So another query I get from clients sometimes is how do I’m aware That I was in a hypnotic trance?
Well this is strange one because clients have all of these weird ideas of what a trance is, how they should feel that has been informed from watching shows on Television movies 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 you can get an idea of what a Hypnotic trace feels like.
Just to sum up I revealed 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 is not
Sleep
State of unconsciousness
State of being puny minded
Loss of self control
So shut your eyes and relax and this is exactly what hypnosis feels like, that is all their is to it.
Now saying that there are a several things we are able to do to show clients that they was in a hypnotic trance, the first one is the hypnotherapist may use convincers to demonstrate to the customer they are in a hypnotic trance. A convincer is a technique used to get the customer to do things that demonstrate to the hypnotherapist and customer that the hypnosis is working. Examples of convincers are, Heavy Eyes – At the count of three you’ll realize that you cannot open your eyes event if you try. Heavy Arm – Focus on your arm and notice how heavy it is and getting heavier all the time in fact in a moment I’ll 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 a big 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 3 it’ll go up higher and higher being drawn up by the balloon.
Now these are convincers that can be performed when in a hypnotic trance the other place to do them is after finishing the hypnosis and the therapy work with the customer, this is when I often 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 be able to test the work we have done to see that it now works. So lets return to a give up smoking hypnosis client who wants to quit and in the pre-session elicitation we found out that the individual smokes most of the time when they get anxious and angry.
In the pre-session we worked this out by asking the customer to close their eyes and go back to several memories in turn of when they smoked and we ask them to associate 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 will tell us how they felt at that point exactly. In the post session we do the exact same thing! Make them 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 is they will have the memory and they’ll know what they used to feel when they recalled that memory, but this time they will not be well placed to feel exactly the same feelings/emotions because we have removed the feelings/emotions from that memory! In effect removing the trigger that caused them to smoke in the 1st place. We also test everything else we discovered in the pre-session elicitation to affirm that everything has worked and they can no longer do what they used to do to smoke.
At this state the single thing left is to leave and get back into their normal life to begin to note the changes that take place in their behavior by comparing how they were before the session to how they are after the session in their normal life routine. As a smoker they just wont smoke or feel like it.
Rodney Inns has been studying and working in the field of Hypnotherapy Melbourne for over 5 years. On his business website he’s got more info for persons interesting in booking in for a session for assistance with weight loss hypnotherapy, give up smoking, Phobia’s to cite a couple. He also has a blog where he’s got more info on Hypnotherapy, NLP and quick change work.
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