“Now, before you actually get them to respond on an unconscious level to you, the 2nd Stage of the 4-stage protocol is to really ‘bypass the critical factor’. To bypass the part of their reasoning that says, “No, this isn’t so. No, this can’t be possible.” If you’ve ever given someone good advice, some advice that would actually have helped them, and they turned round to say to you, “Oh, no. You know, I’d thought of that already. That won’t work,” you’ll know what I’m talking about. That’s their ‘critical factor’ getting in the way. If you bypass that – and we’ll show you all kinds of techniques to do that – then you can present your advice, and it becomes a hypnotic suggestion: the solution actually takes.
So Stage 1 is ‘absorb attention’ and Stage 2 is ‘bypass this critical thinking’.”
Excerpt from: The Power of Conversational Hypnosis
