Words that take the place of a noun in a sentence but are not tangible are Nominalizations. They can not be touched, felt or heard. Nominalizations are used as nouns but they are actually process words.When you use a Nominalization, a large part of information is deleted. Nominalizations come very helpful in hypnosis and hypnotic inductions. They allow you to be vague and require the listener to search trough their experience for the most applicable meaning. By using Nominalizations you can give useful instructions and being protected at the same time of saying something that will violate or runs counter to the listener’s internal experience.
Nominalization is the expression of a verb or an adjective as a noun or noun phrase. A noun phrase is a group of words that function in the same way as a noun (e.g. ‘the group of students’, ‘some people’, ‘the book’).
Verb to Noun: “Analyze” becomes “analysis” or “analysis of the data.”
Adjective to Noun: “Difficult” becomes “difficulty” or “the difficulty of the task.”
An exercise with nominalizations involves identifying and rewriting sentences where verbs or adjectives are used as nouns, often in the form of noun phrases.
The goal is to make the writing more concise and active by replacing nominalizations with active verbs or stronger verb phrases.
To get you started:
Make it a rhythm to detect nominalizations. Love and Loving, Walk and Walking, Talk and Talking. The more you collect, the more you will use this part in your hypnotic scripts, your inductions and ways to inspire your clients.
Have fun reading our articles about Gathering Information, the Inverse of the Meta Model and the NLP Milton Model and the exercises we provide you here online.
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