Well the simple answer to this is ALL OF THEM!

Stories provide the ideal framework in which to use hypnotic language and embedded commands. They engage the conscious mind and involve the unconscious mind in understanding and interpreting. Stories are themselves hypnotic when they draw the listener into a state of focused attention where they are fully involved in the story.

Of course your story needs to be interesting and relevant and if you have an intention in mind then the story you tell will need to be “isomorphic” in some way with the current situation of your audience.

Once you have that basic framework in hand then you are free to use all of the hypnotic language you know. If you have done your preparation then you will already know that certain key words and phrases have an important meaning for your listener. These are the most powerful hypnotic words you can use and they will of course be different for everyone.

Other than that it is hypnotic language PATTERNS rather than specific words that you will use in your stories and this is only limited by the extent of your knowledge and by the degree to which you have drilled these patterns to unconscious competence.

Some of the most important patterns include

Nesting loops
Presuppositions
Linkage phrases
Cause-effect
Complex equivalence
False choice
Embedded commands and so on.

We cover all the hypnotic language patterns in the Hypnotic Storytelling program and of course Igor Ledochowski’s best selling course “The Power of Conversational Hypnosis” is an ideal introduction to learning these patterns.

All the best

Robin