Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -2, 1 August 2020 | Page 8

Three Natural Ways to Use ‘Deepeners’ in Hypnosis How to deepen trance without scripts or clunky formulaic approaches Using hypnotic deepening techniques during naturalistic communication can deepen the layers of a client's trance “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein We humans are so swamped by metaphors (yep, I just used one) that we often don’t even notice when we use them. Take the word ‘deep’ for example. Literally it means ‘extending far down from the top or a surface’, as with a deep well, ocean or wound. But ‘deep’, though originally intended to describe a physical reality, is also used metaphorically to denote, for example, financial wealth: “Ruth has deep pockets!”