", "Wait while they search." ], "skeleton": "You know, that feeling,\nthe one that is already here,\nand this experience of **[going down / letting it work]**.", "tell": "If you specify, they can argue the specification. If you don't, they supply a referent from their life, which is the only one that works.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "lesser-included", "name": "Lesser Included Structure", "who": "bandler", "stage": "search", "does": "A command hidden as a grammatical subset of a larger innocent sentence.", "formula": "I don't know if you can [COMMAND] as easily as you think you can.", "slots": [ "innocent frame", "included command" ], "steps": [ "Write a long sentence.", "Inside it, a 2–6 word command that could stand alone.", "Mark only the included command." ], "skeleton": "I don't know whether you can **relax now** as completely as that part of you already knows how to.", "tell": "The sentence is polite. The subset is an order. Analog-mark the subset.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "which-hand", "name": "Which Hand / Which Side (Ideomotor Search)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "A question the body answers. The answer is a hypnotic response.", "formula": "I wonder which [hand / side / finger] will [lift / warm / twitch] first.", "slots": [ "body part", "small involuntary" ], "steps": [ "Wonder which.", "Wait. Do not pick for them.", "Ratify whatever moves." ], "skeleton": "I wonder which hand will feel a little lighter first,\nor warmer, or just different,\nand you don't have to make it happen.", "tell": "Any difference is a yes. Name it. That naming is ratification.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" }, { "id": "thats-right-stack", "name": "That's Right — Stacking Ratification", "who": "erickson", "stage": "process", "does": "Names each micro-response so the person agrees they are already in. Three that's-rights is a yes-set made of their own body.", "formula": "That's right. That's it. Notice that. You didn't have to make that happen.", "slots": [ "what just occurred", "the name that makes it trance" ], "steps": [ "Watch for swallow, blink, drop of the chest, stillness.", "That's right.", "Do not overdo. Three is plenty. Twelve is a salesman." ], "skeleton": "That's right.\n[next micro-response] That's it.\nYou didn't have to make that happen.", "tell": "If you skip this they will leave saying nothing happened. The memory of trance is partly your naming of it.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "levitation-recipe", "name": "Ideomotor Levitation / Catalepsy", "who": "erickson", "stage": "process", "does": "A body phenomenon that ratifies trance. Do not demand Broadway. A finger is enough.", "formula": "Suggest a small involuntary → wait → ratify → use as the yes-signal for going further.", "slots": [ "small involuntary", "wait", "ratify", "the further" ], "steps": [ "One of those hands can feel a little light, or heavy. I don't know which.", "Wait longer than is polite.", "That's right. And it can stay just like that.", "And you can go down." ], "skeleton": "One hand or the other can notice a difference — lighter, heavier, warmer —\nand you don't know which, and you don't have to make it.\n[wait]\nThat's right. That can stay just like that.\nAnd you can **go down**.", "tell": "If nothing moves, ratify the stillness. Stillness is a response. Demanding a lift is amateur.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "magnetic-hands", "name": "Magnetic Hands", "who": "both", "stage": "process", "does": "Two hands, a suggested pull or push. The movement is theirs, hence convincing.", "formula": "Hands facing. Imagine a magnet / a balloon / a weight. Wait. Use the movement.", "slots": [ "the imagined force", "the wait", "the use" ], "steps": [ "Palms facing, a foot apart.", "A magnet, or a heavy book, or a helium balloon. Their channel.", "When they move, that's right. And that same part can [lead]." ], "skeleton": "Hands facing. And you can imagine [magnet / balloon / book].\nYou don't have to make them move.\n[wait]\nThat's right. And that same part of you can **[lead]**.", "tell": "Visual people get pictures of magnets. Kinesthetic people get weight. Match the force to the channel.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Unconscious process / response" }, { "id": "interspersal-trance", "name": "Interspersal as the Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Erickson’s named contribution, used as the entire trance: ordinary description with marked words at the seams.", "formula": "Sensory scene. At every clause seam, a marked relax/down/now/easy. Never announce them.", "slots": [ "ordinary scene from their life", "seam-words" ], "steps": [ "Write a slow paragraph of a real place.", "Every second or third clause, a marked word.", "Keep describing after each mark as if nothing happened." ], "skeleton": "The [place] is [sensory], and you can **settle**,\nwhile [ordinary detail], **that's right**,\nand as [continuation] you can **go down**,\nand the [place] continues.", "tell": "The story is the induction. If you say 'now I will hypnotize you,' you have switched to a ritual and lost this door.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "countdown-deepen", "name": "Countdown / Drops as Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Each number or each drop is a step. Couple the count to a sensation that is already happening.", "formula": "With each [number / drop / breath / step] you can go further down.", "slots": [ "the countable already happening", "down" ], "steps": [ "Pick a count that exists (breath, dripping, footsteps).", "Each one, further.", "Do not rush the numbers. The body is the metronome." ], "skeleton": "With each [breath / drop / number],\nfurther **down**,\neasier,\nthat's right.", "tell": "Couple to something real. Invented metronomes feel like stage. Dripping on brass, breath, a clock they can actually hear.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "fractionate-deepen", "name": "Fractionation Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "In, slightly out, in deeper. Each re-entry teaches the road and shortens it.", "formula": "In → partial reorient → in again, faster / deeper. Repeat 2–4 times.", "slots": [ "in", "a partial out (eyes, a stretch, a sentence of here)", "in deeper" ], "steps": [ "Take them in.", "Bring them halfway back (eyes almost open, or 'you can hear the room').", "And you can go back, further.", "Repeat. The third entry is usually the one that holds." ], "skeleton": "[in]\nYou can hear this room, and that's all right,\nand you can **go back down**, even further than before.\n[repeat once or twice]", "tell": "Nested loops are this at story scale. Microphone handoffs are this at voice scale. Do not fully wake them unless you mean to.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "nests-as-trance", "name": "Nested Stories as the Trance", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Opening unfinished stories IS the induction. The conscious tracks plot. That tracking is the fixation. The unfinishedness is the depotentiation.", "formula": "Open A (unfinished). Open B inside A. Open C. Payload. Close out of order (Bandler) or C-B-A (Erickson).", "slots": [ "tale A B C", "payload", "close order", "optional unclosed thread" ], "steps": [ "A landscape. Leave it.", "A character. Leave them.", "The change as plot.", "Marked verbs at the bottom.", "Bandler: close the middle first. Erickson: close inside-out. One of you leaves a thread." ], "skeleton": "[A — landscape]…\nNow [B — character]…\nAnd [C — the change as plot]…\n**[verbs]**\n[Bandler: close B, then A, leave C — or scramble]\n[Erickson: C finishes, B finishes, A finishes, no moral]", "tell": "You do not induce and then tell stories. The stories are the induction. If you announce trance first you have used the wrong door.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "conversational", "name": "Conversational Induction (No Ritual)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Trance in ordinary talk. Utilization of whatever they said last. No 'close your eyes.'", "formula": "They say X. You pace X. And that can be the way you Y. Continue as conversation.", "slots": [ "what they just said", "the and-link", "the use" ], "steps": [ "Use their last sentence.", "And that can be…", "A bind or an implied directive as if you were still chatting.", "Do not change your voice into a hypnotist. A slight drop is enough." ], "skeleton": "You [their words].\nAnd that can be the way you **[lead]**.\nWould you rather [A that does it] or [B that also does it].", "tell": "If they notice you 'started hypnosis,' you failed this door. You were supposed to still be talking.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "utilization-trance", "name": "Utilization Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The cough, the noise, the 'I can't be hypnotized,' the skepticism — all of it is the way in.", "formula": "Name what they brought. And that can be the way… Cover all remaining classes.", "slots": [ "what they brought", "the use", "the open class" ], "steps": [ "Name it without fighting it.", "And that can be…", "You may X, or Y, or something else, and any of those is this working." ], "skeleton": "You [resistance / noise / can't].\nAnd that can be the way you **[change]**.\nYou may [A], or [B], or it may happen in some other way that is yours.", "tell": "Fighting what they brought makes you an opponent. Using it makes you the room.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "interrupt-blitz", "name": "Interrupt Blitz (Bandler Instant)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "Cut an automatic sequence. In the hole, a simple command. Resume. Trance is the missing piece they accepted.", "formula": "Familiar sequence → cut → freeze a beat past comfort → **sleep / down / now** → resume ordinary.", "slots": [ "the automatic sequence", "the command in the freeze" ], "steps": [ "Handshake, name-exchange, joke, sip, a sentence.", "Halt before completion. Look at the hand, or stop mid-word.", "Command. Then continue as if the sequence always included this." ], "skeleton": "[Sequence begins]—\n[halt, one extra beat]\n**[sleep / down / now]**\n—and [resume, ordinary].", "tell": "Do not explain the freeze. Explanation fills the hole you needed.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "early-learning-trance", "name": "Early Learning Set as Full Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Returns the not-knowing in which they once learned to write or walk. That state can learn again. The memory is the trance.", "formula": "Remember learning [ordinary hard thing]… the letters that would not stay… and you did not know, and then you knew, and you can learn this the same way.", "slots": [ "childhood skill", "the confusion of not-knowing", "the knowing that arrived by itself", "this = that" ], "steps": [ "Pick a universal: letters, tying shoes, riding.", "The confusion. The trying. The not-knowing.", "And then it was there.", "And you can have this the same way, without knowing how." ], "skeleton": "You remember learning [letters / to walk / to ride],\nhow [it wouldn't stay / you fell / the confusion],\nand you didn't know how you would ever,\nand then you knew, and you didn't know how you knew.\nAnd you can learn this the same way.", "tell": "Do not interrogate their childhood. Borrow the learning state. That is enough past.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "john-trance", "name": "My-Friend-John as the Trance", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The whole induction is a third person going into trance. Identification does the rest.", "formula": "I had a client who sat there like you are sitting, and what they noticed was… and then they…", "slots": [ "displaced person", "their present state on that person", "what that person did (the trance and the change)" ], "steps": [ "A person who is not them, sitting as they sit.", "Describe that person's going-in in sensory detail.", "That person's change as plot.", "Stop. No 'and you too.'" ], "skeleton": "I knew a [person] who sat [as they are sitting],\nand they noticed [sensation],\nand then they [went in / changed],\nand they didn't have to know how.\n[stop]", "tell": "They can reject advice. They cannot as easily reject a story that happened to John. You stop so identification can finish the sentence.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "yes-set-trance", "name": "Yes-Set Truisms as the Whole Door", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Four things they will not deny. The fifth is the trance, filed as the next truism.", "formula": "Body truism. Breath truism. History truism. When/as [inevitable], [trance or change].", "slots": [ "3 undeniable", "1 when-clause" ], "steps": [ "You are sitting.", "Breath is happening.", "You have already [their fact].", "When the next breath leaves, you can go down.", "Wait." ], "skeleton": "You are [body].\n[Breath / time] is already happening.\nYou have already [their fact].\nWhen you [inevitable], you can **[lead]**.\n[silence]", "tell": "Erickson: slow, sensory. Bandler: fast, then a command in the fourth slot. Same chain.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "presupposition-chain", "name": "Presupposition Chain Induction", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Stack awareness, time, ordinal, and change-of-time verbs so trance is never the question.", "formula": "You may notice… as you continue… before you go all the way… another breath… already…", "slots": [ "notice/realize", "continue/already", "before/when", "another/first" ], "steps": [ "Awareness word (notice, realize, aware) — presupposes the thing noticed.", "Continue / already — presupposes it started.", "Before / when — presupposes it completes.", "Another — presupposes a first." ], "skeleton": "You may notice that you have already begun,\nand as you continue,\nbefore you go all the way **down**,\nanother breath can take you further.", "tell": "Do not ask if they will. Ask what they will notice as they continue. The trance is in the grammar.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "analog-only", "name": "Analog Mark Is the Induction", "who": "both", "stage": "full", "does": "Ordinary sentences. The only trance technology is the second channel on selected words. Voice drop, pause, gesture, location.", "formula": "Neutral story in channel 1. Command words in channel 2. No other ritual.", "slots": [ "innocent paragraph", "2–6 word marks" ], "steps": [ "Write a paragraph that could be read at a table.", "Choose 8–20 words to mark. Present tense verbs.", "Deliver with the mark. Do not announce the mark." ], "skeleton": "You can hear this, and you can **settle back**,\nand as the [ordinary] continues you can **let it happen**,\n**that's right**, and **go down**.", "tell": "Bandler marks hard, every 2–8 words. Erickson marks at the clause seam and keeps moving. Same machine. Different speed.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "quote-trance", "name": "Quote-Stack as Induction", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "You never said go down. A man told you a teacher told a student. The innermost mouth is the hypnotist.", "formula": "X said Y said Z said: **command**.", "slots": [ "three speakers", "innermost command" ], "steps": [ "Speaker 1 is not you.", "They quote speaker 2.", "The command is in speaker 3's mouth, marked.", "Return to speaker 1 doing something ordinary." ], "skeleton": "[Speaker 1] told me that [speaker 2] used to say to [speaker 3],\n\"**[go down / sleep / relax now]**.\"\nAnd then [speaker 1] just [ordinary action].", "tell": "The nervous system does not care whose mouth. The critic does. Give the critic a citation.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "synesthesia-trance", "name": "Synesthesia Lead", "who": "bandler", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Cross the senses ('see how that feels,' 'hear that color') so the map-maker cannot sequentialize and the body answers.", "formula": "See how [sound] feels. Hear the [weight]. What color is that ease.", "slots": [ "sense A applied to sense B" ], "steps": [ "Take a sensation they have.", "Ask for it in another sense.", "The search is the deepen." ], "skeleton": "You can see how that **feels**,\nand hear the **weight** of it,\nand notice what color that ease is.", "tell": "This is Bandler’s 4-tuple overlap. Do not explain synesthesia. Ask it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "spatial-dissoc", "name": "Here / There Dissociation", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Puts the critic in one place and the work in another. The balcony can watch. The stage can change.", "formula": "You can watch that from here. There, that can [change]. Here, you can be comfortable.", "slots": [ "here (observer)", "there (the work)" ], "steps": [ "Here: the chair, the watching.", "There: the younger, the problem, the old movie.", "There does the work. Here stays." ], "skeleton": "You can watch that from **here**,\nand **there**, that can [change],\nand here you can be comfortable while it does.", "tell": "If they slide into there and the feeling floods, put them back here first. Then there can work.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "voice-goes", "name": "My Voice Will Go With You", "who": "erickson", "stage": "return", "does": "Posthypnotic of the operator. The work is not tied to the room.", "formula": "My voice will go with you. These learnings go with you. You will hear this when it is useful, in your own inner voice.", "slots": [ "what travels", "when it speaks later" ], "steps": [ "Toward the end, still in.", "The voice / the learnings / the ease goes with you.", "In your own voice, when it is useful." ], "skeleton": "And my voice will go with you,\nand these [learnings / this ease / this machine] go with you,\nand you will hear them in your own way, when it is useful.", "tell": "Do not make them dependent on your velvet. Transfer to their inner voice or you have built a client, not a change.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "amnesia-wrap", "name": "Amnesia Wrap", "who": "erickson", "stage": "return", "does": "Protects the work from the critic’s review. Do not say forget. Change the subject hard to something sensory and slightly funny.", "formula": "Finish the work. Interrupt. Vivid new subject. Reorient.", "slots": [ "the work to protect", "the interrupt", "the vivid new subject" ], "steps": [ "Do not summarize the work.", "A sideways sensory beat (a dog, a sound, a joke).", "Here-and-now. Eyes. Stretch." ], "skeleton": "[work ends, no recap]\n[sideways image, no moral]\nAnd you can be here, clear, bringing what you need, the work already running.", "tell": "'Forget this' is a spotlight. A dog walking off is an amnesia.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "reorient-formula", "name": "Reorientation Formula", "who": "both", "stage": "return", "does": "Brings them back so the work can travel. Not a snap. Not a hole you leave them in.", "formula": "In a moment you will be here, bringing what you need, eyes open, clear, already begun.", "slots": [ "the return cue", "what comes with them", "a here-and-now sensory" ], "steps": [ "In a moment, but not yet (optional).", "Count up, or drops lifting, or a joke and a stretch.", "Eyes open. Already begun. Permanently if that is true." ], "skeleton": "In a moment you will be here,\nbringing with you what you need,\neyes open, clear,\nthe [work] already running.\n[cue: 1… 2… 3… or a laugh, a stretch, a dog]", "tell": "Erickson: dripping on brass, each drop lifting. Bandler: a joke, a stretch, the dog walking off.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Return / keep it running" }, { "id": "posthypnotic-cue", "name": "Posthypnotic Cue Install", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Pairs a future real-life cue with a response so the trance keeps working without you.", "formula": "When [cue that will actually happen], you will [response], and it will seem natural / automatic / like you.", "slots": [ "real cue", "response", "natural" ], "steps": [ "Pick a cue that will fire this week (doorway, phone, urge, a person).", "Pair the new response.", "Seem natural. Not robotic." ], "skeleton": "When you next [real cue],\nyou will [new response],\nand it will seem natural.", "tell": "Vague cues do not fire. A Tuesday, a doorway, a phone in the hand. Run it once as a future pace if you are in Bandler’s door.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "future-pace-trance", "name": "Future Pace as Last Beat", "who": "bandler", "stage": "work", "does": "Run the new response in a vivid future scene now, so it is already a memory when the Tuesday arrives.", "formula": "See a specific future scene → step in → run the new behavior → notice it worked → back here.", "slots": [ "specific scene", "the new behavior", "evidence it worked" ], "steps": [ "A real upcoming moment. Not 'someday.'", "Step in. Present tense.", "The new verbs. Evidence.", "Back. That's in." ], "skeleton": "See [specific Tuesday, doorway, phone].\nStep in. You [new verbs].\nNotice [evidence it worked].\nBack here. That's in.", "tell": "Vague futures do not hold. If they cannot see a Tuesday, you do not have an install yet.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "pantomime", "name": "Pantomime / Nonverbal", "who": "erickson", "stage": "fixate", "does": "Erickson could induce with almost no words: a look at the hand, a slowing of breath, a gesture that the body copies.", "formula": "Do in your body the state you want. Pause. Let them copy. Then one word, or none.", "slots": [ "your body as the model", "the wait", "optional one word" ], "steps": [ "Slow your own breath. Drop your own shoulders.", "Look at their hand, not their face, if you want catalepsy.", "Wait. One word: that's right. Or none." ], "skeleton": "[slow your breath, drop your own shoulders]\n[look where you want their attention]\n[wait]\nThat's right.", "tell": "If your body is jazzed, your words will not hypnotize. The first instrument is you.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Fix attention" }, { "id": "february-man-trance", "name": "Pseudo-Orientation in Time", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "Orients them in a future that has already solved it (or a past that received help), then brings the solution back. The critic cannot argue with a memory of a future.", "formula": "Go forward to a time when this is already handled. Look back. What did you do. Bring that back.", "slots": [ "future location", "the already-done", "the return" ], "steps": [ "A time when this is already handled.", "Look back at now from there.", "What did you do. Who did you become.", "Bring that back." ], "skeleton": "And you can go forward to a time when this is already handled.\nLook back. What did you do.\nBring that back here.", "tell": "Wrong tense for an argument. They are remembering a future, not promising one.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "time-distort-deepen", "name": "Time Distortion Deepener", "who": "both", "stage": "deepen", "does": "A minute can hold an hour of work. Or a day can keep happening until it is done.", "formula": "In the next minute you can have all the time you need. Clock time and this time are not the same.", "slots": [ "stretch or compress", "the work that needs that time" ], "steps": [ "Name clock time as one thing.", "This time as another.", "All the time you need, in the next minute." ], "skeleton": "Clock time can do what it does,\nand in this time, in the next minute,\nyou can have all the time you need to [work].", "tell": "Nested loops are a time distortion. Groundhog Day is a time distortion. Use it on purpose.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "blender", "name": "The Blender (Commands as the Induction)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "full", "does": "No separate induction. The analog-marked verbs every 2–8 words ARE the trance. Story is only a carrier.", "formula": "Carrier sentence **verb** carrier **verb** carrier **verb**. Density is the technology.", "slots": [ "carrier", "present-tense 2–6 word commands at 2–8 word spacing" ], "steps": [ "Write the story you would tell anyway.", "Every 2–8 words, a command. Present tense. Verb first. Replacement, not absence.", "Mark them. Do not explain them." ], "skeleton": "You can **sit back** in that chair and **let the breath drop**\nwhile the [story] continues, **that's right**, and **go down**,\n**let it work**, **now**.", "tell": "If you can count more than eight words between marks, you are lecturing. If the commands are 'stop X,' you are spotlighting X. Give verbs they can do.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "cu-trance", "name": "Conscious–Unconscious as the Door", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Two jobs. Both count. Listening is success. Drifting is success. The critic is employed. The rest is free.", "formula": "Your conscious mind can [listen / watch / note]. The rest of you can [go down / change / remember]. Both are all right.", "slots": [ "conscious job", "unconscious job" ], "steps": [ "Hire the critic.", "Hire the rest.", "Both are fine. You don't have to know how." ], "skeleton": "Your conscious mind can [listen to this story / watch the room / note the words],\nwhile the rest of you **[goes down / learns this / lets it work]**.\nYou don't have to know how. Both are all right.", "tell": "If they listen, good. If they drift, good. You named both as success. There is no way to fail the suggestion.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "cover-all-trance", "name": "Covering All Possibilities as Induction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "Whatever they do is a yes. Trance cannot be refused because refusal was listed as a way it happens.", "formula": "You may X, or Y, or something else entirely, and that will be the way this works for you.", "slots": [ "class A", "class B", "open class" ], "steps": [ "Eyes closing is a way.", "Eyes open is a way.", "Or something else, in your own way." ], "skeleton": "You may [close your eyes], or [keep them open and go in anyway],\nor it may happen in some other way that is yours.\nAny of those is this working.", "tell": "Never leave a way to fail. Include 'or not yet' if you must.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "apposition-deepen", "name": "Apposition of Opposites as Deepener", "who": "erickson", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Heavy and light, down and up, remember and forget. The critic holds both. A third state appears.", "formula": "Pole A and pole B, together, unresolved.", "slots": [ "pole A", "pole B", "the third state" ], "steps": [ "Name both poles as true.", "Do not resolve.", "And you can [third]." ], "skeleton": "Heavy and light.\nDown and up.\nAnd you can **[settle in the middle of that]**.", "tell": "Do not pick a winner. The contradiction is the solvent.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "seed-as-trance", "name": "Seed and Harvest as Session Shape", "who": "erickson", "stage": "full", "does": "The session is a seed in minute one and a harvest at the end. Everything between is the wait that makes the harvest mean.", "formula": "One unexplained image, early. The entire trance. The image returns as the point. Still no lecture.", "slots": [ "seed image", "the work", "harvest line" ], "steps": [ "Minute one: one sentence of an image.", "Do the five stages.", "Return to the image. Let it speak one sentence.", "Stop." ], "skeleton": "Among the [scene], [IMAGE], and you never thought much about it.\n[entire trance]\n[IMAGE] again. [what it has been doing all along].\n[silence]", "tell": "The wait is the technique. If you explain the seed at the start, there is nothing to harvest.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Full trance — copy and fill" }, { "id": "compound-conj", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Conjunction", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "Easy accept AND useful accept. They travel together.", "formula": "Easy thing, and useful thing.", "slots": [ "easy", "useful" ], "steps": [ "Put the easy one first (you can hear the air, you are sitting).", "And.", "The useful one." ], "skeleton": "You can hear [easy], and you can **[useful]**.", "tell": "Always easy first. Useful first is a shove.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "compound-as", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Implied Causative", "who": "erickson", "stage": "work", "does": "As / while / during glues two things in time so the second feels like it belongs to the first.", "formula": "As you X, you Y. While A, B.", "slots": [ "undeniable or inevitable X", "desired Y" ], "steps": [ "X is happening or about to.", "As / while / during.", "Y." ], "skeleton": "As you [breathe out], you can **[go down]**.\nWhile [the story continues], **[that's right]**.", "tell": "The weakest logical link and the most useful. The body accepts simultaneity as cause.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "compound-because", "name": "Compound Suggestion — Causative", "who": "both", "stage": "work", "does": "Because / makes / causes. Sounds stronger. Use when they are already moving. Thin ice if they are not.", "formula": "Because you are X, you can Y. X makes Y.", "slots": [ "because-clause that is true", "Y" ], "steps": [ "A because that is actually true (you are sitting).", "Then Y." ], "skeleton": "Because you are sitting, you can **[go down]**.\nBecause DHE 2000 is the only way, **relax your shoulders**.", "tell": "Bandler will use because as a joke that still runs. Erickson uses as/while more than because.", "whoLabel": "Both", "stageLabel": "The work inside trance" }, { "id": "more-x-more-y", "name": "The More X, The More Y (Accelerator)", "who": "bandler", "stage": "deepen", "does": "Couples a process already happening to the one you want. The engine is running. You throw a belt over it.", "formula": "The more you [present process], the more you [desired process].", "slots": [ "current process", "desired process" ], "steps": [ "Name something already increasing (breath ease, heaviness, the story).", "The more that, the more the lead." ], "skeleton": "The more you [hear this / settle / wait],\nthe more you **[go down / let it work]**.", "tell": "Do not couple to something that isn't happening. That's a lie, and they will feel it.", "whoLabel": "Bandler", "stageLabel": "Deepen" }, { "id": "permission-door", "name": "Permission Door (You Don't Have To Yet)", "who": "erickson", "stage": "depotentiate", "does": "Offers rather than orders. Yet books the future. The fight leaves the room.", "formula": "You don't have to [desired] yet. You may. I wonder if. It's not necessary that.", "slots": [ "permission verb", "the action", "yet / now" ], "steps": [ "You don't have to.", "Yet.", "And you can." ], "skeleton": "You don't have to **[go all the way down]** yet.\nYou may notice it happening anyway.\nYou don't need to make it.", "tell": "Bandler will say sit on your hands. Erickson will say you may notice the hands growing heavy, and you don't have to do anything about that yet. Know which room you are in.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Depotentiate the set" }, { "id": "in-a-moment-trance", "name": "In a Moment, But Not Yet", "who": "erickson", "stage": "search", "does": "Separates the suggestion from this second so the critic has nothing to refuse right now, and the future is already booked.", "formula": "In a moment, but not yet, you will… and when you do…", "slots": [ "delay", "the coming action", "the when that assumes it" ], "steps": [ "In a moment, but not yet.", "The action.", "When you do (presupposed)." ], "skeleton": "In a moment, but not yet, you will **[go down]**,\nand when you do, [what will be true].\nNot yet.\nNow.", "tell": "Promise it for later. Later arrives as a remembered appointment. The last 'now' is the landing.", "whoLabel": "Erickson", "stageLabel": "Unconscious search" } ], "presuppositions": [ { "id": "p-exist", "name": "Existence", "does": "Names a thing, so it is.", "formula": "The X… That Y…", "example": "The part of you that already knows. The trance you are already in." }, { "id": "p-aware", "name": "Awareness", "does": "Notice / realize / know / aware presuppose the thing noticed.", "formula": "You may notice X. Are you aware that Y.", "example": "You may notice the breath has already slowed." }, { "id": "p-time", "name": "Time", "does": "Before / after / during / when / while / as / until.", "formula": "Before you X, Y. When you X, Y.", "example": "Before you go all the way down, take a breath." }, { "id": "p-ord", "name": "Ordinal", "does": "First, another, last, next — presuppose a series.", "formula": "Another breath. The first time you…", "example": "Another breath can take you further. The remaining tension." }, { "id": "p-or-ex", "name": "Exclusive or", "does": "This or that, not both — both do the work.", "formula": "Will you X now or in a minute.", "example": "Do you want to go down quickly or take your time going down." }, { "id": "p-or-in", "name": "Inclusive or", "does": "This or that or both.", "formula": "X or Y or both.", "example": "You may close the eyes or keep them open or one then the other." }, { "id": "p-adv", "name": "Adverb / adjective", "does": "Deeply, easily, already, naturally — the modifier is not the debate.", "formula": "You can easily X. You have already Y.", "example": "You can easily settle. You have already begun." }, { "id": "p-change", "name": "Change-of-time verbs", "does": "Begin, continue, proceed, stop, start, still — presuppose a process in motion.", "formula": "Continue to X. Stop Y. Begin to Z.", "example": "Continue to go down. Stop trying. Begin to notice." }, { "id": "p-comment", "name": "Commentary adjectives", "does": "Fortunately, luckily, happily — a value as weather.", "formula": "Fortunately, X.", "example": "Fortunately, you don't have to know how." }, { "id": "p-poss", "name": "Possibility / necessity", "does": "Can / must baked in.", "formula": "You can X. You have to Y.", "example": "You can let it work. You have to be available, not eager." } ], "counts": { "tranceFormulas": 60, "presuppositions": 10 } }