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Chapter 7 A Profound Hypnosis Experience

How is your progress so far? Have you defined your goal? Are you listening to your prescription each night? Are you still excited about the process of self-hypnosis?

By now, you have had success in self-hypnosis assignments. Your subconscious is ready to take on more and help you solve your problems and achieve all the success you wish for in life.

This chapter is going to be a fantastic one for you!

Objectives of Chapter 7

Chapter 7 will introduce a more profound self-hypnosis experience. You may have already experienced profound self-hypnosis but I will introduce some additional tools maximize your experience. You have two main objectives to this chapter.

1. Experience a more meaningful and interesting self-hypnosis experience.
2. Pretend you are a Hypnotherapist and create self-hypnosis prescriptions for three cases. This will give you a chance to exercise your new mental muscle.

Now get ready to learn more on how you can enhance your self-hypnosis experience!

More Meaning with Music

Remember my definition for hypnosis? Hypnosis is the extraordinary power words have when surrounded by our complete attention.

Is music an important part of your life? Do you enjoy listening to music while you work, study or relax? You may want to include music to enhance your hypnotic experience. Are you aware how music fits into that definition? When you are happy do you ever listen to your favorite music? When you are sad do you ever desire to listen to a sad song? When people have major breakups in relationships, many times they request sad songs.

I was a nightclub musician for three years and found that statement to be true. Many times a man or a woman would tell me their sad story and cap it off by requesting a very sad song! I didn't understand why until I became a hypnotist. I believe that by asking for the sad song the person is extending the ceremony of the altered state of mind that she/he is in. Why not enhance or extend the ceremony of your hypnotic induction the same way. Your mind and body are craving to act as one. Music will help provide the harmony you need in creating and enhancing this experience.

Say It with Flowers

Since you are aware that music may help you enjoy your self-hypnosis experience, you may ask, "What about the sense of smell? Can fragrance help enhance our experience?"

Yes, it can. Many times when a person visualizes a scene in the mountains or in a garden, he/she will tell me that they could actually smell the flowers. In a visualization I use with people suffering from live threatening diseases, I ask my clients to picture an old kitchen with home made bread baking in the oven. Many times, the client will say afterwards that they can actually smell the bread. That smell may linger, even after the induction is over.

Again, the subconscious mind and the imagination are working to enhance the experience. If you can voluntarily add something to effect the sense of hearing or the sense of smell, you may enjoy a more profound hypnotic experience.

At Thanksgiving, Christmas, or other special feasts, does your home take on a unique smell? Special foods that are only eaten during holidays have smells associated with them. How do you personally feel when you enter a home at this special time of year. Does it help your enjoyment of the holiday or does it bring back bad memories of times when expectations were never met?

When you enter movie theatre and smell popcorn or a sporting event and smell the food that is offered there, do you react to it emotionally? Do the smells of special events help enhance the experience for you?

If you answer "yes" to any of the above questions, you may find that by inserting new smells into your hypnosis experience, you will enhance the overall experience significantly.

Where do you find these smells? Pleasant smells can be found from a variety of resources. Various soaps and room fresheners help bring in new smells and new experiences. You may want to burn candles, incense, or scented oils that you find pleasing or relaxing. As your sense of smell is reacting positively to these smells, your body will be relaxing deeper than ever before. The effects of the relaxation may continue long after the hypnosis session is over, just as the smell of the room will linger for sometime after you leave it.

A Touching Experience

When I hypnotize someone in a workshop or in a stage setting, I always like to use the sense of touch to deepen and enhance the experience. This is done when I address the subjects sitting on stage, concentrating in hypnosis. I say, "In a moment I will touch you on your back, and as I do, you will go deeper into hypnosis." Many people are kinesthetic. They feel their world as opposed to seeing it. Have you ever listened to people engaged in conversation? When one person is replying to a statement in agreement, he or she may add, "I know what you are talking about, or I have a feel for it." This person is telling you that they experience their life using their sense of touch as a primary tool.

If the person responds to the statement in agreement with, "I see what you mean, or I get the picture," he/she may be telling you they see their world through their sense of sight.

In everyday communications, we go back and forth in viewing our world through our senses. As we concentrate on an idea or concept, we tend to choose using one sense as a primary assistant in concentrating. If you find your are a visual person, then incorporate a great deal of meaningful visuals in your inductions. If you are a tactile or kinesthetic person, incorporate a lot of feelings in your work. Use music to enhance your auditory world and fragrances to bring your sense of smell to your aid in concentrating and focussing.

Use as many of your senses as you can in working to produce self-hypnosis. You will greatly enhance your goal achievement experience.

Powerful Eyes Open Induction Method

We will record a powerful eyes open induction method. This method is designed to help you feel like you have been hypnotized. Too, many times, people give up in their quest to master self-hypnosis, because they want a more dreamy like state or more profound experience. The truth is that even with the lightest stage of self-hypnosis, you can achieve the greatest results. Repetition is the chief ingredient of success. The more you practice reaching your goals, the better you get. The self-hypnosis program gets easier and easier.

As I present this new induction method, my prescription will focus on having you learn the process faster, easier and in a more powerful way. After reading, recording, and listening to your induction method, you will create prescriptions for each of the three case studies included later in this chapter. You will play the role of the clinical hypnotherapist. Are you ready? Let's begin.

You will read your script into your tape recorder and to listen to it, in a few minutes. You may want to find some relaxing music or sounds of nature. Use a scented candle, incense, or another smell of your choosing that will represent a relaxing smell. Find a very comfortable chair or bed, where you can actually feel the fabric or sense the texture and softness of the chair or bed as it braces against your muscles. Feel the air if you have a fan as it brushes against your skin. Use your senses to enhance your hypnosis experience.

We will invoke a new and more profound self-hypnotic experience. Your eyes will be open, but instead of gazing at a spot on the wall or ceiling, you will be watching the flickering flame of a candle.

BEGINNING OF INDUCTION

END OF INDUCTION

How do you feel? Thank you for your concentration. I hope you had an amazing journey. Practice this induction often and you will achieve many amazing results.

Workshop

Activity 1 - Evaluate Your Induction. Record your reactions and thoughts to this exercise by answering the following questions.

1. What was the first thing you thought about as you finished the exercise?

    

    

    

    

    

2. How did you feel during the exercise?

    

    

    

    

    

3. How do you feel now?

    

    

    

    

    

4. Did you have any unusual sensations as you were listening to your voice?

    

    

    

    

    

    

5. List anything that you feel was memorable during the exercise.

Activity 2 - You Are The Hypnotherapist You are well on the road to achieving all of your goals in life! How exciting! How would you like to help others achieve success as well?

The following three case studies represent three real cases of mine that were helped with the power of self-hypnosis. I want you to read the case studies, then develop a self-hypnosis induction and prescription for each. As you teach you shall learn. You will find this a very rewarding experience.

After you have read the cases studies and created the scripts, take out a fresh cassette and record your script as if this script was meant for you. Then, listen to your script. If you need more evaluation forms, make copies of the one above or the ones located in the appendix of this book.

Good luck and enjoy the exercise!

Case Study 1. Lack of Self-confidence

Here is a case I would like you to work on. Pretend you are the hypnotist and instructor of self-hypnosis. Pick one of the induction methods you have worked with. Then create a hypnotic prescription for that induction that will help our friend, Bob. (Bob is not his real name but this case is a real one taken from my files).

Bob, is 45 years old. He has worked in the electronics field as a technician for the last 15 years. He is coming to you because of your reputation of solving your problems and achieving your goals with self-hypnosis. Bob has just been laid off his job and feels he has nothing to offer the world as far as skills to take another job. Bob is creative and intelligent, however, he is having a hard time getting past the fact that he has had the same job for many years and is afraid to put together a resume and actively seek employment.

Case Study 2. Afraid Of Flunking

Dr. Susan Jones, (this is a made up name but was a real case) is a Surgeon with about 10 years experience working in the medical field. Dr. Jones needs to become certified to practice at a group of hospitals in Salt Lake City. Even though Dr. Jones has been a top student throughout her educational career, she is very apprehensive about taking the written and especially the oral examination. Dr. Jones will be taking the test in a nearby hotel conference center.

She has heard of all your accomplishments using self-hypnosis, and is wondering if you could help her learn self-hypnosis for overcoming test anxiety. If she does not become board certified in Salt Lake, she could face financial ruin in a very short time.

Case Study 3. Procrastination

Pavel wants to begin writing a book. Pavel is very intelligent and very capable of writing a book. However, you uncover that when Pavel was a small child, his father told him he would never grow up and do anything important. Pavel's father's exact words were, "Pavel, you will never amount to anything."

For this exercise, I want you to recommend a hypnotic induction that you feel would be correct for Pavel and create a hypnotic prescription.

Summary

Chapter 7 challenged you to add more elements to your hypnotic experience. By introducing more sensory activities you were able to experience a more profound hypnotic condition. Each time you listen to your induction with the added elements you will achieve a more profound experience. Keep practicing!

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