The Predictive Mind Blog

Hypnosis, Erickson and Clean Language

Hypnosis can be understood as a skillful way of working with the mind's natural tendency to predict, adjust and reorganize experience. Through examples from literature, music, therapy and Milton H. Erickson's work, this article explores hypnosis as a precise use of expectation rather than a mysterious state.

Conversational hypnotherapy is not based on the client merely following the therapist's instructions. At its core is the client's gradual connection with their own experience: the body, emotions, images, pauses, and those not-yet-named moments in which a problem begins to take shape. This can be called inner rapport. When the client no longer...

Why do people become tense, stay awake, repeat old patterns of behaviour or begin to succeed only when their experience of their own possibilities changes? The Predictive Mind blog explores hypnosis, suggestion, mental coaching and interaction from a perspective in which human beings do not merely react to the world, but live continuously through...