Milton Model techniques Hypnosis Suggestions
Milton Model Suggestions Wording
Milton Model techniques summarized
The Milton Model techniques and indirect suggestions used in conversational hypnosis are designed to mislead or confuse, and force you to think about what the indirect suggestion might mean, what the different possibilities are, and how it applies to you personally.
But they themselves can be subtle and confusing. This table summarizes the various types of Milton Model technique. Use this as a check to ensure that you don't overlook any potentially useful commands.
The Milton Model Techniques summarized
| Technique | Conversational Logic |
|---|---|
| Cause and Effect | one thing is true, therefore the next thing must be true |
| Complex Equivalence | because one thing is true the other thing must be true |
| Conversational Commands | questions are posed in suggestions that are really instructions |
| Embedded Commands | Direct commands embedded within ordinary conversation |
| Extended Quotation | attribute a suggestion to someone else |
| Lost Performative | something is said to be true, but not how it is known to be true |
| Mind Reading | the suggestion implies knowing what the client is thinking or feeling |
| Modal Operator | use words that imply things could happen or must happen |
| Negative Suggestions | ask for one thing but really expect a different behavior |
| Nominalizations | treating a verb as a noun |
| Non Sequitur | linking something true to an outcome that does not logically follow. |
| Presupposition | assume something is true and then state the result of that thing being true |
| Inanimations | assign feelings or actions to things that cannot have any |
| Tag Question | questions that encourage the listener to confirm what was just said |
| Truism sets | used in sets of three to produce a false cause and effect |
| Universal Quantifier | word that act to generalize a particular statement |
| Unspecific Comparison | a comparison is made, but does not specify what is being compared with |
| Unspecific Object | words that sound good but are actually quite vague |
| Unspecific Verb | verbs that sound good but are hard to pin down |
| Binds | what appears to be a choice, really isn't one. |
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