damon here with NLP gym another lovely day and san diego here at
trance camp with Steve Gilligan second last day and i'm a little sleep-deprived
and I've been in and out of trance almost for a week now
every single day so have some really interesting experiences more NLP
techniques
this one I would want to focus on for this video's sensory acuity and if you
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today I went to steve after or rather doing her lunch break and i asked him i
noticed his sensory acuity skills are just off the chart and that's what
Milton Erickson the father of modern hypnosis was really known far was being
able to to see the nonverbal communication and people to see there's
them
shifting States just by looking you're going to see their breathing by looking
at this skin tone changing
well whatever the nonverbal was he was looking at all the things and listening
for all the things that most people do not listen for or do not look for him
and this is an essential skill of NLP because you learned so much more from
what people are giving you through their body language through their physiology
and it also builds rapport and it also lets you know if what you're doing is
having an effect if it's actually working on that the person you're either
coaching or persuading they the body let you know the body gives you the answer
even before the person speaks watching Steve Gilligan word for the past week
has just been amazing and he's it's amazing what he's picking up and I
actually volunteered for demonstration and it was amazing what you can see in
me and then he would even make comments about the sensations i would even feel
my feet he would ask me are you feeling sensation in your feet
are you feeling sensations in your hands and he was right I i was so I went to
him today and said and asked them because i always ask helping teachers
for for good techniques good exercises to do to build your skills and sensory
acuity is a skill in the sense that where it's a technique in the sense that
it's something you want to know about it for your NLP practice your skills
it's something you want to practice as a skill so I went to Stephen asked him if
you could recommend any practices are and he told me something that I've never
heard before and it seems amazing that I don't have all the NLP training I've
done that I've never heard this and he said your peripheral vision picks up so
much more subtle tea in your direct focus
so what he's basically saying is when you look at someone with soft eyes
meaning you're not focusing on to end
any particular thing a bound you're just basically looking at them as a whole
it's that peripheral vision even though it may seem pays even though it may seem
unfocused is really with except the subtleties in the person's physiology so
i'm not sure if on camera
this can you can see this in my eyes but right now I'm focusing directly into the
lens i'm looking right at the camera and really focusing at the smallest point in
cycle ends and it should give my eyes a certain shape a certain look to it and
then i can make them go soft and and you can just doing some kind of puts me
I feel like it kind of setting me up to go into a trance
so right now i just have a very soft focus and I can see everything around
the camera
there's no real special . and already I can see the strap on the camera
anything from the worms and I could see a plan on over here to my left
blowin in the wind and these are things i would not have picked up and I didn't
directly focused like I am now into a single point in to the left
I'm not sure what this is showing up on the screen thanks for watching
but give this a try and especially when you're working with people trying going
back and forth like close to sit on somethin on their face and then pull
back and just see them as a whole person and you think
see if you can expand that focus on the outer periphery outside of of their
person in their body and then narrow and again maybe look at her chest and open
up again and see what you notice and see the differences and just that alone is
kind of hypnotic its kind of translate when you move in the focus standard when
you pull back focus and pull back
one thing i like to do this very translate and i actually used for
meditation sometimes as i try to actually see where exactly the edge of
my peripheral vision years
and what's interesting about that is you can't focus on it because as soon as you
focus on it then your peripheral vision shifts so just with soft eyes
see if you can locate where the from your peripheral vision is very hypnotic
and it's a very good practice to develop your sensory acuity because i'm looking
at someone with those soft eyes you're going to pick up the most subtle details
the most subtle shifts in the way Steve explained it to me was from a martial
arts context there because he used to practice Aikido is that this is where
great martial artist will do because they don't know where the tax going to
be coming from from their opponent and the opponent can also sent our fake an
attack they can throw one fist like they're going to punch and then kick the
the punches of is a fake
so that your attention goes here and as soon as your attention goes here that
you're able to maybe get a different way like a kick or maybe another punch but
if you have a soft-focus you're more likely to pick up that they're faking it
so that's a good technique to practice for your sensory acuity comes direct
from Steve Gilligan and it was it something I sort of knew any of the soft
focus was it was a good technique to use for sensory acuity but he really put in
perspective it's about that fine detailing your purse your peripheral
vision is more sensitive to those look subtle changes
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