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Comment by Sharon Dill on November 9, 2011 at 12:06pm

George -  thanks so much for your input. I guess I was getting a bit caught up in the outcome! I'll definitely do the testing, Elman induction & ego strengthening. I've heard of Ultra Height & will investigate - it sounds amazing.

And yes - we definitely all do have issues .. :)

Thanks so much for the advice - I appreciate it.

Sharon

 

Comment by George Guarino on November 9, 2011 at 11:15am

Sharon - First off always remember that it's not about you, it's about her.  Don't own the outcome. 

I'd have begun with testing and convincing (imagine and/or pretent...  imagine an apple, what color is it? what's on top?  can you imagine how heavy it is?  show her she can 'visualize' and pretend)  Elman induction to test for compliance. Get's her into the ritual of induction to hypnosis.

Then - Ego Strengthening!  It's great for Everyone!  They'll fit it into the goal they want to accomplish. You feed back to her what she wants to accomplish.

Then - If you know Ultra Height... That's where I'd suggest she go... to find the answers.  If she won't allow a true UH experience, just following your instructions to get there is so empowering and profound.  I've never had anyone not be awed by an UltraHeight experience, even if it's not a true UH experience. She'll learn something she needs to know.

Then you can proceed with specific changes she can make to address her weight.

Another option, she may also have been a good candidate for a virtual gastric band.

Does she have other issues... don't we all?   G

 

G

Comment by Sharon Dill on November 9, 2011 at 8:29am

I have a client who is coming for weight loss. She is completely non-responsive & extremely negative. She is unfortunately one of those analytical people who does not go into trance easily, sees nothing, can imagine nothing. The first session I got her into trance (after quite a battle) & tried to take her to her 'happy place" - no response. She could not see nor imagine anything. I then tried parts therapy - seeing her over-weight as an object. She couldn't see an object. Eventually she managed to identify it as 'black'. The 'feeling great' part she said she saw white. I asked her if she could put them together - predictably, she then got grey - and no feelings about any of it. I tried doing a future view of watching the numbers on the scale coming down/looking in a mirror and seeing herslf slim ... but no response - she could not see it. I gave her some suggestions for improved eating habits, exercise, drinking water etc & brought her out.

From experience I know that weight loss clients usually come with unresolved issues, so my second session, I deal with these. With her, during the pre-talk, she had told me she was born on the same day as her sister, and had "stolen her sister's birthday". At the age of 30 she has only had one boyfriend - who she said, only dated her because he liked her sister and her sister wasn't interested. She would love to be in a relationship, but doesn't know why men are not attracted to her. The amazing thing is she's very bubbly & talkative in a social setting - and none of this neagtivity & insecurity shows.

I tried regressing her to get to the root of the problem and no response. Eventually I managed to get her to tap into problems she is having at work to get some emotion going, and I tried to regress her using the emotion to take her back. Not much success - she saw nothing, could tell me nothing, except when I really pushed her by asking how old she is - "say the first age that pops into your head", she said 3, but could tell me nothing else expect that she felt unhappy. In order to help her deal with her emotions (which I felt would at least giveher some relief) I told her to sense where the emotional pain was & a colour & to breathe into it. This helped but I still don't feel that we dealt with any of her issues.

She is coming tomorrow for her third (and usually, final) session. I spoke to her yesterday & asked how she felt. Her answer was "the same". I get a feeling that it's almost as if she doesn't think she deserves a life or happiness, and that at the end of this she wants to say "I've tried everything - even hypnosis". She seems so stuck in her view that it's almost as if she doesn't want help - or thinks she doesn't deserve it. I have been trained not to "lead" but I feel at such a dead end here, that I'm tempted to get her into trance and ask her stright out - how do you feel about "stealing your sister's birthday? Or how do you feel about your sister?" or even, just to get through to her, get her to shout out - "I deserve to loose weight - I deserve to be happy - I deserve to feel good" Will this work? She just seems to have repressed all emotion to the extent where it's almost as if she doesn't exist! She also has a history of 'scratching' herself or picking at imaginary sores til it becomes a sore & bleeds - surely this is related to poor self-image.

Please - help! What can I do to break through to her?? I really want to help her. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

Sharon

 

Comment by David Robe on July 5, 2010 at 5:42pm

Hello Susan. Thanks for the welcome. Looking forward to learning and sharing with others in this group. Sounds very interesting. David

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Comment by Greg Matthee on June 3, 2009 at 10:47am

I find the discussions of this group to be highly valuable. I have only recently setup my own private practice and I'm looking forward to sharing ideas and learning from other therapists on this site. I do have a question which I hope can be answered. I always seem to be reluctant to use regression as a means of uncovering an INE Initial Sensitising Event particulary in cases of severe trauma or drug related cases for fear of giving the problem more attention than is required. Is it possible to work around this and achieve good results in present time without regression? I would greatly appreciate any ideas on this matter.

Comment by Carla Shaver on April 5, 2009 at 3:12am

Non-responsive clients
Hi all (y'all for my fellow Texans!),
Anybody have suggestions on working with clients who become non-responsive during the session? This comes up sometimes when I'm doing past life/between life regressions. Yesterday's example: In pre-talk, told client that during session it would be important for her to tell me whatever is going on - even if everything is black, to tell me that, so that I know what's going on. Client went back to life as a Nazi, was able to describe what was going on, went to death scene and described that. Brought client to white light after death scene and asked what their purpose was in that life. No response. Brought in spirit guide to help - he responded that he was there, but when I asked about client's purpose, lessons from that life, etc, there was no response. (Also tried using ideomotor signals - no response.) Asked all kinds of questions - what's going on, how are you feeling, what are you noticing/sensing - nothing. Told client and spirit guide that in order to continue with the session, they were going to have to communicate with me - no response. Finally asked through ideomotor signals if they wanted to end the session and got a yes. Afterwards, client explained that everything was black, nothing was happening, and no matter how I asked the question, she felt like she couldn't answer. (I reminded her that when I asked her spirit guide if he was still there, he immediately said yes, but then didn't answer any other questions. She didn't know why she was able to answer that but nothing else.) Any ideas on how to move clients through this?
Thanks!
Carla

Comment by Brenda Witherspoon, C.Ht. on April 4, 2009 at 9:58pm

Anybody have experience with Depersonalization Disorder?

Comment by Jeannie Martin on March 13, 2009 at 8:08pm

Happy to be here. Thanks for this forum..

Comment by Pattie Freeman CH.t, MST on March 11, 2009 at 12:38am

Happy to be here and share ideas....

Pattie

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