Was I Hypnotised & did it work?
Posted by admin on September 23rd, 2011 filed in Uncategorized
So another question I get from clients occasionally is how do I’m aware That I was in a hypnotic trance?
Well this is a funny one because clients have all of these bizarre ideas of what a trance is, how they should feel which has been informed from watching shows on The television pictures for example. If you recall my earlier article on “What is Hypnotherapy (Trance) “, I describe what it is and gave you some examples of what similar trances are so that you can get an idea of what a Hypnotic trace feels like.
Just to recap I said that “Hypnosis feels like, exactly the same as when you have your eyes closed! Its that simple”.
What Hypnosis is
An awake state
State of Relaxation
State of imagination
Rapport with your Subconscious
Ultimate display of control
What Hypnosis isn’t
Sleep
State of unconsciousness
State of being puny minded
Loss of self control
So shut your eyes and relax and this is precisely what hypnosis feels like, that’s all their is to it.
Now saying that there are a few things we will do to show clients that they were in a hypnotic trance, the first one is the hypnotherapist may use convincers to demonstrate to the customer they’re in a hypnotic trance. A convincer is a technique used to get the client to do things that actually demonstrate to the hypnotherapist and client the hypnosis is working. Examples of convincers are, Heavy Eyes - At the count of 3 you’ll realize that you can’t open your eyes event if you try. Heavy Arm - Focus on your arm and notice how heavy it is and getting heavier all of the time in reality in just a moment I am going to ask you to raise it and no matter how hard you try you can’t. Light Arm - Imagine that you have a piece of string attached to your wrist and an enormous helium balloon is at the other end of the string, which is floating up and up and your arm will begin rising at the count of three it will go up higher and higher being drawn up by the balloon.
Now these are convincers that may be performed when in a hypnotic trance the other place to do them is after finishing the hypnosis and the therapy work with the client, this is when I usually do the testing/convincers. So the session has finished so how do you know you were in a hypnotic trance and it has worked well we will test the work we have done to see that it now works. So lets return to stop smoking hypnosis customer who would like to give up and in the pre-session elicitation we discovered that the client smokes the majority of the time when they get anxious and angry.
In the pre-session we worked this out by asking the client to shut their eyes and go back to several memories in turn of when they smoked and we ask them to associate back into the memory see what you saw, hear what you heard, and notice how do you feel now just before you made a decision to smoke? They’ll tell us how they felt at this point precisely. In the post session we do the exact same thing! Get them to return to the memory see what they saw, hear what they heard and try as hard as they can to get back any of that old feelings or notice what happens instead now.
The result’s they will have the memory and they’ll know what they used to feel when they recalled that memory, but this time they won’t be in a position to feel exactly the same emotions/feelings as we have took away the feelings/emotions from that memory! In effect removing the trigger that made them smoke in the first place. We also test the rest we discovered in the pre-session elicitation to affirm that everything has worked and they can’t do what they used to do to smoke.
At this state the single thing left is to leave and get into their normal life to begin to notice the changes that occur in their behavior by comparing how they were before the session to how they are after the session in their regular life routine. As a smoker they just wont smoke or feel like it.
Rodney Inns has been studying and working in the area of Hypnotherapy Melbourne for over 5 years. On his business internet site he has more information for persons interesting in booking in for a session for assistance with weight loss hypnotherapy, quit smoking, Phobia’s to cite a couple. He has also got a blog where he has more information on Hypnotherapy, NLP and fast change work.
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