Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -2, 1 August 2020 | Page 14

We could ask them to imagine how wonderful it might feel to be in such a
place, then ask them to actually glide through the surface of the image and be
in that place, relishing its incredibly calming effects.
After a while we might ask them to then observe a new painting within that
first place, of an even more amazing place... and so they continue to ‘go
deeper’ into the experience.
In the deepest painting or story we can do our therapeutic work, with our
client wrapped, as they are, in the secure, calm comfort of the inner sanctum
of their trance.
There are ways of taking people deeper into the hypnotic experience that are
seamless and naturalistic, and appeal to the unconscious mind (the part that
does the deepening).
Ultimately, deepening hypnosis can be done artfully. In fact, it needs to be
done in this way. I say this because hypnosis is a right-brain experience. You
do it, you experience it, but what you don’t want to do is think about it.
Clunky, over-obvious attempts to deepen hypnosis fail to recognize the very
nature of hypnotic experience. They may work for some people, but they’re
certainly not the best way.
The client can enjoy the gliding of the swan without having to see, or be
distracted by, the frantic workings of its feet beneath the calm waters.
About Mark Tyrrell
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since 1998, specializing in brief, solution focused approaches. I
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