In this article, I’m going to talk about a lesser known type of hypnosis tool, called trance words. These can be very powerful if used properly.
To contrast personal trance words with hypnotic words, a hypnotic word has a universal meaning. In other words, most people who speak the English language will respond to it in the same way.
A personal trance word, on the other hand, is something that is unique to the individual and has special significance to that person.
A very famous example of this is in the film Citizen Kane. In that film, we have the rich business tycoon that dies and the dying words on his lips are the words “Rosebud”. For the entire film no one knows what that means and why he said that.
It turns out in the end that Rosebud was the name of a sleigh he (the business tycoon) had when he was a child – and to him it implied all the youthful innocence, happiness, and lack of responsibility that he had back then.
This was such a powerful thing. This powerful, wealthy, old man could only think about Rosebud, his sleigh, on his deathbed.
Now, all of us have personal trance words which have equally deep significance for us. Some of these significances will be negative and some will be positive.
Be careful that you only use the positive ones when you interact with people. Here are a couple of tips to get you started in the right direction.
Key Insight 1: How To Spot Personal Trance Words
How do you spot a trance word, a personal trance word?
These are the words that people will lean on unconsciously. They will tend to use these words over and over again and lean on them in the way that they express them both physiologically and in an emotional undercurrent and the tonality itself.
For example, someone might come back from a holiday and tell you how amazing the holiday was. The food was amazing and the people were amazing. All the things that they were doing were just amazing. Notice how that word (“amazing”) has become an emotional trigger for that person.
Key Insight 2: Use The Same Tonality
It’s not just the word itself. It’s also the tonality, the way that it’s expressed.
The closer that you can get to mimicking the tonal pattern and getting the same tonality, the rhythm, and all those other things, the more accurately you will trigger the part of their neurology where all those experiences are stored and revivify it and bring it back to life.
This is, in essence, a type of emotional trigger which instead of doing it by touch or by a particular gesture, you do it purely tonally. It’s the word and the way the word is pronounced and enunciated, and the tonalities, etc. that really make this powerful.
So go out and begin to notice how other people really rely on certain words, really lean on them to make them more meaningful.