THE HYPNOTIC INWARD JOURNEY

In the previous article, I suggested that by using clarity checks and slowing the conversation down (#3), you can empower and facilitate your clients. You empower them to go inside and access the very frames which are either causing the trouble or the frames that will set the person free. And when they go inside, because that is the “downtime” state of trance, it stands in contrast with the “uptime” state of being in sensory-awareness. As a Meta-Coach you need the ability to take a person into both states and to constantly monitor where your client is. Your use of the uptime state grounds your client in reality, in today’s see-hear-feel world. Your use of the downtime state invites your client into his or her internal world of meaning— and it is to that world you coach.

You coach the inner game of your client’s meanings— beliefs, values, decisions, identities, permissions, taboos, memories, imaginations, understandings, knowledge, etc. All of these aspects of meaning comprise your client’s semantics and it is those semantics which inform the person’s neurology, out of which then comes the person’s performance of the outer game.