The 7 Principals of Hypnosis

• In Hypnosis, there are 7 methods commonly used. These are important aspects for you to consider whenever you are about to start a Hypnotherapy Session.
• Collaboration: You Need Their Help Too – Your client needs to be at a point in their life where they are ready to undertake the changes that may happen resulting from the session you will do with them. A strong conscious mind can overrule your suggestions or the work you are doing. For a successful session, the client must be ready and willing to take their own journey.

• Forced cognition: Saying It Makes Them Think It – When you use Suggestion Therapy, you will making suggestions to the subconscious mind, this then makes the client have new thought patterns and to be able to successfully reach their goals.
• Sensory thought: Thinking About Events Triggers Senses – Using the skills you will learn from this course, you can take your clients back into memories. When these memories arise – the senses become more alert and astute, making the whole experience more real.

• Physical thought: Thinking Changes The Body – As therapist’s we are all aware of the connection between the mind and body – when we connect with what is happening in our bodies, amazing healing can happen. 
• Feedback: Check That It Is Working & Works – Never be afraid to ask your clients in the session and following up with them after the session, how they have responded and how they are feeling afterwards.

• Utilization: Make Use Of What Happens. Everything Is A Resource – Use your client’s terminology – their words – we will go into that later – there is no better way of connecting and healing your client than to use the terminology that they themselves tell you.
• Confidence: The Attitude Of The Therapist Is Key – One of the most important aspects of being a Hypnotherapist. You must believe yourself that this therapy works, trust it even if your client shows doubt and know that your client chose you on a soul level and that you are meant to work together. Know in the work you have done, that many things physically and energetically have been shifted for your client.

Key components of Hypnosis

• The Imagination

The Imagination is key to obtaining a depth deep enough for a Hypnotherapy session. You will need to find out from your client what their primary sense is: Are they visual; are they kinaesthetic, can they hear in visualisations? All are keys to a successful session. In the Induction, you will be describing various things to them, like a guided visualisation and you will need to know which of their senses are the most prominent. Only 50% of the population are visual, the other 50% are a mixture of sensing, feeling or hearing. This is going to be the same when they experience their memories. So, these senses link to the Imagination and if your client can imagine or sense what you are describing, you are halfway there to a successful session.

• Clear & Clean Language

Clear and Clean Language is essential in Hypnotherapy. Clear & Clean Language starts from the moment that you come into contact with your client, by telephone, email and when they walk through your door. Clean Language is an excellent means of opening doors for the client and allowing the client to reveal the best choice of perception to themselves. In the Pre-Talk/Consultation, your client may talk negatively about an issue that they are dealing with, and during the Pre-Talk/ Consultation you may re word this as something positive or put a spin on what they have actually said. In that way, you are getting your client to see things in a different perspective from how they see things now. It is always important to use only positive words that are going to help the client during Hypnosis rather than any of the negative things they may have mentioned to you.

• A Focusing Of The Mind

All Hypnosis is Self Hypnosis which means the client is allowing themselves to go into that level of relaxation – The Hypnotic Trance. The Conscious Mind needs to focus so that the Subconscious can allow the memories (in Regression) to come up or the patterns of behaviour (Suggestion Therapy) to change. In the Focusing Of The Mind, you are using a Guided Visualisation (Induction) to allow the Conscious Mind to focus on the images or your words so that the gateway to the Subconscious is open.

• The Safe Place
• In your Pre-Talk/Consultation, it is a good idea to establish a Safe Place with your client. Again, this is just using imagery to evoke their memories.
• A Safe Place can be somewhere outside in nature that your client loves spending time at, or it can be a room in their home or really anywhere that appeals to them where they feel safe & comfortable. When they have told you the place, you then want to ask questions like: “What would the weather be like there for you on a perfect day?” “Would you be alone, or with anyone else?” Your client may say that their safe place is a white sandy beach, where they can walk across the sand, the sun is shining and it’s warm but not too hot, there is a slight breeze, they can hear the crash of the waves from the sea on the beach etc. When you are in the Hypnosis session, you can bring all of what they have explained to you into the safe place and use THEIR words they have told you. So, again you are using imagery and their words to create the scene. If they are on the beach, they can walk across the sand – feeling (kinaesthetic) the sand beneath their feet, they can hear the crash of the waves (audio), they can see the white of the sand – visual – so you are evoking all of their senses and those senses become heightened.

• Timing

Again, another important factor when it comes to Hypnosis is timing. Timing is somewhat of an art, especially when putting questions to your client and sitting back and giving them enough time to tell you what is happening and what they are experiencing in the session. It is a fine line of timing and compassion to ask questions and just sit back and let your client tell you in their own time what they are experiencing (See Abreactions) There is nothing wrong is sitting in silence for a few minutes while your client experiences what is happening in the session, it allows them to connect with what is happening at that time. This comes with a certain amount of experience from being a therapist but once you learn the art of timing, your sessions will become magical.

• Deepeners

Deepeners and Deepening in and throughout a Hypnosis session is essential. Through the scripts you will be taking your client through different layers of deepening. Deepening just means taking them to another level of relaxation so they feel “deeper” in that relaxation that before. You will always hear Hypnotherapists say “going deeper and deeper” and that simple command is enough to take your client to that level. Deepeners can consist of just those words – “Deeper, feel yourself going deeper into a deep level of relaxation” or they can be imagery like a staircase with 20 steps – getting your client to imagine those steps and as you count the numbers backward in time – “20, 19, 18” etc they will be going into a deeper level of relaxation. The key as in all Hypnosis is YOUR WORDS.

• Anchoring

Anchoring is an important part of any Hypnotherapy session. To anchor is to enhance the positive feelings that the client experiences during the session. So, if they are feeling joyful, strong, empowered or indeed any positive feeling, then you would anchor this feeling for them. To do this, you would simply get the client to breathe in the positive feeling and feel it move all the way through their body into every cell. Only anchor POSITIVE feelings for the client and never negative feelings.

• The Return

As the session come to an end, it will be time to return the client back to full conscious awareness. You can say to your client the following: “I am going to count from 1-10, at the count of 10 you will be back here with me in this room, on this time, on this day. 1, 2 and 3, letting any scenes, feeling emotions, fade into the background, 4, 5 and 6, feeling yourself return to this room and moving fingers and toes, 7, 8, 9 nearly there, and 10 – whenever you are ready, opening your eyes, feeling safe, calm and comfortable, being grounded and right back here with me in this room now”.

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• Give your client all the time they need to bring themselves back to full conscious awareness.
• Never rush the client returning. And remember, because they have been in a level of relaxation, a slight shift of consciousness, they will open their eyes and come back to awareness. It is impossible to “get stuck” – they will be right back with you in that room.