Practictioners don't really need to use big, extravaganza towards language

[Christa]

I think that Hypnotherapists don't need to use big words which the average person doesn't really understand or comprehend. It is better to use words that the client will understand, for instance just like when someone goes to the Doctor and he starts using an expanded vocabulary to the patient or the patients family, have you ever wanted to tell the Doctor speak our language instead of these big, annoying words that you don't understand, and the patient goes home still not knowing what is exactly wrong, I don't know if he realizes that people in general are basic.
I think it makes the client feel more comfortable if the Hypnotherapist would use words that the client understands and feels at ease with then trying to come across with these big words that the client doesn't understand, it really doesn't get through to the client any better than if they used words that were basic to the client.

[Jaime Nichols]

I agree and disagree, Christine. When it comes to jargon, I concur that we should avoid using it with clients, unless they ask for more specifics (and sometimes they do want to see research background and such). When doing pre-talk stuff, I avoid a completely canned presentation and use this interval to gather more information about the client and reflect their own language and way of representing the world to them. At the same time I also avoid dumbing things down in the pre-talk. My experience is nobody likes being talked down to, so I do what I can to keep pre-talk and probing interesting, salient, and enjoyable.

Once doing the trancework, I weave my language in the way that feels right for use with my client. I calibrate my language to the client's responses, but tend to get a bit...musical and poetic...with a good deal of my language choices. Usually it flows, and whether I've thrown a 25-dollar word or two into the rest of the alphabet soup, the client gets results.

When I debrief at the end of a session, I've never had a client complain that the language I used was too exotic or complicated. Perhaps a big part of my success in talking like me is the tonality I use when tossing in colorful and interesting language. I make it sound juicy, comforting, compelling, or unattractive, depending on the intent. Stephen Gilligan does a whole "baby talk" activity in many of his trainings to emphasize the role of tonality in hypnospeak.

At the same time, I've no doubt you are getting great success talking the way you feel most comfortable with in working with your clients. The beautiful and amazing thing about the many diverse approaches to working with hypnosis is that, when done by practiced and confident hypnotists, they all work!

Finally, keep in mind the credit Shakespeare gets in coining many of the words still in use in the English language. His Globe Theater included general seating for the Groundlings, the common man who payed for the entertainment, but also had tiered seating for the higher-class of customers. All who came to see the Bard enjoyed the play, because the communication and entertainment worked on a multitude of levels. While I won't claim to be creating such works as Shakespeare did, we can all learn from his example when writing our own scripts.

--Jaime

[Anthony Jacquin]

Tediously protracted linguistic expression speechified with a larynx made of tweed can obnubliate ones intentions serving to discombobulate and befuddle the CNS' collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism especially when the said organism is conspicuously lacking in marbles and without a hint of perspicaciousness. I therefore motion you all, so as not to perplex, to keep your tongue a quiver, yet flabbering without embellishment or ornamentation and please fear not sounding lowly and unworldly.

Best regards,

Anthony
www.anthonyjacquin.com

[Fable Goodman]

ditto

[Christa]

Hello there Doctor Anthony,
Hum, interesting some of your language is just that your language.
Best of best,
Christine Marie

[Christa]

Ditto?

[janadra]

I don't know of anyone who could have said that better.

jana