tapping the forehead

[GaryL]

Hello,
I have a question about a hypnosis process and how it relates to NLP or if it does at all. I have some videos by an instructor of hypnosis and sometimes when he gives suggestions to a person that is in a somnambulistic state he will tap (rap) on their forehead. He explains that this is a way to distract the conscious mind so his suggestions will get through to the UC and sometimes it can actually be annoying to the client.
From an NLP point of view, wouldn’t this also be a way of anchoring? I was thinking that unless you had some indication of what the person is experiencing internally, you wouldn't have any idea what you were anchoring at the time, especially if it was annoying to the client. I would guess this forehead tapping is as old as the hills in hypnosis. I would also guess that it just a matter of finding another output system (V,A) to distract the conscious mind if that were needed but I thought I would be interesting to see what anyone here thought on this matter.

Thanks

[GaryL]

As I sit here and look at this question on the forum I may have answered my own question..He is actually anchoring the suggestion by tapping and he gets the results he is after. As long as the client is not showing any signs of discomfort, it's ok to do this...

[Merlin]

Sounds like Kein <LOL>

Not needed, but it works.
And yes, it does set anchors.

[skip]

Would set an annoyance anchor in me.

[thackaray]

there is an induction technique that uses the tapping of the finger on the head of the client. The wording encourages the client to close their eyes, but to keep looking up at where the tapping is.

This annoyed me when someone tried it on me.

[Poodle]

Actually that is a fantastic place on the human body. It is chakra terms the third eye. It works great with Breathe of Spirit (Huna) or a lot of procedures to induce immediate trance without one word. All is really needed is expectation that something is going to happen and one little tap there and out they go down to the ground. Evangelists use it often. Does not work on all people but I remember one day at school when they were playing around with this. It didn't work on a young man so he came running to me wanting to know why. I told him it was simple. He just did not want it to happen is all as he was not willing to play the game. He was a very Reiki person so, of course, he would not want his third eye messed around with. Poor young guy was so upset that something was wrong with him for it not to work!! It's a great place to deepen trance tho.