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Excerpt:

One journalist describes Obama’s turn the page speech as having “had the California Democratic
Convention spellbound for 23 minutes.”115 Seeing the analysis below of just the first paragraph of this
speech explains why his audience was in a spell from the very beginning.
Obama began his speech: (notes added)
“It has now been a little over two months (pause) since we began (pause) this campaign for the
Presidency. (pause) In that time we have traveled all across this country. (pause) And before every
event we do (pause), I usually have a minute to sit quietly and (pause) collect my thoughts. (pause)
And recently, I’ve found myself (pause) reflecting on (pause) what it was that led me (different tone,
and thumb and forefinger anchor for “me”) to public service in the first place.”

First, notice how much Obama uses storytelling in his major speeches, especially at the beginning of nearly
all of his speeches. Storytelling is a primary hypnotic tool because it employs images, metaphor, the
imagination, rhythm, makes us feel like children, and takes us to another time and place so the mind tells
itself “it is only a story” and allows it to pass into the subconscious.116 However, this is just the beginning.

Obama tells a hypnotic story to start this speech with his ultra-slow speaking style with huge pauses after 4-
8 word concepts, to force you to hang on his every word.

But this is only a small part of the proof that he is intentionally using hypnosis.

The key is, that the story he is telling is a story about a “trance theme.” In one of the most popular
conversational hypnosis courses available online, the Power of Conversational Hypnosis, the first principle
taught in how to use hypnotic stories, is exactly what Obama does in this paragraph. This primary technique
is to “Use Simple Stories About Trance Themes”, or in other words, tell stories about processes which are
hypnotic, such as per the examples given, relaxing on a holiday or being fascinated by a film.117

Obama follows precisely this technique in telling a simple story in slow hypnotic rhythm about himself
“sitting quietly”, “collect his thoughts”, and finding himself “reflecting.” Hypnotic stories use embedded
suggestions so that while in trance and you believe something is happening to a character in the story, in
reality the story is about you, implanting messages in your subconscious.118 The story requires you to use
your imagination, and then the only way to understand the story is to imagine the themes Obama is
presenting.119

Obama’s first storytelling language pattern about a trance theme is “Sit quietly” – also a pacing statement
because everyone in the audience is sitting quietly. The story is, as taught by this course, “isomorphic” in
the sense that the story precisely mirrors what is happening with the subject e.g. sitting quietly.120 Then, it
is also an embedded command, because when someone sits quietly, something they have rehearsed many
times throughout their lives, because external stimuli are absent, sitting quietly makes someone’s thoughts
turn inward or internally – as in trance. Notice how the story is in past tense, but the trance theme
(command) comes out in present tense.

Notice how Obama puts the focus on this word “quietly” with the pause afterward, to use it as a hypnotic
message, as the silence emphasizes the last word spoken. His pause after “sit quietly” also serves another
purpose. (Even though he says “and” after “quietly”, there is a substantial pause there.) It is also a pace in
the manner that Obama says the word “quietly ...and”, and for a brief second there is silence afterward. He
is in fact making his statement about quietness an absolute immediately verifiable truth, because he makes it
true by pausing, and finds a way to pace you in yet another way. The more different ways he can pace the
audience on different levels, the more effective it is.

Obama’s second storytelling language pattern about a trance theme is “collect my thoughts.” Though

Obama says it from his perspective, to make sense of it, and because of his pacing, your subconscious also
hears it as collect “my” thoughts, and thus the minds of everyone in the audience is commanded to become
more in depth into each’s own thoughts, and go deeper into trance. Notice again this story about past
actions is again delivered in present tense.

Obama’s third storytelling language pattern about a trance theme is “I’ve found myself reflecting.” It works
similarly. The pause after “myself”, and then again after “reflecting” cause the audience’s subconscious
mind to pick up on these commands. Thus Obama uses this as a command for all listeners to collect their
thoughts (as in hypnotic focus)121 and be reflecting (essentially focus on another deeper level). Notice again
how he starts out telling the story in the past tense, but then says “reflecting” in the present progressive tense
to be a command for his audience to do what they are doing now.

The course on conversational hypnosis is not the only source to say such language has specific trance
induction effect. See also Dr. Erickson’s discussion of use of words like “reflecting”, and how a hypnotist
will construct sentences using the internal states consistent with a human being undergoing trance induction
(e.g. wondering, learning, thinking, feeling, remembering, recalling, experiencing).122

Obama then directs this focus. Obama says “reflecting on (what it was that led) me” While the sentence
continues, the hypnotic message is for the audience to “be reflecting on me” (Obama). Obama’s emphasis
and use of a different tonality for the word “me” is undeniable – it can clearly be heard when one is listening
for it. When not consciously focused on that emphasis, it is just heard by the subconscious. After being
paced by three separate stories with trance themes, delivered in hypnotic slow speech, the subconscious
mind is waiting for clues about what to be so focused on and reflecting on, and surely enough, Obama tells
our subconscious minds, “me.” Because he is speaking, the message is actually to focus not only on him,
but his voice.

Then, perfectly timed, at the same moment Obama says the word “me”, he flashes his thumb and forefinger
hand gesture, his classic anchoring tool.

Watching this tape – it is amazing, yet undeniable. Obama is not just using a subliminal message. He is
knowingly and intentionally performing a clinical Ericksonian hypnotic induction and putting his audience
trance.

Obama has hidden undetectably in normal-sounding speech what a hypnotist would do to start an induction
by saying “sit quietly, begin to internalize your thoughts, collect your thoughts, reflect, and focus on the me
and the sound of my voice.”123 He is talking to your subconscious mind, preparing it for deeper induction
and programming, while you think he is just telling you stories. Then, for the rest of the speech, your
subconscious mind will be receptive to messages on this level that you wont even be aware of.

Look at how cleverly Obama disguises this induction as him simply telling you a story about himself sitting
quietly and reflecting. Logically, there is no reason why Obama would be talking about himself sitting
quietly and reflecting. Yet, you would never notice this unless you understood the science behind it. By no

astronomical coincidence could Obama simply happen to be telling an irrelevant story which just happened
to innocently contain three separate hypnotic trance induction themes in precisely this way, with pauses
after each, with such an emphasis on the word “me” in conjunction with his unique hand gesture for this
word. Let alone a story allegedly about past experiences that somehow ends up with each trance theme
being delivered in the present tense. There is no logical reason why he would have pauses after the concepts
“sit quietly”, “collect my thoughts”, and “reflecting on” because those aren’t (supposedly) the ends of the
idea nor the sentence. Unless, that is exactly what he wants! There is no logical reason why he would place
an unnatural emphasis on the word “me” – nor reason to use any hand gesture precisely for this word. What
else watching this tape a few times also shows, is that Obama is a pro. He performs this so smoothly and
comfortably, that he is clearly well rehearsed, and an expert.