You're a Being doing something while you're here on earth. Not the other way around.

Sometimes people become confused in what they do and their being.  We've all seen those that, after a long career they retire and seem to quickly age overnight and waste away in regret.  Recounting their past glories to anyone who'll listen.
"Doing-ness" and "Being-ness" are two vastly different things! 

Recently a young women troubled by what she will do for a living once she graduates from college, asked me, what I thought she should focus upon?  I told her: Doing-ness and Being-ness are two parts of the answer. 
What you will "do" will depend on what you're passions are and what the muse of your creativity leads you to.  You're "Being-ness" is a completely different matter! 
You'll need to reach that silent part of you everyday to understand your "Being-ness!"  It's the very reason you came to this life!  You're a Being doing something while you're here on earth.  Not the other way around.

There are six challenges we'll face in life:

1.  The beliefs of our identity,
2.  Collecting the interpretations in regard to our beliefs,
3.  Causality of our beliefs,
4.  Sensory pains,
5.  Anticipated pains,
6.  Projected pain.

The first three challenges will help us deal with the last three.  Our being will be exposed in a crucible of reactions from others in the midst of their six challenges as well.  How well we deal in this crucible will determine the development of our emotional foundation and primal urge/attractors.  It will also determine the clarity of our introspection from our synchronous and asynchronous internal perspectives.

Just like the Irishman in Braveheart said: "Fine speech, now what?"

Like stated above, we need a practice of self-hypnosis to reach that silent part within us each and everyday.  To explore our being every moment if possible.  To become mindful of our mind full of doing-ness.  Why should we explore our being while alive?  Because it contains a complete set of instructions on how to deal with this life and it also contains all we'll ever need to deal with life's challenges!

Here's an easy method to get you started which will help you continually relax and remain in contact with the silence of your being during your busy day of doing-ness:

Become aware of the tip of your nose.  Now become aware of air coming in and going out.  Allow your breathing to become very gentle yet full.  And that's it!  Inhale gently and full.  Exhale gentle and full.  You'll be very surprised how it affects your day!  How you breathe will determine how you react to others.  And, how they react to you!

This is just a very small part of Anodynic Hypnosis.  If you'd like to experience having your socks blown off and really diving deep, check out my free eBook (no strings attached) at:   http://www.scribd.com/doc/37593778/The-Hypnotic-Keys-You-Will-Never-Be-the-Same-Again

 Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., AH.t


** If you'd like to have a private session with me, feel free to contact me.  Also, check out the hypnosis material at the bottom!

Return to Awareness...

Within the awareness each being possesses, is the life spark.

When life manifest, it first manifest as awareness, then energy, then finally form.

Whenever we need to do something, we return to a still silent state for a moment to access our inner awareness, and thereby access our life spark's empowering nature.

Without access to our awareness, we are only reacting in an impulsive manner.  When a group reacts in an impulsive manner, it's no more than a mob.  When mob's react in an impulsive manner, it causes national and international chaos.

The only way to mitigate chaos, is to provide simple methods to return to a state of stillness. To access our private awareness within.  And doing so, remember what makes us human by the experience of our life spark.

When humans experience their life spark, they immediately understand that spark is eternal.  It is The Source itself.  It creates, sustains, changes, transcends and is innocent simultaneously within us.

We spend most of our life looking for something outside ourselves to reflect the source within ourselves.  Until we make contact with our source within, we'll never find that experience outside ourselves.  Once we make contact with that source within ourselves, then everything outside ourselves becomes a clear reflection of that source experience within us.  As above, so below.

Habits seem almost impossible to break or even change just a little bit.  The habit of living moment by moment, day by day, year by year in worry, pain and fear becomes almost addictive in it's visceral experience.  Some even brag as though it's normal, about how angry they can become.  How enraged they can display.  Power, fame, sex, sleep, hunger, aggression, flight and wealth.  All these are primal motivations that urge us to react.  Instead of tempering our decisions by bringing those urges before our own source, we just react and pay the consequences for those actions.

We have so many resources within ourselves to draw upon to make this world better.  It only takes a few moments of your day to access those resources within yourself.

I've provided the first set of instructions in my free eBook - The Hypnotic Keys - You will never be the same again!  Which you can download from scribd at:   

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37593778/The-Hypnotic-Keys-You-Will-Never-Be-the-Same-Again 

It's my contribution to making this world a better place to live in.

See you in the Light,

Michael

A short Anodynic Hypnosis video...

2nd Key - Deep Rest

Now that you're practicing the 1st Key.  You're practicing what is known in Hypnosis parlance as Up-Time Hypnosis or Wide Awake Hypnosis.  And some of you are fine with just doing that.  However, for those of you that would love to go deeper into healthier states of deep sleep.  This 2nd Key - Deep Rest will take you into a very deep state of sleep or what's known as: "Down-time hypnosis."  Further than you've probably slept before.
I teach my method of Deep Rest to professionals and non-professionals alike to allow them to get 15 to 20 minutes of very deep rest.  Some just continue and sleep the rest of the way through the night.
This 2nd Key should not be done while driving or operating anything dangerous.  And it should not be performed immediately after eating.  Wait at least 30 minutes for your body to digest.  Some of you out there fall asleep after eating anyway and take a nice siesta.
The 2nd Key can be practiced twice a day, once in the morning to squeeze out that last bit of juicy dream time.  And once in the evening before dinner.

The benefits of the 2nd Key - Deep Rest are obvious however, some of you may not realize that when you don't achieve deep states of rest, you build up a "Sleep Debt."  A Sleep Debt is just like any other debt.  It means that you owe yourself a certain amount of rest.  The greater the sleep debt, the greater the dis-ease you'll start to experience.  Your mind is a wonderful device that will demand sleep processing one way or another.  Without the proper amount of sleep, you'll begin to dream during the day.  We call this dreaming during the day neurosis.  If this continues long enough, you'll move into a psychotic state.  Or in other words, you'll move into your day dreaming and not pay rent!

2nd Key - Deep Rest method:

Find a place where you won't be disturbed by phones, email, Facebook, kids, dogs, cats... you get the picture.  If you are disturbed by someone, just inform them that you'll be with them in 15 minutes and excuse yourself.  Don't enter into any further conversation with them.  Your mind is very susceptible to suggestions in deep hypnotic rest.  We'll be using this fact to build upon in the next keys!

You can lay down if you wish to drift off into sleep for the night if you're doing the 2nd Key for sustained sleep.  Otherwise find a comfortable chair that'll allow your back to be straight.

Read the instructions for 2nd Key - Deep Rest method until you've understood it and can do it without looking at the instructions.

Close your eyes and notice that your body has a kind of vibration from the circulation of your blood and pulsing of your heart.  Inhale and exhale gently and slowly without effort.  Return to this Now time and be in the moment.
Imagine that there is a large golden ring above your head like a giant halo.  This Halo glows with a golden light that when used, relaxes whatever part of the body goes through it.
Slowly allow the halo to move down and your head to enter the inside of the ring.  As it slowly continues down past the ears, the nose, the chin, the throat and down toward the shoulders, a very relaxing warm honey like feeling is left behind now covering the head, neck and shoulders.  Let the golden ring continue down past the shoulders, down the chest, down the lower back and belly and down past the hips.  Now moving down past the thighs, the knees, the calf, the ankles and finally down the feet and stopping past the toes.  Mentally visualizing and stating the the number 10 several times and allow the ring to float up and return to it's place just above your head again.

Now for a deeper and healthier state of rest, continue to feel the vibration of your body in this Now time, as you again move the ring down the body as before, entering inside the ring.  Feeling even more rest as it passes down the body slowly.  And completing just beyond the toes as you mentally visualize and state the number 9 several times.  Allow the ring to return above the head more slowly than before.
Continue passing the ring down with you on the inside slower and slower and finally counting down and visualizing to 1 in ever deeper and healthier states of sleep.

Now that you're within a very deep healthy level of rest, start allowing the mental affirmations of:

   "Perfect and pure health..."
   "Perfect and pure wealth..."
   "Perfect and pure rest..."

to every so often, repeat in your thoughts, and let them go.

When 15 or 20 minutes have past and you want to return.  Simply reverse the process.  Allow the ring at the tips of the toes to slowly move up the body with you on the inside of the ring and let the ring be a brilliant glowing white color full of waking energy.  All the way up beyond the head while mentally counting and visualizing the number 1.  And then let the ring float down in front of the toes and move inside the ring again while allowing the bright white light to fill the body with peaceful and invigorating energy.  When the ring is above the head, visualize and mentally state the number 2 several times.  Continue this process until you visualize and state the number 10.

When you're ready, open your eyes just like you do in the morning after a fantastic nights sleep.

The 3rd Key will be along soon...

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

** If you enjoyed this method and would like to experience even more fantastic states and possibilities produced by Anodynic Hypnosis, feel free to contact me and arrange workshops and classes.

Breathing for the relief of all sentient beings

There is a method of meditation/hypnosis that combines breathing, auto-suggestion, expectational hypnosis into a very smooth method of self-evolution.  It is known by the Tibetans as: Tonglen (Pron. Tong-Len).  Tonglen according to Wikipedia:  

"Tonglen (Tibetan: གཏོང་ལེན་; Wylie: gtong len) is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or, sending and taking), and it refers to a meditation practice found in Tibetan Buddhism.

In the practice, one visualizes taking onto oneself the suffering of others on the in-breath, and on the out-breath giving happiness and success all sentient beings.^[1] As such it is a training in altruism. The function of the practice is to:

• reduce selfish attachment
• increase a sense of renunciation
• create positive karma by giving and helping
• develop loving-kindness and bodhicitta
• it refers to all of the Six Perfections of giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom, which are the practices of a Bodhisattva.

This practice is summarized in seven points, which are attributed to the great Indian Buddhist teacher Atisha Dipankara Shrijnana, born in 982 CE. They were first written down by Kadampa master Langri Tangpa (1054–1123). The practice became more widely known when Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1101–1175) summarized the points in his Seven Points of Training the Mind. This list of mind training (lojong) proverbs or 'slogans' compiled by Chekawa is often referred to as the Atisha Slogans.

H.H. The Dalai Lama, who is said to practise Tonglen every day, has said of the technique: "Whether this meditation really helps others or not, it gives me peace of mind. Then I can be more effective, and the benefit is immense".^[2] His Holiness offers a translation of the Eight Verses in his book The Path To Tranquility: Daily Meditations."

According to http://www.naljorprisondharmaservice.org/pdf/Tonglen.htm it is practiced by:

"In Tonglen practice, through our compassion, we take on (embrace without resistance) the various sufferings of all beings: their fear, hurt, frustration, pain, anger, guilt, bitterness, loneliness, doubt, rage, and so forth. In return, we give them our loving-kindness, happiness, peace of mind, well-being, healing, and fulfillment.

1) Sit quietly, calm the mind, and center yourself. Reflect on the immense suffering that all beings everywhere experience. Allow their suffering to open your heart and awaken your compassion. You may also choose to invoke the presence of all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and enlightened beings, so that through their inspiration and blessing, compassion may be born in your heart. In this way, you are resting in bodhicitta—the enlightened nature of the mind. Bodhicitta, is an inexhaustible source of purity, generosity, and compassion.

2) Imagine in front of you, as clearly as possible, someone you care for who is suffering. Although this may be more challenging, you may also imagine someone you feel indifferent toward, someone you consider to be an enemy, or those who have hurt you or others. Open yourself to this person's suffering. Allow yourself to feel connected with him or her, aware of their difficulties, pain, and distress. Then, as you feel your heart opening in compassion toward the person, imagine that all of his or her suffering comes out and gathers itself into a mass of hot, black, grimy smoke.

3) Now, visualize breathing in this mass of black smoke, seeing it dissolve into the very core of your self-grasping (ego) at your heart center. There in your heart, it completely destroys all traces of fear and selfishness (self-cherishing) and purifies all of your negative karma.

4) Imagine, now that your fear, self-centeredness and negative karma has been completely destroyed, your enlightened heart (bodhicitta) is fully revealed. As you breathe out, imagine you are sending out the radiance of loving-kindness, compassion, peace, happiness, and well-being to this person. See this brilliant radiance purifying all of their negative karma. Send out any feelings that encourage healing, relaxation, and openness.

5) Continue this "giving and receiving" with each breath for as long as you wish. At the end of your practice, generate a firm inner conviction that this person has been freed of suffering and negative karma and is filled with peace, happiness and well-being. You may also wish to dedicate the merit and virtue of your practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.

Another Excellent Form of Tonglen

Clearly imagine a situation where you have acted badly, one about which you feel shameful or guilty, and which may be difficult to even think about. Then, as you breathe in, opening your heart, accept total responsibility for your actions in that particular situation. Do not judge or try to justify your behavior. Simply acknowledge exactly what you have done wrong and wholeheartedly ask for forgiveness. Now, as you breathe out, send the compassionate radiance of reconciliation, forgiveness, harmony, healing, and understanding. Breathe in the pain and the blame, and breathe out the undoing of harm. Breathe in taking full responsibility, breathe out the compassionate radiance of healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This exercise is especially powerful. It may give you the courage to go see the person(s) whom you have wronged and the strength and willingness to talk to them directly and actually ask for forgiveness from the depths of your heart.

Tonglen is a Practice and a Way of Life

Traditionally, we begin by doing Tonglen for someone we care about. However, we can use this practice at any time, either for ourselves or others. Tonglen can be done for those who are ill, those who are dying or have just died, or for those that are in pain of any kind. Tonglen can be done either as a formal meditation practice or right on the spot at any time. For example, if we encounter someone in pain, right on the spot we can begin to breathe in their pain and send out some relief. At any time, when we encounter our own emotional discomfort or suffering, or that of others, we open our heart and fully embrace what we are encountering on our in-breath. Breathing out, we offer the heartfelt radiance of acceptance, loving-kindness, and compassion. This is a practice and a way of life.

Practicing Tonglen on one friend in pain helps us begin the process of gradually widening the circle of our compassion. From there, we can learn to take on the suffering and purify the karma of all beings; giving others our happiness, well-being, joy, and peace of mind. Tonglen practice can extend indefinitely, and gradually, over time, our compassion will expand. We will find that we have a greater ability to be loving and present for ourselves and for others in even the most difficult situations. This is the wonderful goal of Tonglen practice, the path of the compassionate Bodhisattva."

Pema Chodron said it beautifully:

"In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

In particular, to care about other people who are fearful, angry, jealous, overpowered by addictions of all kinds, arrogant, proud, miserly, selfish, mean —you name it— to have compassion and to care for these people, means not to run from the pain of finding these things in ourselves. In fact, one's whole attitude toward pain can change. Instead of fending it off and hiding from it, one could open one's heart and allow oneself to feel that pain, feel it as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind."

Tonglen practice is not only for others but for ourselves and the environment as well:

"1. Environmental Tonglen

This consists of sitting and feeling the ''mood and atmosphere'' of our mind. Let's say that the mood we are feeling is unease, and the atmosphere seems dark. We would breathe in this unease and darkness, absorbing it into ourselves. Then, we would breathe out peace and joy, thereby clearing and cleaning the atmosphere and environment of our mind.

2. Self Esteem

The self-esteem exercise begins by imagining ourselves as two people. One is ''whole, compassionate, warm, and loving, like a true friend, really willing to be there for you, responsive and open to you, without ever judging you, whatever your faults or shortcomings.'' The second is the aspect of ourselves that has negative emotions and ideas, the ''victim.'' This is the part that says ''Nobody understands me,'' or feels wronged by people or society.

Again, breathe in, but in this process you are the first person, the whole, compassionate one, breathing in and absorbing all of the other's pain and negativity. And as you breathe out, let the compassionate self send ''healing love, warmth, trust, comfort, confidence, happiness, and joy'' to the other part." -  http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/sep2/rinpoche.htm

I breathe for the release of all beings who suffer or lack as well as those who haven't turned to their true nature of kindness and compassion.

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Anodynic Hypnosis Buttons

In this fast pace world we love buttons! Press a button and wahlah! A cup of coffee! We like our food fast! Our answers quick and our remedies faster! In fact, very few things these days are sold with the brag: Take this for slow prolonged results unless it's pleasurable and soothing right?

The body and mind are full of buttons if you know where to find them! In fact, we have four basic buttons according to Dr. Albert Ellis - Developer of Cognitive Behavioral Science (CBT)!

Our first button is what he calls the "What-if?" Button. And the answer the mind gives back to this What-if is always something bad! We can totally spin ourselves up into a frenzy just with this one button! In Anodynic Hypnosis we recognize that the What-if button is as dangerous as a loaded gun if not used right. We always use the what-if button to spin up someone into a positive state by using the What-if button for a positive outcome. What-if such and such treated you the way you enjoyed instead of meanly?

The next button is known as the Absolutes-button. It's normally rules that make no sense that we impose on ourselves or other poor innocent bystanders. And we can really paint ourselves and others into a corner using this button. Here again, in Anodynic Hypnosis we only use this button for good as well! We make Absolute-Freedom-buttons or Absolute-Kindness-buttons. Rules such as freedom will absolutely overtake you! If you resist, it will only take longer! Or, you are the kindness you've been looking for in others! Kindness will uncontrollably start leaking out of every pore of you sooner or later!

The next button in this parade is the Rationalization-Button. This button is composed usually of rationalizations for things that just don't have a rational explanation. We chase our tails round and round rather accept something that we know we need to accept. For that, we identify our tail chasing, and then let things be as they are without the need to explain. Everything eventually always comes back to balance.

The most powerful button in our button parade is the I-choose, I-prefer-buttons. Rather than pressing the other three. Next time something is making you uncomfortable. Just say: I choose to do such and such! Or, I prefer to do this instead of that! Give yourself permission to choose and prefer. You'll be very surprised how liberating you'll feel!

Go through your versions of these buttons and think about the absolute rules you make for yourself and ask: Really??? Think about the What-if spirals you enter into and ask yourself: Do you really want to chase your tail that way forever? All of the rationalizations you give yourself for things you may need to just accept. Tell yourself: Even though such and such seems to happen over and over again, I completely and totally accept myself!

And finally, give yourself permission to choose. To prefer something! Or to choose not to do something. Not to prefer something you feel forced on you!

It's never too late to have a happy childhood! Remember, you are the person you've been waiting to become! You are that comfort and kindness you so desperately crave. Just let go and let that kindness you're composed of shine like the birth of a star!

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Hypnotic Conduits - Transports for Suggestion.

In my last entry, I stated that we'll get into how to put someone into a hypnotic/fixated state to receive suggestions.

A Hypnotic Conduit is a method to allow yourself or someone else to enter a hypnoidal, cataleptic or sonombulistic state of mind; whereby the conscious filter begins to release it's hold on the conscious mind.
Once the conscious filter has moved and thereby reduced it's tendency to generalize, delete or distort information to the subconscious. The subconscious can react quicker to the suggestion presented it.

There's no "correct" hypnotic conduit. There's only conduit methods that work for you! Some of the basic hypnotic conduits are:

1. Authoritative/active,
2. Passive,
3. Permission,
4. Evocative,
5. Presumptive,
6. Interrogative,
7. Positional.
8. Expectational,
9. Post-hypnotic.

Each of these hypnotic conduits have sub-categories unto themselves. I'll briefly touch on each of these. As we progress further, we'll explore these areas in greater depth as well as adding the intermediate and advanced hypnotic conduits and their sub-categories. If you're wondering how many of these conduits you'll have to learn to be a effective hypnotist or hypnotherapist. There are about 27 factorial conduits available. Most practitioners use anywhere from 20 to 30.

Authoritative/active

Authoritative/active hypnotic conduits are just as they sound! They are what I like to call strong arming a person into a hypnodial state! There's a very curious behavior that occurs when the person being hypnotized is overloaded with messages coming from their senses. Dr. George Kappas states that he believes that it's part of our primitive ancestral past.
When large animals would stalk cave dwelling humans, the humans could either fight or flee! We still have those two urges within our primal mind today. The "flee" part doesn't mean running away necessarily. It also means to play dead or faint. Most animals don't scavenge for dead animals. They prefer live! So, when our mind becomes overloaded, it flees the situation by fainting/playing dead.
Strong Arm authoritative/active hypnosis conduit stimulates the person until they overload. And thereby the conscious filter moves out of the way to allow the subconscious mind to immediately react to the primal conscious mind for the next set of instructions. If you were a cave person, that could be: play dead. And when the time was right; run like hell without question or evaluation from the other parts of your brain!

Passive

Passive hypnotic conduits are the opposite of Active/Authoritative Hypnotic Conduits! They are based upon the assumption that we're always moving from one thought to another. We're always giving ourselves suggestions as we transition from thought to thought. And Passive Hypnotic Conduits take advantage of that process.
Advertisers know this form of hypnotic conduits very well! They not only allow the TV to just run the same silly commercial over and over again. Sometimes two or three times in a row in a commercial break. But they also make it as uniquely silly as possible! The whole goal is to suggest without suggesting overtly!
How well does this work? Also most every child on the planet knows a clown that represent a famous fast food chain don't they? Even decades after cigarette commercials have been off the air; someone can say part of a cigarette jingle and most of us can complete the phrase!
The basic reason why passive works so well is due to the fact that every sensory input we receive as humans is re-presented to ourselves in our own sensory language. We translate it so that it totally fits into our personality makeup.

Permission

Some people only need permission to achieve their goal. They have everything they need to be successful. Just someone saying that it's okay for them to do something releases that potential like horses from the starting gate!
Permission is probably one of the more sneaky ways to provide others and ourselves suggestions that we'll act upon. Even if that person you provide the permission to doesn't plan to follow your suggestion immediately, the suggestion like an earwig is burrowing it's way through the conscious mind to cause an action!
Here again, advertisers use this form of passive/aggressive permission conduit to make you react to something you may not think is good for you! Let's think about donuts for a second! Even the suggestion of suggesting the allowance for us to think about donuts makes our mouth water for a moment. You really don't have to say to your client: It's okay for you to think about donuts! You can do as I've just done. Let's think about such and such. I'm in effect giving you permission to think about it and away you go! You'll love conversational hypnosis using this conduit!

Evocative

Evocative is really sneaky stuff! The hypnotist in this case just asks you to invoke a memory or a feeling. Call it to the conscious mind. The first time you felt that deep crush on some person that totally blew you away. Or that first time you drove a car by yourself after passing your drivers license examine. There's endless amount of possibilities.
Now, while you're thinking and remembering those instances, the hypnotist also slides in a suggestion of a goal they'd like you to now associate such as simply touching you on the shoulder as they ask you about the first time you drove by yourself. Which anchors that feeling again to whatever is being associated now. Maybe to overcome the fear of something you didn't think you could overcome! Later we'll use this for our Past Life Regression methods!

Presumptive

Let's assume that you're already in a hypnotic state of some level just reading this blog. And let's presume that you're going to stay in this state until you finish reading these very empowering and pleasurable hypnotic goodies. Kinda feels like Christmas day as a kid opening that toy you didn't know you wanted but were so blown away when you opened the wrapping and found it? Doesn't it?
The hardest part for newbie hypnotist to overcome is the fear of not getting their clients into a hypnotic state! It was really liberating for me as a newbie to understand that everyone is under some level of hypnosis! A great weight was lifted from me with just presumption!
Hypnosis with others becomes effortless once you understand this gem! This is a huge subject!

Interrogative

Probably the most overlooked hypnotic conduit is Interrogative Hypnosis! Interrogative is defined as: Asking a question or being of the nature of a question: an interrogative raising of the eyebrows.

Most people love to give their opinion! They love to answer questions that allow them to talk about themselves. In fact, if you just ask the right questions, most people have the solution they're looking for when they come in for therapy!
Asking a question can transport them from some terrible anxiety they're experiencing to releasing that stress and moving to relief.
Asking a question can transport you from your current state to a meditative one. The transport process opens the conscious filter and allows you to inject a suggestion in the process!
While the mind is doing a Trans-Derivation Search (TDS) it's not busily filtering anything else that's being suggested. Let's consider what would you be doing right now if you could have only one shot at something? And you knew that this one wish was your last wish to have exactly what you wanted! What would that be? How would you feel once you got it? Where would you be? Who would you be with? What would things look like, sound like, feel like around you?
And away you go! You're transported to that state you fixated upon! There's a lot more to this process but we'll explore that later!

Positional

When you're upset! When you're happy! When you are depressed. When you're feeling fine. What positions does your body assume? How do you breathe when you're in those states? What does your face look like? Are you tense or relaxed for each of those states.
Just by changing you breathing and your body position, you change your mind completely! I even have my clients get up and shake off the last positional state and then sit down and assume another one to teach themselves their bodies language!
If you know someone's body language as you work with them you can even have them take a position, adjust them to what you think would make that state even more profound. And like clockwork, they'll enter that state. Then just slide in a suggestion with the positioning process and zoom zoom, they take the suggestion hook line and sinker! This is a whole study in itself! We'll be exploring this as well!

Expectational

Each of the former methods overlay each other! None so much as expectational! I was tempted to just leave this section as it is to demonstrate expectation but that would be too Zen-ful!
Dr. Milton Erickson use to tell his patients to: "Not go into hypnosis yet, I've got a few instructions! So hang on and don't enter the trance state yet! Wait until I touch you on the shoulder!" Then after giving what seemed like very important instructions which were suggestions that would deepen the experience even further as well as make it vastly more pleasurable. He'd finally go up to the person and say: "Now we're ready!" And then touch them on the shoulder! The patient already gave themselves permission to go into a deep pleasurable trance! Their expectations acted as a transport to move them into that state! The touch was only the signal/anchor that allowed them into that state!
Remember, the patient is only re-presenting everything you say to themselves in their own language. You can tell they're listening because some repeat back to you in their personal dialect what they've understood from you! I love it when others repeat what I say back to me as they listen because I know they're processing it! We'll hear more about this in Time-Line conduits.

Post-hypnotic

After we've gone through the ritual of the hypnotic process with a client, we can leave them with suggestions as we're "bringing them out of hypnosis!" Remember, you're always in a state of moving from one thought to another. So, you're always in some level of hypnosis!
The completion of the hypnotic act is just as important as the preparation for putting someone into a hypnotized state!
This is one area that hypnotherapist become lazy in and wonder why they don't get referrals. Why clients stop coming even though they've paid for 5 sessions and only attend 3. Making some excuse that doesn't hold water why they don't want to come anymore.
Using the conduits I've mentioned so far, you need to develop a habit of employing them as part of your closing. The next time you come in for your session I have something special for you that I don't use with many clients. However, I feel that you're very intelligent and need something to make your level instead of using something of a lower caliber. It's okay now for you to feel average in yourself. A lot of clients feel that way in their 1st session. Maybe in two days, sometimes three, it hit's you really hard what you've experience here today!
I'm going to give you something that I don't often provide clients is an empowerment exercise that blah blah blah. Now, I'd like you to notice that you're breathing has increased and you're feeling a lot more refreshed and clam. And you're drive home will be very easy to be alert and awake. In fact, every time you drive, you immediately wake up!

Hi there! Welcome back! In our next episode, we'll start to explore the numerous types of suggestions we can use!

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison M.Ht., M.AHt
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com