Metaphors and Stories
Metaphors are powerful ways to communicate to someone's unconscious. Milton Erickson used this technique to pace a person's experience, distract their conscious mind, and allow them to find resources or solutions.
Milton Model Ambiguities
Ambiguities are words or phrases that have more than one meaning. This distracts the conscious mind because it then tries to figure out which meaning is appropriate. There are four types, phonological, punctuation, syntactic and scope
Milton Model Causal Linkages
Causal linkages are hypnotic words that imply a cause effect relationship between something that is happening and something the communicator wants to happen. They are used not only by hypnotherapists, but advertisers and salespeople.



