Dr. Illig has used the teachings of Milton Erickson and many of his peers and colleagues to create hypnosis patterns that allow the listener s brain to both learn and search for new solutions, old solutions, healthy solutions. These are solutions that work for the individual in their own special way. We might not even know exactly what a person is doing that works, only that it works. Only that it is. The teaching stories and metaphors in the SuccessWorld tapes allow each listener s brain to find pathways to change without feeling like they are being ordered or commanded to do something.
Direct orders are somewhat likely to bring out resistance rather than change.
More permissive suggestions will be listened, considered, and more likely followed by the unconscious. The suggestions do create boundaries that attempt to keep a person within safe areas. For example, the weight loss tapes have multiple suggestions that won t allow the listener to lose weight to the point of being unhealthily thin. Healthy thin is ok. Sickly thin is not ok.