by You_Robot » July 16th, 2009, 1:42 pm
Hello everyone!
Long time lurker, almost first time poster.
After reading a lot about hypnosis for years now, I have finally managed to hypnotize my first subject. Or so I think...
I would like to describe how things happened and would appreciate feedback from experienced hypnotists.
(Sorry, rather long post)
He wants to 'learn to eat vegetables' (no allergies, just general dislike for no known reason) and after I mentioned hypnosis, he was all in for a test run.
We tried last Tuesday evening and the setup was as follows: He was sitting on the couch in his living room, facing the tv on which a DVD with concentric yellow and blue rings, expanding over time, was showing. Lights were dimmed.
The induction was him looking at the center of the screen, not blinking, counting two up, one down (1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, ...) and me giving suggestions of heavy eyelids, burning sensation, losing focus and general relaxation.
After about 5 minutes of fluttering eyelids and tears forming (burning sensation in the eyes, he told later), I told him to close his eyes, which he did.
The deepening was done suggesting heaviness, starting at the feet, moving up the whole body.
Afterwards, he should imagine walking down a stair with 10 steps, me counting from 10 to 1.
At the bottom of the stairs, there should be a door. Behind this door, there was a bed for his conscious mind.
The suggestions for eating vegetables were positive affirmations that vegetables were tasty, feeling proud of managing to change, wanting to try eating vegetables etc.
Waking up was done counting from 1 to 10, taking away the feeling of heaviness and suggesting freshness.
The session took about 15-20 minutes.
Discussion:
After finishing, we discussed what he thought about the experience. He told me that he heard me during the whole session.
He would have liked to look at the rings for somewhat longer, but closed his eyes anyway when I told him to.
He managed to visualize the stairs and the bed even better. Intersting: when he saw himself in bed, there was a small person standing next to the bed, listening to me, but with an attitude of stubborness. Maybe like a child, hearing but 'knowing better'.
When I woke him up, he felt like starting to be hypnotized.
In general he thinks that it might work when we keep on doing this.
My opinion is: It was not perfect but I think some suggestions still might already stick with him.
We are definitely doing another (mabe several) session(s), starting next week.
Thanks for reading this far :D
Opinions?
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