Patterns for gathering Information
Nominalizations, Unspecified Verbs, Unspecified Referential Indexes and Deletions
The following articles are based upon my notes taken during McKenna Breens Practitioner and Master Practitioner courses. Milton's language patterns are the basis of most covert hypnosis and persuasion techniques. These patterns provide the foundation for all your hypnotic language skills.
Richard Bandlers method of teaching these language patterns is a mixture of installation and writing out pages of examples. The more you work with these patterns, the more you will surprise yourself as you discover the patterns begin to naturally appear in your language.
The Milton Model is often considered to be the opposite of the meta-model. This is because the meta-model is designed to take a clients vague language and ask questions to move to a more concrete description and move the client towards a solution, whereas the milton model is based around using vague language to enhance the hypnotic process.
Nominalizations, Unspecified Verbs, Unspecified Referential Indexes and Deletions
Linkage / Casual Modeling, Lost Performatives and Mind Reading
Universal Quantifiers and Modal Operators
These additional patterns should be used with the previous patterns to complete you skills:
Subordinate Clauses of Time, Or, Ordinal Numbers, Awareness Predicates, Adverbs and Adjectives, Commentary Adjectives and Adverbs, Time Verbs and Adverbs
Selectional Restriction Violations and Quotes
Embedded Commands, Negative Commands, Embedded Questions, Conversational Postulates and Analogue Marking
Syntactic Ambiguity, Phonological Ambiguity, Punctuation Ambiguity and Scope Ambiguity
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