Some examples of hypnosis "riffs," macros, patterns, interventions, techniques,

Richard Nongard's Subliminal Science:

A “swish pattern” is a special yet very simple and effective technique for helping clients to instantly replace a negative visual image with a positive image, with the goal to reduce anxiety and create emotional stability, or to seek and maintain calmness and manage stress during times of confusion.

HOW DOES A SWISH PATTERN WORK?

The Swish Pattern is a short 5-part exercise, that works along the lines of the basic “when you're depressed, draw a happy picture – and take it out and look at it when you're feeling down” concept from therapy.

The following is a brief explanation of the demonstration exercise:

Think of an event or pattern of behavior that you associate with being negative, distressing, uncomfortable or unhappy.
Close your eyes, and imagine an image or picture that is Opposite of the distressing concept, in as much detail as possible. Black and white to color, harsh to soft, violent to calm, ugly to pretty, etc.
Open your eyes. Now think: What triggers the negative images? Is it an emotion, a place, a sound?
Close your eyes again, and point (physically and in your mind) to the lower left hand corner of your mental vision range. Your old negative, distressing image is currently filling the screen, while the new positive image is hiding under your finger in the lower left hand corner, the size of a postage stamp.

Now, take your finger and swoosh-slide it up, over and across. As you do, the new positive image grows and expands and ultimately covers and replaces the old negative image completely.
Open your eyes, but continue thinking for a few seconds about the new positive image, and let the change to calming peace overtake you.

In the future, if you begin to feel uncomfortable or distressed, simply close your eyes and use your finger to swish your happy, stress-free image over the negative image, effectively wiping it out of existence, bringing calm, peaceful feelings to the forefront of your mind.

Parts of John C.s quit smoking outline. It uses several of what I'm asking for. 1) parts, 2) NLP create a representation to isolate it and then manipulate it to create change, 3), metaphors: High Road, Low Road (Cal Banyan) or the two paths, for being aware of choices and outcomes of each.

Kelley sent me her outline for smoking and it had a bunch of "hypnosis riffs" but it must be on my flashdrive, bc I can't find it.

Jonathan Royle

Here's a past hypno-thoughts discussion about my Copyrighted Complete Mind Therapy (CMT) Non-Specific Treatment Script which will give you an idea of how effective it is - http://www.hypnothoughts.com/forum/topics/downloadable-mp3-of-worlds

Now if you want to use my script, your welcome to, the only condition is that you must place a statement such as "Scripted by Jonathan Royle" or "Hypnotic Consultant Jonathan Royle" on the CD and Covers and Adverts for any products being sold that contain your voice using my script, other than that your free to use this....

Its incredibly powerful and because of the way it is structured so as to leave it to the client to fill in certain blanks and make it 100% personal to them, it can indeed (and has been by many thousands of therapists around the world) be used to successfully treat practically anything and everything you can possibly imagine or think of.

Indeed record this once using the script... and all you need do is design different labels for the CD's and different covers and it can quite literally due to its structure and wording be sold under hundreds if not thousands of different titles, I knopw of therapists (including myself) who have had great success with this script for everything from Confidence Issues and Smoking Cessation on the one hand all the way through to high end issues like Drug & Alchohol Dependency...

Anyhow what follows is the text of the Script (which so long as credit is given as stated earlier to Jonathan Royle you are free to use)....

NON SPECIFIC TREATMENT SCRIPT

PROCEED AS FOLLOWS:

01) Use the Progressive Relaxation Induction (PRI) as detailed in CMT course and mentioned again in chapter 21 of CMT course!

02) Towards the end of this Induction say the “Post Hypnotic” of “AND JUST SLEEP NOW!”

03) Deepen the trance via the staircase visualization method as detailed in chapter 21 of CMT.

04) Deepen further using get into bed and go to sleep visualization, again detailed in chapter 21.

05) Further deepen using having a dream and wiping your name off the blackboard method as per chapter 21.

06) Say the “Post Hypnotic” again of “AND JUST SLEEP NOW”

Then its time for step 07 – Ego strengthening Therapy:

As you relax more completely with every breath that you take, every noise that you hear, every word that I say and every second that passes by, You are now so deeply relaxed, so deeply asleep, that whatever I tell you to do, you WILL do for your own good. And whatever I tell you WILL happen, WILL happen for your own good. Because from this moment forward I am talking directly to your subconscious mind and as you relax more deeply with each word I say and every thought that you think, so in turn every suggestion that I give you, WILL for your own good become 100% Total Reality. You have made a promise to yourself and as you relax more deeply with each second that passes by, so you realize that whilst on the odd occasion it may be OK to break a promise to a friend, that in reality you can NEVER break a promise to yourself. In fact your subconscious mind WILL NOT allow you to break a promise to yourself, you can have 100% faith that your subconscious mind will enable you to achieve everything that I am suggesting to you with the greatest of ease. And as you go deeper and deeper, you notice that the deeper you go, the better you feel and the better you feel, the deeper you will go as you realize now that you can trust your subconscious mind, for just as it makes you breath automatically without any conscious effort, and just as it pumps the blood around your body and keeps you alive, so you can be certain that from this very moment forward your subconscious mind will ensure that every single thing I suggest to you, WILL become your new reality as an automatic reflex action, with the greatest of ease. In fact you will find that something you once thought may be so difficult to achieve will now become so ridiculously easy, as you realize that from this moment forward, you can equal the greatest achievements of life’s greatest achievers and that for you, your innermost dreams can and have now become your 100% total reality. Noticing now that with every breath that you take, every noise that you hear and every word that I say, that all the stresses, tensions, worries, fears and apprehensions of days and weeks gone by are leaving your mind and leaving your body NOW!

07) – NOW TIME FOR THERAPY SPECIFIC TO PROBLEM

Realizing now that from this moment forward, each morning you will awaken with an inner warm glow of confidence, a renewed optimism to life, a more positive attitude to get things done. You will notice that every day in every way you find it so much easier to deal with events and situations, which once would have bothered you greatly. Realizing now that from this moment forward within you is a large inner reservoir of willpower, self-confidence and self-esteem, which you may draw upon as an automatic reflex action whenever you need to, enabling you to deal with everything and anything there and then, the very moment it happens, you no longer need, want, crave or desire for stressful situations and as such from this moment forward with every breath that you take, you will be able to handle everything and anything that life presents to you with the greatest of ease. Nothing bothers you as it once did and in fact you now realize that just as all of the stresses, tensions, Worries, fears and apprehensions of days, weeks, months and years gone by are leaving your body and leaving your mind NOW! So you realize also that every day in every way your life is getting better and better, your approach and attitude to life is getting more relaxed, more positive and more constructive and in turn your approach, attitude and response to other people, especially those you care for, those you respect and those close to you, WILL BECOME far more positive, far more relaxed and far more friendly and appreciative in every way, shape and form. You realize now as 100% Total Reality that your life is now like a mirror, and whatever you give out to others in life is now reflected back towards you tenfold. So from this moment forward as an automatic reflex action you will find that you will send out positive, peaceful, constructive and loving thoughts, actions and words to all those around you and in turn these things will positively and beneficially be reflected back to you tenfold with each second that passes by. Notice how good it feels to realize that these improvements in your daily life have now taken place and will continue to grow stronger and more positive each and every day. Realizing now that just as you can and WILL now equal the greatest achievements of life’s greatest achievers, so in turn you now realize that no one person ever did it all alone and so from this moment forward you will eagerly, happily and positively encourage those around you to help in your aims, actions & desires. You no longer resent or feel shy or in any way negative about accepting help, advice and assistance from others, in fact it makes you happy and proud to know that you can enabling you to achieve whatever you wish to achieve with the greatest of ease. Just as you yourself are a wonderful, valuable and worthy person so you now WILL realize from this moment forward, that the opinions of others, especially those of people you respect, people you love and those close to you are worth listening and responding to in a positive manner, just as your opinions and thoughts WILL NOW BECOME and will remain equally Honest, positive, constructive and worthwhile as all the stresses, tensions, worries, fears and apprehensions of every day situations which once would have bothered you have now become and will continue to be but distant memories and things of the past, as from this moment forward you will awaken each morning with an inner warm glow of confidence, a renewed optimism to life, a more positive attitude to get things done and every day in every way you will now realize that you have within you a large inner reservoir of willpower, self-confidence, self-esteem and patience which you can and you will draw upon as a 100% Total Reality automatic reflex action whenever you find yourself in a situation which once would have bothered you. Realizing now that you reap what you sow in life and as such from this moment forward all the stresses, tensions, worries, fears, apprehensions and obsessions which once may have bothered you are now but distant memories and things of the past as you now continue your life as the Confident, Happy, Healthy, Relaxed Stress free positive minded, Loving, caring, considerate individual that you have now become and will continue to be for the rest of your life, with each and every suggestion growing stronger each second of each minute of each hour of each day from this moment forward, you now realize how short life is and how valuable every second of it has now become to you. You no longer need, want, crave or desire to waste a single moment of your now positively Happy, Healthy, Calm and relaxed lifestyle, instead you now wish to and as a result WILL savor every moment, you now notice more closely how enjoyable it is to be in the company of friends, those you respect, Loved ones and others close to you. Their company, their opinions, their honesty, their help, assistance, advice, love and encouragement are all invaluable to you and as a result you WILL RESPOND to them with the same Honesty, Openness, Positiveness, Warmth, Encouragement and Love in all that you do and at all times you spend together. Your greatest achievement in life now being that you have now become one of those rare few, but very talented and perceptive people who is able to admit their own faults and by so doing grow stronger and happier as an individual and as part of a Loving partnership, in short from this moment forward to you the Past is the Past and what you now find is most important to you is The Future, your positive, happy, healthy, confident, relaxed Future made even more enjoyable, positive and beneficial by those around you who are friends, those who Love you, those who respect you and those who care about you which in turn you will reflect back to them as you continue now to live your life like a mirror and reflect to others the way you wish to be Loved for, Cared for, Respected and assisted in your every day life, which from this moment forward is that of a confident, peaceful, happy, healthy, relaxed, stress free, positive thinking, Loving, caring and considerate worthwhile individual.

08)- FINGER & THUMB RING OF CONFIDENCE.

Noticing now that the deeper you go, the better you feel and the better you feel the deeper you will go with every breath that you take, every noise that you hear and every word that I say, as you now allow your mind to wander free as you continue to go deeper down into the world of your dreams and the world of your imagination I want you to imagine and remember that one time in your life when you felt more Happy, more confident, more proud and on top of the world than you have ever done before. It could have been a time when you won an award or just a time on Holiday when you felt you could achieve anything, it matters not just so long as YOU NOW FEEL Happy, Healthy, Relaxed, Calm, Confident & Loving to yourself and to others in everyday life enabling you to live a 100% fulfilling and stress free lifestyle. Now I just want to notice how good it feels to experience these positive and beneficial states of mind and body and as you do realize now that whenever you need to renter this special place in your every day life, whenever you are confronted with the unexpected or those things which once would have bothered or concerned you then now as an automatic reflex action all you need do is push together the tip of your forefinger of the right hand together with the tip of your thumb and instantly this will make your ring of confidence, your ring of willpower, your ring of self-esteem and your ring of patience that will instantly enable you to remain as the Calm, Confident, Happy, Healthy, Relaxed and Loving individual that you have now become and will continue to be from this moment forward. Remembering that your subconscious will remind you as an automatic reflex action to make this ring of confidence with your finger and thumb as and when you need that little extra help in every day life. As you relax deeper and deeper with each second that passes by and every word that I say.

09- RULERS OF CONFIDENCE, WILLPOWER, SELF-IMAGE/ESTEEM, PATIENCE & TRUST.

Realizing now that the personal attributes of self-confidence, Willpower, Positive Self-esteem, Patience and Trust are the only attributes that any individual needs in every day life to remain as a Confident, Happy, Healthy, Relaxed and Loving person, Just as you have now become and continue to be as you live your stress free lifestyle every day in every way getting better and better. So I’d Like you to imagine a thermometer in your minds eye with the numbers from 0 to 100% on it and within this thermometer the level at which the mercury is indicates the level at which your personal levels of self-confidence, Will Power, self-esteem, Patience and Trust are currently at. As you relax more completely with each second that passes by I want you to notice the level that the mercury is currently at and then realize that if we raise the level to 100% then any and all problems you may once have had in your life will no longer ever be able to bother you or effect you and as you realize this as 100% Total Reality I’d like you to imagine heating up the mercury in the thermometer with a lighter or a hot flaming candle so that the mercury gets hotter and hotter, so hot in fact that it starts to rise up inside the thermometer. Up past 30%, up past 40 & 50%, all the way up and past 80% and then notice and just realize in your minds eye that the mercury has now reached 100% and as you notice this realize how much more confident you feel, how you realize now your Willpower is also at a 100%, your self-esteem is higher than it ever has been at 100% and your Patience and trust both of yourself and others is now also at 100% making you a much happier, healthier, relaxed, calm and loving person in every way as you continue to live a stressfree lifestyle. Realizing now that in order to feel this confident forever we need to fix the mercury in place at 100% so imagine now in your minds eye that you have a hammer and a nail and that you are now hammering the nail through the thermometer and through the mercury at the 100% level and rather than leaking out the mercury is now being fixed, solidly, permanently in place so that from this moment forward your levels of self-confidence, Will Power, self-esteem, Patience and Trust are now fixed at 100% enabling you to live your life as the Happy, healthy, Confident, Relaxed, Calm, Loving & trusting individual that you have become and now continue to be as all areas of your life benefit immensely from these improvements every day in every way.

10- TV SET GET RID OF PAST

As you relax and go deeper, so the deeper you go the better you will feel and the better you feel the deeper you will go as you now imagine in your minds eye a TV set upon which you can see an image of how you once were, just see it clearly on the TV screen the person you once were, notice all those things about yourself that both you and others disliked which are no longer part of you and realize now these things have become and must now remain part of the past. And as you realize this its time to turn down the volume on the TV so imagine doing this now, then just imagine turning down the Colour and contrast so that the image of how you once were disappears completely and now as we realize that image has gone forever, we no longer need the TV set switched on so imagine turning it off, yes that’s perfect and now as you relax more just imagine unplugging the TV set from the wall and as you do realizing that you yourself have now said goodbye completely to the past and how you once were as finally just imagine blowing up the TV set with a large bomb, go on that’s it just see it being blown up and realize now that these things can Never, ever bother you again now or any time in the future as you relax more with each second that passes by and every breath that you take.

11- MIRROR TO INSTALL NEW FUTURE

Just imagine now as you relax more completely a full length mirror in your minds eye and imagine that you are standing in front of this full length mirror but rather than seeing the image of how you once were, you are now seeing the image of how you wish to be. Notice how happy and confident you feel about yourself, notice how good it feels to look in the mirror and see yourself exactly as you have on many occasions dreamed yourself to be, notice how much happier you now feel about yourself and as a result how much happier you feel around those you love and how easy it has now become to be open, honest and candid about those things which once bothered you before you became this image of beauty, happiness, confidence and contentment that you now see before you in your minds eye and then as you continue to breath deeply and regularly realizing now that this is no longer a dream, this is in fact 100% Total Reality, it is in fact your New reality and is indeed the person you have now become and will continue to be from this moment forward, as you go deeper, the better you feel the deeper you go and the deeper you go the better you will feel.

12 – PAIN & PLEASURE SUGGESTIONS

Realizing now as you relax further that from this moment forward you find and get the greatest pleasure from making yourself and others happy, from making yourself and others feel Loved, wanted, Needed and appreciated in all that they say and do and that from this moment forward you no longer need, want, crave or desire any manner of painful situation in your life as you continue to be the Confident, Happy, Healthy, Calm, Relaxed and Loving person that you have now become and will continue to be every day in every way. Making others happy makes you happy and seeing others sad makes you sad as you now live your life like a mirror and give out that which you want reflected back to you.

13 – MAJOR POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS

In a few moments time when I awaken you, everything I have suggested to you and everything that you have suggested to yourself will remain with you in every way and will grow stronger and more positive for you each second, of each minute of each hour for the rest of your life. Each and every time you consent for me to help you reenter this relaxing and beneficial state you will reenter this state with the greatest of ease and the very moment that I say “AND SLEEP NOW” that very moment that I say “AND SLEEP NOW” you will instantly and rapidly reenter this state, and each and every time you reenter this state it will be 100 times more relaxing, deeper and enjoyable for you in every way, shape and form. As you relax deeper realizing also that whenever you hear my voice on an audio cassette whether consciously or whilst asleep the effect of my positive suggestions upon you will grow stronger in every way enabling you to realize that something you once thought would be so difficult to achieve has in fact proved so ridiculously easy.

14 – AWAKEN FROM TRANCE (IF DAY) OR SEND OFF TO SLEEP IF ON TAPE AT NIGHT.

I’m now going to count from 1 to 10 and on the count of ten everything I have suggested will remain with you at a subconscious level and will grow stronger every second of each day enabling you to continue being the Confident, Happy, healthy, Relaxed, Calm and Loving individual that you have now become and will continue to be from this moment forward….

On 1, Everything I have suggested remaining with you and growing stronger in every way.

On 2, Realizing now that you will awaken in the morning with an inner warm glow of confidence, a renewed optimism to life and a more positive attitude to get things done as you now realize that you have a large inner reservoir of self-confidence, Willpower, self-esteem, Patience, Trust and Honesty within you that you can draw upon whenever necessary as an automatic reflex action.

On 3, Realizing now how much better you feel, how proud you feel about yourself for allowing yourself to come to terms with the problems you once had that no longer bother you.

0n 4, Its almost as thought every muscle in your body is now being washed with pure spring water removing all negativity from your mind, from your body and from your life forever,

0n 5, Lighter and brighter almost as though you now realize that a huge weight has now been lifted off your shoulders and you are now free to live your life happily the way you once thought may only ever be a dream, but the way which is now for you your 100% Total Personal Reality.

On 6, Normal feelings now returning to each and every muscle group in your body as everything I have suggested is now permanently burnt deep into your subconscious mind

0n 7, Realizing now that at a conscious Level only, when you awaken in a few moments time you will remember to forget and forget to remember everything that has been suggested to you, instead allowing it all to be stored to your subconscious mind who will ensure that you act upon it all as an automatic reflex action in your every day life.

On 8, Lighter and brighter now, coming on up out of it, feeling better than you have done in weeks, perhaps even in months, feeling so happy. Healthy, Calm and relaxed

As on 9, Coming on up out of it, Lighter and brighter

And on 10, Open your eyes wakey wakey rise and shine.

END OF PERSONAL SESSION WHICH IS SUITABLE FOR TREATING 99% OF PHOBIAS, HABITS, PROBLEMS ETC

Toby, If you'd like to use this script, you can download a copy of it in Microsoft Word 100% Free of Charge at:

http://www.4shared.com/document/f_Pze2jC/Script_For_Complete_Mind_T...

I hope you (and many others here) find that useful,

Many thanks

Jonathan Royle

Alex Smith (Jonathan Royle) posted a while back a 100% spam free script he wrote and billed as "The Worlds Most Powerful and Versatile Hypnotherapy Script"

I told him I would record it as an mp3, so other professionals can learn the presentation of such a script. I wrote and created a pre-talk, selected the background music and stuck to the the script 98% of the time. I did add a few transitional deepeners, and occasionally tripped over a word and deviated 2-3 times from the original working. Attached is an .mp3 and you can download it. It is his complete hypnotherapy session that you can enjoy and learn from based on his "Complete Mind Therapy" program.

I think Alex did a great job writing the suggestive script. The pre-talk, induction and deeper were not scripted but I used a fairly standard PMR presentation and staircase deepener that Alex recommends to those learning.

The original post was started by Alex here: http://www.hypnothoughts.com/forum/topics/716892:Topic:113796

I created this new thread because I couldn't figure out how to attach an .mp3 to a thread he started.

It is also available here for 14 days form the date of this post:

https://download.yousendit.com/dVlvZUNucVg4Q1RIRGc9PQ

You may use the script within the generous guidelines of the original post by JR, you may also feel free to copy the .mp3 for your own personal use or for the use of clients, but you do not have permission to resell it or use it for commercial purposes.

The .mp3 is 99.99% SPAM free, it merely contains our contact info, with no additional advertising or commercial recommendations.

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This is what I meant by specifics.

I'll add more as I find them.

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Comment by docregal.com on December 6, 2011 at 1:50pm: just now Delete Comment

Susan, if you consder what I have to say and take it to heart, you will benefit greatly.

Stop it!

Too much data leads to a brain overload. Select your favorites and then master one thing at a time.

Be patient. Rome was not built in a day. ;-)

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 7:23pm: Here is one that I pulled from Paul McKenna's book "I Can Make You Sleep." Most of it comes from different versions or examples of NLP. Each could become a part of a script.

From "I Can Make You Sleep"
by Paul McKenna
The outline of his rationale

1. Eliminate sleep distractors
2. Introduce sleep enhancers
3. Optimize environment to maintain improvements in sleep

Rule 1. (guidance, not hypnosis) Wake up one-half hour earlier than ususal
Rule 2. Go to bed only when you're sleepy
Rule 3. Don't take naps

Outline of specific interventions, "macros," "techniques," "riffs"

1. Movies of your Mind (can be made into hypnosis script, but the idea being to take your focus on the worries of the day and put it on a place, event, whatever that is calming and sleeping inducing)
This could be used to refocus your attention from any negative or disturbing thoughts to
thoughts that will create the mental state you want to achieve)

2. Reducing your Worries - outline or description of a specific way to reduce negative or disturbing thoughts and induce thoughts that are successively relaxing.

A. Think about something specific that you worry about. Bring it to mind. Picture it vividly.
B. Step out of it in your imagination, float away from yourself backwards, so that you can
see that back of your head.
C. Float further and further away until you can see yourself as if you were someone else
doing the worrying.
D. Drain all the color from the picture until it's black and white, barely there, old and
scratched, hard to see.
E. Make it smaller and smaller until it's a tiny point you can barely see
F. Make it more and more transparent until it's barely there
G. Decide if there's anything you have to do in order to put it aside
H. Put it aside, behind you, in box, whatever.

3. You are now ready to become drowsy

4. Practice being drowsy. (Create a movie of yourself becoming so sleepy that you just fall asleep)

A. Remember a time when you felt very drowsy; remember how your body felt when it
was drowsy.
B. Imagine that you are surrounded by friends who are becoming drowsy and tired
C. Imagine them beginning to yawn
D. AS you watch them yawn and get drowsy, notice how you feel in your body. Imagine
you're watching how hard it is for them to keep their eyes open.
E. See yourself yawning
F. Notice if your eyes start closing and can't stay open
G. Yawn again, keep this moving going, getting sleepier and sleepier until you drift off to
sleep.

5. Calming the internal voice
A. Remember something you used to say to yourself while you were waiting to fall asleep,
like "this is so boring" "I'll never get to sleep" etc.
B. Say it all to yourself again and notice where it seems to be coming from.
C. Then start moving it further and further away; your voice becomes fainter and fainter
D. Notice the tone of the voice. Is it frustrated, angry, worried? Imagine it becoming
sleepier and sleepier. Imagine yourself yawning, becoming sleepier and sleepier. Do this
until you begin to forget what you're supposed to say bc you're falling asleep

6. Progressive relaxation - go through your body, top to bottom or bottom to top, relaxing each little part (body relaxation)

7. Changing your story - hear the words that you say to yourself about not being able to sleep
Step out of the picture, float backwards, etc. Let it further away, softer and then let the words begin to change to how easy it is for you to become dr

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:44pm: Some of these "macros" or "hypnosis riffs" have names that we use all the time to explain things and some of these are identifiable but probably have no specific name, or perhaps they have several names.

If I have to do it myself, which it looks like I will have to, I'll let you know what I come up with. I'm still interested in hearing your favorites, now that perhaps I have made my question clearer.

Susan

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:42pm: Here is the first part of Kelley's quit smoking. I think you can see more of what I meant or what I was asking:

Good Morning, Susan! I saw your posts and wanted to send you this; I posted it to Andreas' comments instead of the discussion, but thought you might like it, too. I'll have to send it in a couple (or few) messages due to character limits...
Guten Tag Andreas!

I am leaving this here as it is rather lengthy. A lot of it is probably redundant to you, but perhaps you can use components of it.

I was taught to include the following components in my smoking cessation program:

1. Assurance of the desire of the client to stop smoking is his own. I ask him to submit a committment form that contains the reasons why he smokes and the reasons he wants to become a non-smoker, plus a date of quitting. Note: if others in the household smoke, the chances of him being successful are reduced.

2. A sound pre-talk informing him of the facts about smoking and the smoking industry, and elliciting more personal details for trance ammunition. (Brand, quantity, cost, motivators, habits such as how he handles cigs, how life will be different as a non-smoker, etc...) Discuss alternative options to triggers (water, exercise, stress tools that he will learn here, etc.)

3. Induction that leads to establishing a safe place and teaches self-relaxation with anchors to success, confidence, etc.

4. Communication with subconscious to make sure it is "on board" with the work we are doing

5. Regression to first experience with tobacco, communication between current and younger selves on the subject or any other that is relevant to stopping smoking......

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:40pm: Here's another one from John C.

Reply by John Cleesattel on February 1, 2010 at 4:04pm

Hi jagi,
Or you could use an intervention like the blow out.

The blow out is a technique that has the subject feed the anxiety feeling back on itself, thus amplifying it enough that it over-inflates it like a balloon and then it pops and is gone. This is a one session technique.

The reason it works is because we have a finite limit as to how much of a feeling we can experience, and when that point gets exceeded, the feeling causing it self-destructs. The reactive mind sees the reaction as destroyed, and no longer provides that reaction to the trigger that causes the feeling.

The technique requires only light trance to start with (like so many techniques, the trance deepens as they use it).
Have a pre-talk that explains the concept to the subject and ask them if they are willing to experience the anxiety one more time, if they can be rid of it forever. Explain that it is an opportunity for some pay back (revenge) against the anxiety feeling. You will guide them to literally force feed the anxiety back on itself, and they must continue to amplify it until it finally pops, and it will.

After establishing a light trance, have them try to experience the feeling again and rate it on a scale of one to 10. Then make the feeling go weaker, then stronger, to make sure you have control of it. (If starting at a 6...have them make it a 5...then when a 5...have them make it a 7 etc). Once you have control, just having them adjust the level continually higher. Stress that the must get mad at the anxiety, and amplify it with extreme prejudice. Continue to amplify..100..500..1000 time stronger... until it pops. Just when the subject thinks they can't take anymore.. that's when it pops. Then it will be gone for good.

I hope this helps you
John

Maybe these examples will make what I trying to learn from "those who know more than me" more understandable.

Susan

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:37pm

Here is an outline of Affect Bridge by Garrett Buttel

GUIDING WITH EMOTIONS TO FIND THE ISE

1. Target the problem:

• If the person doesn't know what the problem is, ask for their definition of a better life. Ask what is lacking. Find out how what is lacking causes emotional or physical pain.

• If the person brings a long list of problems, ask for a brief description of each. Ask which would be most important to deal with right now. If the person is not sure, ask which one causes the most pain. Verify if that would be the priority.

• Sadness, but does not know what the problem is? -- Move straight into the exercise.

2. Identify the sub-modalities of the problem:

• Ask the person to go to the most recent event where he/she experienced the emotion or physical pain. (Name it -- an age, name or word)

• Acknowledge the person's emotion or pain.

• Ask the person to locate the emotion or pain in the body.

• Ask the person to focus on that feeling while I ask you what we call sub-modalities – turn up the volume of the feeling

• Ask them :

( ) COLOR? ______________________________

( ) NOISE?________________________________

( ) LOOKS LIKE?__________________________

( ) MOVING?______________________________

( ) HEAVY OR LIGHT?______________________

( ) HOT OR COLD?_________________________

( ) SMELL?________________________________

( ) TASTE?________________________________

3. Find the ISE with Gradual Affect Bridge:

• Have the person go back to a previous time they felt the emotion -- depending on their age, take them to an age with a rounded number. (Example: If the person is 56, use the past 6 years, if 42 use the last two) Get the situation and the sub modalities.

• Ask the person to now go back to a time between the ages of x and x, in ten year leaps. (Example: between the ages of 40 and 50, then 30 and 40)

• Under 20, reduce the leap to 5 years apart

• Take the person right back to birth , even if the person does not experience the emotion or pain in one or several periods

If you get ISE, remove the automatic emotion (inner child – forgiveness, etc.) - do future guided imagery to prove to them that the feeling is gone…. Emerge as though it is hypnosis.

5. If you don’t get to the ISE….say ok ready to do hypnosis? Immediately do a quick instant induction and go back to the earliest SSE, build up the feeling and do affect bridge to the ISE. ***Tip, if you’re not sure you have the ISE say this, “In a moment I’m going to tap you on the forehead and when I do a number will automatically come out of your mouth, that number represents the age you were the first time you had this feeling and you’re going to be surprised at how low that number is – (Immediately tap) a low number usually comes out. Then use a signal such as dropping the arm and go back to that event at age ( )….here we go…

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:35pm

Here is a long version of Affect Bridge that I transcribed off of a DVD by Debbi Livingston. This opened up huge horizons for me.

AFFECT BRIDGE

Debi Livingston

Levels of intensity imprint

1 ----- 2 ----- 3 ----- 4 ----- 5 ---- 6

Are you ready to do hypnosis with me now? Great.

Is it OK if I touch your hand, arm, shoulder or even your forehead?

Great.

It’s an amazing thing about hypnosis: each time you follow an instruction or suggestion that I give you, you automatically allow yourself to go deeper. You automatically and naturally go deeper into relaxation when your attention goes inwards, to follow my instruction.

Is that still ok? Great

Track 4

As you choose to follow my instructions you will take yourself down into hypnosis. Is that ok with you?

Are you in agreement to follow my instructions?

I’m going to lift your hand. Don’t help me. Grab thumb.

As I hold your hand like this you will begin to notice that your attention goes to your hand. Very good.

As your attention goes to your hand you will begin to notice a certain sleepiness and relaxation coming into your eyelids, your face, perhaps your arms, you legs..very good

In a moment I am going to count from 3 to 1 and drop your hand into your lap. Your eyes will close and you will allow yourself to go into a nice state of restful relaxation.

3, 2, 1…SLEEP ---eyes close, SLEEP

As I lift and drop your hand, your whole body will relax even more NOW

Every time I lift and drop your hand you will go even more deeply in pleasant hypnotic relaxation…is that OK?

Let the sound of my voice, the touch of my hand, the feelings that you are feeling help to send you into an even deeper state of hypnotic relaxation

Every time I lift and drop your hand, that state will become even stronger.

Each time I touch your shoulder, hand, rock head, tap forehead or hand, you will go takes client deeper

In a moment I’m going to ask you to open and close your eyes. When you do so the relaxation will get even stronger.

In fact, each time I ask you to open and close your eyes, you will go even deeper relaxed. RU in agreement with that?

In fact, each time you agree with me and answer with a yes signal, that will also take you deeper. Is that ok with you? (nods)

Good, very good, and go deeper

And now let’s do that again.

Think about your EL again. Soften the muscles around your eyes, soft, loose, sleepy, so very relaxed. And relax even more. Take that relaxation and send it thru entire body, from top of head to tips of toes

Let that relaxation radiate out thru your entire body, out, up, down. Excellent.

Bring attention to EL again. Relax even more. Take and send that relaxation thru entire body…very good
Doing a great job

You will notice how easy it is to stay focused on the sound of my voice. Let every word, every sound, every feeling that you feel, every touch of my hand, take you deeper and deeper relaxed. That relaxation and openness becoming stronger and stronger. Are you in agreement with that?

And you will notice that the deeper you go, the better you feel and the better you feel, the more open you become to a

Comment by Susan French on December 4, 2011 at 5:27pm: Here is an NLP "riff" thanks to Richard Nongard.

HOW DO YOU FIND YOUR PERSONAL PRIMARY REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEM?

There are a couple of different tools available to help you determine your (or your client's) PRS. One of the most popular is the “Nongard Assessment of Primary Representational Systems,” which is a 10 question multiple-choice self-response quiz. The way it works is this: A question or statement is presented about a situation, and three choices are offered. One choice reflects a visual response, one reflects an auditory response, and the third presents a kinesthetic or feelings-based response. You simply read the question and select the option that most closely represents how you are most likely to react if you were in the described situation.

For example, consider this Question:

When you spell a new or difficult word, do you:

___ a.) Visualize it on a blackboard.

___ b.) Sound it out.

___ c.) Start writing it out.

And this one:

If you buy an assemble-it-yourself project, what do you do:

___ a.) Look at the picture on the box.

___ b.) Read the directions out loud.

___ c.) Just start building and complete it by trial and error.

As you can see, in the above response choices for both questions the (a) answers are visually oriented, the (b) answers are auditory focused, and the (c) answers are kinesthetic in nature. Selected responses will vary from question to question and person to person, and while most people will select some answers from all three categories, generally the greatest number of responses will be in a single category, thus determining the individual's Primary Representational System.

For instance, if they have 8 (a) visual responses and 1 response each in auditory and kinesthetic, their PRS is Visual. If they have 6 (b) auditory responses, 3 (a) visual responses and 1 (c) kinesthetic response, their PRS is Auditory.

WHY IS IDENTIFYING A PRIMARY REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEM HELPFUL?

If you practice NLP techniques (neuro-linguistic programming), life coaching, hypnotherapy or counseling, knowing your (and your client's) PRS can help make learning (and teaching) new information easier. If you know from assessment that a specific client's learning style is more visual, you can take care to supplement your presentation of information to them via actual pictures (or graphs, charts, written text), and/or to describe situations or information more visually, so they can “see it in their mind.”

If they are more auditory, it might be helpful to speak directions or instructions aloud to them, rather than just handing them a paper to read to themselves. Subtle background music is often helpful when studying or concentrating, as is learning by listening to audio-books or other recorded information.

If the client is primarily kinesthetic, it can be helpful to describe concepts in relation to emotions, or to present hands-on projects. Often, the more intense the experience is, either emotionally or physically, the greater impact it will have on their comprehension and retention.

WHERE CAN I FIND A PRIMARY REPRESENTATIONAL SYSTEM ASSESSMENT TOOL?

Assessment of primary representational systems is quick and easy, and can make a substantial difference in the comprehension and retention of new ideas. The "Nongard Assessment of Primary Representational Systems” quiz by Richard K. Nongard, LMFT/CCH is included in the Complete NLP Practitioner and Life Coaching Certification Training Program, and is also available here as a free download at www.SubliminalScience.com.

For more information on becoming ICBCH certified in NLP practice, and how to be a Certified Life Coach, please visit our websites