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Chapter 4 Your Hypnotic Experience"I can't look in his eyes," stated the Associated Student Association President as she introduced me before my Concert of Stage Hypnotism at a small Illinois college. This was my first college audience with many psychology students and even a psychology professor in attendance. I was thinking how strange it is to mention hypnosis with these learned men and women. College students are fearful of hypnotism and think I have strange powers over people. My source of connection with people is with the use of my eyes. Why do people have this feeling about hypnotism and eyes? Eyes have always been a significant part of the hypnosis process. What is the connection the eyes and hypnosis? The sense of "sight" acts as a metaphor for hypnosis. At the count of three, look up from this book. Scan your eyes around the room, keeping a finger on your place in this book. Then focus your attention on one object on the other side of your room. Focus on this object for about ten seconds and then start reading the book again. All right, one, two, and three, look, scan and focus. Well, that was fun. Did you notice as you scan around your room all the different objects? Did you notice different textures, sizes, shapes, form, mass, and colors? As you focused on one object did you notice what happened? Other objects, shapes, sizes, form, mass, and colors go out of focus. They recede into the background. They don not seem quite as distinct or as important anymore. This experience, the experience of sight is just like hypnosis. With hypnosis you focus your attention so much on a central word, thought or idea that the rest of the world goes out of focus. You do not notice or care about what is going on around you. You know that people are talking or that things are happening but they are not as important as the ideas your are concentrating on at the time. With hypnosis you do not need your eyes open at the beginning of the induction in order for it to work. Later in this chapter you will learn how to hypnotize yourself with an Eyes-Closed Induction. It will be fun! Objectives of Chapter 4 The objectives of Chapter 4 are to help you understand what to say to yourself during the hypnotic induction. You will learn Perkins 7-Steps To A Successful Induction. You will also learn why you should say certain words and phrases. You will learn what words and phrases to use during an induction. There will be more explanation in Chapter 14, Hypnotism Theory, when you are interested. You will learn to record and execute the Eyes Closed Method of Induction. What Do You Say During The Induction? What is an induction? What do you say during the induction? An induction is the formal ceremony with a goal to elicit a hypnotic response from the subject or hypnotee. The subject or hypnotee may carry out the formal ceremony normally presented by a hypnotist. Hypnosis can and does exist even without the formal ceremony or induction. This concept is hard for people to understand. But it is true. Once you accept this teaching self-hypnosis will become powerful and it will be fun to use. The induction is a signal that hypnosis is coming. You had better get ready! This is when your belief system and your expectation come into clear focus. What do you say during the induction? I will list the basic parts of a typical induction or ceremony, for you. This will include what you do and what you say to yourself. The following is Perkins 7-Steps To A Successful Induction. Find a quiet spot to relax: This also includes time of day as well as a physical site. Find a time and a place such as a comfortable chair or bed to sit or lie down. Pre-hypnotize: Tell yourself what you want to accomplish during this session. Say to yourself what you need to accomplish 3 or 4 times. Induction: The induction you used in Chapter 3 was the Eyes-Open Method. You are now going to use the Eyes-Closed Method of Induction. You begin with your eyes closed. Deep breathing suggestions: Tell yourself to breathe deeply to enhance the relaxation response. Imagination stimulation: Wrap your imagination around a specific idea or healing thought. This is also called the hypnotic prescription or prevailing thought. Post-hypnotic suggestion: Give yourself a suggestion during the induction that l predicts and asks for a particular behavior, once you awaken from hypnosis. Awakening: Give yourself a signal to come out of self-hypnosis. It may be a count, such as from one to five. It may also be a set amount of time. For example, you may tell yourself that you will concentrate in hypnosis for 2 minutes and then awaken on your own, feeling wide-awake and alert. Why Do You Say it? Question: Why do we find a quiet spot? Answer: We find a quiet spot to eliminate as many distractions as possible. Hypnosis is a state of focusing on one thought and eliminating many others. You may also hypnotize yourself walking though a crowded mall with hundreds of people talking and making noise. Question: Why do we use pre-hypnosis? Answer: We use pre-hypnosis to remind ourselves of the precise behavior we want to change. If we fall into natural sleep during the induction, we will still accomplish our goal. Our pre-hypnosis will act as the hypnotic prescription or prevailing thought. Question: Why do we use an induction? Answer: We use an induction to get our mind ready for change. The induction is a formal ceremony devised to send a signal that we are ready for change. Question: Why do I use deep breathing exercises? Answer: You can use deep breathing to give yourself methods of relaxing you generally do not think about in the waking state. You also give yourself a method of getting feedback to your brain that the suggestions are taking effect. Question: Why do I want to stimulate my imagination? Answer: You stimulate your imagination because everything is possible in your imagination. Think about when you dream at night. You can fly, slay dragons or run faster than any human being. You can interact with people who have died several years before and you can be any age. Everything is possible in your imagination. Why not focus on all the possibilities? Question: Why do I use a post-hypnotic suggestion? Answer: You use a post-hypnotic suggestion as your main theme or reason for the session. You carry out these suggestions after the hypnotic session is over. If your goal is to control your weight, then your post-hypnotic suggestion would involve words and ideas that will help you control weight. You may tell yourself to begin exercising or drinking water. If your goal of the session is to relax then your post-hypnotic suggestion will involve how you will feel relaxed after the induction session. You may suggest feeling the same degree of relaxation while you are working on a project. Question: Why do I need to awaken myself if I am not really asleep? Answer: By giving yourself a cue to awaken, you are giving yourself a signal that it is okay to resume your everyday activities. It also acts as a symbol to remind yourself that something unique and wonderful was happening to you for a few minutes in your day. The hypnotic induction is a ceremony to remind you to cue yourself for change. The awakening ceremony is a ceremony to cue yourself to return to the state of mind that existed before the ceremony. Are you ready for more fun! Let's go! Self-hypnosis Induction 2: Eyes Closed Method Find a great place to sit or lie down and relax. Again, you will be talking into your voice-recording device. You will listen and then evaluate. Remember to add three seconds each time you see the word "pause" as you are recording. Remember to use the word "you" when recording this information to yourself. You may then work with using the word "I" and substitute it for "you" later on. BEGINNING OF INDUCTION Get comfortable sitting in your chair or lying down on your bed or couch. As you sit in your chair or lie on the bed or couch, you are going deep, deep, and deeper into relaxation. (Pause) You will accomplish deep relaxation today. (Pause) Close your eyelids down tight, shutting out the light. (Pause) As you close your eyelids down, shutting out the light, your body is relaxing deeply. (Pause) In a moment, you are going to take three slow, deep breaths. (Pause) Each time you inhale, draw the air in slowly and deeply. (Pause) Each time you exhale, focus on pushing all the tension out of your lungs. (Pause) As you breathe in the fresh, clean air, you feel relaxed and satisfied. (Pause) One, inhale slowly, take a very deep breath. Hold it for a moment. (Pause) Now exhale, (Pause) let all the tension leave your body. (Pause) Two, inhale slowly, and as you exhale, feel the tension leaving your lungs. (Pause) Three, inhale slowly, and as you exhale, feel all the tension leaving your body, and all of the tension, leaving your lungs. (Pause) As you exhale, you feel all of the tension leaving your lungs and all of the tension leaving your body. (Pause). Nothing will disturb you, just focus on your deep, peaceful, relaxation. (Pause) Your mind is alive and alert, and your body is relaxing deeply, soundly and perfectly as if you were in a deep, sound, sleep. (Pause) All of your muscles are letting go as you go deeper into this pleasant relaxation. (Pause) Your mind is keenly alert and aware, as your body is relaxing perfectly. (Pause) Each and every muscle and fiber in your body is relaxed, as you go deeper and deeper into the self-hypnotic state of mind. Your mind is always keen and alert, and your body is relaxing deeply and soundly. (Pause) Now that that your body is completely relaxed, your mind is focused on the suggestions I give you. (Pause) Picture in your mind that you are looking at the night sky. (Pause) Picture the night sky complete with stars and planets and a full moon, or you may picture the sky with no stars and planets and no moon at all. (Pause) Whatever sky you picture in your mind will be the correct one. (Pause) Now right in the middle of the night sky, picture a large wheel. (Pause) It can be a wagon wheel or automobile wheel or bicycle wheel. (Pause) Whatever wheel you picture in your mind will be the correct one. Now as you picture the wheel in your mind, imagine that the wheel is turning. (Pause) Let it turning clockwise or counter clockwise, fast or slow. Just imagine it turning. (Pause) As the wheel is spinning and turning, you are going deeper and deeper into the hypnotic state of mind. (Pause) Your mind is keen and alert, as your body is relaxing perfectly. (Pause) Each and every deep breath is allowing you to relax deeply. (Pause) Each and every sound that you hear is allowing you to relax very deeply. (Pause) Now begin to drop the thoughts of the night sky and the wheel. You will now prepare to emerge from this wonderful state of mind. (Pause) In a moment I am going to count from one to five. At the count of five, you will be wide-awake and alert and feeling better than you have ever felt before. (Pause) If you are listening to this tape just before you are going to sleep at night, you will be able to turn off the tape and go to sleep immediately. (Pause) Waking up when you want to, feeling alive and alert and better than you have ever felt before. (Pause) If you need to be awake after listening to this tape, you will be wide-awake and alert and feeling better than you have ever felt before. You will have energy that will last all day. (Pause) When you go to bed later, you will be able to sleep all night and feel very rested in the morning. (Pause) All right, one, beginning to emerge from hypnosis, two feeling better than you have ever felt before, three, four, get ready now, five, wide awake, alert, feeling great in every way. Yawn, stretch, feel good! END OF INDUCTION How do you feel? Did you have fun? I hope you enjoyed it.
Workshop Activity 1 - Practice Your Induction Listen to this tape recording each day for the next 10 days. Alternate with the induction you listened to in Chapter 3. We will be adding additional self-hypnotic inductions and you will have an opportunity to listen to those as well. Our purpose is to have you condition yourself for this wonderful state of mind. Activity 2 - Evaluate Your Induction Record your reactions and thoughts to this exercise by answering the following questions.
Activity 3 - Recording the Script (Optional) Go back over the script, I prepared for you and substitute the word, "I" for the word "you." Record into the tape recorder. Label the tape, Chapter 4, Optional. Listen to the newly recorded tape. Use one of the "Evaluate Your Induction" forms and answer the questions on the form. Activity 4 - List Perkins 7 Steps to a Successful Induction 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Summary This was a much longer exercise to condition you for a more profound hypnotic experience. You entered the self-hypnosis experience using the Eyes Closed Method. You learned the Perkins 7-Step Method to a Successful Induction. You also learned what to say and why you say it, during your hypnotic induction. I hope you enjoyed Chapter 4. You are beginning to enjoy the art of self-hypnosis. It is very beneficial for you.
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