trance- formations | Richard
Bandler and John Grinder’s TRANCE-formations is a
course in hypnosis, using NLP as the technology by which
it is communicated. Alternatively it is a course in NLP,
using hypnosis to teach it. So much of the Milton Model
(one of the first NLP models, discussed in Patterns I and
II) is nowadays called NLP that much of what you receive
when you buy TRANCE-formations is an excellent
introduction to much of NLP installation. I remember when
I first starting reading TRANCE-formations. It
wasn’t so long ago, and yet I knew very little about
how to actually do hypnosis. Later, I’d train
with Richard, along with Michael Breen and Paul McKenna
(see McKenna-Breen). There I learnt (as you will when
you read this book) that you’ve already experienced
trance in any number of common daily situations –
from watching television to reading a book, from swimming
to driving a car. When I first read this book, I found
out how simple it is to realise when you’re in a
trance, and how often you and everyone else goes deeply
into trance. Once you realise how common trance is, you
begin to find it much easier to allow others to get into
that trance state to help them to use the power of their
own mind. Much of what is taught in
courses that deal with hypnosis as an application of NLP
can be found in TRANCE-formations – perhaps the
first of all of them. I remember Paul McKenna telling us
on of the first trainings I did about the trainer of a
previous course. He said that when Richard Bandler
amongst others was studying Milton Erickson, one of the
things that he heard from Milton do is to tell stories.
He’d even tell stories about stories, if he saw fit.
And hidden from view, but within the stories would be the
meaning that he wanted to impart. One of the first
patterns that all the students learnt, one that
TRANCE-formations goes into much detail about, is
overloading. This includes stacking realities, although
other kinds are mentioned. Some of the inductions are
called ‘advanced’ and some ‘simple’,
but really, TRANCE-formations is advanced hypnosis for
beginners. The next question most courses deal with is
once someone is in trance, what do you do next? And
indeed Trance-formations also deals with this in detail,
including a wide range of possible 'utilizations' of
trance. You'll find the book easy to read,
a transcript of a number of seminars patched together as
one. A number of
people have said that they found TRANCE-formations easier to read than other similar
edited books (for instance Frogs Into Princes or Reframing). Overall, highly recommended for simple, quick and effective learning of hypnosis. |
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