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Hypnotise Yourself for Success

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Table of Contents
Intro uction C"#pter $% Hypnosis& t"e '#sics C"#pter )% Con itionin* C"#pter +% T"e ,o-er of Su**estion C"#pter !% Hypnotic In uction C"#pter 0% T"e Inter1ention St#*e C"#pter (% Rele#se fro2 Hypnosis Conclusion ! ( $( ). +/ 0+ 0/ 3.
Introduction
$!pnosis is a separate, altered state of ons iousness. (ou are not asleep. (ou are not awake. (ou are in a .tran e. for la k of a better word. / tran e is a state of mind in whi h people are able to free their minds from the onstraints of their five senses and pre on eptions. T!pi all! the sensation is des ribed as rela*ing, blissful, dream! or .0 1ust felt different.. $!pnotism is the pro ess of indu ing a h!pnoti tran e. $!pnotherap! is the pra ti al appli ation of $!pnotism to help people over ome man! problems and diffi ulties. 2$!pnolog!3 is another word !ou ame ome a ross. 2$!po3 is 4reek for 2sleep3. The ending 2olog!3 means the stud! or the lore or even the s ien e of something. &o 2$!pnolog!3 literall! means the stud! of sleep.
,syc"olo*y is the stud! of the mind. 0t is a vast, omple* sub1e t and to deal with it at length would leave little room for an! other sub1e t in this e5ook. 6evertheless, we shall deal with the mind in general, and stud! all the aspe ts !ou are most likel! to need. /lthough there are man! different s hools of thought, and one an approa h ps! holog! in a variet! of wa!s, !ou are about to embark on a ver! straightforward, eas!'to'understand stud!, with ever!thing e*plained in a simple, pra ti al manner.
T"e Min is intangible. 0t is not the ph!si al brain but something far more intangible. 0t onsists mainl! of thoughts, ideas, reasoning, awareness, per eptions, on epts, memories et . 0t is reative, al ulating, s heming, imaginative, et ., et . /lthough ompletel! non'material and non'ph!si al, mind is a kind of re epta le for ever!thing one e*perien es throughout life.
Unconscious Min . 7e an#t be ons ious of ever!thing going on around us all the time. 0t would drive us ra8!. &o the vast ma1orit! of it is handled b! a part of our mind be!ond our ons ious awareness. 7e all this the un ons ious mind. The term was oined b! the 19th' entur! 4erman romanti philosopher :riedri h & helling. The on ept was developed and popularised b! the /ustrian neurologist and ps! hoanal!st &igmund :reud. "mpiri al eviden e suggests that un ons ious phenomena in lude repressed feelings, automati skills, subliminal per eptions, thoughts, habits, and automati rea tions, and possibl! also omple*es, hidden phobias and desires. Su'conscious Min is the part of ons iousness that is not urrentl! in
fo al awareness. The word sub ons ious is an angli i8ed version of the :ren h subconscient as oined b! the ps! hologist Pierre Janet, who argued that underneath the la!ers of riti al thought fun tions of the ons ious mind la! a powerful awareness that he alled the sub ons ious mind. 5e ause there is a limit to the information that an be held in ons ious fo al awareness, a storehouse of one#s knowledge and prior e*perien e is needed; this is the sub ons ious. &o !ou will see that the terms <n ons ious =ind and &ub ons ious mind arose histori all! from different sour es but basi all! mean the same thing. 0n this e5ook 0 will be using the terms inter hangeabl!.
"a h impression a ts as a stimulus, and ea h stimulus demands some kind of response. The un ons ious mind ould respond positivel! or negativel! to the stimulus. 0f positive, it ould be either Instincti1e or Con itione . The abilit! to respond instin tivel! is inherent in humans from before birth, whereas onditioned responses are the out ome of training or learning ) onditioning+. The un ons ious mind is most obedient but it la ks su h fa ulties as initiative, reason et . 0t is onl! able to respond as it has alwa!s responded to stimuli.
Consciousness #n t"e Conscious Min . 6ow pra ti all! all that has so far been mentioned, has been to do with the un ons ious > sub ons ious. 7hat then of the ?ons ious =ind and ?ons iousness@
?ons iousness is the %ualit! or state of being aware of an e*ternal ob1e t or something within oneself. 0t has been defined asA sentien e, awareness, sub1e tivit!, the abilit! to e*perien e or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the e*e utive ontrol s!stem of the mind.
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Cespite the diffi ult! in definition, man! philosophers believe that there
is a broadl! shared underl!ing intuition about what ons iousness is. /s =a* Delmans and &usan & hneider wrote in The 5la kwell ?ompanion to ?ons iousnessA ./n!thing that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our ons iousness, making ons ious e*perien e at on e the most familiar and most m!sterious aspe t of our lives..
0f 0 had the time 0 ould rattle on all da! about ons iousness but all !ou need to know in order to arr! out h!pnosis is that it is the part of the mind !ou are aware of and have dire t ontrol over. (ou ontrol !our un ons ious mind with self'talk, b! re iting affirmations and b! edu ating !ourself.
Coing these things gives !ou a lot of ontrol over !our life. There have been wildl! varied estimates as to how mu h of the mind is ons ious and how mush un ons ious. /nalog! is often made with an i eberg. &urfa ing it to sa! that the ons ious mind is tin! in omparison with the un ons ious.
7ouldn#t it be grate if there was a wa! to e*tend our ons ious ontrol to our un ons ious minds@ Just imaging how mu h more we ould a omplish. 7ell lu kil! for us there are several wa!s and the one 0 am tea hing !ou about here is alled h!pnosis.
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Hypnosis, the basics.

7e are now going to ommen e our stud! of h!pnosis. Ene of the things that 0 hope this lesson will do is to dispel some of the falla ies !ou ma! have heard, and thus the mis on eptions that man! people ma! have, on erning h!pnosis
:irst 0 want to talk a little bit about $!pnotherap!.
4"#t is "ypnot"er#py5 $!pnotherap! is the ombination of h!pnosis with therapeuti treatment, that is to sa!, h!pnosis is a te hni%ue within whi h the sub ons ious mind is utilised to a hieve a therapeuti end. $elping people to be ome more su essful in their lives ould reasonabl! be in luded under this heading and 0 will be using it a lot in this book.
T"e History of Hypnosis. The earliest referen es to h!pnosis ome from an ient "g!pt and 4ree e, furthermore, referen es have been found in te*ts from an ient ?hina and in the $indu Dedas.
The father of modern $!pnosis ma! well have been :rans /nton =esmer, who lent his name to the term ,mesmerised-. 5orn in 1F3G, =esmer graduated in medi ine at Dienna.
James 5raid, a do tor pra tising in =an hester, oined the term 2h!pnosis3 in the 1930s )from the 4reek word 2h!pnos3 whi h means 2sleep3+. $e later regretted his hoi e of word, be ause h!pnosis does not involve sleep, but b! then the term was in ommon usage.
/ 5ritish surgeon, James "sdaile, used h!pnosis as an anaestheti and performed man! well'do umented operations using the te hni%ue. $owever, the dis over! and use of medi al ether in the 19G0s effe tivel! ended the use of h!pnosis as an anaestheti . 6otwithstanding this, $!pnotherapists refer to the deepest levels of $!pnosis as the ,"sdaile state-.
6o dis ussion of the histor! of $!pnotherap! would be omplete without mention of "mile ?oue. "mile ?oue was a :ren h apothe ar! who pioneered the method of self'h!pnosis alled auto'suggestion during the 1H20s.
"ssentiall!, ?oue in his work emphasised the role of positive thinking in self'improvement. 0n this wa! he proposed bridging the gap between behaviour and ognition, a on ept offered over 2I0 !ears earlier b! 5laise Pas al. ?oue is famous for the mantra Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. 5ut an re iting a mantra involving positive thoughts improve ones out omes@ There is now mu h eviden e that it an.
The 5ritish =edi al /sso iation )5=/+ has onl! re entl! hanged its attitude to omplementar! therapies, in luding h!pnosis. /lthough the 5=/ formerl! opposed non'medi al treatment, the! now a ept the effi a ! of some properl! regulated omplementar! therapies, and have advised do tors to seek more information to help meet publi demand for treatment. /s a result, man! do tors now refer patients dire tl! to %ualified h!pnotherapists.
/t this 1un ture it might be sensible to tr! and answer the %uestion ,7hat is $!pnosis@-. =! answer might surprise !ou. The first thing to state is what h!pnosis is not.
$!pnotism is not some form of mind ontrol imposed upon the sub1e t b! the h!pnotist. 0n fa t it is not possible for an!one to h!pnotise an!bod! else. / suitable des ription of h!pnosis isA
Hypnosis is a state of awareness dominated by the subconscious mind.
There is in fa t no su h thing as hetero'h!pnosis. 0t is ompletel! impossible for me, !ou, or an! bod! else to ,h!pnotise- another person. 7hat a tuall! happens is that the h!pnotist a ts as a atal!st or fa ilitator of h!pnosis. $e or she reates an atmosphere for the sub1e t, whi h, when oupled with guidan e from the h!pnotist, reates in the sub1e t the onditions that enable the sub1e t to enter the h!pnoti state. 0t is in this indu ed h!pnoti state that either benefi ial suggestions an be made or the pro ess of ps! hoanal!sis ma! pro eed.
T"e Hypnotic St#te. / h!pnotherap! session usuall! pro eeds in four stagesA
1+ 0ndu tion 2+ Ceepening 3+ Therapeuti 0ntervention G+ Belease )often termed ,awakening-+.
$!pnotists use the terms ,sleep- and ,awakening- even though the! ompletel! understand that the sub1e t is not ,asleep- and therefore does not in realit! need ,awakening-. $e or she is alread! awake albeit in an altered state of ons iousness. 0t is 1ust that h!pnotists find it onvenient to use terms su h as ,sleep- and ,awake- when dealing with the sub1e t.
Throughout the therap! session the sub1e t is ompletel! aware and an release his or her self from the h!pnoti ondition should the! so wish. &in e this is the ase it is lear that no one an be made to perform an! a t that the! did not wish to perform 1ust be ause the! are in h!pnosis.
Ene of the most important debates in h!pnotherap! ir les on erns the definition of the h!pnoti state. There is one s hool that believes that there is no su h thing as a uni%ue h!pnoti state. /ll that o urs is that h!pnoti indu tion does no more than redu e ons ious attention in the sub1e t and in rease the a essibilit! of the sub ons ious mind.
0 must state that although this position is perfe tl! valid, and su h an h!pothesis in no wa! diminishes the abilit! of a h!pnotherap! pra titioner to assist a sub1e t to enter the h!pnoti state, it still leaves the %uestion as to wh! this is at all possible.
=! own view is that it is be ause of the wa! in whi h evolution has stru tured the human brain, and be ause ertain t!pes of a tivit! are arried out b! different parts of the brain, that the h!pnoti state an be indu ed. 0 do not wish to go into an! depth on erning the stru ture and working of the brain e* ept as is ne essar! to e*plain this view.
The human being possesses what has been des ribed as a triune brain. That is to sa! we have a omposite of three brains inside our skulls, linked and interlinked, all with their own spe ial fun tion. The newest part of our brains, alled the neo' orte*, is split in two halves the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. These halves an ommuni ate with ea h other be ause the! are linked b! a corpus callosum, whi h might be des ribed as a multi hannel able linking the right brain and the left brain. Besear h over the !ears has shown that the right brain is the part that deals with imager!, reativit!, imagination, and emotion; whereas the left brain is our al ulating, logi al fa ilit!. 0t is the part of the brain that deals with language as written and as the spoken word.
7hat ma! well be happening during the h!pnoti indu tion pro ess is that something analogous to a swit h is pressed that permits the right brain to dominate over the left brain. The result of this is that logi al ons iousness is superseded b! imagination, emotion, and the abilit! to use s!mboli and visual imager!. The h!pnoti state is therefore a parti ular state of awareness dominated b! the right hemisphere of the neo' orte*.
In uction6 &o how does the h!pnotherapist assist his lient in entering the h!pnoti state@ This is done b! dire ting the fo us of ons ious attention and while ons iousness is dire ted elsewhere, making suggestions to the sub ons ious mind to rela*. 6ow !ou are sitting reading this book, !our ons iousness is fo ussed to the sub1e t we are dis ussing. (our left hemisphere3s riti al fa ulties are fun tioning. (ou an therefore hoose to read, think about something else, or do8e off. 6ow the sub ons ious mind does things in a different wa!.
<nder normal ir umstan es the sub ons ious mind takes dire tion and suggestion from the ons ious mind onl!. 0t therefore makes the assumption that an! suggestion or dire tive it has re eived has been pro essed and a epted b! the ons ious mind and ma! be a ted upon. 0n fa t it must a t upon the suggestion J it is a rule that a suggestion a epted b! the sub ons ious mind must manifest itself in motor a tion. En e the sub ons ious mind has a epted a suggestion it -ill a t on it. E1ery ti2e& no e7ceptions6
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Thus the essen e of suggestive h!pnotherap! is to get the sub ons ious mind to a ept the therapist3s suggestions without the intervention and re1e tion of the ons ious mind. 0f the ons ious mind blo ks the suggestion no motor a tion will o ur. /n indu tion usuall! ommen es b! sitting the sub1e t in a omfortable hair and dire ting the fo us of their ons ious attention to a spot on the wall, perhaps 1ust above the level of their line of sight so that a little bit of strain is involved and thus the fo us of ons iousness is further assisted. 0n this state the h!pnotherapist makes ontinuous suggestions to the sub1e t to enter a rela*ed )or light h!pnoti + state. The net result of this when su essful )and it usuall! is+ is that the sub1e t is rela*ed and read! to a ept further suggestion.
0t is worth noting at this point that an!one who is of sound mind ma! be h!pnotised. 0n fa t, the more intelligent and imaginative a person is, the easier it is for them to enter h!pnosis; and the deeper the state that the! an entertain.
Deepenin*6 /t the point at whi h the sub1e t eviden es the s!mptoms of light h!pnosis su h as lassitude, slight flushing of the fa e, regular, but shallow breathing e!es rolled upwards in the head to name but a few, the h!pnotherapist gets the sub1e t to use visual imager! to allow him or her self to a ept the h!pnotherapists suggestions to enter a deeper level of h!pnosis.
0t is important to understand that even though we talk about a ,deeper level of h!pnosis-, the sub1e t is full! ons ious but is in a mu h heightened state of awareness. ?ons ious attention is minimised and although the sub1e t ma! appear as if asleep, that is no more than the e*ternal visual effe t of redu ed ons iousness and in reased internal a tivit!. Ene would onl! have to indi ate that there was a danger )su h as a fire+ for the sub1e t to instantl! return to the world of ons ious a tivit!.
T"er#peutic Inter1ention. En e the sub1e t has a hieved a deepened state of h!pnosis the h!pnotherapist an start to make benefi ial suggestions, whi h are immediatel! a epted b! the ons ious mind. This is the therapeuti intervention phase of a h!pnoti session. $owever, this has to be done in a ver! parti ular and pre ise manner otherwise unwanted side effe ts an result.
Ket me give !ou an e*ample. 7e will assume that a lient has ome to me spe ifi all! to be helped with mone! problem. 6o matter how mu h will power he tries to appl! to his habit of repelling mone! is unable to give it up. The more he fo uses on the habit and keeps sa!ing to himself ,0 will make more mone!-, he falls foul of one of the laws formulated b! the great therapist "mile ?oue.
Ene of his laws is known as the Kaw of Beversed "ffe t. 7hat this law sa!s in effe t is that ,the harder !ou tr!, the less !ou su eed-. 0 am %uite sure that all of !ou an remember a ir umstan e when this affe ted !ou. )Bemember that time when however hard !ou on entrated on !our tennis serve the worse it be ame@+
This law is of great importan e be ause if the h!pnotherapist phrases his suggestions in ignoran e of this law then not onl! will he fail to a hieve his ends but he ma! also ause internal ps! hi stress. 0 use the word ps! hi in the sense of ps! holog! and mental pro esses, not in an! paranormal sense.
0f m! sub1e t is in a deepened state of h!pnosis and 0 make a suggestion su h as ,(ou will not repel mone! an!more- the law of reverse effort will ki k in and the sub1e t ma! well in rease his diffi ult relationship with mone! and at the same time e*perien e ps! hi stress be ause he is tr!ing a a omplish something he annot do.
&uggestions given in h!pnosis must be arefull! ou hed so that the! an be a epted b! the sub ons ious mind and not invoke an! of the various known laws of mental behaviour. / mu h better suggestion, for e*ample would be ,/ttra ting wealth is eas! and effortless. -, ,&u ess makes !ou so proud and happ!.-
7hen preparing suggestions for use in h!pnotherap! it is of ru ial importan e to avoid dire t negatives, vagueness, and imponderables. Enl! positive, dire t suggestions will su eed. Rele#se from the h!pnoti ondition. En e the h!pnotherapist has ompleted his suggestions it is ne essar! to release the sub1e t from the h!pnoti ondition. This is usuall! done b! sa!ing something along the lines ofA That completes our session. I am now going to count up from zero to five. t each number counted up you will find yourself becoming more and more awa!e and when I reach five you will be wide awa!e and feeling thoroughly refreshed and alert. "ero # starting to wa!e up $ne Two # feeling more awa!e Three %our # eyes open %ive # fully awa!e and you now feel refreshed and rela&ed.
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/nother wa! in whi h the h!pnotherapist an assist his or her lient is b! tea hing them self h!pnosis. /nd the wa! in whi h the! an appl! auto' suggestion. This te hni%ue is ver! su essful when used in hara ter building and onfiden e building situations be ause the! an be used on a regular basis. Beinfor ement an be arried out at intervals b! the h!pnotherapist.
An#lysis. 7hat 0 have 1ust been talking about is the better known use of therapeuti intervention during h!pnosis J that is to sa! suggestion therap!. &uggestion therap! is a ver! effe tive wa! of helping a sub1e t to solve their problem but it does have its limitations.
<sing suggestion therap! might well ure a lient of smoking, sa!, and undoubtedl! he or she feels that the treatment was worthwhile. $owever it is possible that the toba o habit has been repla ed b! another habit su h as sweets or ho olate, or perhaps an in rease in al ohol onsumption.
&uppose that the lient had been suffering from laustrophobia and after suggestion therap! he or she went round sa!ing something to the effe t of 'osh, I have no problems going into lifts or small spaces anymore.
<nfortunatel! the! are now %uite apprehensive of going out into large spa es, or have developed a fear of rowds, or some other phobia ompletel! un onne ted with laustrophobia has taken root. The sub1e t of ourse makes no onne tion with this new phobia and the removal of his or her old phobia. &o, what went wrong@
0n matters of the mind as in ph!si al me hani s the law of ause and effe t applies. The original phobia or habit had to have a root ause. 0n the ase of smoking it ma! have been no more than the effe t of peer group pressure and the fa t that ,ever!bod! smoked-. 0t therefore be ame the so ial thing to do. This is likel! to be true for man!, man! ases but not all.
0n some ases the smoking habit, this G0 igarette a da! onsumption, ma! be the outward manifestation of an inner s!mptom. This inner s!mptom ma! be des ribed as an unreleased head of steam, an internal pressure, or, in the language of ps! hoanal!sis, a repressed memor!. Thus the presenting problem ma! be aused b! a repressed memor! from hildhood. This internal stress, or repression, manifests itself as the e* essive onsumption of igarettes. Er the inabilit! to get into a lift, or a bad stutter, or an asthma atta k, or the inabilit! to make mone!. 0f the repressed memor! an be released then the e*ternal s!mptom will disappear.
The te hni%ue used to un over the repressed memor! is h!pnoanal!sis. 0n h!pnoanal!sis the h!pnotherapist indu es the sub1e t into the h!pnoti state and then en ourages the sub1e t to des ribe what he or she is thinking. The first session pro eeds along the lines of free asso iation and is often referred to as ,shaking the tree-.
0n the ase were the sub1e t e*hibits the manifestations of free'floating an*iet! then, in the h!pnoti state, the ause of that an*iet!, that repressed memor!, is a tuall! not that far from thought.
5! getting the sub1e t to des ribe his thoughts and mental images the repressed memor! will, after several sessions, be brought to the surfa e and released with the appropriate abreaction. 7e will talk more about abrea tion later.
This is the lassi te hni%ue of ps! hoanal!sis. 7hen this happens the sub1e t is freed of the repression, understands his or her situation and will no longer e*hibit the an*iet! s!mptoms previousl! demonstrated.
5! now !ou now have a good overview of h!pnotherap!. $!pnotherap! is a valuable treatment modalit! suitable for man! onditions and has been of enormous help to man! thousands of people worldwide.
&o it is b! means of the h!pnoti indu tion te hni%ue, that is to sa! b! the omplete inward fo ussing of attention and the elimination of outside stimuli, that the sub1e t graduall! and gentl! makes a transition from ons ious awareness to sub ons ious awareness, thereb! entering the state of h!pnosis.
/ deepening pro ess is then administered, ausing the sub1e t to ph!si all! rela* and to be mentall! removed from the riti al fa ult! of the ons ious mind that anal!ses words and events. 0n the ase of suggestion therap!, therapeuti suggestions are then made in words and phrases readil! understood b! the sub1e t.
/ eptan e of these suggestions b! the sub1e t is based upon his or her needs, desires, and beliefs. =ental images are reated in the mind of the sub1e t b! the language and suggestions of the h!pnotherapist. The sub1e t then makes his life onform to the sub ons ious image that he or she has been given.
/n! mental image a epted b! the sub ons ious mind will be ome the blueprint that the mind is bound to ompl! with. There are no e* eptions.
Conditioning
?onditioning means training the sub ons ious response to rea t in a predetermined manner to stimuli. (ou will remember the ontinuous influ* earlier. "a h of these impressions an a t as a the sub ons ious mind some kind of response. stimulus+, the sub ons ious has read!'made instin tive responses. of impressions mentioned stimulus, demanding, from :or some stimuli )plural of responses. These are
There are however, an infinite number of stimuli for whi h no read!' made responses are available. These make it ne essar! to train ) ondition+ the sub ons ious in order to provide it with a repertoire of suitable responses. :a ulties of the ons ious mind shoulder the responsibilit! of giving the ne essar! instru tion for training the sub ons ious. 5! repeatedl! ordering the sub ons ious to respond to a spe ifi stimulus in a ertain wa!, the sub ons ious eventuall! learns to respond without orders from the ons ious mind. The sub ons ious mind is not able to reason, it is ompletel! obedient, and in apable of responding to a stimulus in an! wa! other than that of the onditioned response. 7ell now !ou know that !ou are %uite apable of arr!ing out some onditioning. 0n fa t, !ou have alwa!s been able to do it. ?onditioning is simpl! the pro ess of learning. /s !ou learn, !ou automati all! ondition !our sub ons ious responses. To illustrate this fa t, imagine a person attempting to ride a bi ! le for the ver! first time. $e finds it ne essar! to fo us all his attention on maintaining balan e, otherwise, he would fall off. :or %uite a long time he must ons iousl! ontrol his movements in order to prevent losing his balan e and falling. The slightest digression of attention from the essential task of maintaining balan e, would result in falling.
/fter mu h pra ti e and perseveran e, a student of ! ling will find that he is able to ride his bi ! le, and, at the same time, fo us his attention on other things without fear of mishap. $e will be able to free his ons ious mind from the task of un easing vigilan e over the te hni al intri a ies of balan ing on a bi ! le. 0n fa t, he will be able to do this so well, that were he to find himself on a straight, %uiet, traffi 'free road, he#d be able to ride along on the bi ! le %uite omfortabl! whilst reading a book.
The little stor! of our ! list friend#s fate of ombined a tivities has been used, merel! as a means of presenting a fa t. /nd that fa t is thisA the ! list, who not so long ago relied entirel! on his ons ious mind dire ting those ph!si al movements ne essar! to maintain balan e, an now ! le merril! along, entirel! independent of ons ious dire tion and ontrol.
Cue to the ons ious mind being limited to dealing with onl! one thing at a time, one is onl! able to on entrate the attention on one set of related sense impressions at an! given moment in time. Lnowing this, we an be sure that our ! list friend, whilst on entrating on the book, was not on entrating on propelling the ! le along the road.
Ket us now onsider what happened to the ! list between his first attempt and when he found himself able to ! le ompetentl! without even thinking about it.
/t first, the sub ons ious mind was re eiving stimuli in the form of ph!si al instabilit! resulting from ertain parts of the bod! being brought into onta t with su h things as handlebars, saddle and pedals of an unfamiliar bi ! le.
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6ow, the sub ons ious mind, not knowing how to respond to su h strange, unfamiliar stimuli, would have to re eive instru tions on how to behave; and these instru tions would have to ome from the ons ious fa ulties.
/fter repeatedl! re eiving instru tion of this kind, the sub ons ious would have be ome onditioned and would be able to respond to su h stimuli as bodil! onta t with the bi ! le saddle, pedals, et ., without instru tion or guidan e from the ons ious fa ulties.
6ow let us move to another ver! important sub1e t, and that is, the Power of &uggestion.
Tr#nsfor2 your life -it" t"ese 4reat $!pnosis Besour es
The Power Of Suggestion

/lthough it is true to sa! that mu h of our behaviour is the result of onditioning, it is also true to sa! that suggestion ontrols our behaviour. &uggestion sele ts spe ifi onditioned responses, whi h in turn, manifest as t!pes and spe ifi patterns of behaviour. Eften we find ourselves responding in a parti ular wa! to a parti ular situation, either as a result of suggestion from an e*ternal sour e su h as onversation, advertising, television, et ., or suggestion arising from our own ons ious reasoning. =an! ps! hologists maintain that the sub ons ious mind does not have the power to re1e t suggestion. That is to sa!, all suggestions rea hing the sub ons ious mind must produ e the intended responses ' provided of ourse that appropriate sub ons ious responses are available. Ether ps! hologists are not entirel! onvin ed, but are, nevertheless, prepared to a ept that the prin iple does work when spe ial preparations have been made to provide ideal onditions. "ither wa!, it is obvious that suggestion an influen e behaviour. To the sub ons ious, suggestions are stimuli to whi h the! will respond at all times a ording to their onditioning or instin t. 7h! is it then, that when we suggest something to someone, it doesn#t work@ The reason for this state of affairs is the intervention of the ons ious mind ' and in parti ular, one of the fa ulties known as the ?ensor. (ou must remember that !ou are tr!ing to get the suggestion through to the sub ons ious. 5ut the ons ious fa ulties are ever lurking. 0f the! intervene, the! ould de ide to order the sub ons ious to respond in a manner whi h is entirel! different from its normal onditioned response, or order it not to respond at all. There are %$() main wa!s of dealing with ons ious intervention so that suggestions are made more effe tive, and the! areA'
SUB I!I"# SU$$%STIO" & 7ith this method, the suggestion is delivered to the sub ons ious without attra ting the attention of the ons ious sensor. This means that the suggestion rea hes the sub ons ious without the ons ious mind being aware of the fa t. CONSCIOUS ACCE,TANCE J Think of a salesperson who must present ertain fa ts for the approval of the ons ious mind. 0f the ons ious mind approves then the sub ons ious will be allowed to respond a ording to its onditioning or instin t. "ver!thing takes pla e in the light of attention, making the ons ious mind full! aware of both the suggestion and the response. CONSCIOUS SUS,ENSION 8 ?ons ious &uspension is the mental state of heightened suggestibilit!. The te hni%ues for indu ing the h!pnoti state are often used to bring about the state of ons ious suspension. 5! presenting to the sub1e t a monotonous su ession of un hanging sensor! stimuli, the ons ious mind, in luding the ensor, are lulled into a state of ompla en !. Think of a rather drows!, un aring ons ious mind, ontent to swit h off its attention and 1ust hang around until it is re%uired to deal with a real emergen !. EMOTION 8 Beason an be impaired or inhibited b! emotion. 0n fa t, most of our ons ious fa ulties an be impaired b! emotion. $ow often have !ou witnessed a situation in whi h someone has been emotionall! upset and unable to think learl!@ 0t is on su h o asions that the impaired ons ious fa ulties allow unreasonable, futile, and sometimes, harmful suggestions to filter through to the sub ons ious. &o, b! presenting to a sub1e t, suggestions that arouse strong emotional feelings, we an be reasonabl! ertain of making suggestion work.
H'P"OTIC ST#T%A 7hat a tuall! is the h!pnoti state@ 0n effe t, what is h!pnosis@ Coes the sub1e t know that the! are in h!pnosis@ $ow do !ou the h!pnotist know that the! are in h!pnosis@ Ket us start b! tr!ing to answer the %uestion ,what is h!pnosis@-
The tran e state, whi h might be defined as an altered state of awareness, is one of the oldest phenomena known to man. 0t is found in some form or another all over the world, trans ending all ultures and ra es. &ome writers have des ribed it as the original ps! hologi al therap!.
6otwithstanding the fa t that altered states of ons iousness have been known for thousands of !ears, the term ,h!pnosis-, derived from the 4reek ,h!pnos-, meaning ,sleep-, was onl! oined ir a 19G0 b! Cr James 5raid.
James 5raid )1FHI J 19M0+ was a surgeon and pioneer in the field of h!pnosis. $e was born in :ife, in & otland and edu ated at the <niversit! of "dinburgh. $e be ame a su essful surgeon in =an hester.
0n 19G1, 5raid attended a demonstration of what was then alled #mesmerism#, after the :ren hman :ran8 /nton =esmer )1F3G ' 191I+. 5raid e*plored the use of the te hni%ue in pain relief during surger!. This was at a time when the use of anaestheti s in surger! was in its infan !. $e found that some of his sub1e ts would enter a h!pnoti tran e b! simpl! fi*ing their e!es on a bright ob1e t, su h as a po ket wat h. 5raid was the first to use the term ,*eurohypnosis#- whi h was later shortened to simpl! +Hypnosis+.
"ven with our urrent level of knowledge, and with our urrent understanding of the human mind, the phenomenon of h!pnosis annot be on lusivel! defined. 0 think however that a reasonable definition might be thatA
Hypnosis is a state of mind, enhanced by ,albeit not e&clusivelymental and physical rela&ation, in which the focus of attention is so directed that our conscious is able to communicate with our subconscious mind.
Ket me tr! and take this little bit further. 0 am sure that !ou are aware that what is a tuall! inside our skulls is not 1ust ,the brain- but a stru ture that possesses several parts, ea h of whi h has its own respe tive fun tion.
The urrent opinion is that the human brain onsists of three overlapping basi brain t!pes 1oined to form one stru ture alled the ,Triune 5rain-. This insight was developed b! P. C. =a Kean and his olleagues during the 1HF0s. /n interesting fa tor of this is that ea h of the three brains has its own sense of time and spa e, its own spe ial intelligen e, its own sub1e tivit!, and its own motor s!stem. :urthermore all three brains differ entirel! one from the other in their neuro hemi al and mi ros opi stru ture. /lthough the three brains are inter onne ted there is eviden e to support the belief that the! an, within their own limitations, operate independentl! of one another. /s !ou an appre iate these brains forming the triune brain are the result of evolution. Just for the sake of ompletion these three brains are A'
The reptilian brain The paleomammalian brain )or limbi brain+ The neomammelian brain )or neo orte*+
0t is the neo orte* that ontains the right and left hemispheres. /nd 0 would offer the following %uotation from Kuigi Da8elli )1H90+ in his work ,/n /pproa h To 6euroanatomi al /nd 6euro hemi al Ps! hoph!siolog!-
It ,the neocorte&- has no direct information channels of its own from the environment. s a result all outside environmental information and all inner or visceral information arrives at the neocorte& for processing via the two other brains and it has already been modulated by them, in particular, of course by the emotional colouring of the limbic system. In man, therefore, the neocorte& is the site of abstract thoughts, reflection, reasoning, both mathematical and philosophical, cognition, understanding, invention, analysis and synthesis, creative imagination and intuition.
The foregoing is provided for ba kground interest. 0f !ou wish to read further then !ou will find suitable referen es in the 5ibliograph! provided for this book. The 5ibliograph! is there to help !ou with an! further investigations or readings !ou wish to make.
Ene thing to be aware of is that our personalities appear to derive in some e*tent from the ommuni ation between the brain3s right hemisphere and it3s left hemisphere. 0t is interesting to note that these have been onsidered as two separate brains ea h apable of working independentl! of ea h other )Cr. /. K. 7iggan, 19GG, ,The Cualit! of =ind-+.
0n 1H90 the 6obel Pri8e was awarded to Professor Boger &perr! if the ?alifornia 0nstitute of Te hnolog! for his work on identif!ing spe ifi fun tions of the brain. &u h fun tions being lateralised to either the left or the right erebral hemisphere.
This ,right brain-, ,left brain- behaviour has been known sin e the earliest da!s. The left brain is observed to manage our logi al, rational a tions whereas the right brain is the seat of intuition and imagination, of artisti reation.
Ene of the greatest h!pnotherapists, the :ren hman "mile ?oue )19IFJ1H2M ,Ca! b! da!, in ever! wa!, 0 am getting better and better.-+, formulated some basi laws and observations.
These laws areA Kaw 1. The law of concentrated attention. This states that what people put their minds upon, the! tend to adopt. Kaw 2. The law of reversed effort. This states that an effort of will to over ome an idea, onl! reinfor es that idea. e.g. / person de ides not to think about a old glass of beer and then an do no otherN Kaw 3. The law of affect ,affect . emotion- This states that a person is suggestible in the dire tion of his emotion..
Ebservation 1. /hen the will and the imagination are in antagonism, it is always the imagination which wins. /ITH$(T E01E2TI$*.
Ebservation 2. In the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the s3uare of the will.
Ebservation 3. /hen the will and the imagination are in agreement, one does not add to the other, but one is multiplied by the other.
Ebservation G. The imagination can be directed.
Take parti ular note of these laws be ause the! deal with two fa tors 70KK and 0=/406/T0E6. =ight these not e%uate to B04$T and K":T as in right hemisphere and left hemisphere@ =ight not the h!pnoti state, this altered state of ons iousness, owe something to the bi' ameral stru ture of the brain and the wa! in whi h ,duties- are apportioned to ea h hemisphere@
The possibilit! must surel! e*ist that the h!pnoti state is not entirel! ps! hi , that is to sa! not entirel! a fun tion of mind )information, software+ onl!, but rather it involves some form of software'a tivated ph!si al swit h, a ,flip'flop-, whi h permits the fo us of attention to be dire ted predominantl! towards the right hemisphere of the brain. 7e will return to this dis ussion later in the book. . ?oming ba k to basi s it ma! be better to define , hypnosis- b! what we observe as results rather than what it is. The state of mind that we all h!pnosis ma! be brought about either b! oneself, unaided )the te hni%ue of self'h!pnosis+ or with the assistan e of another person J the h!pnotist.
Ps! hologi al therap! and ounselling )sometimes referred to as the ,talking ures-+ is the treatment of emotional and ps! hologi al disorders, unwanted habits and undesirable feelings, using ps! hologi al te hni%ues alone. The aim of all su h therap! is to assist the lients in finding meaningful alternatives to their present unsatisfa tor! wa!s of thinking, feeling or behaving. Therap! also tends to help lients be ome more a epting both of themselves and others and an be most useful in promoting personal development and unlo king inner potential.
/lthough there are man! forms of ps! hologi al therap!, and man! different ,s hools- of thought, it must be said that $!pnotherap! is distin tive in that it attempts to address the lient3s sub ons ious mind.
0n pra ti e, the $!pnotherapist usuall! re%uires the lient to be in a rela*ed state. The $!pnotherapist fre%uentl! enlists the power of the lient3s own imagination and he ma! utilise a wide range of te hni%ues from stor! telling, metaphor or s!mbolism )1udged to be meaningful to the individual lient+ to the use of dire t suggestion.
=oving on, let us dire t our attention to the %uestion , who can be hypnotised and do they !now that they are in hypnosis4 -
The answer to this %uestion is without an! doubt whatsoever ,virtuall! ever!one-. This does however need to be %ualified. &ome people are more readil! h!pnotisable than are others, and the level of this depends upon a number of fa tors su h as A
the sub1e t3s willingness to be h!pnotised at the time strength of the sub1e t3s parti ular desire or need onfiden e )rapport+ in the therapist
the sub1e t3s trust and on erned
/ssuming that the sub1e t meets all the riteria for h!pnosis the therapist pro eeds to arr! out an indu tion, a deepening, a therapeuti intervention, and an awakening.
Just be ause 0 use the word ,awakening- does not mean that 0 am assuming that that h!pnosis is sleep J this is definitel! not the ase. 0 use the word to indi ate that 0 am returning the sub1e t to a normal full! ons ious fo us of attention. Coes the sub1e t know that he or she is ,in h!pnosis-@
6o the! do not for the simple reason that the h!pnoti state is not an unusual state. 0t is no different from the usual da!'dreaming reveries that the! normall! e*perien e; no different from the state of ons iousness on either falling asleep at night or on wakening in the morning. 0t is merel! another state from the one in whi h we normall! ondu t our dail! round.
This now en roa hes upon another fa tor, namel! suggestibility and therefore suggestibility tests. "ver!one who is of normal mentalit! )not mentall! hallenged, drunk, or on drugs+ an be aused to a t on suggestion. 0n essen e the therapist suggests to the lient what is to happen in su h a wa! that, inevitabl!, it happens.
The e*planation is simple J go ba k and read ?oue3s Kaws and Ebservations again, in parti ularA
Kaw 2. The law of reversed effort. This states that an effort of will to over ome an idea onl! reinfor es that idea, e.g. a person de ides not to think about a old glass of beer and then an do no otherN
Ebservation 1. /hen the will and the imagination are in antagonism, it is always the imagination which wins. /ITH$(T E01E2TI$*.
"mile ?oue used man! tests for suggestibilit! but in parti ular he used the lasped hands test. This test an be performed with one or man! sub1e ts. 0t involves asking the sub1e t)s+ to follow the instru tions A
2lease clasp your hands together, clasp them tighter and tighter, and now thin! that no matter how hard you try you cannot separate them, in fact the harder you try to separate your hands the tighter they become.
/t this point, if !ou are arr!ing out the test with a group of people, !ou will find that a ma1orit! of the group will not be able to separate their hands. The reason for this is that the suggestion involves several elements. The first element is that it is built upon ?oue3s se ond law, the law of reversed effort. The sub1e t)s+ have been told that the! annot separate their hands, the mind sa!s ,of ourse 0 an- and then pro eeds in the attempt to separate the hands. This fails be ause of the law of reversed effort whi h results in them tightening their grip.
The se ond element is more subtle. 5! telling them to ,tr!- we had in fa t suggested that there was going to be some diffi ult!, in fa t as imagination takes over it is learl! going to be impossible. 7hen 70KK is in onfli t with 0=/406/T0E6 it is imagination that wins.
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/ll that is ne essar! for the pro ess to be reversed is.
,I want you to loo! at your hands and thin! 5I can separate them. I can separate them. 6eparate you hands now.
?ontinuing on the sub1e t of h!pnoti suggestibilit! !ou an demonstrate suggestibilit! to !ourself another wa! b! using what is generall! known as ?hevreul3s Pendulum. This is a demonstration of dire t ommuni ation with !our sub ons ious mind
?hevreul3s Pendulum is a devi e to test amenability to suggestion. 0t measures the degree of response to a thought in !our mind, or to a given e*ternal suggestion. Those who an un ons iousl! make the pendulum swing all the wa! to the edge of the ir le marks the best h!pnoti sub1e ts.
7hen a thought is put into the mind, it auses the tin! mus les in the fingers to move in a dire tion. 7e refer to this is as an ideomotor response. The motion that o urs is the result obtained from a ondition put into the mind. Ouestions must be worded so that the! an be answered with a ,("&or ,6E-. To ensure that the %uestion is ompletel! understood and thus attention is fo ussed, its best to write the %uestion down on a sheet of paper.
The sub ons ious mind will answer with an observable signal. &o, let us make a pendulum. (ou will needA / pie e of string or ord about 20 to 2I m long. /n Eb1e tA an! ob1e t that !ou an tie a string through )for e*ample use a finger ring or a ke!+ and a ir le drawn on a sheet of paper or ard about 1I m diameter. Tie or thread the string through the ob1e t )the Pendulum+. $old the string between the thumb and forefinger with the elbow resting on the arm of !our hair or on the table, so that the weight an dangle freel!.
Pla e the pendulum over the above marked ir le on a table in front of !ou.
6ow rela* and on entrate.
=erel! think of !our %uestion. (ou might sa! to !ourself... . 7y subconscious mind is to select one of the four motions of this pendulum to answer the 3uestions before me..
7at h and on entrate on the pendulum. 0t will usuall! begin to move in a few se onds.
0f the pendulum ontinuall! moves in ir les, the sub ons ious mind does not want to answer, or does not know the answer. =ake sure that !our %uestions are worded e*a tl! as !ou mean them, as the sub ons ious mind takes ever!thing literall!. This te hni%ue is useful in self'therap! and an a tuall! help !ou with !our own personal de isions.
/ further word about suggestibilit!, and that all important sub1e t ' rapport. 0t is important to build a rapport with the lient so that the lient feels that he or she an trust !ou. 0 do not ne essaril! mean trust in the sense that !ou are not going to assault or in1ure them, but that !ou will treat them sensitivel! and arr! out the duties for whi h !ou are being retained in a sensible manner. Bapport overs a multitude of things but its essen e is that a omple* understanding has developed between the lient and the therapist. 0n man! ases this rapport has been built b! the lient3s per eption of the therapist. 0f the rapport between therapist and lient is su h that the lient3s per eption of the therapist is that of a sound and ompetent professional then the whole of the lient3s suggestibilit! is heightened.
5a k to suggestibilit!. 0n view of the fa t that !ou know that ever!one an be ome h!pnotised unless the! happen to be mentall! in apa itated wh! would !ou wish to put a new lient through an! sort of suggestibilit! test@ $is suggestibilit! is alread! heightened b! the fa t that he or she made an appointment to ome and see !ou. :urthermore the! have ome to be h!pnotised, so h!pnotised the! will be.
There is another point. The ver! fa t that !ou want to give the lient some sort of suggestibilit! test implies that !ou doubt !our own abilities as a h!pnotist. The lient ma! also per eive this as doubt on !our part. Ket me assure !ou, when !ou sit the lient in !our hair or on !our ou h and ommen e talking to him using a standard indu tion he or she will enter the h!pnoti state. That is what the! ame for, that is what the! e*pe t to happen J so happen it will.
9e cryst#l cle#r on t"is f#ct #n #lso 'e cryst#l cle#r t"#t no8one c#n "ypnotise #ny'o y else. $!pnosis is not heterohypnosis. That is to sa! h!pnosis is not a phenomena applied b! one person to another. 7hat o urs is autohypnosis, that is to sa! that the sub1e t h!pnotises themselves. &omewhere during the indu tion phase the internal swit h is thrown and the fo us of attention redire ted. &o, do not use suggestibilit! tests on lients, use them for !our own interest or as a group demonstration during a talk on h!pnotherap!.
/nother %uestion that we might onsider isA ,7hat level of tran e is re%uired in order to a hieve a su essful therap! session@- =ost resear hers agree that the a tual level )or depth+ of tran e obtained does not in an! wa! relate to the results that might be obtained. 0n pra ti e, this means that even though a person feels that the! have not been h!pnotised, given the ver! important fa tor of time , the desired out ome of therap! might !et manifest.
This matter of time is espe iall! important in our urrent so iet!, whi h has, in man! respe ts, been oer ed into believing that gratifi ation of ever! desire should be instantaneous. $owever, given the right ingredients, if the time is right and if a suitable pra titioner an be found with whom the lient is willing to work, then all the lient3s )realisti + goals are a hievable.
/nother %uestion that arises isA ,who ma! benefit from the h!pnoti therapies@- This %uestion is answered ver! well b! the prominent h!pnotherapist 7illiam 5roomA
The answer to this 3uestion is virtually everyone. 'iven that hypnotherapy can be utilised to access a person8s inner potential and that probably no one is performing to their actual potential, then this answer is literally true. However, it is not 9ust potential which Hypnotherapy is well placed to address but also one8s inner resources to effect beneficial change. In this regard, it is the innate healing capacity of our own body that may be stimulated by Hypnotherapy. 1onse3uently, the list of problems which may be amenable to Hypnotherapy is far too long and varied to catalogue but certainly includes: stress, an&iety, panic, phobias, unwanted habits and addictions ,e.g. smo!ing, overeating, alcoholism-, disrupted sleep patterns, lac! of confidence and low self;esteem, fear of e&aminations and public spea!ing, allergies and s!in disorders, migraine and irritable bowel syndrome ,I<6-. dditionally, it has proved of value within surgery, where normal anaesthetics have not been practical, in the wider sphere of pain management and in the areas of both sporting and artistic performance enhancement. s an ad9unct to other counselling techni3ues, it can also assist in helping to resolve relationship difficulties and be useful within anger management strategies.
lthough there remain many other areas of human suffering in which Hypnotherapy may bring relief, there are instances in which it may be contra; indicated. These could include some manifestations of depressive illness, epilepsy, psychosis ,e.g. schizophrenia- and some breathing problems.
5room refers to using h!pnosis to help with relationship problems. This also in ludes !our relationship with mone! of ourse.
0 am sure that !ou have ome a ross referen es to the use of ,s ripts. =an! new h!pnotists start out be using s ripts and it will take a while for !ou to ondu t an indu tion without using a s ript. $owever, although one an easil! manage a non's ripted indu tion, 0 do not onsider it advisable to ondu t an uns ripted therapeuti intervention when using suggestion therap!. / well'designed s ript should trap out all the e*traneous verbiage and also ensure that no undue or in orre t suggestion rea hes the un ons ious mind. 0t is also important that no necessary suggestion be omitted.
This an happen %uite b! a ident so 0 would advise !ou to alwa!s arefull! plan !our suggestion interventions and ondu t them from a arefull! onstru ted s ript.
There are of ourse various hara teristi s of the h!pnoti ondition whi h enable a h!pnotherapist to gauge the depth of h!pnosis of the sub1e t in h!pnosis. 4enerall! we would des ribe the levels of h!pnosis as shown in the table below.
The olumn headed 4eneral Ces ription is to m! wa! of thinking a ni e simple wa! of des ribing the h!pnoti ondition. $owever, man! authors and e*perts use alternative terms for what is more or less the same thing. 6ote that the definitions are, and an never be, entirel! pre ise. (ou an see that C""P and &E=6/=5<K0&T0? are learl! overlapping terms be ause the nuan e of meaning is not e*a tl! pre ise. 6evertheless 0 onsider that the table provides a useful working des ription.
GENERAL DESCRI,TION 1 2 3 G LIGHT MEDIUM DEE, SOMNAM9ULISTIC
ALTERNATI:E DESCRI,TION LETHARGIC OR DREAM STATE CATALE,TIC OR HY,NOIDAL STATE SOMNAM9ULISTIC COMATOSE STATE
The h!pnoti ondition an be indi ated b! referen e to the four states of mind as eviden ed b! brainwave patterns. These four states of mind are; 5"T/ J the waking stateA /KP$/ J the h!pnoti stateA T$"T/ J the dream stateA C"KT/ J the state of deep sleep.
9r#in84#1e Fre;uency 5"T/A 1G to 30 hert8 /KP$/A 9 to 13 hert8
St#te of Consciousness :ull!'awake, /lert, "* itement, Tension Ceepl!'Bela*ed, Passive'/wareness, ?omposed Crowsiness, <n ons ious, Ceep'Tran%uillit! Kight $!pnosis
T$"T/A G to F hert8
=edium $!pnosis Ceep $!pnosis
C"KT/A .I to 3.I hert8
&leep, <naware, Ceep'<n ons iousness
(ou will sometimes hear the term ,"sdaile &tate- used to des ribe deep h!pnosis. This is a depth of h!pnosis not normall! sought or even needed for most therapeuti purposes. 0t is named after James "sdaile. This state an be a hieved with most sub1e ts provided that proper deepening te hni%ues, oupled with patien e, are applied. This state is eviden ed b! a total ph!si al rela*ation in whi h there is no movement of the limbs upon suggestion, the sub1e t has an inabilit! to properl! formulate audible vo al sounds, even though the sub1e t an hear and re ognise all that is going on around him. 0t is in this state that surgi al pro edures an be arried out.
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Please note that the states des ribed annot be taken literall!. 6o two sub1e ts are going to e*perien e h!pnosis in pre isel! the same wa! and there will be a lot of varian e between sub1e ts.
St#te T"eory (ersus Non8st#te T"eory ' 6ow lets take a brief look at a bit of theor!. There is a ma1or differen e of opinion amongst h!pnotists. There are two fundamentall! different theories of h!pnosis, the ,state theor!and the ,non'state theor!-.
The first theor!, the state theor!, assumes that there is a spe ial ondition a hieved when one e*perien es h!pnosis. 0n other words there is an a tual h!pnoti state whi h is somehow different from all the other mental states in whi h people might find themselves.
The se ond theor! is that there is no su h thing as a spe ial h!pnoti state and that h!pnosis is no more than an internal redire tion of attention and that this in itself is nothing parti ularl! spe ial.
5efore we go into further dis ussion there is something that 0 want get a ross to !ou, something that is ru iall! important to !our understanding of the h!pnoti ondition whether or not !ou subs ribe to a ,state- or ,non'statetheor!.
7hat must be understood about h!pnosis is that no matter what level of h!pnosis is being e*perien ed b! the sub1e t, even if he or she is in the deepest possible )"sdaile+ state, the sub1e t is alwa!s totall! and ompletel! aware of his surroundings and all that is going on within his surroundings.
There is no time whatsoever during the h!pnoti session when the sub1e t is unaware of his or her surroundings. 0n fa t, the greater the depth of h!pnosis, the more awareness the sub1e t possesses and onse%uentl! the results of the h!pnotherap! session are better be ause there is an in reased attention to the h!pnotist3s suggestions.
:rom this 0 feel sure that !ou readil! appre iate that even after a ver! su essful session with a lient it is perfe tl! possible for the lient to believe that he or she was never h!pnotised, and that the pro ess ,1ust didn3t work for them-. This in fa t, when the pro ess has in all probabilit! worked perfe tl! and the h!pnotist has done a first lass 1ob.
?onvin ing people that the! have undergone su essful h!pnosis is diffi ult, statisti s suggest that some H0P of sub1e ts e*perien ing h!pnosis for the ver! first time den! that the! were ever h!pnotised. The reason that the! give for their denial is that they were completely aware of everything that was said and done during the therapy session. :rom the foregoing, !ou and 0 now know that the ver! fa t of their heightened awareness is an indi ation of the su ess of the h!pnosis e*perien e.
?learl!, !ou the h!pnotist need to take this into a ount, and !ou do this b! e*plaining to the lient well in advance of the first treatment session that this is what the e*perien e will be. 0mpress on the lient that the! will be full! aware, in fa t even more aware than normal. 6otwithstanding all of this, !ou will still have the problem of onvin ing some sub1e ts.
There is another point that 0 would like to make. $!pnotists are all too fond of using the word ,sleep-. 7e know full well that h!pnosis has nothing to do with sleep, but we all e%uate rela*ation, with do8ing and sleep. 0t is our nature. :rom now on 0 want !ou never to use the word ,sleep-. 0n ever! ase substitute the word rel#7 whenever !ou feel in lined to use the word sleep. 0f !ou feel that !ou reall! must use the word sleep then !ou must full! e*plain to the lient the onte*t in whi h !ou are using the word, onl! then is it reasonable to use it.
Beturning to our state>non'state dis ussion. "ven though h!pnosis has been seriousl! resear hed for over half a entur!, there is still enormous disagreement and ontrovers! as to whether a person in h!pnosis is in an a tual separate ps! hologi al state in whi h a set of rules e*ist in a omplete self' ontained manner, or whether no su h uni%ue state e*ists and a person in h!pnosis is doing no more that indulging in a dire ted da!dream with no parti ular ps! hologi al state involved e* ept a willingness to ompl! with the h!pnotist3s re%uests.
Just to give !ou some idea of the diversit! of opinion h!pnosisA
on erning
= a sub9ective state in which alterations of perception or memory can be elicited by suggestion.. $rne >?@?, >?AA
= a psychophysiological tetrad of altered consciousness, consisting of heightened suggestibility, narrowed awareness, selective wa!efulness, and restrictive attentiveness = 7armer >?@?
most investigators ac!nowledge the e&istence of an hypnotic state .. 7.H. Eric!son
.. hypnosis is simply e&aggerated suggestibility .. 'eorge H. Estabroo!s
These %uotations from world renowned e*perts are nothing more than a tin! sample of differing e*pert opinion. 0t is important )and interesting+ to be aware of the various theories of h!pnosis and 0 would re ommend reading as widel! as possible on the sub1e t of h!pnosis. 0n parti ular two authors, Cr. =i hael C. Preston ,$!pnosisA =edi ine of the =ind- and =i hael C. (apko ,"ssentials of $!pnosis-.
:or m! own part, rightl! or wrongl!, 0 subs ribe to the view that h!pnosis is an identifiable separate ps! hologi al state. Ket me give !ou a reason as to wh! 0 sa! this. $!pnosis has been des ribed as rela*ed suggestibilit!, rather like da!dreaming. 0f 0 sti k a needle in !ou while !ou are da! dreaming !ou will 1ump a foot in the air. $owever, if 0 take !ou through indu tion, deepening, and then suggest that !our right hand is ompletel! fro8en )glove anaesthesia+, 0 an then )with proper attention to sterilisation+ sti k a needle into !ou. Taking the point further, provided that 0 an assist !ou to gain a deep level of h!pnosis a surgeon ould arr! out surger! without the use of anaestheti s. To m! wa! of thinking the sub1e t in this situation is in a definite spe ifi state.
/nother e*ample is memor! re all from hildhood. (ou know that the memories are all there in !our head J but 1ust tr! and re all them in their entiret!, !ou annot. $owever, in the state of h!pnosis, with suitable dire tion, !ou will be able to bring memories to light. En e again, 0 subs ribe to the ,statetheor!. (ou must ome to !our own on lusions about this. 6o matter whi h theor! !ou finall! a ept, belief in either will not affe t !our abilit! as a h!pnotist.
Hypnotic Induction
There are no hard and fast rules on erning h!pnoti indu tion, but there are basi prin iples that need to be adhered to. 0n essen e, all !ou have to do is to get the lient3s fo us of attention dire ted awa! from the e*ternal world. To do this we rel! on five ke! omponents. These ke! omponents must be built in to our h!pnosis indu tion s ripts. These five ke! omponents areA

&!non!ms Paraphrased &uggestions ?onne tive 7ords Time Cesignations Bepetition
Synony2sA The use of s!non!ms reinfor es the suggestion b! ensuring that the suggestion is thoroughl! understood. :or e*ample one would not 1ust use the phrase = you are feeling calm =. (ou would reinfor e this feeling of alm thus; = you are feeling calm, rela&ed, comfortable, and at ease=. This use of s!non!ms ensures that the message is getting a ross. )6ote also that our fifth ke!, repetition, is a tuall! in luded b! the use of s!non!ms.+
,#r#p"r#se Su**estions% En e again the ob1e t here is to enhan e omprehension. Bemember that 0 pointed out that we tr! to avoid using the word ,sleep- @ 5! using the word ,rela*- and its derivatives we an enhan e our suggestions to make them more omprehensible to the mind thus assuring retention of the suggestion. :or e*ample = feel yourself rela&ing = feel the muscles of your face rela&ing = feel this rela&ation flowing through the muscles of your face = rela&ing the muscles of your face =. , 6ote the flow of the paraphrased suggestions and the use of repetition.+
Connecti1e -or s% Ene thing that !ou annot afford to do in an indu tion is to ome to a full stop. The whole pro ess must flow as one monologue. (our deliver! of the indu tion s ript has to be ,smooth- as opposed to ,1agged-. To this end we link phrases with the onne ting word ,#n <6 =An < is a powerful word be ause it allows the therapist to do three things, )1+ ontinue the monologue in a smooth manner, )2+ link suggestive phrases and )3+ indi ate to the mind that something else is oming, some additional suggestion is about to be made. :or e*ample = as you wal! towards the flowers you can smell their perfume and you can see their bright colours and you feel calm and rela&ed..
Ti2e Desi*n#tions% Curing the deliver! of !our indu tion monologue !ou are ontinuall! introdu ing repetitive suggestions and it is ver! helpful to warn the lient3s mind that some further suggestions are oming. 7e use time designations to ue the ne*t suggestion or to end a parti ular a tivit!. :or e*ample = in a few moments I will begin to count from @ down to zero = or = now at this )o)ent you will enter a state of deep, deep rela&ation=
Repetition is a ru ial ke! to su essful indu tions. 0t is used with all the other four ke!s in order to aid in for ing the a eptan e of a suggestion. /s an e*ample of repetition, = 9ust listen to the sound of )y (oice * listen to the sound of )y (oice as I count down =. , or, let the shoulder )uscles rela+ = let all your shoulder )uscles rela+ = 9ust let the )uscles of your shoulders rela+ =
6ow that we have the ke!s to building our indu tion we an begin to form the indu tion s ript. <ntil !ou are ver! e*perien ed and an reel indu tions off to order, it is advisable to use a s ript. 0ts best to have a few standard indu tion s ripts, whi h an be inter hanged to suit the lient. (ou an write !our own our pur hase a book of standard s ripts. (ou will find a few in this ebook.
The ob1e t of !our indu tion monologue is to ause the lient to enter a state of h!pnosis and we emplo! all our ke!s within the s ript to ause this to happen.
/ basi s ript will take the lient all the wa! down his bod! rela*ing as he goes until that point were the indi ations of h!pnosis begin to show. $ere is an indu tion s ript that ontains all the elements that we have dis ussed.
7hen !ou ommen e reading this s ript to the lient he or she should alread! be settled down into a omfortable hair or re lining on a ou h. ?ontrar! to popular belief, !ou do 6ET have to speak like a Calek. The best approa h is to speak %uietl! and monotonousl!, pit hing !our voi e at a onstant level, but with definite emphasis on important points.
0 find that a slow deliberate monologue delivered in an even tone of voi e will generall! prove ver! effe tive. (ou an enhan e the effe tiveness of spe ifi suggestions b! modulating !our voi e as re%uired b! !our spe ifi s ript. I want you to get into a comfortable position so you can rela& easily = that8s right = settle down and rela& = ta!e a long, deep breath = e&hale slowly ... that+s good . . . and as you breathe normally = 9ust become aware of the rhythm of your breathing. Hold your hands in a comfortable position = 9ust resting on you lap or on you thighs = please sit comfortably and ad9ust your body as necessary for your comfort = that8s right ... and I want you 9ust to cooperate with me and close your eyes when I as! you to = and 9ust cooperate with me and close your eyes now ... than! you. *ow ta!e a deep breath = e&hale slowly ... that+s good ... and as you breathe normally = 9ust become more aware of the rhythm of your breathing = become aware of your hands as they touch your body and as you rest there, become aware that you are beginning to e&perience a sense of comfort, calmness, and inner peace. s you breathe in and out each breath rela&es you more = become aware of the te&ture of the chair ... it is 9ust right for your rela&ation.
*ow become aware of the temperature of the room = it is 9ust right for this e&perience = s you become aware of the sounds around you =you !now that those sounds = whether loud or barely audible = are cooperating in helping you to rela& = and to be at ease = and to be at peace. The sounds are easing you into deeper and deeper rela&ation. They are a part of all things = they belong here = it is normal. 6hould you hear a telephone ring, you+ll be able to blend that sound, too, into your e&perience =the sound of my voice will go with you as a guide = should a fire alarm ring = or should there be any other indication of an emergency = indicating a need for you to respond consciously = you will become alert immediately and you will be able to respond appropriately. Bour eyes are closed and your eyelids are beginning to rela&. llow the rela&ation to increase = becoming more and more rela&ed. If, at any time you sense some movement in your eyelids = you will !now that it is called = )apid Eye 7ovement = and that it is a normal part of this e&perience = it is similar to the state of dreaming. *ow ta!e a long deep breath = and allow the muscles in the eyelids to rela& ... that8s good = allow that feeling of rela&ation to move to the whole facial area ... now let it spread to the nec! and throat = to the shoulders = arms = hands = and fingers. Ta!e a long deep breath = and = as you inhale and e&hale = allow your chest area to rela& ... allow the rela&ation to flow along the spine = rela&ing all areas as it moves along ... let the rela&ation spread to the hips = legs = and feet = let the rela&ation spread all the way to the toes = that+s great = now ta!e another deep breath =and realize that the whole body is becoming more and more rela&ed. %ocus again on the rhythm of your breathing .... observe the deep inhaling and the slow e&haling = as you continue to be aware of your breathing = you continue to rela& = and = as you breathe = you realise that you are going deeper and deeper into rela&ation = deeper and deeper into rela&ation = you can sense an inner 3uiet within yourself.
s you flow with the rhythm of your breathing = you are becoming aware that = as you breathe = your body becomes more and more rela&ed = and your body seems to be lighter. Bou feel lighter and rela&ed ... lighter and rela&ed ... and you are becoming very comfortable = you are becoming very calm = you are becoming very peaceful = you are entering a very pleasant state of rela&ation = you might feel that your body is asleep but that your mind is alert ... that+s good = that8s very good = the most important thing now is your own inner reality. /t this point !ou would ontinue with a suitable deepening s ript. (ou an assist the lient3s a eptan e of suggestions b! A'
?hanging the rate of deliver!.
&tressing parti ular words.
Dar!ing the volume of !our voi e while keeping it suffi ientl! loud to be easil! understandable.
=aking use of pauses to allow suggestions to be absorbed or a tions arried out.
Talking of pauses, when 0 set out s ripts in this book 0 will do it like this = 9ust sit bac! in the chair = and as you listen to the sound of my voice = I want you to settle down in the chair = settle down in the chair.. 0 will indi ate pauses in spee h b! three dots ,Q-. This does not mean three se onds or an! parti ular time, !ou would de ide that for !ourself during !our deliver! b! observing !our lient.
5efore we move on and dis uss intensif!ing the depth of h!pnosis, better known as ,deepening- 0 1ust want to make a point about e!e losure. 7hen ommen ing indu tion it is important to get the sub1e t to lose their e!es as soon as possible. 0n view of the nature of h!pnosis, a ver! light state ommen es when the e!elids are losed. This is be ause shutting the e!es shuts down one eighth of ons ious awareness. 0n ea h e!e there are some 120 million spe ialist light sensitive ells alled rods and ones. These ells are also sensitive to movement and to olour, so !ou an learl! see that losing the e!es shuts down 2G0 million ells feeding information to the visual orte* of the brain.
The information transmitted b! these ells flows along the opti nerves of whi h there are between 30 and I0 thousand. These nerves are also losed down on e!e losure. &hutting down one eighth of ons ious awareness has the effe t of raising the sub ons ious awareness b! the same amount. The purpose of h!pnoti indu tion is to redu e the level of ons ious awareness further, and thus raise the level of sub ons ious awareness so that that the sub1e t is in a light to medium state of h!pnosis.
The purpose of deepening is to redu e the ons ious awareness even further )and, of ourse, to raise the sub ons ious awareness further+.
Ceepening is intended to shut down as mu h as is possible of the sub1e t3s ons ious awareness b! progressive and repetitive rela*ation suggestions. Ceepening is the prelude to therapeuti intervention. &o let us 1ust %ui kl! look at an overall pi ture of an h!pnoti session.
:irst we settle the lient down into the hair, making sure that the! are omfortable and rela*ed, we then arr! out the indu tion routine; on e the indu tion routine is ompleted we arr! out a deepening routine. /fter we have arried out the deepening routine we he k for depth of tran e. (ou will remember that 0 said that it is alwa!s diffi ult onvin ing the first time lient that the! have a tuall! e*perien ed h!pnosis. 7ell, if !ou arr! out tests for depth of tran e after onl! the basi indu tion then there is alwa!s the likel!hood that the lient will suddenl! ome ba k to ons ious fo us. The result of this is to ause apprehension and doubt about the whole h!pnosis pro ess. (ou do need to ensure a good depth before arr!ing out an! tests.
0f !ou have an! doubts as to the lient3s state then repeat the deepening using a different s ript. The %ualit! of the therapeuti intervention in the h!pnoti state is onl! as good as the %ualit! of the h!pnoti ondition. T"e O'ser1#'le Si*ns of Hypnosis ' / good h!pnotist needs to use his or her e!es and observe the lient throughout the indu tion and deepening pro ess. 0n fa t a good therapist needs to observe the lient at ever! stage of the session 1ust in ase abrea tion o urs and soothing and alming of the lient is needed. Bemember lassifi ation of 1+ 2+ 3+ G+ I+ M+ the h!pnoti general levelsA
Kight =ild =edium Ceep &omnambulisti "sdaile
The designation of these levels omes about b! referen e to the lient3s responses to tests. ?on erning visuall! observed effe ts of value to the therapist we an list these as followsA
/ fa ial flush is seen on a signifi ant number of people.
:li kering of the e!elids is seen on a signifi ant number of people as the! enter the h!pnoti state.
0nversion of the e!es oupled with a slight parting of the e!elids so that the whites of the e!es are observable.
&ome people an be observed to make involuntar! fa ial grima es throughout the session.
$ead sags and lies to one side. =outh gapes slightl!.
&ome lient3s will be observed to swallow as if a tuall! wallowing something as the! enter h!pnosis.
5reathing slows down and be omes shallow.
/ll of these signs are useful to the therapist be ause the! help to see how an indu tion or deepening is pro eeding.
En e we have arried out deepening we an arr! out some simple tests in order to satisf! ourselves as to the advisabilit! of going on to the therap! intervention stage of the session.
Eye C#t#lepsy Test% This test is arried out b! sa!ing to the sub1e t your eyelids are closed = your eyelids are tightly closed =they are closed so tight that they stic! together = try to open them, but you cannot =the harder you try the harder they stic! together =. Ebserve the movement of the e!e mus les and of the e!elids. &hould the! onl! fli ker with some slight movement of the e!eballs then the sub1e t is in a light state of h!pnosis. 0f no movement at all of the e!elids, but some slight lifting of the e!ebrows is observed then the sub1e t is in a medium state of h!pnosis. 0f !ou observe no rea tion whatsoever, that is to sa! !ou an dete t no ph!si al response then the sub1e t is in a deep state of h!pnosis.
Reco22en e Re# in*
Li2' C#t#lepsy Test% This test is arried out in the same wa! as for e!e ataleps!. The first thing to do is to suggest to the sub1e t that their leg )or arm, left or right+ is numb and immovable = as you rela& your left leg is feeling numb and you cannot use it=it is numb and cannot move =your left leg is numb and you are unable to move it . ?ontinue with some further rela*ation suggestion and then ontinue = now that your left leg is numb and you cannot move it = you cannot move it to lift it and cross it over the right leg =try and move your leg= the harder you try the more numb and immovable your leg becomes = your leg is so numb that you cannot lift it to cross it over the right leg=try to cross your legs = you will find that you cannot =.
Ebserve the lient3s rea tions. 0f the lient an lift and ross the leg then he>she is onl! in a light state of h!pnosis. /s with the e!e opening, attempted movements of the leg indi ate a medium state of h!pnosis and no rea tion at all indi ates a deep state of h!pnosis.
6ow !ou might ask, what if in both of these tests the sub1e t appears to be moving the e!elids or lifting the leg@ /ll !ou have to do is to sa! = stop trying now = there is no need to try anymore = 9ust rela& and listen to my voice = and go straight into a deepening pro ess.
0n the 2e iu2 st#te of "ypnosis the sub1e t is apable of e*hibiting the following hara teristi sA

0nhibition of voluntar! movement. /utomati obedien e. "motional hanges. Partial post'h!pnoti amnesia. 0ndu ed personalit! hanges )temporar!+
0n the obtainedA

eep st#te of "ypnosis the following responses an be
/ge regression. "*tensive anaesthesia )i.e glove anaesthesia+. "*panded emotional hanges. /utomati writing. =ild hallu inations )indu ed+. &imple post'h!pnoti suggestion. &!mptom removal b! suggestion. 4eneral desensitisation.
/lthough a substantial amount of therapeuti treatment an be arried out in the medium and deep states, it is the so2n#2'ulistic st#te that is the preferred state for h!pnotherap!. 0n this state the e*ternal observer knowing nothing about h!pnosis would assume that the sub1e t was fast asleep.
The t!pe of phenomena that an be attributed to the so2n#2'ulistic st#te areA

?omplete posth!pnoti amnesia Positive and negative hallu inations )i.e seeing what is not there and not seeing what is there+ "*treme post'h!pnoti suggestions. Crasti emotional hanges $!pnoanal!sis Ps! hobiologi al therap! )i.e. assisting healing+
0n this ondition it an be sometimes observed that the sub1e t will open their e!es. $owever, this opening of the e!es will in no wa! affe t the state of h!pnosis and should it o ur it will be instantl! obvious to !ou that !our lient does not re eive an! visual stimuli to the visual orte*. /ll that is ne essar! is to ask the sub1e t to = 9ust close your eyes = let your eyelids close= that8s right = eyelids fully closed=
let#s look a bit more deepl! at the Es #ile st#te6 This the deepest h!pnoti state of all and is eviden ed b! absolute and total rela*ation. The rela*ation is so omplete that even though the sub1e t an hear, re ognise, and understand all that is going on around them the! show a distin t la k of being able to vo all! answer %uestions. The spee h is slurred and distorted and annot be easil! understood. / hieving this state re%uires persisten e and sound deepening te hni%ues properl! worded with mu h repetition. 0t is in this state that surgi al pro edures an be arried out as the sub1e t is ompletel! anaesthetised.
Ket us e*amine a t!pi al deepening routine. (ou an note the repetition and phrasing as we have previousl! dis ussed.
Cet yourself rela& even more == In a moment or two I will count down from TE* to "E)$. This time I want you to imagine a very wide staircase = with a firm handrail running down the side of it =a very firm and safe handrail. This staircase leads down to calmness = the stairway leads down to peacefulness = the stairway leads down to rela&ation.
s I count down from TE* to "E)$ each number going down is a step down the staircase = each number is a step down the staircase = so 9ust listen to my voice and as I count down from TE* to "E)$ thin! of each number as that step down into calmness = every step down rela&es you more.
Reco22en e Re# in*
TE* = rela&ing = letting go *I*E = feeling more and more rela&ed = moving easily down EI'HT = another step down calmness 6EDE* = deeper and deeper = holding the rail firmly = rela&ing as you move down 6I0 = deeper down %IDE = letting go %$() = deeper = deeper = deepest TH)EE = calmer = calmer = calmest T/$ = more and more rela&ed $*E = all the way down to "E)$ = fully rela&ed
*ow that you are totally rela&ed = now you can completely let go = every word that I say is rela&ing you more and more = and every breath that you draw is rela&ing you more.
This is the state called hypnosis = it is a very pleasant = very rela&ing feeling. 6ometimes there are signs and symptoms that the state is present = sometimes you feel a small tingling sensation on your face = sometimes you are aware of a heaviness to your limbs = sometimes you are aware of a calm feeling = sometimes you can be aware that your eyeballs have actually rolled up behind your closed eyelids = but there is always this feeling of calmness = always this feeling of rela&ation. Bou are en9oying those feelings of calmness and rela&ation now.
In a moment or two I am going to give you some suggestions = some positively phrased suggestions = these suggestions will benefit you greatly = these suggestions are entirely for your well;being = they are for your continuing calmness = and for your continuing confidence = and for your continuing health and well;being.
Bou will find that these suggestions ta!e root in the subconscious part of your mind = and you with the help of your subconscious = will then be able to act upon them = you and your subconscious will act upon them.
s you breathe in and out you become more rela&ed = your whole body is completely rela&ed = your mind is completely rela&ed = 9ust !eep listening to my voice and allow yourself to en9oy this wonderful feeling of rela&ation = listen to the suggestions that I am now going to give you = and you will find that these suggestions will ta!e root in the subconscious part of your mind.
This is a simple, traditional deepening. 0t will work well with the ma1orit! of people. $owever, dire ting the lient3s imagination is a valuable tool provided that the lient an work with imaginative on epts. Ef ourse, as the h!pnotist, and having ondu ted !our suggestibilit! estimate !ou will know this won3t !ou@
This is m! favourite deepener using dire ted imaginationA
I would li!e you to imagine you8re in a beautiful garden ... a beautiful garden with no pollen = with no annoying insects =The garden has lush manicured lawns ... and beautiful e&otic plants... the sun is shining and there is a cool breeze ... and the temperature is 9ust as you would li!e it. The air in this garden is pure and fresh ... and as you marvel at the vivid colours all around you ... you hear the rela&ing sound of birds singing overhead. I would li!e you to ta!e a deep breath... that8s right = breathe deeply = and as you breathe out = you rela& deeper and deeper ... deeper and deeper. I would li!e you to ta!e another deep breath... that8s right = breathe deeply = and as you breathe out = you rela& deeper and deeper ... deeper and deeper ... each breath that you ta!e ta!es you deeper and deeper into rela&ation= and as you stroll around the garden ... you feel the soft grass underfoot ... you see the beautiful flowers around the garden = and you wander towards these beautiful flowers ... and as you approach them... the scent grows more fragrant than anything you have ever e&perienced... and the rich colours brighter than you ever seen. Ta!e a deep breath again ... and inhale the soft warm and perfumed air ... and as you breathe = out rela& deeper and deeper... and as you continue on your way ... you come to a pretty winding pathway which leads you down to a beach ... and as you wander along = rela&ing deeper and deeper with every step ... you soon reach the beautiful beach with miles of golden sand ... and as you slip off your shoes and stroll
across the soft sand ... you gaze out into the distance and see the vastness of the sea ... the vastness of the deep ocean = and you watch how the waves roll towards the beach ... in a never ending se3uence ... one after another ... and you hear the sound of the waves building up ... and then petering out as they near the beach... and you feel a growing feeling of peace and calm ... feeling calm as the warm sea air lightly brushes your s!in ... feeling peaceful as your feet sin! into the sand = you feel more peace and calm with every step you ta!e . /ith every step you ta!e you are rela&ing deeper and deeper = deeper and deeper = with every step you ta!e. nd you soon reach the wet sand near where the sea begins ... and you notice how much louder the sea is up close ... as wave after wave rolls towards you ...and your feet now sin! down deeper than before ... into the wet sand... and when you reach the water8s edge ... you gently let your toes test the water ... which is slightly cold at first ... but soon warms as you ta!e a few more steps into the water ... and as you allow the waves to roll over your feet and an!les ... and then retreat again ... you breathe in the fresh salty sea air ... and rela& deeper and deeper ... deeper and deeper. Bou 9ust stand there = by the water8s edge = feeling calm and rela&ed =and after a while you stroll bac! up the beach ... to a most inviting sunbed = a sunbed that is there especially for you ... and there is a sunshade and a table ... and on the table your favourite refreshing drin! ... and as you ad9ust the sunshade so that it8s 9ust right for you ... you lie bac! on the sunbed with your drin! ... and as you ta!e a deep breath once more ... you rela& deeper and deeper still as you breathe out ... breathing out all the tensions in your body. nd as you gaze out at the calm blue sea ... you see the waves lapping lazily on the beach .... the sun is shining brightly ... the s!y is clear blue ... not a cloud in the s!y ... and your feeling more and more rela&ed ... as you doze on your sunbed ... with not a care in the world at this moment in time ... and you ta!e a deep breath once again ... and as you breathe out you rela& deeper and deeper = deeper and deeper than ever before ... and as you are completely rela&ed 9ust continue to listen to the sound of my voice = continue to listen to my voice.
The Inter(ention Stage

$aving ompleted the deepening phase of the session and satisfied !ourself that the lient is in a suffi ientl! deep level of h!pnosis, using our tests, !ou ma! then ontinue with !our suggestions.
(ou an of ourse a %uire all the indu tion and deepening s ripts !ou will ever need for an! aspe t of h!pnotherap! from books and from sour es on the internet. Ouite frankl!, although these are ver! useful to help !ou get started, and !ou an learn a lot b! reading other people3s s ripts, 0 strongl! advise that !ou design and write !our own s ripts. 7hat !ou need to do is the followingA
Cesign and write two indu tion s ripts J one of these goes through the mus le rela*ation te hni%ue and the other one uses dire ted imagination su h as a walk in the garden. Cesign and write two deepening s ripts one a straight forward ount down and another using more sophisti ated imagination. Cesign and write a standard release from h!pnosis s ript, simple ounting from 1 to I is suffi ient.
6ow we know how to indu e h!pnosis, we need to know what to sa!, and what not to sa!, to our h!pnotised lient. Kets start b! looking more losel! at the different t!pes of suggestion. Su'li2in#l Su**estion is a form of suggestion that manages to get through to the sub ons ious without the intervention of the ons ious fa ulties; whi h means that the suggestion is delivered to the sub ons ious without attra ting attention, so onse%uentl!, it never enters ons iousness. This form of suggestion has been used in advertising although it is now illegal in man! ountries.
The wa! in whi h it was used is best illustrated b! imagining !ourself wat hing a pla! on the television, when suddenl!, a message is flashed on the s reen ' ,Buy -leeno Soap,. That is the message, but it onl! appears for a split se ond. 0ts duration is so short in fa t, that !ou never be ome ons iousl! aware of its presen e on the television s reen. (ou see, before we an be ome ons ious of an!thing, the attention must be moved from whatever we might be thinking about at that moment, onto the new event. /nd in the ase of the television advert, the attention was on the pla!. The message was the new event; but before the attention ould be swit hed from the pla! to the message, whi h would take a little time, the message would have disappeared, so it would not enter ons iousness. ?onse%uentl!, the message would go straight through to the sub ons ious, and the sub ons ious would respond to that message. That message would have been delivered as a &ubliminal &uggestion.
(es. The sub ons ious would respond to the subliminal suggestion, so possibl!, as earl! as the ne*t morning, !ou would feel ompelled to rush out and bu! #Lleeno &oap#, not reall! knowing wh! !ou should bu! it, or wh! !ou should hoose that parti ular brand.
Kook ver! losel! at the pa kaging of some produ ts. (ou ma! need a magnif!ing glass. if if !ou look losel! enough !ou ma! see, hidden in a pi ture, a se*uall! suggestive graphi . This is intended b! the designer to be pi ked up b! !our sub ons ious and ause !ou to asso iate the produ t with se* thus making it desirable. / prominent /meri an soft drink brand is a good e*ample.
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Conscious Accept#nceA This, as !ou alread! know, is suggestion whi h, before it an be a ted upon b! the sub ons ious must meet with the approval of the ons ious fa ulties. 0f a suggestion approa hes the sub ons ious in full view of the ons ious mind, the suggestion an be inter epted. The ons ious fa ulties an then instru t the sub ons ious to respond naturall! to the suggestion, respond in an entirel! new wa!, or to make no a tive response at all. 6aturall!, a suggestion is given with the intention of provoking a spe ifi , predi table, relevant response su h as when the suggestion is given, ,.aise your right ar),, the right arm would be e*pe ted to rise. 5ut of ourse, if su h a suggestion was inter epted b! the ons ious fa ulties, and did not meet with their full approval, the response to that suggestion ould well be the raising of the left leg instead. / su essful suggestion depends largel! on the approval of the ons ious fa ulties; so let us onsider how we an win su h approval when attempting to deliver a suggestion to the sub ons ious. /lwa!s remember that if the fa ulties of the ons ious mind approve !our suggestion, then the! will allow it to rea h the sub ons ious, and furthermore, the! will allow the normal, predi table, relevant response to be made to that suggestion. Enl! when the! disapprove do suggestions fail to produ e the intended responses. :rom now on we will all the person giving the suggestion, ,the operator,, and the person re eiving the suggestion we#ll all, ,the sub/ect,.
6ow one must not forget that the main reason for the ons ious fa ulties intervening when a suggestion is being delivered to the sub ons ious, is prote tion of the sub1e t. 0f a suggestion is onsidered b! the ons ious fa ulties to be genuinel! benefi ial to the sub1e t, or belonging to the harmless, non'threatening ategor!, then it will be allowed to pass through to the sub ons ious, unimpeded.
0f, on the other hand, a suggestion is thought to be harmful to the sub1e t, or is, perhaps, 1ust a little suspe t, then the ons ious fa ulties will prote t the sub1e t b! intervening so as to prevent the threatened disaster. To be ertain of delivering a suggestion without ons ious intervention, it is as well to give suggestions whi h are designed to provoke responses from whi h the sub1e t is likel! to benefit. 6ow that !ou know the t!pe of suggestion most likel! to meet with the approval of the ons ious fa ulties, there are a few further points to be onsideredA points to give the suggestions shape, dire tion, %ualit! and impa t, and the first point is Positi(e Suggestion. $> Su**estions 2ust #t #ll ti2es 'e ,ositi1e6 That is to sa!, the! must tell the sub1e t what to do, and not what not to do, for the latter would be negative suggestion and unlikel! to provoke an! response at all ' even without ons ious intervention. $ere is an e*ample of the futilit! of negative suggestionA'
0maging a small bo! is at s hool in the 1HI0s )when 0 was at s hool, was 0 that bo!@+. $e is pushing his finger into a knot'hole in his desk. The tea her sees this, and sa!s, +Eon+t do that 2eter+; so Peter, being most obedient, withdraws his finger and pokes it into the inkwell instead. /n!one here e* ept me remember inkwells@
7ithout hesitation, the tea her sa!s, +Bou must not put your finger in that in!well 2eter+. En e again, Peter, being a ver! obedient bo!, puts the ink! finger in his mouth, whereupon, the tea her, in sheer desperation, pleads +2eter, put your hands on your head+ ; and to her amasement, and relief, Peter puts his hands on his head.
En refle tion, we realise that Peter had been most obedient throughout. $e had taken his finger out of the knot'hole. $e had taken his finger out of the inkwell. $e had taken his finger out of his mouth. 5ut none of these responses satisfied the tea her until she suggested that he put his hands on his head. (esN That was the onl! positi(e suggestion the tea her had made. Peter then knew, for the first time, e*a tl! what the tea her wanted him to do. 5efore, she had onl! told him what she didn#t want him to do; thereb! leaving him with an infinite number of alternatives, most of whi h ould have been worse than what he was doing originall!. 5ut when he re eived the positive suggestion, if he wanted to remain obedient, there was onl! one hoi e open to him ' to put his hands on his head. The sub ons ious mind is mu h the same as Peter. 0f it re eives a negative suggestion telling it what not to do, it has no idea of what is e*pe ted of it. 0t needs to be told e*a tl! what to do. &uggestion must, at all times, be Positi(e.
)> Su**estion 2ust 'e Sin*ul#r6 ?omple*it! is onfusing when dealing with the sub ons ious mind. 7e must remember that we are dealing with the unreasoning, illogi al, obedient part of the human mind; and the rule to be observed here is, One Suggestion 0 One .esponse. &ub ons ious response is oldl! me hani al. 0t works ver! mu h like the oin'in'the'slot ma hine. Take the automati vending ma hine that gives !ou the hoi e of tea, o oa or soup. (ou ma! be re%uired to insert a oin, sele t !our parti ular drink, and await its deliver!. 6ow if !ou were to insert a oin of suffi ient value to over the ost of all three drinks before the deliver! of !our first hoi e, !ou would most likel! finish up with no drinks at all, or possibl!, one drink at three times its normal pri e. The ma hine is programmed, or onditioned, to respond in a parti ular wa! to a familiar stimulus, e*a tl! like the sub ons ious mind. The sub ons ious is also programmed, or onditioned to respond in a parti ular wa! to a familiar stimulus or suggestion.
5ut if instead of observing the rule, One Suggestion 1sti)ulus2 0 One .esponse, onfusing, omple* stimuli or suggestions are presented to the sub ons ious, then as with the vending ma hine, the result would be unpredi table and disappointing. :or a suggestion to work, it must Singular. +> Su**estions 2ust 'e Aut"orit#ti1e. 0t is alwa!s ne essar! to onvin e a sub1e t that, as an operator, !ou have the authorit! to give a ertain kind of suggestion. The salesperson would sell little or nothing if he or she allowed prospe tive ustomers to think for one moment that he knew nothing about the item he was tr!ing to sell. / salesperson spends most of his time proving that he is %ualified to give advi e on the benefits and advantages of bu!ing whatsoever it is he is tr!ing to sell. $e proves himself to be an authorit! on the matter, and, as a result, his prospe tive ustomer listens and a epts his suggestion as making good sense. / suggestion must alwa!s be #uthoritati(e, or it will be re1e ted b! the ons ious fa ulties of the sub1e t.
!> Su**estions 2ust #l-#ys 'e R#tion#l6 0t must be remembered that we are dealing with a te hni%ue known as ons ious a eptan e, and that means that the ons ious fa ulties must approve of a suggestion. /s one of the ons ious fa ulties is Beason, an irrational or unreasonable suggestion is surel! going to meet with immediate re1e tion. The ons ious fa ult! of reason is most ertainl! going to disapprove, and re1e t an! su h suggestion. / suggestion must be .ational.
0> Su**estions #re F#2ili#r to t"e su'?ect6 7hen a suggestion is given, it must suggest a response alread! onditioned, unless of ourse, the response whi h is suggested an be made instin tivel!. 7hatever is suggested to the sub ons ious mind must be in the sub ons iouss# repertoire of onditioned or instin tive responses. /ll suggestions must be 3a)iliar to the sub1e t#s sub ons ious responses. 3> :inall! we ome to the si*th point, and this on erns the operator. T"e "ypnotist 2ust 'e Accept#'le to t"e su'?ect& and this is mainl! to do with appearan e. /n operator should, at all times, avoid outlandish trends in hairst!le, dress and manner. 0nstead, he, or she, should tr! to be what is ommonl! known nowada!s as +7iddle of the )oad+.
.elease 3ro) Hypnosis

En e !ou have given !our lients all ne essar! suggestions it is time to bring them ba k to ever!da! waking ons iousness. This is simpl! a matter of reversing the pro ess of indu tion. Curing the indu tion !ou ounted then down from ten to 8ero. This time !ou will ount them up from 8ero to ten. &ome pra titions get awa! with 1ust ounting up from 8ero to five. 0f !ou find this works for !ou then go for it but 0 prefer the onsisten ! of ounting from 8ero to ten. &a! something like thisA
Bou have listened to my suggestions and integrated them into your life at a very deep level. *ow it is time to return to normal wa!ing consciousness. s I count up from "E)$ to TE* you will become more aware of the room. Each number coming up is a step up the same staircase you descended earlier so 9ust listen to my voice and as I count up from "E)$ to TE*.
$*E = you see the staircase ahead of you and place you foot on the first rung. T/$ = climbing up TH)EE = feeling more awa!e, refreshed and alert %$() = even more awa!e, refreshed and alert %IDE = halfway bac! to full wa!eful consciousness 6I0 = more and more awa!e, refreshed and alert 6EDE* = feeling so happy, so very, very happy EI'HT= feeling so successful, happy and optimistic *I*E = so successful, happy and optimistic, you !now you achieve whatever you desire TE*= fully awa!e, refreshed and alert. $pen you eyes, ta!e a deep breath and 67ICE F
Conclusion
(ou are now able to ondu t a h!pnoti session on another person. (ou an use this same information to re ord a session for !ourself. Co remember to download !our 3 free sessions if !ou have not alread! done so ' www.thelawofattractioncoach.co.uk/NaturalHypnosis.htm
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Tr#nsfor2 your life -it" t"ese 4reat $!pnosis Besour es

Hypnosis, the basics.

:irst 0 want to talk a little bit about $!pnotherap!.

Hypnosis is a state of awareness dominated by the subconscious mind.

1+ 0ndu tion 2+ Ceepening 3+ Therapeuti 0ntervention G+ Belease )often termed ,awakening-+.

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The Power Of Suggestion

Ebservation G. The imagination can be directed.

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the sub1e t3s trust and on erned

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/ll that is ne essar! for the pro ess to be reversed is.

6ow rela* and on entrate.

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GENERAL DESCRI,TION 1 2 3 G LIGHT MEDIUM DEE, SOMNAM9ULISTIC

9r#in84#1e Fre;uency 5"T/A 1G to 30 hert8 /KP$/A 9 to 13 hert8

=edium $!pnosis Ceep $!pnosis

C"KT/A .I to 3.I hert8

&leep, <naware, Ceep'<n ons iousness

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Just to give !ou some idea of the diversit! of opinion h!pnosisA

most investigators ac!nowledge the e&istence of an hypnotic state .. 7.H. Eric!son

.. hypnosis is simply e&aggerated suggestibility .. 'eorge H. Estabroo!s

&!non!ms Paraphrased &uggestions ?onne tive 7ords Time Cesignations Bepetition

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?hanging the rate of deliver!.

&tressing parti ular words.

=aking use of pauses to allow suggestions to be absorbed or a tions arried out.

Kight =ild =edium Ceep &omnambulisti "sdaile

/ fa ial flush is seen on a signifi ant number of people.

$ead sags and lies to one side. =outh gapes slightl!.

5reathing slows down and be omes shallow.

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eep st#te of "ypnosis the following responses an be

The t!pe of phenomena that an be attributed to the so2n#2'ulistic st#te areA

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This is m! favourite deepener using dire ted imaginationA

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The Inter(ention Stage

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.elease 3ro) Hypnosis

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