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“On The Count Of Six You Will Open Your Eyes…”

A 6 Part E-Course revealing the truth about Hypnosis

By

Jonathan Clark

Master Hypnotherapist

Founder & Developer of HGE™

PART 3

  Now before we go any further, you should ask yourself “Is Hypnosis the right tool for the job here?”  Carefully read the following guidelines:

CONTRAINDICATIONS- when not to use Hypnosis

WHEN CLIENT IS DANGEROUS TO SELF OR OTHERS:

If the presenting problem or the personal history that you gather from the client indicates to you that the client is dangerous to self or others, then the client is beyond the scope of treatment by an unlicensed Hypnotherapist. Someone of this kind is best referred to a practitioner who is trained to handle clinical issues.

WHEN CLIENT IS DEALING WITH HIGHLY REPRESSED OR TRAUMATIC MATERIAL

Under certain circumstances, highly traumatic or highly repressed material could indicate that Hypnosis alone would not be appropriate to use. If you are not trained in interventions that deal in this area, it would be best to refer the client to a practitioner who is trained to handle these issues. (Time Line Therapy® or similar emotional clearing techniques may be used first to clear the negative response, making subsequent hypnosis much more comfortable.)

WHEN CLIENT IS DEALING WITH A LIFE-THREATENING DISEASE:

A client who seeks treatment by Hypnosis for a physiological and/or a life-threatening disease should be advised that such treatment is "controversial" and should be encouraged to get a diagnosis or referral from a Medical Doctor before proceeding. NOTE: It is not illegal to use hypnosis for, say, helping to alleviate an ulcer or its symptoms. It is, however, illegal to claim to use Hypnosis to cure any physical condition.

WHEN A CLIENT IS DEALING WITH CERTAIN PSYCHIATRIC OR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS:

If a client is dealing with certain disorders which are Psychiatric in nature, such as Multiple Personality, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Hysteria, and others, as well as Epileptic Seizures, it would be appropriate to seek a referral from an MD or Psychiatrist before proceeding.

MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX:

Members of the opposite sex should only be in trance when there is a reliable witness present.  This protects everyone concerned.  At least have a receptionist nearby, someone else in the building, but preferably someone else present.  I was once asked to help a young female client, with her inability to orgasm whilst making love with her husband.  I insisted on having her friend and colleague present in the room while I worked with her, as I’m sure you can understand.

Now assuming that Hypnosis is appropriate, it’s important that you have a chat with your client.

THE PRE-TALK

Before you ever do hypnosis with another person, it’s usually a good idea to have this conversation first.

Much is done before the induction begins. In fact, it is safe to say that this may be the most important time to create success by speaking to the client's fears, and misconceptions and discussing what to expect.

1.   Don't expect to feel Hypnotised.

Many people come to the Hypnotherapist thinking that there is something about trance which is markedly different from their "normal" state of consciousness. This is definitely not true. A Light Trance will likely feel no different from relaxation, or sunbathing and you’re off, your mind wandering. Since trance is a normal natural state, then clients will likely feel a feeling of familiarity, no matter how deep in trance they go. You can say, "Don't expect to feel hypnotised. Trance is not about feeling "zonked out;' it is a normal natural state.

2.   Do expect to feel relaxed.

Hypnosis is a natural state where you feel increasing levels of relaxation.  You may feel your arms and legs heavy, and that’s just because the blood flow is increasing to your limbs, so they feel heavier.

3.   You ARE in control.

"You’ve seen stage hypnosis shows haven’t you?  It looks like the subjects’ mind is being controlled, doesn’t it?  But they volunteered didn’t they?  When they volunteered weren’t they hoping that they were going to have fun?  The truth is during the trance induction, you need to know that you are in charge. For example, if I told you to stand up, and it was OK, you would, right? But if I told you to rob a bank you wouldn't do that. Well it's the same in Hypnosis. You are in charge. You only accept the suggestions that are given that are consistent with your own internal values and beliefs.”

4.  Trance is about learning how to go into trance.

"So the process we are about to learn is just that, a learning process. Each step of the way there are several tests, and we will see how many tests you succeed at. The more successful you are the deeper you can go

[Used with permission © Tad James & Advanced Neuro Dynamics]

“Let me tell you about Hypnosis.  Let me demonstrate what it feels like.  Close your eyes”  Count from one to five and say “That’s it!”

Now close your eyes again

Place your hands in your lap

Put your feet together

Do get up, and do a cartwheel for me

At this point the client will open their eyes and ask “Are you daft?”.  You see, your Conscious Mind always steps in.  I can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do

Only you can make yourself do something you want to do.

People on stage show hypnosis are often asked “Were you hypnotised?” and they usually say “No – I heard every word he said”.  That’s because they think they’re supposed to be asleep, and they’re not.  When asked “So why did you behave like that?” they always say “I don’t know”

Dave Elman was an eminent Hypnotherapist in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and he taught that much of the work of hypnosis is done before the induction begins.

Elman's Requisites for Hypnosis

1. The Consent of the Subject—the subject must agree to be hypnotised.

2. Communication Between the Hypnotherapist and the Client — there must be communication between the Hypnotherapist and the Client.

3. Freedom from Fear — the Client must be free from any fear about the hypnotic process or about what is going to take place.

4. Freedom from Reluctance on the Client's part to trust the Hypnotherapist — the Client must trust the Hypnotherapist and his/her intentions.

SENSORY ACUITY

How do you know when someone is in a trance?  As a Hypnotherapist, you have to be able to notice small changes in your client.

Erickson was famous for his sensory acuity.  In the mid-seventies, the creators of NLP observed that people make minute changes from moment to moment, and that those changes have meaning if you have enough Sensory Acuity.

1.         Skin Colour  Light to dark

2.         Skin Tonus (The Tone of the Muscles)  Shiny to not shiny

3.         Breathing  Has 2 components

Rate

Fast - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Slow

Location

High - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Low

4.         Lower Lip Size  Lines or no Lines

5.         Eyes

Focus

Focused - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Defocused

Pupil Dilation

Dilated - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - ----------Undilated

STAGES OF TRANCE

Skin tends to flush as blood flow increases.  Skin tonus tends to go from shiny to matt because the facial muscles are relaxed.  Breathing tends to slow down and go lower down from the chest to the stomach, though sometimes it actually speeds up.  The lips tend to fatten out, and thus the lines disappear.  Pupils tend to become fixed and glassy, staring.

"True hypnotic signs cannot be aped, imitated or pretended. For example, you cannot pretend body warmth, it has to be there. You cannot imitate fluttering eyelids. Try it for yourself and notice how after a second or two the eyelids no longer flutter. In hypnosis, the fluttering eyelids occur almost constantly as the induction proceeds. There are very few people who can, at will, cause their eyes to tear, nor can you at will cause the whites of your eyes to redden..." – Dave Elman

There are different stages of trance, and the further down the list you, the further down you go.  Literally.

(from LeCron, 1964)

1. Lethargy                                                           feeling tired and heavy
2. Relaxation                                                        comfortably floppy
3. Eye Catalepsy                                                  staring or closed          
4. Arm Catalepsy                                     rigid, stiff limb
5. Catalepsy Of Isolated Muscle Groups   could be standing, lying down
6. Heavy Or Floating Feelings                               exactly that
7. Rapport                                                            feel connected
8. Smell And Taste Changes                                 hallucinate new ones    
9. Number Block                                                  Erase a number
10. Amnesia                                                           Forget things
11. Analgesia                                                          No Pain
12. Automatic Movement                                       Repetitive gestures
13. Hallucinations (Positive) Visual & Auditory  See or hear things
14. Bizarre Post-Hypnotic Suggestions                    Used in Stage shows
15. Negative Hallucinations                                     Make something vanish
16. Comatose                                                         Gone!
17. Somnambulism                                     Sleep walking

EXERCISE

The “That’s Right” exercise, best done in groups of 3 people, person A, B and C.

B – just sit there

A – look at B, and hold 3 beliefs in your mind about B

“YOU ARE A GREAT HYPNOTIC SUBJECT

YOU ARE TOTALLY RESOURCEFUL

YOU CAN CHANGE EASILY & TIMELY”

Whenever A observes any of the signs of trance in B, they say “That’s right”.  Helps to look meaningfully at them as you say it

C is to be in Peripheral vision, observing

When C sees a hypnotic relationship between A & B, C is to nod slowly and hypnotically

C continues to do that as long as you see that the relationship between A & B is hypnotic

Try this, it’s very hypnotic, and it sets up the phrase anchor of “That’s right, very good” which will now help induce trance in any of the three participants!

Now before any good stage show, there are a number of suggestibility tests done to select the best subjects to go on stage and make the hypnotist look good.  You can try these yourself:

SUGGESTIBILITY

1.  THE DICTIONARY/BALLOON

"Please hold both hands outstretched and close your eyes. Now turn your right (or your left) hand over and imagine as clearly as you can, a nice red ribbon  tied to your wrist which is palm down, and that red ribbon goes up to 400 helium balloons.  And you know what helium balloons do don’t you.  That’s right, they go up.  (Stress these words like a command)  Lifting, lifting, lifting…. and the heaviest book in your house, what would that look like?  Imagine that on your other hand. And because your arm is straight out there’s no leverage, and all that weight is on your shoulder, and it’s getting heavier, and heavier all the time….Now open your eyes."

This is my favourite – most people have one hand down at waist level and the other above eye level.  Very cool.

2. THE HAND CLASP

"Please take your hands and clasp them together, and close your eyes. Now notice your fingers are becoming more and more tightly clasped together. Tighter and tighter, (etc.) It’s almost as if they’ve been super glued together.  Now try to open them. Try to pull your hands apart. Try and find you cannot. The harder you try the harder they clasp themselves together."

3. THE POSTURAL SWAY

"Please close your eyes and imagine that you are standing on the deck of your very own luxury yacht.  It’s a warm summer day and the ocean is like a flat mirror, smooth and calm, and there’s only the slightest hint of a rocking of the boat as the waves gently lap at the sides of the hull.  Now the wind picks up and the sea gets choppier, so your boat starts to rock more from side to side, and your sea legs will try to compensate as the boat rocks more from side to side”

Be prepared to catch them stumbling over…

The more of these tests they pass, the more suggestible and compliant they are.  These also pre-train the subject to follow your suggestions, and also prove that the mind runs the body.  Excellent if you’re going to be working on physical health issues…

That’s enough to keep you going for a while.  Look out for the next part of this E-Course which reveals how to use Hypnotic Language Patterns in daily speech, emails, websites (hey, you are reading this course on a website, are you not?)….

And if you want to learn Hypnosis on my LIVE 2 day seminar, you can read all about it HERE

Learn hypnosis history from Glasgow Hypnotist Jonathan Clark

“On The Count Of Six You Will Open Your Eyes…”

A 6 Part E-Course revealing the truth about Hypnosis

By

Jonathan Clark

Master Hypnotherapist

Founder & Developer of HGE™

PART 2

A HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS

Let’s go all the way back in time to early China, & Hawaii – Ha Breathing was a technique used to build the chi, the mana (life force), whilst at the same time putting the breather into a profoundly altered state of consciousness.  To this day most martial arts, yoga and meditation techniques start with breathing exercises.  In Hawaii the sacred knowledge was called Huna – and the Kahuna was known for that thousand yard stare that all good gurus have, called Hakalau, the Shaman state.  Instantaneous healing was the norm in Hawaii.  Walking on lava started the fire walking craze that Tony Robbins made modern and famous.  There was the theory of the five elements, fire, air, water, earth, and the last element - the ether, or trance element, which is purple black

In India – there were the Snake charmers,  the Fakirs.  Hypnosis has its roots in meditation, which is Self hypnosis.  Chanting Mantras in your head to drown out and control the internal dialogue.  Eye closure was a sign of you’re going into a trance..

Patanjali’s Yoga sutras aimed for the same state of enlightenment.

In ancient Egypt there were the sleep temples, in which the priest would listen to your problems, touch your forehead and put you into a deep sleep state, and when you awakened the problem was miraculously gone!!  Sound familiar?  There are hieroglyphics in tombs that illustrate these procedures.

The Elber Papyrus describes an eye fixation technique.  The seers of Greeks used it, as did the Mayans in South America.  African witch doctors, Celtic Druids, Persian Magi – in every culture on every continent, trance was used for insight and healing.

Genghis Kahn is reported to have whipped his armies into a frenzy as they saw hallucinations induced by psyched up emotional states and group suggestion.  Throughout history many dictators and leaders used the same approach.

Many argue that Jesus used rapid inductions and suggestion to heal the sick, and to teach his followers.  Read the section in this book on generating therapeutic metaphors for an approach that does just that.

In the Middle ages in Europe there was The Royal Touch.  Touching the King’s robe, usually meant being blessed or being healed.  If you could get past the palace guards..  Usually purple.  You’ll have heard of the tradition of “Laying on of hands”.  To this day celebrities visit sick patients and their health improves…

1500 – Paracelsus – did healing with magnets.  Nikken distributors now sell similar magnetic products 500 years later.

1600  A Priest called Valentine Braithwaite practiced hands on healing.  He became known as the “Great Irish Stroker”

1725 – Vienna, a Jesuit Priest called Father Maximillian Hehl.  Imagine going to see Father Hehl for confession!  He used magnets to heal people.  Later studied by a man called Mesmer whom you’ve probably heard of

1774 – Franz Anton Mesmer – where the name “Mesmerism” comes from.  Inspired by seeing Father Hehl demonstrating magnetic cures, he passed his hands over patients and they got better.  He had them sit in a bath full of iron filings.  He wrote a Doctoral Dissertation called “De Planetarum Influxu” stating that the planets influenced the body of man.  Later, he decided it wasn’t the magnets that helped people, but the person’s “animal magnetism” which is where that phrase comes from.  He studied the Planets and magnetic fields, and postulated that the physical body was like a battery with two poles, and that sometimes those poles could be flipped and become imbalanced.  (This is an opinion still shared today in the EFT technique).  In those days surgery killed people, while mesmerism cured them.  There were hundreds of proven cases documented in writing.  What was really at work, was the clients’ belief, expectation and hope that they would get better.  And so they did.

SOMETIMES THE CONSCIOUS MIND NEEDS TO GO THROUGH SOME SORT OF RITUAL, TO GRANT THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND THE PERMISSION IT NEEDS TO DO THE WORK IT CAN DO.

Encouraged by a man called Mozart, Mesmer set up a public performance in Paris where he invented a special stage that held 30 people, iron rods to hold onto, special effects, dramatic music and highly suggestible subjects.  He was the “Pop Idol” of his time.

Benjamin Franklin investigated Mesmer’s work and concluded that he was a fraud, and that al of his successes were caused by the patient believing and expecting to be cured.  How right he was!

1779 – A Catholic Priest called Father Gassner became known as a Faith Healer, and his parish believed he had God’s authority to heal them.  In the subdued lighting of his cathedral, with candles, incense, suggestions all in Latin (the ancient languages always make for more belief and authority!), Gassner would touch people with a diamond studded crucifix and they would fall asleep, in as little as 7 seconds!

1800 – Marquis Chastenet de Pusseguyr – wrote about Mesmer, coined the phrase “Somnambulist” or sleep walker.  He believed the magnetic power came from the magnetiser, not the client, again feeding the belief about being controlled.  He would magnetise a tree, and people who touched that tree would get results.   Sometimes, even if they touched the wrong tree, change occurred.  But then it would…

SOMETIMES THE CONSCIOUS MIND NEEDS TO GO THROUGH SOME SORT OF RITUAL, TO GRANT THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND THE PERMISSION IT NEEDS TO DO THE WORK IT CAN DO.

Now at this point in history, Pusseguyr and his contemporaries started exploring ESP and other unacceptable theories, which again did Hypnosis no favours, scrutinised and decried by the scientific community.

1815 – Abbe Faria approaches Hypnosis from a scientific standpoint, and developed his “eye fixation” approach, still used to this day. His career ended when some jealous physicians publicly humiliated him.

1838 – Professor John Elliotson – London, started openly using Mesmerism for surgical purposes, despite conventional belief at the time that healing required pain!

Despite carrying out major operations with large audiences of younger, eager to learn doctors, he left the medical community after a huge bust-up, and a specially selected committee was employed to remove all records and traces of his work.

1838 – James Braid, a Scottish surgeon, set out to debunk Mesmer and his work as old wives tales, and ended up writing a book extolling all the virtues of Mesmerism, which he now renamed “Hypnosis” which from the Greek means “nervous sleep”.  This term still exists today, although sometimes disguised as “group meditation”, “closed eye process” or “guided imagery”.  Yup, its all Hypnosis.  He also wrote about the learning state and published a book called “Neurypnology” in 1843.  Specialised in vocal suggestions and using bright light to induce trance

1850 – Up until this time the bulk of the Medical community had shunned hypnosis because it lacked proven research.  A Scottish Surgeon called James Esdaile did thousands of minor operations, hundreds of major procedures, including painless amputations,  by inducing the Esdaile state, a coma like state in which he could operate on patients,  without the use of any anaesthetic.  He wrote a book called “Mesmerism in India” which explained how he cut the post-operative mortality rate from 50% to 8%.  Note that India has a long history of the occult and esoteric, thus the patient largely already held all the belief and expectation needed.  Funnily enough his success rate in Great Britain at the time was dramatically reduced – funny that.

1860 – In France Pierre Janet and Alfred Binet could create diseases and take them away again using hypnosis

1864 – A country Doctor called Ambroise Liebault in Nancy, France develops his own system of Hypnosis and suggestion, and does a free 10 minute consultation with every patient.  He was trained by a man called Charcot

1865 – A man called Hippolite Bernheim teams up with Liebault & forms the first ever hypnosis clinic at  the Nancy Medical School – the worlds most acclaimed centre for healing using hypnosis

1873 – Dr James Charcot attempts to revive Mesmerism, including a scientific classification of various trance depths.  The challenge at this point in history was that Hypnosis was used to make symptoms disappear, without any regard to addressing the underlying causes.

1880 – Dr Joseph Breuer uses Hypnosis to uncover the root cause of a girl’s inability to drink water form a cup.  In trance she recalled being disgusted to see a dog drinking out of her cup, hence the ongoing reaction.  As soon as the root cause was made conscious, the problem disappeared.  Thus was formed the basis of most psychoanalysis.

1890’s – Sigmund Freud studies with Charcot at Nancy.  He later declared Hypnosis didn’t work and devised the talking therapy cure instead, promoting Psychoanalysis as more effective than Hypnosis.  He openly stated that the Unconscious Mind was evil and dirty and perverse.  Interestingly Freud was a cocaine addict and he used to rub it on his gums.  His gums rotted and he had some false teeth made but they were so uncomfortable and ill-fitting, it was very hard to understand him when he spoke.  So instead he started sitting behind the patient, and got them to do all the talking.  Needless to say, in one stroke, Hypnosis was set back by decades, just as it was starting to get somewhere…

Emile Couet was another figure of interest at this time, promoting self-suggestion without trance.  You probably know his work from the phrase “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better”

1890 – William James, an American professor of psychology, creates what becomes formally known as Psychotherapy.  He also talks about Submodalities and Time Lines, two areas greatly expanded and extended in the field of NLP

1895 – Michel Chevreul a French chemist uses a pendulum to detect elements in chemical compounds.  This is the same technique used by Uri Geller to detect oil and gold for big companies (with little success)

1898 – Boris Sidis “Psychology of Suggestion” wrote about difference between indirect (choices) and direct  (command) suggestion

1900 – split between two factions:

 – Freud and Psychoanalysis.  “Not for the poor”.  He also said it would take 100 - 300 hours to fix a problem.  I wonder how much he charged per hour?  Or how much cocaine cost back then?

- Behaviourists – no such thing as an Unconscious Mind or Hypnosis, it’s all conditioned response

1902 – Bill Twitmyer notices that when he approaches patient with small hammer, their knee jerks, hence the term “knee jerk reaction”.  Publishes his findings to the American Medical Association who say “ho hum”

1903 – J. Milne Bramwell lists a whole bunch of hypnosis techniques at the back of his book which calls Hypnosis a load of nonsense

1904 – Ivan P. Pavlov makes his dogs salivate with steak and a tuning fork (not a bell).  Combines this with Twitmyer’s work and presents his paper called stimulus response to the Russian Medical Association who go wild over it.

1933 – Harvard University in the US,  man called Clark Hull trains a young medical student called Milton Erickson

1936 – Pavlov’s work “Conditioned Reflexes” is published.

1943 – George Estabrooks prevalent in the field.  During the Second World War, Hypnosis was used extensively in POW camps for dentistry, dermatology and other procedures, mainly because they had no drugs.

1920 – 1980 Milton Erickson, MD, the one man mainly responsible for getting hypnosis recognised by the AMA as a legitimate form of medical treatment in 1959.

At about the same time Carl Jung brings out work on his psychological archetypes – actually lifted from the Tarot Card deck!

1950’s – Dave Elman, arch rival of Milton Erickson, practicing Hypnosis

1957 – Andre Weitzenhoffer writes “General Techniques of Hypnosis”

1964 – Leslie LeCron writes about Ideomotor Signalling, communicating with the Unconscious with finger signals, twitches, etc

1960’s – Fritz Perls invents Gestalt Therapy.  His work is edited by one John O’Stevens.  He later changes his name to Steve Andreas, who later figures greatly in the field of NLP and was one of my first teachers in the subject

1970 – Jeffrey Zeig creates the Erickson Foundation

1972 – California Student Richard Bandler teams up with linguistics professor Jon Grinder and create Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), largely based on Erickson

1975 – Ernest Rossi writes 10 books with Milton Erickson, some after Erickson died!

1979 – The Hypnotic Patterns of Milton Erickson MD volumes 1 and 2 released

1986 – Dr Everett ‘Tad’ James produces Time Line Therapy ® based on Erickson

1994 – Tad James trains David Shephard in NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnosis

1997 – David Shephard trains Jonathan Clark in NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnosis

2005 – Jonathan releases HGE

TODAY – you join this esteemed lineage!

Congratulations!  Welcome to the family.

STATES FOR LEARNING & TRAINING

The best state for the Hypnotherapist to be in is ….. guess what?

Trance!

You go into trance and they’ll follow.

I often come off stage or out of a therapy session and I have no idea what happened…..at least not consciously.

So I take lots of written notes…….to remind me

Bothered about limiting decisions or bad events in your past?  See the Hakalau segment on the next few pages of this book.  It’s a techniques used in Hawaii to expand your awareness & your consciousness.   “Hakalau” means to focus in and spread out at the same time – how can you do that?  A form of peripheral vision – where you pay more attention on the peripheral than the focussed

In all traditions Kahuna (learned ones) or Shamans can access expanded states of awareness quickly.  A Trance state – focussed, expanded and able to access it rapidly.  THIS IS How to achieve & stay – relaxed, focussed & centred

Wouldn’t it be useful to be calm most of the time, more often?  To do that you need some way of staying externally focussed.  All negative emotions (anger, sadness, fear) require that your attention is on the inside.  So to be calm, relaxed, your attention needs to be on the outside. 

Imagine being able to learn more, and more quickly.  What if there was a way to make negative emotions vanish at will…  Or maybe you used to get nervous presenting?

Would it be useful to be calm?

Want the secret of all learning? Here it comes: All learning is state dependent.  That’s it.  The state you are in when you learn something is the state you need to be in when you want it back out again.  And the best state to learn in is trance…

YOU MIGHT WANT TO WRITE THAT DOWN

– the state you’re in when you learn is the state you need to be in when you want to recall.  That’s why when you get sad, you’re sad about all the sad things in the sad file.  Or you get angry and all the things you’re angry about all come up at once.

This also keeps you safe on a dark night.

Hakalau was the active meditation of the Kahuna, where they were externally focussed, in peripheral vision.  Called Hakalau from Hawaiian Huna, it means literally “To stare at, and to allow to spread out”. You see there’s a difference between Foveal vision vs Peripheral vision.

Foveal vision is when you focus on a point and everything is detailed and sharp.  This is the kind of vision we use in driving, talking, reading, in fact almost all of the time. Peripheral vision is a relaxed gaze, the day dreamy state where you’re not actually looking at anything in particular, you’re just using your eyes to drink in the whole scene, such as when you’re visualising or looking at the scenery.

In Foveal vision you activate the Sympathetic (Stress) response, as in adrenaline, fight or flight, whereas in peripheral vision you stimulate the Parasympathetic (Relaxed)

Response, which is calm, tranquil and externally focussed. In fact the word Na as in “Kahuna” and “Huna” means calm, centred, and quiet.  Other cultures used mildly hallucinogenic substances, rattles, and drums.  In Hawaii it was thought best to be self-sufficient, and not to rely on external props, to just be able to just go into the state at will.  This technique can be a real eye opener!

The steps are almost identical to Patanjali’s description in the Yoga Sutras

If you refer back to the Communication Model diagram earlier in this book, you’ll see that a relaxed state is controlled by a combination of Physiology and Internal Representation.

The Physiology is relaxed, looking straight ahead, breathing deep in the stomach, letting your teeth separate.  Your mouth doesn’t need to be open but you should loosen your jaw.  In 1750 Mesmer stood at your head, would ask you to look up at his eyes as he used “animal magnetism” to heal.

James Braid a Scotsman, in 1843 noticed the upward angle of the eyes, and he developed an eye fixation technique in book called  “Neurypnology” He set out to debunk Mesmer, and eventually ended up singing his praises.  Braid named the relaxed state “Hypnosis” which means “nervous sleep”.

Here’s how to do Hakalau – or go into peripheral vision

1. Ho'ohaka: Just pick a spot on the wall to look at, preferably above eye level, so that your field of vision seems to bump up against your eyebrows, but the eyes are not so high as to cut off the field of vision.  Slightly upward, 45 degrees preferably.  That’s the way you start this, after a while you won’t have to do that again.

2. Kuu: "To let go." As you stare at this spot, just let your mind go loose, and focus all of your attention on the spot.  Stare at it, loosen your jaw, let go – “Brain Dump”

3. Lau: "To spread out" Notice that within a matter of moments, your vision begins to spread out, and you see more in the peripheral than you do in the central part of your vision.  Notice you can begin to pick up information in the peripheral

4. Hakalau: Now, pay attention to the peripheral. In fact, pay more attention to the peripheral than to the central part of your vision.

5. Ho'okohi: Stay in this state for as long as you can. Notice how it feels. As you do it for a while begin to notice the giggly, ecstatic feeling that bubbles up from inside.  It seems to be impossible to feel a negative state in this state

The wise one, the Shaman, the learned one in Hawaii was called a Kahuna.  “Na” means  calm and centred – they spent most of their lives in this state.  Certainly when outdoors in nature – they could see small movements in the woods, the water, in the air. On the ground.  Here’s the challenge – once you’re good, you can get into the state in under a minute, and notice how far out you can see things. 180 degrees?  More than that?

Get in touch with the environment around you, pull it around all the way behind you…..  Think of it like Radar, all the way behind you.  Your awareness fills the entire room.  You may not sense it visually, though you can begin to feel the energy patterns as though you saw them, all the way around you.  That’s why it was so important – to become totally connected to your environment.  This is the process.

This is the neurological equivalent to “there’s no difference between me and the universe I live in” – you have expanded awareness.  Then you can bring your eyes down, but stay in that state of Hakalau.  Once you’ve got that, move around yet stay in that state.  Stand up, walk around, staying in Hakalau, walk normally.  As you turn keep connected to what’s around and behind you.  Stay in this state for 5 minutes.  When you feel you can keep that state well, come back & sit down.

Use this all of the time, until it becomes automatic.  The more you do it the easier it is to let go of negative emotions.  Many Shaman won’t actually make eye contact with you cos it could interfere with their state (actually you should be able to look someone in the eye and still be in Hakalau).

In Part 3 of this E-Course we’ll talk about when NOT to use Hypnosis, and the exact clues YOU CAN SEE that tell you when someone actually going into trance…

ALTERNATIVELY come and join me on my LIVE Hypnosis Seminar April 27 - 28th in Glasgow, Scotland.  Full details are HERE

 
“On The Count Of Six You Will Open Your Eyes…”

 A 6 Part Course revealing the truth about Hypnosis By Jonathan Clark Master Hypnotherapist Founder & Developer of HGE™  

PART 1

Now be honest with me, be honest with me …. A little bit anxious about learning self-hypnosis? That’s OK, most people do feel a little wary of trance and all that you can learn while you’re in a trance You hear a lot of weird things about this thing called Hyp……ah………hypnosis People ask a lot of funny questions. You’ve probably heard people who’ve done stage show hypnosis say that they couldn’t have been hypnotised because “they could hear everything the Hypnotist was saying” Well, that’s funny from my point of view. I’m going to see to it that we dispel a lot of the illusions around this subject. I want to rearrange any notions you had about it.  

You see, I show people how to run their own brains, and I’m going to reveal to you the truth behind the technology called Hypnosis.

 Everyone’s heard of it, right? Have you ever read a book about it? Or been to a Hypnosis stage show? Perhaps you’ve taken some training, or even been to see a Hypnotherapist. Top Hypnotherapists have evolved an incredibly effective way of training, stimulating learning and unconscious …change …in their students. I’m going to share with you a whole range of trance techniques that seem to work like magic. This is a step-by-step practical chapter, with each exercise building on the last.

The questions you’re probably asking yourself even now are: What am I going to gain here? How can I use this to impact others? What possibilities are there if I use this stuff called Hypnosis? How do I apply it, practically in the real world? For what purpose could I use the tools I’m leaving with? What’s the right way to learn to go into a trance? What will this do for me? Now I want to rearrange any notions that you ….had….about Hypnosis. It’s completely different from what you thought of. And I’m going to teach you indirect & direct techniques. I want to share with you techniques that are not normally taught on Hypnosis trainings, because these are pulled from literature. I’m a researcher – I like to go deep. I like going deeply into something…. We’re not going to do Direct Authoritarian hypnosis – that’s old hat. We’re Indirect.

Most of what we cover is based on the work of Milton H. Erickson The two kinds of hypnosis are as follows:

1. Hetero-hypnosis, where there is one person being the hypnotist/hypnotherapist, giving the suggestions, and one subject who is going into trance. The hypnotist leads the client through a self-relaxation process, which creates the hypnotic state. Effectively the hypnotist suggests to the client that they can relax themselves, and assuming the client wants to, they will follow those instructions.

2. Self, or auto-hypnosis, is where a person goes into a hypnotic trance, which is self-induced. In this process, the subject relaxes himself or herself as before and is in effect both the client and the hypnotist. Learning to run your own body with your own mind.

In both instances, the hypnotic state is a relaxed, attentive state that a person can only induce in themselves. In other words, no one can hypnotise you, you are responsible for creating that state in your own nervous system. Assuming you want to go into trance, you are able to relax and you are willing to accept suggestions, you will be in the hypnosis state. When one is relaxed or tired, one becomes more susceptible to suggestions. Hypnosis is simply creating that condition on purpose. Self-hypnosis is a convenient tool that anyone can learn to use, and does not require a therapist, complicated rituals, a pyramid to sit under, membership fees or any other added complications. The ultimate in self-discovery, you can do it anytime you choose, wherever you are, whatever you are doing.

You learn to “go inside” and talk to the oldest and wisest part of you that runs your body, memories and emotions, and who always tells you the truth. This conscious and unconscious connection will help you grow and evolve as you uncover the real you, and learn more about why you do what you do and your deepest needs, wants and limitations than you ever have before. As a result, your level of congruence will increase as you minimize any internal conflict and get all of you on your own side. Once you are familiar with relaxing and listening to your inner mind, you can begin to clear the limitations that hold you back and that you subsequently project onto the world. As your internal map of the world improves, so does reality on the outside, and you will attract more of the opportunities, people and coincidences that you want.

Self-hypnosis gives you the ability to influence and change your beliefs, behaviours and emotions, meaning you can be more of the person you want to be, amplifying all your best traits and minimizing all your worst. Learning to create a calm, relaxed, inner-directed state of mind reduces stress, and creates optimism and a positive outlook. You will run more positive internal representations and thus give yourself suggestions that are more positive. It also teaches you self-discipline and control, as you learn that you really are in charge of your own mind. With self-awareness comes self-understanding, as you learn to run your own head, thoughts and emotions.

Of course this can help with self-healing, be it mental wounds from previous upsets and traumas, or physical healing, knowing that he mind runs the body and can influence its recovery and optimal state. Personally, I have a strong need for calmness and peace. The more I meditate, use trance and visualisation techniques, the calmer and more content I become. My health is extremely important to me, coming from a family background of ill health, and living in the European capital for heart disease, cancer and strokes, I am highly motivated to practice anything that boosts my health and happiness. As part of my own passion as an HGE Trainer, Life Coach and student of Huna, my study of self-hypnosis both deepens my knowledge and experience of Hypnosis, and raises my self confidence and references for what I teach. I firmly believe that as a teacher and adviser I should always be learning and growing, deepening my experience and broadening my horizons.

My own growth and evolution is pulling me towards Huna and other esoteric studies and I have learned that the discipline and practice of self-hypnosis can only help my growth. I do lots of public speaking and presentations, trainings and seminars and have done for 22 years– and I use elements of stage hypnotist skills. Richard Bandler, the man who started NLP, said a good presenter should be a good stage hypnotist. Now I’m a Master Hypnotherapist and I do a lot of one on one therapy work with clients, and have done now for over 22 years – I use trance work with all my clients. All change requires trance you see. I’m also a Life Coach, which means people hire me as a mentor/business consultant – so I use hypnosis skills over the phone too. Imagine that… Picture an iceberg floating in the ocean. You have a Conscious mind. That’s only the tip of the iceberg. And your unconscious …..mind is here too… That’s the far bigger part of the whole, and most of it lies unseen, beneath the surface… Erickson said clients are clients because there is a lack of rapport between your Conscious Mind and your unconscious

FEATURES / FUNCTIONS OF THE "TWO MINDS" Conscious Mind As we discuss these two functions and educate you, notice the effect it starts to have inside your head… 134 bits per second sequential – one after the other logical linear – this causes that asks "why?" a lot, questions thinking waking state voluntary movements aware of only now tries to understand problem goal setter deliberate, on purpose verbal analyses, picks apart attends to information limited, narrow focus cognitive learnings

 Unconscious Mind everything else, 2 million bps simultaneous – all at once intuitive, associates things together quantum – all connected knows why feeling sleeping, dreaming involuntary movements storehouse of all memories knows solution goal getter automatic, always on nonverbal – no words, speechless synthesizes, absorbs records information unlimited, expansive experiential learnings

Milton Erickson practiced from 1920 till he died in 1980. So over 60 years he’d see about 14 patients a day, sometimes 7 days a week. He typed out all his inductions on a typewriter – using the hunt and peck method. Just using one or maybe 2 fingers….. 30 typed single spaced, narrow margins of all the ways he could figure out to go into a trance easily With experience he was able to get it all the way down to 25 pages Then 20 Then 15 And then 10 pages And then 9, 8 pages…… And then ssssssssss 6 pages, then all the way down to ffff 4 pages And then mmm 3 then 2 Then 1 then he reduced it down further….to one paragraph Then one sentence… “I realised I didn’t need to use words at all” he said I could even take you with me into a deep trance nonverbally

He once did an interesting experiment with an Idiot Savante – someone who knows about everything to do with one particular subject, but very little else. Erickson once got this chap to hide a pin somewhere on a University Campus, so Erickson had no idea where it was. Then, just by holding this man’s wrist, he walked straight to the pin. And he did it by paying attention to the micro muscle movements in the man’s arm. Anytime they walked towards the pin, the man would unconsciously tense and resist, almost imperceptibly, and Erickson could sense that resistance, which told him he was going in the right direction. Anytime he relaxed his arm as they walked away from the pin, Erickson knew that was the wrong way to go. Maybe you’ve seen the gifted and skilled magician and performer Derren Brown do the same thing on Channel 4’s “Mind Control” programme in the UK. I went to see Derren’s live show last year and he’s extremely good at what he does.                                                                                                                                                                                               

Oh, and by the way, it’s impossible to be in a room where someone is being hypnotised, and not go into a trance yourself… All the hypnosis literature said “Just get rapport”, and then induce trance. We talked about that earlier in this book. Thank goodness HGE denominalised Rapport and turned it into a process that you can learn and practice. And now you know how to do that. If you can’t remember, go back and read the rapport chapter again. Hypnotic suggestions come to us both verbally and nonverbally, all day, every day. In their book “Healing Yourself With Self-Hypnosis” authors Frank Caprio M.D. and Joseph R. Berger listed the many ways we both give and receive suggestions every day, including:

DIRECTLY: A direct suggestion is any verbal statement or physical action that is to the point and given in a "command" manner. "Everybody stand up!" "Eat your food." "Come here."

INDIRECTLY: Indirect suggestions are primarily nonverbal motions or sound to which we often respond without being aware of doing so. Yawn, and you cause others to yawn. Smile, and you cause others to smile. Look upward, and you cause others to look upward.

BY INFERENCE: Inferred suggestions are basically the same as indirect suggestions in that they are subtle and often nonverbal. They differ in that they convey a message from one person to another person or group. Pointing a finger to suggest "Come here" . . . Nodding your head to indicate affirmation . . . Making a fist to suggest violent action . . .

FROM PRESTIGE: Prestige suggestions are those we act upon with no questions, simply because we respect and believe the authority of the source. Small children believe their parents. We believe our doctors. We believe our teachers.

FROM EMOTIONAL APPEALS: Emotional appeals are those responses that change a person's emotional state, thereby evoking feelings or sensations that the person associates with the event. Shouting or threats causing panic . . . Antagonizing or "needling" causing anger . . . Gentleness or empathy causing happiness or crying . . .

BY SOCIAL DICTATES: These are suggestions that "lead" or "appeal" to a person's desire to belong or conform. The phrases "follow the crowd" and "peer pressure" refer to socially dictated suggestions. Fashion . . . hem lines are "up" this year. Politics . . . that candidate stands for the worker. Language . . . words change meaning by increased general usage and acceptance, such as "gear" and "gay."

NEGATIVE CLICHE SUGGESTIONS: There are literally hundreds of phrases that are repeated so often that they actually become a part of our belief systems. Money goes to money. It's not what you know, it's who you know. You just can't win, no matter how hard you try. Look before you leap, and then he who hesitates is lost. The rat race – win it, and you’re still a rat! You can’t beat the system.

NEGATIVE SUGGESTIONS/PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS: How many times have you heard or said a phrase so often that it becomes true? He makes me sick. My job gives me a pain in the neck. Her kids drive me crazy. Now, there are lots of different ways of inducing trance, to make suggestions stick. Television has been proven to be more trancey than staring at a blank wall. “Trance” – it’s a word that people have funny connotations to. Trance is an everyday state – a dozy, sleepy state similar to the way you feel when you’ve just woken up, or you’re just drifting off….. The Scottish word is “Dwam”. Or like when you’re sunbathing – you hear a man and his dog walking by, and you could sit up and open your eyes, but its too much like hard work. It’s easier just to have your eyes stay closed… Your First Hypnosis Exercise…

Try this for a minute. Read these instructions, then try out this quick self-hypnosis induction. Relax your gaze, and let it fix on something you can see – an object, a picture, whatever. Then notice 5 other things you can see. Now listen to what you can hear, your breathing, a clock ticking, whatever. Then listen for 5 other sounds – birds, the wind, pipes creaking, anything. Then become aware of how you feel sitting there, the chair or the seat you’re on, then 5 other things you can feel. Notice how that changes your state gently…

Now look for 4 things, listen for 4, feel 4 Then 3 things Then 2 things …and that means you’re becoming more and more relaxed with every breath you take every move you make every single day, every word I say I’ll be watching you…….. I could just pace your current experience And you’ll notice the heaviness setting in As the blood flow to your limbs increases And the more heavy your arms and legs the more you relax Remember when you were in school And you were writing a lot and your hand got numb And you looked down at your own hand and asked yourself “Is that really my hand?” cos it felt kind of disconnected

Sometimes when I tell people what I do, they try and test me They say “OK then, can you make my arm lift unconsciously?” And I think to myself there’s 159 muscles between your finger and shoulder And that means you can’t lift it any other way……. Only un-consciously……… I mean have you noticed yet that one of your hands feels differently from the other hand…. That means…..the one that feels cooler, or maybe hotter The heavier of the two, or will it be the lighter of the two Will begin to rise up Maybe it’s just tingling at the moment Small jerky movements getting bigger…and bigger Every time you breathe in your hands will lift all by themselves Now I don’t know which hand will begin to lift first The right……the left Whichever hand your Unconscious …wants to lift It may be the right hand It’s always the right hand That’s right Or sometimes it’s the hand that’s left Whatever hand isn’t holding the book Or maybe it is the hand holding the book Lifting……..lifting………. Your unconscious …..does want to communicate….doesn’t it? If all else fails, every 90 minutes you will go into a trance. In 1986 Ernest Rossi wrote about Ultradian Rhythms, like a very trancey biorhythm. Just wait for it to come around again… Pauses……………..work well Any questions so far?

Ernest Rossi wrote a four Vallium set of books – the complete works of Milton Erickson. He wrote loads of books about Hypnosis – all are worth digesting. Erickson died in 1980. Erickson & Rossi continued to produce books together till 1986. Now that bears thinking about… I’m into researching the data, the specifics. I am anal only in that respect. I like to know where the information comes from. In your second instalment of this E-Course, you’ll learn all about the History of Hypnosis, and I’ll teach you the Shaman State – the prized secret trance state used by the amazing Kahuna of old Hawaii…

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