But more important than feedback, what do you call it when you put someone in trance,
take them out, put them in trance, take them out, put them in trance, take them out and
so on?
Fractionation.
What does fractionation do?
What's the greatest value of fractionation?
It trains for trance.
It what?
It trains for trance.
It deepens the trances.
Each cycle, it goes deeper and deeper and deeper.
Every time they go into a trance, they're learning the skill of trance, and it makes
it easier for them to go even further.
Does that kind of make sense, guys?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Is that the same effect as frustration?
Yeah.
If you think about the frustration, the way we did it at least on day one, I think it
was, all the way back when if you can still remember then ... Stretch your memory.
I don't know if it reaches that far back, but the way we did it was kind of a more informal
version of fractionation.
It was definitely going in but then pulling yourself out and going back in.
But it's more informal, because as far as he was concerned, he wasn't going into trance.
Of course, we knew the difference.
So yes, it would be a form of it, but we're going to do it a little bit more formally
now.
We're going to do what I like to call the Dr Unconscious cycles.
Think of it this way.
What if everything a person was doing was proof that you're unconscious now?
Is there any way out of a bind like that?
Think very carefully.
Are you unconscious now?
That sigh, where did that come from?
Did you choose to do it?
Did you think to yourself, "It's time to have a nice sigh"?
Who just laughed?
Of course, you're forcing that laugh are you not?
Or is something else going on here?
Some of you are showing the nice comfort of a great hypnotic subject.
Some of you are forgetting to move.
Your unconscious mind is starting to peek forward.
You can smile with recognition consciously, and yet unconsciously.
That's right.
The question is, are you in a trance right now?
If you think you're not, where did that thought come from?
Are these sufficient examples of how a Dr Unconscious might talk to a patient that doesn't
really know what's happening with them?
What we're going to do now is we're going to do the whole cycle again.
Start with work and go back to the office.
After a couple of minutes of doing the office ... I'll come to you in a second if I may.
After a couple of minutes of doing the office, then just bring them back for a chat.
Now, the way I like to do it, and I think Erickson did this as well, is give them the
offer to experience being awake in a different way, I mean back as a mind instead of a body,
right?
Coming back with only part of them in trance, only they didn't know which part of them is
going to be in trance.
When they're back and they're not in trance, then which part is?
Do you get the idea?
There's a lot of room to play with this.
Then talk to them a little bit.
Talk to them about their experience, and remember, you're Dr Unconscious, which means that whatever
they experienced is proof of what? Unconsciousness.
Right.
Unconscious activity.
Right?
They're doing it right.
They just didn't know they were doing it right.
You see, has anyone here ever felt anxious before?
Have a real careful think of what that means.
Where do nerves come from?
Do you wake up one morning and say, "Hmm, logically, it's a rational thing.
Today, I'm deciding to be anxious and nervous because ... Well, just because I can."
Is that how you start your day?
"This is the most important interview of my life.
I'd better terrify myself before I go there."
Is that how anxiety works?
Is there any experience that they can have that isn't somehow driven by an unconscious
process?
Is anyone concerned that you can't play Dr Unconscious with conviction given that you
have a human being in front of you that doesn't really know how unconscious they really are?
Come on up here, Robin.
So right now, we can do this in lots of different ways, but I want to talk about how do you
do the whole, Dr Unconscious kind of warm up cycle, or the making them work.
Right?
Are you ready to work?
Sure.
All right.
There you go.
So, let me ask you something.
Have you ever seen a reflection of your own face?
Student: Yeah.
Describe it to me. Sometimes all is bright, sometimes more bright than in other light.
Describe that face.
Usually when I'm looking in the reflection it's when I'm getting like a meditation.
I'm looking at my eyes.
Describe those eyes over there.
I can see the green blue hazel color.
That's right.
The color.
What else can you see in that mirror? I focus on the void in the pupils.
That's right.
Close your eyes and learn something.
So, is that him working?
Was there work going on there?
Yes.
Was the work directly linked to the idea of dissociation?
What was the question?
Who hasn't seen their reflection?
Who's the person in the reflection?
You.
Is it really?
So how come you're seeing yourself if it's you?
It means either you're dissociated and you're looking at your own body, or someone else
in there.
That's right, you're starting to get it now.
You can be the person in the mirror if you want, or you can be the person looking at
the mirror.
Which would you rather be?
The person looking at the mirror.
Then who's the person in the mirror that you're looking at?
Just a really handsome guy.
It's a really handsome guy.
That's right.
Do you see how quickly merging the MW Principle with just simple questions of natural everyday
examples of dissociation can really set someone up for success?
Does that make sense guys?
So, thank you very much, first of all Robin.
Just give him a round of applause.
Thank you.