Dave Elman Induction This is a very POWERFUL INDUCTION technique widely used. This technique very simple to use and very effective. The technique starts here... Now take a long deep breath, and hold it for a few seconds. As you exhale this deep breath, allow  your eyes to close and let go of the surface tension in your body. Just let your body relax as much as possible right now. Now, place your awareness on your eye muscles and relax the muscles around your eyes to the point they just won't work. When you're sure they're so relaxed that as long as you hold onto this relaxation, they just won't work, hold onto that relaxation and test them to make sure THEY WON'T WORK. Now, we can deepen this relaxation much more. In a moment, I'm going to have you open and close your eyes. When you close your eyes that's your signal to let this feeling of relaxation becomes 10 times deeper. All you have to do it want it to happen, and you can make it happen very easily. OK, now open your eyes...now close your eyes and feel that relaxation flowing through your entire body, taking you much deeper. Use your wonderful imagination and imagine your whole body is covered and wrapped in a warm blanket of relaxation. Now, we can deepen this relaxation much more. In a moment, I'm going to have you open and close your eyes one more time. Again, when you close your eyes, double the relaxation you now have. Make it become twice as deep. OK, now, once more open your eyes...close your eyes and double your relaxation...good. Let every muscle in your body become so relaxed that as long as you hold on to this quality of relaxation, every muscle of your body will not work. In a moment , I'm going to lift (right or left) hand by the wrist, just a few inches, and drop it. If you have followed my instructions up to this point, that hand would be so relaxed it will be just as loose and limp as a wet dish cloth, and will simply plop down. Now dont try to help me, you have to remove relaxation. Let me do all the lifting so that when I release it, it just plops down and you will allow yourself to go much deeper. (if subject helps to lift hand, say) "No, now let me do all the lifting, dont help me. Let it be heavy. Dont help me. You will feel it when you have it". Now, that's complete physical relaxation. I want you to know that there are two ways a person can relax. You can relax physically and you can relax mentally. You already proved that you can relax physically, now let me show you how to relax mentally. In a moment, I'll ask you to being slowly counting backward, out loud, from 100. Now, here is the secret to mental relaxation, with each number you say, double your mental relaxation. With each number you say let your mind become twice as relaxed. Now if you do this, by the time you reach number 98, or may be even sooner, your mind will have become so relaxed, you will have actually relaxed all the rest of the numbers that would have come after 98, right out of your mind, there just wont be any numbers. Now, you have to do this, I cant do it for you. Those numbers will leave if you will them away. Now start with the idea that you will make that happen and you can easily dispel them from your mind. Now, say the first number, 100 and double your mental relaxation Client -  100 Hypnotist -  Now double that mental relaxation. Let those numbers already start to fade Client 99 Hypnotist - Double your mental relaxation. Start to make those numbers leave. They will go if you will them away. Client - 98 Hypnotist - Now they will be gone. Dispel them. Banish them. Make it happen. You can do it. I cant do it for you. Push them out. Make it happen! ARE THEY ALL GONE? Example of Basic Progressive Relaxation Script "As you take a nice deep breath, hold the breath for a moment, and when you exhale now, allow your eyes to simply close. With your eyes close now, focus on your forehead, allowing the muscles underneath the skin to relax. With each new breath, you can feel the relaxation even more. Focus on it and take whatever amount or relaxation you can feel, and send it towards your eyebrows, down your eyelids, relaxing, calming down, all the way down each and every muscle of your face. Feeling more and more peaceful. Sense it and feel it even more now as you also let your nose, cheeks and lips relax. Open you jaw slightly, going deeper and deeper with each new breath. Very Good! Example of non directive relaxation techniqiue "Notice where in your body you are more relaxed or where in your body you most need to relax. As you name that part of your body in your mind. focus on that part of your body, and when you take a nice deep breath and [pause] exhale, allow that part to be more relaxed. Now, notice how when you do that, automatically another part of your body also begins to relax [pause]. Name that new part of your body in your mind, and once again before you let it relax all the way, inhale deeply [pause] and breathe out now only to realize that as this part of your body relaxes even more now [pause] right away, the relaxation goes to the next part of your body that wants to also be more at ease now..." [etc]. The Eye-To-Eye induction technique is not too dissimilar method than the others, except it employs, as the name says, eye-to-eye-contact. http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?dYByVrDgyqQ4sdt7Nhpt6A The induction can be performed standing and sitting, let's assume that the subject is seated. Position your chair opposite the subject's chair. You should both be seated, with your knees almost touching each other. Sometimes, to get even closer to the subject, you may want to position your knees interlocking his, or to position your chair in such a way that you are in front of, but to the side of the subject, and you each then turn heads towards one another. A psychological device to use in this type of situation is to show just how much in command you are, which very necessary in rapidly inducing hypnosis. You should move the chairs into position, making a big deal out of precisely where they are placed. This gives the subject the feeling you must know what you are doing. With both of you knee-to-knee, bring your index finger up right cheek, under the eye, and say, "I want you to focus all of your attention here". You should begin to fix a point to share at somewhere between the subject's nose at the bridge, holding your focus there. Look through the subject, rather than at him, focusing on an imaginary spot in back of the person's head. Many times, when asked to look you in the face, the subject will have a hard time not smiling. You should say, "Relax, it is perfectly ok to smile and laugh, since there is nothing serious about what we are about to do, and there should be no reason for you to be frightened or concerned. With the person's focus on your eye, and give it five to ten seconds or so before proceeding, repeat, "when I count to 'three,' I want to allow your eyes to close...close tightly...You will not go to sleep. You will hear everything I say, and be completely aware of everything that is happening to you. Ready? ...(Wait for response)  ...One...Two...Three!"...Eyes closing...closing tightly...more tightly closed...they feel as though they are glued shut...you can feel your eyes are rolling up in your head...turning upward as though you are looking at a spot near the top of your head...rolling up and back to here (placing your finger lightly at the middle top part of person's forehead)...you can no longer open your eyes. No matter how hard you try, your eyes will NOT open...try opening your eyes...(allow the person only a second or two try. Most people with their eye rolled back, cannot open their eyelids. It's near impossible to do. This is an example of using a natural phenomenon to aid in the induction process)... STOP TRYING!... go to sleep... drifting deeper and deeper... d-e-e-p-e-r and d-e-e-p-e-r and very deep! Feel your head moving down to your chest... feel your whole body relaxed and loose.. (placing your hand on the person's back... slowly ease them down in the chair, head into the chest, if they need help doing so..)...with every breath you take with every beat of your heart.. you will find yourself going deeper and deeper to sleep.. drifting deeper and deeper and d-e-e-p-e-r..." from here you will go into deepening techniques. http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?dYByVrDgyqQ4sdt7Nhpt6A Because you are speeding up the induction process, and therefore relying on the subject responding to you almost without hesitation, more negative reaction can occur. Let's go over a couple of these situations, and possible solutions you can use to overcome them. One negative sign is the subject not looking directly in your eyes, or not holding his stare. Be very forceful and direct in commanding that he do exactly as told. Another problem that can occur is for the subject to not close his eyes when asked. You can repeat the command a few times, but at some time you need to give the matter added attention. To do this, as you repeat that you wan the subject's eyes to close, reach over with your two index fingers and gently extend them in front of his face, just above his eyes, holding them there briefly. Many times this is enough  to encourage the eyes to close. You may, however, need to extend your fingers, placing them on the eyelids and close his eyes from him saying, "I want your eyes to close now, and remain closed until I tell you otherwise. One variation to this induction method is to employ the subject's hands. At the beginning, when seating the person, have him place his hands on his lap, palms up. You may want even to take the person's hand in your hand and turn them over. This does a few things. In the palms up position, most people feel a little insecure and helpless. It also affords you the opportunity to test his resistance based on how relaxed his hands are. If his hands are resisting yours, say, "Just you need to do is listen to my voice and do as I ask". The Eye-To-Eye technique cal also be done with the subject upright. With the subject standing directly in front of you, position yourself so that you are as close as possible to him, about a foot distance between your face and his. You may even want to have one of your feet between the subject's two feet. By "intruding" on the person's "space", you setup a conflict: It makes the subject feel enclosed, or confined, which builds an instant level of anxiety, that you, in turn, can use to channel back into the induction process. From here, the techniques remains pretty much the same. One exception is that you might want to have a chair handy, so that once hypnotized, the subject can be told to sit. The "Special Nerve" Method Another rapid induction method, the Special Nerve technique, relies on the falsehood that, by touching the subject and hitting certain "nerves", you can produce the emission of magnetic fluids, causing hypnosis, a theory postulated by Mesmer. Believe or not, this works, thanks largely to the fact that few people understand anything about the true origin of hypnosis. http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?dYByVrDgyqQ4sdt7Nhpt6A This "theory" needs to be explained to the subject first "I don't know if you have ever heard of Franz Mesmer. He was a doctor who, some 200 years ago, discovered what at the time was called 'Animal Magnetism' what we today call 'hypnosis'. The word Mesmerized comes from Franz Mesmer. Anyway, this animal magnetism is something in all of us , a 'psychic electricity,' if you will. I'd like to use that force inside you now. Would you like to feel it?" With the subject seated as before, go through the following "ritual". Rub your hands together vigorously for ten seconds, then open and close your fingers several times, repeating these two steps twice, or even three times. Extending your hands out, shake them a few times, NEXT, go through the hand rubbing, and opening and closing of fingers once more, placing your hands on each side of your temple. Finally, close your eyes for five seconds, tilt your head down, appear in deep thought, and then suddenly remove your hands, open your eyes, stare directly at the subject and say, "We are ready!", You then place your left thumb and index finger on the bridge of the person's nose, and the thumb, index, and middle finger at the base of the neck by the shoulder. Initially the two hands should apply moderate, even pressure to these two areas. "I'm applying pressure to certain nerves in your body,  nerves that are directly linked to that part of your brain that controls your conscious  mind. By applying pressure to these serve points, you will begin to feel unusual sensations... you should feel a tingling sensation... as his feeling extends out over the body, you will your body begin to relax... you will yourself getting sleepy...with every breath you take with every beat of your heart, you will feel yourself getting sleepier and sleepier and as I apply more pressure, (press harder) you will find your eyes are getting very tired ... your eyes will be very heavy..." At this point, the speech is the same as the Eye-To-Eye technique. "When I count to THREE, I want you to allow your eyes to close...close tightly...You will not go to sleep. You will hear everything I say, and be completely aware of everything that is happening to you. Ready! ... (wait for response).. One...two... THREE!"...Eyes closing ...closing tightly...more tightly closed...they feel as though they are glued shut... you can feel your eyes rolling up in your head...turning upward as though you are looking at a spot near thee top of your head...rolling up and back to here (placing your finger lightly at the middle top part of the person's forehead)... you can no longer open your eyes. No matter how hard you try, your eyes will NOT open...try opening your eyes...(allow the only a second or two to try)...stop trying!...go to sleep...drifting  deeper and deeper...deeper and deeper and deeper...very deep!... Feel your head moving down to your chest...feel  your whole body grow very relaxed and loose...(placing your hand on the person's back, slowly ease them down in the chair if they need help doing so)...with every beat of your heart ...you will find yourself going deeper and deeper to sleep...drifting deeper and deeper, d-e-e-p-e-r and d-e-e-p-e-r..." Ten Rules of Induction 1. The first rule is that There Are No Rules and what rules there are, are meant to be broken. As I have said mentioned earlier, the situation should always dictate the course of action, not the other way round, If it's not working, do something else. Don't worry about sticking to the script. 2. Success breeds success If the subject is responding to something you are saying, use it as a building block to achieve other things. "Very good! See your hand is rising and as it rises, it will get lighter and lighter". 3. If something isn't working, make it seem not to matter You have to expect the unexpected to happen, and if it does, try to find a way to use it, to channel it back into your speech in a positive way. 4.  Make your suggestions non-voluntary Instead of, "You will make your hand rise up..." it is, "Your hand will rise up". 5. The tone and manner of your voice are very important Any inflection, changes in audible level, pauses, or other features of speech play a big role in how the meaning of words and sentences are interpreted. For example, "Your arm is stiff and rigid" versus "Your arm is STIFF and RIGID. 6. Create suggestions that use as many senses as possible Some people are essentially visual, while other are auditory or tactile (touch). So try to offer suggestions that employ the senses of light, touch, hearing, taste, etc. 7. Use all the positive signals your subject is sending you If his finger is twitching make it seem though  that's what's supposed to do, and incorporate it into your speech, don't ignore it. 8. Repetition in your delivery is very important Any idea that occupies the mind tends to realize itself. You will find that repetition strengthens suggestion, helping to reinforce the message. 9. Avoid ambiguity Hypnotized people tend to translate your suggestions very literally. Be careful to use suggestions that will not be misinterpreted. 10. Don't make induction a contest It challenges the person to be hypnotized. They will either think, "I'm too strong to be hypnotized, so just let them try, I will resist!" , "Okay, I'm ready to be hypnotized. When is it going to happen? It is not happening yet... I'm waiting!" A Footnote to Induction In theory every individual is capable of being hypnotized, under the right conditions and in the proper state of mind. It is estimated that about one person in five has natural somnambulistic (sleep walking) tendencies, a condition that closely approaches the spontaneous hypnotic state. For these people, being hypnotized is almost innate. For others, to varying degrees, hypnosis can be induced with careful guidance. The key is having a motivated subject. If you find a subject who, with all your efforts, is not falling into a trance, don't assume your induction techniques to be at fault. Instead consider reconditioning the subject to be a willing participant in this exercise, even if that means starting the process all over, or canceling the session altogether and rescheduling it. If you don't have a motivated subject, you will not have a hypnotized subject. *************************************************** Pradeep Aggarwal is a renowned Hypnosis & NLP guru with career spanning three decades. He is a much sought after speaker on Hypnosis & NLP and peak performance consultant for Sports Teams and organizations. Visit http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?7TbSlhCFBzyrkHON6WsJeg and http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?iZ3CoawB5ohfvfWJ4RZUBA for more information. ****************************************************  Online Contact Name: Email: Email Support Confidential: You may write to us about any of your emotional, interpersonal and health related problems. The experienced counsellors of Mind Power Lab would respond to your queries Click Here ...