Posts Tagged ‘Tonality Exercises’

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

Practicing your tonality is very important for anyone who wishes to become a master hypnotist. Whether you wish to become a clinical hypnotherapist, stage hypnotist or someone who uses covert hypnosis if your voice isn’t pleasant to listen to then people aren’t going to take your suggestions on board. Perfecting your tonality means that that your use of techniques such as embedded commands and pacing becomes all the more effective.

Some people naturally seem to have great control over the tonality of their voice, however most need to perform exercises and practice to get it just right. There are a number of exercises you can perform which is why this article is part one of a two part series. In this part we will look at some of the basic tonality exercises including posture, posture stretches and breathing.

Posture

Your posture has a direct affect on the tonality of your voice. You can hear this for yourself right now. Stand up in a slumped position, head down and say “Hello, my name is ___” out loud. Now remain standing but straighten up your back, stick your chest out and lift your head up. Repeat the same sentence you said earlier. Notice how much more authoritative you sound.