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220.03 - Common Binds

Binds are just inherently baked in to both hypnokink and Ericksonian hypnosis alike. As such, two good reads on this include Kinky NLP and Hypnotic Realities. I’ll be covering the most common uses of these language patterns - but I’ve got plans to write about some of the more esoteric (and non-language pattern) binds at another time.

NLP Double Binds

Here’s a nuance to double binds that’s easily overlooked. Usually - they come with components…

  1. A set of options - which can used to limit outcomes.
  2. An overarching goal required to achieve the options.

EG: “Maybe you’ll notice yourself drifting a bit deeper now… or perhaps you’ll start feeling that in a few moments. ”

It’s ham-fisted, but we’ve got…

  1. Times to enter a deeper state…
  2. A presupposition that trance existed in the first place, even before we got to the idea of deepening. We may not even care about the deepening.

You can modify this pattern by…

  • Adding options…
  • Adding a backup plan at the end “or maybe nothing is happening at all… for now…”
  • Softened with a “Perhaps,” “Maybe,” or “Some fruit bats find” at the start

This is covered wonderfully by sleepingirl’s Kinky NLP.

Other Double Binds

Moving outside of NLP Double Binds, we can see them from a therapeutic perspective - they’re pretty close! (And hell, I’m lazy, I just stripped some of these right out of my Hypnotic Realities notes.)

  • Therapeutic binds offer a free choice between two or more similar options. But - the client is expected to take one of them.
  • Double binds offer options that are usually out of the subject’s control. This seems to apply more to Bateson binds, but, they use…
      1. Your normal request - what you want to happen.
      1. Communicating on a ‘higher level,’ or ‘how’ you want something to be completed.
    • This obfuscates that conflicting messages may be being sent.
    • EG: “I’m not sure if your left or right hand will start to rise automatically, unthinkingly.” Part 1 is the left or right hand, part 2 is the “automatically, unthinkingly.”

Some examples:

  • (Normal bind:) “Would you like a mild, medium, or spicy potato?”
  • (Double bind:) “When you enter trance, will you hypnotically experience eating a mild, medium, or spicy potato?”
  • (Temporal bind:) “Do you want to go into trance slowly or quickly?”
  • (Temporal double bind:) “Let me know when that feeling of warmth begins to spread in your hand. Is that anesthesia coming along quickly or slowly?”
  • (Conscious-Unconscious Double Bind:) You don’t even need to listen to me - your unconscious can just respond all on it’s own.