First time direction

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Permalink Reply by Jamie Connors on September 8, 2010 at 2:31pm

Thank you Connor for the amazing detail and direction.

I can promise you I will be having another go tonight. My wife is a primary school teacher, so the chances of her coming home with a little stress is pretty high! I love the idea of reminding her about her being in controll, she is not one to easily give this away. I need to work my pre-talk around this. I will be trying your method and will give you full feedback as to how it went. She did say that the grinning was due to the first time, she also said the more we practice, the more she will become comfortable with the idea.

Thank you once again for the trouble you went to on this, will post the results in the next 12 hours

Connor said:

That is a great idea as Elman's induction can be long or short depending on your client (or wife)'s needs. When you get experience you'll learn to make this induction shorter, and shorter, and shorter. This induction can get 100% of people (although some will disagree) into somnambulism easily as long as the follow instructions.

With regards to your wife, the easiest way to get her to give full consent is to add a "reward" for her, for example if she comes in from work and is very stressed, offer to help alleviate the stress and leave her ready to enjoy her evening etc.(I've added italics because she may not be giving 100%, and this is natural). She should at this point be willing to let you hypnotize her with no resistance. If not you need to think about your pre-talk, a good pre-talk will dismiss every single fear or misconception the client has about hypnosis. The key one in your case with your wife is fear of giving over control. Make sure you really emphasise the fact that she is in control all the time. If you are stuck on this then take her as deep as you can even if it is light and say something like this:

"Notice how the feeling of control still remains in every cell of your body, how you are still in control of yourself... Now if we go deeper into hypnosis you will be able to feel this control increase more as your awareness increases more and more. And you can feel that, can't you? You can allow that feeling of increased control to double now... I am going to ask you to open and close your eyes and when you close them I would like you to become twice as aware of this increase in control and also allow yourself to go twice as deep into hypnosis... 3, 2, 1, eyes open... and eyes closed, increasing your control. (Repeat as necessary as this is Elman's fractionation and also is compounding the suggestion for increased control.)"

I hope this will help you, the bold parts are embedded commands as in Erickson's work.

P.S. I haven't ever used this technique, it came off the top of my head but because you have some trance to work with you can compound suggestions and the suggestion for control will be welcomed very openly. Also because the first suggestion is distracting the conscious mind, the suggestion to go deeper slips through the CF (critical faculty).

Let me know if you do try this technique as I am curious to hear the results, I wish you the best of luck :)

Connor

Glenn Needham said:

I will be having another go tonight, I may try a longer induction with more breathing involved, probably Elman.

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