Last updated: 26 October 2016
When people think of Milton Erickson, one trait that comes to mind was his seemingly natural “gift” to tell deeply hypnotizing stories.
The way he could entrance his subjects with even the simplest of words is what gained him so much respect and admiration.
There’s no disputing that he was a clever man and a brilliant hypnotist.
But his ability to always find the right words had nothing to do with him being a Shakespearean-like wordsmith.
In fact, his words were secondary when it came to his proven formula.
Which was:
Hunt for the metaphor within your subject’s story.
Reason being: your subjects unknowingly tell you the stories that they need to hear so they can heal… they just don’t know it.
Meaning that your job as the hypnotist is to find this verbal elixir and feed it back to them.
This may sound like no easy feat. But actually, it’s a lot simpler than you might think.
To find out more, watch the above video to hear master hypnotist Igor Ledochowski explain why powerful hypnotic storytelling is a skill anyone can master.
And if you’d like to see the other videos in this 3-part video series on Hypnotic Storytelling & Metaphors, you can find them below:
[VIDEO 2 of 3]How To Mine for Storytelling Metaphors: A Hypnotic Demonstration
[VIDEO 3 of 3] Amusing Milton Erickson Story – How To Influence Your Daughter’s New Boyfriend
Igor, is this the Erickson story telling class that was mentioned twice
in the Hypnotic Journeys program?
Hi William!
Yes it is the course that was mentioned.
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Hi Pratap,
Thank you for commenting. Have you tried to let the video buffer all the way till the end?
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Hi Pratap! Jesse is right; the video ends at 7:07 and fades into a black screen, not mid sentence. Please try watching the video again – you should get all the way to the end.
Interesting
Sounds really so simple but is it honestly as easy as storytelling??? Lots more info please, where can i get more info jx
Interesting!!
I was live during this exact seminar and it was great. I would take Igor’s programs seriously, after this one seminar I walked away hearing people in a different way and I felt more influential for some reason. Kudos, let me know when the next one is.
Absolutely
sound familiar isn’t it.. that because it click inside.. we do know everything is data which we turn do some meaning and in turn induce by that assigned meaning knowingly or unknowingly any way.. question is once we aware of this mechanism, what we will do with it.
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Interesting
amazing
Intriguing
Thought provoking as always.
I would love to develop the story teller within me, and the best way to do it is through hypnosis, Igor style.
See the work of David Gordon on therapeutic metaphors. Brilliant on structuring.
Well. Even the oldest of cultures used storys and metaphors to teach people without them knowing. The best example is most likely Aesop of greece. But it is nor always easy, finding the right metaphor for the circumstances. But the biggest problem I suppose, is finding th right way to tell a metaphor, without the other person realising that you are trying to teach them smth (since a lot of ppl get offendet and think that you are trying to act supperior) but still be effective. Well I for once, know that I have to learn a lot.
p.s. sorry for any grammatical or orthographical mistakes, but as you might have guessed, english is not my native language.
This is spot on. Love story telling and looking forward to getting better and better with it, Using it with clients is very exciting
So true. Storytelling, hypnosis and NLP are perfect friends.
Absolutely! Stories are often the best way to connect to the subconscious.
Yes Igor, so right, so right. Our greatest problem is that we have so difficult to translate what other people say so we are getting the message in original form. Mostely we grasp the messages in rudimentaire form and they are ofen missunderstod. Good storyteller f ex.are Obama, Jackson, Sinatra, Madonna, Gaga a s o.
I couldn’t agree more! As a geriatric phoenix I embrace all that is new and meaningful to me
I really like the concept of storytelling…so many people shy away from getting help with hypnosis, but with storytelling…they really are not aware of the effect on their own life while listening to the story you tell them with the intent to find out how the story ends…not aware that it is about similar aspects of their own life. I think this is a great tool for anyone trying to help someone who just is needing direction in their life. Thanks for sharing Igor!