Much of the session will involve us talking to eachother. In the first session we will discuss your reason for coming and I will listen and ask questions. In subsequent sessions we will discuss how you have gotten on since we last met. When it is appropriate for us to use hypnosis, I will start by explaining to you that you will always remain in control and that you will hear everything I say, and will be able to remember everything you choose to remember. It is important for you to understand that you are in control and that we will always be working as a team.
When using hypnosis, all I will do is speak to you in a relaxing tone of voice using words designed to guide you into your own hypnotic state, usually referred to as a ‘trance’. Once you are relaxed, I simply continue talking to you, using positive suggestions and techniques we have agreed upon, to help you make the changes we have discussed.
Hypnotherapy is a gentle process and you cannot be hypnotised unless you are willing. You can even hypnotise yourself which I will show you how to do. In fact, because you can’t be hypnotised unless you want to be, all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis.
I should say here that it took me a while to get comfortable with the word ‘trance’ too as it conjured up all kinds of images and expectations. But really, it is just the word most commonly used to describe the hypnotic state that we flit in and out of throughout the day from waking and drifting in the morning, to moments of daydreaming and reminiscing.
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