How to be more Proficient with Hypnosis

[cainam_nazier]

This is great, the whole hypnosis thing has been coming up a lot lately.  Here is a little info for ya from the one sitting in the chair.

The hypnotherapist that I see uses the counting method as well. Usually starting at 5 and going down to start and going from 1 to 5 for exit.

We have been discussing each time how this effects me.  We started doing this because one of the times she was doing this I fell asleep.  She never mentions the sleep word while putting me down though.  She figured that she might have waited a little too long between numbers.

However the last few times she has done this the same result keeps happening.  I either fall asleep, or I loose total track of time and it seems like 5 or 10 mins before she counts the next number.  The last time she found kinda odd that I told her this because she said that she counted faster than she would count with anyone else but wanted to see what would happen to me.  IE, if a deep enough state of relaxation would be reached.

At times also when this is going on I tend to loose track of what is going on.  In essance I forget that I am even at her office.  Then I hear her voice again and go, "Oh yeah, I'm in the middle of something, must focus."    There have been times also that I don't hear the numbers.  I hear 5 and then next thing I know we're at 1 and I am left a little confused but it ends up working out okay.

[hypnotist]

Hello cainam_nazier,

Let your hypnotist read this it could help her to bring you deeper. To reverse the counting.
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RECOMMENTDATIONS FOR COUNTING
AND OTHER HYPNOTIC PATTER

There are many different ways to take your subject deeper into hypnosis and to have him exit the state.  The most effective method is number counting.  Many hypnotists and hypnothereapists use various forms of counts.  Some use a ten to one count for going deeper, while others use it to exit the state.  Still others may count the same way to deepen and exit the state.  I have found some hypnotists that change directions throughout their induction, deepening, while giving suggestions and exiting hypnosis.  This could be confusing to some people and possibly prevent them from achieving a good hypnotic state.

In my years of practice and research I have found it most effective to use one down to ten to deepen.  Going from a small number to a larger number takes most subjects into a deeper state more rapidly.  Going from ten up to one to exit returns the subject to his normal awareness at the point where he started.  This keeps things simple and consistent.  My logic behind this type of counting is simple.  If you are floating in a pool of water and someone hands you a brick, you begin to float down a little deeper.  If you then are handed a second brick, you float down even deeper.  Now isn't this the same effect that you are expecting to achieve with your subject?  That is, in a sense, having him float deeper into hypnosis.  If you count from ten down to one, you have no more numbers after one and your subject cannot go any further.  If you count from one down to ten you have numbers that follow after and your subject can keep on going if he chooses.  So, commonsense leads you to realize that more helps you to go deeper, and taking away will help you to return from where you started, at the normal aware state.

The techniques of other hypnotists included in this text, and the texts for my intermediate and advanced course, have been modified to include this counting method.  I have also changed some of the works used, such as "sleep" to "relax," to "drowsy," and "deep asleep" to "deeply relax."  The reason for this is because we now know that hypnosis is not a sleep state at all.  Instead, it is a state of relaxation in which our senses are heightened while our body is relaxed, thus allowing physical and behavioral changes to take place.  Remember to keep your directions clear and your subjects will find it easier to follow your directions.
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HYPNOTIC DEPTH SCALES   



System of Walter Sichort:

INSUSCEPTIBILITY :    0.   

HYPNOIDAL :       1.    Closing of the eyes
               2.   Fluttering of the eyes
               3.   Swallowing
               4.   Relaxation
          5.   Deeper relaxation
          6.   Complete physical relaxation

LIGHT STATE OF           7.   Eye catalepsy
RELAXATION :             8.   Limb catalepsy
                     9.   Body catalepsy (body rigid)
                       10.   Light anesthesia (glove)

MEDIUM STATE OF         11.   Partial amnesia
RELAXATION :           12.   Posthypnotic anesthesia
                       13.   Posthypnotic suggestions (simple)
         14.   Personality changes
         15.   Change feeling (hot-cold)
                       16.   Delusions (false belief, ignorance of actual facts)

SOMNAMBULISTIC          17.   Posthypnotic amnesia
STATE :              18.   Eyes open while in deep hypnosis
                       19.   Bizarre posthypnotic suggestions
                       20.   Complete state of somnambulism
                       21.   Positive visual hallucinations
                        (posthypnotic sense of seeing)                                  
                                                   
                       22. Positive auditory hallucinations
                           (posthypnotic sense of hearing)
                                               
                       23. Spontaneous amnesia (no recall of suggestions or
                           actions while in hypnosis)                                
                       24. Hyper aesthesia (extreme sharpness of the senses)
                       25.   Negative visual hallucinations (sense of seeing)
                       26.   Negative auditory hallucinations (sense of hearing)

ESDAILE STATE :           27.   The body very flaccid - will not respond to physical
                               Suggestions
                           



CATATONIC
STATE :                                  28.   A non suggested state after a true Esdaile State the
                                                           body can be put in any position and can remain
                                                           that way for long periods of time.  Resembles
               rigidity but the muscles are not flexed.

SICHORT STATE       29.   State of extreme flaccidity (discovered by Walter   
  (continues REM)                                      (Sichort).  In the Sichort State the body is
                                                     completely anesthetized for minor or major
               surgery.  There is no recall of what has been said or
               done after coming out of this state, and recall
                                                  cannot be given back.  Subjects experience complete
               time distortion, eight hours seem like minutes.  The
               Sichort State is, or at least resembles REM sleep,
               but is safer than normal sleep; in any emergency
               subjects will come out spontaneously.

[cainam_nazier]

I'll give it to her and see what she thinks.  My next visit is July 7th.

I also got your e-mail.  Thanks.  I will give that to her also.

[hypnotist]

RECOMMENTDATIONS FOR COUNTING
                   AND OTHER HYPNOTIC PATTER

There are many different ways to take your subject deeper into hypnosis and to have him exit the state.  The most effective method is number counting.  Many hypnotists and hypnothereapists use various forms of counts.  Some use a ten to one count for going deeper, while others use it to exit the state.  Still others may count the same way to deepen and exit the state.  I have found some hypnotists that change directions throughout their induction, deepening, while giving suggestions and exiting hypnosis.  This could be confusing to some people and possibly prevent them from achieving a good hypnotic state.

In my years of practice and research I have found it most effective to use one down to ten to deepen.  Going from a small number to a larger number takes most subjects into a deeper state more rapidly.  Going from ten up to one to exit returns the subject to his normal awareness at the point where he started.  This keeps things simple and consistent.  My logic behind this type of counting is simple.  If you are floating in a pool of water and someone hands you a brick, you begin to float down a little deeper.  If you then are handed a second brick, you float down even deeper.  Now isn't this the same effect that you are expecting to achieve with your subject?  That is, in a sense, having him float deeper into hypnosis.  If you count from ten down to one, you have no more numbers after one and your subject cannot go any further.  If you count from one down to ten you have numbers that follow after and your subject can keep on going if he chooses.  So, commonsense leads you to realize that more helps you to go deeper, and taking away will help you to return from where you started, at the normal aware state.

The techniques of other hypnotists included in this text, and the texts for my intermediate and advanced course, have been modified to include this counting method.  I have also changed some of the works used, such as "sleep" to "relax," to "drowsy," and "deep asleep" to "deeply relax."  The reason for this is because we now know that hypnosis is not a sleep state at all.  Instead, it is a state of relaxation in which our senses are heightened while our body is relaxed, thus allowing physical and behavioral changes to take place.  Remember to keep your directions clear and your subjects will find it easier to follow your directions.
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If you would like more information or any other questions about hypnosis leave me a message here or on my e-mail hypnotist41@aol.com

                            Sincerely
                        Frank Mulley A. Ht.