Language Patterns

[thackaray]

Hello Everyone,

This is my first post here. I have completed a course in Hypnotherapy about 6 months ago and I'm still have areas which I'm practising which I would like to get better at. The issue I've got is that I've got no-one that is willing to let me practice inductions on them, other than the fellow students who were on the course.

So this leaves the area of practising how to distinguish how a person receives information better. This is the usual visual, auditory etc. I learnt from the course that the words that a person uses when they speak is a good clue, but how true is this in the real world? Can you really tell the type of person from the words they use? I don't have the experience yet, to identify the types of people.

The reason for this post is that, once you know which system is the most dominant you can word your suggestions better so that client will accept them better.

I appreciate those with experience or opinions or answers to how best to identify these types are appreciated.

[skip]

Yes you can.

And you can use their posture, you can observe how they live, how they furnish their house, often how their car looks and the condition it is in.

BUT, you must remember, this is context dependant. No matter what a persons normally preferred representational system is, it will change in context.

skip

[thackaray]

Thanks for that Skip, I learn something new every day.

[Terry (existing)]

Just two things I would suggest, based on your post. First, be glad that you have those few students getting together for practise, it will become prized by you all as you progress. Each has the same goal, each has the basic training to guide them, so each will make advances quickly because of this opportunity to practise in a safe environment... Secondly, your attitude is of primary importance. You are no big cheese, just a little crumb on the pizza of tastes the world offers us all. You exist to help the client, not get practise, so study with your friends, meet regularly, and practise with the attitude that each client is important, and each problem is serious to them. Charging may not be reasonable until you have more skills, but make sure the client does something in return for your help, or you will lose one of the great motivators, "Value". If they don't value your help, it won't be help that lasts, and you will feel a failure.... Practise time should not be wasted, deal with personal problems as if each of you was a paying client, and share feelings as well as results, so that you are practising raport regularly.