Asking Questions

Many types of questions can be used to initiate search processes, also known as the transderivational search, and access hypnotic experiences. Attentionally absorbing questions are ideal communications for beginning a naturalistic hypnotic induction, because they enable a smooth transition from casual conversation to hypnotic induction. The hypnotist may start by asking common social questions and then shift to inquiries regarding innocuous external stimuli. Upon achieving rapport and securing the subject’s attention, the hypnotist can gracefully shift to memory-accessing questions that elicit hypnotic responses. For example:

How do you feel when you’re really relaxed and comfortable? Can you remember such a time?

Did you have a nickname as a child?

Can you remember the last time you were in a trance?

What do you think it would be like to develop a trance?

In order for questions to have a hypnotic effect the subject needs to be experientially oriented, attentionally absorbed, and the hypnotist must ask the questions in a meaningful, expectant fashion.

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