What Are You Not Thinking About Right Now?
Writing by sifnt on Sunday, 8 of April , 2007 at 1:46 am
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Well? Think about it; What is it you are not thinking about right now?… Isn’t this just the best damn pattern interrupt?
Go back and read the previous statement again… because… The more you read it the more you will realize that the more you think about whatever it is you are not the more it is you won’t be able to not go in a loop.
Now does reading this confuse you? Good, because imagine doing this with the proper spacing of words, good tonality and a couple of embedded commands like ‘your unconscious’ thrown in for good measure. That’s right, this is a powerful pattern interrupt.
Give it a shot, use the above question “what is it you are not thinking about” and anchor the response, you might be surprised just how powerful this little bit of anchoring is when you use it again.
For example, I had a friend who was very emotionally distressed because things didn’t work out between him and a girl and after using some DHE techniques (if theres interest I’ll write more, absolutely fantastic stuff by Richard Bandler here!) he was ‘almost’ comfortable with the memory of her so I asked the ‘what are you not thinking about question’ and anchored it by putting pressure on one of his knuckles and asked him what her name was (note the passed tense) and fired the anchor, I then proceeded to ask him how bad he felt (note the negative presumption) while firing the anchor again.
End result, including DHE the total time was ~2 minutes and he reports tthat there is no feeling towards her or asociated with her anymore. So play around with this, its powerful, and don’t even think about telling someone to “SLEEP NOW” with enough authority as they do the trans derivational search because that would just be way too easy a rapid induction.. Infact anchoring it and firering the anchor just before a nice little embedded “LIKE ME” command wouldn’t be fair either so DON’T DO IT.
Or at least, if you do, make sure you let me know how it works so I can continue to post about more effective things you shouldn’t be not doing. 
Category: Exercises, Ideas, Patterns, Embedded Commands, Presuppose, Double Binds, Rapport, NLP, Hypnosis, Pattern Interrupt, Anchoring, Anchor
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Comment by max headroom
Made Tuesday, 21 of August , 2007 at 9:32 pm
How can you use this to get out of a speeding ticket?
Comment by jay
Made Tuesday, 23 of October , 2007 at 11:36 am
Hey I see you do alot fo research lol I do to.Yea the wat is it ur not thinkin.I got from kenrick cleaveland .You should check him out on youtube check out the darkside it’s one of the vids of his.But I have used it as and jus saying openly isn’t as effective as throwing it out there in the middle of a coversation.Anyways hit me up on the email sometime I think me and you are oon the same page of where we’d like to go with these techniques later.
Comment by Chris
Made Sunday, 4 of November , 2007 at 4:22 pm
Nice pattern. I have been using a lot of hypnosis stuff for a while now. I began developing a branch of studies called “Accelerated Results Technologies” and to my surprise I have been doing much of the stuff Bandler is doing with DHE (it’s exactly the same but different ha ha) and that was before I even heard of DHE or NHR.
Anyhow, I have used a time distortion pattern to great effect on groups while conducting seminars and it’s quite simple. You need a good rapport with the group though otherwise you can come off looking like a loon bag.
“You’re sitting there NOW listening to the words coming out of my mouth (as you say this, make an action like you are literally pulling a word from your mouth) but earlier you were doing something DIFFERENT and after this you will be doing something else. Will that be SOONER RATHER THAN LATER? I wonder if you will BEGIN TO NOTICE ……”
It’s quite a simple little pattern and can be followed up in any way you like. It’s designed as a confusion technique and to get the group to do a TD search along their timeline at which point you could drop in any number of commands.
Just wondering, how do you go about practicing Erickson style hypnosis? I find that the major challenge is making such a diverse range of patterns and techniques a natural part of your everyday language. When you’re not so natural at this stuff it can become a little daunting to practice on people because it tends to sound a little silly. I found one way to go is to create/learn a small handful of different types of patterns and master those, then come up with another handful and master those and pretty soon you’re coming up with new ways on the fly.
Regards,
Chris Lyons.
