This website frequently states that one solution to a problem is to repeat hypnotic suggestions during self-hypnosis. Depending on your beliefs, you get certain hypnotic suggestions. But how does a hypnosis expert arrive at a hypnotic suggestion that fits your problem and has the potential to touch something inside you, making you make the click, break the lock and free yourself?
In this blog, I explore what it takes for a hypnosis expert to bring a suggestion.
Requirements before hypnotizing someone
It is important to note that hypnosis is not for everyone. In general, 85% of people are hypnotizable.
It is very important to note that you do NOT hypnotize people with psychotic symptoms. These people have difficulty distinguishing reality from fantasy, this can have very adverse effects. These people are better off resolving their mental symptoms in other ways.
The environment where you hypnotize someone should be quiet. Therefore, it is important that your phone be completely silent and not even vibrate during the hypnosis session. Also make sure there is silence in the hallway and outside.
Especially when people have no experience with hypnosis, it is important to explain to them what they can experience. Many people are afraid that they might be unconscious or start doing things they don't want to do. This is not the case and that is important to point out.
Before hypnotizing someone, of course, you need to know why the person wants to be hypnotized. There are many reasons why people want to be under hypnosis, such as quitting smoking, losing weight, overcoming fears or solving other problems.
With this knowledge, you set the goal.
Determining the purpose of the suggestion
First, as a hypnosis expert, you must determine the purpose for which you need the hypnotic suggestion. To determine this goal, it is important to know where your client wants to go.
The client can name a problem of what they do not want, then it is important to determine what they do want.
To do this, it is important to have a good conversation with the client. What are problems he is facing and what would he like to see different.
In some cases, what the client wants to achieve is a big goal and it is important to achieve the new mindset in phases. In that case, multiple hypnotic suggestions are needed and sometimes even multiple hypnosis sessions.
Setting sub-goals
To set your goal and sub-goals, you basically use the same technique as for goal setting. Only the time frame of when you want to achieve which goal gets shorter and shorter.
Sure, you may want to run the marathon within 1 year, but by next week you may have found a trainer. These kinds of insights are key to keeping goal achievement fun.
Formation of the idea
Before you can make a suggestion, you have an idea for a suggestion. The suggestion can come in many forms, such as just a phrase, a command or a visualization. This idea begins in the mind of the hypnosis expert.
Next, you must express this idea and in such a way that your client thus makes that click he needs to overcome a blockage.
You can use a variety of techniques to do this, such as belief repetition .
Client perception
To best convey your idea then, it is important to know the perception with which your client looks at the world. What beliefs determine what he does and does not do.
To transfer something properly hypnotic to the subconscious, you can use all of your client's senses. Hypnosis is not something one does every day and so reassurance, such as your smile, is needed when his subconscious begins to respond to your suggestions.
This often involves stimulating the senses in your client's imagination. To do this, it is important to first have a conversation with your client about important symbols, for example, such as favorite color or which colors mean something positive or negative to your client.
In addition, you can talk about special events and locations in your client's life. A place where he totally relaxes, a moment when he felt totally perfect and in flow.
You can use this information to stimulate the senses. Not only in a literal sense, but also the sensation of the senses in memories to bring this feeling back to the surface. This can be very useful, for example, for physical complaints and overcoming fears.
So you get the idea. You package a message A, but your client understands it as B. It's like passing a message through-via to other people. In the end, the last message is completely different from the first message.
The client's response gives you the feedback to determine how the idea came across and whether you need to change the way you communicate.
Inducing Hypnosis
Now that you know what you will do and what ideas you have and how to verify that they work, it is time to induce hypnosis. This usually starts with a relaxation exercise and you help them with their breathing and releasing tension and being open to your ideas and suggestions.
When your client is in hypnosis, it's time to apply your ideas and make adjustments as needed.
Methodical experimentation
At the initial meeting, you have a good foundation of knowledge to shape your ideas with to connect with your client's perception as much as possible, but if that was enough, anyone could hypnotize another, even without training.
So by paying close attention to your client's reaction, you can make adjustments.
A good way to check how hypnosis is going is through arm-levitation. This allows you to initially test whether someone is in hypnosis and responding well to your suggestions.
So you can use this levitation when you want to achieve a new idea or goal to see if your idea works.
You can also customize the style of hypnosis you use for each client; after all, some people respond better to visualizations than others or just suggestions.
Ultimately, the idea is that your client subconsciously responds to what you suggest. This is then automatically adopted.
Hypnosis Finish
When you find that your goal has succeeded, or at least as far as it can during that session, it's time to bring your client out of hypnosis again. As such, people never stay in hypnosis forever, but a proper exit is more pleasant for your client.
There are all kinds of techniques for getting people out of hypnosis. I myself like to clap my hands as a clear sign that hypnosis is over.
You can also do this with guided visualization or in other ways.
So, hypnotizing someone actually has 4 stages, namely:
Phase 1: The conversation in which you find out what problem needs to be solved and what symbols and information from the client you can use for this purpose.
Phase 2: Inducing hypnosis
Stage 3: This is where you do the work of solving the problem and need to communicate your ideas to the client.
Stage 4: Ending hypnosis.
So in the third stage, you are primarily concerned with changing your client's subconscious. Your idea needs to be translated there into something the client can do something with and understand as you mean it.
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