[Neurons] Announcing the Newest Book from Neuro-Semantics

Tue Apr 21 23:39:19 EDT 2020

From: L. Michael Hall

meta at acsol.net

If you read Executive Thinking, if you attended Brain Camp, if you read
Thinking Like a Modeler --- then you will love  Hypnotic Thinking.   This is
the newest book from Neuro-Semantics and continues the series on “thinking.”
And that’s because you think hypnotically.  You not only do that when you
“sit for a spell,” and formally use a hypnotic trance to achieve an inwardly
focused state.  You think hypnotically every day--- and every time you open
your mouth to communicate.

If that’s true, how does that work?   What explains that?  What explains
that is the fact that whenever you speak about things that are not
physically present and things that you cannot point your finger to and say,
“That!  That’s what I’m talking about.” you are talking about things in your
mind--- ideas, imaginations, memories, concepts, etc.  At that moment, you
are in an inwardly focused state, seeing and hearing and perhaps feeling
something that is not physically present.  You are in a trance.

And if you are in a trance--- is it an empowering one or a dis-empowering
one?  Does it bring out your best or your worst?  Does it support and enrich
your relationships and your actions?  These are the questions.

Hypnosis is not magical.   It is not even mysterious.  There is structure to
it and that’s why you can learn it and use it to accelerate your learning,
increase your effectiveness, and become an inspirational speaker.
Interested?   Then you will probably be interested in the new book. 

This new book has now arrived at the warehouse in Colorado --- and for a
limited time, you can get a great deal on it.  If you are interested in
order one or more copies, here’s how.   When we put the book on the website
(we have not done that yet), it will go for $25 plus shipping.  

That is the same price that we have set for books since 1996.   The price
has not be increased in nearly 25 years!  Part of the reason is because
shipping via the United States Post Office keeps increasing 
 it is now $7
for addresses inside the US and $37 for mailing outside of the US.

              Go to https://www.neurosemantics.com/pay-a-statement/ 

·        There you can identify how any copies you want, I can put 3 in the
same postal package.

o   1 copy --- $20  (normally $25)

o   2 copies -- $35 (normally $50)

o   3 copies -- $ 50 (normally $75).  Yes we can put 3 books in the same US
Postage package for the same price.

·        Add postage --- $7 inside the United States

§  $35 outside the US   

·        You will be cued to type in your name and mailing address.

·        This will NOT be available as a PDF file for at least a year.

·        You can use paypal or any credit card on this link:

https://www.neurosemantics.com/pay-a-statement/ 

Contents--- 

HYPNOTIC THINKING

Foreword
4

Section I: Introduction

1. Of all the Ways of Thinking
7

2. The Hypnotic State
16

3. Conscious or Unconscious?
28

      Part I: Distinctions

4. Conscious or Unconscious?
37

      Part II: Myths 

5. Hypnotic Thinking as

     Meaning-Making
50

6. Everyday Hypnotic Thinking
58

7. Trances for Every Occasion
66

     Kinds of Trances

8. What’s a Trance Good For?
75

Section II: Trance Language
84

9. Meta-Model for Trance
85

10. Milton Model for Trance
106

11. Meta-Level Linguistics
123

Section III: Trance Structure 132

Conversational Trance Inductions

133

13. Trance: Up & Down
143

14. Relating Hypnotically
155

Section IV: Trance Applications

15. Trance Inductions
168

16. The Genius Trance

      Trance & Attention
175

17. Metaphorical Trance
184

      Trance & Metaphor 

18.  Transformation Trances
191

19.  Crucible Trance
205

20.  Health Trances #1
216

              Trances for Pain Relief

21. Health Trances #2
227

       Trances for Well-Being

22. Trances for Programming
238

3. Creativity Trances
247

24.  Let there be Trance
252

Appendices
257

Index
266

Bibliography
268

Author
272

                    FOREWORD

Our mental life is a dialogue.  It’s a dialogue between what happens to us,
what we think about what happens to us, and what we think we should do or
could do about it.  Conscious and unconscious aspects of our inner
intelligence (mind) constantly is working to figure out how to navigate life
more successfully.

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his book is about thinking hypnotically.  Yet a strange and paradoxical
thing about this is that the focus here will not be on how to think
hypnotically.  And there’s an important reason for this.  You already think
hypnotically  We all do.  It is part and parcel of how our brains work when
we think.  You and I, inevitably and inescapably, already think
hypnotically.  In fact, that may also be the source of significant problems
for you. You think hypnotically too easily and, in all likelihood, too
sloppily.  You have the power, but you may not have taken control of it, and
if not, you probably don’t manage it very well.

Here’s another strange thing about this book.  To think hypnotically in a
way that’s effective and empowering, as well as in a way that enriches your
life, you may have to learn to stop thinking hypnotically in the way you
have and learn entirely new ways.  That’s the case with most of us.  We have
mis-used the hypnotic powers that we have and, usually, we have done so
without even knowing that we have such powers.  By the way, how are your
hypnotic powers?  How well acquainted are you with them?  How well developed
are they?  How well you do use them to enhance your life?

Actually, to think is to think hypnotically.  The very process of thinking
includes being able to go inside your mind and imagine all sorts of ideas,
solutions, visions, values, ways of life, new possibilities, inventions,
etc.  That’s what it means to think hypnotically.  Yet many people—scratch
that— most people do not use this power very powerfully.  In fact, most 

people misuse it.  And that, consequently is the source of many personal
problems.  Most people think hypnotically do so randomly, unintentionally,
unecologically, and to their own detriment.  I’ll address this in this book
and offer ways to either undo the damage and/or to discover how to put that
power to really good use.

The phrase thinking hypnotically is a strange phrase, one we hardly ever
use.  Instead we talk about “hypnosis” and “trance.”  We talk about “altered
states of consciousness.”  Instead we may talk about imagination and being
imaginative, or our “unconscious mind” and intuitions.  Yet all of these
terms are problematic.  They are imprecise, unspecific, and actually
encourage unmanageable hypnotic thinking.

Because, ultimately all of these terms refer to the core competency of
thinking, and because they refer to a specific kind of thinking—
transitioning with an intense focus to your inside world, I have chosen to
use the strange phrase hypnotic thinking as the title of this book and as
the theme of this book.

As noted Executive Thinking (2018), thinking begins with considering and
questioning.  And to consider things, you have to have a way to code your
thoughts, which in the human mind, means beginning with the sensory systems
(seeing, hearing, sensing, smelling, tasting, etc.).  You use these to
mentally represent your “thoughts.”  Now you’re in a position to “hold a
thought in mind” (represent it) so that you can consider it.  As you do so,
you may begin to question it— wonder about it, re-consider it, doubt it,
play with it, turn it upside-down, and/or change it around in dozens of
ways.  Now you are actively thinking.

Thinking is not the same as knowing.  Knowing is the end result of thinking.
It occurs when you complete the thinking process.  When you know something,
you have stopped the search, the curiosity, the wondering, the probing, and
the questioning.  Thinking, as the active mental processing of information,
is an ongoing, never-ending dynamic of curious wonderment.  Thinking starts
with seeking to understand the world— 

What’s out there?  What do you call this?  How does it work?  What can we do
with this?  What else?  Is this valuable?  For what?  What is the
significance and meaning of this?  How can I achieve X?

Once you have a pretty good idea about the world that you live in (and there
are as many worlds as there are domains, fields, and disciplines), thinking
can shift gears and begin to push the boundaries as you imagine
possibilities beyond what currently exists.  Here thinking becomes
“hypnotic” as you can play with ideas in your mind, even run prototypes of
new inventions mentally, and use your visions of what can be to guide your
translation into what is.

Hypnotic thinking is not a luxury for the indulgent, it is rather an
essential part of the fabric of science, creativity, innovation, “the world
of tomorrow,” and the human passion for the unleashing of potentials.  This
kind of thinking is not for the hippies at Esalen or the gurus smoking pot
in a meditative cave in the Himalayas.  Hypnotic thinking is for all of us.
It keeps you inspired with possibilities when you authentically think
hypnotically.  It will keep you on the creative edge of problem-solving.  It
will awaken you to the mystery of being a curious human being who comes
alive to the degree that you encounter and solve problems.  It enlivens you
with an active imagination because you know how to use fantasy to
effectively enhance your planning, preparations, and anticipations of the
future.

To think hypnotically is to experience trance states.  As you turn inward
with an intense focus, your singular concentration in an area enables you to
achieve incredible things.  This is the power of a learning trance, a
creativity trance, a problem-solving trance, a well-being trance, etc.  What
you will discover here is how to access these kinds of empowering trances
and have them available when you need them.  Now on to thinking
hypnotically.

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com   

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