Ericksonian Hypnosis

Milton Hyland Erickson was a famous psychiatrist. His approach to this world of hypnotism and unconscious mind made him earn laurels. His approach towards hypnotism is named as Ericksonian hypnotism. Ericksonian Hypnosis techniques are more informal and indirect. This form of hypnotism allows the patient have access to unlimited amount of resources that will help them in becoming unconscious for molding their subconscious mind. Ericksonian hypnosis is a very famous form of hypnotism that has changed meanings of this art. More or less this hypnotism practice is more favorable for patients because it is allows the person to reach a state of trance according to their comfortable seat.

This form of hypnotism became famous when a successful and intelligent psychiatrist tried it on his patients after his successful attempts on his own body. For the initial experimentation Erickson tried to self hypnotize and reach the trance state. He developed a few tricks and methodologies which later proved very beneficial for his patients and for all hose who tried this form of hypnotism. There are in total 6 ericksonian patterns for hypnosis. Understanding these methods will surely help you in understanding the base and mechanism of this form of hypnotism. These 6 patterns are mentioned as followed:

1. Non Directive suggestion: This pattern allows a person to naturally go into the trance. The traditional methods of hypnotism makes a person analyze and observe what is going around him while he is being hypnotized.

 

2. Implanted commands: embedded or hidden commands are made use of in this form of hypnotism because our unconscious mind can easily respond to such commands.

 

3. Embedded Descriptions: through such descriptions a person can be told what he should and how he should feel about a particular thing. This pattern very easily allows a person to understand what he aims out of such hypnotism techniques.

 

4. Sets of affirmations: In these techniques the hypnotherapist uses sets of affirmations which instill in the person some positive feelings.

 

5. Telling the truth: Telling what is true is another pattern of this hypnotism. The hypnotherapist tells his patient only the truth and expects the same from the patient.

 

6. True utilization of time: using the time properly and telling the correct approximation of the time that will be consumed is another pattern of this form of hypnotism.