Vague and ambiguous language
Congratulations if you've read and gained a reasonable understanding of the sections on Utilising ambiguity and Linguistic transformation - your investment will be rewarded on subsequent pages.
Let's dive right in now and experience some examples of language that might be considered artfully vague and ambiguous, or hypnotic and enticing. Read the following passage to yourself at a relaxed pace and focus your attention internally so that you can notice your reactions to it:-
As you just sit back.... and as you're thinking.... I know that you're wondering
You're wondering about certain things.... and that's a good thing.... because it is a good thing to wonder
And the very fact that you're wondering means that you can come to new insights and new understandings about the materials that you're learning
And those insights and understandings will allow you to begin to.... change things in your life.... at the unconscious level.... and at the conscious level.... in such a way that your behaviours may begin to.... shift.... and change.... and support the direction that you're moving in your life now
Now I don't know if your unconscious.... knows more or less than you think it does
And when you think about it.... for a second.... your unconscious.... right.... now....
Is making new connections.... new neurological connections which will allow you to see things in new ways and understand things at deeper levels.... haven't you
Already begun to make those connections now
And I don't know if those connections are going to come in the form of pictures or.... places or sounds or ideas....
Or feelings.... feelings that will lead you in the direction of making the kinds of changes.... that you're destined to make
Now, all of the italic text above was hypnotic language purposely constructed to be vague and ambiguous.
And whilst, in my experience, hypnotic language tends to be more influential when spoken than it is when written, you may have experienced certain responses to it as you were reading it.
One of the important things to notice is that the permissive style and the vague and ambiguous nature of the language reduces the likelihood of a clash with the world model of the reader, and thus provides a context where the most natural response is acceptance of the communication.