Fun with Nominalizations

by David Barron. dr.barron@changework.com

Copyright 1999 by by David Barron.

 

Fun with Nominalizations

 

Nominalizations are processes that are described as nouns. Examples are
words like "decision", "realization" , "acceptability" and "doubt". It
is most commonly said that you can recognize a nominalization by the
wheelbarrow test: "If you can't put it in a wheelbarrow then it's a nominalization."

Nominalizations are useful because they force and a person to think in
global terms. When you link three of them together they tend to lead a
person in to a mild trance. This can be very useful in deep trance work
and general persuasion.

This pattern exercise links three nominalizations together to form a
hypnotic response.

The basic formula is as follows:

 

<Nominalization> of/about/of-how your/the <nominalization> <infinitive verb>.

 

Example:

1) "Doubts about your ability to create commitment when in yourself..."
2) "Commitment of you ability to categorize these things within you that strengthen yourself..."
3) "Understandings of how your ability to commit to positive generalizations...
4) "Descriptions of how your growing commitment to access the positive actions"
5) "The depth of your agreement to continue..."
6) "Realizations about how this positive choice to your enjoyment of life..."

 

Putting it to use.
These can increase their trance like power when you use them in single
binds. (Single binds take the pattern of "The more you X the more you Y." )

 

Example:

1) "The more you may sense any doubt in your ability to commit the easier
certainty of your single-mindedness to create this outcome grows."

2) "The sooner you experience the concern of relapse the stronger you'll
easily gain the realization about your strength to wholly dismiss it."

3) "The quicker you gain conscious recognition of your ability to
experience the benefits of this exercise the easier you can unconsciously
acknowledge the unimportance of memories to understand how you learned it. "
4) "The faster your acknowledgement grows of your certainty to make these
changes permanent the stronger grows the forgetting of your memory of
how to ever do it again.

 

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