Basic Hypnotic Language Patterns 1: Cause-Effect - by Matthew Wingett

 

During his seminars, Richard advises people that coming up with a hundred examples of a single pattern will make generating the pattern become automatic. But sometimes, the busy life of a delegate causes them to think their time is too precious to brush up on their language patterns. That's why I'm going to make it easy for you to do!

 

Over the next few months I will go over hypnotic language patterns in small, friendly, bite-size chunks. I'll identify how they work, give a few examples - and then ask you to go away and make up a hundred of your own. "What?" you might be asking? "A hundred?!?!" But think about it: it's not so many. You might want to do ten a day for ten days, or twenty a day for five days - or you might want to do it all in one go. But once you've generated them, say them out loud. Notice the simplicity of the structure of the sentence, how the words are used, and then get used to using them by repetition. Notice, too, how by saying them over and over again, you put yourself into a gentle trancelike state, so that they become fully integrated into your unconscious processes. It's a really simple way to automate using the patterns, so that when you are in trance yourself, dealing with clients, you have so much more to draw on.

 

So, the first pattern I shall look at comes under the heading Causal Modelling. Causal Modelling is a means of stating a cause and effect between two or more events that are not necessarily logically connected. In this article, I will look at the type of Causal Modelling called Cause-Effect.

 

Starting with Cause-Effect, take a look at the paragraph I wrote above, starting "During his…"

 

What do you notice about the two sentences? Well, if you didn't get it yet, they are examples of Cause-Effect. The first sentence reads:

 

"During his seminars, Richard advises people that creating a hundred examples of a single pattern will make generating the pattern become automatic."

 

This is a pretty straightforward pattern. Two ideas are tied together by the words will make. Specifically, the pattern can be boiled down to:

 

Cause 1 will make Effect 1.

 

In the second sentence of the paragraph quoted above, the causal connector is very simply causes. So, the Cause-Effect sentence is:

 

…The busy life of the delegate causes them to think their time is too precious to brush up on their language patterns…

 

Specifically, the pattern can be boiled down to:

 

Cause 2 causes Effect 2.

 

There are lots of other words that can also be used to state cause and effect. These include and are not limited to: makes you, causes you to, will make you, will cause you, will create, triggers, sets off etc.

 

So, that's the basic pattern. However, there is a very important element that you need to include in the pattern to make it effective. You need to pace the client, and then to lead. 

 

The most effective way to pace and lead using this pattern is to make the causal part of the sentence something that you can verify is going on with your client - that is the pacing part. The second part of the sentence is deciding what the desired outcome will be - that is the leading part.

 

So, if you have a client sat in a chair in front of you, you might pace by saying:

 

"Sitting comfortably in that chair…"

 

And then you can lead by linking what you have just said which is definitely true, with an effect which is not necessarily true, but is the place to which you want to lead the client. Hence:

 

"…causes you to feel relaxed and go into trance…"

 

The whole sentence that paces and leads through Cause-Effect reads:

 

"Sitting comfortably in that chair causes you to feel relaxed and go into trance."

 

Or you might say:

 

"Listening to my voice will make your eyelids feel heavy…"

 

So there it is: a very simple pattern for you to practise. Notice that directly above I have given two examples starting with "ing" words, also called "gerunds".  Gerunds are a very helpful way to start a sentence to get a good Cause-Effect sentence. In fact, you could say:

 

"Starting a sentence with an 'ing' word will make it easy for you to find Cause-Effect sentences."

 

Remember, though, that there are other ways to start a Cause-Effect sentence, too, such as: 

 

"Your excitement about these patterns will cause you to go and write a hundred different examples of it."

 

Well, that's it.

 

Till next time.

 

Matthew Wingett

 

Copyright Matthew Wingett, 2009