In my last article here on NLP Hypnosis Secrets I taught you a few simple exercises to improve your control over the tonality of your voice. I hope you’ve been practicing as we will now be moving onto a set of more advanced tonality exercises. Whether you’re a hypnotist or just someone who wishes to sound more like a leader, these exercises are sure to help you.

Inflection

Controlling your inflection is important because it defines what you say as being either a question, command or statement. A question ends in an upward inflection, a command ends in a downward inflection and a statement is flat.

Try saying the sentence below as a question, then a command and finally as a statement.

“Feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed.”

Keep cycling through each inflection until it becomes instinctive and natural. Know that your choice of inflection has a profound affect on the person you are hypnotizing. Rarely will you be asking questions and most of the time you should be using a commanding inflection.

Emotion

One problem many hypnotists have in their early stages of development is a lack of emotion in their voice. Because they are consciously focusing on talking slowly in a “hypnotic” manner they end up sounding more robotic than hypnotic.

Certain words bring about emotional responses, and when you say them in your everyday life you will unconsciously say them in an emotional manner. For example, if you were telling a friend about a shot you hit on the golf course you might say “I hit the most amazing shot the other day!”. Try saying that sentence out loud and you will hear that you actually say amazing in an excited manner.

The same holds true for many other words. Below are a few for you to practice.

Fantastic Imagine Fast
Whisper Powerful Driven
Smooth Careful Soothing
Relax Hectic Crazy
Down Incredible Rocket

Now try adding some of these words (or ones of your own into a hypnotic sentence) and speak it out loud, adding these emotional inflections.

“Imagine yourself floating on a soft, comfortable cloud.”

Pausing

Pausing is one of the most powerful tools in communication. It can build suspense and anticipation, and it can also allow your words to really resonate before you carry on with your message.

Many people have a tendency to talk to quickly, as if they are trying to fit in as much information in a small gap as possible. However this often makes them sound anxious and unsure of themselves.

When you tend to talk in a hypnotic manner you want to leave clear pauses between sentences. It may be helpful to imagine that at the end of every sentence you speak there is an ellipses…Allow a couple of seconds to pass before starting the next sentence. You may also want to leave a short pause after a certain word which you want to put added emphasis on.

The best way to practice this is with a dictaphone or microphone hooked up to your computer so you can record yourself. You can ready literally anything out loud whether it’s a hypnosis script, a novel, a magazine…anything. Record yourself for a minute or two and then listen back to it. Are you leaving adequate gaps between commas, sentences and paragraphs or does everything just run together into one big block?

Keep practicing until you get it just right.

I hope these tonality exercises will help raise your hypnotic abilities to a new level.

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