If you’re in your regular state of conscious awareness, it’s highly likely that you are operating on automatic. Now, if you are operating on automatic, are you conscious or unconscious?
Well, actually, you are unconscious. So, when we talk about hypnosis, and trance states, are we making people more conscious or less conscious?
While hypno, Hypnos, I think was the God of sleep. I wouldn’t say the word hypnosis ’cause it freaks people out, so I would say it’s like trance work or visualization.
So this is us normal, we’re actually in autopilot in normal conscious awareness. And you’d think hypnosis is about going down. I said it about. You’d think it’s about going down into unconsciousness - sometimes it is. Sometimes when we’re setting the program in, you’d want the person relaxed, but more often than not, it’s not really about whether you’ve gone down into sleep or you’ve become ultra alert and aware, it’s more like you’re running a program. If it comes to athletic endeavor, I want them to run a program in which they’re successful at what they’re doing, their normal automatic unconscious state is no good for that. The normal automatic state has recordings of their dad telling them they’re not good enough or their mom not showing up for practice or people in the team saying negative stuff to them, whatever it is, it’s no good.
So we need them actually into an altered state. We need them to be running a program. In order to get somebody to run a program if you’re normally quite passive and quiet, and I need you and you’ve told me that you want to be active, energized, enthusiastic, motivated, in a state of tenacious resolve, well, we have to run a non-automatic program to get you there. The first time we take you there, it will feel strange. It might feel good, you might feel more confident, you might feel more energized and everything else, but it won’t feel like you’re in your regular patterns of behavior, it will feel odd.
The second to third time, what happens? You start to get used to it. So as you go into this altered state of consciousness and start running this program, you get used to it. And that is fractionation. It’s very, very straightforward. Whatever you do a lot of, you get good at. So in fractionation, what we’re talking about is developing a skill through repetition, we’re laying down new neural pathways over and over again, if I can get you to respond in the way that I want, by laying down a pattern over and over again, you’re now skilled at doing that thing that can include fear responses.
If I wanna terrorize you, and I know that if I push certain buttons, and say certain words and take certain actions, you’re gonna get freaked out, I’ve now developed the skill in you of being terrorized.