You can close your eyes now … And begin breathing deeply and slowly… Before you let go completely, and go into a deep hypnotic state, just let yourself listen carefully to everything I say to you …It’s going to happen automatically …

Since it is impossible to become stuck in hypnosis, a wake-up script is only required to end the trance and bring the subject back to full waking consciousness. If you are working with a loved one you might even decide before hand not to wake them from trance at all, but to allow them to drift into a normal sleep and wake in the usually manner in the morning.

It is most instructive to realize that it is more difficult to reject two or more suggestions given together in an associational network than it is to reject a single suggestion standing alone.

The suggestion you give the patient during hypnosis session is only a suggestion that he do something, possibly produce hand levitation. Just possible. If there is something else he prefers to do, let him do it. Do not try to restrict him to hand levitation. That is false and that is wrong to do during hypnosis.

Instructions to hypnotist
The subject is asked to raise an arm so that the hand is slightly above the head and given suggestions. There are a number of aspects of this induction which are worthy of special notice. First, the arm is placed in such a position that fatigue will eventually bring it down. The downward […]