Precision Therapy E-Book

Duncan McColl

• Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 332

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 1994

Beschreibung

Precision Therapy is full of fast, effective hypnoanalytic techniques including many case studies. It provides health professionals with all the material needed to tackle the root causes of clients' problems. "... a rare and refreshingly eclectic approach to effective hypnotherapy." Henry N. Merritt MD PhD

Leseprobe

Precision Therapy

A Professional Manual of Fast And Effective Hypnoanalysis Techniques

Duncan McColl

CONTENTS

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Title Page

Foreword

Overview

THERAPY PROMPT SHEETS

Therapy introduction (PS1)

Therapy introduction – rationale

Therapy mastersheet (PS2)

Uncovering (PS3)

Deepening, compounding (PS4)

Closing (PS5)

Induction (fast) (PS6)

Induction (optional) (PS7)

Induction (optional) (PS8)

Induction (alternative) (PS9)

Deepening (short form) (PS10)

Deepening (PS11)

Link & connect (PS12)

Negative responses (PS13)

Ideomotor responses/Ego-states (PS14)

Deepening … confusion technique (PS15)

Elman Pinpointing (PS16)

Dreamwork (PS17)

Testing for behavioural changes (PS18)

Birth (PS19)

Forgiveness (PS20)

Unrelaxed (PS21)

Reluctance to discuss or disclose (PS22)

Enhanced coping skills (PS23)

Induce feeling (PS24)

Private therapy (PS25)

Deepening (PS26)

Four fundamental needs (PS27)

Redirecting energy (PS28)

Ego-state process (PS29)

Attenuating emotions (PS30)

Thumb waggle (PS31)

Forgiveness (PS32)

Initiating process (PS33)

Relaxation techniques (PS34)

Age regression (PS35)

Physical relaxation (PS36)

Forest trip – release repressions (PS37)

Changing Emotions (PS38)

Previous life experiences (PS39)

Slow responses (PS40)

Talents (PS41)

Guilt and shame (PS42)

Success (PS43)

New skills (PS44)

Improve performance (PS45)

Phase X relaxation (PS46)

The awakening (drop secondary gain) (PS47)

Suggestibility (PS48)

Phobia release (PS49)

Depression (PS50)

Habit change (PS51)

Reminders (PS52)

Critical faculty bypass test (PS53)

Seal-breaking (PS54)

Pain relief (PS55)

Body image (PS56)

Getting problems in hand (PS57)

Back to the Future (PS58)

Previous Life Experiences (2) (PS59)

Case Histories

Case Summaries

Case Results

Questiontime

Suggested Responses

Hints on Lüscher Testing

Analytical Tape Scripts

Quotations

Miscellany

Bibliography

Index by Subject

By the Same Author

Copyright

FOREWORD

As a board certified psychotherapist with over thirty years’ experience, formerly a Professor and Chairman of Health at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, Director of US Navy Drug Rehabilitation Center at N.A.S. and presently Director of the Psychotherapy Center in Jacksonville, Florida, it is my pleasure to introduce ‘Precision Therapy’. I am delighted that a man of Duncan McColl’s experience has undertaken to develop this material. He provides a rare and refreshingly eclectic approach to effective hypnotherapy and a welcome source of stimulation to all other therapists who have limited themselves to Victorian-age concepts. I foresee that the book will excite both clinically-trained and holistic therapists to reassess their approach to analytical and healing practice. Like the precision technique itself, the presentation is both practical and direct, making for easy reading and assimilation. It will provide the required stimulus to those who have become outdated or rigid in their concepts. Those who recognise effective therapy as something more than a job and seek to keep pace with the needs of humanity in a world of accelerating change, will find welcome stimulation in this book. It is remarkable that it has taken so long to awaken to the etiology of neuroses, to the initial sensitising influences. That the earliest identifications based on events in childhood were all so logical should have warned analysts that the conditioned intellect was heavily involved in serving up a plausible but faulty solution.

Henry N. Merritt, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Psychotherapy Center, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

OVERVIEW

Precision therapy is a compilation of many well-known and effective techniques augmented by healing processes that have evolved fairly naturally over a period of years in meeting the need to provide a fast and effective healing and life-enhancing service for clients, many of them therapists, doctors and nurses … all of them with uncommon or serious problems. Clients, in brief, who lacked the time, the need and the tolerance for indulging in protracted mindgames. The aim in precision therapy is focused on stimulating the abrupt shift in personal awareness that creates a ‘spontaneous remission’ and on achieving this aim, preferably, in one session. The theme can be used to augment and not necessarily to replace any other discipline. It has been successfully conveyed to experienced hypnoanalysts on a highly selective and individual basis and only to professionals who recognise that effective therapy, including precision therapy, must be subject to continuous review and improvement. It is also recognised that this requires, in the therapist, an unusually high degree of self-understanding, flexibility, dedication and integrity. It is recommended that you study the contents pages. The therapy summary and prompt sheets are intended to meet most of the eventualities that arise in analytical work. The case histories, with one exception, are provided in summary rather than in novelesque style, pinpointing the lessons learned from them. Drama has been included only to the extent that it is considered essential to do so. Valuable lessons are learned in helping clients, including hypnoanalysts and medical professionals, who have been subjected to one or several of the types of analysis restricted to the Victorian neo-Freudian concepts. The firmly-held concept, for example, that a protective mechanism of mind represses events from consciousness which are too uncomfortable for the infant-mind to bear is only significant to a minor degree. A far more important and obvious aspect is that significant elements can often fully or partially bypass consciousness. As the conscious levels function strictly on a linear basis, they fail to register more than a fraction of what is happening around. A significant compounding event, for example, that occurred just ten years earlier in the life of a fifty-year-old analyst was entirely outside his conscious recall until he verified the circumstances later. The event bypassed his consciousness, not because it was repressed from memory but because it never registered. At the time of the significant traumatic event, he was blind drunk. A more serious aspect of the shallow Victorian concepts of analysis still shared by many therapists today is the belief that a sensitising event, to be significant, must involve a strong element of shame or guilt ‘to be repressed’. In effective healing-therapy, any element of shame or guilt clearly telegraphs a compounding event. The sensitising event will be earlier and it will have induced strong feelings of fear or shock. The too-common practice of merely revealing a shameful event to the client’s consciousness and providing ego-boosting suggestions is as effective as dead-heading weeds in a flower-bed. Shame and guilt are shallow-minded concepts, part of our socio-religious conditioning, part of the charade, and our ego is part of the problem, not part of the healing. The real sensitising events are seeded deeply. Threat-to-life-influences are invariably involved. If they are not released to consciousness, like the roots of a dead-headed weed, they will develop again. Precision therapy is designed to deal with the root of the problem. Care has been taken throughout to avoid the herd-mind trap of attempting to describe or define hypnosis. As conscious or our usual everyday state of unconscious self-hypnosis, like love and other forms of confusion, is a natural state of whatever the human mind is constrained to be, something of the unknown and the unintentional inevitably creeps into it. Unavoidably, the same will have happened to this book.

Duncan McColl

Therapy Introduction

Prompt Sheet 1

1. Do you want to live to be a hundred?

2. Breath cycle – in – out … is that right? Hand move … left – right … correct?

3. Which is your dominant arm – the stronger? Press the palms of your hands together … why can’t you push the weaker arm away?

4. Visualising … know what a telephone looks like? A tree? A flower? (The word conveys)

5. ‘Hold up your hand.’(Place yours against it. Client will tend to push … to resist).

6. Stress check/reciprocal relaxation/spread fingers.

7. Diaphragmatic breathing/creative relaxation.

8. Fist closed … not a heart … hand open … not a heart. Close – stop – open – stop – close, that’s a heart.

9. Hold up open hand … what’s the important feature?

10. Go to fingers … sense tingling.

11. Frown – smile … sense difference.

12. Lock hands … lock mind so that hands are locked together.

13. Relax … anytime … creatively/tuned in … not tuned out … enhanced conscious awareness … next step?

14. Two states at this level … conscious or unconscious self-hypnosis.

15. The hand support … arm should drop (Holding one with the other to illustrate relaxation).

16. What will be different when change occurs?

17. To change … we initiate a process of change.

THERAPY INTRODUCTION – RATIONALE

The objective here is to illustrate the inherent simplicity of the natural healing and problem-solving processes … the simple things we tend to overlook in our search for answers. Only some of the points need to be mentioned. It can be useful to include anyone accompanying the client in the introduction.

1. You are seeking an unqualified response. A common one is: ‘Yes … but not if I have to be a burden to anyone else.’ The point here is that we can (at least) influence our own destiny. One eighty-year-old widow answered: ‘Yes, young man … but why are you limiting me?’

2. Illustrate by moving your hand left … right … left. Breathing is a four-cycle process … in, stop, out, stop. The hand movement is left … stop … right … stop. Significance? Later.

3. You have developed one arm more than the other … but there is only one energy … for you to direct as you choose. The same rule applies to your psychic energy, to your mindpower. You have fed the linear brain more than your creative, inspirational brain. Your dominant hand … left or right?Right.OK.Startconsciouslyfavouring your left hand whenever you can …give itmore to do … you’llbesurprisedhowsoonyoubecomeambidextrous … mentally as well.

4. Particularly with seriously-ill clients, there is a need to dispel immediately the thought that there is any need to create three-or four-dimensional objects in the air, or that there is any value whatsoever in attempting to do so.

5. Point out that you merely asked the client to hold up his hand. You did not ask him to push against yours. We tend to resist. Creative relaxation is a state of ‘let-go’.

6. How do you relax your hand? You do something first … you spread your fingers apart, then you stop doing it and relaxation happens.

7. You take conscious control of a normally subconscious process … for two or three breaths … expanding the diaphragm then allowing it to relax. You override the startle pattern you developed as a child … you condition the physical centre of your emotions to relax.

8. At this vibrational level of reality, learn to go with the natural rhythm in whatever you do.

9. The hand, itself, is temporal. The space, the ‘nothingness’, like the stop in the breathing rhythm, is where it comes from and where it goes. (Today a chicken, tomorrow a feather duster … a perpetual process of change and renewal).

10. Allow one arm to dangle by your side … be aware of the tingling sensation at your fingertips – perhaps a slight pins-and-needles feeling … as the blood circulates down there at your fingertips. And as you focus on the tingling sensation, notice that you are hearing me better and I am speaking more clearly as we both move onto the same waveband, because the tingling feeling is the result of you directing part of your thinking process, your psychic energies, to alter the vibrational levels at your fingertips … bypassing the thinking-guessing mind and moving more into touch with your senses. And it is your sensing system, not your conditioned thinking mind, that you will learn today to use to see your best options in life.

11. Do it.

12. Clasp your hands together for a moment and at the count of three I’m going to ask you to lock your mind on the thought that your hands are locked tightly together and the harder you try to release them the tighter they get … 1 … 2 … 3 (click fingers) … just lock your mind on the thought that your hands are locked tightly together and try to release them and find that they lock together even more … tighter and tighter … that’s right – really try … and now relax … and allow your hands to unlock. Fine … you accepted my suggestion because you wanted to … and subcon will ensure that you only accept suggestions from me that are for your health and wellbeing. (Or: Good. You pulled your hands apart because you rejected my suggestion … that’s fine. It highlights the fact that you can’t be forced to do anything against your will in hypnosis … conscious self-hypnosis is a consent state, it requires relaxation and acceptance. So this time, as I repeat the suggestion, just resolve that you would like it to work for you).

13. Next step – spontaneous right action.

14. The more you capture the knack of conscious self-hypnosis … the more you realise that you have been unconsciously self-hypnotised at least since birth.

15. Testing for phase one, physical relaxation … both arms must be lazy, limp and relaxed. It may be necessary to illustrate this by holding one of your own arms … and allowing it to flop down on your lap. (Other processes, later).

16. Sometimes worth enquiring, to see if any focus has been directed positively.

17. Emphasise that you are an analyst. You are neither a counsellor nor an adviser. Your function is to illustrate clearly how the client can initiate a process of change. The choices he makes are strictly part of his own birthright. His own powerhouse mind is always his best guide. You will help him to find this source of truth and trust and inspiration in himself. The objective: to bring a great quality and intensity of experience back to the client’s lifestyle.

Therapy Mastersheet

Prompt Sheet 2

Relax – Phase I … II … where on 10–0 scale?Colour of ruler?Visualise? Apple … tree … mountain.Phase III basementWorking levelUnsettled … concerns?Eachbreath … deeper.First day at school …Thumb waggle if discomfort or concern.Feeling associated with problem?Back to first time the feeling arose … Count back … younger … Relax and dream … Sub-basement … through the zero … back. Tap forehead … spell out word that links to cause. Stiffen finger … can’t bend when open eyes. Place finger under subcon control. Yes finger – no finger – question, ego state?Rebirth – Heartbeat?10–0where at now? Fake count up 0–4 down … down … down. Sleep state. Symbol of major problem … 1 … 2 … 3 …* Back to before problem … Video scene. Reveal to consciousness … one year’s time? Future pace.In touch with body … toes … hands … lips … etc. Sunlight to discomfort. Pineal gland … pinpoints of light. Back to happy time … birthday/Christmas … age? Did you know what the problem was then? Forward to pinpoint event.Video … what could happen to throw a scare.Insidebodyto area of discomfort – Report,where inbodythefeeling? Talk to the part involved. Move 3 months … 5 years ahead. (No malignancy in nature. 98% of the body is less than 3 months old).Repetitive dream? Re-dream it.Trace‘A’on hand … erase … say alphabet(omits‘A’?) Trip out of body. Link to all events.Merge polar opposites.Bossman-Cleric-Lawyer-Flagstones. Four Lüscher fundamentals. Early conditioning … ‘gameplay’ etc.All repressions released? Physically?What do you want to do tohim/her? Gestalt clear … gestalt childmind.Anchor success … love … ecstasy … multiply intensity.Express it …(not in words). Future pace – paint heavy problem – override it. Any other problem? … questions? 7 days ahead … benefits? Swish pattern needed? More deeply relaxed than ever before.Do you do better than well?Iexcel!!!!Convince me.

RATIONALE

A master prompt sheet is prepared for a specific type of client; in this case, a client with a physical malfunction. With experience, the mastersheet can be further reduced and eventually discarded entirely. Further optional prompt sheets are provided for use in therapy sessions (PS 3 & 4) followed by a selection of more detailed scripts, the gist of which can soon be committed to memory.

Uncovering

Prompt Sheet 3

Age regress to an earlier time …Birthday … first walk … athomeonSunday… First day at school (may be unhappy).Pinpoint … back to before the problem.Bracket it between twoagedates. Find age … back to just before.Tap forehead … spell out word or phrase that is the link to the root cause(s) … or representation of cause.(Or … symbol will spring tomind). ‘Nothing’ … raise/drop arm … ‘there you are’.AFFECT BRIDGE … FINGER SIGNALS … EGO STATEVisit part … go down inside … report.Reluctance? OK to bring this to consciousness in a year’s time (forward a year).Sleep and dream.Test for amnesia … ‘write’ on palm, telephone number.Put into a sleep state.Client … talk to problem … gestalt style: what – on the one hand think … other feel.(Nodwhen person/problem is there).Tap … a representation of the part … (when can talk to me say … ‘I’m here’).Video scene … [anything being blocked from consciousness – your thumbs waggle (blush)]. NLP … pictures … spin away neg. Enlarge OK state.Anchor.Timeline … eliminate guilt … forward without … keyword … successful event … future pace (test anchor).Merge polar opposites … imaginary scene.Retrigger … attenuate it … relive several times(Seekthe scare)…keyword … override it.

Deepening – Compounding

Prompt Sheet 4

‘Awareness increases with each breath that you take and you cango toanyevent in your life’.

Stresscheck. Relaxanyareaoftension.

Lift/droparm.

Touchforehead (Firstletter–quicklynow). Touchhand.

Ruler …10–0… Where at?Colour?

Thumbwaggle/faceblushifconsciousmindinterference.

Aroundbodyawareness.

30seconds–relaxanddream.

‘Wheel breathing’.First day at school.

Trytoraiseleftleg. FirsttimeexploredMum/Dad’sbedroom.

Sleep … get in touch fromwithin/dream.

BacktoSundayathomeasachild.

Deepbreath … focus on outgoing breath.

Bringon–dispelemotion/feelingsassociated/intensify.

Countdown8–1–Zero.

Stiffenfinger–eyesopen–won’tbend.

Look into darkness …pineal/thirdeye.

Arm,lock–relaxasyoulowerit.

Balloontiedtoarm… hand touch cheek.

Fakecount-up(1 23 4then32 1 …zeroDOWN).

Basement level of relaxation/testeyes/leg.

Traceletter‘A’onbackofhand–erase (fromhand/thoughts.Eyesopen…whatarethefirstthreelettersofthealphabet?).

Openeyes … blink … double relaxation … close.

Floatup – visitaround – space.

What think – versus feel –head/hearttalk.

Feelgrowingsmaller … younger.

Bring sunlight down and all around.

Childwithin– floattoothersideofroom. Returnandembrace.

Whenever I say relax … go seven times deeper.

Sub-basement–othersideofzero–returntoworkinglevel.

Eachbreath taking you deeper.

Gotoaholidaytime.

Anyfuntime you would like to re-experience?

OKtobringtoconsciousness … 12 months … withincreasedunderstanding?

Futurepace12 months.

Inducesleepstate.

Closing

Prompt Sheet 5

1.Back toISE …(Physicalinfluencetorelease)… follow throughon the linkages…ISE/compounding,all parts benefiting. Forgiveness(notnecessarilyexcuse)integrate the child within,always in your heart.

2.Ask subcon– Anythingelseneedstobeclarified? –Clearthroughdreamsandexperiences.–Notifychangesinhabitsandbehaviouralpatterns.–Maintainingchannelopen…keyword‘relax’.

3.Have youanyquestions for me … or subcon? Thank subcon.Futurepacetodisturbing/similarevent … test keyword.Relax – and you know you will attain to spontaneous right action … now … and in the future.More ateasewith yourself …(etc.). You are freed from self-limiting influences of the past … the past is freed from you.Relax and forgive … live and let live.

4.Everything useful that you have experienced today is part ofyour everyday living reality and those experiences that upsetor inhibited you in the past now serve to increase yourself-confidence and success in life.

5.So what are we all – we are all children of Stardust – and all thejoyand love andhopein the world is yours … and now youwillbemore poised,more serene,more loving andcompassionatethaneverbefore.You do better than well – you excel.When youopenyour eyes in a moment,you will know thatyou have established contact with your own controlmindandthistwo-waycommunication channel will serve you well.

6.With a smile on yourfaceand asongin your heart – come backto this world of everyday living reality at the count of five –rejuvenated – revitalised – renewed – and noticehowgoodyou feel … and the number is one …

7. Testanchors,futurepace.‘Iexcel’ …convinceme.

Induction (fast)

Prompt Sheet 6

Now just relax and release all that surface tension as you close your eyes … close your eyes now and relax them to the point where they just won’t work and when you’re sure that they won’t work – test them – just try to open them – that’s right – really try … now stop trying and let that feeling of relaxation pass all the way down to your toes and notice how good you feel just with that simple process of relaxation – taking time out for yourself. Now, draw in a long, slow, deep breath and allow your stomach to relax and expand … and slowly exhale and feel your entire bodymind system relax … Now … in a moment I’ll ask you to open your eyes and I’ll say ‘double your state of relaxation’ and each time I do you’ll close your eyes and go still deeper into relaxation … so … just open your eyes … double your state of relaxation … now … close your eyes … that’s good … and again … open your eyes … double your state of relaxation … now close your eyes … and again … open your eyes … double your state of relaxation … now close your eyes. Now … in a moment … I’m going to pick up one of your arms and if you’re truly relaxed … it will be lazy … limp and relaxed … that’s great … that’s an excellent state of relaxation (or: there’s muscle tension there … just let that arm go lazy, limp and relaxed … that’s better … now notice the difference … lazy … limp … relaxed … wonderful) … now – as I let your arm drop back on your lap – go ten times deeper into relaxation and notice how good you feel. And now your other arm – good – excellent – and go ten times deeper as your arm drops back on your lap. Now,mentally countfrom one to three with me and feel yourself drifting deeper anddeeper …1…2…3…deeper …still drifting deeper intorelaxation.

Induction (Optional)

Prompt Sheet 7

Theobjective is to induce physical, mental and emotional relaxation and the Elman technique is particularly useful for achieving these levels fast. With many clients, a simple count-down from eight to one, interspersed with ‘drifting deeper and deeper, into a relaxed state of creative relaxation’ and similar suggestions, can be equally effective. Elements from the following theme have been found useful in working with intellectually-minded and other clients who find it difficult to relax mentally. As you hear me talk, I know that your intellectually-conditioned levels of mind are actively engaged in assessing my words … and in the same way, you can control that level to the extent that – as I talk to you – you can also count the number of breaths that you take – start doing that now mentally or count the inhalation as ‘one’, the exhalation as ‘two’, if you like … and keep on counting as I talk. And you know, of course, that your heart is beating … focus on counting the heartbeats too … and of course you find that you can’t … AND THAT’S THE LEVEL OF MINDPOWER YOU HAVE BEEN USING TO FIND YOUR WAY THROUGH LIFE … YOUR LINEAR-CONDITIONED, INTELLECTUAL MIND-LEVEL. It’s linked to your outer senses … to your sense of touch, of taste and sight and sound and smell. You have a sensory system – a vast inner sensing system – that makes any miracle you have ever heard about seem trivial. Just for the record : it is a system that controls 50 trillion intelligent cells … ten thousand times more cells than the Earth’s population … each cell capable of five hundred spontaneous functions. One hundred thousand discrete chemical changes take place, under direction, in your body every second. There are fourteen billion possible nerve responses … that’s fourteen hundred times more communication channels than the world’s telephone system … and your heart pumps 45 million gallons of blood in 50 years … it pumps 35 million times a year and up to 4 million times more if you are stressed. THAT SENSORY LEVEL IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO USE. You are not just an entity that has to learn everything by rote … by imitation. You are a storehouse of vast creative intelligence and life-energy, capable of INSIGHT, INTUITION, INSPIRATION … and you have a personal key. My function is a simple one. To show you how to use it. Now this time, as you focus for a moment on your breathing pattern … allow your stomach to relax and expand as you inhale … and as you exhale, allow the sense of peace and relaxation to spread gently to every nerve and cell and system of the body … taking time out – time out for yourself. Simply by focusing conscious awareness for a moment on your breathing, you convey to all levels of mind that you want to relax … creatively … and you will accept only those words that ring true with subcon – with your subconscious control mind, with that centre of power, of eternal truth and trust in yourself … accepting for implementation only those suggestions that are beneficial and appropriate for ensuring your vibrant good health and for maintaining harmony and balance throughout your entire bodymind system. Now – at some time in the past, perhaps in the distant past … you experienced a deeper sense of creative relaxation than this … a natural state … perhaps free from the world of words … allow subcon to take you there as you gently inhale … inhale lifeforce … prolonging the outgoing breath … drifting deeper now .. for the benefit of the entire bodymind system … more at one with everything, with everything in this everyday new miracle of life. Now – gently raise the corners of your lips in a tiny smile … and send a message of peace and pleasure to every cell and system and function of the body – a gentle feeling of bliss. That feeling is healing … as you become more deeply aware of your senses, of your internal sensory system – freeing the two-way channel to creative mind … to the other side of your reality … to the side that is always in touch with source. The answers we seek are all in the mind … but not in those levels of mind to which we have conscious access … we must seek deeper than this … beyond the barriers of second-hand thoughts and social conditioning. Without insight, all our decisions are based on insufficient data. We can do better than that … much better than that. Now, in a moment, I will reach forward and touch you gently on the forehead in the area of the pineal gland, and the moment I touch your forehead a word will spring to mind that will link and connect to the cause of your major problem – to the initial sensitising event – (tap) … What’s the word? (you’llknowitatthecountofthree… 1 … 2 … 3 …*). Now watch … as I raise and drop your arm … you will see the connection … there you are … what’s the connection?

AN ALTERNATIVE

Focus on the word/phrase as I count you down from six to one six to one … zero … counting 6 … and you feel yourself becoming smaller and smaller – younger and younger – arms and legs and body – smaller and younger … 5 … going back in time to the causal event … 4 … and the word that links to it is xxxxx … 3 … bring on any feeling associated with the causal event and … 2 … bring it on strongly now and 1 … five minutes before the causative event and zero* (click) there you are … be there … see it clearly … see the event start to unfold … Intensify the feelings … bring them on so that you can let them all go …

[OR … at the count of three … reduce the emotion by half … 1 … 2 … 3 …* … you’re frightened because … You are worried because … and so on.]

OR: Now, let’s move to a deeper … to a more creative level of relaxation … there are influences below the level of consciousness that are unwelcome to you … bring them to consciousness – they will cease to bother you in any way … but at the moment they may be working in some way to protect you … perhaps they are unaware that your circumstances at this everyday level of reality have changed … with the help of subcon … we need to know their purpose … and ask subcon to provide a more immediate … a more appropriate … a more life-sustaining process for the benefit of the entire bodymind system. As I raise and lower this arm you will go seven times more deeply into relaxation [lowerthearm] and I call upon subcon please to provide finger signals … allowing this finger to rise to signify ‘Yes’ (index) and this finger to indicate ‘No’ (little finger, same hand) … is this yes/no response process acceptable please subcon? [Yes] (Carry on with the ideodynamic process … determining when the causal factor arose and its nature, the event experienced, something heard etc. or ask to talk to the part/parts/functions involved … requesting ideodynamics or vocal responses).

OR … call time out for yourself … the analyst … at any time by saying: Fine … now just relax more deeply and for the next 60 seconds … just relax and dream … and the dreamstream will bring you closer and closer to the disturbing event that created the unwelcome influences that you need to understand and eliminate from your bodymind system for ever … just relax and dream … and your thumbs will waggle to signify any disturbing event … And with one eye on the thumbs … go to your own fingers … and be prepared to follow the emotional lead or revert to ideodynamics or some other tack … rebirthing, affect bridge, ego-state etc … or use a deepening or compounding process … for example … ‘to help the ideodynamic response process … I’ll hold your wrist and now ask subcon to signify acceptance of the yes/no signalling system by raising the index finger for ‘yes’. Question: May I speak with the part or parts responsible for creating the symptom which we identify at the conscious level as xxxx. And then to the client: ‘On a scale of ten to zero … when ten represents fully awake and zero represents deeply relaxed … where do you feel you are on this scale?’ [And deepen, by any deepening process]. Now … I’m taking your hand and turning it palm upwards and I’m taking the name xxxx and I’m tracing it here on the palm of your hand just as you can see it in your mind, right? Now I’m going to erase it from your hand and erase it from your mind at the same time, as I stroke your hand three times … 1 … 2 … 3 … erased from your hand erased from your mind. There – it’s gone completely … now try to tell me what I erased from your hand – gone completely – can’t remember, can you? Fine … now relax still more deeply. Now, you can just tell your conscious mind to relax – you can instruct it – you are in charge – openyour eyes – close your eyes –now relax completely. You can relax and it gets easier every time … relaxed but more creatively aware. Now – when you relax like this, you can recall things that you probably thought were lost in your memory … they are notlostinyour memory … they may be repressed from your memory but they are stored for all time in your powerhouse mind … so I want you to go back to the first time when you were just a little child … on your very first day at school … when I click my fingers you’ll be that little child on your very first day at school … you’ll be there just as though it is happening now … at the count of three … 1 … 2 … 3 …* (click). There you are – you’re in school … tell me … what is the teacher saying to you now? What age are you? Who is the little boy or girl sitting on your right? On your left? How do you feel about your first day at school? When I click my fingers – you’ll be back in the classroom … tell me – do you like your teacher? What’s your teacher’s name? When you centre and relax … notice how clearly your mind functions. When I raise and lower your arm, it will be five minutes before you first experienced the unwelcome symptoms … (droparm) … tell me … where are you … indoors or outdoors … day or night … alone or with someone? Tell me … what’s happening … what’s being said … you’ll know at the count of three … clarify the picture … intensify the feelings … and see the event unfold … 1 … 2 … 3 …* (click). Bring it to consciousness … the scare will cease to bother you ever again … now … let’s see if the same influences are involved … in the next event. Going forward in time to the next event at the count of three … 1 … 2 … 3 … (*). There you are … tell me … are you alone or with someone (etc).

The thumb is controlled by your inner mind … if anyone or anything disturbs you, that thumb will waggle and you’ll be able to talk to me about it … Or … just relax and let subcon bring to consciousness what happened and when you can talk about it your finger will rise. In this elevated hypnotic sleep-state of mind, events of the past that have contributed directly or indirectly to your problems can be brought swiftly to mind – but not necessarily to your consciousness … but the self-limiting negative influences they have been exerting on your health and life-style can be safely vented – can be released for ever … you will be freed from the past and the past will be freed from you. Going back in time now … going back to the event that seeded the maladaptive reaction pattern or the unwelcome symptoms … you’ll be there as a witness of the event at the count of three … 1 … 2 … 3 (*). Tell me … what do you feel? … (Anger … deep anger …). And what else … what other feelings? (I’mscared … ashamed … sad …whatever).

Now multiply that feeling of shame or blame … let it go … let it vent … that’s right … good! Clear it out once and for all … it has no validity now … shame is a primary affect … it must be cleared … anger is a secondary response … but clear that one out too … what would you like to say to him?… see him sitting there in front of you … and say it to him now.Now … have him respond to that … what does he want to say … write the script … you’re in charge.

Induction (Optional)

Prompt Sheet 8

Now – to focus your attention … take a long, slow deep breath and let your stomach relax and expand and just allow your eyes to close normally and naturally – and convince yourself that they’re completely