It is a fact that effective induction is crucial to the overall success of a hypnotherapy session. You can make or break the entire session. To understand why this happens, it is important to realize what an induction is and what we are trying to achieve by doing a hypnosis induction.

Induction is the part of hypnosis in which the subject goes into a trance. Now while there is something known as instantaneous induction (handshake), what we will discuss is gradual induction. This is the type that therapists use because it is more comfortable for clients and is done by gradually relaxing the subject. What we intend to do effectively is to bring the client from a state of alert to one of selective attention in which the subject can focus closely in the hypnotic session. So our two key objectives are to generate relaxation and to focus our clients’ attention on the objectives of the session in question.

Without it or with an infectious version, your subject may only be in a mild trance or not at all. This means that the unconscious mind of your subjects will not be open to your suggestions, decreasing the effectiveness of the treatment by a considerable amount.

So how do you carry out an effective induction?

Indeed, there are 4 steps. If you use each of these steps in the way I describe, you will find your subject drifting into a deep trance in no time.

1. Relaxation

2. Creating confusion

3. Vivid visualizations

4. Step down

Let’s look at each step in turn.

1. Relaxation

We start by making our client relax. There are several ways to do this and some hypnotists even do some pre-hypnosis relaxation. This is where they get their client to take a series of actions to put him in a more relaxed state for therapy. An effective way to do this is to direct your client to tense and then relax the muscles in each part of their body. While this is effective, it is really only necessary when dealing with customers who are more nervous.

When the hypnosis session begins, the easiest way to begin this relaxation process is to instruct the subject to take a deep breath. This is a very effective technique and is used in a variety of medical fields to calm people. In fact, anxiety sufferers are taught to help them stay calm when their anxiety strikes. Tell them to take about 3-4 slow, deep breaths. If you want, you can also tell them to visualize the air flowing into their lungs as water flowing through a stream.

The second method to accomplish this step is to make your client notice a certain object. Tell them to distinguish every part of the object, all the details, and how the texture would feel if they touched it. This calms the mind and begins to eliminate external stimuli.

The last way I will explain is progressive relaxation. Start by telling your client to pay special attention to each part of their body in turn and feel the muscles in that area relax. It can start in the foot and work its way up the body. You could tell them to imagine a ball of light or a certain color moving through them and relaxing every part of the body that it touches.

Regardless of which approach you choose, your client should now be relaxed and ready to move further in the process.

You’ll want to tell your client to close their eyes at this point, if they haven’t already. People love to be directed when they are relaxed. It also eliminates worry. People think you close your eyes when they hypnotize you, but if you don’t tell them, they’ll worry they’re doing it wrong and it won’t be effective. Your goal is to make them feel as relaxed and comfortable as possible.

2. Confusion

Next, we will create some confusion on your topic. This distracts them and allows us to access their unconscious so that we can continue the session. To do this, instruct your client to start the countdown from a high number, such as 300. As they do so, you will continue to the next step, giving them further instructions and causing them to lose focus on the task. It’s important to tell them not to worry about losing their spot and to just pick up from the last issue they remember.

3. Vivid display

Now you are going to prepare a scene for your subject to imagine. You want a calm and bright scene that screams calm, like a beach, a forest, a park, or a walk in the garden on a hot summer day. You want to tell them to imagine this scenery with all the vivid details, from the feel of the grass or sand under their feet, the smell of the flowers and the vast ocean in front of them, the feeling of the gentle breeze. brushing them with the sound of the ocean or the birds in the sky.

This is where your knowledge of the customer comes in handy. If you know one, you can use an experience they have had to strengthen the process. If not, use what you think works best based on the personality of the customers.

What we are doing here is strengthening relaxation and focus before putting them in a trance.

4. Give up

Next, it is time to put them in a trance. This is where we set your focus in the session. This is where you tell them to imagine walking down some kind of path or stairs. Just make it relevant to the scene you created earlier. You can make them walk the garden path getting deeper and deeper, more relaxed as they go. Then the countdown will begin from 10 or even up from 1 to 10. With every second counted, you will tell them that they have taken one more step and are entering more and more into a trance.

Summary

Let’s go over the process again. First, you will begin to relax your client and make them feel as if you understand their problems and can help them overcome them. Then you will go through each step of the 4-step method in order. This whole process should take around 5 minutes and will leave your subjects’ unconscious open to suggestions. If you are writing your script, keep in mind that you should rehearse it and make it sound natural rather than read it out loud, otherwise it won’t be. effective.