Joe: I still don't understand what you mean by the term transition.

If I say to you "You asked a question while you were sitting in a chair" I am making a transition. I'm using the word "while" to define that two things are related. "You asked this" question because you want to know something that's important." Now most things aren't necessarily related, but using the word "because" gives them a relationship. i If I say "As you sit in that chair you are breathing in and out" it relates those two things by time. They are not necessarily related, but I relate them in time by saying "as."

I'm talking about relating the sentences by using transitional words. If I say to somebody "You're sitting in this chair. You are blinking your eyes. You are waiting," that doesn't have anywhere near the flowing quality of "You are sitting in the chair and you are blinking your eyes and you are wondering what the point of all of this is." Words like "and," "as," "while," "because," and "when" all build a relationship between parts of a sentence. The particular relationship is one of time That relationship allows people to move from one idea to another without disjunction. It's the same thing as saying "You're standing on the beach feeling the warmth of the sun on your body, and you look back at the beach as you take another stroke in the water." Even though the ideas aren't related, they become more related simply by adding those connecting words. You can take ideas that don't fit together and fit them together by gracefully using those kinds of words. When people listen to language, part of what allows them to flow from one idea to the other are these particular kinds of words. And you are here because you want to learn to be able to do a certain phenomenon called hypnosis. And as you go through the next three days, I'm going to teach you a lot of things that allow it to work easier. Why it works I don't know. But as you begin to try some of these things, you will find in your own experience that they have an impact. Even as I'm talking to you now, I'm using the same kinds of words and that's part of what makes it more meaningful.