| The Milton Model - Seeing the Truth From Hype | | | | Here are some language patterns examples: |
| The Milton Model was inspired by the great hypnotist, | | | | 1) Simple Deletions - Remember a time ... |
| psychiatrist and pioneer of medical hypnosis — | | | | 2) Mind reading - I know you are thinking ... |
| Milton H. Erickson. This model is one of the powerful | | | | 3) Causality — Listen to the sound of fan will |
| nlp techniques, according to the Joseph | | | | makes you feel more comfortable
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| O’Connor and John Seymour, in their book of | | | | 4) Nominalizations - So close your eyes and think for a |
| Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for | | | | moment about some recent learning
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| Understanding and Influencing People, The Milton | | | | 5) Unspecified verbs - People can learn better under |
| Model is referring to: a way of using language to | | | | relax condition |
| induce and maintain trance in order to contact hidden | | | | 6) Modal operators - You should start feeling cold
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| resources of our personality. It follows the way the | | | | 7) Universal quantifiers - Every breath takes you into |
| mind works naturally. Trance is a state where you are | | | | deeper sleep
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| highly motivated to learn from your unconscious mind in | | | | 8) Linguistic presuppositions - When you go into trance, |
| an inner directed way. It is not a passive state, nor are | | | | you may discover that today’s learning had |
| you under another’s influence. There is | | | | associate with your subconscious mind
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| co-operation between client and therapist; the | | | | 9) Lack of Referential Index: you can get what you |
| client’s responses letting the therapist know | | | | want
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| what to do next.(pp. 113-114) | | | | 10) Lost performatives - Relaxation allows your |
| The Milton Model hypnotic language patterns are is a | | | | creativity to flow |
| powerful tool for hypnotically opening up the mind to | | | | In summary, the Milton Model language pattern is useful |
| new possibilities and used to help guide someone | | | | in sales, therapy, family relations and in gaining rapport |
| without interfering with their experience. Unlike the | | | | in general. The Milton model is purposely vague and |
| Meta Model, the Milton Model relies essentially on skillful | | | | metaphoric and is used to soften the meta model and |
| vagueness of the language while the Meta Model | | | | make indirect suggestions. Patience and observation |
| makes vague language specific. | | | | are keys to the Milton Model of hypnosis success. |