Relaxation

This technique can be used with anyone. However, it probably works best with persons with whom you have a relatively close relationship. It is not safe to use this technique when you are driving or operating machinery. This is because it places you in a light trance state, which you then allow the other person to borrow.

The first step in this six step process is to notice that the other person is agitated and to refrain from mentioning this fact.

The second step is to notice the rate at which the person (let’s call him Bart) is breathing. This can be ascertained by watching the rise and fall of his chest, the expansion and contraction of his ribcage, changes in the size of his nostrils, the rise and fall of his abdomen, subtle changes in the position of his chin, or the fluttering of hairs on his mustache. If Bart is congested, you may be able to hear his breathing. If he is talking, and he is not a musician who has mastered circular breathing, then no minute scrutiny is required, since, obviously enough, his words come on the exhale, and he pauses to catch his breath.

Hypnotherapists, if you know about the 100-year-view process (or 1,000-year-view process), then you already know how well it works for creating a calm that lasts days or weeks after the session. If you don't know about this adapted time line technique, here's a story about how I've used it to great success.

It could be several times per day. Sometimes salespeople, administrators and managers use neurolinguistic programming techniques to trigger trust and compliance (see numbers 1-3.) Since this is a detailed topic, a separate blog will be devoted to how these techniques work and how you can sidestep them.

Sometimes, family members and friends unconsciously hypnotize us (see numbers 4-7.) If you are interested in this topic, let me know, and I can devote a blog to the nuts and bolts of that, too.

Often, we hypnotize ourselves from within or through our connection to the environment (see numbers 8-16.) Relating to nature and listening to music can be enhanced to create a deeper and potentially very pleasurable and even healing trance state. Another blog will give specific steps on how to do that.

Meanwhile, here's the information you were wondering about, that is, how to determine how many times per day you may be in a hypnotic trance without knowing it. You are probably in a trance state if you are experiencing a situation similar to one in which, for example, you find yourself:

A Tool Will Help You Only if You Use It Properly

From the book, "Your Creative Voice" by Henry Buldoc

A helpful encouragement to practice hypnosis with your own voice, to improve your trance-voice skills while also practicing using the powerful tool of self-hypnosis.

The reason hypnosis works to relieve a wide variety of mental and physical problems is that all physical and mental experiences and behaviors, whether they are conscious or unconscious, psychogenic or resulting from physical injury or illness, follow nerve transmissions in the brain.

An article at CCN says that, not surprisingly, Americans are stressing out now more than ever. Let's look at some of the stressors going on in our society:

• rising healthcare costs / lack of health insurance
• rising consumer costs, food costs, energy costs
• layoffs, job cuts
• now, loans for college, cars, houses are scarce
• election propaganda is confusing, disheartening, upsetting
• economy experts are now saying things will get worse before they get better
• the holiday are coming, with all the additional expenses and things to do

Life is still full of all the same stressors as before: kids, school, work, car repairs, bills, holidays, family... the list goes on and on. When you add the above cyclical stressors to the mix, you get stressed-out people.