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Script Transcribed from Client Session

Ron Eslinger

Starting long ago, research was done on how the brain works. Part of that research, which has extended into the 21st century, is the influence of hypnotic suggestion on the brain and how it affects pain perception. The suggestions in this short pain management script are ideas adopted from an article written by Mark P. Jensen PhD, University of Washington.

The suggestions in this script are specific for cortical activation to create a generalized calmness. For those of you who have taken my course, you may recall that the number one activator of pain is stress.  The cortical or cortex layer of the brain plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language and consciousness.

Use the script below to help your client control comfort by controlling thoughts to control stress. At this point you have done your induction and your client is ready to accept your suggestions:

If you don’t mind, allow yourself to remember a time or a place that was comfortable and calming for you. In that place allow yourself to remember how comfortable the different areas of your body felt at that time, every breath relaxing the muscles and tendons of your body. Now imagine that your body has those same feelings again, at this time. Enjoy those feelings.

I don’t know what relaxation feels like to you, but you do, so allow yourself to create an inner peace, an inner calmness in every part of your body.  Focus on those areas that you are ready to let become more comfortable, to feel more at ease and to be a part of that which you decided to be. From the top of your head down to your toes create an experience of feeling comfortable, feeling calm, feeling relaxed, and feeling in control of your sensations and your comfort.

I wonder what it feels like for you to imagine that you are in a comfortable and safe place, a place that allows you to change any sensations that you are ready and willing to change. It could be changing a sharp sensation to a dull sensation, a hot sensation to a cool sensation, a tight sensation to a loose sensation….  (You should know this information from the interview so that you can be specific on the wording of the suggestions.)

Allow your mind to focus on that area which is not as comfortable as you would like for it to be. Now imagine what that area would feel like if it was comfortable. What would it feel like now if it felt like it did before?  I wonder how surprised you will be when you realize that just simple relaxation can create comfort in those areas.  Take an abdominal breath and feel the relaxation growing through your body as you enter deeper and deeper into this hypnotic rest.

If you don’t mind take another soothing abdominal breath. As you take that breath your diaphragm drops down causing it to pull on the vagus nerve, activating the release of anti-pain hormones—endorphins, the body’s natural morphine, serotonin, the body’s natural mood elevator, and melatonin, the body’s natural sleep aid. Continue breathing in relaxation and breathing out tension, anxiety and stress. Every breath is sending healing and comforting oxygen to the areas of uncomfortable sensations, relaxing the muscles and taking the pressure off the blood vessels. This brings comforting and healing oxygen and nutrients into the cells. Relaxing the muscles takes the tension and stress off the nerves and creates comfort.

I wonder how comfortable you’re ready to become. I wonder what will change in your life when you decide to control your comfort. I wonder just how comfortable you are willing to become, as you are in control. You control your mind, you control your body, you control your comfort.

As you go to sleep at night the last thought on your mind will be of doing something in a comfortable way. Healing sleep means being sure you get 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night.

Drink one half your body weight in ounces of water every day, unless exercising or being more active than normal. This will help flush the toxins and the discomfort from your body.

Every breath continues to bring a calm inner peace to each cell of your body, as you go deeper and deeper into this comfortable, hypnotic rest.

Each night take your relaxing breath and go into a comfortable night’s sleep. Think yourself to sleep.  Sleep your very best tonight.

It is time to forgive yourself for all things you regret doing in the past.  This doesn’t mean that you condone anything you’ve done, but it does take the pain out of the past. Now forgive all the others in your life, knowing again it doesn’t mean you condone the things they have done, but it does break that chain that allows them to control you.

It is now time for you to take control of your life, your comfort, and your happiness. Abraham Lincoln said that we are only as happy as we make up our minds to be. In the same manner, you are only as comfortable as you make up your mind to be.

(You can continue with imagery and visualization and other metaphors.  Following this you can bring the patient back to an alert state.)

This hypnosis script is to be used after induction:

As a result of this deep hypnotic rest…and because you have given up cigarettes – stopped smoking – YOU are going to feel physically STRONGER and FITTER in every way.

Because you gave up that filthy nasty habit your blood flows more smoothly free of carbon
monoxide… You will feel MORE alert MORE wide awake MORE energetic because you have given up that filthy, nasty, stinky habit of cigarettes.

You will become MUCH less easily tired because you quit smoking… MUCH less easily fatigued because tobacco is no longer a part of your life… MUCH less easily discouraged because you decided to quit… You are MUCH less easily depressed because you quit
smoking.. EVERY DAY you become SO DEEPLY interested in whatever you are doing
you do not think about cigarettes.

Your mind will become COMPLETELY DISTRACTED AWAY FROM YOURSELF of ever having been a smoker… you NO LONGER think nearly so much about yourself as a smoker, you quit, you had your last cigarette at ____(time)_____________today…you NO LONGER dwell nearly so much upon yourself and cigarettes your difficulties in the past with cigarettes and you are now MUCH LESS conscious of yourself as a smoker…

You are MUCH LESS pre-occupied with yourself and with your own feelings towards cigarettes. You quit. You quit. You told me you had your last cigarette at ________ today.

You respect your body. You respect yourself. You are free of tobacco in every form.

EVERY DAY your nerves are STRONGER AND STEADIER because you had your last cigarette at __________today. Your mind is clearer more composed more placid more tranquil because you had your last cigarette… your mind and body free of cigarette
toxins… You no longer feel your lungs with the poison from killing tobacco.

You are MUCH LESS easily worried because you are taking care of your health as a non-smoker… MUCH LESS easily agitated because tobacco which is a stimulant is no longer a part of your life… MUCH LESS fearful and apprehensive because… you know that you will
live longer, healthier and happier because you quit that filthy, nasty, stinky
poisonous habit… MUCH LESS easily upset.

You can insert the client’s personal needs and information into any script. However, simply reading a script is not as powerful and as successful as creating a script from the
client’s needs and beliefs.

Ron Eslinger offers a complete Smoking Cessation Workshop for Professionals to use in helping others stop smoking.

Or for those interested in quitting smoking using self hypnosis:

Here is how to do Magnetic Fingers

Have the client clasp both hands together, making sure the palms touch.  The thumbs are crossed, and stick both index fingers up like goalpost.

Tell them to focus of the space between the fingers and focus on the space between the fingers only, as you repeat over and over your fingers are like magnets and coming together until they touch your fingers are magnets and they’re coming together until they touch.

In reality, the fingers automatically come together and you praise their success and how that simple concentration and focus allow the subconscious mind a truly believe the fingers were magnets.  However, the true purpose of this experience is to see if the fingers stay apart.

If they stay apart than the client is resistant, and that needs to be explored.

Learn these techniques and many more with my Hypnotic Tips and Techniques DVD

Here is a script I often use when doing the Lemon Convincer

If you don’t mind let your eyes gently close as you take in a nice abdominal breath.

Imagine or pretend that you’re at home in your kitchen.

Look around the room and pay attention to the sounds the sights and the light.

Listen for the hummm of the refrigerator…

Walk over to the refrigerator and as you do pay attention to your footsteps as you walk across the floor …you may or you may not hear your steps on the floor.

Open the door to the refrigerator… feel the cool air as it spills out onto your body.

Hear that hiss as the vacuum releases as you open the door… now today whether you normally have one or not today there’s a lemon in your refrigerator…

Look at the lemon… pay attention to its color as you reach in and take the lemon.

Notice the texture, the temperature, the size and the shape.  Now take the lemon over to a place where you would normally cut up fruits or vegetables…

Take out your favorite knife… now slice the lemon… you may slice it lengthwise from end to end or down the center.  If you sliced from end to end then make a second slice creating a wedge. If you sliced it down the center make another slice creating a ring and then cut the ring in half…

You may have noticed the juice as it oozes out on the cutting area … reach down and take either the wedge or the half ring and bring it up and smell the fragrance…you may notice memories being created…

Now open your mouth and take a big bite into that lemon.  Feel and taste the juice as it squirts on your teeth and on your tongue… experience the increased salivation and notice the tart and tangy feeling at the corners of your jaw.  Now swallow the lemon juice.

Open your eyes.  What did you notice? What did you experience?  What senses were stimulated?

Increased salivation was a biochemical, physiological response from a thought and every thought that you have creates some type of biochemical, physiological response in some part of your body.   What the mind possesses the body expresses.

Cognitive State of Critical Thinking

Do you know the time?

To ask a person if they know the time is to place them into a cognitive state of critical thinking.  To evaluate and to be critical we need a reference point or base line for comparison.

In the Beta Cycles Per Second brain wave speed the question,

“Do you know the time,”

Will start a mental Google search for a past experiences to base their answer on.

Because the question in its literal form has a YES or NO answer the person answering the question who actually tells you the time has moved from literal reality to critiquing and evaluating.

They then give you their answer according to their perception of what they thought you wanted.

The purpose to the question and the demonstration is to let a person know that when not in hypnosis their conscious mind is a filter controlled by past experiences.

To change behaviors in the present one must be able to filter out past behaviors, past traumas, past hurts, past pain and create a new history of what they want, not what they do not want.

One of the reasons Hypnosis is so powerful is because it is a door that can help a person who is willing to let go of the baggage of the past that are affecting them in the present.

The question is

“Do you know the time?”

The client tells you the time.

You ask,

“Why did you tell me the Time I did not ask you to?”

The answer to the question is a yes or no.  What you did was go back in time and give me the answer you thought I wanted from your past experiences.

You responded to your perception based on past experiences. To change your current behavior we will work on you letting go of the baggage of the past and the perceptions you have about smoking, weight, pain, etc…

By Ron Eslinger

This hypnosis script can be used for any problem by simply adding an appropriate suggestion in the Blank

Now that you _________________ (i.e. eat properly and sparingly), every day you become physically stronger and more fit.  You become more alert, more wide-awake, and more energetic.

Every day you become so deeply interested in whatever you are doing, so deeply interested in whatever is going on that your mind will become much less preoccupied with______________ and you will become much less conscious of yourself and your own feelings towards _______.

You may be surprised now that you _______ that every day your nerves will become stronger and steadier.  Your mind will become calmer and clearer, more composed, more placid and more tranquil.

Because you _______you will be able to think more clearly. You will be able to concentrate more easily, your memory will improve and you will be able to see things in their true perspective, without allowing them to get out of proportion.

Every day you will become emotionally much calmer, much more settled, much more tranquil because you have decided to _____________________.

Every day you will feel a greater feeling of personal wellbeing, a greater feeling of personal safety and security, more than you have felt in a long, long time because you __________.

Now that  you decided to _______ you become, and you remain, more and more completely relaxed and more tranquil, both mentally and physically, even when you are on your own.  As you become, and as you remain more relaxed and more tranquil each day, you will develop much more confidence in yourself, much more confidence in your ability to do, not only what you have to do each day, but much more confidence in your ability to do whatever you ought to be able to do, and to do it optimistically, happily and confidently.

Because you made the decision to ___________ every day you will feel more and more independent, more able to stick up for yourself, to stand on your own feet, to hold your own, no matter how difficult or trying things may be.

I wonder how surprised you will be that because you decided to ________ that all these things will begin to happen – exactly as I tell you they will happen, you will begin to feel much happier, much more content.  You will feel much more cheerful, much more optimistic, and every day you will do better and better.

This should be taught to every client and used as an anchor between sessions – great to teach as a takeaway when you do a talk for service organizations

Ask the client to take a very deep breath. After they let it out have them notice how they stiffened up their chest, their neck and many will bite down clinching their jaw and not be aware of it.

Next tell them to just gently push out their stomach and notice how they automatically suck air into their lungs. The reason for this is the negative pressure created when they push out their stomach.  The diaphragm drops down creating a negative pressure in the chest, which automatically expands the lungs, sucking in air.

Explain that the lungs have five lobes and that when many people take a very deep breath they actually only bring air into the two upper lobes of the lungs.  The reason is because they are pulling their stomach in rather than letting it push out, creating more space.  Let them know that the two lower lobes of the lungs have more blood vessels; therefore more oxygen can get into the tissues.

Oxygen is relaxing and healing and allows a major decrease in stress.

It is also important to explain that the Vegas nerve runs through the diaphragm.  And when the diaphragm is hyper stretched it activates the Vegas nerve which stimulate anti-stress hormones.

So by taking a deep breath this way at least once an hour, changes their stress response.

The best way to do this is to breathe in for a count of three, hold the breath three counts and breathe out for six counts and to do that hourly.  Also find some time in the day when they can take ten breaths in that manner.  This type of breathing is a major component of a client success.

This is so important I never do a session without explaining this and having the client do the breath 3 times as they are closing their eyes prior to starting their induction.

I demonstrated by having them put their hand on their abdomen and gently using the abdomen to push their hand out.