lntroduction
Welcome
Welcome to the " Conversational Hypnosis For Professional Hypnotherapists Certification
Prograrrt'. I am excited that all of you have chosen to be at this course now, because the
material I am about to share with you is very powerful. This program has been designed to give
you a solid foundation in hypnotherapy, and I will share with you all the tools you need to show
everyone you meet how to improve their lives.
Some of you may be highly accomplished hypnotists with well-established clinics. Some of you
may have chosen in the past to dabble in hypnosis as a part time hobby. And some of you may
have only recently discovered how fascinating hypnosis is. The wonderful thing is that whatever
background you have come from, you will have the pleasure of watching your hypnotic skills
continually increase. When you complete this course, you will be a more confident hypnotist,
with all the knowledge you need to take your career to the next level. ln addition, you may find
your unconscious mind delightfully surprising you with the immense improvements in your skill
as a hypnotist that will occur during this training.
Now, this course is not about blindly memorizing someone else's words. What I'm going to do
here instead is show you how to understand what's going on in the background, what's going on
in people's minds, how suggestion works and how to make it work for you. ln addition, I will be
showing you four therapeutic patterns that give you all the tools you need to handle virtually all
of the problems people could come to you with.
ln order to avoid you having to parrot anything, I've designed many exercises that you will
perform during this program. Everyone will have plenty of opportunities to hypnotise others and
be hypnotised.
ln this w?y, it is my hope that you will become an elegant hypnotist. You will have the tools to be
able to go out into the world of hypnosis, and no matter what you find you will understand it on a
deep level, and be able to make it work even better for you.
ln this way, you develop real freedom. You get to develop your own style and you'tl never be
trapped because you'll always know which direction you can go in, in order to improve yourself.
As you take your first steps toward mastery of hypnosis, l'd like you to always remember that
hypnosis is the art of communication. You are communicating with the whole of the human
being, the whole of the individual. So everything you learn here will be something you'll be able
to use to enrich your whole life in general.

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What Is Hypnosis?
The first thing to realise is that hypnosis isn't any magical or mystical state. lt doesn't take any
special powers to either be a hypnotist or to be hypnotised. ln fact, it is a very natural part of
being a human being.
As hypnotists we find it convenient to talk about different levels of consciousness. Most of you
going through this program are probably familiar with the idea of a conscious mind and an
unconscious mind, so I will only go over the concepts briefly to ensure that we are all on the
same page.
The conscious mind is what we'd like to think of as ourselves. lt is our intellect, it is the choices
we make everyday, it is the things that we are aware of. The conscious mind has a very digital,
linear thought process. As a general rule, your conscious mind can only process between 5 and
9 bits of information at a time, which explains why it can be easy to feel overwhelmed when
tackling a complex problem.
However, your unconscious mind has a very different, almost holographic thought process.
The unconscious mind can handle millions upon millions of pieces of information at the same
time, and it loves finding complex patterns and connections.
There are many different models of consciousness out there with varying complexity, and if you
have a particular belief, by all means feel free to use it. Some people like to split the mind up
into parts: conscious & unconscious, the part that smokes & the part that wants to give up, etc.
Ultimately, I believe it is all still just YOU. We use such terms as conscious/unconscious as a
convenient handle to do our work. But at the end of the day, I don't want a fragmented mind; I
look to integrate everything so just one person leaves your office!
Throughout life, people drop into trance several times a day, whether they are pulled into a
riveting novel, become enthralled while watching a movie, etc. You have likely had an
experience when you are driving somewhere familiar in your car, and as you begin parking at
your destination, you realise that you don't recall driving the last five miles. Your unconscious
handled the driving while you were thinking about something else. All these are examples of
different forms of trance.

The ABS Formula For Hypnosis
Now let's unpack what happens in hypnosis.
I want to present to you a very powerful formula, a three-step model that will give you the keys.
ln fact, it is one of the master keys for understanding any hypnotic process. These are the
things that have to happen in any hypnotic process in order for you to make sure that you
actually have some sort of hypnosis and you are working with the unconscious mind.
The three steps are encapsulated in the acronym ABS.

A - Attention
Absorb ones attention; focus their attention. You need to pull it and draw it into
the hypnotic.
2 B - Bvpasil::l;: ff:"#:ff:;:ff:1;J, ff il:::i'*.,n
Bypass habitual patterns to allow new patterns to be installed
S - Stimulate the unconscious mind
Recruit unconscious mind to perform actual changework

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Common Fears & Misconception
Hypnosis is NOT Sleep
When someone is in hypnosis, their mind does not disappear, and they do not typically feel like
they are asleep. lt is important to make people aware of this, because they may think that since
they are totally aware of everything, that they must not be in hypnosis, and they will pop
themselves out of trance.
You will not be asleep. You will hear everything I say. ln fact, in many respects you will be
more aware in hypnosis than you've ever been before in your life. You might be aware of
things like the ticking of the clock in the background, or the sounds of the street on the
outside.
You Will NOT Forget (Everything)
One of the earliest experiments in hypnosis discovered that when people came out of trance,
they were spontaneously forgetting the events that occurred inside.
Now you've got to remember a couple of things.
First of all these were different times. ln other words, the kind of hypnotic trances that we're
doing and the induction process that we're using are different now. An "old school trance" would
typically take many hours just for the induction.
The hypnotist would wave his hands over the subject's body monotonously - sometimes for
hours. lf nothing else, they could be inducing trance out of sheer boredom!
So in modern hypnosis (and a lot of the trances that we use, particularly for therapy or stage
hypnosis) most people know exactly what's going on almost all of the time. lt's just they're not
bothered by it. They kind of enjoy drifting with the experience. They are in a free-flowing state of
mind, where it's easy to go along with the suggestions.
You will remember everything that's happened at the end of fhe session. Occasionalty t
may suggest that you forget a few things. This is just so that your unconscious mind has
the freedom to deal with those things outside of your awareness, without any inbrterence.
But it's a rare occasion when that sort of thing happens.
You Will NOT Lose Control
The hypnotist's role is to guide someone through the experience. The subjects role is to listen to
suggestions and realize that any suggestions that are negative or in some way are contrary to
their moral code, their moral values, will be rejected.
ln fact, if a hypnotist ever tried to get their subject to do something immoral, what's more likely to
happen is that the subject comes out of trance and gives the hypnotist a stern talking to!
Your unconscious mind is there to protect you, to look after you. Why would it make you
break your moral code? ln the same way you wonT tell me anything that you don't want to
be telling me.

You Will NOT Reveal Your Darkest Secrets
Everyone has skeletons in the closet. Everyone has things in their past that they don't want to
talk about or might be a little bit ashamed of.
For the most part, the irony is that these things that we don't want to talk about or tell people
about, are things that are so minor that if they came out people would go, " That's what you were
worried about? That's not a big deal."
The point is, though, some people are afraid that these secrets, as they were, may come out,
and that someone else will know their big secret.
Again, this is not the case and you'll need to reassure people that their secrets will remain their
secrets.
ln this w€ly, their attention is free to follow your suggestions, rather than being eaten up inside
hoping and wondering and being afraid that you might discover something that you really don't
even care about that much.
Your secrets will remain your secrets. After all, your unconscious mind is there to took
after You, not to look after me So why would it reveal secrets that you don't want other
people to know if it's looking after you?
You Are NOT Gullible or Stupid
Some people think that in order to be suggestible you've got to be gullible.
There is a big difference between gullibility and suggestibility.
People who are gullible aren't necessarily great hypnotic subjects.
One of the reasons for this is that if they're going to believe everything anyone tells them
anyway, then the minute someone comes in and tells them a contrary suggestion to the ones
that you've made in hypnosis, they'll go down the wrong path again.
So their mind is filled with conflicting suggestions.
lntelligence, on the other hand, requires the ability to try out new ideas and ways of being so
you can choose the best one - something that hypnotic suggestion is designed to facilitate. So
intelligent people are already used to using "hypnotic realities" to gel better results! Of course,
their defence mechanisms are still there to shield them from negative suggestions!
There is evidence to suggest that there is a corretation between intettigence levels and
suggestibility. ln other words, the smarter you are, the more suggestibte you tend to be.
Part of what defines intelligence, although it's a tricky thing to define, is your abitity to have
many different experiences and understand them and immerse yourself in them. That's
what suggestions are designed to do, to give you a different set of experiences. The other
thing about intelligence is it allows you to put on hotd one modet of the world, one way of
thinking, and try on different models until you find the best one for your needs. That's how
people evolve or grow; become more intelligent or find better solutions to things.

You Will NOT Get Stuck in Hypnosis
They will always wake up out of hypnosis.
Occasionally, and very occasionally, when you try and end the trance session someone won't
respond. They will choose to stay in hypnosis because it's very pleasant.
Now that is a very different thing.
This is them choosing to remain in a very pleasant state. Have a look at the Troubleshooting
section for how to deal with this.
You will always wake up from hypnosis. The very worst thing that could ever happen,
even if I died on the spot in the middle of our hypnosis session, is that you'd just drift off
into a wondertul sleep. You'd wake up half an hour or an hour later, feeling refreshed and
wondering how you got there. And that is it.

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Hypnosr.s - Soph isticated Or Complex?
When people decide to learn something new, many times the first look at the surface reveals
what seems to be a very complex thing, something that is daunting to think about, much less
master. When you first see some of the techniques that you are learning during this training, you
may have initially felt overwhelmed, but I am going to tell you the secret that will help you
whenever you desire to learn something new.
The reason things may look complex at first is because you are concentrating on the forest, and
miss the individual trees. lnstead of feeling overwhelmed by the huge complex forest of ideas,
you can focus on mastering one idea at a time. You will find that something that used to seem
too complex, can easily be broken down into simple individual steps. After easily mastering
each step in turn, you are able to put several simple steps into a sophisticated group. These
groups, seem sophisticated and complex to others - but to you they will now be a collection of
simple steps.

Master Step 1
Master Step 2
Master Steo 3

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How To Become A Great Hypnotist
As you are building you hypnotic skills, keep in mind the difference between complexity and
sophistication. lf you ever start to feel confused, take a step back, and build up from a strong
foundation. As you master each step, you can discover how much easier the next step is.
Fake lt 'Till You Make lt
One of the fastest ways of mastering hypnosis is to simply fake it till you makeitlNow, the
reason for doing this is because it actually takes away a lot of pressure from you to perform in a
particular way. This is important because it allows you to easily master each step in turn (again,
complexity vs. sophistication). I'll go over the specific steps later, but the important thing to keep
in mind is that as you are performing hypnosis, you can choose to focus on a single step at a
time, allowing your unconscious to fill in the gaps.
It is important to let go of any preconceptions of what hypnosis should be or how you should feel
or not feel as a hypnotist. Every person experiences hypnosis in their own way, and if you try to
force people to conform to your expectations, you might occasionally have difficulty getting
trance responses from some people. On the other hand, if you are open to whatever comes
along, you allow yourself to continually grow as a hypnotist, and give people beautiful
experiences. ln addition, how you feel as a hypnotist may change as your abilities grow, so it is
important to allow your feelings to shift and grow with your skill level.
Gorrect Practice Equals Mastery
GP=M
lf you want to learn how to ride a motorcycle, you could spend a lot of time perfecting how to
use a bicycle, which will certainly help to some extent, but just because you are an expert
bicycle rider doesn't necessarily mean that you can expect to hop onto a Harley Davidson and
be able to drive otf into the sunset safely. A motorcycle is much heavier than a bicycle, there are
lots of extra controls, and everything behaves differently at high speed.
ln the same way, we all know how to say words, form sentences and communicate ideas. This
course gives you the other tools and experiences you will need to quickly and easily build up
your hypnotic skills so that you can safely and competently roar off into the sunset.
Pygmalion Effect
The Pygmalion effect refers to the fact that you typically get what you expect. Robert Rosenthal
and Lenore Jacobsen performed a scientific study where they found that students performed as
well, or as poorly as their teachers expected them to perform.
People conform to your expectations. So, if you expect that someone will be difficult to
hypnotise, they will. Even better, if you expect someone to be easily hypnotised, they will be
easily hypnotised.
As you increase your hypnotic skills, you can expect someone to be in hypnosis, and they will
become hypnotised, and you didn't even need to do anything, consciously.

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The Most Important Hypnotic Principles
Hypnosis With Positive lntentions
H+
Whenever you are interacting with people hypnotically, you should have "H+" foremost in your
mind. You are intending to induce a Hypnotic trance (H) coupled with an intention to do
something positive for that person (+).
This communicates to everyone else on a non-verbal level that great things are about to
happen, and that you can be trusted.
When people come to you for help, they come in with a kind of "H-" attitude; they have managed
to hypnotise themselves into believing their story of doom & gloom so strongly, that they
unconsciously project their feelings onto others. lf you are not careful, you can easily find
yourself hypnotised into believing that they have a horrible problem that there is no solution to!
The trick is to have a stronger H+ than their H-, to see the solution stronger than they see their
problem.
Go First
What do I mean by 'going first'?
Well, everLthought that you have affects you physically and emotionally. And those, in turn, witl
affect the way you behave, and the way you speak and say things - the way you perform things.
So, if you try to tell someone that you like them, it's very difficult to do that if in your mind you
hold conflicting thoughts and ideas - the lie leaks out of you in subtle little signals.
ln order to be able to put the right meaning behind those words, you have to be able to get into
the state of mind first, which will allow you to deliver it completely congruently.
Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
A=E
Now, when I say energy, it is not necessarily a mystical force or Jedi mind powers. lt is simply
psychological energy, some emotional content, or the motivation that drives behaviours.
lf I say "don't think about a black cat', you may find it difficult to not think about a black cat.
However, if I say "donT think about a black cat curling around your leg, purring in detight as she
licks the back of your hand with her rough tongud', you will find it even more difficult to not think
about a black cat, because more details demand more attention which draws in more
psychological energy to the thing you were not meant to be thinking about in the first place!

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Law of Compounding Effect
The simple suggestion below has more power than initially meets the eye:
You are a non-smoker AND you are happy
Now when you suggest that they are happy, it actually reinforces the non-smoker part as well.
So the unconscious thinks: "l am a happy non-smoker".
lf you then add:
You are a great person
It reinforces BOTH the fact that they are a non-smoker AND that they are happy AND that they
are a great person!
As a general rule of thumb, any suggestion you give will reinforce all the preceding suggestions
that you have given during the current state of hypnosis. The more suggestions you give, the
more layers of reinforcement get added, and the stronger all of your suggestions become. There
are exceptions to this rule, but they are rare.
Presence
Now is the moment of power.
Attention is the basic unit of human interaction, and having a strong presence prevents
distracting ideas from diluting or interfering with what you are doing.
ln general, the more attention someone has on something, the less the critical factor can
interfere with the idea, because all the energy is required on the attention itself. So, the more
attention you have from the other person, the easier time you will have getting results.
Now, technically speaking, all that you require is their attention. However, people tend to be very
reciprocal, so if you are distracted, they will be distracted too. lf on the other hand, you are
totally present, totally focused on them, it sucks their attention into that "Now"-ness as well, it
arrests their attention at that point, and that is what you want to do.
Trance is an attention stimulating state. Your attention gets increased, your ability to focus
increases, your presence increases. As a hypnotist in a hypnotiser's trance you are letting sub
communication go out that encourage your subject to go into trance too.
As a bonus, your fears and concerns go away, because they require a critical factor to interfere.
At the same time, you feel good, and you are modelling they way the other person should be as
well. You are modelling them getting past their fears and concerns, and into this state which is
pure attention: "What's happening nert?"

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Fractionation
Every time someone goes into hypnosis, they are learning to go into hypnosis. lt's easier for
them to access the trance deeper than before.
Now, every time you put your client into hypnosis and bring them out, the next time they will go
deeper. This means that when your clients come back for a follow-up session, they will have an
even more profound experience than the previous time. ln addition, you can put them through
several cycles of hypnosis within the same session to access a very deep state of hypnosis.
The 3Rs
When you practice hypnotherapy, you want to follow the 3Rs:
Resource
When someone comes to you with a problem, it only means they have forgotten where the right
resource is which will help them solve the problem. When you find the resources they need and
attach them to the problem, the problem vanishes. Approximately 85% of the time, this process
will make the problem easily dissolve and go away.
Regress
lf they get stuck in a loop where a problem just isn't budging, you use the problem to bring them
back into a regression where you help them resolve the root of the problem. The combined
resource and regress patterns handle 95/" of the cases that people will come to you with.
Reintegrate
Reintegration is the final step in the chain. You rarely need to take it. lts only appropriate if the
other two approaches have worked for a while, but then inexplicably they fail. lt solves the
problem where the positive change gets made, but 2 weeks or 2 months down the line they
come back with the same problem . Something made it come back - that something is called a
Secondary Gain. The Reintegration Technique takes care of that!
Resource, Regress, and Reintegrate, in that order.
These are the only manoeuvres you need to know. You'll learn methods to do these things, and
then you can let go of the methods, and do anything that does each of these things, following
this pattern to create lasting positive change in everyone you work with.

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The Fundamentals Of Hypnosis
The 10 Second Hypnotist
Remember the basics: H+ and friendly eye contact.
Close your eyes and go into a trance
Every time I touch your shoulder, you'll go deeper.
[Suggestions: eg self esteem]
Count out, feeling relaxed, refreshed, etc.
Here is an example of the 10 second hypnotist. Notice that when you see "[TAP]", you are to tap
their shoulder; you don't need to say "[TAP]".
Close your eyes and go into a trance.
Now, every time you feel me touch your shoulder like this [TAP], you are going to go
deeper [TAP], and deeper [TAP], and deeper ITAPI into hypnosis.
Now, you are a wonderful, caring person, at the same time you are an amazing
hypnotist, and you are so pleased to notice how easily you are constantly enhancing
your hypnosis skills.
Now, I in a moment, I am going to count from one to three, and at the count of three
you will open your eyes feeling relaxed, refreshed and simply fantastic! One, two, and
three, open your eyes now feeling relaxed, refreshed, and simply fantastic! You did a
great job; it is a privilege to have worked with you.
5 Words of Power
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Every Time
Because
Means
When
And
These are examples of words of power. lt is not just the words that matter, these are ways of
building experiences, linguistic bridges between ideas.
5 touches
Head tap
Head rotation
Shoulder tap
Arm tap
Hand tap
The five touches are used to emphasize positive resources, and to create triggers for those
positive resources. lt is important to ask permission to touch before inducing a trance, it is part
of the "hypnotic contract". ln general, it is a good idea to avoid touching knee and/or leg
because many people consider it too personal.

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Hypnotic Themes
Now, the words of power by themselves aren't really very useful unless you are trying to achieve
something with it. The something we are trying to achieve is what I call a trance theme, or
hypnotic theme.
A hypnotic theme is the thing you talk about as a form of suggestlon, and then you use your
linguistic bridges peppered in with the hypnotic trance themes in order to get someone to
experience whatever it is you want to have for them.
The core hypnotic themes are:
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Relax
Comfort
Focus
A few more examples outside of the core themes: safety, security, ease, automatic,
unconscious, and peace. For more words than these, you can look in a thesaurus for additional
related words, and you will find that there are lots of related hypnotic themes that you can come
up with.
Here is an example of putting together the 5 words of power with the core hypnotic themes:
Every time you breath, your body can feel more comfortable because you have fett
comfortable before, which means that it rs so easy for you to focus on my words when
you know that relaxation and comfort are pleasan! experiences.

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Boiler Plates
Boiler Plate 1 (BPl )
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Sounds around you
My voice follows you
Sanctuary (Feel the chair beneath you, you know you are safe)
Boilerplate 2 (BPzl
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Ease of re-induction
Self Esteem
Good Work
You should get in the habit of putting all the elements of BPl right after putting someone into
trance, and putting all the elements of BP2 just before bringing someone out of trance.
Sounds Around You
Wherever you perform hypnosis, there is a good chance that sounds will occur. Whether it is the
ticking of a clock, the hum of an air conditioner, a door opening and closing, people talking, a
fire engine siren passing by, you can use any sound that occurs to your benefit when you
suggest that any sound they hear will simply bring them deeper into hypnosis.
My Voice...
When people go into trance, they may go off on their own journey without you. To keep control
of the experience, you should begin with a suggestion that your voice will follow them, that
wherever they go, they will always hear your voice while they are in trance.
Sanctuarv
It is important that people feel safe, and that they can trust you. Again, you can use physical
sensations to anchor a feeling of safety. lf they are sitting in a chair, simply giving them a
suggestion that they feel safe as they feel the chair beneath them really enhances their sense of
trust. ln addition, this physical anchor is very important for safely bringing them back to reality if
they have an abreaction, which you will learn about later.
The sanctuary is also an important place for people to experience, a place in their mind where
they feel safety and security. ln this way, they know that whatever happens, they have a place
they can return to whenever they need. This allows them to move from a place of safety, so they
can confidently explore their hypnotic experience. lf they start out in a state of fear, they may
hesitate to follow your instructions, and they may give themselves unproductive experiences,
blocking real change.
Self Esteem
The world would be a better place if everyone felt better about themselves, so go ahead and
give everyone you hypnotise the gift of self esteem. Not only are you helping them, you are
making the world a better place, one person at a time.
Post Hypnotic Praise
Many people may have doubts about if they were really in hypnosis. Telling them how good they
did reinforces that what they experienced was hypnosis, and that alone increases the
effectiveness of you r suggestions.

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BPl Example
The sounds around you allow you to go deeper into hypnosis while you continue to focus on my
voice, and the meaning behind my words. Now feel the chair beneath you, which means that
you can feel safe and secure. Everytime you feel that chair, you KNOW that you are safe!
BP2 Example
Now, the nert ilme you choose to go into hypnosis, you will be pleased to find yourself going
into hypnosis faster easier than ever before, and really experience hypnosis on a much deeper
level than you previously thought possible. And you are a wonderful person. You are so
amazingly intelligent and such a joy to be around! Now, I want you to know that you have done
such a great job today, you have made many wondertul improvements in your life.

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The 60 Second Hypnofisf
(10 Second hypnotist plus all BPs)
Friendly Eye contact, H+, contract(permission),
lnduce trance
Deepen
Sounds around you
My voice follows you
Sanctuary (Feel the chair beneath you, feel safe)
General learning suggestions
Re-induction boilerplate
Self esteem boilerplate
Good work boilerplate
Example of the 60 second hypnotist:
From time to time I may want to touch you on the arm of forehead as part of the work,
is it OK with you if I do that?
Close your eyes and go into hypnosis.
Now, I am going to count down from five to one, and every count witl bring you ten
times deeper into trance. Five, ten times deeper into trance, Four, ten times deeper.
Three. Two. One.
Now, the sounds around you simply allow you to go deeper into hypnosis, and allow
you to focus on my voice.
Now, as you experience this state of hypnosis, you will notice that my voice fottows
you wherever you go, which allows you to hear my voice, and the meaning behind my
words.
Feel the chair beneath yo(t, and know that you are safe.
You know that you are alive, which means that you have an effect on this world, and
that means that you are learning so much more about hypnosis than you ever thought
possible, because hypnosis is an amazing gift that you get to give to others to improve
their lives.
Now, you are in hypnosis, which means that the nert time you choose to go into
hypnosis, you will find it easier than ever before, and you witl have the privitege of
experiencing hypnosis even deeper than before.
Now, you are an incredible person that people love to be around, you make everyone's
lives better simply by being you! You are a fantastic hypnotic subject, and you can took
forward to all the positive changes you have already made in your teft. Good work!
Now, in a moment I am going to count up from I to 5, and when I reach S, you will
open your eyes, feeling refreshed, relaxed, and simply fantastic! One. Two. Three,
energy flowing back into your arms and legs. Four, becoming present, and five, you
are fully present, relaxed, refreshed and simply fantastic! Welcome back, you did a
great job!

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The Hypnotic Blitz
Close your eyes and go into a trance
Every time I touch your shoulder, you'll go deeper.
Full hypnotic blitz around self esteem
Count out, feeling relaxed, refreshed, etc.
A hypnotic benediction is a gift that you can easily give to anyone you talk to. lt can be done
overtly or covertly.
Many of us have had the experience of having a bad day, and then a good friend comes along
and somehow cheers us up (gives a hypnotic benediction). On the other side of the coin,
doctors have a way of accidentally hypnotising their patients. lf they should tell a patient they
have one month to live - this can work as a negative suggestion, a hypnotic curse.
People often create a hypnotic context without realizing it, and inadvertently give powerful
suggestions. lt is good to keep this in mind so that you can be more aware of what you say,
even when you are not consciously using hypnosis, and it allows you to be aware of the effects
of other people's words on you.
When you perform a hypnotic blitz, it may be done covertly, which means you don't perform a
full induction. To make this work, it is important to create a strong hypnotic context. First of all,
go first: put yourself into an outwardly focused trance, create inside yourself a high level of
emotional intensity, and speak with enthusiasm. ln addition, when you lock eye contact with
them, it puts pressure on them to go into trance.
When you list out the desired results and identify the resources that help to achieve those
results, you simply combine these with power words and hypnotic themes.
Blackjack Rule
To maximize effectiveness, include 15-21 repetitions of each resource and each desired result.
This takes advantage of the Law Of Compounding Effect - which means the more you use a
suggestion, the better it will work!

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How To Create Any Hypnosrs Script On The Fly
Using a hypnotic blitz with the 5 words of power, trance themes, resources and desired results,
you can create any hypnosis script anytime you need to.
To get a particular person's resources and results, simply ask questions like:
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Resources: When you overcome this problem, how will you feel?
Resulls: When you experience this problem, how would you like to feel?
Example:
Here is an example for someone wants to improve their test taking ability
Resources: memory, relaxation, confidence, learn quick, make sense
Results: better grades, less effort, easier, enjoy, more time, more money
Just pretend for the moment that you are an expert test taker, isnT it wondertul b be so
confident in your test taking abilities, because you are able to remember all the important
information you need with ease. Notice how you are getting better grades simply because you
can easily make sense of all the information you are absorbing, and it's a good thing you are
confident, because you now have so much more time on your hands to do the things you reatty
enioy, and you enjoy confidently taking fesfs, don't you? You may notice that your grades keep
going higher as you find that it takes /ess effort to study, because you really do understand all
the information you are learning, and it reallyis so enjoyable take tests, now that things just
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lmportant lnformation
How To Give Helpful Feedback
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Feedback#l:
ONLY give positive feedback in the form ol "l liked..."
I really liked how you paced my unconscious activity, it really helped me go into
tran@ quickly.
No matter how tempting it is to say anything else, DON'T SAy lT - KEEP eUlETl
Feedbackf2:
Start with specific things you tiked " I liked...",
Then present some improvement in the lorm of a POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR they can
adopt"nert time do X Y & 2..." - Never say what you didn't tike.
Finish off with general positive comments about their performance
Talk about a glowing future once they have incorporated your behavioural
suggestions into their way of doing things
I rcally liked how you slowed your speech as I went deeper into trance. Next time it
would help me if you really locked eye contact with me for a tonger period of time.
Because you really have a GREAT tonality, and between those three things, peopte
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Troubleshooting
Abreactions
An abreaction is a strong release of negative emotions. lt can seem quite wild when you come
across them - although you should know that spontaneous abreactions are quite rare. lf the
abreaction is related to the therapy you are doing, GREAT, run through the regression protocol
and you get to quickly clear up some very traumatic material.
lf the abreaction is not appropriate, you need to put a lid on it safely without adding fuel to the
fire. Here's how to do that:
STAY CALM
o When you stay calm, they can feel safe
DO NOT TOUCH
o A touch, like a hug, can create a physical trigger, which means that should
someone hug them the same way again later, it could trigger the abreaction all
over again!
END NOW
o Essence: Experience fades, come to present
Example: Scene fades, feel the chair, you are safe
o Sanctuary:
Example: Feel the chair, and know you are safe!
o Repeat until the abreaction has faded
o Allow for amnesia:
Example: And you only need to remember the things that are safe and important
to remember
EMERGE
o Distract them, talk about something else, have them stand up, maybe offer them
food and drink, and do not bring up the subject.
o lf they don't remember, their unconscious mind is protecting them from
something they are not ready to deal with yet, so they probably won't remember
what happened.
o lf they ask what happened, simply state that they had an intense reaction,
nothing unusual, and that you can help them clear it when they are ready.
lf you get an abreaction that is related to the work they came in for, perfect, proceed straight
into the regression, when you handle the cause of the abreaction, you will very likely handle the
problem they came in with.
lf you get an abreaction that is not related to the work they came in for, it comes down to
ethics and trust. When someone comes to a hypnotherapist, they are putting tremendous trust
in that person. lf that trust is broken, it can seriously undermine even their trust in themselves.

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Now, it doesn't happen very often, but there is a possibility that someone may not come out of
hypnosis when you count them out or when you say, "Hypnosis is over now.'
Again, this is a pretty rare occurrence and it isn't that somehow you failed and something terribly
bad has happened.
Typically what has happened is that the person has found the trance experience to be so
pleasurable they simply don't want to come out; they stay there longer; they want to enjoy it.
Sometimes however, people come out a bit'groggy". lt is much like waking up too quickly from
a dream: the body hasn't caught up with the mind yet. Now, this is a completely natural
phenomenon, and a sign that you gave them an exceptionally deep and profound experience.
lf you have the time, you may just want to leave them there and let them enjoy it lor a while
longer. There's no problem with that at all.
lf time is an issue, for example you're running a hypnotherapy clinic and you have another client
waiting to see you, you will want to bring them back out again.
How do you do this when someone is refusing to come out?
1, lnsist more authoritatively that they emerge or ,,wake up'
Suggestion ol alertness
Suggestion of physical movement, stretching
a. Moving hands arms has a grounding effect
b. Tapping on head can help make people more present
Engage their intellect with normal conversation
a. This amplifies their state of being awake
b. Ask for name, age, location, dat6, profession
Ofler food and Drink
a. This tends to have a grounding effect
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Morning and Evening Exercises
Hypnotic Snap
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Use language pattern cards combined with hypnotic themes
10 Second Hypnotist
Close Eyes
Go Deeper
Learn/Self Esteem
Emerge
60 Second Hypnotist
Close Eyes
Go Deeper
Sounds Around
My Voice
Sanctuary
Learn/Self Esteem
Reinduction
General Self Esteem
Emerge
Sanctuary
Trance
BPl
Sanctuary ffisualization)
Orient
BP2
Emerge
Dynamic lnduction
Trance
BP1
Sanctuary
Gateway
Count 10-1
Orient To Gestalts
Count 1-10, Great Job, Reward
BP2
Emerge
Blitz
Chance to Experiment
. Remember H+!
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Hypnotic Processes
Sancf uary
A sanctuary can be a beach, wood, garden, or any place that is comfortable to them. Keep in
mind that you don't want to take them to an inappropriate place, a beach would not be an
appropriate sanctuary for someone who was afraid of the ocean!
You want to make sure that they don't have any negative associations with the sanctuary you
use. A very charming way to do this is to spend some time at the beginning of the session
before you do hypnosis talking to the person about their life experiences and really talking about
what kinds of situations they find relaxing, safe, and wonderful.
They may spontaneously tell you about something they used to do when they were a child
which was really fantastic for them, or they may tell you about a wonderful holiday they've been
on or a special period in their life, and all the things that they associate with that, the things that
trigger off those memories.
lf you have any doubts about what is a safe place for them, simply ask!
Some people may believe that they cannot visualize. lf you run into this, you can ask them
questions that require them to visualize on some level
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lmagine putting the key into your front door, what height is the lock at? All doors have
locks at different heights, some are at waist height, some are lower, and some are
higher.
Think about going into your bathroom and turn the hot water on. ls it a turning tap, swivel
tap, push button, press lever, or something else? There are lots of different types of
taps, and you need to visualize the tap so that you know how to turn it on.
Consideryour bedroom for a moment. Would you like your bedroom painted ftuorescent
green? How did you know that? At some level you needed to visualize your bedroom as
fluorescent green to know whether you liked it or not.
We are creating mental images all the time, but sometimes the veit of consciousness gets drawn
across so those images become unconscious. Some people don't have conscious access to
them yet. The images are still there, but they can't see them consciously.
Over time, if you allow yourself to pretend you can see images, without worrying too much about
what is happening, the simple act of thinking about it or imagining it. Will eventually take down
this veil and the images are revealed.
The strange thing is that it does not happen overnight, it is not that one day they can't see the
images, and the next they can. lt's just that one day they will be aware that they are seeing the
pictures, and when they think about it, they'll realise that they have been seeing those pictures
for the past couple of weeks, they just didn't realise it fully at the time.
It's not a big deal, you don't have to push them to see or experience any particular modality, just
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It is important to involve them in the experience, which is what the orienting process is about,
asking them questions, and getting them to acknowledge that an experience is happening.
Whether they are aware of it or not is irrelevant, the purpose is to take away from the client the
fear or concern that they are not "doing it right". That is the one thing that must be handled,
otherwise they will spend the whole time thinking "l'm not getting this" rather than just going
along with it.
Sanctuary
Create a relaxing atmosphere (lighting, music, armchair - if necessary)
lnduce Trance (include BP1 )
Create an opening to the imagination, by recollecting daydreams or imagining a doorway
leading inside the mind or to another place
Describe a pleasant scene, include all the senses to involve them in the scenery
Ask them questions about the internal lanscape to orient them in further
Allow the subject to enjoy resting in a part of that scene (e.g. a hammock by the ocean,
under a tree in a forest, by a lake on a mountaintop etc)
Finally lead the subject back out of the trance by retracing the steps of the journey in
reverse until they are "back in the room"
For the orienting process, simply point out parts of the scenery they have not noticed yet: trees,
flowers, lovely lawn, hammock, ask couple questions.
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There is a red flower here somewhere; can you see it?
There is a tree with beautiful flowers hanging from the branches, and there is something
nert b it, can you see that? What is that?
You can keep away from visual language if the person happens to think they can't see things.
Stick with presuppositions of awareness: e.g. notice what's there, have you spotted it yet.
While orienting, it is important to allow them to create the scenery. Gently nudge them along,
there is no need to drag them along by creating an elaborate world from your imagination. The
idea is to allow them to create the world, which means they can more easily get drawn in and
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Dynamic (Mental Imagery) Induction
Light Version (Sanctuary)
Trance
BPl
Sanctuary(Visualization)
Orient
BPz
Emerge
Full Version
Trance
BP1
Sanctuary
Gateway - Path, hole in ground, ship, etc.
Count 10-1 - Describe journey occurring
Orient gestalt - get 3-4 symbols, use the echo effect
Count 1-10 - Back to sanctu?ry, Great Job, Reward.
BP2
Emerge
Hypnotic Blitz
Echo Effect
As you bring them through their journey, not only is it important to get their interaction, it is
important to echo back their experience, in essence affirming that what they are experiencing is
really happening.
This is not active listening, this is echoing back what they said exactly as they said if, word for
word. Match their word order, cadence, tonality, body language, etc. as much as possible. The
goal is to mirror back exactly what they communicated.
Gateway
A gateway is something that leads somewhere, some mechanism to get you somewhere. lt
might lead up, down, sideways, the point is not the direction, the point is that it moves to you to
another place. Let them choose the gateway, only provide suggestions (stairs, elevator, path,
etc) if they seem stuck.
Let them know that the gateway will lead them to a place to solve a problem or learn something
good for you.
Examples:
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. Find a place that absorbs your attention more than any other.
. Find a place that leads somewhere.
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Gount 10-1
Use echo effect and weave in a few suggestions while you count from 10 to 1 .
Example:
ln a moment I am going to count from 10 to 1
, and each number witt bring you ten times
deeper into hypnosis, and when I get to one, you wilt be exactly where you need to be, a
place very important for your unconscious, a place that contains some important message
for you, or a place you help solve a problem, or learn something good for you.
Orient gestalt
As before, you want to gently orient them to the place, and this time you also want to find
symbols.
To find symbols, you must first imply that something is there. There is something there that they
are currently not aware of, and you can imply significance and meaning.
Ask for a symbol, and when you get it, treat it with respect. Use implication to tease out the
meaning, again, gently nudge them along, don't drag them along the floor kicking and
screaming. Find out what colour it is, shape size, etc.
Be sure to echo all their responses, more important symbols will have more repetitions of
echoing. Use the 5 Touches for emphasis.
lf the symbol is a person, ask about their clothes, shoes, if the are male or female. State that the
person has a message for them.
lf they are blocking, they don't give you any symbols, distract their attention, present other
things that COULD be symbols, and imply a deeper significance for their being there.
You can gently tease the conscious mind about what it is not ware ot: You don't know and t
don't know, but something inside you does know.
You can use trance tag to have a back and forth interaction that can increase the involvement in
the experience, and imply great importance. As an example:
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Clienl: I see a river.
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C: Yes, the river is there.
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C: I donT know.
H: The river is there, and you have no idea
C: I have no idea.
H: The river is there, and you have no idea
wonder what that means?
what it means?
what it means. And yet it is stitt there! t
lf you ever get stuck, the "get out of jail free card" is: What is happening now?
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Clienl: I didn't hear anything.
o f{: You really didnT hear that, did you? lsn't it great that something happened and you
have no idea what it was?
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Revivification
A revivification is very similar to dynamic mental imagery. The only real difference is that you are
going to a specific memory in their past.
Again, the echo effect is very important. You need to match their words, voice, and even body
language as much as possible.
This time however, there is one exception. lf they describe the experience in the past tense, you
should match their tense only initially, and slowly start switching your echoing to the present
tense.
You want them to experience the memory as if they were right there in the middle of it. lf they
describe their experience as it was something that happened back there, they are dissociating
themselves, and they are not truly experiencing it.
As you start seeing trance signals, you gradually start saying less and less, and say more
ratifications, letting them fully experlencing the state.
Encourage them to lose themselves. Continue ratification, build up hypnotic pressure, and as
you start seeing more trance signals, you can then give them the exit possibility (trance).
Typically, when entering trance with revivification, it is a good to let people come up at their own
time, instead of counting them up out of it. They will often experience a much deeper form of
trance, so it is nice to let them enjoy it while they are there.
Example, revivifying a pleasant holiday:
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Clienl: I was standing at the piazza.
o ff : Yes, you were standing at the piazza. Now, what were you doing?
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C: I was eating my ice cream.
H: You were standing at the piazza, and you are eating your ice cream, aren't you?
C: Yes, I like ice cream
H: Yes, you are standing at the piazza eating your ice cream that you really like. What
happens nert?
C: Oh, well, my friends come.
o f{: Oh, so your friends come... they are over there, you are having your ice cream that
you really like, and is it a lovely warm day?
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Revivification Process
Remember H+!
lnitial orienting questions
2, Echo effect (repeat verbatim, mannerisms, etc.)
Slowly move to present tense echo effect
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Revivification Exercises
Exercise 1 : Revivify real trance
Exercise 2: Revivify trance experience: reading book, watching film, or other natural trance.
Do not concern yourself with the content of the book, etc., focus on the experience.
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Magic Momenfs
Magic moments take you out of normal reality, and create a demarcation line between normal
experiences and special experiences.
The purpose of magic moments is to create a natural conversational window for hypnosis to
occur. lt isn't a full induction itself, though it often arrests attention, bypasses the critical factor,
and it might even stimulate the unconscious, but because it is such a light form of hypnosis, it
only creates a window, and it depends on what you do with it that determines if you get a full
blown hypnotic response at the end.
Look for defence mechanisms to be triggered, showing that they have reached the threshold,
and are ready to enter hypnosis.
As always, eye contact is important, eye contact seryes to get attention, and prolonged eye
contact bypasses the critical factor.
There are three types of Magic Moments: Physical Metaphors, Visual Metaphors and Story
Metaphors.
Physical Metaphors
Getting an experience across in a physical format.
An example might be a simple magic trick, like vanishing a coin. You can link the perception of
the coin to some problem, like the fear of dogs. That way, when the coin vanishes with a
flourish, you can make the point that fears can disappear in an instant as well.
Another good physical metaphor is teaching someone how to use a pendulum to obtain answers
from their unconscious.
Visual Metaphors
Getting an experience across in a visual format. Gets you from "what's all this about?"to "oh, I
can use this."
Essentially this means drawing someone a picture or a diagram to illustrate your point. There
are lots of visual metaphors scattered throughout this manual.
Story metaphors
Getting an experience across in a story format.
Three As
All magic moments should be designed to elicit one or more of the three As:
. Humour: Ha-ha!
. Emotion: Ahh!
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Magic moments are not magical until you come to a point. Magic Moments are good for setting
frames. lf you just make a coin vanish, there will go ooh, do another trick. lf you actually have a
point, they won't ask "how did you do that", they will say "l know why you did that"
Magic moments focus in a direction, and then you need to run in that direction to keep the
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The very basic concept is that you are moving their attention (energy) from where their mind
was to where it wasn't. Because wherever it is, is conscious, wherever it isn't, is unconscious.
And by moving from the conscious the unconscious over and over again creates a trance effect,
as it is a lorm of fractionation.
At the same time, you are loading it with implications, because the implications are going to
create the conviction that something is happening, and the implications create a seli-fulfilling
prophecy.
lmportant: Do not use a problem as the focus point of the NAS. You are increasing unconscious
attention on whatever you are working on with the NAS, and you certainly do not want to create
new problems lor people!
NAS Basic Structure
Orienting question
Echo effect
Reframe
Deepening question
NAS Exercise #1
Remember H+, hypnotic eye contact, go first.
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Write down their answer verbatim
NAS Exercise #2
Ask one of the orienting questions above.
Echo effect
Reframe: I wonder what this means.
Ask a Deepening question: What's going to happen next?
The point is to keep these four basic steps in mind:orient, echo, reframe and deepen.Additional
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Orienting Questions
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which X is more y
o Which hand is heavier?
o Which hand is lighter?
o Which hand is more in trance?
o Which X feels most unusual?
o Which part of your body feels most unusual?
o Which hand feels more unusual?
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Did you know you were X?
o Did you know that your breathing slowed down a moment ago?
o Did you know that you are tapping your foot right now?
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o How are you feeling at this moment?
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How are you doing at this moment?
Deepening Questions
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What is happening now?
What just happened?
How do you feel about that?
When you notice a shift in their breathing or another trance signal, ask "What just happened?,,
Asking questions about unconscious activity reinforces the activity, and forces them to
acknowledge that it happened.
lf you ever don't know what to do next you can ask this question:
What's happening now?
Example:
[Client takes a deep breath]
Hypnotist: What was that?
Client: Oh I dunno, I just took a deep breath.
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. Basic Non-Awareness Set Questions
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Revivilication
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Brings their attention to things that they weren't conscious ol or times where
they were less conscious in thoir life.
. Switch sensory modalities (VAK: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic; also smelling, tasting)
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While you were licking that ice cream, what werenl you seeing?
What sounds werenT you aware of at the time you were licking your ice
cream?
Figureground
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Tunnel vision vs. peripheral vision.
Whatever you are focusing on is the figure; everything else is the background.
Change what is being locused on, and you completely change the background
Now pay attention to what you were not paying attention to...
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Language can have a very powerlul effect on people. The problem is that blindly using language
without a feel for the context, situation and people you are with, is like trying to paint a house by
throwing pots of paint at the wall - the results are just patchyt
What is context?
1, H+, ALWAYS start with H+
Using this language too ent them toan unconscioua prccess, otherwise you are
wasting the manoeuvre!
Sense an arca of growing comlort inside your body. Think about how your brcathing
on change. Be aiare oithe changing sensation in your teft hand. Just notice that
tingling, and pay attention to what happens fo /t (implication that it will intensily in
some way).
lt is not enough to just use the language.
Language is the vehicle that will g€t you there. But if you have no fuel in the vehicle, it will just
stay put.
H+ is the fuel.
The unconscious process is the destination, because you have to go somewhere. lf you have a
car and you are driving in circles, you're going nowhere. You need to have a destination
(unconscious process), the fuel (H+), and the vehicle (attention shifting language). Now you
have a practical and powerful tool!
Attention Gontrolling Language
Think
See
Hear
Feel
Sense
Notice
Be Aware Of
Pay Attention To
Observe
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Non Awareness Sef Advanced Quesfions
Reframe Questions
o How did you know X was the right thing to do in order to go into trance?
o How did you know X helps you go into hypnosis more quickly?
o How did you know to do that?
o Do you always X?
o Did you know X is a sign of trance?
o I wonder what it means?
o How do you feel about that?
o I am curious about X?
o I am wondering about X?
o Something seems to be happening there!
o You did X and you didn't even know it!
Remember that tonality is important, you need it to imply that something "hypnotic" is going on!
Example 1:
Hypnotisl: How did you know to do that? Did you know that blinking was going to get
you into trance more quickly?
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Examole 2:
Did you know X is a sign of trance?
. Did you know blinking is a sign of trance?
. Did you know breathing rhythmically is a sign of trance?
. Did you know that feeling comfortable is a sign of trance beginning?
. Did you know that not wanting to talk is a sign of trance beginning?
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Example 3:
Do you always X?
This question gets them to agree that something is happening, or prove to themselves that
something is happening.
. Do you always have your hand floating in midair?
Example 4:
Something seems to be happening here.
Hypnotisl: Did you notice your hand twitching?
Client: no.
H: Look, there, it happened again. Did you notice it then?
C: yes.
H: I wonder what it means.
C: I donT know.
H: Something seems to be happening there, doesnT it? So while you are sitting there
watching you hand twitching, something seems to be happening there. I wonder
what else is happening to you right now that you won't be aware of until it does...
You are essentially creating a little dissociation and allowing the trance to spread from the hand
into the rest of the body at that point. Or at least that is the implication.
Examole 5:
You did X, and you didn't even know it.
Hypnotisl: Did you know that you are blinking more quickly
Client: no.
Hypnotist: So your blinking greatly increased, and you didn't even know it.
This is a great implication of unconscious activity increasing.
Examole 6:
How do you feel about that?
Hypnotisl: Your left hand feels heavier than your right hand. How do you feel about that?
They won't know what to feel about that - that's exactly why your asking them. lt causes more
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ln previous sections, you have been learning specific things to do and tactics to employ. Now it
is time for you to start considering strategy.
The Non-Awareness Set is all about increasing to unconscious processes, which leaves less
energy available for conscious processes.
How do you know which direction to manoeuvre when you have so many choices?
You can perform the manoeuvring with VAK, figure-ground, etc. lt doesn't really matter, and it is
good to develop mastery of as many methods as possible for flexibility.
Convincers are very good. To be sure someone is absolutely convinced that something
important is happening, use several convincers.
Seven Directions For Manoeuvring Attention
Conscious / Unconscious Dissociation
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Non'Awareness set
Hypnotic Phenomenon
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Catalepsy, skin changes, twitching muscles/eyelids, heavy/light hands, etc.
Trance Themes
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Comfort, relaxation, focus, safety, security, peace, etc.
Anything they are not aware of
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Anything amazing or unusual, emphasise its amazing or unusual qualities
Unconscious activity
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Blinking, skin coloration, heart rate, body temperature, fidgeting, tapping foot, etc.
Take attention from where it is to where it is not
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Figure/ground shift
Attentional Language: think, sense, feel, hear, notice, realise, become aware of,
listen, taste, smell, etc.
lnternal vs. external activity
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Fundamentals Of Hypnotherapy
Resou rcing
Problem Parts
Think of the human nervous system as a set of lights on a Christmas tree. Every time you
change state, have a thought or do something, a different set of lights is illuminated.
Sometimes, due to habit or a traumatic experience, a network of these lights gets stuck. As
soon as it is triggered, the whole circuit runs, but nothing from the outside gets in - it's the same
exact sequence over and over - that's why people feel stuck when they have a problem!
ln psychology this stuck network is called a "Part" - its like a part of the person that they don't
have full access to. When the person tries to change, they "bounce ott" a wall and go right back
to the old routine. The real problem is that the resource the person needs to resolve the problem
is usually somewhere outsidethe part!
The resources can't get in, they just bounce off the "boundary wall" that distinguishes a part!
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The longer the problem bounces around the inside of the part, the stronger the boundary of the
problem part becomes. lt's a vicious circle.
ln everyday life, this can feel as though we have a split personality: You want to go to the gym,
you get really fired up about it. But when the clock ticks six o'clock and it's time to go, suddenly
you don't feel like going anymore, you just want to watch TV or have an ice cream. And the next
morning you get up and you kick yourself and say damn, why did I do that?
It feels like you were a different person.
Now, this does not mean that you are cracking up and by no means does this mean you are
developing a split personality. lt is just that you have a problem part.
ln a very extreme case, small amount of people can create a split personality, it is same
problem, just on a drastically different sense of scale.

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A Roman Therapy
A problem usually begins with an initial event. Sometimes this can be a tiny thing (like a dog
barking at you) that we don't even pay attention to consciously. But as time goes by, the
unconscious worries about it, and as other events that share some characteristic come up, they
will trigger a reaction like fear or anger.
Unfortunately, as time goes by, we collect more and more of these triggered events, and they
grow larger and more uncontrollable. lt is much as an oyster will form layers of shell around a
piece of grit to create a pearl - only not as attractive!
This is where people get overwhelmed by their problems. They think they have to tackle ALL of
the problem AT ONCE. lt is very difficult to process a hundred negative events together with all
the associated emotions in one go. So they fail and begin to build defence mechanisms to avoid
facing the mountain of problems.
End result of
process
But there is a solution: divide and conquer.
The Romans knew the strategic value of only fighting a small part of a nation's forces at a time.
That way victory would be easier. Sometimes, fighting the right battle would win the war, even
though the bulk of the enemy's forces were still in tact!
This is what we do with "A Roman Therapy": divide a conquer.
Choose one specific situation and context, to resolve. Take trigger event X on day Y.
Don't fight whole kingdom all at once, just pick one specific tribe, one context, one time. And you
have to nail people down to it. A lot of people won't like that, they will want to take care of the
whole problem at once, but you have to do it anyway because that is the way to beat what starts
off as an enormous force.
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Simple Hypnotherapy Model
o Problem
o Conbrt
(Parameters
(Gritical
Factor
Bypass)
(Access
Resources)
(Transform
Test)
a. What are the negative states that keep them in the problem
b. Need context for two reasons
i. Something to attach resources to
ii. For testing result
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Outcome
Trance & Deepen, BPI
c. Revivify trance-like state
d. Hypnotic gaze
e. Magic moment
f. Possibly bring up problem during trance phase
Revivify (sti mu I ate prob le m)
g. Make the problem fresh and close
h. Maybe move to place of safety (sanctuary) so they are not
stuck in the problem
Resourcing
i. Direct Language
j. Five words of power
k. Revivify
i. Revivify old positive life experiences
l. Reframing
i. Equate to past experiences
m. Hypnotic blitz
i. Blackjack rule, repeat each theme 15-21 times
Tranceform
n. Mix it up
o. Attach resource to problem
i.
As you feel this confidence, go back to Tuesday, you
see that dog and feel confidence
p. lf it attaches, great!
q. lf it doesn't, go back to resourcing
Test, Condition, Recovery
r. Revivify context
s. Future memory (previvify)
t. Blitz + Future memory
BP2, Self Esteem, Emerge from trance
As they are in hypnosis afterglow, pertorm Hypnotic Blitz
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Test and condition example:
Client: I feel great about the dog.
Hypnotisl; Are you sure?
C: Yes.
H: Wel[ how do you know?
C: I just do.
H: Look at the dog again, is there anything that could make it happen again?
C: Well, maybe if it barks at me.
H: Okay, you see him barking, how do you feel?
C: Actually, I'm okay.
Keep going to different context, different context, different context, etc
Recovery Strategy
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H: What if you getting bitten by a dog?
C: Actually, it's just a one off, it's not going to happen, I can take care of myself.
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MBL Resourcing
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Mind-Bending Language (MBL) dissolves the barrier between problems and resources (which
creates parts), like soap which allows oil and water to be mixed. This is the core idea behind
MBL resourcing.
Basic MBLsi
The idea is to take the basics of hypnotic attention shifting that you have already seen, and add
a couple more pieces.
NAS
VAK
Spatial relationships: beyond, before, above, below, behind, close, far away, on top,
left, right, etc.
a. So, you are feeling fear, beyond that, what else are you feeling?
Negations
b. What are you feeling that is not fear?
Changing syntax, sequence.
c. Client: I fear dog.
d. Hypnotist: So what dogs fear you?
Problem definitions always come in pairs:
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. When he looks at me, I feel angry
The idea is to break the problem loop.
t Th" id"" of MBLs was inspired by the Beyond Words model created by John Overdurf
Fear
Cats Gourage
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MBL Exercise
Basic resource: confidence and 5 manoeuvres.
Use basic resource and 5 manoeuvres to turn the problem on its head.
Examples:
I fear cats
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What cats fear you?
What are you not afraid of that is not cats?
What are you not afraid of that is cats?
What are you listening to as the cat approaches?
What are you not listening to as the cat approaches?
. lsnT it time the cats were afraid of you?
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When you feel the fear, what aren't you hearing that lets you go beyond that cat?
What are you not thinking about while you are fearing cats?
What are you not thinking about while you are fearing cats that is confidence?
What's not fearing cats?
What cats don't fear you enough for you to not fear them?
o Client: That's not quite right
o Hypnotist: What's not right about being quite?
Using each of these 5 manoeuvres in conjunction to create what seems to be a weird and
wonderful powerful MBL language pattern, but it is just 5 manoeuvres that tell you how to
construct it.
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MBL Resourcing Analogy
What are you doing with MBLs?
Basically you are trying to give people resources so they can break out of old patterns.
Your aim is to get the positive resources which are stuck outside of the part into the part by
shaking up their reality (with MBLs) so that all the energy gets to flow in a new direction.
It is a bit like a river flowing down a mountain. lt is set in its path (the problem part). But then an
earthquake occurs which shakes everything up and starts a new path for the river to flow down.
Then you reinforce the new path, so it leads to freedom, rather than fear. Reinforce it so that the
new path is as entrenched as deeply as the old path used to be
The traditional model of change (using willpower) is to build a dam, to stop the problem. lt can
work, but the water behind the dam can also build up a lot of pressure, which means the dam
will probably break at some point.
lnstead simply redirect the water, so you don't have to worry about the dam breaking later on.
That explains why you want to test and condition as much as you do.
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MBL Hypnotherapy2
The key is the language patterns that
put it together into a structure that fits
you practiced in the fear of cats exercise. Now you can
into the standard PCAT formula of hypnotherapy.
'Thi" pattern and representational diagram has been adapted (with permission) from John Overdurf's Beyond Words model
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MBL Questions3
. Parameters: problem, context, outcome
o What do you want to work through today?
o When and where do you have that problem (when, where) specific
o How do you want to be different?
. Critical factor bypass
o MBL language pattern, or NAS
o MBL is more conversational, covert, can do more uptime
o ilff,'i#ffi:?Tyr'1ffi:,'rn1 o't more obviousrv hvpnotic' arthough peopre
. Access Resources
o How do you feel now?
o How do you want to feel?
o How do you know that?
. Transform & Test
o As your feeling the resource, think about the problem, what happens now?
o TEST, TEST, TEST, TEST, TEST
o And more testing!
t M"ny of these questions have been taken from John Overdurf's Beyond Words or HNLP Coaching models. ll you like the
question, then assume it comes from him - with the appropriate words of praise :D
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How To Master MBLs
You may have felt overwhelmed when you started working with mind bending language. All you
need to do is remember that nothing is complex, it can always be broken down into simple steps
that are to be mastered, and then reintegrated into a sophisticated whole.
And the best part is you have already started learning the simple steps.
Step 1 To MBL Mastery - Dynamic (Mental lmagery) lnduction
The first step towards mastering MBL is the dynamic induction.
The dynamic induction provides a lot of structure, and just a little bit of leeway. lnteracting with
the symbols and creating implications and meaning and taking people's attention from one
symbol to another symbol, and taking them from one area to another area. This gives you a
chance to master a little bit of versatility when going into the unconscious realm.
Step 2To MBL Mastery - Non Awareness Set
As you begin to master the dynamic induction, you will notice that it can keep getting a little
more elaborate each time until you turn it into a full blown non-awareness set. You can see how
you can blend the NAS into the dynamic induction: "Did you expect that symbol to be there?
How did you do know to do that? I wonder what it means. I wonder what is going to happen now
that you have that symbol."
So, you blend the dynamic induction into the NAS until you don't need the dynamic induction
anymore, you just do it purely with the NAS. And then you practice with the NAS until that
becomes second nature, the implications behind it, the attention shifts, the manoeuvres, the
emphasis, the different strategies of emphasizing different things, until you are basically left with
the point where MBL patterns are really simple.
Step 3 To MBL Mastery - MBLs
The only thing you are adding now is that you are focusing on the specific language to create
the experience, where as before you were creating the experience in whatever way you could.
The language was less important, it was more the manoeuvre, but now that the manoeuvre is
inside your mind as a pattern that is second nature to you, you are focusing on the language
that creates the same manoeuvre but in a more tightly honed fashion.
So this is the sequence for mastering MBLs:
Dynamic lnduction (About lmages)
Non-Awareness Set (About Experiences)
Mind Bending Language (About ldeas)
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Regress
Hypnosis & Memory
There are different ways to experience a memory, and it is important to be able to recognise
what level of experience someone is having so you can match that level, and bring them deeper
into the experience if needed.
. Hypermnesia.
o Ability to recall something really well
o "When I was five, I picked up the puppy"
. Revivify
o Bring something back to life with more experiential references
o oHe's picking up the puppy"
. Regression
o Fully experiencing memory in 1't person
o "l am picking up the puppy'
lf they are running it like a memory, it is a revivification.
lf they are there and re-experiencing it fully, like it is literally there and they are experiencing it
for the first time so to speak, it's a regression.
Remember that the 3 terms above represent a sliding scale f experience. ln practice the
boundary between revivification and regression is so murky, and really in many respects
unimportant. Some people say it has to be a real regression, I've done plenty of work with
revivification, and it's worked great. The key thing is you are trying to get a pure regression, and
if what you end up with is a strong revivification, that's okay.
What you don't want is hypermesia: -"well I was there, and I was doing this" - that is too
dissociated.
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Regression Exercises
Exercise 1: Get A Sensation
lnduce trance (10 sec. hypnotist; point is to get sensation, so get trance quickly)
"Notice something inside your body, a sensation that grabs your attentiorf'
Get sensation
"FocLts on it, notice what happens"(it will grow, because A=E)
Exercise 2: Get Positive Emotion
lnduce trance (10 sec. hypnotist; get a trance quickly)
"Pay attention inside your body, a positive emotion will arisd'
Get positive emotion
"Focus on it, notice what happens"(it will grow, because A=E)
Exercise 3: Regress and Orient
Find a pleasant emotion
a. lf they don't respond quickly, build pressure for response
b. "3,2,1, what is the emotion?"
Now follow emotion back to another event where you felt the same way
a. o7,2,3, you are in the moment, now."
Orient
a. "What do you see/sense?"
b. Are you lnside/outside?
c. ls it day time/night time?
d. Are you alone or with others?
Reorient back to present and bring back out.
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Exercise 4: Regress and Orient With Bounce Back and Orient
Find a pleasant emotion
a. lf they don't respond quickly, build pressure for response
b. o3,2,1, what is the emotion?"
Now follow emotion back to another event where you felt the same way
a. '3,2,1, you are in the moment, now."
Orient
a. "What do you see/sense?"
b. Are you lnside/outside?
c. ls it day time/night time?
d. Are you alone or with others?
Bounce back
a. "ls the feeling familiar or new?"
b. "Go back to that earlier experience"
Orient to earlier experience
Reorient back to present and bring back out.
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Exercise 5: Full Regression Using Positive Emotion
lnduce trance and regress
Orient fully: who, what, when, where, how old, etc.
a. Bounce back & orient
b. On 2nd or 3'd bounce back, get them to go to moment back in childhood
Dissociate, back to adult
a. Reframe adult "You were pretty bored, but look what happened!"
Create moment without positive emotion with adult
a. Check with adult, what was time before event (3-5 minutes before)
Explain to adult the "boring to exciting" loop
a. Good feeling will intensify each time through loop
Get child into first part of loop, and run the whole loop, boring to exciting.
a. End loop while event still has positive emotion
Reframe Adult
a. The scene recedes, come back into the room
b. Prepare adult for coaching child
c. You were pretty bored, but look what is about to happen!
Adult coaches child
Run cycles 2-5, and reframe each one.
Reintegrate
a. Give child big hug, let them melt into own body with new resources
b. Feel the child grow up through key ages with new resources
Condition and Blitz
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Notes On Exercise 5
It is very important to echo, reinforce the positive things that are happening, how many
resources they have.
For initial adult reframe, comment on memory that child was having a good time, and the time
before nothing important was happening. "That was a pretty cool memory".
Have adult go over to little chib who is being bored, and talk to them about all the highlights, the
great time coming up very soon, and the neat things to look forward to as they grow up.
Do about five cycles going from dull to happiness, and make a point of intensifying the
happiness each time and then pulling out the reframe "dullness means happy things are about
to happen."
Growing up with that kind of expectation, positive things, life affirming things, you build them up,
bring them back to present. For each iteration, you will go back to adult:
Hypnotisl: how was that?
Client: great!
H: Fantastic, let's go back in!
For each iteration, you are looking for more and more emotion, and less and less intellectual
content, with each iteration. That means that they have adopted the reframe, it's becoming
second nature to them.
Then bring them back to present, reintegrate little boy, only this time growing up through all the
memories, so give him a big hug, say "yotJ've been doing great!". Tell him or her how much you
love them, and what a great life you have. Grow up the little child through those moments of
wonder, and the classic formative stages, first day of school, teenager, teenager, colleg e, 21,
etc, always realizing that all those dull moments where nothing is happening just means
happiness is just around the corner, it's just waiting to happen. lt may help to ask beforehand
about any specific formative stages in their lives are.
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Behaviour vs. lntention
Every behaviour is motivated by a positive intention. No matter how messed up their behaviour
is, you always have to look at what the intention is. This goes back to the idea of parts.
There is a part, the part that is making them behave in a negative way in order to achieve
something. The overall outcome is positive, The part is just going about it in an unhelpful way.
Now, if you try and change their behaviour, that part is going to resist because it thinks that its
objective is being threatened.
Example:
John is grouchy. He loses his temper with people, and later regrets it. Now why would a part
want to get angry?
lf John is afraid of rejection, an unconscious part may be formed that protects him from this by
jumping the gun first. Now it may not work great - he's not getting the love he craves, but it's the
best he can do for now. lf you just try and take away his grouchiness - withouf first giving him a
new behaviour - the part will resist. lts just losing out (as it sees it!)
The adage here is:
What you resist will persist. What you accept (utilise) you get the power to transform.
How do you do that?
You accept, not the behaviour , but the intention.
lf the intention is, for example, safety or security and the behaviour is shouting at everyone and
being grump. Then you get to negotiale an alternative behaviour that will be at least as good as
the grouchiness, but probably better!
Negative Emotions
All negative emotions have a purpose.
Fear is designed to either inhibit action (stop you doing something dangerous) or stimulate
action, like jumping out of the way of a speeding trunk. Essentially, fear is to inhibit you (freeze
you), or get you the hell out of there (some kind of action).
Anger is about boundaries. People are basically using you as a doormat, and anger is basically
a flash designed to go here is enough emotional psychological energy to do something you
normally don't do (fight back, push back etc) lt's a threshold phenomenon, you've reached the
threshold, and it's time to do something about this.
Fear and anger are the two key emotions that prevent positive change!
To much anger is cemented in the need for revenge and all that sort of stuff, these are all
consequences of it, but ultimately, the actual base emotion of anger is that someone has
crossed the line, do something about it. lf you are using anger as your only means of coping
you'll get stuck in a loop.
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You can cope with a coupte of nights without sleeping, and work through it, no problem, your
body can cope. But you can't do it week after week after week, the body deteriorates. And that
is the problem with both fear and anger.
Constant fear, constant anger is damaging to the bodies health, physiologically, as well as
emotionally in terms of quality of life, etc.
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Forgiveness & Letting Go
Take the same problem tunnel.
unce back to initial
event
The glue that allows the initlal event to keep going is either fear or anger - that is the fuel for the
slow burn which keeps the problem active at the unconscious level. Whilst that fire is burning
quietly under the ashes, no matter how cool the surface may be, problems will eventually erupt.
What Regression therapy does is to go back to the initial event, the one that captured the
emotional spark that later kept burning (and causing problems) - and releases itin a healthy
way, so the body and mind don't need to suffer the damage of constant fear or anger.
The emotion becomes a lifeline that leads us back and back until we hit the seed. The initial
bounce back may take us close to the initial event, but you have to check you got the right one
typically by bouncing back further until you reach the same place twice in a row.
Now the whole point of a regression is to release the trapped emotional energy in a healthy way- so the person can keep the lesson they learned without being trapped in the negative emotion.
This is like crossing the road without fear - it may be dangerous, but you don't need the fear
as long as you are sensible about how and when you cross. lf you make a mistake, it's a good
thing to get a shot of fear, its what saves your life when the Ferrari you didn't bother looking out
for comes speeding your way!
However it would be pointless to feel fear every time you tried to cross the road. That is because
you have internalised the lessonand don't need a reminder in the form of fear.
The same is true of other problems. Anger and fear can keep you safe in the short term, but in
the long term they will damage onlythe person that feels anger or fear. lt is healthier to 1et go
of these emotions, internalise the lessons (if any) and move on with a happier life!
This process of letting go in called forgiveness.
Forgiveness has some funny associations in the west. This is largely because we come from a
revenge based society (an eye for an eye) which historically only forgives out of love. People
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You do NOT!
You merely need to LET GO EMOTIONALLY - you'll know it when it happens as there is a
pleasant emotional wave of relief that comes with genuine forgiveness. lt shows you that there
is no underlying resentment that keeps the slow burn going - which might have kept fuelling the
problem!
It is important to realise that once a person has forgiven another, it means that that person is no
longer in their thoughts, he is no longer a touchy subject or a sore spot that will spark up when
its touched upon.
It does NOT mean that you continue having a relationship with that person or that you allow
them to keep doing whatever it was they were doing. lf you choose fo, then you can have them
in your life, but if they are poisonous or dangerous then its quite appropriate to cut them out of
your life without another thought.
Consider a mass murderer sitting in jail. Assuming that we have no connection to him, we don't
really think about him at all. We don't get angry at the thought of him - but we certainly do not
condone his actions. lf there was talk of releasing him we mighf get angry briefly, but once we
have said our piece and ensure he remains behind bars, we have no problem letting go of the
anger: it has served its purpose!
This is the state that regression therapy seeks to achieve - we let go of the emotion and keep
the lesson. lf there is a later threat, then the anger or fear can return for an instant to keep us
safe, but then its gone again and we are free in our minds and feel peace in our hearts.
The Hawaiians have a ceremony called Ho'opono pono (To make righfl which is a forgiveness
ceremony to cut this cord between people that we have been talking about. When the negative
energy is released, healing occurs spontaneously.
It is important to realise that we cannot force people to forgive. lf they do, we know the
tremendous benefits that await them. lf they do not wish it, then that is their right!
Just remember: Forgiveness is breaking the loop of pain inside yourself.

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12 Steps of Regression Therapy
lnduce trance and regress
Orient fully: who, what, when, where, how old, etc.
o Bounce back & orient until at initial event
Dissociate, back to adult, here now, safe in chair etc so that they are not in the moment
Reframe adult:
o You made it to here in your life, little boy doesn't know, but you do.
Create moment of safety before ISE and after ISE (lnitial Sensitizing Event) with Adult
o Check with adult, what was safe time before event (eg 3-5 minutes before)
o What was safe time after event (eg 20 minutes after)
Explain to adult the "safety to safety" loop
o For really scary situations, have them bring along a safe instructor during test
Get child into first part of loop, and run the whole loop, safety to safety
o May need to have child initially run through the experience quickly through to the
other side so they know how safe it is
Reframe Adult
o The scene recedes, come back into the room
o Prepare adult for coaching child
Adult coaches child
Run cycles 2-X, and reframe each one.
o Keep running through loop until emotion is completely drained, and has been
replaced with positive excitement.
Forgive
o Preframe forgiveness, get real permission
o Need to hear them forgive everyone in the event, including little child
Reintegrate
o Give child big hug, let them melt into own body with new resources
o Watch child grow up inside - through key ages with new resources

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Reintegrate
Re-integration is the last chance saloon of hypnotherapy. lf you have done the Resourcing and
Regression steps correctly, you will have eliminated almost any problem that people would
present to a hypnotherapist - from small things like nail biting to large things like rape or sexual
abuse.
However, on rare occasions your work can get undone in the real world. This is usually down to
something called secondary gain.
Secondary Gain
lmagine that you had a fear of driving. lt seems debilitating, but can have its upsides - perhaps
you get to work from home more often than others, or you don't have to do certain chores like
driving the kids to schools etc.
Now imagine your fear got removed. The freedom you feel is certainly exhilarating - untilyour
boss finds out and makes you go to the office every day again. After a week of this, you find
yourself whishing you couldn't drive again. And your unconscious might agree. Hey presto - the
fear comes back lT didnT work...
But of course ITdad, its just that you had a good enough reason to bring the problem back.
This is the secondary gain - the freedom of not going to the office is traded for the freedom to
drive a car.
How do we deal with these issues?
Well usually we don't have to. The context of a hypnotherapy session sets an expectation that
things will work out for the besf. Which means that side effects automatically get reshaped as
well and worked into the solution by the unconscious mind. This is one BIG advantage about
focusing on resources first - the access state principle ensures that most secondary gain issues
are dealt with automatically.
lf they are not, you simply jump to the 3 manoeuvre - the Re-integration
Re-integrations
A Re-integration assumes that we have two parts - the part that wants to keep the problem and
the paft that wants the new behaviour.
As you will recall from our discussion during the Regression session, All Behaviour Has An
Underlying Positive lntention. So to re-integrate the problem part, simply find out what it
wants and negotiate a return to the regular personality.
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10 Step Re-integration Process
This parts negotiation can also be used in circumstances when a person seems to be split in
two - part of him wants one thing, and another part desires another. This is known as a
towards-towards conflict (the client is torn between two good things). lt is also very useful if the
client keeps sabotaging himself (a towards-away conflict)
ldentify parts: clients will often do this spontaneously when they say things like "on the
one hand there is X, but on the other hand I want to do Y
lnduce fixation of attention by letting each part "emerge" in a different hand. Subtly
create arm catalepsy in each hand as they talk about the parts.
Get them to imagine a symbol or representative situation for each part.
Separate lntention from Behaviour: remind the client that there is a difference between
what the part is doing (its behaviour) and what it is trying to achieve (its intention.)
Every part - even the most destructive one - has a positive intention as its ultimate
goal!
Chunk Up on the lntention of the negative part: grouchiness might lead to, prevent
rejection, which could be spurred by feel loved. Feeling loved is a greaf intention to
work with - grouchiness is not!
Now chunk up on the lntention of the positive paft: typically it will go to exactly the
same intention (in this case feel loved!) After all it's the same problem/context - just
conflicting behaviours that we are talking about!
Reframe: point out how both parts actually want the same thing, and it makes no sense
for them to fight as neither is getting what it wants!
Harmonise the parts: find resources that each part has that the other could use. Eg the
negative part night be very persistent whilst the positive one is more forward looking.
lntegrate: use general hypnotic language to tie the two parts together into ONE part
with ONE intention - just lots of resources to help express that intention. Use non
verbal cues to allow the cataleptic hands to come towards each other. This is often a
powerful convincer to people. As the hands touch allow the two symbolic images to
blend into a new one. lnclude suggestions of co-operation and finding better solutions.
lntegrate fully: allowthe hands to come up into the chest to integrate this new holistic
part into the complete personality - much like you integrated the child at the end of the
Regression Therapy. lnclude suggestions for positive new behaviours that satisfy all of
the persons needs. Allow these to emerge spontaneously as a part of the integration
process.
Test, Condition, Self Esteem Suggestions, BP2 etc.
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Gonversational Hypnotherapy
Conversational Pattern 1: P-CAT Blitz
Magic Moment (maybe stack a couple back to back)
Eye Contact (A&B)
Random Touches (A&B)
Emotional overdrive with H+ suggestions (S)
Use hypnotic themes and power words to construct a "script" on the fly (S)
Steps 1 and 2 both serye to absorb attention and bypass the critical factor. Steps 3 and 4 both
server to stimulate the unconscious mind. Step 5 performs actual change work and conditioning.
Regular Hypnotherapy
Problem
Context
Outcome
Trance & Deepen, BPl
Revivify (stimulate problem)
Resourcing (revivification, NAS, Dynamic lnduction or Hypnotic Blitz)
Tranceform (attach resources to problem context)
Test, Condition, Recovery
BP2, Self Esteem, Emerge from trance
As they are in hypnosis afterglow, perform Hypnotic Blitz

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Conversational Pattern 2: MBL Loop
Problem
What do you want to work through today?
Context
when and where do you have that problem? (when, where) specific
Outcome
How do you want to be different?
Run MBL loop 1 - spin their minds into a TIP
MBL language pattern or NAS
Transform:
How are you feeling NOW?
a. lf the TIP leaves them in a resource state - Transform!
As you feel X and think about the problem, what's happening now?
b. lf TIP comes out somewhere neutral -tip them to a positive state and go back
to (a) above!
How do you want to feel?
c. lf TIP comes out in a negative state - start another MBL loop only starting with
what they just said as the new [P] construct.
Test, Condition, Recovery
BP2, Self Esteem, Emerge from trance
As they are in hypnosis afterglow, perform Hypnotic Blitz

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Conversation al Pattern 3; Regression
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Orient fully: who, what, when, where, how old, etc.
o Bounce back & orient until at initial event
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Dissociate, back to adult, here now, safe in chair etc so that they are not in the moment
Reframe adult: You made it to here in your life, little boy doesn't know, but you do.
Create moment of safety before ISE and after ISE (lnitial Sensitizing Event) with adult
o Check with adult, what was safe time before event (3-5 minutes before)
o What was safe time after event (20 minutes after)
Explain to adult the "safety to safety" loop
o For really scary situations have them bring along a safe instructor during test.
Get child into first part of loop, and run the whole loop, safety to safety
o May need to have child initially run through the experience quickly through to the
other side so they know how safe it is
Reframe Adult
o The scene recedes, come back into the room
o Prepare adult for coaching child
Adult coaches child
Run cycles 2 - X, and reframe each one.
o Keep running through loop until emotion is completely drained, and has been
replaced with positive excitement.
1 1. Forgive
o Preframe forgiveness, get real permission
o Need to hear them forgive everyone, including little child
Reintegrate
o Watch child grow up through key ages with new resources
o Give child big hug, let them melt into own body with new resources

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Conversational Pattern 4: Reintegration
ldentify parts
lnduce fixation of attention by letting each part "emerge" in a different hand. Subtly
create arm catalepsy in each hand as they talk about the parts.
Get them to imagine a symbol or representative situation for each part.
Separate lntention from Behaviour: remind the client that there is a difference between
what the part is doing (its behaviour) and what it is trying to achieve (its intention.)
Every part - even the most destructive one - has a positive intention as its ultimate
goal !
Chunk Up on the lntention of the negative part
Now chunk up on the lntention of the positive part: typically it will go to exactty the
same intention!
Reframe: point out how both parts actually want the same thing, and it makes no
sense for them to fight as neither is getting what it wants!
Harmonise the parts: find resources that each part has that the other could use. Eg
the negative part night be very persistent whilst the positive one is more forward
looking.
lntegrate: use general hypnotic language to tie the two parts together into ONE part
with ONE intention - just lots of resources to help express that intention. Use non
verbal cues to allow the cataleptic hands to come towards each other. This is often a
powerful convincer to people. As the hands touch allow the two symbolic images to
blend into a new one. lnclude suggestions of co-operation and finding better solutions.
lntegrate fully: allow the hands to come up into the chest to integrate this new holistic
part into the complete personality - much like you integrated the child at the end of the
Regression Therapy. lnclude suggestions for positive new behaviours that satisfy all
of the persons needs. Allow these to emerge spontaneously as a part of the
integration process.
Test, Condition, Self Esteem Suggestions, BP2 etc

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How To Run A Hypnotherapy Practice
How Io Set Up Your Office
You want to have a clean, professional office that encourages people to trust you.
Put any certificates you have conspicuously about your waiting room.
As you gain more experience, you may want to record a half hour hypnosis pre-talk video, which
will free extra time up for you to finish working with previous client.
Sit next to them or a little to the side instead of directly in front of them to be non-confrontational.
lf a scantily clad woman comes in, you don't want her mind to be preoccupied with keeping her
skirt at a modest level. You can offer a blanket to cover her legs, stating that body temperature
may drop during hypnosis (which is true.) Meanwhile the unconscious is no longer preoccupied
with keeping modest appearances.
As a rule ask people to come in a loose fitting clothing, like casual exercise clothes.
Create a scrapbook full of testimonials and success stories to leave in your waiting room for
people to look through.
It is useful to have cookies or healthy snack alternatives, juice and water available.
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Telephone Script
Client: Hi I am interested in Hypnosis for X - how much does it cost?
Hypnotisl: Hello, well we can certainly work with X - but I need to ask you a couple of questions
first:
How did you hear about us?
ls it for yourself or are you calling on someone else's behalf?
[3-5 General Qs about the problem: how long, how severe, when & where etc]
When did you want to resolve X?
How much do you know about us and our method?
[Give them a general overview of your practice and how you are unique:
We use a cutting edge set of hypnosis protocols that go directly to the root of problems
in the unconscious minds. As a rule we aim to clear up a problem in 1-3 sessrbns
maximum - on the rare occasion that we cannot do something positive in that time,
then we will not waste any more of your time or money by trying to persuade you to
keep coming. We are totally focused on one thing: doing the RIGHT things to get YOU
the BEST results possible!
Each session - including [add whatever bonuses you want, like a guarantee, free
follow up programme, Self hypnosis CDs etcl is just $XX [usually $90-250 depending
on your location and your clientele!l
Does that sound like the kind of thing you were looking for?
Client: Well yes!
Hypnotisl: Great! When would you like to come in - I see we have a spot open on Tuesday or
Wednesday...
Which Of The 4 Conversational Patterns Sho uld You Use?
The Hypnotic Blitz and MBL loops are perfect for totally covert settings, like management
meetings, coaching setting, reviewing one of your team and giving them a pep talk, that sort of
thing.
lf you are doing therapy, you'll probably start with MBL loops straight away.
lf it seems that the MBL loops get stuck at a certain point and it doesn't seem to be going
anywhere, you staft feeling like something is not right about this whole thing, or a strong
emotion emerges, that's your cue to start to the Regression process.
lf you do a regression and its all cleaned up, and they go away happy and changed, and they
come back two weeks later saying it all worked until X happened, and it came back, they started
smoking again etc, it shows there is a secondary gain, so you go straight into Re-integration
which is the 4th pattern which is basically the cleanup technique.
It really is that simple!
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How To Do Your First Sessfon
o The session begins with the first telephone call, you can start preparing client right
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q Always record your actual sessions so you can prove proper behaviour should any
Questions arise at a later date!
o NB when making recordings, each country/state has different rules about making
"secret" recordings. The simplest thing to do is have the camera out in the open and
turn it on when the client sits down - they rarely make a luss il you explain that its for
Sood record keeping!
When they come into the office: Start setup frames for success first
"l've got a great process that has been shown to be helpful for that situation"- Never
make claims that it will absolutely work for them!
Engage the ctient *itn success stories or magic moments
Run them through the full lntake Form, it is very important to make sure there isn't any
medical reason you should not continue
Give them a Pre-talk so they know what to expect from hypnosis (if you are formally
doing hypnosis!) This can eventually be pre-recorded, but get lots of up front practice at
the beginning
Scope: get permission to do trance and what specific problems you may address, and
stick to the agreed boundaries
Actual trance work - its what the client came for!
o lf doing coaching, keep it covert. Start with the Hypnotic Blitz, maybe move on to
some MBLs
o lf doing overt therapeutic work, start with MBL which may flow into a Regression
Test/condition/recovery strategy
BP2, emerge
Posthypnotic blitz/conditioning, debrief, check if any questions about process
Task to do at home to reinforce whatever happened, that is fine, tasking is appropriate
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Medical Referrals
Unless you have a medical degree, you need to be very careful with who you take as a client. lf
you do have a medical degree, you have better knowledge of who is safe for you to work with.
Do not perform therapy for anyone who is insane or has a serious mental problem - unless your
discipline authorises you to practice that kind of medicine!
N"u"r treat a person with the tollowing conditions unloss you have a proper doctor's referral:
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Heart condition
Clinical Depression
Pain
Diabetes
Epitepsy
Pregnancy
Asthma
lf they have been under a doctor's care in the past year
You need to be extra careful with patients who have heart conditions, do not allow the emotions
to get too intense at any stage of the process!
ll they have diabetes, do not medicate (telling them to eat cookie or drink juice considered
medicating). However, should have both on hand, and montion at the beginning ol session
where they are in case the client makes their own decision to eat or drink.
lf they have epilepsy, be very careful bocause they could have seizures at any time, which may
or may not be related to hypnosis session.
Do not perform any major therapy with someone who is pregnant, as a strong abreaction could
produce complications.
lf someone has asthma, be very careful with regression because it might trigger an asthma
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Intake Form
lmportant information to include on intake form
. Name: For record keeping
. Date of session: For record keeping and to send them a congratulatory postcard after 6 &
12 months
. Date of Birth: To send handwritten birthday cards
. Marital Status: lf divorced, there may be unconscious guilt about that
. How did you hear about us? Crucial for your market research!! You MUST know what
works:, yellow pages, newspaper, write editorials
. ReferrarS: Write to thank referrer.
. Medical Referrarb: Write to thank the Doctor, and keep advised of patient's progress
. Heart conditions: /Vo shock inductions and avoid abreactions
. Diabetic Trance has a tendency to lower blood sugar
o Be careful they don't drop into danger zone
o Check with doctor that if you need them not to take strong medication before a
session
o Keep cookies & juice handy, bul never prescribe it
. Medicafion: Some medication may affect people's ability to go into trance
o Effects vary by individual, check for dissociation
o lf hypnosis doesn't work, never tell them to stop medication - that is always
their doctor's call!
. General Practitioner name/contact To get consent when needed
Remember:
You cannot diagnose symptoms unless you are a medical doctor
Have them come to appointment wearing loose clothing
For medial conditions, you must get a medical referral.
Send follow-ups to keep the doctor informed
Never treat pain without doctor's referral
Send referral form to doctor yourself to make sure it gets done.

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Client History
This form to be completed at initial session:
Name
State_
Date of birth
Zip_Phone
of children_
Employer
How did you hear about us? Yellow pages
Referral
Name
Address
Session Date
Mobile Phone
Age_ Se*_ Marital Status
Title
Newspaper
Doctor's Name
Other
Has anyone ever attempted to hypnotizeyol? Yes_
Reason
Do you believe you were hypnotized? Yes_
No_
No_
Medical History
Have you been under a doctor's care in the past year? Yes_ No_
If yes, please give reason
Are you pregnant? Yes_ No
Who?
Why?
Doctor's name
City
Have you ever been freated for an emotional problem?
Have you been diagnosed with asthma? Yes_ No_
Are you Diabetic? Yes_ No_
Do you have a Heart Condition? Yes
No
Have you been diagnosed with Epilepsy? Yes_
No
Yes No
Are you currently receiving freatment or counselling?
Yes
No
Have you had any prolonged illness? yes
If you have answered'YES" to any of the above, please provide
details
Medication currently taking
Reason for taking medication
Reasons you are coming for hypnosis
Any previous efforts to solve the problem? Yes_ No_ Results
Are you currently undergoing medical or psychological freatment for the above problem
Yes No Where?
Do you have any questions about hypnosis? Yes_ No
Signature
Doctor's name
Date
No
If you wear HARD contact lenses, please remove them before your session as they inhibit your ability to relax.
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