“You know, I was helping someone go into hypnosis… the other day… and he asked me… what he needed to do to go into trance… and I said…” You can use this in your hypnotherapy sessions by describing how you hypnotize other people and what happens to them. This is why watching movies and reading novels can feel so compelling – because we identify with the characters. We all relate to other people’s experiences. Practice this and you’ll find your client’s face is smoothing over and their blink response is steadily slowing before you can say: “This is just a chat we’re having!” 3.) Talk about other people’s experience of hypnosis You see how a conversational description of hypnosis can start to serve as an indirect induction. When you go into hypnosis… you just start to feel a little dreamy… sometimes you start to focus on sensations in the body… like comfort and warmth in your hands… or you begin to notice your breathing… and the way it… slows… a… little… and often the eyelids start to feel a little heavier… like they’re feeling sleepy… and sometimes images flit into your mind… of pleasant places… like the way the sky looks so blue on a summer’s day at the beach… or the birds sing in the woods sometimes… and when people… drift into hypnosis… the muscles in the face often start to smooth out… you pay less attention to the room around you… as you really just start to forget about all that… and… drift inwards… I might start to get the client drifting subtly in and out of trance by talking about the nature of what they’re soon going to experience more deeply: Now there’s a part of you which is separate… from the conscious you… listening to me right now… and that part knows how to produce dreams at night… it knows how to relax you deeply… it knows how to grow your hair… digest your food… and blink… all beyond your conscious awareness… It knows more than you do… about many things that happen in your body… and your mind… And it’s that part of you I talk to… when you go into hypnosis… 2.) Describe hypnosis to induce hypnosisĭescribing hypnosis is hypnotic, but it doesn’t feel like a formal induction because… well, because you’re just describing hypnosis.īut if you deepen and slow your voice a little, adding subtle emphasis as described above, you signal to the client’s unconscious mind (without actually spelling it out) that it’s time to go inward. Talking to someone about their unconscious mind is extremely hypnotic a great way to kick-start a trance state. Simply by adding slight emphasis to certain phrases, or introducing a tiny pause at appropriate points, you can enhance the hypnotic quality of what you are saying without yet fully engaging your ‘induction tone. Talking to someone about their unconscious mind is extremely hypnotic a great way to conversationally kick-start the hypnotic process. And it’s that part of you I talk to when you go into hypnosis… It knows more than you do about many things that happen in your body and your mind. Now there’s a part of you which is separate from the conscious you listening to me right now, and that part knows how to produce dreams at night, it knows how to relax you deeply, it knows how to grow your hair, digest your food and blink… all beyond your conscious awareness. Talking in this way is in itself hypnotic – and that’s the point. During the pre-chat I might talk about the differences between conscious and unconscious awareness. When we hypnotize someone we need to disassociate ‘conscious’ from ‘unconscious’ experience. So here are three ways you can prepare your client to feel gradually more and more ‘trancey’ using the natural conversational style of the pre-talk. FREE Reframing Book! Just subscribe to my therapy techniques newsletter below.ĭownload my book on reframing, "New Ways of Seeing", when you subscribe for free email updatesĬlick to subscribe free now But for the most part I think trancework is more effective and productive if we ‘soften up’ our clients for trance, taking them in and out many times before we ever get to the ‘official’ hypnosis.
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