Auto-Dual Method

Lifefirst. Com believes with the modern-day school of hypnotherapy that everyone can be hypnotized once the suggestibility of that particular individual is known and which induction method would be most effective to get the client to enter the state. The following method is designed for those individuals that exhibit the most fear of loss of control and those that we would term high intellectual.

The mechanics of the auto-dual method are as follows: Place your subject in a straight-backed chair. Tell him to put his feet flat on the floor, to place his right index finger on the pulse of his left wrist, and to stare directly at the fingernail of his right index finger. He has now accepted three suggestions consciously, which prepares him to accept what follows.

Now have him repeat after you the following: I will now enter the state of hypnosis for the reasons of deeprelaxation and self-control. I will count from five down to zero and with each count I will become more deeply relaxed. When I reach zero, I will go deep asleep .Five. ..I begin to feel my breathing growing deep,and rhythmic.

Suggest this just as his breathing pattern begins to vary. The subject himself is usually not aware of the natural change in his breathing as he prepares to enter the hypnotic state. The tendency of his head to drop forward should also be utilized. The instant you see his head able to feel his body beginning to relax, and he loses his resistance as jerking forward, suggest that his head is growing heavy and is beginning to drop forward. Four. ..I begin to feel heaviness in my eyelids, as I become drowsier and sleepier. [His eyelids will naturally tire from staring at his fingernail.] Three. ..I begin to feel every muscle, nerve and fiber in my body relaxing, deeply relaxing. Two. ..My arms, my legs, my entire body are now deeply relaxed. One. ..My eyelids grow even heavier, breathing becoming more rhythmic. I am deeply relaxed, Deep Zero. ..deep asleep! asleep! Then tell him: The fact that the subject is talking and repeating after you prevents him from simultaneously analyzing what is being said, so when you reach zero he is physchologically and physically prepared to follow the final suggestion of deep hypnotic sleep in order to defend himself against his own fears of being controlled. To awaken him, simply reverse the count and say, Wide awake