META-STATING IS A HYPNOTIC INDUCTION

When you bring one state to another (meta-state), you invite a person to move up (transcend) the first state and enter into a higher state. And that higher state is typically outside of consciousness — it is what is in the back of the mind. And when you do this, you engage in a hypnotic process as you take your client inside (a downtime state) an experience. Now while the term “hypnosis” poorly describes this (because of all of the mythology around hypnosis), it is hypnotic in nature.