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Hypnosis Script Ideas Version Two

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Alcohol Addiction – The British Academy of Hypnosis. Notes to the Hypnotist

The alcohol content of drinks is measured in units. One UK unit contains eight grams of pure alcohol. The UK Government advises that men should not regularly drink more than three to four units a day and women not more than two to three.

As a basic Units Guide

A Pint of beer is about 2.3 Units

A pint of Fosters larger 2.3 Units

A pint of Carlsberg Special Brew 5.2 Units

A can of Strong bow is about 2.3 units

A large glass of white wine is about 3 units

A bottle of white wine is about 9 units

Half a bottle of vodka is about 20 units

This is only a very approximate guide as all types and makes of drinks are different. Consistently drinking four or more units for men, and three or more for women, isn't advisable because of the progressive health risks it carries. After an episode of heavy drinking it is advisable to refrain from drinking for 48 hours.

This is a great little script and can be used alongside other alcohol related scripts. I would also recommend that you cut your subjects drinking down steadily and not all in one session. This could take 4 – 10 sessions as a guide. Every client is different. As part of the process you could ask your subject to make a daily diary of how they feel each day and how many units of alcohol they are drinking. This may help them recognise just how much alcohol they are consuming. This script is also available as a Hypnotic CD from the British Academy of Hypnosis and I highly recommend the CDs use as part of the program.

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The Hypnotic Script for Alcohol Addiction. From the top of your head to the tips of your toes your whole body relaxes. Imagine the muscles around your scalp relaxing now. Feel every muscle relaxing and unwinding. This feeling of total relaxation spreads down your face. Around your eyes and your eyebrows all your muscles relax. Around your jaw your muscles relax. Relaxing, unwinding and going down deeper and deeper. Every breathe just seems to relax you more and more. Down your neck your muscles relax. Across your shoulders your muscles relax and unwind. Every breathe still relaxing you more and more as you drift down deeper and deeper. Down your back you feel all your muscles relaxing as you unwind. Your whole body just feels heavier and heavier as you relax more and more. You are relaxed now and because you are so relaxed you begin to feel free from all tension, anxiety and fear. You now realise that you are more confident and sure of yourself because you have taken this enormous step toward helping yourself. Around your waist your muscles relax. Down your arms you feel the tension drift away as your muscles relax and you unwind. Around your elbows and down to your wrists your muscles relax and unwind. You feel your whole body just sinking down deeper and deeper into this beautiful feeling of deep relaxation. As you relax more and more you begin to feel this strength from within, motivating you to overcome any and every obstacle that may stand in the way of your happiness and your freedom from your addiction. Relaxing and drifting down deeper and deeper. Down your legs all your muscles relax. Right down to the tips of your toes all your muscles loose, limp lazy and heavy. Relaxing and letting go of all tension now.

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Because you are now so calm and relaxed, you find yourself able to deal with difficult situations much more easily, much more effectively, much more positively, and this makes you feel so much better. You now have full control over all your actions and reactions, especially when it comes to alcohol. You find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm, relaxed state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times. As you relax more and more you know that you can achieve anything that you put your mind to. You are always free to make choices and decisions for your own well being and you choose now to be free of alcohol. You know that it was unhealthy and brings a lot of unhappiness into your life. At one time you felt that it was a good idea to drink. It served a purpose in your life at that time. It no longer serves that purpose. All around you as you relax there is a darkness. A warm comfortable and inviting darkness. A darkness where you feel safe and secure. You are becoming much more positive now and so much more able to cope successfully with any problematic situations that arise. As I count down from 10 to 1 you relax more and more and in your imagination you take a journey with me down some stairs. In your imagination now you picture a staircase leading down. The steps are nice and easy and you begin your journey down the steps. You notice that there is a hand rail for your safety and you hold the hand rail if you need it. Down the steps you go. 10 - Counting down as you relax. 9 – One step at a time. 8 – Drifting deeper and deeper into a feeling of relaxation. 7 – Opening your mind to the powers of Hypnosis. 6 – Allowing you to achieve more and more with greater ease. 5 – Down the steps, just one step at a time. 4 – Relaxing as you go. 3 – Your subconscious mind allowing you to achieve all that you desire. 2 – Almost at the bottom of the steps now. 1 – Relaxing more and more with every breath.

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At the bottom of the steps you find a large door which leads to the control room of your mind. The door is locked but you have a key and so you can unlock the door and let yourself inside. Inside is amazing. This is the control room of your mind. Here you see switches, dials and levers that control everything in your mind and body. You see large computers and computer screens and technology that it just amazing. From this room you can change everything that you desire. As you continue looking around the room you feel so empowered knowing that you can change anything that you desire. In the room you notice that there is a large board and as you move closer you can see that on the board you see the words “You are in control.” As you move closer still, you find pens so that you can write on the board. You take hold of one of the pens and as you hold the pen words just seem to flow into your mind. The words that flow into your mind are words of reasons why it is time for you to stop and take control of your addiction to alcohol. You begin to write the words on the board and as you write the words onto the board you feel that the board has amazing powers as you begin to take control of your life. More and more words just seem to flow into your mind and you write them on the board. As you continue writing the words you feel more and more in control. You write the names of the people you love. You write down how it feels to be in control again. You write down how your confidence builds. You write down how much more energy you have now. You write down how your self-respect is coming back to you now. You write down how you begin to take more care of yourself. You find yourself enjoying the taste of fresh, clean, clear water and this makes you feel healthier and better than ever before.

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You also enjoy the taste of other healthy and non-alcoholic drinks, but most of all, you enjoy the feeling of being in control. That wonderful feel that you have, deep inside you, you're in complete control of your mind, your body and your health. You decide from now on to eat and drink healthier. You write all these things on the board. You continue writing all the reason why you look after yourself now. You begin to like and to love yourself more and more as you begin to take control of your life. You like yourself and you respect yourself and these feelings are very special to you. You find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm, relaxed state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times. You continue writing positive statements on the board and all these statements are registering deep inside your mind where changes are taking place. There's a wonderful feeling of self-respect and self esteem building inside you now.

You relax more and more and drift down into a feeling of calm. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and every day in every way. You now realise that in the past, alcohol was an escape. Now with a positive attitude toward life. You are succeeding in conquering your addiction and you have all the abilities necessary for you look forwards to a bright new future. You now choose to be free from alcohol. This is your decision. You can do it and you can do it easily. With each passing day and with each passing moment you realise that your desire and your self-determination to be free of alcohol grows stronger than the hold that the alcohol ever had on you. You know that you can be free of alcohol for short periods of time and you are now moving away from drinking for longer and longer periods of time and you are drinking less and less each time. You have great confidence in yourself that you can in fact be free of alcohol and that you can do it. You relax and drift on down deeper. As you drift your confidence builds.

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You continue adding new words to the board and each time you revisit here more words and feeling just seem to come to your mind. Growing and building the board. As the board continues to grow and build your confidence and your ability to be in control just grows stronger and stronger. Take a nice long deep breath. This nice long deep breath will help you to feel calmer, more relaxed, and you will feel very peaceful inside. Your mind and body will become calm and relaxed. Remember the good feelings now; because you are in control of your life, you’re in complete control of your mind, your body and your health. You feel more confident and stronger each day. And every day you’re feeling better and healthier and fitter and happier. For the first time in ages you begin to feel really alive. Alive and vibrant, each day is special to you, each day is important to you, each day you become more and more in control of your wonderful life. I’m going to be quiet for a moment or two, to just allow you to reflect on these wonderful changes that are occurring within you right now. The changes that you control by wring them on the board. That’s wonderful. Now it’s time to leave the control room. As you leave you know that you have made more positive changes allowing you to be free from the addiction of alcohol. You turn to leave the room. You lock the door behind you and you place the key somewhere safe for the next time when you return. Each time you visit this control room you seem to relax more and more and all your words on your board go deeper into your mind allowing you to take control of your life forever. Now if a moment I’m going to count up to ten, and at the count of ten you will be wide awake, with wonderful feelings within you, growing stronger and stronger, like a tiny acorn growing into a strong oak tree. Day by day, in every way, growing stronger and stronger.

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All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life as you breathe easily.

As I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home © Copyright the British Academy of Hypnosis 2007

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Alcohol Addiction – The British Academy of Hypnosis. Notes to the Hypnotist Few things in life are pleasant when you are drinking too much. Your self-esteem can be low, your self-confidence gone, you may be depressed and guilt-ridden, perhaps with your personal relationships in a mess and that's not even mentioning the state of your health. Problem drinking is progressive and so only gets worse. However, the addiction can be stopped if you have the determination to take that first step of seeking help. Once the physical dependence on alcohol has been addressed, there often remains a strong psychological addiction. The powerful nature of this should not be underestimated. There are many functions that the alcohol may have been fulfilling for the recovering addict. These may include relaxing, having a treat or pleasure, forgetting painful memories, or boosting low self-confidence. Experience is that the most effective treatment is usually based on enabling the recovering addict to discover and learn other ways to fulfill these functions. It is difficult to specify the time taken to achieve complete freedom from the psychological urge to return to alcohol but this is often related to the length of time the client has been actively addicted. If a person is seeking help with an addiction simply to please others, a spouse, or parents, for example, the likelihood of success is limited. A successful outcome is far more likely if the addict is motivated to become free for their own benefit. Getting rid of an addiction is something that your subject will have to do for themselves, not because someone else wants them to do it. They need to have their own meaningful and compelling reasons why they desire to give up. The Hypnotic Script for Alcohol Addiction. You are relaxed now and because you are so relaxed you begin to feel free from all tension, anxiety and fear. You now realise that you are more confident and sure of yourself because you have taken this enormous step toward helping yourself. As you relax more and more you begin to feel this strength from within, motivating you to overcome any and every obstacle that may stand in the way of your happiness and your freedom from your addiction.

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Because you are now so calm and relaxed, you find yourself able to deal with difficult situations much more easily, much more effectively, much more positively, and this makes you feel so much better. You now have full control over all your actions and reactions, especially when it comes to alcohol. You find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm, relaxed state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times You are always free to make choices and decisions for your own well being and you choose now to be free of alcohol. You know that it was unhealthy and brings a lot of unhappiness into your life. At one time you felt that it was a good idea to drink. It served a purpose in your life at that time. It no longer serves that purpose. You realise that only weak people turn to alcohol as a prop, and there's no way that you are weak, for you are a confident and successful human being with a mind and a will of your own. You can rely on yourself, you can trust yourself, you can always count on yourself and your wonderful subconscious mind, to guide you to make the right decisions in life, to do the right things, whatever the situation. You are becoming much more positive now and so much more able to cope successfully with any problematic situations that arise. And because of this wonderful change in your attitude, you find that problems occur less and less, and your relationships with those around you are beginning to improve dramatically. It's true, yes, you really are changing now, and even as you begin to feel more relaxed, you notice that your tastes are also beginning to change. You find yourself enjoying the taste of fresh, clean, clear water and this makes you feel healthier and better than ever before. You also enjoy the taste of other healthy and non-alcoholic drinks, but most of all, you enjoy the feeling of being in control - that wonderful feel that you have, deep inside you, you're in complete control of your mind, your body and your health. From now on, you decide what goes into your mouth. You decide from now on to put only good things into your mouth, and alcohol, in any form, is like a poison to your system. Alcohol kills - it kills your feelings it kills your brain cells - but most of all - it kills your self-respect. And you deserve more than that because you a special person and there is no-one in the whole world who is exactly like you and there never will be another you. You begin to love yourself more and more. You like yourself and you respect yourself and these feelings are very special to you. You find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm, relaxed state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times.

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Picture yourself now with a bottle of alcohol, whatever kind you used to drink. You pick up the bottle, feeling the hard smoothness of the glass bottle beneath your fingers and against your palm. You can feel the weight of the bottle and perhaps even the unpleasant smell of the stale alcohol within. You walk over to the sink and slowly and deliberately empty the contents of the bottle into the sink. Watching it flowing out of the bottle, into the sink and disappearing down the plug-hole. And as it disappears down the plug hole and the alcohol drains away so does all desire for alcohol drain away from your body and your mind. Alcohol is like poison to your system and from now on you say NO to all alcohol drinks. You say NO and you mean NO, it's as easy and as simple as that. Now visualise yourself in a situation where previously you would have turned to alcohol. Make this image real, notice where you are, who is with you, any sounds going on around, any smells and you know that the opportunity to drink alcohol is always there but it doesn't matter to you. It's not important, because from now on you are completely FREE of all addictions, FREE of all thoughts of alcohol, FREE from those negative, hurtful thoughts and feelings associated with alcohol. And in place, there's a wonderful sense of calm and confidence, because from now on you always say NO to all alcoholic drinks. There's a wonderful feeling of self-respect and self esteem, feeling again that you are a good and worthwhile person, with a mind and will of your own.

You relax more and more and drift down into a feeling of calm. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and every day in every way. You now realise that in the past, alcohol was an escape and a control. You are becoming a happy person now with a positive attitude toward life. You are succeeding now and you have all the abilities necessary for you look forwards to a bright new future. You now choose to be free from alcohol. This is your decision. You can do it. You can easily do it. You have my help and you will find it easy to do. With each passing day and with each passing moment you realise that your desire and your self-determination to be free of alcohol grows stronger than the hold that the alcohol ever had on you. You know that you can be free of alcohol for short periods of time and you are now moving away from drinking for longer and longer periods of time and you are drinking less and less each time.

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You have great confidence in yourself that you can in fact be free of alcohol and that you can do it. You relax and drift on down deeper. As you drift your confidence builds. Take a nice long deep breath. This nice long deep breath will help you to feel more calm, more relaxed, and you will feel very peaceful inside. Your mind and body will become calm and relaxed. Remember the good feelings now, because you are in control of your life, you’re in complete control of your mind, your body and your health. You feel more confident and stronger each day. And every day you’re feeling better and healthier and fitter and happier. For the first time in ages you begin to feel really alive. Alive and vibrant, each day is special to you, each day is important to you, each day you become more and more in control of your wonderful life. And even when things aren’t running as smoothly as you’d like, you feel good, because you accept the rough with the smooth, which makes you feel even more in control, even more certain of your abilities to remain in control, of your life, your mind and your body. So I’m going to be quiet for a moment or two, to allow you to reflect on these wonderful changes that are occurring within you right now. (Pause for one minute). That’s wonderful. Now if a moment I’m going to count up to ten, and at the count of ten you will be wide awake, with wonderful feelings within you, growing stronger and stronger, like a tiny acorn growing into a strong oak tree. Day by day, in every way, growing stronger and stronger. All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life as you breathe easily.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to heal and be free of your addictions to alcohol and drinking.

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Alcohol Addiction – The British Academy of Hypnosis. The Hypnotic Script for Alcohol Addiction. Now as you sink deeper and deeper relaxed ... deeper and deeper and deeper, all the sounds fade away in the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. Going deeper and deeper and deeper. If for any reason at this moment you are not completely relaxed I want you now to completely relax, let go of everything. Let all your arms and your legs and your entire body completely let go and relax completely. Now that you are relaxed ... relaxed more than you have ever been before. All your muscles feeling loose limp and lazy. Now as you sink deeper and deeper relaxed ... deeper and deeper and deeper, all the sounds fade away in the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. As you go deeper and deeper relaxed all outside sounds fade away in the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. As you listen carefully to the sound of my voice, we are going to remove a number of suggestions which have been in your mind. We are going to remove them completely and as you listen carefully to them we're simply going to dissolve them ... throw them out of your mind completely and forever. Nothing disturbs you and nothing bothers you and nothing can distract you in any way from listening to the sound of my voice ... and from completely accepting everything I tell you ... for everything I tell you is the absolute truth to you ... and we're going to remove all suggestions from your mind that have been detrimental to you in the past. The first suggestion you had in your mind is that somehow or another that alcohol, a bottle, has been of some use to you. Drinking alcohol is of no use to you and you know it. You're through drinking alcohol for any reason. It doesn't make you relax, it doesn't make you sleep well, it doesn't do anything for you. As a matter of fact it ruins your efficiency and consequently you're through with it.

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Now as you sink deeper and deeper relaxed ... deeper and deeper and deeper, all the sounds fade away in the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. The fact that alcohol has ever been beneficial to you in any way is completely removed from your mind. I am going to count to five and that suggestion is completely removed from your mind never to return. One, Two, Three, Four, Five. Relaxing more and more and still drifting deeper and deeper. And so you remove all connections in your mind that have to do with alcohol as a beverage or any beverage containing alcohol, so that you don't even think of it, you don't ask for it, you don't desire it, you don't want it, you don't need it, you don't desire it in any form. Even if offered it, you'd refuse it, because you think of it as disgusting, foul tasting and vomit producing. And so the negative suggestions are now removed from your mind and those suggestions which I have given you now replace them. At the count of five. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Now as you sink deeper and deeper relaxed ... deeper and deeper and deeper, all the sounds fade away in the distance and you pay attention only to the sound of my voice. Relaxing more and more and still drifting deeper and deeper. You're completely free because all the connections in your mind with the alcohol beverages have been completely removed. The wires have been pulled out and you are unable to restore them even if you should want to. Just imagine that a big telephone switchboard exists in your head and that we pulled out all of the wires connected to the hole marked "alcohol" so that even if something is plugged into it nothing will happen. You don't want it. You can't buy it. You don't drink it and if offered you'd refuse it. It's disgusting to you. Tastes foul. Has a terrible effect and makes you very uncomfortable to even think about it. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Relaxing more and more and still drifting deeper and deeper.

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Now you are going to be completely successful in every way and surprised and amazed at the self discipline and confidence that you have in yourself knowing that you've beat the problem and that it will stay beat. Now sleep. Sleep deeply. And your mind concentrates on the sound of my voice and you go deeper and deeper and deeper. Relax. All the suggestions will remain in your mind as long as they are useful to you. I am about to count up from one up to ten and on the count of ten you will be wide awake and fully alert. All the suggestions still working in your mind allowing you to be free from your addiction to alcohol. Feeling relaxed calm and very, very positive. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home © Copyright, The British Academy of Hypnosis

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Chocolate Addiction – The Facts and the Script How much chocolate do you eat? Millions of kids and even adults are addicted to chocolate. In the U.S. it is reported that they consume over 2 billion pounds annually. That adds up to over 11 pounds per person. Indeed, the typical American chocolate consumer knows he isn't nibbling on chocolate bars for health and dietary reasons. It is the one confection we literally hate to love, but it seems the wages of sin make it taste that much better. During the last several decades the scientific literature has pointed to chocolate for its alleged role in many body maladies. They have discovered that chocolate can cause migraines, acne, obesity, dental cavities, heartburn, rectal itching, and coronary problems. And a new study implicates two chemicals in chocolate - theobromine and caffeine - as villains in a disorder known as fibrocystic breast disease. This benign ailment is characterised by fibrous tissue and cyst fluid in the breasts. Chocolate also contains methylxanthines which accelerate chemical activity involved in the body's cellular metabolism and can cause certain sensitive tissues to proliferate. Chocolate also is loaded with another chemical, phenylethylamine, a compound related to amphetamine. This can lead to emotional problems such as feelings of anger, irritability and confusion, depression, hyperactivity, hallucinations, and even violent behaviour. Frequent consumption of chocolate leads to addiction, and many people are allergic to chocolate and don't realise the symptoms they have are caused by it. Psychiatrists have pointed out that people resort to chocolate binges when they are depressed. Chocolate is very high in sugar and some sugar junkies need a fix every three to four hours. Most chocolate bars contain at least 45% sugar, and the rest is fat. A mere ounce of the stuff contains 151 calories.

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Chocolate Addiction – The Hypnosis Script

This is an aversion script, whilst we don't normally recommend using aversion techniques, it can be very powerful where other methods have failed.

Start by inducing the trance state - deepen the state.

And as you go deeper still now, you relax and in your imagination you create the image of a beautiful day in your mind. Imagine yourself outside, in nature, walking along a country lane. On one side of the lane is a beautiful forest and on the other side there are a few more trees and then lovely open green fields, the sun is shining down and it's warm and you're feeling comfortable and happy as you walk along this path.

Nearby you see a little path leading through to the forest and you leave the country lane and turn onto the path. It is darker now and you are surround by tall majestic trees. There are wild, woodland flowers growing in clumps where the sun manages to shine through and a lovely, earthy smell. You are close to nature and it's so quiet and peaceful in here and you relax more and more.

Stepping over broken branches and overgrowths you notice the various shades of green of the leaves and the grass and other plants growing here. A narrow stream runs by alongside where you are walking and gurgling sound is only interrupted by the song birds overhead.

You're feeling so calm and relaxed as you amble along, it is a lovely day everything here is so calm and peaceful. Ahead of you is a felled tree turned on it's length and you decide to walk over to the tree and have a rest and just enjoy the wonderful view.

And as you near the tree you realise how tired you're beginning to feel. Tired, but in such a nice, relaxed way, as though you just can't be bothered to do anything at all right now. So you sit down on the tree, noticing the rough texture of the bark beneath your hand. A little of the bark has started breaking away and you pull it off - to reveal a lovely smooth wood underneath.

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And as you sit here, gazing at the beautiful scene the gurgling stream, those beautiful flowers, the oaks and the elms and other trees with the sunlight dappling here and there, you find your mind wandering away to some other pleasant thoughts and feelings and you begin to have a daydream.

In your daydream - you notice a particular oak tree which seems to be covered with acorns. You marvel at how that oak tree was once also an acorn - how it landed on the earth and grew and grew - year-by-year - stronger and stronger.

The colour of the acorn reminds you of your favourite chocolate - and in your daydream - you remember that you've brought a picnic with you - and packed in your lunchbox are some of your favourite chocolates.

So you reach over to the bag - which you'd forgotten until now - that you've brought with you - and you take out the lunch box and unwrap the chocolate and put it into your mouth.

And as your tongue licks the outer chocolate coating you notice it has an unusual taste - quite slimy and sickly sweet - but you bite into the chocolate and it explodes in your mouth - like flesh that is covered in gunge and taste is so putrefying that it makes you feel nauseous and want to throw up, although you will not physically be sick.

And you spit out the chocolate - and to your horror you see that it wasn't a chocolate at all - but a small woodland creature that somehow wandered into your lunch box - and now it's squelched all over the grass. So you decide to have another chocolate to take away that dreadful taste - and you take out your lunch box again and lift up the lid - and there inside are dozens of insects of varying sizes and shapes - with nippers or claws - and they're crawling around all over the place. But you're determined to have a chocolate - and there's only one left so you carefully fish it out and unwrap it and put it into your mouth - and it bites - it bites your tongue - it crawls all over your mouth and it tries to get down your throat and you can't spit it out, no matter how hard you try. So you put your fingers into your mouth and wrestle with it to get it out - and it clings to your finger and your finger is brown from the gunge - it looks so like a chocolate - but it's alive and you hate it for what it's doing to you.

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The shock from what's happened awakens you from this daydream - and you realise that's just what it was - a daydream about chocolates and creepy insects that bite your mouth and your tongue.

But your mouth is quite alright now - that disgusting taste has gone - and you feel a sense of relief.

But in future - if you ever should be tempted to eat a chocolate again - you'll immediately remember that nauseous taste and the way that it tried to get down your throat - and the slime and the gunge and everything else.

And that one thought will remind you that you never want to eat chocolate again - you hate them so much.

And from now on if you're really hungry you decide to eat something healthy, your favourite piece of fruit or a stick of carrot or your other favourite raw vegetable and that satisfies you completely.

And these suggestions are firmly embedded in your subconscious mind and grow stronger and stronger day by day.

Each day growing and multiplying in your mind ensuring that you are now free from your chocolate addiction.

In a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide-awake.

One - two - three - four - five. Eyes open wakey, wakey, rise and shine.

© Copyright The British Academy Of Hypnosis

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Anaesthesia – The British Academy of Hypnosis Notes to the Hypnotist Pain is a warning device from your body. This script is ideal when you do not need to be warned about your specific pain or problem any more. You know the problem is there and you are correcting it. This script will produce natural anaesthetic under hypnosis and should be used with caution. This script may be used to remove pain or may be adapted to give glove anaesthesia to an area. You may need to alter this script a little to your subjects exact requirements and forms of anaesthesia. You will find this out by using APIE. You can also add to the script by asking your subject the level of pain between 0 - 10 before the script, during and then after the script to measuer the success. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen as usual. Hypnotic Script Anaesthesia Relax and continue drifting deeper and deeper. All your muscles completely relaxed and calm. Drifting deeper with every breath. Totally calm and relaxed. Drifting down into a secure safe place. If you need to know about a change, if you need to be warned, you will feel a tingling in the area instead of feeling pain. You will then see that any new problem is taken care of. Relaxing more, drifting down and letting go. You no longer feel any pain connected with (specific pain problem) but this in no way alters your warning pain signals for any other reason. I want you now to concentrate a healing light in the area where you desire the pain to go away and stay away. Set up rapid and instantaneous healing with the healing light. Feel all tension leaving the area as the light removes all the pain now.

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All pain is completely gone from the area. Feeling soothed, relaxed and painless. As though the entire area has been anaesthetised without taking away any motor response what so ever. You have complete muscle and motor response but the area has no pain. Do not call back the pain. You do not need it. You do not want it. It no longer belongs to you. Allowing all the pain to just disovle away now. The area of your body has now been anaesthetised and is comfortable and free from pain. You feel the change and the area of body is total free from pain. One the count of ten you will awake and be free from pain. One – free from pain Two – Strong and comfortable Three –Still relax and calm Four – feeling great now Five – full of energy Six – strong and confident Seven – feeling lighter Eight –positive, and strong Nine – feeling lighter and fully refreshed Ten – Eyes open and back in the room.

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Anger Management – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Note to the Hypnotist. Follow APIE and then complete a hypnotic induction and deepen.

Hypnotic Script

Now I want you to think about whatever it is that makes you angry. Feel yourself back in a situation where you over-reacted in an impulsive way and think about what was said to you - or what you said - the tone of voice that was used or 'that look' - perhaps the situation was unjust or unfair or you felt victimized in some way. Maybe you were angry on behalf of someone or thing else. Let your unconscious mind bring forward such a memory for you to work with and signal 'yes' when it has done so. Wait for response Now be there again in that situation and really feel those angry feelings again inside you. In fact make those feelings grown stronger than they originally were, just double the anger, double the bad feelings. Locate those feelings in your body. Where are they? In your throat? Or in your stomach? Or are they some other place? How do you feel your anger? Is it hot and burning? Or icy cold? Or maybe somewhere in between? Is your anger hard or is it soft? Is it prickly or squashy? Can you give your anger a color? Most people think of red or black for anger, but you may have another color in mind? And the shape? If you could give your anger a shape, what would it be? How about sound? Would your anger be loud or hissing? Soft or droning? Whining or harsh? Just think about these things for a moment or two, and signal 'yes' when you feel you can actually see or hear, or feel your anger. Don't worry too much if you don't get all the elements of your anger and just see what comes to mind first. Wait for response Okay good. Now where is the anger? (Usually it will be in the stomach, but wait for a response and take it from there). Feel that anger moving up the stomach into the chest.

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Feel that (Describe whatever feeling, color, shape, etc. your client has indicated) . . . .burning, prickling, red angry feeling moving up through your chest into your shoulder and the down the arm, moving down the arm, past the elbow and the lower arm and the wrist and hand. And really feel that anger there, the shape of it, the temperature, the texture, the color - feel it there in that right (or left) hand. And it feels bad - so bad in fact that you just want rid of it. And feel your fingers wrapped around that anger now. Good, you're doing really well. Now I want you to let go of that anger.

In your imagination, see a balloon filling with all of this anger. See the balloon inflating and growing with all of your anger. When the balloon is full of all your anger let it go!

See the balloon floating up into the sky!

See it floating away taking all your feelings of anger with it!

And the balloon floats away an amazing thing begins to happen. As all the anger is just floating away - dissipating - dissolving - disintegrating - dispersing - an amazing thing starts to happen. You actually begin to feel very relieved. You're very calm because you've go rid of that nasty feeling, without destroying any relationships, without harming yourself or anyone else - and it was so easy - so easy in fact, that you really can't believe its true. To think just a few moments ago you had all that anger inside yourself. And now it’s gone. Floating away into the sky and what is left is a calm feeling and a wonderful feeling of pride in yourself and self-respect. A good feeling, a comfortable feeling. And with these wonderful feelings comes peace of mind. And with peace of mind comes clarity of thought and vision. And later when you wish to give some thought to what it was that made you angry in the first place- you can begin to find solutions or ways forward. So that if you're faced with a similar situation in the future, you will have already begun to work on a strategy for sorting things out. You're beginning to realize now that angry feelings hurt YOU, more than anyone else. They actually do YOU harm. And with this new, healthy self-respect, you are realizing that you're worth more than that. You don't want to feel angry, you won't feel angry, because from now on you have ways of dealing with your anger. And if future when you're in a situation where you need to defuse your anger quickly - you'll concentrate on your right (or left) arm - and quickly feel the anger moving down the arm and into the balloon where it will inflate with all the anger until you will let the balloon go. You will simply let it go into the sky. Realizing that no situation is worth feeling angry about because you're the one who ends up getting hurt.

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If there are people around you may just want to let go of the anger, let go, release the balloon in your minds eye and then later, when you're alone, you can let go of any remaining fragments of anger away completely. You're going to find that you're beginning to feel a much calmer person. Calmer in every way. More peaceful, more easy going, more relaxed and happier, much happier, because these good feelings are so much better than the old, destructive, negative ones. And your life is becoming much richer, more meaningful, much happier, in every way. And every day you feel better, happier, more relaxed and much calmer, in every way. And you begin to FEEL different inside. Other people notice a difference in you - but much more importantly - you feel differently - every day you feel better and healthier and happier and calmer and so much more relaxed.

You feel calm relaxed and comfortable. Your mind and body free from stress and feeling wonderful. All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life. In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to be the best carer possible in all situations. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive about healing

Two – relaxed and very, very calm

Three – feeling lighter

Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities

Five – more aware of the room around you

Six – relaxed and confident

Seven – almost home now

Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of healing

Nine – calm and better than you felt before

Ten – eyes open and welcome home

© The British Academy of Hypnosis 2005

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Biting Nails

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses an aversion technique followed by direct positive suggestion to ensure your subjects visualise their nails growing healthy and strong. In some cases stress can also cause the problem but eventually it just become habit. Start with your usual hypnotic induction and deepen as usual.

Hypnotic Script You are calm and relaxed as you drift on down deeper, see yourself looking and feeling great, relaxing, feeling calm. As you breathe all the stress of everyday life just drifts away. In a moment I'm going to ask you to imagine certain things and you will find that the images that float into your mind, becoming more vivid and more real than they ever have been before. Right now you drift into deep relaxation now. Just listening to the sound of my voice and my voice will take you deeper and deeper within yourself to the very core of your being. And I know you've been biting your nails for a long time now and it's something that you're getting really fed up with you're beginning to feel really ashamed of your hands being the way that they are and really want to be able to grow them and make them look good. And just for a moment I want you to think about biting your nails just one last time. Imagine bringing your right hand up to your mouth and your mouth is open and ready to receive the nail and you place it into your mouth. And the first thing I want you to feel is discomfort how did you come to choose that particular nail and what a sense of injustice the others must feel why not chew the nail next to it or the one furthest away why not a nail from the other hand or even all of the nails together think about it two hands full of chewed up nails, two hands stuffed into your mouth as you chomp and chew.

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Now as you imagine ten fingernails stuffed into your mouth, I want you to think about a time when you pushed your fingers to the back of your throat to make yourself vomit and remember that feeling of nausea and discomfort increase that feeling now so that just the thought of a fingernail in your mouth reminds you of fingers slipping to the back of your throat and making you sick. You will not physically become sick now but notice what it would be like. Notice how with so many nails being chewed some of them get in between your teeth and slide down your throat gritty little fingernails scratching and scraping the inside of your mouth and your throat imagine this now make it real and make it vivid. Good, now think about the smell of nails that have not been washed for over a day and there are little black bits of dirt and other things stuck between the finger and nail and with these nails in your mouth you can imagine how the dirt will lodge in your mouth and that awful smell. What's the worst thing you can think of that smells so bad that it turns your stomach over? Now all this imagining isn't very pleasant in fact it's not only unpleasant but it's uncomfortable just thinking about it and all you want to do is to remove those fingers from your mouth right now and immediately those unpleasant feelings disappear but you always know that they'll return should you ever actually put your fingers into your mouth with the intention of chewing your nails. Now let those thoughts fade away, knowing that they'll always be there with you again should you chew your nails. And instead - imagine that you haven't chewed your fingernails for several months now and they're looking really good. Think about looking at them proudly, they're a lovely oval shape with a healthy surface and feel so nice and smooth. You're showing your nails off to a friend who is admiring your nails and you feel so good, so proud of yourself and you deserve to feel proud of yourself, because you take care of your nails, they look wonderful and are a credit to you.

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Ask your subconscious mind for a date, a date when your nails will look this way allow a date to float into your mind now and nod your head when it's there. Now every day you find your nails begin to look so much better because you have no thoughts of biting your nails at all you just remember the date when you'll have achieved your goal and have perfectly shaped fingernails. And every day these suggestions grow stronger and stronger. Notice how calm and positive you feel about the situation. Now you see your nails growing healthy and strong. Biting your nails is a nervous habit. Anytime you feel yourself becoming nervous for any reason, you no longer bite your nails as an outlet. You are calm and positive, relaxed and confident. Your nails are beautiful, healthy and strong.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your nails are improving in health and strength and looking better every day. Your body fills with energy and you feel wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time keeping your nails healthy for life. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter now, your nails healthy and strong Four – feeling confident about your nails Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident you will not bite your nails Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of perfect nails Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Blood Pressure

Notes to the Hypnotist

This script uses a direct positive suggestion technique to ensure your

subjects visualise their blood flowing healthier, keeping them fitter.

It would be best to perhaps teach your subjects to visualise, on a daily

basis, themselves calm and relaxed with blood flowing easily to all their

major organs.

Using less salt in their diet may be included in the script along with

loosing a few pounds of weight or stopping smoking if necessary. All this

can be dealt with the usual way using APIE.

Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen as usual.

Hypnotic Script

Use your imagination and visualise your blood flowing, unrestricted to

all parts of your body.

See yourself completely calm and relaxed.

Relax the constriction of arteries.

See your heart pumping easily.

Notice that your blood is flowing smoothly.

See your kidneys and all major organs healthy and strong.

Your head feels clear.

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You feel a sense of energy and well being.

It is easy to restrict the amount of salt in your diet.

You find it easy to control your weight as you only eat when your body

tell you, you are hungry.

You enjoy eating vegetables and healthy foods.

You are calm and relaxed in all situations.

Situations that used to bother you now seem as opportunities to feel

relaxed and in complete control.

See in your minds eye your blood flowing freely and easily around your

body.

Visualise a healing light starting at the top of your head.

It is now moving down through your entire body clearing all veins and

arteries of any restrictions or constrictions.

Your blood pressure is under control as you feel relaxed and calm.

As the healing light moves down, it is setting up rapid and

instantaneous healing throughout your entire body.

Allow the healing light to settle on any area that needs additional help

and leave it there until complete healing has been accomplished.

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Blood flows easily to your heart and all your major organs keeping you

fit healthy and strong.

See your hands and feet warm flowing with blood and full of colour.

Now feeling refreshed and full of energy because your blood is flowing

easily and unrestricted.

With your improved circulation, your body is now returning to its

natural state of perfect health.

From now on you are comfortable achieving all that you wish to achieve

and your blood flows unrestricted to all your major organs and on to all

parts of your body.

In the future you will always feel happy and confident that your blood

flow will always be at its very best keeping you health and strong in

every situation. All your tissues become healthier as the blood flows

easily to all your major organs and around your body.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will

realise that your health is improving and your blood circulation is

becoming healthier.

One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive


Three – feeling lighter now, feeling confident in all situations

Four – on top of the world as your circulation improves




Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of perfect blood flow



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Blushing Script – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist Facial blushing, (Erythrophobia) Blushing commonly originates at the upper chest or base of the neck and extends up to the forehead, ears and can even spread down to include the trunk and legs. Facial sweat often accompanies blushing and feelings of burning or tingling. Hyperpyrexia (feelings of burning or tingling) is commonly associated with blushing and is actually much more debilitating to the individual than the mere appearance of blushing on the skin. This condition of hyperpyrexia associated with facial blushing is little understood and not typically recognised by many physicians. Functional impairment arises from the intense "burning" sensation that becomes so uncomfortable that the individual has to actually stop what they are doing because of the severe inability to concentrate or follow through with the task at hand.

Blushing Hypnotic Script As you relax and unwind you now you feel yourself drifting down deeper into a beautiful hypnotic relaxation. You see yourself in a warm comfortable, inviting darkness and as you relax you drift down deeper. You see in front of you a staircase going down into the darkness and you start to take the steps down. There is a handrail for you safety if you feel you need it. Down the steps you go, relaxing deeper into hypnosis as you take each step. As I count down from 10 – 1 you relax deeper with every number I count and every step that you take. (Count Down from 10 – 1 including suggestions of deepening)

The Control Room Now in your imagination you see a large door in front of you. This is the door to the control room of your mind. As you open the door you see inside the room. The control room is full of switches buttons, levers and controls. These controls can change everything that happens to your body. The way you see, feel and hear. Quickly you notice a dial that controls your levels of stress and relaxation. As you see the dial it may be labeled between 1 and 10. 10 being the most stressed and 1 being the most relaxed. In your imagination see yourself reaching out and taking

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hold of the dial and turning the dial down to 1. As the dial is turned down you notice immediately that your feel much more stress free and relaxed you feel. You feel so much calmer and more relaxed than before. Now you look around the control room and you find a second control that controls the level of blushing. When you find that dial you will see that it is set far too high. You need to reach out and turn down this control. From now on you will notice that when you blush you do not blush as much and that makes you feel great inside, because you feel good inside you blush less and less because from now on you feel in control. From now on if you start to blush you can mentally turn down this control that you see right now and your blushing will instantly be controlled and you will blush less and less. You feel relaxed calm and finally in control of your blushing. Now with you in control of the blushing you turn to leave the control room. As you leave the room you shut the door behind you, locking the door with a key. You place the key in your pocket or hold it firmly in your hand as only you have access to this control room of your mind. You notice stairs in front of you leading up into the light. As I count up from 1 – 10 you take the steps up the staircase becoming more alert and more awake with every step that you take and every number that I count. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm. One – coming more awake now Two – relaxed and very, very calm, step by step Three – feeling lighter now Four – feeling confident as you take the steps upwards Five – more aware of the room around you now Six – relaxed and confident with yourself Seven – almost home now, up the steps we go Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of a great future Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Book of Time

Notes to the Hypnotist This is a regression script. Only use it if you feel comfortable to do so. Complete a hypnotic induction then follow the script below. You would cover the use of regression with the client in APIE as usual.

Hypnotic Script - Regression – Book of Time And now you're standing at the top of a very long flight of stairs that go down and around, down and round and round and down. You walk slowly and carefully down these stairs, going deeper and deeper down, becoming more relaxed and more comfortable with each step down. There is a hand rail for your safety if you feel you need to hold onto it. And standing here at the bottom of the stairs you see a large, heavy oak door. The door is locked closed. You notice you have a key in your hand or in your pocket and you reach out and unlock the door. You reach out to push it open, the door begins to creak and slowly opens, revealing a room resembling a library, though smaller in size. On either side of the wall are hundreds of books. Old books, new books, big heavy books and smaller, lighter books. Some are in pristine condition and others battered and well-read. Walk through the archive, past the rows and rows of books. Soon you are drawn towards a particular book. It's a large, heavy, cloth-bound book and looks very, very old. You reach up and carefully remove the book from its position on the shelf. Then carry it over to a small table You wipe away the thick dust from the cover of the book and carefully trace the embossed writing with your thumb. On the cover of the book is your name in Old English typeface.

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You open the book up and seeing that some of the pages are yellowing from age, you take more care. You already know that this book is the Book of Time. It is the book of YOUR time and your many lives. Opening the book at the present date you see an entry for today, describing things that happened earlier. Turning back the pages you see an entry for your last birthday, and a picture there of how you looked. Many pages contain photographs, some in colour, some black and white, and further back the photographs are sepia. Carefully turning the pages of your life you see photographs and entries of things that you'd completely forgotten about. Earlier times in your life, happier times, some sad times too perhaps. Right back to infancy, when you were just a tiny baby. Turning back the pages, further still, you see photographs of your old self. The person you used to be. The writing may be foreign, certainly many of the words are different from the ones used now. Looking carefully you see the name, your name. See that old photograph now and read the writing, for you instinctively know exactly what it says. Notice the date on this page, perhaps mention of a town or city. I'm going to be quiet for a few moments now, and in the silence let yourself absorb all the information from this book that you require. Don't worry about remember all of it now, for you can return here, any time you want to. And as you remember - certain images come into your mind, resurfacing upward from the depths of the subconscious mind - and you find that the more you remember. The more relaxed and comfortable you become, if fact, imagining relaxes you even more deeply - and the more comfortable and relaxed you

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become, the more open and receptive is your mind and so the more you do remember. And you're now remembering a time way back there in the past. You're going back - back, gently and comfortably back. All the way black. Some of the images that flow into your mind may seem quite unreal, you may even doubt that they are nothing more but figments of your imagination - but keep your mind open - and let the memories flow back into your awareness. Pause again, then continue: Now it's time to close the Book of Time and replace it on the shelf. Can you go back through the door and up the steps. Okay. Now I'll count up to 10 and you will come all the way back with me now. Back in the room. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm.

One – coming more awake now


Three – feeling lighter now, confident you no longer grind your teeth.

Four – feeling confident of a great night’s sleep


Six – relaxed and confident with yourself


Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of a great future



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Business – Successful Interviews


This script uses an anchor to get the exciting feelings and future

progression to instill confidence. Start by inducing a state of trance and

then deepen.

Hypnotic Script

Drifting down now into a lovely comfortable feeling - and as you do - you

can really begin to enjoy this peace and calm - it's a wonderful feeling to

be so relaxed - and quite perfect to be here right now. Tensions can drop

away - your body knows how to feel good - and it does.

You can remember many things that have happened to you in your life -

and I want you to search your creative unconscious mind for a memory

of a time when you feel really good - you had strong, positive, confident

feelings - I don't know what that memory will be but what I do know is

that it was one of the best moments in your life - so far - so nod your

head when you have that memory.

(Wait for signal)

Good - I want you to relive it again - experience it in every detail - only

this time the good feelings are stronger still. Let me know when you are

back there in that memory, experiencing it again.

(Wait for signal - this may be apparent from the change of expression).

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That's good - you can smile and really enjoy what you have - and take a

deep breath now - and as you hold those good feelings inside you - I want

you to press together the thumb and the middle finger of your hand -

that's right - press it stronger.

Whenever you wish to experience these feelings again - this is all you

need to do - take a nice, comfortable deep breath in and press the thumb

and finger together in this way - and smile - and you will immediately

experience those wonderful feelings again.

Now I want you to imagine that the day of your interview has arrived.

You've given yourself good time to get here and you feel calm and

composed.

You know you look good because you're wearing smart clothes that are

just right for this interview - your hair is neatly in place - your shoes are

polished and you've done your research on this company - you know that

you are right for this job - because you have the qualifications (and

experience) that they require and they've seen your CV and obviously

approve of what they know about you so far - that's why you've been

offered this interview.

You tell yourself that you're right for this job - you can already imagine

yourself working here - it seems so familiar to you. And as you're waiting

to be invited in - you simply relax and remain calm - composed and

confident.

Now it's your turn and you're shown the way to the room where the

interviews are being held. As you walk into the room you smile at the

interviewers and take a seat where you're indicated to.

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You're aware of your body language - you sit up straight - but not stiffly,

your hands on your lap - your body language is open and friendly

enough to show them you're an approachable person.

You maintain eye contact with the interviewer - if there are several people

there then when you answer questions you look at the person asking the

question and ensure that you are also including the other interviewers in

your response.

You speak clearly when invited to - and your voice carries well - you

know your stuff and you can answer the questions easily - telling them

exactly what you already know that they want to hear - and offering your

own insights if you think this is appropriate.

You know how to respond to every question that is asked - because you

trust yourself - all your knowledge and memories of the experience you've

had is stored up there in your wonderful subconscious mind - and if you

need time to answer a question that's fine - you simply relax and breathe

in - squeezing your finger and your thumb and remembering those

wonderful - confident feelings - everything's stored up there in your mind

- easy to access - easy to remember good feelings - easy to respond in an

appropriate way to whatever you need to respond to.

Imagine now that the interview is over - and you've just been informed

that you are the successful candidate - the job is yours - well - you knew

it would be - all along - but this gives you a tremendous feeling of

confidence - you excelled - you did marvelously well and you feel just

great.

Now go even further into the future and imagine yourself already working

for this company - doing whatever it is you're going to be doing - easily

adapting - fitting in to your new role - enjoying every minute of your job.

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Do this now for a moment or two whilst I'm quiet - and when you next

hear my voice I'll bring you out of this wonderful hypnotic rest - but you

can always remember - the good feelings and how to re-experience them.

(Pause for a minute)

Now in a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of

five you'll be wide awake.

You'll have beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and

peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind, and these calm and

peaceful thoughts and feelings are going to remain with you.

All of these suggestions stay deep inside your subconscious mind.

One - you feel lighter and more aware now.

Two – feeling much better than you did before

Three – feeling calm, relaxed and positive

Four – feeling more alert and more aware of the room right now.

Five – Eyes open, rise and shine!

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Child Birth - Guidelines for Hypno Birthing. The following is information to be used as a guideline for hypnosis in child birth. It is a recommendation only and individual circumstances should be discovered during the first session with the client using APIE. Mention Labour and Delivery to an expectant mom and the chances are good that her heart will begin to race, her mind floods with concern and in some cases, panic. She knows that the day is coming when a force much bigger than herself will take over and her body will govern itself completely. For some women, this is a very fearful event. Hypnosis is used in medical and dental hypnosis with great success by patients who have life-threatening allergies to anesthetics, allowing them to undergo surgeries with no drugs and no pain. We know therefore that the mind can be trained to experience discomfort as only pressure, and that is what is achieved in childbirth hypnosis as well. In addition, with labor, the more relaxation the mother experiences, the more comfort she will have, and the depth of relaxation necessary can easily be achieved with hypnosis, as physical relaxation is learned and practiced daily in preparation for birth using guided visualisations followed by positive hypnotic suggestions. When the critical conscious mind is by-passed with hypnosis, the inner mind can literally be reprogrammed to believe that birth will be comfortable, easy and joyous. The key to hypnotic child birth is to be free from fear and allow your body to be relaxed. Natural anesthesia can then be produced to enable the process to be pain free. The benefits of using hypnosis for childbirth include, reducing fear tension and pain, before, during and after childbirth. Hypnosis reduces the need for medication and allows the mother to be more in control of the process and more cooperative with the doctors and midwives. Hypnosis gives more control of the timing of labour, possibly preventing early labour.

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Hypnosis means no side effects caused by chemical anesthesia, less fatigue for the mother and baby, a shortened labour time and easier delivery and faster healing. There are so many positives for Hypno-Birthing. Lets take a look at how it can be done.

British Hypnosis Sessions Guide

Session One We recommend the partner attends each session to help with the birth. First complete a client questionnaire and follow APIE as usual. Follow usual first session information as to what hypnosis is and is not, allow any questions, get information from client as to expectations and desires. Go through the list of benefits as above and inform client that chemical anesthesia will be available if needed and it is ok to request it if needed. Help the subject understand that they will not be in deep trance or asleep but they will be in control of the situation. I would then start the procedure with a suggestibility test with your subject, perhaps a lead weight and balloon. Please contact the British Academy of Hypnosis if you do not have such a script. Completing a suggestibility test at this stage will give you a good indication of suggestibility at this stage of the process too be compared with suggestibility after further hypnotic sessions. I would then complete the first hypnotic session. During this session I would recommend that you use music that the subject can play during labour to help in pain relief and anchoring positive relaxed feelings to the music. During this first session I would include suggestions for relaxation, calm and stress free. Build confidence and induce Glove Anesthesia.

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Show the client how you can pinch their hand and they feel on pain. A script like this is available from The British Academy of Hypnosis. Show a clear wake up from one up to 10. Ideally a CD would be given to the subject for them to practice these hypnotic techniques at home. You should go over the following information regarding self-hypnosis and you could give your subject a hand out to give to her doctor / midwife. An example of this is listed on the following page. This brings the first session to a close.

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Guidance to the midwife for Hypno-Birthing as recommended by The British Academy of Hypnosis. As a guide it is best to avoid words and phrases listed below: Labor pain Pain medication This will hurt a little Are your pains getting worse How can you not be hurting

Instead it would be better to use words such as

Are you comfortable Are you experiencing contractions Let yourself relax deeper with each contraction Are your contractions getting closer With each contraction imagine yourself drifting deeper down, deeper relaxed. If chemical anesthesia is needed say, "Allow yourself to relax even deeper as you receive anesthesia to help you with your childbirth. Your mouth is moist and fills with saliva.

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Session two On this second session follow APIE to see how the subject is feeling about the first session and future sessions. At this point you should be talking to the partner who is going to guide the subject through the experience of pain relief and childbirth. You should give the partner an induction and anesthesia script for them to practice over the coming week. This script is a progression script where the subject sees themselves giving birth in a calm and relaxed atmosphere. Free from pain and enjoying the whole experience. For this second session follow the same induction and anesthesia script which you have given to the partner adding into the script that the subject will relax well and easily listening to their partners voice. Again this script is available from The British Academy of Hypnosis. Show a clear wake up from one up to 10.

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Session three Start by following APIE with subject and partner. Have the partner practice hypnosis induction and demonstrate glove anesthesia and other techniques and suggestions for pain relief and Hypno Birth. After the hypnosis session with client, go over any suggestions for improving techniques. Therapist helps the client to return to the hypnotic state again using the same induction method.

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Session four Start by following APIE with subject and partner. Have the partner practice hypnosis induction and demonstrate glove anesthesia and other techniques and suggestions for pain relief and Hypno Birth. After the hypnosis session with client, go over any suggestions for improving techniques. Therapist helps the client to return to the hypnotic state again using the same induction method. Teach the partner to begin to use hypnosis as soon as labour begins, but go to hospital as instructed by your doctor. When in the hospital, re-induce hypnosis and deepen but ensure the subject is responsive to doctor and nurses. Remembering to discount any negative input. More sessions can be done with the last session planned for about a week before the due date. All the scripts needed to complete this guide can be found here within the manual. If you are unsure or just require clarification please contact The British Academy of Hypnosis.

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Circulation – The British Academy of Hypnosis


This script uses a direct positive suggestion technique to ensure your

subjects visualise their blood flowing healthier, keeping them fitter.

It would be best to perhaps teach your subjects to visualise blood flow to

all their major organs on a daily basis.

Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen as usual.

Hypnotic Script

Use your imagination and visualise your blood flowing, unrestricted to

all parts of your body.

See in your minds eye your blood flowing freely and easily around your

body.

Visualise a healing light starting at the top of your head. It is now

moving down through your entire body clearing all veins and arteries of

any restrictions or constrictions.

As the healing light moves down, it is setting up rapid and

instantaneous healing throughout your entire body.

Allow the healing light to settle on any area that needs additional help

and leave it there until complete healing has been accomplished.

Blood flows easily to all your major organs.

See your hands and feet warm flowing with blood and full of colour.

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Now feeling refreshed and full of energy because your blood is flowing

easily and unrestricted.

With your improved circulation, your body is now returning to its

natural state of perfect health.

From now on you are comfortable achieving all that you wish to achieve

and your blood flows unrestricted to all your major organs and on to all

parts of your body. In the future you will always feel happy and

confident that your blood flow will always be at its very best keeping you

health and strong in every situation.

All your tissues become healthier as the blood flows easily to all your

major organs and around your body.


realise that your health is improving and your blood circulation is

becoming healthier.



Three – feeling lighter now, feeling confident

Four – on top of the world as your circulation improves




Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of perfect blood flow



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Confidence Boost

Notes to the Hypnotist This script is a great start when it comes to boosting confidence. You may need to alter this script a little to your subjects exact confidence needs. You will find this out by using APIE. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Script Confidence Boost

We've all had that special moment when we felt really wonderful. A great feeling of excitement that sends a tingle down your back. As you relax let your subconscious mind provide you now with a memory of a time when you felt really good about yourself, perhaps you had accomplished, something you were proud of or maybe you were being complimented for your effort. The content of the memory is not important but what is important now is the feeling that this memory gives to you. Inside you feel good about yourself. Maybe you can remember a great experience you were having perhaps with family on a special occasion or maybe with a lover or partner. Maybe you can hear a song that reminds you of that experience. A song, tune or motivating words that bring the picture of the event back to you. Maybe you can see pictures in your minds eye or maybe thoughts of the event come rushing into your mind. And when you have that memory I want you to expand upon it, see the situation that you are in, who is with you and what you are doing. Is it sunny, if so feel the sun shining down, feel the temperature and the warmth, see what you are wearing and feel the emotions of the event flowing back to you. Bring back all these wonderful memories and allow the tingles of happiness to flow down your body. Now focus on the feelings, and I want you to really remember how it felt inside, feel the positive feelings feel how positive and confident you felt.

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Now allow those feelings to grow stronger and more positive whilst you relax and feel yourself drifting down deeper. As you breathe in you feel more positive and strong and as you breathe out you relax, let, go and allow yourself to drift down into a state of beautiful relaxation. You are relaxed now, and because you are so relaxed you begin to feel free from all tension, anxiety and fear. Because these good, strong, confident feelings are becoming more and more a part of you and you are becoming that stronger, more confident person. And remember, anytime you want to feel even more confident and positive about life all you need to do is to breathe in really deeply and allow the feelings of happiness to flow to you. When times feel hard you take time for yourself to recharge your own batteries. You notice you can relax easily and quickly and you feel wonderful and confident. You are calmer, more relaxed, and much more confident than ever before. You know what it’s like to feel those good, strong, confident feelings and you can really enjoy remembering and re-experiencing those feelings, which are becoming more and more a permanent part of you. You now realise that you are more confident and sure of yourself. You begin to feel this strength from within, motivating you to overcome any and every obstacle that may stand in your way. You will find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm and relaxed positive and confident state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and more each day in every way. You have a positive and confident attitude towards life and this attitude shines from you.

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You are succeeding now in all that you do and you have all the abilities necessary for success. You feel calm relaxed and comfortable. Your mind and body free from stress and feeling wonderful. All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life. In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to be the best possible in all situations. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive and confident







Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts



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Controlling Your Emotions Notes to the Hypnotist This short script uses the control room method to reduce tearful emotions. Ideomotor can be used when locating the dials in the script. Start with your induction and deepen. An ideal deepen is a stairway going down into the control room. Hypnotic Script

Let your subconscious mind provide you now with an image of a large door. As you open the door you find yourself in the control room of your mind. Around you there are dials and leavers, screens and controls. Here in your imagination there is a dial that controls every though, every feeling and every emotion that you have. As you relax and look around the control room you are amazed by all that you see. Some people see the dials very clearly; others just know that they are there. As you gaze around the room I want you to find a dial that controls your tearful emotions. Look around the control room and you will find it. When you find the dial allow your body to signal to me by moving a finger on your hand. (Pause and wait for the response.) Good. As you look at the dial you will see that it is set too high. The dial may be at number 8, 9 or even 10. In your minds eye, imagine your hand reaching forwards now and turning down the dial. Turn the dial all the way down to number 0.

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As you turn the dial down you will feel your emotions being reset now, so that from now on your are not as tearful or feeling so emotional at the slightest event. Your emotions are now more under control. The dial will now remain set at this level and your emotions are much more under control. Now we have to say good bye to the control room. As you leave the control room you close the door behind you. You look the door and put the key in your pocket. As you turn away from the door you see in front of your steps leading upwards. With the door securely locked behind you, you take the steps upwards. As I count you up the steps you are becoming more alert and pleased that your emotions are now under your control. One. You feel lighter and lighter as you move up the stairway. Two. You feel so secure on the stairs as they are large with a hand rail for your safety. Three. You are feeling lighter and lighter now. Four. On the count of ten you will be wide awake. Five. You’re a re more aware of your surroundings now. Six. Feeling wonderful. Refreshed and re-energized. Seven. Aware of your surroundings and feeling great! Eight. Almost home. Felling lighter and lighter. Nine. Feeling better than you did before. Ten. Eyes open. Rise and shine!

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Depression – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses future projection statement, as results cannot be instant.

Hypnotic Script

As you continue to drift and relax letting go down deeper and deeper into this wonderful relaxing state all other sounds fade away into the distance. You pay attention only to the sound of my voice. You feel confident in yourself and confident in your right as a person. Your confidence starts to grow now as you realise that you are here on this earth for a reason and you have the right to fulfil that reason. In the future you will become more and more confident in yourself. From now on you will be successful in conquering your feelings of depression. Each day you will grow to become stronger and stronger. Your mind will conquer this depression and soon in the future the depression will be gone for good. Each day you feel better and better. Yesterday you were depressed but today is a new day. Every day is a fresh beginning. Every day is a fresh beginning and every morning is a world made new. Today is our most important day. Yesterday is gone. We cannot live in the past or we cannot move forward, because living in the past dulls our imagination of a bright future. The past, even yesterday, can be of value only as we learn lessons and make profits from our experiences. Now your mind is free to conquer the depression. Because your mind is free you can do anything that you want to do. From now on you must say, "I will let go of my depression. I develop and maintain a happy and positive out look. Each day I see the positive in all things." Because the only reason that you have been staying depressed is that you have not learned yet how to deal with your negative thoughts, to allow in the positive thoughts of truth and love and hope.

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Every day is a challenge, a new opportunity to prove yourself in reality, to be a believer in truth, and love and hope, that you do not need to feel helpless and hopeless, that you can separate off and distinguish the vast difference between those events in your life and your reaction to them, for they are vastly different. They are not the same at all and you must separate off from those events in your life and your reaction to them. Now, you must not look back. You have finnished looking back. You can only live the very moment you are living, and you can live that to the fullest, and enjoy it by the proper thinking. Hasn't there ever been a desire, an urge, to accomplish something you never attained? Think about that. Take each day as it comes, and enjoy the sunshine, the song of the birds, the laughter of the children. See all those positive things. Now, in your mind's eye, I want you to visualize a sign, a sign, hanging right in front of you, and that sign has these words on it. “Yesterday was the past, tomorrow is the future and today is a gift. That is why they call it the present.” It was yesterday when you struggled with depression. It was yesterday when things went wrong. Yesterday we can do nothing about, but what we can alter is the future. The future will be bright the future will be optimistic and the future gets better and better each day. Today is a gift. Every day is a fresh beginning, and every morning is a world made new. Today fills you with positive thoughts, every new moment is a new opportunity, and as you accept this truth, you feel the warmth of truth and love and hope through your heart, you relax completely, confident that there IS a plan for you. The dawn of a new day only comes after the night. The brightness of the sun would mean nothing, except by comparison to the darkness of the night. It's only by contrast that we can understand life, and so, instead of reacting adversely to the problems and frustrations of yesterday, you hang on them that sign. That sign that says, “Yesterday was the past, tomorrow is the future and today is a gift. That is why they call it the present.” You see the sign in your mind's eye and you start thinking in a positive way, every day, as a fresh beginning, and every morning is the world made new and this is a new day for you, and a new morning.

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A day without depression, a day without frustration, a day without failure, a day in which you are more effective in every single area of your life, than you have ever been before because you have let go of your problems. You have stopped letting them handle you. You are handling them by turning those negative thoughts around, because it is not the events of your life that are affecting you. It is your reaction to them, and you are through letting negative thoughts create negative reactions to the experiences of your life. Today you feel more confident in yourself and this confidence grows as you feel better and better.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that you excellent in yourself. Your body fills with energy and you feel stress free and wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time. One – coming more awake now looking to a brighter future Two – relaxed and very, very calm ready for a new start Three – feeling lighter now, healthy, strong and positive Four – feeling confident about yourself Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of a great future Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Driving Test Confidence – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist This script is a great start when it comes to boosting your driving test confidence. As usual you will need to alter this script a little to your subjects exact driving and test needs. You will find this out by using APIE. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Driving Test Confidence Script

We've all had that special moment when we felt really wonderful, happy and confident with our driving. A great feeling of excitement that sends a special little tingle down your back. Maybe when you drive around a corner well or maybe you had driven around a roundabout perfectly or maybe when you went out for a drive with someone special. As you relax now, deeper and deeper let your subconscious mind provide you now with a memory of a time when you felt really good driving, really happy and confident in your driving abilities. Perhaps you had accomplished, something you were proud of or maybe you were being complimented for your driving abilities. The content of the memory is not important but what is important now is the feeling that this memory gives to you. Inside you feel good about yourself. Maybe you can remember a great experience you were having perhaps driving with a member of the family on a special occasion or maybe with a lover or partner. Maybe you can hear a song from the car radio that reminds you of that experience. A song, tune or motivating words that bring the picture of the event back to you. Maybe you can see pictures in your minds eye or maybe thoughts of the event come rushing into your mind. Make it positive confident and bright. Maybe it is with your driving instructor and they are telling you how good your driving is today.

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Whatever the memory, you see yourself and remember yourself driving perfectly. Confidently. Obeying all the rules of the highway code and just driving well. And when you have that memory I want you to expand upon it, see the situation that you are in, who is with you and what you are doing. Is it sunny, if so feel the sun shining down, feel the temperature and the warmth, see what you are wearing and feel the emotions of the event flowing back to you. Bring back all these wonderful memories and allow the tingles of happiness to flow down your body. Now focus on the feelings, and I want you to really remember how it felt inside, feel the positive feelings feel how positive and confident you felt. Now allow those feelings to grow stronger and more positive whilst you relax and feel yourself drifting down deeper. As you breathe in you feel more positive and strong and as you breathe out you relax, let, go and allow yourself to drift down into a state of beautiful relaxation. You are relaxed now, and because you are so relaxed you begin to feel free from all tension, anxiety and fear. You are so relaxed you feel confident and positive in your driving abilities. Because these good, strong, confident feelings are becoming more and more a part of you and you are becoming that stronger, more confident driver. You feel positive in all situations. Surrounded by traffic you feel confident, even driving in the rain and driving at night, you remember how confident you were at that special moment in time and these feelings transfer to your driving abilities right now. From now on when every you find yourself behind the wheel of a car your driving abilities become better and better. You feel confident of your own abilities in every situation.

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You remember how special it used to feel in your special moment and this special feeling comes back to you stronger now. And remember, anytime you want to feel even more confident and positive about life all you need to do is to breathe in really deeply and allow the feelings of happiness to flow to you. When you do this you feel confident and positive. When times feel hard you take time for yourself to recharge your own batteries. You notice you can relax easily and quickly and you feel wonderful and confident. You are calmer, more relaxed, and much more confident with your driving abilities than ever before. You know what it’s like to feel those good, strong, confident feelings and you can really enjoy remembering and re-experiencing those feelings of happy driving memories of the past. You now realise that you are more confident and sure of yourself behind the wheel. You begin to feel this strength from within, motivating you to overcome any and every obstacle that may stand in your way. You will find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm and relaxed positive and confident state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times and your driving becomes better and better. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and more each day in every way. You have a positive and confident attitude towards driving and this confidence shines from you. When you take your driving test you will notice how much more relaxed and confident you feel. You feel more positive about the situation and you always drive to the very best of your abilities. Now you feel confident and ready to drive. When you walk towards the car the day you take the driving test notice how much more at ease you feel. You feel bright, alert and ready to cope with any eventuality.

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You are relaxed calm and very, very confident. Imagine yourself driving on the test now. Notice how much calmer you feel inside. As you imagine yourself taking the test you notice your feelings inside are feelings of relaxation and feelings of confidence. You notice how different it feels from situations in the past and you notice how positive you have become. As you imagine the situation you see the driving examiner smiling and enjoying your driving and so you know there is only one outcome. The result is that this time you pass. All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life. In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to be the best driver possible in all situations. You feel more positive confident and stronger in your abilities than ever before. You are ready to have a great day. You are feeling wonderful. Here we go. Time to come home now. Ready to take the test and pass with skill and confidence, positive in all situations. On the count of 6 you will be wide awake. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive about your test


Three – feeling lighter, refreshed and positive

Four – on top of the world and confident in your driving abilities


Six – relaxed and confident, Eyes open, wide awake.

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Eczema Hypnosis Script

Notes to the Hypnotist Eczema is a form of dermatitis, or inflammation of the upper layers of the skin. The term "eczema" is broadly applied to a range of persistent or recurring skin rashes characterised by redness, skin edema, itching and dryness, with possible crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding. Areas of temporary skin discoloration sometimes characterise healed lesions, although scarring is rare. Other help. The subject should also consult their doctor as antibiotics may be given if there is infection. The subject should also wear appropriate clothes to avoid irritation. Use of UV light may also be of help, along with a correct diet. This script uses a direct positive suggestion technique to ensure your subjects visualise their skin growing healthy and strong. In some cases stress can also cause the problem so eventually it just becomes a vicious circle of poor health. Scratching may also cause the problem to worsen and so this is included in the script. Follow APIE as usual and you will find the exact problems that your subject suffers with and then alter the following script accordingly. Start with your usual hypnotic induction and then deepen the hypnotic trance as usual.

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Hypnotic Script

As you wonder along in your minds eyes, you feel the heat of the sun beating down on your skin.

So real, you feel the warmth right now.

The sunshine caresses your skin and you relax and you enjoy this wonderful calm relaxation.

I want you to see yourself now, on a lovely warm sunny beach.

It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever.

You see yourself strolling along the soft golden sand and admiring the beautiful view.

The sounds of the sea gently lapping onto the sand beach. The sun shines down and the air is still and warm upon your skin.

You can feel the healing energies of the sunlight on your arms and face, spreading across your entire body.

It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever.

Your mind is so calm and relaxed it is just the perfect day.

The sea is gently lapping onto the sands as you take a seat by the side of the water and admire the amazing view.

You almost smell the salt in the air and almost taste it on your lips as you relax deeper into the sunshine.

Everything is so quite and wonderful. It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever.

You are all alone on a beautiful warm exotic beach. Nobody can disturb you and nobody needs you so just relax and enjoy the experience.

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You look around on the beach and you find a comfortable place to lie down and to allow the sun to dry and heal your skin.

The sun feels so hot now and you can feel the warm breeze caressing your body as you relax and unwind.

All the stresses of life just drift from your mind now, as you feel so calm and relaxed.

You lie there in the sun the warmth of the suns bright light warming you, relaxing you and healing you.

It's one of those days that you wish could just go on forever.

The suns healing light beats down. It's such a wonderful feeling that you wish you could stay here forever and as you enjoy the warmth and the calm your skin heals.

As your skin heals you find that the need to scratch and itch your skin just fades away and the habit is broken.

No longer do you find that you need to scratch the skin to get relief.

The healing light shines down, caressing your body from the top of your head, down your face and down your neck. Healing as it travels.

As you heal you find that all your stress just drifts away and you feel so wonderfully calm and relaxed.

Across your chest you feel the warmth of the sun, healing your skin as it moves down your body.

Down your arms. Across your hands and right to the very tips of your fingers.

Every muscle in your body relaxes deeper, almost melting into the healing warm sunshine.

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Your skin is being replaced by beautiful healthy skin, your skin grows perfectly, in perfect condition.

It grows at the correct speed and is always perfectly healthy.

Around your waist your skin is bathed by the warming light. Warming and healing as it travels down your body. Down your legs and right to the very tips of your toes. For now it is time to say goodbye to this special place. Goodbye to the beach and its healing powers. In your imagination you can visit this special place in your mind at any time. Healing your skin with the power of your mind.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your skin is improving in health and strength and looking better every day. Your body fills with energy and you feel stress free and wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time keeping your skin healthy and young looking for life. You feel stress free and your healing properties recharged. Your skin grows health and fresh. I am about to count up from one up to ten and one the count of ten you will open your eyes refreshed and feeling confident. One – Time to say goodbye to the beach, coming more awake now

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Epilepsy

Notes to The Hypnotist.

There is quite a bit of mixed feeling about treating clients with epilepsy in the hypnotherapy world so I would recommend that you decide for yourself, and according to the training that you've had in this field, whether you feel able to cope with treating epileptic clients. You should be aware of what to do if you client does have a seizure.

However, this is a combination of a script that I successfully devised for a client who had a fear of epileptic fits and some research that I have read on this subject. The person in question significantly reduced the severity and frequency of attacks, but this could have been because his fear of having them was reduced.

The research that I have studied described how aromatic oils were used to dissociate clients from the warning smell that many sufferers get at the onset of a seizure. The control group were given Ylang, Ylang to smell - but I personally would have a range of oils for your client to choose his or her preference.

As with all the scripts on Hypnotic World, they are a framework only, and should be adapted to suit the individual.

Begin with your favourite induction and deepener from Hypnotic World.

And in this deepest level of relaxation you can begin to feel so warm and comfortable that nothing else seems to matter to you right now - and I want you to take yourself to a very special, a very beautiful place - perhaps somewhere outside in nature - maybe a warm, tropical beach with gentle waves lapping up to the shore - or perhaps somewhere outside in the country - close to the earth and the birds and the trees and those wonderful flowers.

You could be high in the mountains - looking down on the beautiful view below - walking along a mountain track - bordered with wild mountain flowers and an occasional goat grazing nearby. Or a magnificent garden - with so many shades of green and the aroma of sweet-scented stock, or roses - or whatever your favourite flowers are.

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Some people prefer to lie back on a boat and feel it rocking from side to side - as the water splashes around the boat - and shoals of fish of varying colours and sizes can be seen swimming below in the clear water.

Or you may prefer to be at home - in your favourite chair - and your favourite room - watching the flickering embers or the flames of a blazing log fire - casting shadows around the room - so warm - so comfortable - so peaceful - here right now.

It really doesn't matter where you go - because nobody wants anything - nobody needs anything - there's absolutely nothing for you to do but relax - relax - relax - and just go where your mind takes you - to your favourite place - wherever that is.

And when you've reached your special place, I want you to increase the colours and the intensity of the peaceful surroundings - if there's music here - make it sweeter and lovelier than any you've ever heard before - experience your paradise - and the feelings of peace and calm deep inside - and relax - just relax - and let yourself go - deeper and deeper relaxed.

That's good. Now you're feeling wonderful - and I'm going to hold this bottle of fragrant oil quite close to your nose - and as you inhale that exquisite aroma - your subconscious mind can memorize the wonderful perfume and associate it with these feelings of peace and calm.

(At this point - hold the agreed, opened bottle of oil close to your client - being careful not to touch him or her).

Good - now take another nice, deep breath - whilst your subconscious mind memorizes and actualizes these wonderful feelings and links it to this perfume.

Because in the future - if ever you notice that old unpleasant smell that you used to experience at the onset of a seizure - you'll simply reach out for your bottle of fragrant oil and inhale it - and immediately you'll experience these wonderful feelings again as you begin to relax and feel incredibly calm.

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And because you feel calm - because you're relaxed - you may even find that this oil triggers off certain chemicals in your brain - the healing properties necessary to deter the attack.

You'll feel much more confident now about being able to cope when you're out and about - if you had any worries about having a seizure these are all going to disappear - because you're now in control of your mind, your body and your health.

The fear of having a seizure is leaving you now - it's as though a weight has been lifted from your shoulders - because you now have the resources you need to cope with this problem - and you'll find those symptoms become less and less - as your mind and body are working in harmony together.

Imagine the scenario - that odd smell that used to warn you of an impending attack - but at this moment in time you're perfectly calm and relaxed - you simply reach out for the bottle of fragrant oil and inhale - (at this point, raise the open bottle again to the clients nose) - and immediately you feel so calm and relaxed - just like you do in your special place. That old, odd smell just disappears - and all your worries just evaporate - leaving you peacefully, happily, calm and relaxed and serene.

And these wonderful feelings are going to remain with you - your subconscious mind has memorized these feelings and will immediately bring them back into your awareness whenever you smell this oil.

In a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake, with beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind.

One, two, three, four, five.

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Fear of Blood


Start by inducing a state of trance and then deepen.

Hypnotic Script

As you begin to feel more comfortable now - you begin to feel more comfortable about other things in your life - realizing that you can achieve perfect peace - and happiness - within yourself. It's so wonderful to be alive and you can really appreciate the essential role that blood has in keeping us this way as it is pumped through your body - without you even being aware of what's happening inside. In the past you didn't feel comfortable about the sight of blood - perhaps something happened when you were younger to make you feel that way - or perhaps it was someone else's fear that you took on as your own - it really doesn't matter why or how it happened - because all that is changing now - thanks to your wonderful subconscious mind. You know that people will bleed when they're cut - you accept that as a normal functioning of the body - but I wonder if you've every studied that blood - perhaps even allowing yourself to become really curious about that rich red stuff and how it keeps us alive. The average adult has about five litres of blood living inside of their body, coursing through their vessels, delivering essential elements, and removing harmful wastes. Without blood, the human body would stop working. Blood is the fluid of life, transporting oxygen from the lungs to body tissue and carbon dioxide from body tissue to the lungs. Blood is the fluid of growth, transporting nourishment from digestion and hormones from glands throughout the body. Blood is the fluid of health, carrying disease fighting substances to the tissue and waste to the kidneys. Because it contains living cells, blood is alive. Red blood cells and white blood cells are responsible for nourishing and cleansing the body. Since the cells are alive, they too need nourishment. Vitamins and Minerals keep the blood healthy. The blood cells have a definite life cycle, just as all living organisms do.

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When the human body loses a little bit of blood through a minor wound, the platelets cause the blood to clot so that the bleeding stops. Because new blood is always being made inside of your bones, the body can replace the lost blood. There are four different blood types. Plus, your blood has Rh factors which make it even more unique. There is so much to learn about blood that very soon it becomes impossible to be anything other than intrigued as your curiosity increases. I want you to project your mind now into the future and imagine (if you aren't already) that you have a small child who comes in from the garden because he or she has a cut on the hand. Your child is crying because of the blood. Imagine yourself taking your child in your arms - reassuring and cuddling your child. You take him over to the sink and cleanse the wound with clean running water - it's only a small cut - and the bleeding soon stops. Good - now dry the hand and put a plaster or bandage over the wound. Tell your child that he or she is alright - nothing to worry about - just show your child that you're in control. Imagine kissing your finger and putting it onto the child's dressed wound. From now on you are in complete control of your body, your mind and your health. Whenever you're faced with the sight of blood - all you need to do is to kiss your finger - and imagine you're placing it onto the wound - and as you do this - you find that you really are in control - and that makes you feel good. (Pause for a minute)

Now in a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake. You'll have beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind, and these calm and peaceful thoughts and feelings are going to remain with you.


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Fear of Mice and Rats


Start by inducing a state of trance and then deepen.

Hypnotic Script

As you drift deeper into this wonderful, hypnotic experience - your subconscious mind is getting ready to accept the suggestions that I give to you - preparing to find a different way of thinking and feeling about rats and mice.

It's because you've had enough of those old panicky feelings that you've decided to do something about it - because you know that all living creatures and animals have a right to live in this world - however - you also realize that mice and rats should not be in your home because of the diseases that their droppings can cause.

You are protective of your home environment and ensure that you do nothing to attract these rodents - and there are many ways that you can deal with them if you do find them there - however, going into a panic is not one of those ways as it prevents you from thinking clearly and dealing with rats and mice in a rational and humane way.

From now on, you remain in control of all situations. You know that these small animals are a lot more afraid of you than you could ever be of them. Imagine venturing into a world full of giants - that's how it must seem to them. You are far stronger and more powerful that they are - and you refuse to allow such small animals to disturb you.

That's why you remain calm and allow the logical part of your wonderful, creative subconscious mind to come forward and present you with new and far more effective ways of thinking and feeling.

When you see rats and mice in their own natural habitat you can appreciate them in a different way - you may even find yourself becoming curious about the way that they live. And when you consider how mice and rats are hunted and tortured by cats and experimented upon by

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scientists - you actually begin to feel sorry for them - because although they are so small - they are quite intelligent little animals and don't deserve the treatment they get.

Children love to keep mice and rats as pets - these are tame and make interesting and fascinating pets and can even become quite affectionate towards their owners. These kind of mice and rats can be handled because they are used to people and have lost their fear.

Whenever you see rats or mice in a cage you can be intrigued by their little mannerisms, the way they sit up and wash their tiny little faces with their paws - the cute little beady eyes and pink nose - the colouring of their fur - and the way that they move - and how industriously they set about making their own little nest from a bundle of hay - all this helps you to realize that fear was an irrational emotion - one that you don't need and refuse to entertain - because now you feel very calm and relaxed in the presence of these animals - you are calm, relaxed and in control.

And the suggestions I have given to you are now firmly embedded in your subconscious mind - you really are beginning to think and feel differently about these animals - you are calm, relaxed and in control.

Now in a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake. You'll have beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind, and these calm and peaceful thoughts and feelings are going to remain with you.


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Fear of Failure

Begin with your favourite induction and then deepen.

For a long time now you've been holding back from concentrating on achieving your goals - perhaps consciously - or unconsciously - fearing to even attempt certain things because you're convinced that you'll fail if you do.

As babies we were all born into the world - we all took our first breath - gave that first smile - those of us fortunate enough to be physically able took our first steps and learnt to walk and to talk - and later to run and to dance and to sing.

There seemed no limit to what we could do - we didn't worry about failing - we just did whatever we intended to do Learning as we went along. And it's because you're a human being just like the rest of our race - that you have the same capabilities and potential as anyone else. What happens to some children is that they're chastised in some way when they make a mistake - expected to do everything perfectly - sometimes by their parents - sometimes by their teachers or older siblings - or peers - and eventually by themselves - and because they become scared in case they fail - they end up worrying about even trying new things.

It's true to say that people like this have been negatively hypnotized. And if they can accept negative suggestions through hypnosis then it stands to reason that they can accept positive suggestions as well. You just need to reprogram your mind for success - yes that's right - for success - because you know that you can succeed in almost everything you do - and if by any remote chance - you don't do as well as you'd hoped - it doesn't matter - because there's always the next time.

You're kind to yourself - and you're kind to others - you are a wonderful, caring, unique human being - a child of the Universe with every right to happiness whilst you are here - you regain your childish sense of adventure - claiming back what is rightfully yours - the right to explore new ideas - to try out new things - to discover what is right for you and what's not right - and when it isn't the right thing for you - it doesn't matter - because at least you had a go.

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You don't even think about failing anymore. From now on - you have new keywords in your mind - this is your new blueprint for success - you tell yourself - every day - I can do it - I can do whatever I set out to do. When you go home from here - I want you to write those four short words down on a piece of paper or card - I can do it - and carry it around in your purse or your wallet - carry the words around in your head - I can do it - I can do whatever I set my mind to.

I can do it becomes your key words for post hypnotic conditioned response - because you know you can do it - you can do anything that you set your mind to. Without fear of failure - without feelings of doing something wrong - you are kind to yourself - and if you made a mistake - that's fine - that's how we learn - from our mistakes - you can forgive yourself easily because there's nothing to really forgive - remember - it's not always reaching the end of the destination that counts - but enjoying the journey on its way - it's fun to try out new things - and you know that you can succeed - in whatever you really want to succeed at.

From this moment forward you find that you're beginning to think differently about attempting new ventures - if you really want to do something then you do it. You just do it.

As long as it doesn't involving harming someone or something else - it really doesn't matter - you have a right to express your own ideas - to attempt new things - and whether you succeed or not - at least you had a go - and that makes you feel good. You feel just wonderful.

In a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake - fully refreshed and relaxed. You'll have beautiful feelings flowing through your body - calm and peaceful feelings flowing through your mind. You will always remember those three little words - I can do it - and you do - you just do it.

So get ready now whilst I count to five, and come all the way back at the count of five.

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Fear of Going Places

Start with your favorite induction and a deepener. I would like you to imagine you are preparing for a day out all by yourself in your beautiful new car. You are excited at the idea of a whole day of freedom to please yourself. To go wherever the mood takes you. You get up early, draw back the curtains, and notice what a lovely sunny day beholds you. The birds are singing and the gentle breeze blows the flowers and the trees. All the other people are rushing off to their place of work, but you have the whole day to do as you please. You leisurely prepare for your day and when you are ready you stroll down the pathway to your car. As you drive down the road you remember you have to collect some petrol from the local garage. On arriving at your garage you pull on to the forecourt and start to fill your car with petrol. You notice all the other people around you chattering away. You finish filling your car and stroll casually toward the pay out. You glance at the magazines in the shop and treat yourself to some of your favorite chocolate. You feel relaxed and happy and looking forward to your day out. You remember suddenly that you haven’t placed the lottery which you like to do each week. You slowly walk over and select your numbers in the hope of winning your fortune. When you leave the shop you notice the queue of people and are glad you are ready to go on your journey. As you drive along you notice all the beautiful trees and the flowers and see the rolling hills in the distance. After a while you start to feel hungry. As you turn the corner you notice a lovely old black and white coaching house. Outside on the pavement is a board advertising lunches. You pull off the road, into the car park, and select a space. After a couple of minutes you start to stroll down the path towards the big old oak door with a large black latch. You open the door and there inside is a magnificent room with lots of shiny well polished brasses. This makes you feel very much at home and warm and comfortable. You start to walk over to the bar and order your food. There is such a large selection it is hard to choose what to have for your lunch. After pondering for a while you select a meal and order a long cool drink. You return to your seat by the old brick fireplace with the fire gently flickering, making different pictures on the brasses hanging on the grate. You sit and dream as you gaze into the fire – what a lovely day you are having and you are enjoying the total relaxation of being all by yourself.

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After you have enjoyed your meal, feeling very full and very relaxed, you decide it is time to go. You have just remembered it is your sister’s birthday and you need to choose a present for her. You say goodbye to the people dining in the restaurant and the proprietor and thank him for a delightful lunch and say you will call again very soon as you enjoyed it so much. Back in your car you drive off towards the motorway which takes you to your local departmental store. You enjoy your journey and feel very happy and at one with the world. After a short while you arrive at the store and make your way to the section you require. You notice all the colorful garments and enjoy browsing through them. You stroll from counter to counter enjoying the feeling of freedom and self confidence within yourself. You now find the gift you are looking for and hand this to the assistant who chats merrily away to you commenting on how elegant and smart you look in your new outfit, especially chosen for your special day. You thank the lady and meander back through the store until you are outside and back in your car. You are feeling very relaxed but a little tired now and decide to make your way home. As you are driving home you recall the peacefully, relaxed day which you have enjoyed and are feeling very happy and confident and very proud of yourself. Now you have made this journey, on your own, in your mind, you are mentally prepared for when you make this same journey in reality. When you do, you will be very pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to feel so calm, relaxed all the time. You will feel so proud of yourself each and every time you make this or similar journeys. You will feel happy, calm, confident and relaxed and wonder why you didn't do it long ago. In a moment I am going to count up to five and at the count of five you will be wide awake with the beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind. One, two, three, four five.

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Anxiety – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotherapist.

Anxiety disorders Published by BUPA's Health Information Team November 2003 Everybody feels anxious from time to time - it is a normal response to stressful situations. In some cases it can improve performance. But for some people anxiety becomes severe or prolonged and interferes with everyday life. This is called an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a feeling of unease. Everybody experiences it when faced with a stressful situation, for example before an exam or an interview, or during a worrying time such as illness. It is normal to feel anxious when facing something difficult or dangerous, and mild anxiety can be a positive and useful experience. However, for one in ten people in the UK, anxiety interferes with normal life. Excessive anxiety is often associated with other psychiatric conditions, such as depression. Anxiety is considered abnormal when: it is very prolonged or severe it happens in the absence of a stressful event it is interfering with everyday activities such as going to work or socialising Symptoms of anxiety The physical symptoms of anxiety are caused by the brain sending messages to parts of the body to prepare for the "fight or flight" response. The heart, lungs and other parts of the body work faster. The brain also releases stress hormones, including adrenaline. The following symptoms can occur as a result: abdominal discomfort Diarrhoea Dry mouth Rapid heartbeat or palpitations Tightness or pain in chest Shortness of breath Dizziness Frequent urination Difficulty swallowing

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Psychological symptoms can include: Insomnia Irritability or anger Inability to concentrate Fear of madness and feeling unreal and not in control of your actions.

Types of anxiety disorders

Sometimes anxiety is associated with a physical illness, such a thyroid disorder. When the illness is treated the anxiety usually improves. Anxiety is often a symptom of another mental health problem, such as depression, personality disorder, alcohol misuse or withdrawal from long-term use of tranquillisers such as diazepam (Valium). Anxiety is the main symptom of several other mental illnesses. These are called anxiety disorders. Acute stress reaction - acute means the symptoms develop quickly, minutes or hours after the stressful event. This type of reaction typically occurs after an unexpected life crisis such as bereavement. Sometimes symptoms occur before a forthcoming event, such as an important exam. This is called situational anxiety. Symptoms usually settle fairly quickly. Adjustment reaction - This is similar to acute stress reaction, but symptoms develop over days or weeks after a stressful situation, for example as a reaction to a divorce. Symptoms tend to improve over a few weeks or so. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - this may follow after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event such as a major accident or military combat. Anxiety is only one of the symptoms, which may come and go. The person may re-live their traumatic experience in dreams or flashbacks. It is normal to react with anxiety to a frightening experience - the term PTSD is only applied if symptoms persist. It may start years after the triggering event.

Phobias

A phobia is a fear that is out of proportion to the real danger posed by the thing or event that triggers it. Phobias interfere with a person's ability to lead a normal life. The most common phobias are fear of heights, spiders, mice, blood, injections or enclosed space (claustrophobia).

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Social phobia is one of the more common phobias. Meeting people causes anxiety and people are worried about what others think of them. One form of social phobia is severe anxiety about speaking or performing in public. It is common to feel nervous in these situations, but people with social phobia find these activities impossible. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) This consists of recurring obsessions or compulsions. Obsessions are recurring thoughts or images that cause feelings of disgust. Common obsessions include germs, dirt or violence. Compulsions are thoughts or actions that people feel they must do or repeat.

Panic disorder

This is characterised by panic attacks - a sudden sense of anxiety that occurs without warning and with no apparent trigger. The physical symptoms of anxiety can be very severe. Panic attacks usually last 5-10 minutes. Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) Anxiety can be a long-term disorder in which people feel worried most of the time about things that might go wrong. This is called generalised anxiety disorder.

Below you will find an idea of a useful Hypnotherapy Script. Use APIE as usual to discover any underlying causes.

Hypnotherapy Script for Anxiety

Relax breathe and allow yourself to sink deeper and deeper into this wonderful feeling of hypnotic relaxation. Let yourself drift deeper and deeper, drifting and drowsy. Drifting down, down, down into total relaxation. With each breathe that you take you allow yourself to drift down more and more. Nobody needs anything from you right now so just allow yourself to relax and let go. Drifting deeper and deeper. You feel safe and relaxed, very comfortable, drifting deeper and deeper down. Because you are so very relaxed you can be aware of the minutest movement of your body, both within and without, and you are very conscious of the steady rhythm of each breath, breathing gently and slowly and just relaxing more and more.

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As humans, we sometimes also feel threatened, but rarely are these life threats very serious to us and so because we can't always be in a fight or run away situation, those responses remain locked within us for a period of time, and we may even begin to fear our body's own natural responses. But by being aware of these responses we can immediately discharge them, freeing ourselves of the feelings of panic or anxiety which they generate.

And every time you discharge one of those symptoms of anxiety you immediately feel very proud of yourself, and this reinforces the positive cycle. All you need or want to do, is to relax.

Each time you say the words to yourself 3, 2, 1, Relax, all your muscles relax and you feel your fear or panic just drifting away. And you can relax your body whenever you feel fear or panic, you can breathe deeply and calmly. You say the words over to yourself 3, 2, 1, Relax. As you Breathe deeply the air will push deep into your abdomen, deep, deep down, you can take slow, deep breaths to regulate your breathing, and then slowly let go, while at the same time telling yourself to feel calm and relaxed, repeating the words in your mind 3, 2, 1, Relax.

If you ever feel anxiety creeping up on you, all you need to do is to take a deep breath, to remind yourself that you can regulate your breathing, you can relax your whole body. If you ever feel anxious you can check your body for tension. You will check your shoulders and neck, letting your shoulders droop and relax. You will check your jaw, letting your jaw hang loosely. You will check your forehead, letting it become smooth and relaxed, you will check your abdomen, letting each breath relax your stomach, each deep breath relaxing your stomach more and more deeply. You can relax any part of your body that feels tension. If you are anxious, you will check and relax any tension area in your body. You know that you are in charge. You have the tools and knowledge to let go of all anxiety.

Say the words in your mind, 3, 2, 1, Relax and feel all that tension just drift away. Your body feels relaxed now and you feel yourself still drifting down deeper and deeper into a wonderful feeling of deep hypnotic relaxation.

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From now on whenever you feel fear creeping up on you, you notice that you have control over it. You take control by relaxing, check your shoulders and neck, letting your shoulders droop and relax. You will check your jaw, letting your jaw hang loosely. You will check your forehead, letting it become smooth and relaxed, you will check your abdomen, letting each breath relax your stomach, each deep breath relaxing your stomach more and more deeply. Say the words in your mind, 3, 2, 1, Relax and feel all that tension just drift away.

As you breathe in you feel more and more relaxed, stronger and more positive than you have felt in a long time.

Enjoy the calm and relaxed feeling, You feel wonderful. You feel great.

In a moment I am going to count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel more and more positive, strong and confident in your ability to face and cope with any people, any situation and any circumstance, without this causing you any stress or anxiety.

One Coming more awake now, calm, confident, positive.

Two Relaxed and very, very calm.

Three Feeling lighter now.

Four On top of the world, feeling refreshed.

Five Become aware of the room that you are in now.

Six Relaxed and confident.

Seven Almost home now.

Eight Feeling wonderful in your thoughts.

Nine Calm and better than you felt before.

Ten Eyes open wakey, wakey rise and shine and welcome home.

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Help with Asthma


Asthma is merely the symptom. Asthma is caused by the constriction of

the bronchi which is caused by little messages that are sent from the

subconscious mind from the thalamus area of the brain down to the

muscles that surround the bronchi and they tell the muscles to constrict.

The muscles constrict, the bronchi constrict and the bronchial's constrict

and the individual has difficulty breathing out. Usually, a person with a

symptom of asthma can breathe in, but when they breathe out they

make a wheeze noise.

Asthma is often caused by a past event that has been very traumatic to

the individual.

Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen.

Hypnotic Script

Asthma really is not a disease at all, asthma is merely the symptom.

Asthma is caused by the constriction of the bronchi and this is in turn

caused by little messages that are sent from the subconscious mind from

the thalamus area of the brain down to the muscles that surround the

bronchi and they tell the muscles to constrict.

The muscles constrict, the bronchi constrict and the bronchial's constrict

and the individual has difficulty breathing out.

Asthma can begin almost anytime, but it's generally a time where the

individual feels very, very threatened or has been opened to a dangerous

situation.

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Asthma is just a symptom of the underlying problems still deeply

implanted in the subconscious mind.

This negative thought is still giving rise to nervous energy that goes down

the nerves to the muscles and keeps the bronchi and bronchial's

constricted.

We are about to remove these thoughts releasing the tension and

removing the symptom.

Only the deepest part of your subconscious knows exactly how much

each of these reasons applies to you for you have repressed into that

subconscious mind a particular incident that started the Asthma.

Now you're going to get rid of asthma completely and we're going to see to

it that you do because we're going to eliminate the need for things that

cause asthma.

First of all, you don't need to punish yourself anymore. Whatever you felt

you may have done, whatever you did, it's unimportant, whenever you

feel guilty, you certainly don't need asthma any more to punish yourself

because you really don't need those feelings in the first place.

Regardless of when you may have thought you did or that you were going

to die or that you were very, very sick or that something happened which

frightened you completely, you are breathing all right now, and you're

going to breathe better and better and better.

Secondly, you don't have to hear yourself breathe in order to know that

you re still breathing.

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No longer do you need to listen to that to know that you are still

breathing. You are still breathing and that's all there is to it.

Now, thirdly, the cry for help itself, regardless of how severe that incident

may have seemed to you at the time, regardless of how severe that

incident may have seemed to you at that moment, that moment was

yesterday. It's gone. You're not in danger now.

The danger is over and you don't need to cry for help anymore.

And so, your reasons, your needs to wheeze, your needs to utilize the

symptom of asthma is rapidly disappearing so that very soon youre going

to dilate those bronchi and bronchial's, you're going to relax and let them

open up very wide, very wide and breathe deeply.

Breathe deeply.

All the way in and all the way out. Breathe all the way in, feel your lungs

open up and fill with air better than you ever have before as you let all

the air out easily and comfortably and all the muscles surrounding the

bronchi and bronchial's and lungs.

Let go, and let yourself relax completely and with certainty. And you

breathe deeper and deeper, on and on, one breath after the next, more

and more comfortably with every moment that passes, reassuring

yourself that already the asthma is leaving you, being replaced by

confidence, great breathing, more and more normal with every day that

passes.

Now, I want you to sink into a very deep and relaxing sleep and breathe

deeply for the next few moments.

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Allowing this feeling of being free, free from tension, nervousness and

asthma, allowing that feeling of freedom to circulate throughout your

entire mind and body, making you sound in mind, sound in body, sound

in spirit and sound in health and I'm going to give you those few

moments of silence ... begin ... now ...

All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your

unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you.

These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath

you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new

habits for life as you breathe easily.


feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to heal and breathe

easily.








Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts



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Fear of Confined Space - Claustrophobia

Notes for the Hypnotherapist.

Claustrophobia is usually described as a fear of enclosed places. A more accurate description might be 'a fear of not having an easy escape route' because for anyone who experiences this phobia this is the dominating feature. You feel a need to be able to get out or get home, quickly. Claustrophobia is not an illness and it can be eradicated quite easily. It is a learned response to being in certain situations. A response that is powerful, uncomfortable, embarrassing, inconvenient, debilitating at times, perhaps even seriously debilitating - but still a learned response. And just as you can learn to have a particular response you can un-learn it. Claustrophobia often occurs as result of an early experience of being 'closed in' somewhere during early childhood, therefore the first approach would be one of creating a 'safe place' for your client, somewhere that he or she feels comfortable and safe in. The second part would involve regression and perhaps using Ideomotor Signaling to allow the client to see that the experience was probably quite frightening for them at that time because they didn't know what the outcome would be, but to realise that they survived it and that what happened was probably a 'childish prank’ or a result of some exceptional circumstances and therefore extremely unlikely to re-occur. Depending upon the time factor involved, the following script can progress from one or two sessions. Hypnotic Script. As usual complete APIE and then start with your favorite induction and deepener. Relax and allow yourself to slip deeper and deeper into this hypnotic feeling of deep relaxation. As you relax I want to take you even further back in time. Back to the earliest experience you ever had. Perhaps to the safest environment you ever knew. In your imagination we take a journey back so that you find yourself in your mother's womb. Relax more and more right now you can feel yourself now going back in time. Further and further back in time.

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Going back as though there's no such thing as time, getting younger and smaller, until you're a small baby being held by those arms that loved and cared for you. How comfortable it was to be held close and tight - feeling the safety of those loving arms knowing that all your physical and mental needs were met. You feel so, incredibly warm and comfortable. Relax and enjoy this wonderful calming experience now. Now go even further back, back before your birth and those months preceding that important event. Back to when you were in your mothers womb. Feeling nurtured, safe and comfortable. As you relax and continue unwinding all you can hear is the gentle beating of your mother's heart. There is a warm comfortable darkness all around. It is so dark and so comfortable and you feel so safe, it is a wonderful feeling. I want you to really remember and experience this special time. The very beginning of your existence, the natural environment for you. Knowing, without knowing why you had room to grow and to develop into the unique individual that you now are. It is said that during these months babies dream of their life ahead and they make full use of their special time. A time when the brain is developing and taking in even external stimuli, laying down pathways for future development and growth. You relax and drift in this perfect warmth and darkness enjoying every moment because this experience is so natural and so wonderful you begin to feel more comfortable and safer when you're in an environment of being closed in. from now on confined spaces just feel so natural to you. Still you relax more and more in this darkness, more and more relaxed. More and more comfortable. Enjoying this experience more and more. Now we leave the comfort of your mothers womb and move forwards in time still taking these wonderful feelings of relaxation with you. Now we move to a date in the future. I want you to imagine yourself sitting or standing in a very small room. The room measures only two meters square and the door is wide open. Nod your head or signal when you are there. (Wait for a movement or signal).

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Now in your imagination move towards the door and as you approach the door you close it halfway. As you do this you notice how comfortable you still feel. Relaxed and calm. Let me know when you have done this. Notice how good you feel. Again close the door a little further. You notice how relaxed and calm you feel. Calm, relaxed and feeling very positive. Close the door a little more. As you close the door again you remember that special place, before you were born. Feel that warmth and allow that feeling to flow all around. Now as you close the door completely you feels so relaxed and calm in the darkness. So relaxed and so positive. In the future whenever you find yourself in any confined space you just relax and take yourself back to this moment of calm and relaxation. You feel warm, safe, calm and comfortable.

You relax more and more and drift down into a feeling of calm. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and every day in every way. You are succeeding now in everything that you wish to achieve and you have all the abilities necessary for you look forwards to a bright new future. Take a nice long deep breath. This nice long deep breath will help you to feel more calm, more relaxed, and you will feel very peaceful inside. Your mind and body will become calm and relaxed. Remember the good feelings now, because you are in control of your life, you’re in complete control of your mind, your body and your health. You feel more confident and stronger each day. And every day you’re feeling better and healthier and fitter and happier. For the first time in ages you begin to feel really alive. Alive and vibrant, each day is special to you, each day is important to you, each day you become more and more in control of your wonderful life. In a moment I’m going to count up to ten, and at the count of ten you will be wide awake, with wonderful feelings within you, growing stronger and stronger.

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In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Fear of Spiders

It’s because you want your life to be richer and fuller. . getting the most

out of each and every day. . . followed by comfortable nights of blissful

sleep - that you have decided that now is the time for you to take

complete control of your life. You have decided that it’s time to drop the

irrational behaviour that stand in the way of making you feel in control .

. . you have decided that there is no longer the need to be concerned

about spiders . .no longer the need for sleepless nights, no longer the

need to look silly and helpless whenever a spider enters your life.

Spiders and other crawling insects all have one thing in common .

..they’re all cold-blooded and so that means that to them, you may seem

like a positive furnace. Certainly, with spiders, we make their ‘hairs’

stand up on end in fear. . . in truth they are very frightened of us, and

not being aggressive, they run as fast as they can to get away from us.

Sometimes when we chase them they are so scared that they roll

themselves up into a little ball and pretend to be dead. - hoping we will

move out of the now terrorized life . .if they can avoid you they will; .your

world and their world exist side by side, but they want to have nothing to

do with you, just to get on with their lives, keeping a clean house.

We know so little about their world . . and if we did. . .we wouldn’t fear

them; many insects do really useful jobs for us, like eating woodworm,

always remember, that to them, we may even look like gods. . .compared

to them . .we are huge. . .immense beings . .to be avoided at all costs.

There is no need to kill them – because they cannot harm you, and they

wouldn’t, even if they could. You now recognise the ‘real’ situation –

instead of your ‘unreal’ fear.

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You just let spiders be, going about their simple lives, or if the situation

requires it, put a glass over them and gently slide some card underneath

– taking care not to harm your small, wondering friend, then you can

carry him to a place outside your room, your lives are separate again, as

indeed your worlds will always be.

And you now find that you feel totally calm whenever you see a spider.

You become fascinated about the way they look – you watch them

weaving intricate webs, to catch the flies that spread the germs.

You realise that spiders are your friends. You are their friend and they

are your friend. You are kind to spiders and you are kind to yourself.

You are kind to spiders and you are kind to yourself. You now recognise

the ‘real’ situation – instead of your ‘unreal’ fear. You just let spiders be,

going about their simple lives. They live their life and you live your life,

side by side.


realise that your fear of spider has been completely removed.

One – coming more awake now.

Two – relaxed and very, very calm.


Four – on top of the world




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Fear of The Dark – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses a reframing technique. Ensure your subject puts all their worries and fears into the first frame. Give them time to do this. You could use ideomotor to confirm if you are competent with ideomotor techniques. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Script As you relax and drift down deeper and deeper you see in your imagination a frame, a picture frame. Some people see the picture frame clearly and others struggle a little but either way they know the frame is there. The frame is just a thought in your mind. In your minds eye you can picture your fears that you have of the dark. As you see them now they do not bother you and it is easy to see your fears in a different way. A way where you are in control of them. The way you feel about these fears is about to change. Now, take a few moments to put all your fears and worries of the dark into this frame. Ensure that all your concerns have been placed inside the frame. Place them all inside. (Note to Hypnotist - If you can use ideomotor use it here to confirm that every worry of the dark is placed inside the box or frame.) Now it’s time to destroy this frame and then start to build a picture of how you would like it to be in the future. Now, lets destroy the frame and let it take with it all your worries and fears of the dark. Start to make the frame small now. Shrink the frame and make it small. As it shrinks feel all the worries of being in the dark just melting away. The frame goes smaller and smaller taking all your fears away with it. Now the frame is tiny and powerless. In a second it just disappears! The frame containing all your fears has gone and left you.

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(Note to the hypnotist – Again you could confirm using ideomotor that the frame has been completely destroyed and that nothing will hold your subject back.) Now in your imagination you start to build a new frame. See a new picture in your minds eye. In this new picture you see yourself comfortable in the dark. You feel safe and comfortable now that all your worries have left you. See this picture as clear and as big and bright as you possibly can. When water is around you, you feel happy and comfortable. (Notes to the hypnotist - At this point you could go into more information regarding if the subject had particular fears of the dark. Fill the frame with positive suggestions allowing the subject to see themselves in this new frame and feeling very confident.) From now on you are comfortable achieving all that you wish to achieve. In the future you will always feel happy and confident that you will always be at your very best in every situation. In the future your confidence in the dark grows with every experience.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your fear of darkness has been completely removed and you are more in control. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive in the dark Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Fear of Flying

Notes to the Hypnotist Start by inducing a state of trance and then deepen. Take your subject on an airplane flight keeping them calm and relaxed along the journey. Lots of positive suggestion.

Hypnotic Script In your imagination I would like to take you on a journey through an aircraft flight. Imagine yourself at home preparing for your flight and as you pack your cases and prepare for your journey see how relaxed and calm you are. You are so calm and looking forwards to the journey. The day has come for your aircraft flight, your cases and bags are packed ready to go, you’ve checked to make sure you’ve got everything you need and everything is ready to go. Now you see yourself at the airport with your passport in your hand preparing to board the aircraft. You are calm and yet excited and looking forwards to the aircraft flight. As you board the aircraft you feel excited and happy to be onboard the airplane and you are looking forwards to the flight. In your minds eye see how calm you are. As you take your seat you are so calm and relaxed. Feel how nice and relaxed you are now.

You’re already beginning to feel excited about the flight, just a nice feeling of anticipating that something good is going to happen. You just feel so calm and confident about the flight right now. Now you’re in your seat, with your family close by all excited and ready to go. Your seat belt is fastened and you’re still feeling really good inside. All the time you feel really happy inside and looking forwards to the flight. Soon the aircraft begins to move along the runway, soon gaining in speed and preparing for take off. Notice just how calm and relaxed you are. Enjoying every moment.

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When you look out of the window you are filled with feelings of calm and relaxation. The roar of the engines excite you as you prepare to lift off! Soon you are in the air. Feelings of calm and relaxation surround you. You enjoy the aircraft flight and find it easy to walk around the aircraft and stretch your legs. You enjoy the in flight meal if there is one available and all the time you are calm and relaxed. You can read or enjoy the in flight entertainment as you really feel different about flying now. And before you know it the plane is coming down to land. You feel great about the flight that you have just experienced. You land with a slight bump and the plane slows along the runway. Even now notice how calm and relaxed you are. The aircraft slows down and eventually comes to a stand still. You really enjoyed the flight, you feel so good about yourself that you are already looking forward to making the return trip, for you know that everything will be fine. You really enjoyed the flight and you feel wonderful. Now that your fear of flying has gone forever you always feel comfortable and ready to fly when ever you can. You are prepared in your mind for a wonderful flight. Prepared to enjoy the journey always feeling comfortable and relaxed.

And the suggestions I have given to you are now firmly embedded in your subconscious mind - you really are beginning to think and feel differently about flying and the new opportunities it brings - you are calm, relaxed and in control. Now in a moment I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake. You'll have beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind, and these calm and peaceful thoughts and feelings are going to remain with you. All of these suggestions stay deep inside your subconscious mind.

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Fear of Going Places

Start with your favorite induction and a deepener. I would like you to imagine you are preparing for a day out all by yourself in your beautiful new car. You are excited at the idea of a whole day of freedom to please yourself. To go wherever the mood takes you. You get up early, draw back the curtains, and notice what a lovely sunny day beholds you. The birds are singing and the gentle breeze blows the flowers and the trees. All the other people are rushing off to their place of work, but you have the whole day to do as you please. You leisurely prepare for your day and when you are ready you stroll down the pathway to your car. As you drive down the road you remember you have to collect some petrol from the local garage. On arriving at your garage you pull on to the forecourt and start to fill your car with petrol. You notice all the other people around you chattering away. You finish filling your car and stroll casually toward the pay out. You glance at the magazines in the shop and treat yourself to some of your favorite chocolate. You feel relaxed and happy and looking forward to your day out. You remember suddenly that you haven’t placed the lottery which you like to do each week. You slowly walk over and select your numbers in the hope of winning your fortune. When you leave the shop you notice the queue of people and are glad you are ready to go on your journey. As you drive along you notice all the beautiful trees and the flowers and see the rolling hills in the distance. After a while you start to feel hungry. As you turn the corner you notice a lovely old black and white coaching house. Outside on the pavement is a board advertising lunches. You pull off the road, into the car park, and select a space. After a couple of minutes you start to stroll down the path towards the big old oak door with a large black latch. You open the door and there inside is a magnificent room with lots of shiny well polished brasses. This makes you feel very much at home and warm and comfortable. You start to walk over to the bar and order your food. There is such a large selection it is hard to choose what to have for your lunch. After pondering for a while you select a meal and order a long cool drink. You return to your seat by the old brick fireplace with the fire gently flickering, making different pictures on the brasses hanging on the grate. You sit and dream as you gaze into the fire – what a lovely day you are having and you are enjoying the total relaxation of being all by yourself.

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After you have enjoyed your meal, feeling very full and very relaxed, you decide it is time to go. You have just remembered it is your sister’s birthday and you need to choose a present for her. You say goodbye to the people dining in the restaurant and the proprietor and thank him for a delightful lunch and say you will call again very soon as you enjoyed it so much. Back in your car you drive off towards the motorway which takes you to your local departmental store. You enjoy your journey and feel very happy and at one with the world. After a short while you arrive at the store and make your way to the section you require. You notice all the colorful garments and enjoy browsing through them. You stroll from counter to counter enjoying the feeling of freedom and self confidence within yourself. You now find the gift you are looking for and hand this to the assistant who chats merrily away to you commenting on how elegant and smart you look in your new outfit, especially chosen for your special day. You thank the lady and meander back through the store until you are outside and back in your car. You are feeling very relaxed but a little tired now and decide to make your way home. As you are driving home you recall the peacefully, relaxed day which you have enjoyed and are feeling very happy and confident and very proud of yourself. Now you have made this journey, on your own, in your mind, you are mentally prepared for when you make this same journey in reality. When you do, you will be very pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to feel so calm, relaxed all the time. You will feel so proud of yourself each and every time you make this or similar journeys. You will feel happy, calm, confident and relaxed and wonder why you didn't do it long ago. In a moment I am going to count up to five and at the count of five you will be wide awake with the beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind. One, two, three, four five.

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Fear of Heights – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses a reframing technique. Ensure your subject puts all their worries and fears into the first frame. Give them time to do this. You could use ideomotor to confirm if you are competent with ideomotor techniques. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Script As you relax and drift down deeper and deeper you see in your imagination a frame, a picture frame. Some people see the picture frame clearly and other struggle a little but either way they know the frame is there. In your minds eye you can picture yourself around heights, see yourself in the frame and imagine how it feels right now to be around heights. You may see yourself high up and you feel uncomfortable and unsure about these heights but all this is about to change. As you see yourself in this frame you feel all the feelings of being uncomfortable at heights. Take a few seconds to put all your fears and worries about heights into this frame. Ensure that all your concerns about being up at heights and the feelings of uncertainty that this gives you have been placed inside the frame. Now it’s time to destroy this frame and then start to build a picture of how you would like it to be when you are high up. Now, lets destroy the frame and let it take with it all your worries and fears of heights. Start to make the frame small now. Shrink the frame and make it small. As it shrinks feel all the worries of being high up just melting away. The frame goes smaller and smaller taking all your fears away with it. Now the frame is tiny and powerless. In a second it just disappears! The frame containing all your fears has gone and left you. Now in your imagination you start to build a new frame.

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See a new picture in your minds eye. In this new picture you see yourself around heights and in high places and you feel wonderful. You feel safe and secure and yet you always put your safety first and are always careful. See this picture as clear and as big and bright as you possibly can. You feel comfortable and strong at heights. When you are high up you feel happy and comfortable. Your head is clear and you feel OK with heights. (Notes to the Hypnotist). At this point you could go into more information regarding if the subject has specific requests regarding heights. Fill the frame with positive suggestions allowing the subject to see themselves in this new frame doing just what they would like to do. From now on you are comfortable achieving all that you wish to achieve with heights. In the future you will always feel happy and confident that you will always be at your very best in every situation.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your fear of heights has been completely removed. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive around heights Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of heights Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home

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Fear of Needles

Notes to the Hypnotist The word phobia comes from the Greek and literally means 'fear' or 'dread'. Suffering from a phobia has been described as having immense fear of a situation or an object that is not in proportion to the actual danger. This fear can lead to a strong desire or need to completely escape the situation or avoid the object. Needlephobia's correct name is "Belonephobia". It can be defined as a fear of sharp objects such as pins or needles Needlephobia is now recognised by doctors as a very real condition. Needlephobia mostly affects children but, if left unaddressed, can prevail well into adult life. With modern medicine more and more reliant upon the use of needles for blood tests and the administration of drugs, the issue of needlephobia is becoming an increasingly important one for doctors, nurses, carers and patients. Panic and fear can lead to avoidance of needles and/or effective treatment. Even minor procedures, such as taking a blood sample can evoke strong patient resistance. Healthcare professionals, such as GPs, can have their schedules disrupted because procedures take longer. The most common causes are often attributed to behavioural origins though there are two schools of thought: 1. A negative experience when young, for example, a painful procedure at the dentist or hospital. 2. A fear that has been ‘led’ or ‘instructed’ by a misinformed parent or friend, for example someone telling a story which involved a painful needle procedure. It is argued that over time and successive needle procedures: “A child’s fear can develop into a conscious phobia with substantial anticipatory anxiety prior to needle procedures. This fear can develop into a fear of not only needles but also objects or situations associated with needles such as blood, syringes, white coats and even the antiseptic

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smell of hospitals." Use APIE to uncover details of the exact fears. This script uses the control room technique. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Script As you relax and unwind you now you feel yourself drifting down deeper into a beautiful hypnotic relaxation. Relaxing and letting go of all tension. You see yourself in a warm comfortable, inviting darkness and as you relax you drift down deeper into the darkness. You see in front of you a staircase going down into the darkness and you start to take the steps down. There is a handrail for you safety if you feel you need it. Down the steps you go, one step at a time, relaxing as you go, relaxing deeper into hypnosis as you take each step. As I count down from 10 – 1 you relax deeper with every number I count and every step that you take. (Count Down from 10 – 1 including suggestions of deepening)

The Control Room

Now in your imagination you see a large door in front of you. This is the door to the control room of your mind. As you open the door you see inside the room. The control room is full of switches buttons, levers and controls. These controls can change everything that happens to your body. The way you see, feel and hear. Quickly you notice a dial that controls your levels of stress and relaxation. As you see the dial it may be labeled between 1 and 10. 10 being the most stressed and 1 being the most relaxed. In your imagination see yourself reaching out and taking hold of the dial and turning the dial down to 1. As the dial is turned down you notice immediately that your feel much more stress free and relaxed you feel. You feel so much calmer and more relaxed than before. Now you see a second dial that controls your phobia of needles. You notice how high this dial is set and immediately start to turn the dial down nice and slowly. As you turn the dial down you notice the needle phobia you have just seems to get easier. As the dial is turned down you notice all worries about your phobia of needles just seem to drift away.

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You continue to turn the dial right down. Turning the needle phobia completely off. As the dial reaches 0 the phobia of needles has been completely removed. In your imagination now you can see yourself at a point in the future when you are receiving an injection with a needle. As you see the nurse or doctor you notice how calm you as you know they are there to help you. As you notice the injection you notice how painless it is and you feel so calm and collected. You notice how good you feel as you know the doctors and nurses are doing all they can to help you. From now on having injections and being around needles is easy for you. All of these suggestions remain neatly inside your subconscious mind. Growing as you sleep soundly and comfortably. Now with the phobia gone you turn to leave the control room. As you leave the room you shut the door behind you, locking the door with a key. You place the key in your pocket or hold it firmly in your hand as only you have access to this control room of your mind. You notice stairs in front of you leading up into the light. As I count up from 1 – 10 you take the steps up the staircase becoming more alert and more awake with every step that you take and every number that I count. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your fear of needles has been completely removed.

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Fear of Vomiting

Notes to the Hypnotherapist – Emetophobia. Defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of vomiting or throwing up", each year, this common phobia causes millions of people needless distress. Fear of vomiting is termed "Emetophobia," a word derived from the Greek word "emetos" (vomiting) and "phobos" (fear). Known by a number of names Emetophobia, Fear of Vomiting, and Fear of Throwing Up being the most common, the problem often significantly impacts quality of life. It can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, although everyone experiences Emetophobia in their own way and may have different symptoms. As a Hypnotherapist you should also be aware that this phobia could be the result a specific incident probably at a young age. Anxiety disorders Published by BUPA's Health Information Team November 2003 Everybody feels anxious from time to time, it is a normal response to stressful situations. In some cases it can improve performance. But for some people anxiety becomes severe or prolonged and interferes with everyday life. This is called an anxiety disorder. Anxiety is a feeling of unease. Everybody experiences it when faced with a stressful situation, for example before an exam or an interview, or during a worrying time such as illness. It is normal to feel anxious when facing something difficult or dangerous, and mild anxiety can be a positive and useful experience. However, for one in ten people in the UK, anxiety interferes with normal life. Excessive anxiety is often associated with other psychiatric conditions, such as depression. Anxiety is considered abnormal when: it is very prolonged or severe it happens in the absence of a stressful event it is interfering with everyday activities such as going to work or socialising.

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Symptoms of anxiety The physical symptoms of anxiety are caused by the brain sending messages to parts of the body to prepare for the "fight or flight" response. The heart, lungs and other parts of the body work faster. The brain also releases stress hormones, including adrenaline. The following symptoms can occur as a result: abdominal discomfort Diarrhoea Dry mouth Rapid heartbeat or palpitations Tightness or pain in chest Shortness of breath Dizziness Frequent urination Difficulty swallowing Vomiting

Below you will find an idea of a useful Hypnotherapy Script for Anxiety and vomiting. Use APIE as usual to discover any underlying causes.

Hypnotherapy Script for Anxiety and fear of Vomiting

Relax, breathe and allow yourself to sink deeper and deeper into this wonderful feeling of hypnotic relaxation. Let yourself drift deeper and deeper, drifting and drowsy. Drifting down, down, down into total relaxation. With each breathe that you take you allow yourself to drift down more and more. Nobody needs anything from you right now so just allow yourself to relax and let go. Drifting deeper and deeper. You feel safe and relaxed, very comfortable, drifting deeper and deeper down. Because you are so very relaxed you can be aware of the minutest movement of your body, both within and without, and you are very conscious of the steady rhythm of each breath, breathing gently and slowly and just relaxing more and more. You relax unwind and just keep drifting down deeper and deeper.

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As humans, we sometimes also feel threatened, but rarely are these life threats very serious to us and so because we can't always be in a fight or run away situation, those responses remain locked within us for a period of time, and we may even begin to fear our body's own natural responses. But by being aware of these responses we can immediately discharge them, freeing ourselves of the feelings of panic or anxiety which they generate.

And every time you discharge one of those symptoms of anxiety you immediately feel very proud of yourself, and this reinforces the positive cycle. All you need or want to do, is to relax.

Each time you say the words to yourself 3, 2, 1, Relax, all your muscles relax and you feel your fear or panic of vomiting just drifting away. And you can relax your body whenever you feel fear or panic, or feel that you are about to vomit, you can breathe deeply and calmly. You say the words over to yourself 3, 2, 1, Relax. As you Breathe deeply the air will push deep into your abdomen, deep, deep down, you can take slow, deep breaths to regulate your breathing, and then slowly let go, while at the same time telling yourself to feel calm and relaxed, repeating the words in your mind 3, 2, 1, Relax.

3, 2, 1 Relax and just notice that your uncomfortable feelings just drift away.

If you ever feel anxiety creeping up on you, all you need to do is to take a deep breath, to remind yourself that you can regulate your breathing, you can relax your whole body. If you ever feel anxious you can check your body for tension. You will check your shoulders and neck, letting your shoulders droop and relax.

You will check your jaw, letting your jaw hang loosely. You will check your forehead, letting it become smooth and relaxed, you will check your abdomen, letting each breath relax your stomach, each deep breath relaxing your stomach more and more deeply. You can relax any part of your body that feels tension. If you are anxious, you will check and relax any tension area in your body.

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You know that you are in charge. You have the tools and knowledge to let go of all anxiety.

Say the words in your mind, 3, 2, 1, Relax and feel all that tension just drift away. Your body feels relaxed now and you feel yourself still drifting down deeper and deeper into a wonderful feeling of deep hypnotic relaxation.

From now on whenever you feel fear creeping up on you, you notice that you have control over it. You take control by relaxing, check your shoulders and neck, letting your shoulders droop and relax. You will check your jaw, letting your jaw hang loosely. You will check your forehead, letting it become smooth and relaxed, you will check your abdomen, letting each breath relax your stomach, each deep breath relaxing your stomach more and more deeply. Say the words in your mind, 3, 2, 1, Relax and feel all that tension just drift away.

3, 2, 1, Relax and feel all your tension just drifting away. Your stomach feels more relaxed and the feelings of vomiting just drift away and you feel so much more relaxed and more in control.

As you breathe in you feel more and more relaxed, stronger and more positive than you have felt in a long time.

Enjoy the calm and relaxed feeling, You feel wonderful. You feel great.

In a moment I am going to count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel more and more positive, strong and confident in your ability to face and cope with any people, any situation and any circumstance, without this causing you any stress or anxiety or feelings of vomiting. You feel great because you are now in control. In control of all your feelings and feeling much more confident than before.

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Fear of Water

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses a reframing technique. Ensure your subject puts all their worries and fears into the first frame. Give them time to do this. You could use ideomotor to confirm if you are competent with ideomotor techniques. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Script As you relax and drift down deeper and deeper you see in your imagination a frame, a picture frame. Some people see the picture frame clearly and other struggle a little but either way they know the frame is there. In your minds eye you can picture yourself around water, see yourself in the frame and imagine how it feels right now to be around water. You feel uncomfortable and unsure but all this is about to change. As you see yourself in this frame you feel all the feelings of being uncomfortable around water. Take a few seconds to put all your fears and worries into this frame. Ensure that all your concerns about being around water have been placed inside the frame. Now it’s time to destroy this frame and then start to build a picture of how you would like it to be when you are around water. Now, lets destroy the frame and let it take with it all your worries and fears of water. Start to make the frame small now. Shrink the frame and make it small. As it shrinks feel all the worries of being near water just melting away. The frame goes smaller and smaller taking all your fears away with it. Now the frame is tiny and powerless. In a second it just disappears! The frame containing all your fears has gone and left you. Now in your imagination you start to build a new frame. See a new picture in your minds eye. In this new picture you see yourself around water and you feel wonderful.

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See this picture as clear and as big and bright as you possibly can. You feel comfortable and strong around water. When water is around you, you feel happy and comfortable. (Notes to the Hypnotist). At this point you could go into more information regarding if the subject wishes to go into the water or to swim. Fill the frame with positive suggestions allowing the subject to see themselves in this new frame doing just what they would like to do. From now on you are comfortable achieving all that you wish to achieve around water. In the future you will always feel happy and confident that you will always be at your very best in every situation.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your fear of water has been completely removed. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive around water Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of water Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home © The British Academy of Hypnosis 1999

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Golf Improvement

Notes to Hypnotherapist

80 to 90% of an athlete’s performance is in the mind. This involves using your imagination, your thought processes and your attitudes to provide incentive, support, reinforcement and refinement of your physical skills. Visualization is effective because of the fact that as you imagine an activity, your neurons fire in exactly the same patterns they would follow if you were actually performing the activity. It is believed that these movements, along with contractions in your muscles, are responsible for improved neuromuscular coordination.

Improving the golf game can be a great area of your business. At The British Academy of Hypnosis we have a hypnotic CD – Hypno Golf. This CD set has move information on hypnotic techniques and may be well worth your time purchasing. You can find out more online at the web site: www.BritishHypnosis.com

Hypnosis Script

Relax and allow yourself to drift down deeper into this state of trance. What is really enjoyable to you as you play golf is the feeling of falling into a steady, comfortable rhythm, as you play in the zone through every hole. So your first step is to discover your most comfortable, personal rhythm. This matches your swing thought. On the one hand, if you're trying to keep your swing slow and smooth, you find that a leisurely pace suits you best. You prepare yourself beforehand in everything you do, making it slow and steady, even the way you get dressed for a round or drive to the golf course is slow, and steady.

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On the other hand, if you're the kind of player who gets pumped up by playing well, a faster pace is better for you. You do things to keep a high energy level. You listen beforehand to upbeat music on the car radio or on the tape deck which helps to prepare you. You maintain a steady rhythm in order to help yourself to fall into a successful groove. Once you've committed to a rhythm, you let it permeate everything you do, not only your swing, but the way that you walk, tee up your ball, even speak. Rhythm is required for every shot in golf and is more important than any one physical aspect of your swing. Golf is 80% mental game, thoughts can cause tension in your body, interrupting the rhythm. You easily control those mental distractions to consistently swing well and with perfect rhythm. You concentrate your mind entirely on the game at hand, removing all distractions from your mind. If any distracting thoughts enter your head, you have a technique that you use to dispose of those thoughts. You imagine a filing cabinet or some other receptacle a short distance away and before starting the shot you put any distracting thoughts into that cabinet, knowing that you can always take them out when the game is finished then you concentrate on your rhythm, establishing the rhythm in all your actions, and allowing it to carry over to your golf swing. When you have the opportunity, you like to roll some long putts on the practice green before you play. If the green is too crowded, you forget about putting to a hole and you putt to the fringe. When you have the green to yourself, you putt to all four corners or to clubs placed 20, 30, and 40 feet away. You always concentrate on rolling the putts the right distance so that in similar situations during the round, you'll be so much better prepared. To create a golf swing that produces consistency and power you maintain balance throughout the entire swing. They key to achieving balance is to distribute your body with your weight centred over the balls of your feet. By doing this you allow your legs to feel lively and ready for action. Visualise yourself now, on the golf course, balancing your body, standing tall with your feet spread apart shoulder width, your upper body bent

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forward at the hip joint and your rear moved slightly back. You flex the knees slightly and distribute your weight naturally on the balls of your feet. You practice finding your balance just a couple of minutes each day which allows it to feel very natural to you. A well-blended swing can look as if the arms simply follow the body as it turns. But you are aware that that's not what really happens. You know that the arms do the "up-and-down" and the body does the "around," and they each work independently of the other. You pay attention to the position of your elbow, ensuring that it is pointed down in line with your right hip at the top of your swing. From here, your elbow can stay even with your hip as you start back to the ball, allowing your arms to get back in front of your body and square the clubface at impact. You spend less time reading the break and more time focusing on speed. On long putts, the surest way to get the ball close is to judge the distance correctly. Stand to the side of the ball and rehearse the stroke, getting a feel for the effort required. You mentally divide the putt into segments: Walk halfway to the hole, look at the ball, look at the hole, and then make some practice strokes. Dividing the putt in half makes it easier for you to judge the entire distance. With a long putt, your goal is to leave yourself an easy second putt. It’s similar to laying up on a par five: You aim to leave yourself the perfect distance for the next shot, which, in this instance, is three feet or less and preferably uphill. You picture a circle six feet in diameter around the hole and aim to get your first putt within that circle, knowing that you will always make the second. When reading the putt, you focus on the entire line, not just the starting point. You pick an intermediate target about halfway to the hole and use that as your intended line. Then visualize the putt rolling over that spot. You think of the whole putt as you would a ski slope, envisioning the putt’s trail and keeping the ball within that track.

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On really long putts, your normal stroke finds it easy to provide more power. You hit the putt as you would a chip standing taller with your stance slightly open. You swing the putter back and through with your arms and shoulders, like a pendulum chip, letting your lower body react to the motion. You play steadily and easily, achieving consistently good results. At times it seems almost monotonous like the sound of my voice, as shot after shot flies predictably at the target. To play optimal golf you begin to improve your cardiovascular condition. You realise that playing golf alone is not enough to improve your aerobic fitness. Having an improved level of cardiovascular fitness enables you to maintain your energy levels, fight fatigue, and stay mentally focused for every one of those 18 holes. Walking, biking, stair-stepping, and running are great examples of cardiovascular exercise. And you begin spending 15 minutes 2-3 times per week at a comfortable pace to improve your current aerobic level. So visualise yourself now doing your favourite exercise, really enjoying the experience as you become fitter and healthier and more mentally focused for each of those 18 holes. Being aerobically fit increases your confidence, which is what golf is all about. And your confidence is increasing day by day. Flexibility is an important component to improving your golf swing. You enjoy warming up for 5 minutes before stretching, in order to increase your body temperature and allow your muscles to lengthen. Combining these components in a golf-specific conditioning program has you shooting lower scores and playing more enjoyable rounds of golf. And your whole golf is improving day by day as you become more confident and fit and more aware of these wonderful changes within yourself. And each time you listen to my voice, the suggestions go deeper into your subconscious mind, growing stronger and stronger as each day goes by.

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In a few moments I'm going to count to five and at the count of five your eyes will open, you will feel refreshed, relaxed and revigorated. And these wonderful feeling remain with you, growing stronger day by day.

I will now count up from 0ne to ten and on the count of ten you will awaken, refreshed and re-energised.

One – more alert and more aware Two – your body becomes lighter and lighter Three - relaxed and calm Four – feeling on top of the world. Five – more aware of the room around you Six – more aware of your heart beating Seven – totally refreshed Eight – feeling Wonderful Nine – almost home and feeling positive Ten – Eyes open wakey, wakey, rise and shine and welcome home. © Copyright The British Academy of Hypnosis

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Hair Growth – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist This script uses a direct positive suggestion technique to ensure your subjects visualise their hair growing healthy and strong. It uses visualization techniques to ensure health hair growth. Stress could also be a factor and so this should be eliminated first. Start with your usual hypnotic induction and then deepen the hypnotic trance as usual. Hypnotic Scripts for Hair Growth You relax unwind and let yourself drift down deeper. As I count down from 10 to one you feel yourself more deeply relaxed and as every second passes you deeply relax more and more. 10. Relaxing and letting go down 9. Relaxing and drifting 8. Your mind is open and responsive to my suggestions 7. Deeply into the comfort region 6. Your mind is open 5. You accept my suggestions quickly and easily 4. Accepting them for your own good 3. Open to my words 2. Talking directly to your subconscious mind now 1. Still relaxing more deeply with each second

Every cell in your body has been created by your mind. Now we are going to use you mind to instruct your body to grow your hair. Firstly as you relax all the stress just drifts away. You feel so calm and positive that you find it easy to cope with everything that is going on in your life. You are so relaxed and calm and stress free. As you breathe you relax more and more. Feeling more and more positive in every way. Relaxed calm and totally stress free.

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You cope with life’s challenges easily now without becoming tense or stressed. You view every situation calmly and in a totally relaxed and stress free manner. Because of these changes in your unconscious thought processes you feel much more in control of your life. Once again your mind and body are working in perfect harmony. Now I want you to see an image for me in your minds eye. Imagine red blood flowing healthily around your body. Picture the blood flowing towards your tiny hair follicles, flowing around them now, nourishing them and making them grow. Imagine the blood flowing inside of your head picture the inside of your head where those follicles live. You see the veins that carry the blood that feed the areas where hair growth takes place. As you breathe deeply you relax more and more as you see the blood flowing around those follicles, feeding them with all the energy that they need to grow. As you breathe keep your mouth moist will saliva as you relax. Your mouth moist and your jaw muscle relaxes as you drift down deeper. Seeing the results of your hair growing will take time but each time you visualize your hair growing you feel more positive that your hair grows health and strong. Blood flows easily nourishing the hair and encouraging the hair to grow. Now lets travel to the future. Project your mind into the future, just four months from today and see yourself in your minds eye again. You look into the mirror. Look how thick and healthy and shiny your hair is right now. Let this image form in your minds eye, see it clear and keep it there. See your hair healthy and strong. In your minds eye picture your hair just as you would like it to be. From today onwards you will find that day-by-day your hair grows stronger and healthier than ever before. And the suggestions I have given to you will become stronger and stronger with each day that passes by. Your hair grows health and strong.

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In a moment I will count up from one to ten and in your own time when you are ready, as I count up, I want you to come back to full consciousness. You will realise that you feel much more positive about your hair growing and your mind feels stronger and more positive every day. Your body fills with energy and you feel stress free and wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time keeping your mind positive for life. Often you will see images in your minds eye of your hair follicles being feed and supplied with all that they need for strong hair growth. You feel stress free and your healing properties recharged. Your mind and body health fresh and now working in harmony. One – Time to start waking up now. Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter now, your hair growing healthy and strong Four – feeling confident and very, very positive Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident inside Seven – almost home now, day by day feeling fitter Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of a fit and healthy future Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home, back in the room © The British Academy of Hypnosis 1999 Copyright British Hypnosis 1999

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Hay fever – The British Academy of Hypnosis Notes to the hypnotist Hay fever affects 15 to 20 % of the population in Britain, where it is mainly caused by grass pollen. In other countries other pollens cause major 'hay fever' as well; ragweed in the USA, birch tree pollen in Scandinavia, and cedar pollen in Japan, for example. Regarded as trivial by some, hay fever varies from mild forms which are indeed trivial to a severity which is crippling during the season. Sufferers may be unable to work or drive and we know that school and exam performance is worse in young people who have untreated hay fever. Out-of-date treatments still widely used relieve the symptoms but produce drowsiness which affects driving and exam or academic performance badly. The script uses regression and so does come with a warning and care should be given with the script. Complete a hypnotic induction then follow the script below. Cover APIE as usual.

Hay Fever Hypnotic Script

As you drift deeper into hypnosis and this lovely comfortable feeling - I want you to know that you are safe to experience the cause of your hay fever and to overcome this problem once and for all. In order to do this we are going to go back to when the symptom first started - and if you're subconscious mind agrees to us going back to explore the reason why it began - please move a finger. (Wait for a positive response) Thank you, now your subconscious knows everything about you, all you have done, all you have heard, all you have seen and everything you have experienced. Your mind knows all that you have ever felt and hay fever, like any other allergy doesn't begin without a cause. Hay fever is a body and mind way of avoiding a situation, event or feeling that the younger mind was not able to deal with effectively at that time of your life. But now as an adult you can help your inner mind. The child that developed that symptom to express whatever emotion you found difficult

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to express at the time can now release the symptom and you will be free from this allergy. So I want you to go back in time allowing yourself to become smaller and younger in your imagination. It is time to go back to the first time you began with those symptoms. Go back to the earliest time you can remember the sneezing, the eyes stinging and watering. So go all the way back, back in time, back to your younger self, the younger you, back to the time when your hay fever began. Move a finger to tell me when you are there. (Wait for signal). Good, that’s excellent now I want you to really, really experience this time again, not knowing why you feel the runny nose or stinging eyes, not knowing why you feel this way. Just feeling the symptoms of yours. And remember what was happening in your life at this time how old are you, where are you in this particular memory, who is with you and what is happening? (Pause for a few seconds) Allow the memories to come back to you. I want you to go back even further now, back to before your hay fever began and remember how it was to be symptom free. Free from hay fever. Remember when you could go out in the garden and feel just fine, enjoy the warm sunshine on your body. Let yourself relax even deeper now, deeper relaxation. Now as you relax and drift on deeper you focus on those feelings of being free of hay fever. Relax now and in your imagination see yourself free from hay fever. Free from this allergy. Your subconscious mind can memorise this feeling to bring back with you when we come out of hypnosis. So breathe deeply and relax remembering what it is like to be free again.

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Now as you relax you start to search your mind for what you believe may have been the cause of the hay fever as a child. Remember what was going on around and what was happening in your life at that time. You will soon realise what the trigger was and then you will be able to tell me. Move a finger when you have the thoughts. (Wait for signal) Now that you know you can re-assure that child that all is well and that it is time to let of the allergy. See yourself in your minds eye telling yourself as a child that all is well and that it is time to let go. As this happens an amazing change occurs in your body your immune system begins to strengthen you are aware of this happening right now and it will continue to strengthen after leaving hypnosis leaving you free from hay fever. From today onwards and every day you grow stronger and healthier, you now feel safe to venture to places that you once avoided as your immune system keeps you strong and healthy. And these suggestions grow stronger and stronger day by day. Soon I'll count to ten and you will awaken. Bringing with you the memory of breathing easily again free of the symptoms of hay fever and growing stronger and stronger each day. All of these suggestions remain neatly inside your subconscious mind. Growing as you sleep soundly and comfortably. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm. One – coming more awake now, free from hay fever Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter now Four – feeling confident and allergy free Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident with yourself Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts of a great future Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home.

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Nightmares


Clients who experience regular nightmares usually do so because of an internal conflict which they feel unable to express during waking hours. Because every dream and nightmare is different, you as a therapist need to explore the content of the dream stuff and find out what it means to your client. There is a section in the advanced hypnotherapy manual produced by the British Academy of Hypnosis about interpreting dreams but therapists should be wary of jumping to their own conclusions. This script is a framework that can be adapted to suit the content on the particular nightmares. Begin with your favourite induction and deepener. Now as you settle down deeper into Hypnosis I'm going to work with you to eliminate those nightmares once and for all. We've discussed the possible causes of your nightmare and your inner mind needs to be convinced now that they are unnecessary for your health and well being. In order to do this - we are going to go into a type of hypno-sleep which is similar to lucid dreaming - which means that although you are having a dream - you are also aware at the time that it is only a dream. And because of this awareness you can change the content of the dream to suit yourself. So drift deeper and deeper - and imagine with me that you're in your own bed at home. Your familiar room with all your personal belongings is right here - where you are too - and you've just had a nice, warm bath or a shower and your hair is clean and your teeth have been brushed - and it's been a long, long day. You are ready for sleep. And as you snuggle down under the quilt - you glance around your room - the curtains or blinds are closed but there are shadows dancing on the wall - notice the door - is it open or closed? See any furniture here in your room - perhaps a desk or a dressing table or wardrobe - notice where they are.

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You feel very comfortable here because it all looks and feels so familiar and safe. Your head is resting on the pillow and you can smell the freshly laundered sheets and pillowcase - and it's just the right temperature - as you snuggle down. It's nice and warm in here - but outside - you can hear the patter of rain on the window - and gusts of wind blowing through the trees. You feel really glad that snuggled down here, safe and dry and warm. And as you drift into sleep - you may see patterns of light flickering through your mind - maybe colours or shapes - fantasy dreams - or perhaps you'll take yourself to a favourite place - far away - far away - as you go deeper and deeper relaxed. Very soon I'm going to count from one to ten - and as I begin to count you'll find a wonderful, warm mist floating through your mind - and you'll enter the mist - feeling so safe - so sleepy and so relaxed - and when I reach ten you'll be back there in one of those bad dreams that you told me about. But you'll feel completely detached from the dream - as though you're watching yourself in the dream - and you'll be able to tell me the content of the dream and what it means to you - you'll answer with the higher part of your mind - you will also know what you need to do in your every day life to prevent those dreams from occurring again. I'm counting to ten now - one - the warm mist is beginning to flow into your mind - two - it begins to envelop you - but you still feel so deeply relaxed and comfortable and safe - three - now you're entering the mist - four - and the mist is surrounding you - five - you feel deeply relaxed - six - you're feeling sleepier and sleepier - seven - becoming detached and safe in a very relaxed and comfortable way - eight - remember you won't actually go to sleep - you will be aware of everything - as though you're watching yourself - nine - and you'll be aware of my voice the whole of the time - ten - and the bad dream begins to form in your mind - but you feel okay - you are calm - relaxed and comfortable too. Now even in this very deepest state of hypnosis you can hear my voice and everything that I am saying. You will also be able to talk. You will talk and each word that you utter takes you deeper and deeper into hypno-sleep - deeper and deeper relaxed. Nod your head when the dream is happening. (Wait for signal).

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Good - now I want you to relate what is happening in this dream. Tell me everything you can see or hear or feel - but remember - it won't disturb you - you are watching this with your higher mind - you are completely detached and relaxed. (Encourage your client to discuss her/his dream in detail - and what each aspect of it means). Good - now that you know what that nightmare meant - what do you need to do in real life to stop it from happening again. (Encourage client to discuss this too). Imagine yourself doing this - in everyday life - doing whatever you need to do - to prevent those nightmares returning.


(If the dream content relates to being chased or threatened in anyway - you can have your client challenge who or whatever it is that is perpetrating her/him.) Very good. Now that you know what your nightmare meant - and you know exactly what you need to - does your inner mind accept that those nightmares now have no place in your life? (If there is any negative response, explore the reasons why). Assuming acceptance, continue: From this moment on, you will only have good dreams - pleasant and happy dreams - but if, on any occasion your dreams are a little different from that, it won't disturb you - because you'll know that it is just a dream - nothing else - and you'll simply discard it. In a moment I'm going to count from one to five. At the count of five you'll be wide awake. One, two, three, four, five.

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Obsessive Compulsive Dissorder The British Academy of Hypnosis Notes to the Hypnotist Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychological and psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions. OCD is distinguished from other types of anxiety, including the routine tension and stress that appear throughout life. OCD may cause feeling similar to depression. OCD is manifested in a variety of forms. Studies have placed the prevalence between one and three percent, although the prevalence of clinically-recognized OCD is much lower, suggesting that many individuals with the disorder may not be diagnosed. The fact that many individuals do not seek treatment may be due in part to stigma associated with OCD. Another reason for not seeking treatment is because many sufferers of OCD do not realize that they have the condition. The typical OCD sufferer performs tasks (or compulsions) to seek relief from obsession-related anxiety. To others, these tasks may appear odd and unnecessary. But for the sufferer, such tasks can feel critically important, and must be performed in particular ways to ward off dire consequences and to stop the stress from building up. Examples of these tasks are repeatedly checking that one's parked car has been locked before leaving it, turning lights on and off a set number of times before exiting a room, or repeatedly washing hands at regular intervals throughout the day. Physical symptoms may include those brought on from anxieties and unwanted thoughts, as well as tics or Parkinson's disease-like symptoms: rigidity, tremor, jerking arm movements, or involuntary movements of the limbs. According to traditional thinking, a person’s obsessions and compulsions will persist throughout their life. This same thinking estimates that around 60 to 80 percent of people with OCD can expect marked symptom improvement with a combination of medical and behavioural treatments.

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These conventional treatments have so far yielded a significant improvement response within 4 to 6 weeks. In most cases, patients have needed follow-up monitoring and treatment to sustain their improvements.

Standard treatment of OCD includes the use of SSRI’s (Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors) such as Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft and others.

This drug regimen is typically combined with the most common behavioural treatment method called Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP). This approach differs only slightly from Desensitization Through Reciprocal Inhibition.

What can hypnosis do for the OCD sufferer? A great deal. One thing that is certain is that the more hypnosis is recognized by the medical establishment as a truly legitimate healing modality, the more OCD sufferers will benefit. This is obvious because most of the recent, significant breakthroughs in OCD treatment have been centred around Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy. C.B.T. is a form of talk therapy that can be blended very nicely with hypnosis. Also! since OCD is recognized as an anxiety disorder, it stands to reason that the medically proven effects of hypnosis on anxiety can be applied with a good chance of success to OCD. This success can be observed in degree rather than in a "pass/fail" measurement.

This widely noted expert states that an OCD sufferer can actually change their brain chemistry through a hypnotic or cognitive-behavioural process.

Another very interesting fact to note is that it is well known that stress can either exacerbate or trigger the onset of OCD symptoms.

Because of the wide range of problems associated to OCD your client should be under the supervision of their doctor and as a Hypnotherapist you should be best advised to only take on a client when referred by a doctor.

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Script Information This script uses the control room technique. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Remember to follow APIE to achieve best results. Always alter the script to personalise to your subject. This script is for guidance only. Hypnotic Script for OCD As you relax and unwind you now you feel yourself drifting down deeper into a beautiful hypnotic relaxation. Relaxing and letting go of all tension. You see yourself in a warm comfortable, inviting darkness and as you relax you drift down deeper into the darkness. You see in front of you a staircase going down into the darkness and you start to take the steps down. There is a handrail for you safety if you feel you need it. Down the steps you go, one step at a time, relaxing as you go, relaxing deeper into hypnosis as you take each step. As I count down from 10 – 1 you relax deeper with every number I count and every step that you take. (Count Down from 10 – 1 including suggestions of deepening)

The Control Room

Now in your imagination you see a large door in front of you. This is the door to the control room of your mind. As you open the door you see inside the room. The control room is full of switches buttons, levers and controls. These controls can change everything that happens to your body. The way you see, feel and hear. Quickly you notice a dial that controls your levels of stress and relaxation. As you see the dial it may be labelled between 1 and 10. 10 being the most stressed and 1 being the most relaxed. In your imagination see yourself reaching out and taking hold of the dial and turning the dial down to 1. As the dial is turned down you notice immediately that your feel much more stress free and relaxed you feel. You feel so much calmer and more relaxed than before. Now you see a second dial that controls your obsessions. You notice how high this dial is set and immediately start to turn the dial down nice and slowly. As you turn the dial down you notice the feelings you have towards your obsessions just seem to get easier.

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As the dial is turned down you notice all worries just seem to drift away. You continue to turn the dial right down. Turning the obsessions completely off. As the dial reaches 0 the obsessions has been completely removed. In your imagination now you can see yourself at a point in the future when you would have had an obsessive behaviour, but now you see yourself much calmer and much more in control. As you see yourself you see yourself controlling the situation much easier and feeling less stressed. As time passes by you notice that your obsessive behaviours become less, and less stressful. This gives you more control and you feel less concerned. As you turned down the obsessive dial in your mind it gave your mind permission to do all that it felt was necessary for you to take control of your behaviours and so right now even as I speak your mind is making changes allowing you to take control of the situation. All of these suggestions remain neatly inside your subconscious mind. Growing as you sleep soundly and comfortably. Now with the obsessive behaviours more in control you turn to leave the control room. As you leave the room you shut the door behind you, locking the door with a key. You place the key in your pocket or hold it firmly in your hand as only you have access to this control room of your mind. You notice stairs in front of you leading up into the light. As I count up from 1 – 10 you take the steps up the staircase becoming more alert and more awake with every step that you take and every number that I count. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm.

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Panic Attacks – The British Academy of Hypnosis Notes to the Hypnotist Panic attacks are simply the peak of anxious sensations. An attack is arrived at when anxious reactions cause the most physical manifestations of anxiety possible. Whilst completely harmless, these attacks can create such acute sensations that often the sufferer feels threatened or that they are about to die. Typical symptoms of panic attacks include; choking sensations or shortness of breath, rapid heart beat, palpitations, dizziness, numbness or pins and needles in the extremities, dizziness, sweating, nausea and many more. An attack can occur whilst awake or asleep, they can happen suddenly or slowly reaching a peak. Panic attacks are usually accompanied by general anxiety disorder and can also be accompanied by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and is often accompanied by phobias such as agoraphobia or social phobia. Panic attacks are caused by a shift in the way the organ responsible for the anxious response reacts. The Amygdala, a small organ in the subconscious mind, regulates the anxious response. When this becomes disrupted by things such as stress, bereavement, physical or mental abuse or illness for example (and sometimes nothing that is evident), the benchmark anxiety level is lifted and the Amygdala resets itself at this new level. Because this level is raised, sometimes the smallest additional increase in anxiety can cause an anxiety disorder. You can help the subject think through panic attacks and stop them happening by following the script below. Follow APIE to be sure you are aware of the feeling they observe when they have previously had these attacks. Hypnotic Script Relax and allow yourself to drift on down deeper. You know how the feelings of panic that you've been experiencing until now have began to take over your life. Well I'm going to show you some useful tools to overcome those feelings once and for all and to stop these attacks occurring in the future. Those feelings probably served some useful function in your life at some time in the past. The feelings were a response to some anxiety going on in your life at the time your flight or fight response, where the body prepares to deal with a

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possible threatening situation and responds by causing feelings that are neither useful or desirable. This is what's happened to you. You know you can survive a panic attack but the fear of having one has caused a chain reaction which only create one so we need to unlearn those feelings of fear and to take control. This may take a little practice at first, but when you carry out the suggestions that I make you will be free, in a very short time, of panic attacks forever. To demonstrate to you how to begin to take back control I would like to suggest that you take each symptom one step at a time whilst you're safe here in hypnosis and comfortable in the knowledge that I can help you to be free, once and for all. (Note to the hypnotist – Now go through each symptom giving relief to each in turn allowing the subject to gain control. These symptoms should previously have been covered in APIE.) One of the most common is becoming conscious of your heart beating a little more faster than usual. So imagine now that you're experiencing this symptom only to a degree that you feel comfortable with right now. And nod your head when you're experiencing your heart racing. (Pause). Good, now your mind has created this feeling and your mind can reverse it 0 so use your wonderful creative subconscious mind now to reverse the feeling of a racing heart. Perhaps imagine it as heavy music which is beginning to slow down to a nice steady rhythm, or a clock that's beginning to wind down use your imagination it can only be right. Nod your head again when you can feel your heart slowing down to a comfortable pace. (Pause again). Good. So you see your mind can control your heartbeat and especially your awareness of it. Another feeling that people sometimes say they have is one of clamminess in the back of the neck or the palms of their hands. Maybe they feel hot and sweaty and you can experience this feeling now as you go deeper and deeper in this gentle hypnotic state. Let me know when your hands or the back of your neck feels like that. (Pause). That's good, now if it's your hands you can imagine you're standing at the side of a fan to get cool.

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And you do, you do get cool, cool and comfortable once again. If it's the back of your neck, maybe you can imagine a lovely cool breeze coming from the fan behind your neck and your neck will become more comfortable too. Do this now, safely whilst you are in hypnosis. Some say that their legs feel weak like jelly, but you can imagine a lovely strong feeling spreading into those legs, right now. They may notice little shivers running through the body, and you can become really curious about those shivers if that's one of your symptoms. Maybe you can imagine the rays of the sun streaming over your body, making it feel relaxed making it feel comfortable and warm and so relaxed. Another thing people find useful to do if they notice those panicky feelings beginning to develop is to learn to go with the flow. Don't fight them just be still for a few moments and breathe calmly and evenly and let those feelings wash over you don't become a part of those feelings. Just observe them, calmly and comfortably to show that you are in control. Some people take themselves to a special place that has good memories for them. Like a beach or a garden or simply a lazy day ride on a boat on the river. And they know that as they float towards these more pleasant scenes so they float past the panic they leave it there behind taking no notice at all. And the feelings quickly subdue and are replaced by more comfortable feelings of calm relaxation. Lets do that now and feel yourself relaxing and feeling calm. So you see, you've already learned several techniques here to cope with the panic. And knowing that you're well equipped to deal with anything that might crop up is a wonderful comfort to you, and because you feel much more comfortable about the whole situation you begin to lose your fear of panic, you always know that panic passes easily and you're in control and as a direct result of this you're going to find those panic feelings occur less and less until they gradually ease away all by themselves. In a moment I'm going to count up to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake with beautiful feelings flowing through your body, calm and peaceful thoughts flowing through your mind.

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In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to heal and breathe easily. One – coming more awake now. Calm and positive Two – relaxed and very, very calm Three – feeling lighter Four – on top of the world and confident in your abilities Five – more aware of the room around you Six – relaxed and confident Seven – almost home now Eight – feeling wonderful in your thoughts Nine – calm and better than you felt before Ten – eyes open and welcome home © The British Academy of Hypnosis 2005 Copyright British Hypnosis 2005

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Peak Performance Start with a hypnotic induction and a deepen.

Visualise yourself at the side of the stage - waiting for your turn to perform. As you begin to see and sense yourself waiting there in the wings and you hear the applause which is being given to the performer whose act is now ending, this is your cue to begin to relax. You begin by checking your body for tension and if you note any tension or anxiety, you let it go. Next you concentrate on your breathing. You breathe into your lungs and hold that breath for three, and as you breathe out, think in your mind the following words. "I am calm, I am relaxed and I am confident". These are your cue words for post hypnotic response and each time you take those deep breaths and hold for three, you mentally repeat those words in your thoughts, strengthening those calm and confident feelings. You repeat this procedure twice more. Now its your turn to go onto the stage and the audience are ready for you - and you are ready for them. You hold your head high and walk slowly and carefully onto the stage. The lights are on you and its bright and alive and you're aware of these calm and confident feelings. You can see some of the audience's faces and notice how interested they appear to you - they're listening and watching and hanging onto your every word. Some people are concentrating on you so hard that their faces are tight, others are smiling - they're enjoying themselves here, watching and listening to you. S ome people have a glazed look in their eyes, and you realise that they are mesmerised - hypnotised - fascinated by you and your act. This makes you feel good. You're doing marvellously and its a tremendous feeling for you to be so confident and so calm. I'm going to be quiet for a moment or two and I want you to mentally rehearse your actual act (or sport , song, speech or whatever.)

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See yourself presenting yourself in a professional way. You're looking and feeling good. (Pause for one minute.) Now your performance is coming to an end. The audience begins to applaud you - they're clapping their hands as hard as they can. They love you and they love your act. They're shouting for more. See the look of admiration in their eyes. You've done a brilliant job. Now leave the scene, you walk off the stage feeling as though you could jump up in the air (but you don't.) You feel on top of the world. When you come to do this for read - things will happen to you, just as I say they will happen to you. And remember your breathing and holding it for three, and those words in your thoughts. "I am calm, I am relaxed and I am confident". Now awaken your subject up out of hypnosis or add a few more suggestions, or repeat some of the ones already given.

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Premature Ejaculation – The British Academy of Hypnosis.


Sex is supposed to be wonderfully pleasurable, but if you are plagued by premature ejaculation, there is little that is more stressful. Being with someone and wanting to pleasure them sexually, not to mention the humiliation, is awful, no matter how understanding they may be. So why does it happen? Premature ejaculation may seem like a bizarre and uncontrollable thing, but there are clear causes. Often, early or first sexual experiences happen in a less than relaxed or secure place, such as the back of a car, a parents house, or a shared room. The message to the inexperienced part of the unconscious mind is "You'd better hurry up or you won't get to finish this!" Because your brain is set up to procreate, this is received as an extremely urgent instruction and one that is not easily forgotten. So how can hypnosis stop premature ejaculation? The only cure for premature ejaculation is for the unconscious mind to 'update' the pattern it uses for sexual performance. This sometimes happens through experience, and sometimes it needs a little help. This is where hypnosis is so effective. Using the relaxed pleasurable state of hypnosis, the unconscious can learn a new way of going about sexual activity. It can learn to take its time and enjoy sex, rather than treating it like a sprint. And because it is unconscious, the first thing your subject will notice is that you are just lasting longer and longer before orgasm. What is Premature Ejaculation? Premature ejaculation is "the persistent or recurrent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation, or, before, upon, or shortly after penetration and before the person wishes it."

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Performance anxiety. Worry and anxiety can create fear, and that fear can create or perpetuate the problem. Sexual failure can start a vicious cycle of performance pressures. This can happen in new relationships and can continue in the relationship once the anchors are set. Lack of sensory awareness. Men who can last a long time sexually are able to identify their point of "ejaculatory inevitability" (that point where ejaculation cannot be stopped), and take corrective action before that point is reached. For those who do not have the awareness of this sequence, the ejaculation occurs before they even had a clue. The ultimate orgasm control session in this hypnosis program will install the sensory triggers in the unconscious mind to help the body to stop the ejaculation long before the point of no return. By increasing your awareness of the buildup of these pleasurable sensations you will better able to judge where you are along the path of reaching an orgasm and ejaculating. (Note: orgasm and ejaculation are separate events, caused by separate systems in the male's body, though they usually occur at the same time. The term orgasm is commonly used when speaking of a male's ejaculation. Technically, however, orgasm is just the peak of the intense pleasurable feeling that usually follows a man being highly sexually excited.) Your subconscious mind is responsible for the messages that your body is receiving that create an ejaculation. Hypnosis can help change those messages. Even if you are not aware of the cause, it can be resolved with hypnosis. Your subconscious mind knows why it is performing the function of early ejaculation. It is often the result of a sequence of events in the mind that tell the body to ejaculate. When you are using a hypnosis technique to find the cause, you are going directly to the source of the problem.

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Hypnotic Script

In the future you will have more will have more sexual power and greater sexual self-control. Also you will feel an increase in your power of endurance to the extent that you will be able to reach one or more satisfactory climaxes. In the future you will be satisfied with the amount of time you spend in the sex act and you will be less concerned as to when you have an ejaculation. You are more aware of enjoying the process of sex and enjoying and controlling the build up of your ejaculation. In the future you will have more will power and greater self-control. Also you will feel an increase in your power of endurance to the extent that you will be able to reach one or more satisfactory climaxes. In the future you will be satisfied with the amount of time you spend in the sex act and you will be less concerned as to when you have an ejaculation. You are more calm and relaxed, enjoying each moment without the rush. Whenever you consider having sex, you find you are calm and relaxed and begin to anticipate both the pleasure you will give and also the pleasure you will receive. You truly enjoy giving pleasure and as you concentrate on that you make your partner feel happy and you will succeed in giving and receiving the pleasure and enjoyment in the future that you had in the past when all was at its peak for you. Your sexual performance improves. You will notice the improvement no matter how slight it will be at first and you will be well pleased with the amount of improvement that you will notice.

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Your improvement will be progressive and so you will look forward to each new sexual experience with positive anticipation and wonder just how much better it will be next time. Your improvement will be lasting and permanent and you will be well pleased with yourself and your progress. You feel more confidence in yourself and your ability to perform well. You have greater lasting power before you climax. You feel more confident in yourself and this confidence grows as you perform better and better. You are more in control of the moment. Enjoying the experience without rushing. Calm and relaxed. You can perform sex for longer now as you hold your ejaculation back until you are ready. You have more self-control. You have increased endurance power and you find that once you have climaxed it is easy for you to be aroused again. You are now in control of the process, relaxed and calm as you look forwards to a brighter future knowing that you are in control of your ejaculation.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your sexual performance is becoming stronger and more controlled. Your body fills with energy and you feel stress free and wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time. © The British Academy of Hypnosis 2006

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Psoriasis / Eczema – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist Psoriasis is like a severe case of eczema. It is a skin disease, which looks like red blotches of dried and sore skin. This script uses a direct positive suggestion technique to ensure your subjects visualise their skin growing healthy and strong. In some cases stress can also cause the problem but eventually it just become a vicious circle of poor health. A Psoriasis CD can be bought from the web site at: www.BritishHypnosis.com This could be used to give ideas of a reframing script for skin health or the CD can be used by your subjects to speed the process, we have had some great results. Start with your usual hypnotic induction and then deepen the hypnotic trance as usual.

Hypnotic Script

As you wonder along in your minds eyes, you feel the heat of the sun beating down on your skin. So real, you feel the warmth right now.

The sunshine caresses your skin and you relax and you enjoy this wonderful calm relaxation. I want you to see yourself now, on a lovely warm sunny beach. It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever. You see yourself strolling along the soft golden sand and admiring the beautiful view. The sounds of the sea gently lapping onto the sand beach. The sun shines down and the air is still and warm upon your skin. You can feel the healing energies of the sunlight on your arms and face, spreading across your entire body. It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever.

Your mind is so calm and relaxed it is just the perfect day.

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The sea is gently lapping onto the sands as you take a seat by the side of the water and admire the amazing view. You almost smell the salt in the air and almost taste it on your lips as you relax deeper into the sunshine.

Everything is so quite and wonderful. It's one of those days that you wish could go on forever.

You are all alone on a beautiful warm exotic beach. Nobody can disturb you and nobody needs you so just relax and enjoy the experience.

You look around on the beach and you find a comfortable place to lie down and to allow the sun to dry and heal your skin.

The sun feels so hot now and you can feel the warm breeze caressing your body as you relax and unwind.

All the stresses of life just drift from your mind now, as you feel so calm and relaxed.

You lie there in the sun the warmth of the suns bright light warming you, relaxing you and healing you. It's one of those days that you wish could just go on forever.

The suns healing light beats down. It's such a wonderful feeling that you wish you could stay here forever and as you enjoy the warmth and the calm your skin heals.

The healing light shines down, caressing your body from the top of your head, down your face and down your neck. Healing as it travels.

Across your chest you feel the warmth of the sun, healing your skin as it moves down your body. Down your arms. Across your hands and right to the very tips of your fingers.

Every muscle in your body relaxes deeper, almost melting into the healing warm sunshine.

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Your skin is being replaced by beautiful healthy skin, your skin grows perfectly, in perfect condition. It grows at the correct speed and is always perfectly healthy.

Around your waist your skin is bathed by the warming light. Warming and healing as it travels down your body. Down your legs and right to the very tips of your toes. For now it is time to say goodbye to this special place. Goodbye to the beach and its healing powers. In your imagination you can visit this special place in your mind at any time. Healing your skin with the power of your mind.

In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will realise that your skin is improving in health and strength and looking better every day. Your body fills with energy and you feel stress free and wonderful. All these suggestions will remain in your mind, growing stronger in time keeping your skin healthy and young looking for life. You feel stress free and your healing properties recharged. Your skin grows health and fresh.

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Public Speaking Script You realise that you are a constantly maturing and growing personality. You are becoming aware of the strength and abilities that are within you. You are sensing a feeling of confidence in your abilities to achieve the goals you have chosen for yourself. You are learning to believe in yourself, you appreciate yourself and you do good and kind things for yourself. You meet each situation as it comes with calm and quite assurance. You are making contact with the center of wisdom and power within you which knows what to do and how to do it. Whatever you say, whatever you do, is said and done with complete confidence and self assurance. You walk with a spring in your step, your head is held high. You see the beauty of life around you. People respect you because you respect them and you respect yourself. You have confidence in your own judgment and you are honest and dependable. You can and you do move forward from one positive achievement to another. People are aware that you like them, they sense your good will. You are cheerful and enthusiastic. You attract friends because you are friendly. You are sincere and honest. Your personal integrity is felt by everyone you meet. Each day you meet new friends and interesting people. As you approach people for the first time, you feel a warmth and friendship for them. Your smile and your friendly greetings express your sincere feelings towards them. You enjoy people and you want to do things for them.

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You know that people seek you out because you are unique and you revel in their acceptance of you. People respond to your personal integrity, your special personality and your warm friendliness draws people close to you, just as a magnet attracts iron filings. You are a happy person full of imaginative thoughts which you pour forth constantly. Each and every day, you feel more lovable, more interesting and you become more interested in others. You recognise and accept the friendship that people offer you, for you truly deserve it. You have a deep and sincere respect for yourself and for your personal worth to others. You like people - you enjoy being with people. You are poised and confident when talking to new acquaintances or good friends. You're secure and relaxed when you are with people. You especially enjoy speaking to people. People are aware that you like them and they return the feeling to you. People like you. People like to listen to you when you speak. People enjoy your company. You are at ease when you are with people. When you stand up before a group of people, you are filled with feelings of friendliness for them. You want to do things for them. You feel their friendliness to you. You experience a feeling of warmth and friendship flowing from the members of the audience to you.

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You have the feeling that they are on your side. You are interested in them, you want to do things for them. You are so interested in them, that you have sense of personal friendship with every single one in your audience. (With every member of your audience.) As you speak you are perfectly poised, self possessed and completely free in your expression. You feel at ease, you present your ideas in a clear brief and direct way. Your ideas are quickly understood and accepted by others. You mind is clear, your wit is quick. Your lips are flexible, your mouth is moist. Your breathing is deep and from the diaphragm. Your hands are poised and calm. Your gestures flow spontaneously and freely. You speak easily, always giving a clear word picture of the thought you wish to convey. You are poised and in control of the situation. Your legs are strong beneath you. You are comforted and peaceful. You are secure and confident as you speak. You speak spontaneously, sincerely and freely. Clearly expressing your meaning and your feelings at any time when you speak whether to a large audience or a small group. As you begin, you feel this warmth and friendliness for your listeners. As you begin, your feel their friendliness directed towards you. You are totally confident, you are perfectly at ease. As you begin to talk, you have the undivided attention of the audience, and it makes you feel good.

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You speak freely, fluidly with a full release of your skill and your talent. You thoroughly enjoy speaking to an audience. Whenever you feel you can add a new view point or an interesting fact to a discussion, you speak openly and confidently. You communicate effectively and powerfully at all times. People seek your opinions on a variety of subjects and you deliver information in an interesting and witty way (manner.) You have a special talent for expressing your thoughts and ideas vividly, with an enthusiasm that favorably impresses everyone that hears you. When others speak you listen and you learn from them. You see their point of view. You express your ideas in a positive way whenever possible. When you speak your voice, it is strong, calm and vibrant. Your mind flows with concise and yet powerful messages whenever you will it to do so. Your voice is pleasant to hear. People are eager to hear what you have to say, because you are so alive and so vibrant. The friendship within you radiates outward to touch each person with whom you come in contact. You ask questions when you don't fully understand and you state your opinions whenever they are asked or whenever it is appropriate for you to express them. People accept your opinions because they recognise that they are honest and well thought out. You speak spontaneously, sincerely and freely, clearly verbalising your feelings. When there is nothing for you to say, you simply glow with an inner radiance, showing honesty, sympathy and concern. You are so interested in people that you stimulate them to fully express their views - before you speak.

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When words are inadequate you act out the emotions you feel, you demonstrate a level of maturity and perception which is unique. When you are called upon to conduct a meeting, you are relaxed and in complete control of the situation. Your face reflects an inner calmness, a sense of well being of self assurance. Your conversation is bright and sparkling as well as informative. Your talent for expressing your thoughts vividly with enthusiasm favorably impresses everyone. Your large vocabulary, your fluency in speech and your clearness of thought causes a quiet authority that flows from you. Your powerful memory serves you well. Your manner of speaking inspires confidence in others and causes them to have a good opinion of you. Each of the ideas is now making a deep and permanent impression on your subconscious mind and each day of your daily life, you become more and more aware of the powerful expression of these true concepts. Now I'm going to count from three down to one, then I'll say the words "personal success". This is the time to program your imagination with scenes that represent your personal success. This is the time when you can see yourself, thinking, feeling acting in that special way that means personal success. Get ready now: 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... "personal success". From this time forward with each passing day, you become more and more aware of a wonderful feeling of personal confidence. Confidence in the realization that each day brings you closer to your personal goals. Each day is a vital step in your problem solving, in developing the motivation to change your behavior to move yourself towards your highest potential, so that you now begin to enjoy a fuller and richer and more expressive life. © Copyright British Academy Of Hypnosis www.BritishHypnosis.com

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Self Esteem Boost – The British Academy of Hypnosis


This script is a great start when it comes to boosting confidence. You may need to alter this script a little to your subjects exact confidence needs. You will find this out by using APIE. Start with a hypnotic induction and deepen. Hypnotic Self Esteem and Confidence Boost

Make yourself comfortable feet side-by-side and slightly apart with arms relaxed down by your sides. Look up above your eye level and find a comfortable spot on the ceiling or on the wall to fix your gaze on. The perfect position for it will be one that it is not quite comfortable for you to look at it. Focus your eyes on the spot you’ve chosen and start to relax, relax, relax, relax deeply and completely. Deeply and comfortably. Don’t close your eyes even if you are tempted, not until it is time. Keep them on the spot, absolutely fixed, all of the time. And relax everything else. Slowly and completely. Remember that for the next few minutes nothing else matters but you, relaxing and listening to my voice. Nothing will disturb you or bother you or even interest you. All sounds just seem to drift away relaxing you more and more, instantly. From now on there is nothing to bother you and nothing for you to worry about. Nobody needs you right now and there is nothing for you to do other than to relax and make some time for yourself, so just lie back, make yourself totally comfortable and relax, completely and comfortably. Just keep your eyes on the spot. Relaxing with every second that passes by. Relaxing more and more. Just allow relaxation to flow all across your body, slowly, relaxing everything. Your mind is quiet as you relax more and more, your mind is quiet as you relax and drift, drifting, relaxing and feeling great. You can feel your heart beating, your lungs breathing, your brain relaxing, your ears listening and your eyes relaxing now.

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Now it’s time to relax every muscle in your body. Start by feeling every muscle and notice how you feel. Take a nice deep breath and allow yourself to relax. Notice all the muscles around the top of your head and around your scalp, feel all these muscles relaxing. As they relax a feeling of comfort and warmth spreads down your body. All the muscles across your face relax. Around your forehead and across your face. Your eyelids relax now and as I count down from 10 down to 1 your eyelids close down and relax. 10. Relax now. 9. Relaxing more and more. 8. Feel yourself going down and down, deeper and deeper down. 7. Feel your eyelids pulling and closing down. 6. Relaxing. 5. Going deeper and deeper down. Your eyelids heavy and drooping and closing. They can close any time they want to now. 4. Relaxing. 3. Relaxing more and more. 2. Drifting deeper as your eyes relax. 1. Eyes closed. Eyes firmly closed and every part of you wonderfully and deeply and calmly relaxed. Now let every part of you go limp lazy and relaxed. Feel every muscle, every single one of them, relaxing, relaxing completely, loose limp and lazy. As you relax, feel the tension start to leave you. All the tensions of the last few weeks, days and the last few hours, all the troubles and problems let them just drift away, not bothering you. Feel all the tightness and the tension draining away from you, especially from your face and your neck and shoulders. Let them relax absolutely, the tension draining, draining, and draining away. Across your shoulders you relax and with every breath you take relaxes you more and more. Drifting down through your body, down your stomach with every breath that you take. Around your waist and drifting down your arms and legs. Your whole body is now relaxed, calm and still, relaxed and still. Feel your fingers and hands relaxing, becoming still and heavy.

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Your forearm muscles relaxing, feel them relaxing, all relaxing. All the last feelings of tension just drift away now. Your legs are lying heavy and still, very, very heavy now. Heavy tired and sleepy. You feel as if you just don’t want too move for a while. Your whole body very tired, very heavy and very, very sleepy. Now as you lie there relaxed and calm you are going to hear me count down to one once more, even more slowly than before. And this time, with every count you’ll feel yourself going deeper and deeper into relaxation, deeper and deeper, really deeply down, deeper than you’ve ever been before, right down very deeply where it is very calm and very comfortable, and very, very safe and relaxed. 10. Relaxing still more. 9. Drifting, going down and down, deeply down, 8. Relaxing more with every breath and every number. 7. Going deeper and deeper, very, very deeply now, 6. Sleeping and drifting. 5. Feeling very tired and sleepy now. 4. Relaxing and calm inside. 3. Very sleepy and heavy. 2. Relaxed, calm and quiet. 1. Going deeply down now, very deeply down. Everything about you deeply relaxed, very heavy, very deep, very relaxed, very, very safe and secure. As you relax deeply your mind opens to my hypnotic voice. Now you find it easy to accept my words that build your confidence and self-esteem. You will find that from this moment on you are developing more self-control. You will now face every situation in a calm and relaxed positive and confident state of mind. Your thinking is very clear and sharp at all times. You begin to feel that your self-respect and confidence are expanding more and more each day in every way.

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You have a positive and confident attitude towards life and this attitude shines from you. You have the motivation and determination to be successful in all that you do. You are going to embark on an extensive and effective self-help program, a self-improvement program. Because you want to be better than you are, you want to realise your greatest potential, a far greater potential than every before. You have the ability to succeed. Deep inside you have plenty of ability never even used yet. You are going to learn how to use it, how to make it work for you, discover your tremendous talents and resources. Now you have made the decision to succeed. All this is going to happen, that is absolutely certain. It’s going to happen to you, not by accident and not by magic but by design. You have decided to make positive changes to your life and you feel great. Now with this positive attitude you will make things happen. Now you will feel the changes, every day in every way you are going to get better and better, every day, in every way, you are getting better and better. You can feel your mind expanding, lifting, moving, progressing, taking control, asserting itself and feeling confident. You are an individual. You are in command. Your strength, your control, your will power. And you’ll feel it strengthening every day. Little by little, control becomes easier, easier to exercise command. Your mind moving upward and forward and outward, progressing, advancing, learning, improving, stronger and stronger. And as your will power increases so does your confidence. It grows stronger all the time, stronger by the day, by the hour.

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Now you are bigger, better, stronger, your will power growing, your mind strengthening, your confidence flowing, feeling good, feeling strong, in control, capable. Everything improving, everything developing, you improving, your mind developing, your will power, your strength, your security, your determination, your courage. Confidence building, will power growing, everything advancing, progressing. Small doubts, small guilt’s, small shames over things that happened long ago. Unfair punishments received, insults tolerated, physical abuses accepted. Perhaps many of these tiny past injustices have lingered and accumulated. And together they weight too heavily on you/ They give you doubts. They made you hesitate. They made you feel unsure, uncertain of your abilities, uncertain of your reception. And now at once you feel better. At once the burden lightens. You have won. A small first round, with lots more too come, but you have won. You can beat every guilt that way, one at a time. You can beat every fear that way, bit by bit. You can do all these things. Ridding yourself of guilt's and shames and anxieties and doubts and fears. They have no part of you now. You are a new person, stronger character, determined fiber, filling with courage and determination. Growing better all the time. You are lifting up your head, squaring your shoulders. You are facing facts. You are you. You can look the whole world right in the eye. No more hiding. No more doubting. No more retreating or skulking alone.

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But out now and up and forward. Greeting the day and the world. Greeting everyone with a smile. Knowing there is a place for you right where you choose. You will be better liked, more appreciated. People start too see new things about you, to recognise you for what you are, a good, strong, reliable, honest, fair person. You know that inside all these things are possible, they can all happen, more than that, they are already all happening. Already you feel stronger. You feel your confidence growing all the time. You ignore set backs, you go right ahead and try again. You keep trying, you push on. You never, never give up, never yield, never doubt. You are you. Confident and strong. You are in charge. You are in control. You are becoming bigger, better, stronger, more sure, more fulfilled, more successful, more happy, more confident all the time. You are making progress. You are getting better. You, you, you, say it over again, you, you, you. You are you, you are you. Relax and remember that. Relax and remember that, relax, relax deeply now, very deeply, relax, very deeply, and remember, relax and remember. You realise that you have the ability to make everything happen. Everything around you happens through your choice. Every day when you practice relaxing like this, you will go to your quiet place and relax. You’ll look at your chosen spot and let your mind and body go calm and still. You’ll relax your entire body, bit by bit, as you just did, until everything feels limp and heavy. Then slowly but surely you’ll count yourself down into relaxation, deep, gentle, hypnotic rest and relaxation. You can do it, you are doing it right now, your mind power is in control because you are you, you are you and you are in charge of you.

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The bad things are diminishing and leaving you, no more worries now, no fears, no doubts, no anxieties, no fretting and worrying. And you yourself are getting better, progressing in every way and every day. Your personality advancing, your confidence growing, your will power expanding, everything improving and getting better and better, feeling fit and strong and healthy and well and safe and certain and confident and contented and happier, happier all the time. And when you’ve relaxed and reminded yourself deep, deep down of the things you are going to remember, then it will be time to wake up and resume your usual life style in its new improved way, just as you’re going too do now, in the next few moments. We've all had that special moment when we felt really wonderful. A great feeling of excitement that sends a tingle down your back. As you relax let your subconscious mind provide you now with a memory of a time when you felt really good about yourself, perhaps you had accomplished, something you were proud of or maybe you were being complimented for your effort. The content of the memory is not important but what is important now is the feeling that this memory gives to you. Inside you feel good about yourself. As you breathe in you feel more positive and strong and as you breathe out you relax, let, go and allow yourself to drift down into a state of beautiful relaxation. You are relaxed now, and because you are so relaxed you begin to feel free from all tension, anxiety and fear. Because these good, strong, confident feelings are becoming more and more a part of you and you are becoming that stronger, more confident person. And remember, anytime you want to feel even more confident and positive about life all you need to do is to breathe in really deeply and allow the feelings of happiness to flow to you.

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When times feel hard you take time for yourself to recharge your own batteries. You notice you can relax easily and quickly and you feel wonderful and confident. You are calmer, more relaxed, and much more confident than ever before. You know what it’s like to feel those good, strong, confident feelings and you can really enjoy remembering and re-experiencing those feelings, which are becoming more and more a permanent part of you. You are succeeding now in all that you do and you have all the abilities necessary for success. You feel calm relaxed and comfortable. Your mind and body free from stress and feeling wonderful. From this moment on your confidence grows. You realise that you are in control of every situation and you meet every situation head on with confidence and enthusiasm. Each day you grown in confidence growing stronger and full of self belief. All the suggestions I have given you are now implanted in your unconscious and will remain with you as long as they are useful to you. These suggestions are getting stronger and stronger with every breath you take, with every beat of your heart and are becoming your new habits for life. In a moment I will count up from one to ten and as I count up you will feel positive, strong and confident in your ability to be the best carer possible in all situations. © The British Academy of Hypnosis 2006

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Teeth Grinding – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist Bruxism" means grinding and/or clenching of teeth. It is considered a nonfunctional habit that can occur while awake or asleep. Grinding your teeth while asleep is more of a problem since most people will grind their teeth much harder than they ever would while awake. Such "Nocturnal Bruxism" is a very common sleep behavior that a many people will experience at some time in their lives. It often is more evident during times of personal stress. Complete a hypnotic induction then follow the script below. Repeat the script a couple of times and add in any reason that your subject may give to the reason they believe they may grind their teeth. You would cover this in APIE as usual.

Hypnotic Script Stressful situations occur every day, which may cause us to grit our teeth. Whenever one of these anxiety-producing events happens, or is going to happen, you unconsciously grit your teeth. Now you have a way of handling the situation, by keeping just enough nervous energy to deal with the task perfectly and letting go of excess tension. When you’re ready to go to sleep at night you can practice by saying something like ‘Tonight I will sleep soundly and I stop grinding my teeth as I sleep.’ Most teeth grinding happens during the night. The cause is that the subconscious mind remembers the stressful or anxiety producing situations, which have occurred during the day, or threaten to occur in the future, and replays them many times during the night. Now during the night, the abnormal touch of your teeth will waken you, you’ll smile realise that your subconscious is protecting you, turn over, and go right back to sleep, losing no sleep at all. As you relax here you feel so calm and relaxed, comforted by the fact that now you will sleep well and not grind your teeth.

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It’s so nice when you’re feeling tired to just rest your head and drift down into a nice, deep, comfortable physiological sleep, and so delightful to be aware of that comfortable feeling that you experience when there is an appropriate amount of space between your teeth, no contact. And whenever you drift down into a nice, deep, comfortable physiological sleep, there is the possibility that on this night or perhaps on the next night, or that this week or the next week, you will grind your teeth. But from now on, whenever that occurs you will immediately awaken, smile and relax your jaw, before drifting back into that nice, deep, comfortable, physiological sleep. All of these suggestions remain neatly inside your subconscious mind. Growing as you sleep soundly and comfortably. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm.



Three – feeling lighter now, confident you no longer grind your teeth.

Four – feeling confident of a great night’s sleep







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Tinnitus – The British Academy of Hypnosis

Notes to the Hypnotist Tinnitus is the medical name used to describe ringing noises in the ears. Known causes Whilst there are no known causes for tinnitus, there are many factors that have been associated with tinnitus including headaches, emotional tension, anxiety, high blood pressure, anemia, catarrh, sinus congestion and fatigue. However, as yet there are no known effective medical treatments for this problem except hypnosis. Although research suggests that lack of sleep and headaches are common related symptoms, which may affect the frequency and degree of tinnitus, all cases of tinnitus tend to vary according to the individual; some people suffer only in one ear, others in both. Some people experience a mild ringing noise, whereas others are troubled by loud, high-pitched noises. Even diet has been associated with tinnitus. You would cover all the areas with APIE as usual and amend the script as required. If you are comfortable with ideo-motor you could use this to confirm the numbers on the dials in the control room and to confirm that the ringing has been turned down. You could also talk to the subject to confirm where the dials are set initially and then after the session. This should become clear as you read the script. Complete a hypnotic induction then follow the script following.

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Tinnitus Hypnotic Script As you relax and unwind you now you feel yourself drifting down deeper into a beautiful hypnotic relaxation. You see yourself in a warm comfortable, inviting darkness and as you relax you drift down deeper. You see in front of you a staircase going down into the darkness and you start to take the steps down. There is a handrail for you safety if you feel you need it. Down the steps you go, relaxing deeper into hypnosis as you take each step. As I count down from 10 – 1 you relax deeper with every number I count and every step that you take. (Count Down from 10 – 1 including suggestions of deepening)

The Control Room Now in your imagination you see a large door in front of you. This is the door to the control room of your mind. As you open the door you see inside the room. The control room is full of switches buttons, levers and controls. These controls can change everything that happens to your body. The way you see, feel and hear. Quickly you notice a dial that controls your levels of stress and relaxation. As you see the dial it may be labeled between 1 and 10. 10 being the most stressed and 1 being the most relaxed. In your imagination see yourself reaching out and taking hold of the dial and turning the dial down to 1. As the dial is turned down you notice immediately that your feel much more stress free and relaxed you feel. You feel so much calmer and more relaxed than before. Now you see a second dial that controls the ringing sounds in your ears. You notice how high this dial is set and immediately start to turn the dial down nice and slowly. As you turn the dial down you notice the ringing sound slowly becomes more muffled. The ringing starts to fade away. As the dial is turned down you notice all the ringing sounds become lower and lower in volume and the ringing just fades into the distance.

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You continue to turn the dial right down. Turning the ringing sound off completely. All of these suggestions remain neatly inside your subconscious mind. Growing as you sleep soundly and comfortably. (Confirm with the client by ideo-motor or conversation that the ringing has been lowered or removed. If necessary continue removing the ringing through suggestion.) Now with the ringing gone you turn to leave the control room. As you leave the room you shut the door behind you, locking the door with a key. You place the key in your pocket or hold it firmly in your hand as only you have access to this control room of your mind. You notice stairs in front of you leading up into the light. As I count up from 1 – 10 you take the steps up the staircase becoming more alert and more awake with every step that you take and every number that I count. On the count of 10 you will awake refreshed and re-energised. Feeling wonderful and calm.


Two – relaxed and very, very calm, step by step

Three – feeling lighter now

Four – feeling confident as you take the steps upwards

Five – more aware of the room around you now


Seven – almost home now, up the steps we go




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WEIGHT Gain – Control Room - The British Academy of Hypnosis.

Notes to the Hypnotherapist Follow APIE and then begin by choosing your induction and deepener. Take a nice deep breath and as you do you find yourself relaxing more and more and as you breathe you imagine yourself stepping down steps, each step you take you find yourself relaxing more and more. In your imagination you see the steps. You notice there is a hand rail for your safety as you step down, deeper and deeper. Some people see these images clearly, for others they are just thoughts. Either way is fine. You imagine yourself stepping down each step and as I count down the steps you feel yourself relaxing more each step of the way. 10 Relaxing and stepping down. 9 With each step you relax more. 8 Relaxing as you step down. 7 Feeling strong and confident in each step that you take. 6 Positive and confident. 5 Relaxing deepeerr and deepeerrrrr 4 Calm and heavy 3 Feeling warm and secure 2 More relaxed with each step that you move down 1 At the bottom of the steps now and more relaxed than ever before. Pictures are the language of the brain and you’re going to use your wonderful rich imagination now and visit the control room of your mind. You imagine yourself at the bottom of the steps and in front of you, there is a door. You push open the door and step into the control room of your mind. Suddenly you see that you’re surrounded by panels with switches and buttons and knobs and coloured lights of different shapes and sizes. As you look around you see a dial labeled metabolism and as you look at this dial you see that it is turned up too high. As the dial is too high you are burning calories too fast and losing too much weight. You reach out in your mind and turn the dial down. As you do this an amazing thing begins to happen. The chemicals in your brain become regulated and you feel a warm inner glow deep within you. You can really notice it now.

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You can feel and experience that warm inner glow tiny at first but then spreading within your body. From this moment you are going to find that you have more energy, more vitality, you feel younger and fitter and healthier, and every day this feeling within you grows stronger as you start to gain weight. As you turn down the dial your metabolism reduces and you gain weight quickly and easily. Returning to the other dials and switches in the control room you notice that one of the dials is labelled ‘Appetite’ and that this dial is set much lower than it should be. Carefully you ease the dial into the correct position so that you begin to boost your appetite and your desire to eat more healthy food. And as your hand begins to move the dial into the correct position a surprising thing happens to you. You feel deep within you, a contentment, a feeling of satisfaction in your stomach as you realise that you wish to eat more food, increasing your calorie intake. These good feelings spread throughout your body, and your mind, because you’re eating more now, but deriving the same sense of satisfaction as when you used to eat less. Your stomach begins to enjoy a happier feeling as it enjoys the food and allows you to gain weight easily. This weigh gain gives you a feeling of confidence in yourself. Because you realise now that you’re in control of yourself and in control of your weight. When you have had enough to eat you stop eating but you do enjoy eating a few calories more. And again, as you look around the control room you notice that there are switches connected to Taste. Some of these switches are set in the wrong position. For example there may be a switch regulating your taste for sweet foods or fizzy drinks, and if this is set up too high you find that you can adjust it, and in doing so you adjust your own natural taste and desire as you begin to enjoy healthier foods and drinks. The switches may indicate that in the past you have eaten too much poor foods and that you need to reduce this for the benefit of your health and your body.

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You adjust the switch in a way that your subconscious mind automatically knows is correct for you. You relax and allow yourself to drift deeper and deeper into this wonderful feeling of hypnosis. Knowing that you are in control and making positive changes to your eating habits and gaining weight. You may discover that there are healthy foods that you have avoided in the past, perhaps certain fruits, salads or fresh vegetables. Maybe the switches need regulating to help you to regain your natural taste buds and enjoy these wonderful, healthy foods. And you find that everything you put into your mouth, turns into health and beauty. Everything that you eat, from this moment forward, is good for you, otherwise you wouldn’t eat it. You enjoy eating good amounts of healthy food, for that satisfies you completely. From the changes that you have made your start to gain weight at a sensible rate of perhaps 1Kg each month. You find it easy to eat a little more food. An extra slice of toast or an extra spoon of mash. You have snacks to hand so you never go short. Good choices include nuts, seeds and raisins; pots of rice pudding, custard or yoghurt; cereal or cereal bars; flapjacks; milk, yoghurt drinks or smoothies; a scone or fruit bun; oatmeal biscuits; cheese and crackers; fruit and even a small chocolate bar. Although exercise helps to burn calories, it's important to include some form of activity into your plan to help keep your bones strong and your muscles toned so you exercise on a regular basis. In the past, if you were one of those people who used to drive everywhere they went, you may now even find a great pleasure in walking whenever you can. You enjoy movement, moving your body in a graceful way and knowing that you’re looking better and healthier every single day. You may find other forms of exercise that are beneficial to you, and discovering new ways of using your body becomes a source of inspiration to you as you enjoy gaining weight.

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You may see a mirror in your control room with a distorted image of yourself. And as you move toward the mirror you begin to see your reflection and discover that this image can change and become you as you really want to be. You now see yourself gaining weight, you see yourself healthy, attractive, looking serene and calm, relaxed and happy. You may even notice the clothes that you are wearing and how good they look on you now that you have gained weight. This makes you feel good. From now on when ever you see yourself in any mirror you just a just the mirror in your imagination and from this moment on you just see yourself looking and feeling great. There may be a switch that represents the word Comfort and if you've ever found that eating is uncomfortable then you can turn that switch up and now you realise that it is comfortable for you to eat more and gain that weight. You have comfortable feelings in your stomach as you eat. Now you feel more satisfied eating larger amounts of healthy food. And as you become your own person, gaining weight, feeling healthier and happier of course, you realise that you are also becoming a much more confident person. This is not simply because of the weight you are gaining, but because you realise now that you are in control. You have a healthy and active mind and you are careful about the sort of thoughts that your mind thinks. You do not allow yourself, or anyone else, to put you down, because you realise that you are a very special person, a wonderful human being, and if any negative thoughts do enter your mind, your are instantly on vigil, and push the thoughts out of your mind, replacing them with more positive thoughts. You’re becoming a healthier and happier person a much more confident person and those around you are astonished in the changes to your personality because you inject enthusiasm and love and motivation to those that you meet. You feel good about yourself and you feel good about other people.

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This means that other people feel good about themselves and they also feel good about you. And these wonderful, positive changes are beginning to take place now at a deeper level of mind. They will continue to take effect and grow stronger and stronger as each moment goes by.

Every day you're moving closer and closer to this new image of yours.

Every day you're more determined and motivated to achieve your goal of

gaining weight. Easily gaining weight each week.

And these suggestions are firmly embedded in your subconscious mind

and grow stronger and stronger day by day.

I'm going to count from one to five. At the count of five you'll be wide-

awake. You leave the control room now. Locking the door behind you as

you leave.

One, moving up the stairs which lie in front of you. Feeling awake and

more alert, feeling lighter.

Two, calm confident and feeling wonderful about gaining weight.

Three, feeling fine in every way, confident and strong.

Four, calm and feeling strong and positive.

Five, eyes open wide awake, rise and shine and welcome home.

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Weight Loss script Notes to the Hypnotist Remember always use APIE and assess your clients needs. There is a certain amount of confusional work in this script - don't attempt to 'clarify' it to much. It allows better communication with the subconscious process, since the conscious mind is kept too busy to introduce counter-suggestion. Weight Loss Metabolism script Now you start to find it easy to lose weight, your new found confidence in yourself is going to make it easier and easier for you to lose weight... as you begin to recognise the great truth that taking control of your eating habits is to take control of yourself... and that being in control of yourself allows you to be in control of your life... and being in control of your life makes it easy for you to achieve whatever you want to achieve... it's only necessary to want to do something and know how to do it, in order to be able to do it and we can all decide to do whatever we want to do. We all have free choice... so that where it has seemed in the past that there were things you could not do, you will begin to recognise that these things were nothing more than things you would not do and now you recognise this, you can decide for yourself whether to do those things or not... you can simply decide to do these things, or not to do these things. As you exercise your right of free choice to decide for yourself the things you want to do and the things you do not want to do, so your sense of self worth, your self-respect grows day by day... day by day becoming stronger and more powerful... day by day allowing you to be as you truly want to be... because you recognise fully now that whatever other people think about you is a product of their own thoughts, their own lives, their attitudes... and sometimes you might be misjudged, as we all are sometimes. But when others misjudge you, it's simply their own error of judgement, their mistake, and whatever that mistake is, whatever they think they see, is based upon their lives, their attitudes, their fears and worries and hopes.... nothing more than their own thoughts... and you're not responsible for those things... and it doesn't alter the facts, it doesn't alter the real you... because you know your true worth, your true

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integrity... and you don't mind people making mistakes sometimes... so that as you exercise your determination, your own free will, to do the things that you know will... slowly but steadily help you to lose weight, you find your sense of self worth increasing with every pound of body weight that you lose... because every pound of body weight that disappears is evidence of your ability to take charge of your life, to take charge of yourself. From now on you lose weight quickly and easily, forgetting about past failures as now you are using powerful hypnotic tools to take control of your life. You're going to find it easy to lose weight at a minimum of 1lb each and every week... most of the time, because your body is efficient and you know exactly how to help it, you'll lose more than that... 3... 4... maybe even 5lbs a week, but always, always, that absolute minimum of one pound each and every week... And as you slowly but steadily lose weight, so you'll begin to find yourself increasingly delighted with the way you look... beginning to regain that youthful figure and shape... just knowing inside yourself that you deserve to look good, it's OK to look good, OK to be slim in all those places where you really want to be slim, should be slim, deserve to be slim... because you recognise fully now that the way for you to feel really good about yourself is to be in control of your life. In control of your eating habits... in control of yourself... in control... now and well on into the future... so that you can easily achieve your target weight and size... the new eating habits that you're already beginning to establish are going to make it easy for you achieve and maintain that target weight and size... and then your sense of well being and self-worth, your feelings of self-respect, will be equaled only by your feelings of energy, vitality and well-being.

Every day you're moving closer and closer to this new image of yours. Every day you're more determined and motivated to achieve your goal - a slimmer you. Easily losing 1pound a week and often much more.

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And these suggestions are firmly embedded in your subconscious mind and grow stronger and stronger day by day.

I'm going to count from one to five. At the count of five you'll be wide-awake.

One, awake and more alert, feeling lighter.

Two, calm confident and feeling wonderful about losing weight.

Three, feeling fine in every way.

Four, calm and feeling strong and positive.

Five, eyes open wide awake, rise and shine and welcome home. �

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Weight Loss – Control Room Remember to begin your chosen induction and deepener. Visual imagery is the language of the brain – and you’re going to use your wonderful rich imagination now – and visit the control room of your mind. You imagine walking into the control room and suddenly you’re surrounded by panels with switches and buttons and knobs and coloured lights of different shapes and sizes. There is a higher control room which can be reached by climbing five steps and the door is closed. You climb the steps to the higher control room and push open the door. Now you are in a room similar to the one below, but here it’s more like a laboratory with rows and rows of taps and tubes, all carefully labelled and put into alphabetical order. The switches are labelled too, and you look around until you find the letter ‘M’ and a round knob, which is attached to a drawer that is labelled – metabolism. You notice that the knob has worked loose and so you gently pull out the drawer. Inside the drawer are phials containing hormones and one of them is nearly empty. Like a scientist you take it to the tubes or taps and carefully fill it up with the correct hormone. Somehow you seem to know exactly which hormone you need. Then you carefully replace the phial back into the drawer and close it, tightening the knob as you do so. And as you do this, an amazing thing begins to happen. The chemicals in your brain become regulated and you feel a warm inner glow deep within you. You can really notice it now. You can feel and experience that warm inner glow – tiny at first but then spreading within your body.

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Because you’re going to find that you have more energy, more vitality, you feel younger and fitter and healthier, and every day this feeling within you grows stronger. Returning to the dials and switches in the control room you notice that one of the dials is labelled ‘Appetite’ and that this dial is set much higher than it needs to be. Carefully you ease the dial backwards in an anticlockwise movement because you are aware that there is always plenty of food, and you don’t need or want to eat as much as you used to do. And as your hand moves the dial in this backward movement an surprising thing happens to you. You feel deep within you, a contentment, a feeling of satisfaction in your stomach as you realise that you only need to eat small amounts of food to satisfy your needs. And good feelings spread throughout your body, and your mind, because you’re eating less now, but deriving the same sense of satisfaction as when you used to eat more. And it’s good to eat less than you need, your stomach begins to enjoy a lighter feeling as it flattens and shrinks and your waist becomes trimmer and neater, which gives you a feeling of confidence in yourself. Because you realise now that you’re in control of yourself. When you have had enough to eat you stop eating, and it’s so easy to stop eating and enjoy a lighter feeling of satisfaction within you. And again, as you look around the control room you notice that there are switches connected to Taste. Some of these switches are set in the wrong position. For example there may be a switch regulating your taste for sweet foods or drinks, and if this is set up too high you find that you can adjust it, and in doing so you adjust your own natural taste and desire as you begin to enjoy healthier foods and drinks.

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The switches may indicate that in the past you have eaten too much fat and need to reduce this for the benefit of your health and your body. The mere thought of fat fills you with disgust as you imagine fatty greasy layers floating up through your body to the surface of your beautiful skin, clogging up the pores of your skin, which needs to breathe as it is a living organ on your body. You adjust the switch in a way that your subconscious mind automatically knows is correct for you. And in doing so you soon begin to notice that fatty, greasy foods taste ten times fattier and greasier than they ever did before. Therefore your mind and your body reject all fatty, greasy foods. You may discover that there are healthy foods that you have avoided in the past, perhaps certain fruits or salads or fresh, crisp vegetables. Maybe the switches need regulating to help you to regain your natural taste buds and enjoy these wonderful, healthy foods. And you find that everything you put into your mouth, turns into health and beauty. Everything that you eat, from this forward, is good for you, otherwise you wouldn’t eat it. You enjoy eating small amounts of healthy food, for that satisfies you completely, and that satisfies you completely. You may see a mirror in your control room with a distorted image of yourself. And as you move toward the mirror you begin to see your reflection and discover that this image can change and become you as you really want to be. Slim, healthy, attractive, looking serene and calm, relaxed and happy. You may even notice the clothes that you are wearing and how good they look on your slimmer, wonderful body. This makes you feel good.

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Another switch may represent the word Energy and it’s possible that in the past your energy levels were low because of the excess weight that you were carrying. But now you realise that you’re on your way to becoming the person that you desire to be and this motivates you to exercise and move around in a way that actually creates a more positive energy in you. And in the past, if you were one of those people who used to drive everywhere they went, you may now even find a great pleasure in walking whenever you can. You enjoy movement, moving your body in a graceful way and knowing that you’re looking better and healthier every single day. You may find other forms of exercise that are beneficial to you, and discovering new ways of using your body becomes a source of inspiration to you. Your exercises are always gentle and you allow your body to warm up first, proceeding in a manner that is safe and comfortable for you. There may be a switch that represents the word Comfort - and if you've ever found that eating comforts you in some strange way - then you can turn off that switch now as you realise that it was a false comfort and in fact - only led to heavy, uncomfortable feelings in your stomach. You can feel more satisfied on smaller amounts of food and more comfort by asking yourself what you really need - and if it's company you seek a more realistic way of satisfying this need. If it's love then you also realise that overeating and gaining weight is counter productive to your desire for to gain love - you must first love yourself. And you are learning to do this right now in hypnosis, as you go deeper into relaxation. And as you become your own person, slimmer and healthier and happier of course, you realise that you are also becoming a much more confident person. This is not simply because of the weight that is coming off you, but because you realise now that you are in control.

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You have a healthy and active mind and you are careful about the sort of thoughts that your mind thinks. You do not allow yourself, or anyone else, to put you down, because you realise that you are a very special person, a wonderful human being, and if any negative thoughts do enter your mind, your are instantly on vigil, and push the thoughts out of your mind, replacing them with more positive thoughts. Because of all this you find that you are smiling more. You feel happier, more relaxed, more comfortable with yourself as the wonderful individual that you are. Your happier thoughts produce good feelings within you and these good feelings become stronger and stronger as each wonderful day goes by. You’re becoming a slimmer and healthier and happier person – a much more confident person – and those around you are astonished in the changes to your personality because you inject enthusiasm and love and motivation to those that you meet. You feel good about yourself and you feel good about other people. This means that other people feel good about themselves and they also feel good about you. And these wonderful, positive changes are beginning to take place now at a deeper level of mind. They will continue to take effect and grow stronger and stronger as each moment goes by. Now I’ll count to five and at the count of five I want you to come all the way back. © Copyright The British Academy of Hypnosis 2001

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Smoking Script – Full Program 4 Sessions: Session One Pre Induction Hypnotist Introduction Effects of giving up: stress, irritability – can lead to want to smoke; prepare your family for the next 2-3 days, management of irritability. Normal induction/deepener process. Introduction The purpose of this session is to integrate deeply and completely into your mind the thoughts and ideas of a non smoker. Upon awakening, you will have changed, and you will be able to look at a cigarette, smell the smoke of a cigarette, watch others consume cigarettes, and instantly, automatically, without any question, without any hesitation, you will lose the desire. You will lose the want and the need for cigarettes you had in the past. Soon it will be totally gone from your mind. Soon it will be totally gone from your thoughts. Soon your body will have an intense level of awareness, and intense level of awareness of health and vitality. Framing As you relax and drift down deeper and deeper you see in your imagination a frame, maybe something like a picture frame. Some people see the frame clearly and other struggle a little, but either way they know the frame is there. In your minds eye you can picture yourself around cigarettes, see yourself in the frame and imagine all the negative things associated with smoking. See these situations (use notes in text box also) as clearly as you can, see yourself and these feelings in this frame. Things such as: The 100 horrible chemicals entering your body Nicotine the drug, and what it’s doing to your body The smell on the breath of a smoker The colour cigarettes turn your teeth, your face, your hands The damage smoking does to your face The damage smoking is doing to your body The old age smoking brings on The wrinkles smoking brings on The horrible smell on your body, your clothes, your hair

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The horrible smell in your house caused by smoking The damage to your health The damage to your skin, heart, and lungs The damage it does your friends and family Feeling a failure because you can’t stop smoking All the money you burn just by smoking And once all these harmful things have been put inside this frame, its time to destroy this frame, and let it take with it all the bad and harmful things. Start to make the frame small now; shrink the frame and make it smaller and smaller, and as it shrinks all the bad and harmful things are shrinking too. The frame gets smaller and smaller, until it’s tiny and powerless, and finally it completely disappears! The frame containing all the bad and harmful things has gone and left you and it will never return. Now in your imagination you start to build a new frame. See a new frame in your minds eye. In this new picture you see all the good things that are going to happen to you as non smoker (use notes in text box). See or make or feel them as clearly as you can: See yourself as the new you See yourself looking good See yourself more sociable because you do not smoke See yourself with your teeth feeling cleaner looking brighter See yourself wearing new clothes with the money you’ve saved See yourself looking and feeling great See yourself with your health improving because you are a non smoker See yourself in your cleaner smelling house Feel your health growing stronger and stronger See yourself with more money in your pocket because you are a non smoker See yourself with more people around you because you are a non smoker See yourself with more people wanting to be with you because you are a non smoker See yourself feeling fantastic because you are a non smoker See yourself feeling good that you are looking after your body See yourself enjoying yourself more See yourself being able to more active without suffering for it

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See yourself with your fitness improving See yourself with your health improving See yourself feeling good about yourself See yourself feeling strong and confident See yourself inside this new frame now, see it all around you, feel your success all around you, and you feel fantastic, you feel wonderful, you feel strong and confident. See others around you smoking, and see these people offering you a cigarette, and see yourself turning round and saying “No thank you, I don’t smoke”. Because from now on, when you say this or words to that affect, you feel strong, confident, and powerful, a smile on your face because you know that you are stronger than people who smoke, you are fitter and feel better and healthier than people who smoke. See a friend, someone at work, or someone at the pub maybe, offering you a cigarette, and see yourself turning round and saying “No thank you, I’m a non smoker”, and see yourself filling up with energy, excitement, a smile on your face, and you feel wonderful. Body Focus your attention on your desire, your need, your want, to be a non smoker. Concentrate on that want to be a non smoker, you are not doing this just for you, it’s for your body, for the good health of your body you are deciding to be a non smoker. Because you want to live in a healthy, vibrant body and because all of the suggestions being made are for your benefit, you will allow each and every one of these suggestions to move into your mind, you will allow each and every one of these suggestions to move throughout your body, re-educating every cell, re-educating every system, and re-educating every organ of your body, so that instantly, automatically, without any question, without any hesitation, without much conscious effort at all, you will lose the desire for a cigarette. Mind Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be changed to be a non smoker are being changed. Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be altered to be a non smoker are being altered. You will find emotionally you will handle all situations better than ever before, because you now accept yourself as being totally and completely tobacco free, allowing others to do whatever they want. This is your life, and you intend to live your life in good health and vitality.

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Allow all the muscles and tendons in your head to go loose. Allow all muscles and tendons in your head to go limp. Let all the muscles and tendons in your head go completely and totally relaxed. And experience this feeling, this inner feeling. Your body is controlled by a super intelligence, far greater than your conscious mind. Far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, it always remembers what needs to be done next. Right now it’s remembering to beat your heart in a very rhythmic, natural function, and it has been controlling your heart since the day you were born. And this super intelligence holds the master plan of your body, a master plan held within your mind, and this plan is of good health and vitality. This plan will be yours upon awakening. You will find without question your mind will see, hear, and feel life more fully, because you will see experience these things free from the need for tobacco. You will sense and feel within your body a better state of health, and whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, or whatever you need to feel for you to be completely, absolutely, 100% certain that you are now free from the need for tobacco, these things you will experience. And these changes are already occurring, it is already happening within you, and it’s now flowing through you. Thoughts Take in a deep, deep, breath, and let it out with a sigh, allowing the sigh to represent the forgiveness of things done to your body in the past. Let it all go. Let a power far greater than your conscious mind take care of the past. Right now, the most powerful moment in time, your thoughts are efficiently producing results, results that will change your life. To change your life, all you need to do is change your thoughts, and changing your thoughts is your most powerful tool. Using this powerful tool, you can change your life and your beliefs, becoming totally and completely free from the need for tobacco, and able to live a natural healthy life as a non smoker.

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You can already begin to sense, feel, and become aware of your future. You will sense and feel and experience all things with your body, and this will all be done free from the need for tobacco. Free from any need, free from any want, and free from any desire to return to the past. Allow your arms to relax, allow your arms all the way down to your hands to go loose, to go limp, to go completely and totally relaxed, into such a state of positive and wonderful relaxation. Whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, whatever you need to feel, and whatever you need to sense, you are experiencing these things unconsciously right now, so that upon awakening, you will live the life of a non smoker. Attention to Cigarettes Let this total state of relaxation now to move into your chest, abdomen, and back, totally relaxing, and with this relaxation, a deep and inner sigh of relief is occurring, and the healing potential of your mind is now unlocked and unleashed into your body. It is unlocked and unleashed throughout your thoughts, changing your habits, habits which can be broken as easily as they were originally made. Habits such as and wanting a cigarette, or and wanting a cigarette. From now on, the very first moment you reach for a cigarette, you will be extremely conscious of what you are doing. As you move it towards your mouth, you are totally aware of what you are doing. In the past, you have not been aware of these thoughts because it was an unconscious act, but now you are completely aware. And as you are aware, you become uncomfortable with it, and the more you think and focus on it, the more uncomfortable you become. And now because you are aware of the habit, it is no longer an unconscious thought, and you already have no need to continue smoking – you know this. There will be none of the struggle and fight with the wants and needs you have experienced in the past, because now you are a non smoker.

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Craving/Desire Concentrate on your hips and legs; concentrate on the tops of your legs, down past your knees, all the way down to your feet. Let all the muscles and tendons go completely loose, completely limp, completely relaxed. And as this relaxation grows deeper and deeper, so do the changes your mind has unlocked and unleashed into your body and throughout your thoughts, changing your cravings and desires. And as a non smoker, you no longer have any want or desire to have a cigarette when you are , the need to have a cigarette has now gone away, completely, forever, and you will never want a cigarette again whilst . And as a non smoker, you no longer have any want or desire to have a cigarette when you are , the need to have a cigarette has now gone away, completely, forever, and you will never want a cigarette again whilst . Effects In fact, the more you think about it, the stranger it seems that you could ever have wanted a cigarette in the first place. Why would you deliberately hurt your body, you know the terrible harmful effects cigarettes have on your body. And the awareness of even touching a cigarette, will disgust you. You know the awful effects cigarettes have on your body, and you will not allow this to happen ever again. You do not want to harm your body, hurt your body, poison your body with cigarettes. Your body is yours to be cherished, you will not let cigarettes damage your body, you are now a non smoker, looking after your body, protecting it from the dangers of cigarettes. (For use with pregnant woman) And there is now someone else to look after, a small beautiful baby growing inside your body. It needs to be cherished and loved, not poisoned by cigarettes, you won’t ever let this happen. If you ever touch a cigarette again, you will see a vision of your beautiful baby having foul, poisonous, cigarette smoke forced into its lungs, forced into its blood, your beautiful baby crying, screaming, desperately for it to stop, so venerable, so dependant on you, please please don’t.

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Smell And if you somehow find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, as it gets nearer you will start to notice a smell coming from the cigarette. A foul smell, and as the cigarette gets nearer, the smell gets worse and worse, and it is the worse smell you can imagine – foul, hideous, poisonous, vile. And I want you to imagine that smell right now, it’s the smell of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, you will immediately sense this foul, hideous, poisonous, vile smell you can smell right now, and it is so bad you have to put the cigarette down, away from your body, as quickly as possible. Taste If you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, you will immediately become aware of an awful taste starting to grow in your mouth. The taste is the worse thing you can imagine, and it’s getting stronger and worse, stronger and worse still, it’s disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile. And I want you to imagine that taste right now, it’s the taste of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, your mouth will immediately fill with this disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile taste you can taste right now, and you will immediately have to take the cigarette out of your mouth. Direct Suggestions And now your whole body is in a state of total relaxation, everything loose, everything limp, everything completely relaxed, so deeply relaxed. I now want you to listen and allow the powerful hypnotic suggestions you are about to hear to go deep into your subconscious mind, that ensure you remain a non smoker for the rest if your life. Cigarettes taste and smell disgusting You are a non smoker Your desires & cravings of the past that made you smoke have changed and you now do not smoke.

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Your wants and needs of the past that made you smoke have changed and you now do not smoke If you ever light up a cigarette it will be the worse taste and smell you can imagine Smoking is a disgusting You are a non smoker You are a non smoker You have no desire to smoke You have no craving to smoke You have no desire to smoke Cigarettes taste and smell disgusting You never want a cigarette again You will use the smoking manual Tips You are a non smoker All these powerful hypnotic suggestions will register in your subconscious mind and they will remain with you deep inside your subconscious mind, growing, getting stronger, with every second, minute, hour of every single day. Sleep And the super-intelligence that controls your body, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, will continue to strengthen the changes you have made every night when you go to sleep, from the moment you first drift off to sleep to the time when you awake. Strengthening your choice to be tobacco free, strengthening your choice to be a non smoker. And the power of your super-intelligence will spread throughout your body, into every cell, every time you sleep, strengthening you thoughts now as a non smoker, someone who looks after their body, 100% tobacco free.

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And every day you wake, the super-intelligence that controls your body and conscious mind, knows exactly what you need to experience that day to be convinced, absolutely, totally, completely, 100% sure, that you are now free and rid of all tobacco and anything associated with it. Me And every time you hear my voice in the future, it will strengthen your choice to be someone free from the need for cigarettes. And every time you hear my voice as you start to relax, you will find it easier and easier to relax, going deeper and deeper into relaxation, easier, quicker and deeper, easier, quicker, and deeper. CD And with your new abilities to be a non smoker, you will want to grow your powers more and more, and you will be completely motivated to listening to the Stop Smoking for Life CD as often as you can whenever the situation allows. And the messages on the CD help to convince you, even more, that you are now a non smoker and always will be a non smoker, and the messages on this CD gets stronger and stronger every time you listen to it, growing, strengthening empowering you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life. Finish And now from today onwards you are a non smoker. By deciding to be a non smoker, you are looking after yourself. Every part of your body is being re-educated, re-educated as a non smoker. And as a non smoker, you have lost any and every desire you ever had for a cigarette. Everything you do, you will now do as a non smoker. Your body is now convinced, absolutely, completely, 100% sure, that you are a non smoker, it has already happened inside you. You will become more positive about yourself, more positive because you have become a non smoker. And what ever challenges come your way during each day, you will find you can manage them, deal with them, without the need for tobacco.

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You will see through the eyes of a non smoker. You will hear through the ears of a non smoker. You will taste in your mouth as a non smoker, and you will find that your sense of taste returns, and all the foods you enjoy will start to taste better and better, so much better does food taste, you start to eat more and more healthy food, foods that are good for your body. You will smell through your nose as a non smoker, and find that your sense of smell will start to return naturally and normally to you, and the air you breathe is now clean air, so much more healthy for your body, so much nicer for you to breath. You will notice that the simple smells of foods will begin to fill you up, making you eat less, and you now choose more healthy foods for your body. And you will be tobacco free forever, permanently, for the rest of your life. Free from the need, free from the want, free from any craving or desires from the past, free from tobacco forever. Your body is now ready as a non smoker, the transformation has already occurred. Waking In a moment I will count up from one to ten, and as I count up you will know that you have become a non smoker for the rest of your life, and when I get to ten, you will awaken and feel refreshed and confident, good about the day ahead, and very positive about the hypnotic session you have just experienced. Becoming more awake now, free from tobacco forever Relaxed and very, very calm Feeling more alert On top of the world and confident in your abilities More aware of the room around you, awakening as a non smoker for the rest of your life Relaxed and confident Almost home now Feeling wonderful in your thoughts as a non smoker for the rest of your life Calmer and feeling better than you felt before, and Eyes open and welcome home.

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Post Reframe Okay, now I’d like you to imagine something for me… just a little game of imagination. I’d like you to imagine that in spite of all you now believe in today, somehow, you have been tricked into having one last cigarette, and this has immediately caused you to end up in hospital. You find yourself on an old ward, in an old hospital bed, in a run-down damp and miserable old hospital, and all around you, all you can hear are people moaning. And as you become more and more aware of the ward, you realise that something is very wrong, so you stretch out your hand and press the emergency button. At first no one comes, and you are now starting to feel really worried, almost a little panicky, so you press the button again and again. Finally a nurse arrives, and she takes one look at you, and immediately closes the curtains around your bed, and rushes off to get the doctor. You are now left alone behind the screens and are feeling very worried. And the moaning around you seems to be getting louder, but you can also hear another sound, a sad sound. The more you listen, the clearer you can hear, and you realise you can hear the sound of many people crying. And the crying is coming from the corridors throughout the hospital, and the crying is from loved ones of the people on the wards. There are adults crying softly, and children sobbing their hearts out for everything to be made well, but the patients in their beds just carry on moaning, louder and louder. Suddenly the doctor arrives, takes one look at you, and then looks over to the nurse and gives a short shake of his head. You are starting to feel very very scared now, and the doctor sees this and comes over to you. “We’ll see if we can make you more comfortable” he says, and starts to leave. Just as he about to pass through the curtains around your bed, he pauses and says “You know, there was something we could have done for you…. …..”. (Pause). I don’t know about you, but I’d offer him anything I had to find out! (Pause for agreement). But then he shakes his head and says “No, it’s too late, all because you had to have one last cigarette!”

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Smoking Script – Full Program: Session Two Introduction The purpose of this session is to integrate deeply and completely into your mind the thoughts and ideas that you are now a non smoker. You are already changing, have changed, and upon awakening, you will be able to look at a cigarette, smell the smoke of a cigarette, watch others consume cigarettes, and instantly, automatically, without any question, without any hesitation, have no desire to smoke. Upon awakening, you will have lost the want, the need, the craving for cigarettes that you have had in the past. Those old feelings towards cigarettes have now changed forever, as you become a non smoker, a non smoker for the rest of your life. Framing As you relax and drift down deeper and deeper you see in your imagination a frame, maybe something like a picture frame. Some people see the frame clearly and other struggle a little, but either way they know the frame is there. In your minds eye see all the good things that are going to happen to you as non smoker (use notes in text box). See or make or feel them as clearly as you can: See yourself as the new you See yourself looking good See yourself more sociable because you do not smoke See yourself with your teeth feeling cleaner looking brighter See yourself wearing new clothes with the money you’ve saved See yourself looking and feeling great See yourself with your health improving because you are a non smoker See yourself feeling proud of your achievement to stop smoking See yourself in your cleaner smelling house Feel your health growing stronger and stronger See yourself able to breath more easily and not coughing See yourself with more money in your pocket because you are a non smoker See yourself with more people around you because you are a non smoker See yourself with more people wanting to be with you because you are a non smoker See yourself feeling fantastic because you are a non smoker

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See yourself feeling good that you are looking after your body See yourself enjoying yourself more See yourself being able to more active without suffering for it See yourself with your fitness improving See yourself with your health improving See yourself feeling good about yourself See yourself feeling strong and confident See yourself inside this new frame now, see it all around you, feel your success all around you, and you feel fantastic, you feel wonderful, you feel strong and confident. See others around you smoking, and see these people offering you a cigarette, and see yourself turning round and saying “No thank you, I don’t smoke”. Because from now on, when you say this or words to that affect, you feel strong, confident, and powerful, a smile on your face because you know that you are stronger than people who smoke, you are fitter and feel better and healthier than people who smoke. See a friend, someone at work, or someone at the pub maybe, offering you a cigarette, and see yourself turning round and saying “No thank you, I’m a non smoker”, and see yourself filling up with energy, excitement, a smile on your face, and you feel wonderful. Success Now you have a new and very strong determination to be free from tobacco, and with each passing day this determination grows stronger and stronger. And as your determination grows your success at being free from tobacco also grows, and you feel proud and happy every day as you become more and more successful. And the more successful you are, the more confident you are, and the more confident you are, the more successful you are. And your new confidence, success, and determination makes you feel fantastic and proud of yourself.

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Body Focus your attention on your desire, your need, your want, to be a non smoker. Concentrate on that want to be a non smoker, you are not doing this just for you, it’s for your body, for the good health of your body you are deciding to be a non smoker. Because you want to live in a healthy, vibrant body and because all of the suggestions being made are for your benefit, you will allow each and every one of these suggestions to move into your mind, you will allow each and every one of these suggestions to move throughout your body, re-educating every cell, re-educating every system, and re-educating every organ of your body, so that instantly, automatically, without any question, without any hesitation, without much conscious effort at all, you will lose the desire for a cigarette. Mind Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be changed to be a non smoker for the rest of your life are being changed. Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be altered to be a non smoker for the rest of your life are being altered. You will find emotionally you will handle all situations better than ever before, because you will now accept yourself as being totally and completely tobacco free, allowing others to do whatever they want. For this is your life, and you intend to live your life in good health and vitality. I’m going to count down from 5 down to 1, and with each number you will relax more and more, all the powerful hypnotic suggestions will go deeper into your subconscious mind. 5 more relaxed and a non smoker for the rest of your life, 4 going deeper into hypnotic trance, 3 relaxing more and more, 2 you are a non smoker for the rest of your life, and 1 you don’t smoke, you’ll never smoke again. Your body is controlled by a super intelligence, far greater than your conscious mind. Far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, it always remembers what needs to be done next. Right now it’s remembering to beat your heart in a very rhythmic, natural function, and it has been controlling your heart since you were created.

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And this super intelligence holds the master plan of your body, a master plan held within your mind, and this plan is of good health and vitality. This plan will be yours upon awakening. You will find without question your mind will see, hear, and feel life more fully, because you will see experience these things free from the need for tobacco. You will sense and feel within your body a better state of health, and whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, or whatever you need to feel for you to be completely, absolutely, 100% certain that you are now free from the need for tobacco, these things you will experience. And these changes are already occurring, it is already happening within you, and it’s now flowing through you. Attention to Cigarettes And as you relax more and more and go deeper and deeper, so do the changes your mind has unlocked and unleashed into your body and throughout your thoughts, changing your habits. Habits such as and wanting a cigarette, or and wanting a cigarette. From now on, the very first moment you reach for a cigarette, you will be extremely conscious of what you are doing. As you move it towards your mouth, you are totally aware of what you are doing. In the past, you have not been aware of these thoughts because it was an unconscious act, but now you are completely aware. And as you are aware, you become uncomfortable with it, and the more you think and focus on it, the more uncomfortable you become. And now because you are aware of the habit, it is no longer an unconscious thought, and you already have no need to continue smoking – you know this. There will be none of the struggle and fight with the wants and needs you have experienced in the past, because now you are a non smoker.

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Craving/Desire And as you relax more and more and go deeper and deeper, so do the changes your mind has unlocked and unleashed into your body and throughout your thoughts, changing your cravings and desires. And as a non smoker, you no longer have any want or desire to have a cigarette when you are , the need to have a cigarette has now gone away, completely, forever, and you will never want a cigarette again whilst . And as a non smoker, you no longer have any want or desire to have a cigarette when you are , the need to have a cigarette has now gone away, completely, forever, and you will never want a cigarette again whilst . Smell And if you somehow find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, as it gets nearer you will start to notice a smell coming from the cigarette. A foul smell, and as the cigarette gets nearer, the smell gets worse and worse, and it is the worse smell you can imagine – foul, hideous, poisonous, vile. And I want you to imagine that smell right now, it’s the smell of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, you will immediately sense this foul, hideous, poisonous, vile smell you can smell right now, and it is so bad you have to put the cigarette down, away from your body, as quickly as possible. Taste If you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, you will immediately become aware of an awful taste starting to grow in your mouth. The taste is the worse thing you can imagine, and it’s getting stronger and worse, stronger and worse still, it’s disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile.

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And I want you to imagine that taste right now, it’s the taste of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, your mouth will immediately fill with this disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile taste you can taste right now, and you will immediately have to take the cigarette out of your mouth. Direct Suggestions And now your whole body is in a state of total relaxation, everything loose, everything limp, everything completely relaxed, so deeply relaxed, you will allow the following powerful hypnotic suggestions go deep into your subconscious mind, and these powerful hypnotic suggestions will ensure you remain a non smoker for the rest if your life. Cigarettes smell disgusting If you ever smell a cigarette that you are holding, it will smell of Cigarettes taste disgusting If you ever take a drag from a cigarette, it will taste of If you ever think about smoking again, you stomach will start to feel unwell If you ever think about smoking again, your mouth will taste of If you ever think about smoking again, your body will make you feel like throwing up You are a non smoker Your wants needs desires and habits of the past that made you smoke have changed You will use the Smoking Manual Tips to help you The thought of you smoking is disgusting You are a non smoker for the rest of your life You have no desire to smoke You have no craving to smoke You have no need to smoke You never want a cigarette again You are a non smoker for the rest of your life

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You never want a cigarette again You are a non smoker for the rest of your life All these powerful hypnotic suggestions will register in your subconscious mind and they will remain with you deep inside your subconscious mind, growing, getting stronger, with every second, minute, hour of every single day. Sleep And the super-intelligence that controls your body, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, will continue to strengthen the changes you have made every night when you go to sleep, from the moment you first drift off to sleep to the time when you awake. Strengthening your choice to be tobacco free, strengthening your choice to be a non smoker. And the power of your super-intelligence will spread throughout your body, into every cell, every time you sleep, strengthening you thoughts now as a non smoker, someone who looks after their body, 100% tobacco free. And every day you wake, the super-intelligence that controls your body and conscious mind, knows exactly what you need to experience that day to be convinced, absolutely, totally, completely, 100% sure, that you are now free and rid of all tobacco and anything associated with it. Me And every time you hear my voice in the future, it will strengthen your choice to be someone free from the need for alcohol. And every time you hear my voice as you start to relax, you will find it easier and easier to relax, going deeper and deeper into relaxation, easier, quicker and deeper, easier, quicker, and deeper. CD And with your new abilities to be a non smoker, you will want to grow your powers more and more, and you will be completely motivated to listening to the Stop Smoking for Life CD as often as you can whenever the situation allows.

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And the messages on the CD help to convince you, even more, that you are now a non smoker and always will be a non smoker, and the messages on this CD gets stronger and stronger every time you listen to it, growing, strengthening empowering you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life. Finish And now from today onwards you are a non smoker for the rest of your life. By deciding to be a non smoker, you are looking after yourself. Every part of your body is being re-educated, re-educated as a non smoker. And as a non smoker, you have lost any and every desire you ever had for a cigarette. Everything you do, you will now do as a non smoker for the rest of your life. Your body is now convinced, absolutely, completely, 100% sure, that you are a non smoker for the rest of your life, it has already happened inside you. You will become more positive about yourself, more positive because you have become a non smoker. And what ever challenges come your way during each day, you will find you can manage them, deal with them, without the need for tobacco. You now see through the eyes of a non smoker for the rest of your life. You now hear through the ears of a non smoker for the rest of your life. You now taste as a non smoker for the rest of your life, and you will find that your sense of taste returns, and all the foods you enjoy will start to taste better and better, so much better does food taste, you start to eat more and more healthy food, foods that are good for your body. You now smell through your nose as a non smoker for the rest of your life, and find that your sense of smell will start to return naturally and normally to you, as the air you breathe is now clean air, so much more healthy for your body, so much nicer for you to breath. You will notice that the simple smells of foods will begin to fill you up, making you eat less, and you now choose more healthy foods for your body.

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And you will be tobacco free forever, permanently, for the rest of your life. Free from the need, free from the want, free from any craving or desires from the past, free from tobacco forever for the rest of your life. Your body is now ready as a non smoker for the rest of your life, the transformation has already occurred. Waking In a moment I will count up from one to ten, and as I count up you will know that you have become a non smoker for the rest of your life, and when I get to ten, you will awaken and feel refreshed and confident, good about the day ahead, and very positive about the hypnotic session you have just experienced. 1. Relaxed and very, very calm 2. Feeling more alert 3. On top of the world and confident in your abilities 4. More aware of the room around you, awakening as a non smoker for the rest of your life 5. Relaxed and confident 6. Almost home now 7. Feeling wonderful in your thoughts as a non smoker for the rest of your life 8. Calmer and feeling better than you felt before 9. Becoming more awake now, free from tobacco forever 10. Eyes open and welcome home

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Smoking Script – Full Program: Session Three Introduction The purpose of this session is to integrate deeply and completely into your mind the thoughts and ideas that you are now a non smoker. You are already changing, have changed, and upon awakening, you will be able to look at a cigarette, smell the smoke of a cigarette, watch others consume cigarettes, and without any question will have no want or desire to smoke, and this will now always be so. Upon awakening, you will have lost the want, the need, the craving, the desire for smoking that you have had in the past. Those old feelings towards smoking have now changed forever, as you become a non smoker, a non smoker for the rest of your life. Mind Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be changed to be a non smoker for the rest of your life are being changed. Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be altered to be a non smoker for the rest of your life are being altered. You will find emotionally you will handle all situations better than ever before, because you will now accept yourself as being totally and completely tobacco free, allowing others to do whatever they want. For this is your life, and you intend to live your life in health and vitality. I’m going to count down from 5 down to 1, and with each number you will relax more and more, all the powerful hypnotic suggestions will go deeper into your subconscious mind. 5 more relaxed and a non smoker for the rest of your life, 4 going deeper into hypnotic trance, 3 relaxing more and more, 2 you are a non smoker for the rest of your life, and 1 you don’t smoke, you will never smoke again. Your body is controlled by a super intelligence, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, it always remembers what needs to be done next. Right now it’s remembering to beat your heart in a very rhythmic, natural function, and it has been controlling your heart since you were born.

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And this super intelligence holds the master plan of your body, a master plan held within your mind, and this plan is of good health and vitality. This plan will be yours upon awakening. You will find without question your mind will see, hear, and feel life more fully, because you will see experience these things free from the need for tobacco. You will sense and feel within your body a better state of health, and whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, or whatever you need to feel for you to be completely, absolutely, 100% certain that you are now free from the need for tobacco, these things you will experience. And these changes are already occurring, it is already happening within you, and it’s now flowing through you. Success Now you have a new and very strong determination to be free from tobacco, and with each passing day this determination grows stronger and stronger. And as your determination grows your success at being free from tobacco also grows, and you feel proud and happy every day as you become more and more successful. And the more successful you are, the more confident you are, and the more confident you are, the more successful you are. And your new confidence, success, and determination makes you feel fantastic and proud of yourself. Thoughts To change your life, all you need to do is change your thoughts, and changing your thoughts is your most powerful tool. Using this powerful tool, you can change your life and your beliefs, becoming totally and completely free from the need for tobacco, and able to live a natural healthy life as a non smoker, and this will be from today onwards and for the rest of your life.

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And going forwards, whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, whatever you need to feel, and whatever you need to experience today and every new day, that will ensure you live the rest of your life as a non smoker, these things you will see, hear, feel and experience subconsciously, and they will convince your conscious mind that you now are, and always will be, a non smoker for the rest of your life. Smell And if you somehow find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, as it gets nearer you will start to notice a smell coming from the cigarette. A foul smell, and as the cigarette gets nearer, the smell gets worse and worse, and it is the worse smell you can imagine – foul, hideous, poisonous, vile. And I want you to imagine that smell right now, it’s the smell of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find that a cigarette is coming towards your mouth, you will immediately sense this foul, hideous, poisonous, vile smell you can smell right now, and it is so bad you have to put the cigarette down, away from your body, as quickly as possible. Taste If you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, you will immediately become aware of an awful taste starting to grow in your mouth. The taste is the worse thing you can imagine, and it’s getting stronger and worse, stronger and worse still, it’s disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile. And I want you to imagine that taste right now, it’s the taste of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find a cigarette in your mouth, your mouth will immediately fill with this disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile taste you can taste right now, and you will immediately have to take the cigarette out of your mouth.

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Direct Suggestions And now your whole body is in a state of total relaxation, everything loose, everything limp, everything completely relaxed, so deeply relaxed, you will allow the following powerful hypnotic suggestions go deep into your subconscious mind, and these powerful hypnotic suggestions will ensure you remain a non smoker for the rest if your life. Cigarettes smell disgusting If you ever smell a cigarette that you are holding, it will smell of Cigarettes taste disgusting If you ever take a drag from a cigarette, it will taste of If you ever think about smoking again, you stomach will start to feel unwell If you ever think about smoking again, your mouth will taste of If you ever think about smoking again, your body will make you feel like throwing up You are a non smoker Your wants needs desires and habits of the past that made you smoke have changed You do not smoke The thought of you smoking is disgusting You are a non smoker for the rest of your life You have no desire to smoke You have no craving to smoke You have no desire to smoke You never want a cigarette again You are a non smoker for the rest of your life You never want a cigarette again You are a non smoker for the rest of your life Repeat above once/twice All these powerful hypnotic suggestions will register in your subconscious mind, and they will remain with you, deep inside your subconscious mind, growing and getting stronger, with every second, minute, hour of every single day.

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Sleep And the super-intelligence that controls your body, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, will continue to strengthen the changes you have made every night when you go to sleep, from the moment you first drift off to the time when you awake. Strengthening your choice to be a non smoker, strengthening your choice to be a non smoker for the rest of your life. And the power of your super-intelligence will spread throughout your body, into every cell, every time you sleep, strengthening you thoughts now as a non smoker, someone who looks after their body, 100% tobacco free for the rest of your life. And every day you wake, the super-intelligence that controls your body and conscious mind, knows exactly what you need to experience that day to be convinced, completely, 100% sure, that you are now free and rid of all tobacco and anything associated with it. Me And every time you hear my voice in the future, it will strengthen your choice to be someone free from the cigarettes for the rest of your life. And every time you hear my voice as you start to relax, you will find it easier and easier to relax, going deeper and deeper into relaxation, easier, quicker and deeper, easier, quicker, and deeper. CD And with your new abilities to be a non smoker, you will want to grow your powers more and more, and you will be completely motivated to listening to the Stop Smoking for Life CD as often as you can whenever the situation allows. And the messages on the CD help to convince you, even more, that you are now a non smoker and always will be a non smoker, and the messages on this CD gets stronger and stronger every time you listen to it, growing, strengthening empowering you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life.

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Finish And now from today onwards you are a non smoker for the rest of your life. By deciding to be a non smoker, you are looking after yourself. Every part of your body is being re-educated, re-educated as a non smoker. And as a non smoker, you have lost any and every desire you ever had for a cigarette. Everything you do, you will now do as a non smoker for the rest of your life. Your body is now convinced, absolutely, completely, 100% sure, that you are a non smoker for the rest of your life, it has already happened inside you. You will become more positive about yourself, more positive because you have become a non smoker. And what ever challenges come your way during each day, you will find you can manage them, deal with them, without the need for tobacco. You now see through the eyes of a non smoker for the rest of your life. You now hear through the ears of a non smoker for the rest of your life. You now taste as a non smoker for the rest of your life. You now smell through your nose as a non smoker for the rest of your life, and find that your sense of smell will start to return naturally and normally to you, as the air you breathe is now clean air, so much more healthy for your body, so much nicer for you to breath. And you will be tobacco free forever, permanently, for the rest of your life. Free from the need, free from the want, free from any craving or desires from the past, free from tobacco forever for the rest of your life. Your body is now ready as a non smoker for the rest of your life, the transformation has already occurred. Waking In a moment I will count up from one to ten, and as I count up you will know that you have become a non smoker for the rest of your life, and when I get to ten, you will awaken and feel refreshed and confident, good about the day ahead, and very positive about the hypnotic session you have just experienced.

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Smoking Script – Full Program: Session Four Introduction The purpose of this session is to integrate deeply and completely into your mind the thoughts and ideas that you are now a non smoker and will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life. You are already changing, and upon awakening, you will be able to look at a cigarette, smell the smoke of a cigarette, watch others consume cigarettes, and without any question will have no want or desire to smoke ever again. Upon awakening, you will feel proud in your achievements to become a non smoker, and your conscious and sub conscious mind will ensure that you never smoke again, for the rest of your life. Mind Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be changed, for you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life, have been changed. Mentally, all thoughts, all concepts, all beliefs that need to be altered for you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life, have been altered. You will find emotionally you can handle all situations better than ever before, because you are now totally and completely free from cigarettes and tobacco, allowing others to do whatever they want. This is your life, and you intend to live the rest of your life in good health and vitality. I’m going to count down from 5 down to 1, and with each number you will relax more and more, all the powerful hypnotic suggestions will go deeper into your subconscious mind. 5 more relaxed and a non smoker for the rest of your life, 4 going deeper into hypnotic trance, 3 relaxing more and more, 2 you are a non smoker for the rest of your life, and 1 you will never smoke again. Your body is controlled by a super intelligence, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, it always remembers what needs to be done next. Right now it’s remembering to beat your heart in a very rhythmic, natural function, and it has been controlling your heart since you were born.

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And this super intelligence holds the master plan of your body, a master plan held within your mind, and this plan is of good health and vitality. This plan will be yours upon awakening. You will find without question your mind will see, hear, and feel life more fully, because you will see experience these things free from cigarettes and tobacco forever. You will sense and feel within your body a better state of health, and whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, or whatever you need to feel for you to remain free from cigarettes and tobacco for the rest of your life, these things you will experience. The changes have already occurred, they have already happened, and they have spread throughout your body. Success Now you have a new and very strong determination as someone who is free from cigarettes and tobacco for the rest of your life, and with each passing day this determination grows stronger and stronger. And as your determination grows your success at staying completely free from cigarettes and tobacco also grows, and you feel proud and happy every day as you become more and more successful. And the more successful you are, the more confident you are, and the more confident you are, the more successful you are. And your new confidence, success, and determination makes you feel fantastic and proud of yourself. Thoughts To change your life, all you need to do is change your thoughts, and changing your thoughts is your most powerful tool. Using this powerful tool, you can change your life and your beliefs, and your new beliefs allow you to stay totally and completely free from cigarettes and tobacco for the rest of your life, able to live a natural healthy life as a non smoker. And these new beliefs are now yours, from today onwards, for the rest of your life. And going forwards, whatever you need to see, whatever you need to hear, whatever you need to feel, and whatever you need to experience today and every new day, that will ensure you stay as a non smoker for the rest of your life, these things you will see, hear, feel and experience subconsciously, and they will convince your conscious mind that you will remain as a non smoker for the rest of your life.

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Taste If you ever find a cigarette near your mouth, you will immediately become aware of an awful taste starting to grow in your mouth. The taste is the worse thing you can imagine, and it’s getting stronger and worse, stronger and worse still, it’s disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile. And I want you to imagine that taste right now, it’s the taste of , and when you can, indicate to me by motioning with one finger. And if you ever find a cigarette near your mouth, your mouth will immediately fill with this disgusting, dreadful, foul, awful, vile taste you can taste right now, and you will immediately have to get the cigarette away from your mouth. Direct Suggestions And now your whole body is in a state of total relaxation, everything loose, everything limp, everything completely relaxed, so deeply relaxed, you will allow the following powerful hypnotic suggestions go deep into your subconscious mind, and these powerful hypnotic suggestions will ensure you remain a non smoker for the rest if your life. Cigarettes smell disgusting Cigarettes taste disgusting You will not allow yourself to even consider having one puff ever again If you ever find a cigarette near your mouth, you will immediate taste in your mouth Thinking about smoking will make you start to feel unwell Thinking about smoking will cause your mouth to taste of Thinking about smoking will make you feel like throwing up You are now a non smoker You will never be tempted by cigarettes again You will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life You will never smoke again Thinking about what smoking does to your body upsets you You will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life You are proud of your achievement to stop smoking You will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life (Repeat above once.)

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All these powerful hypnotic suggestions will register in your subconscious mind, and they will remain with you, deep inside your subconscious mind, growing and getting stronger, with every second, minute, hour of every single day. Sleep And the super-intelligence that controls your body, far greater than your conscious mind, far more efficient than your conscious thoughts, will continue to strengthen the changes you have made every night when you go to sleep, from the moment you first drift off to the time when you awake. Strengthening your choice to remain a non smoker for the rest of your life. And the power of your super-intelligence will spread throughout your body, into every cell, every time you sleep, strengthening you thoughts to remain as a non smoker for the rest of your life, and someone who looks after their body. And every day when you wake, the super-intelligence that controls your body and conscious mind, knows exactly what you need to experience that day to be absolutely convinced that you will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life, and these things you will experience. Me And every time you hear my voice in the future, it will strengthen your choice to be someone who remains free from cigarettes and tobacco, free for the rest of your life.. And every time you hear my voice as you start to relax, you will find it easier and easier to relax, going deeper and deeper into relaxation, easier, quicker and deeper, easier, quicker, and deeper.

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CD And with your new abilities to be a non smoker, you will want to grow your powers more and more, and you will be completely motivated to listening to the Stop Smoking for Life CD as often as you can whenever the situation allows. And the messages on the CD help to convince you, even more, that you are now a non smoker and always will be a non smoker, and the messages on this CD gets stronger and stronger every time you listen to it, growing, strengthening empowering you to be a non smoker for the rest of your life. Finish And you will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life. By deciding to permanently stay a non smoker, you are looking after yourself. Every part of your body has been re-educated, re-educated as someone completely free from cigarettes and tobacco, a non smoker for the rest of your life. Your body is now convinced, absolutely 100% sure, that you will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life, it has already happened inside you. And you will feel fantastic about your achievement, proud of yourself for remaining a non smoker for the rest of your life. And what ever challenges come your way during each day, you will find you can manage them and remain a non smoker, for the rest of your life. You are free from tobacco and cigarettes forever. You are a non smoker and will remain a non smoker for the rest of your life, the transformation has already occurred. Waking In a moment I will count up from one to ten, and as I count up you will know that you have become a non smoker for the rest of your life, and when I get to ten, you will awaken and feel refreshed and confident, good about the day ahead, and very positive about the hypnotic session you have just experienced. Becoming more awake now, a non smoker forever Count One up to Ten. Eyes open and welcome home.

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Stop Worrying

Begin with your favourite induction and deepener.

You are now deeply relaxed and the suggestions that you hear will have a permanent and immediate effect on your subconscious mind - you will hear every word that I speak.

Even though you may find your mind wandering away at times - because right now - nothing else matters - nothing - except for this wonderful feeling of relaxation that you're experiencing.

At this moment is as though you haven't a care in the world - nobody wants anything - nobody needs anything.

There is absolutely nothing at all for you to do except relax and let go - and just enjoy the feelings that are being generated within you.

You're beginning to realise that all that worrying that you've been doing over the past few years hasn't done any good at all.

Life is a series of ups and downs and we have to experience the lows to really appreciate the highs and the middle ground - but when things went wrong in the past you worried until you made yourself ill - and did it do any good?

Ask yourself - does worrying change or improve anything for you? Worry creates stress - worry creates lines on the brow - nobody really likes a worrier because it can make them worry as well - because just like laughter - worry is contagious.

So you decide right now, here in hypnosis - that you're going to react more positively in future - instead of worrying your life away you'll takes life's ups and downs in your stride and remain calm, collected and confident.

Just remember the three C's - calm, collected and confident - that's you.

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There may have been times when you tried to sleep and all life's problems went round and round in your head - that happens a lot to worriers - because their mind is still trying to sort things out - and niggles at the back of the mind tend to come forward when we're close to sleep.

If that's happened to you - don't worry - simply remember the three C's and remain calm, collected and confident.

You remain calm because there's no point in worrying - that won't resolve a thing - your thoughts are collected - there in your mind - and you're confident that your subconscious mind will find a solution if there's one to be found.

And because you trust yourself - you find that it's easy to drift off somewhere nice before going to sleep.

Because you know that any problems in your mind - can be resolved at night in your sleep.

So drift away now - to a special place - and leave all those worries and cares behind - you can put them in a drawer or a cupboard - ready to be dealt with at a more appropriate time - or you can send them away on a big black cloud - that cloud that's been hovering over you - send your worries up there - and bring a gust of wind to blow them away - just blow them away.

Because right now you're just enjoying these wonderful feelings of calm tranquillity - and I wonder if you can see or sense a beautiful stairway in your mind?

A stairway with hundreds of steps - going down and down to a beautiful place - and you can begin to descend - gently downwards - going deeper and deeper into hypnotic rest - deeper and deeper - down and down.

As you go down you may notice - beautiful colours - rich, warm hues - or it may just be comfortably dark and reassuring - you may see paintings on the walls - or chandeliers hanging from the ceiling - or the ceiling may be a velvety sky with millions of stars twinkling like diamonds high above.

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You may notice a beautiful fragrance - that could remind you of something from your past - notice it now - perhaps a special person's perfume or a childhood smell that you loved - can you notice it now?

And as you go deeper down - you decide once and for all that worrying doesn't do any good.

From now on you always remember the three Cs - calm, collected and confident - and that makes you feel good - you're in complete control of your mind - your body and your health.

Remain in hypnosis for another few minutes whilst you enjoy these wonderful feelings.

As you reach the bottom of the stairway and looking around - see the beautiful scene that meets your eyes.

Just enjoy being here - in your special place - and notice how this place becomes now - a part of you - a wonderful place where you can visit again whenever you wish - all with the power of your mind.

(Pause for two minutes)

Good - now when you're ready - I'm going to count from one to five and at the count of five you'll be wide awake.

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