Hypnotherapy (HYP200) Table of Contents (ToC)

• 201.  What is Hypnotherapy?
• 202.  Interview, the First Session
• 203.  Subsequent Sessions
• 204.  Rapid Inductions
• 205.  Ideomotor Response
• 206.  Suggestion
• 207.  Mental Imagery
• 208.  Regression and Hypermnesia
• 209.  The Process of Change
• 210.  Forgiveness and Release 
• 211.  Sustained Results
• 212.  The Tebbetts Method - Parts Therapy
• 213.  Dealing with Sporadic Results or Lack of Positive Response
• 214.  Time Distortion 
• 215.  Amnesia
• 216.  Forensic Application
• 217.  Opening a Practice
• 218.  Recommended Reading
• 219.  Vocabulary
• 220.  Independent Study
• Test for Certificate of Completion (Oral and Written)

• HYP200: HYPNOTHERAPY

• Session #1: Chapters

201 – What is Hypnotherapy?  

202 – First Session

• Session #2: Chapters

  203 –Subsequent Sessions   

209 – The Process of Change   

212 – Parts Therapy 

• Session #3: Chapters

205 – Ideomotor Response  

206 - Suggestion  

207 - Mental Imagery   

208 – Regression and Hypermnesia 

214 - Time Distortion  

215 - Amnesia

• Session #4: Chapters

210 - Forgiveness and Release   

211 - Sustained Results   

213 - Dealing with Sporadic Results or Lack of Positive Results

• Session #5: Chapters 

204 – Rapid Inductions   

216 - Forensic Applications

• Session #6

217 – Opening a Practice   

218 – Recommended Reading  

219 – Vocabulary   

Q&A   

Open Book Exam

• 201- What is Hypnotherapy?
• ASSUMPTION 1: Assume for this training manual that insight can help  resolve problems
• ASSUMPTION 2: Assume within you is an indwelling wisdom
• ASSUMPTION 3: Assume relaxation can benefit your awareness

Hypnotherapy is not  psychotherapy

• ASSUMPTION 4: Assume hypnotherapy  helps a person remember and reclaim free will and personal choice, thereby  more fully able to align with personal values, dreams and goals
• ASSUMPTION 5: Assume each person is  powerful, wise in his or her own way, and the subconscious mind will not allow  a person to observe something that the individual is not ready, or strong  enough to deal with
• What is  Hypnoanalysis?
• ASSUMPTION 6: Assume the person's  actions and feelings make sense to that person at some level
• ASSUMPTION 7: Assume approximately  five years of human life occur prior to the emergence of the critical faculty
• Back Then
• Hypnosis is a  Contract
• The Role of the  Hypnotist
• Style, Techniques  and Methods
• Staying On Track
• Excite the  Imagination and Develop Mental Expectancy
• Develop Rapport
• Bypassing the Psychic  Defense Mechanisms 
• Denial is a refusal  to cope with or acknowledge life as it is
• Intellectualization  is an emotional disconnection from feelings
• Displacement is a  misdirection of behavior and attention toward a false target
• Projection is a  pattern of perceiving one’s own unresolved stuff in other people
• Introjection is the  imposition of external values upon our internal world
• ASSUMPTION 8: Assume always that  there is an indwelling capacity, a genius within
• Content and Process  Techniques
• What Makes a Good  Hypnotherapist?
• Stick Figure
• ASSUMPTION 9: Assume the problem  has served or is serving some purpose
• ASSUMPTION 10: Assume the  hypnosis subject has the ability to successfully deal with the scope of his /  her situation
• Strengthening and  Realigning With Self
• (internal locus of  control)
• (pinpoint method)
• (personal  responsibility and willingness)
• (generation of  skills and problem solving resources
• (freedom to change  and act)
• A Life Study
• DO NOT:
• In Your Wildest  Dreams. . .
• Exercise: Unpacking Values

• 202 - First Session
• Ideal First Session
• Session 1 - Oral  Intake
• 6 Question Interview
• Heidigger's Three  Step Pattern of Communication
• Pretalk
• Direct  Suggestion: Hypnosis Education and Self  Empowerment
• Consent
• 4 Basic Responses to  Hypnosis
• K.I.S.S. 
• - Short Intake -
• Post Session  Questionnaire
• Client History
• - Medical History - 

• 203 - Subsequent  Sessions
• Using the Case  History
• What to Deal with  First
• Establishing a Sense  of a Part
• Maslow's Hierarchy  of Needs
• The One Problem  Behind All Other Problems
• ASSUMPTION 11: Assume when a person speaks of feeling of unloved or  unlovable in any form, you are at center of the person’s problem
• I Think . . . / I  Feel . . . 
• What Do You Think?
• Thoughts Create the  Things You Think About
• Paying Attention
• Breathing
• Exercise #1 - How  You Direct Your Thought Energy
• Exercise #2 - Who's  in Charge Inside Your Head
• Exercise #3 - If  only, root sentence
• Exercise #4 - Root Sentences
• Quick Inventory
• Intake
• Medical History
• Release
• Follow Up Interview

• 204 - Rapid Inductions
• The Contract
• Hand Press
• Elman Handshake  Technique
• Hand Clasp
• 3 Step Induction
• Boyne Standing  Induction
• Deepening the  Standing Subject
• Two Finger Technique
• Direct Gaze  Induction
• Arm Levitation
• Finger Tip Touch
• Chevreul's Pendulum
• Thumb / Eye Catalepsy
• Deepening
• Deepening to  Somnambulism
• Bringing Trance to  Conscious Awareness
• Establishing a Post  Hypnotic Suggestion
• Laughter Releases  Tension

• 205 - Ideomotor  Response
• IM Exercise #1 –  Discerning like / dislike
• IM Exercise #2 –  Ideomotor finger signal (directive) PAY ATTENTION
• IM Exercise #3 –  Ideomotor finger signal (directive) PAY ATTENTION
• Respect the Inner Wisdom.
• IM Exercise #5 –  Ideomotor Face Flush

• 206 - Suggestion
• Direct and Indirect  Suggestions
• 3 Things Which  Effect Response to Suggestion
• Suggestion #1 -  Relax
• Suggestion #2 – Acceptance
• Suggestion #3 – Focus
• Suggestion #4 – Balance
• Suggestion #5 - Nervousness
• Suggestion #6 – Anxiety
• Suggestion #7 - Groundin
• Suggestion #8 - Peaceful Place
• Suggestion #9 - Progressive Relaxation (Toes to Head)
• Suggestion #10 - Right Place / Right Time
• Suggestion #11 - Calming the Inner Voice
• Suggestion #12 - Planning
• Suggestion #13: The Blueprint
• Protection
• Protection Exercise  #1 - Bubble of Light / Blueprint of Health
• Protection Exercise  #2 – Noticing the Direction of Your Flow
• Protection Exercise  #3 - The Power Grid
• Protection Exercise  #4 - Power Cords
• Protection Exercise  #5 – Gayatri Light Prayer
• Insomnia and Sleep
• Sleep Suggestion #1
• Sleep Suggestion #2
• Sleep Suggestion #3
• Sleep Suggestion #4
• Turning over Worry  to the Subconscious Before Sleep
• Sleep Suggestion #5
• Weigh
• Regression to  Slender Self
• Weight Suggestion #1
• Weight Suggestion #2
• Weight Suggestion #3
• Weight Suggestion #4
• Weight Suggestion #5  - Future Pacing
• Weight Suggestion #6  - Optional Test for Acceptance of Ideas
• Elimination and  Constipation
• Smoking Cessation
• The Big Lie
• Smoke Education Suggestions  #1
• Smoke Free Planning  Suggestions #2
• Learning
• Learning #1
• Ways to Learn #2
• Learning #3: Study Habits
• Learning #4: Test Taking
• Preparing Your Own  Patter
• Prepare a script /  patter for a healing place:
• Prepare a script /  patter for a safe space, a sanctuary
• Prepare a script /  patter for a resource place
• Prepare a script /  patter for a viewing / movie room
• Prepare a script /  patter for an engineering department
• Prepare a script /  patter for a chemistry department
• Prepare a script /  patter for a for a creativity department
• Prepare a script /  patter for a for a closet / storage room for all your needed wardrobe and  tools for success
• Prepare a script /  patter for a for an internal board of directors

• 207 - Mental Imagery  / Guided Imagery / Creative Visualization
• Mental Screen
• Creative  Visualization
• Tree of Life
• Light Imagery #1
• Light Imagery #2
• Light Imagery #3
• The Valley
• The Garden
• The Wall

• 208 - Regression and  Hypermnesia
• ISE and SSE
• A Great Debate Using  the I.S.E.
• Review for SSE
• Law of Sensitizing
• The Purpose for  Symptoms
• Hypermnesia
• Recall
• Revivification
• Handwriting as a  Tool
• I'm Making It Up
• Root Sentences
• Purpose for Age  Regression
• ASSUMPTION 12: Assume past  decisions were based on the situation and knowledge available to the subject  at that time and they made sense or served a purpose at that time
• Regression to Cause
• Incremental  Regression
• Incremental #1
• Incremental #2
• Processing the  Decision
• Birth and Pre-Birth  Regression
• Linguistic Bridge
• Affect Bridge
• Somatic / Linguistic  Bridge
• Memory Recall /  Conversation
• Breathing
• Enhancing the  Feeling

• 209 - The Process of  Change
• Basic Requirements
• Twelve Tools of  Change
• Establishing a  Debate with the Adult Perspective
• Association and  Dissociation
• Re-Writing the  Script 160
• Expelling a Feeling
• ASSUMPTION 13:  Assume the scotoma has information relevant to resolution of the  presenting issue
• Using Abreaction
• Replay
• I Don't Know
• Catharsis
• Closing Statements
• Summary of the  Process of Change

• 210 - Release and  Forgiveness
• Readiness for Change
• Process and Results
• Decision vs. Choice
• Decision Making #1
• Decision Making #2
• Getting Subconscious  Cooperation
• Building Inner  Collaboration #1
• Building Inner  Collaboration #2
• Building Inner  Collaboration #3
• Building Inner  Collaboration
• Being Stuck
• Stuck #1
• Stuck #2
• Overcoming  Indecision
• Trigger Mechanisms 
• Environmental Check
• Future Pacing
• Disguised Test for  Acceptance
• Dissociation to  Increase Desire
• Forgiveness
• The Forgiving Chair
• Creation and  Counter-Creation
• Emotions
• Peter Russell,  Passing Thoughts, Vol 1
• The Vicious Circle  of Pain

• 211 - Sustained  Results
• Focus of Attention
• P.E.T. 
• Happiness
• Dehumanization
• Obstacles Into  Opportunitie
• Goal Setting
• Prioritizing Your  Goals
• Change is your  birthright!
• Assert Yourself
• Relax
• Letting Go
• How To Handle  Stressful Situations
• M.A.P. for Success
• Rules for  Dysfunctional Relations
• Confronting the  Inner Critic
• Journals
• Create Images of How  You See Yoursel
• Draw yourself: Shape  or outline
• Write a plan, write  down your goals
• Make a treasure map

• 212 - Tebbetts  Method
• Parts Therapy
• More than Two Parts  in Conflict 
• Identifying the Part  Responsible for the Symptom
• An Antidote for  Darkness / Tension in the Body
• Establish Dialogue
• Adult Review for  Decisions and Changing One’s Mind
• Abreaction
• Uncovering the  Purpose
• Body is Smart Patter  #1
• Body is Smart Patter  #2
• The Great Debate
• Reassignment of  Duties
• The Forgiving Chair
• Congruence

• 213 - Sporadic  Results
• Illness
• You, the  Hypnotherapist
• The Negative Inner  Voice
• Tell the Inner  Voice: 
• It's Not Working
• I Wonder if it is  Still Working?
• Changing Goals  Midstream
• Lack of Desire
• Secondary Gain
• Protection
• Escape
• Self Hate /  Punishment
• ASSUMPTION 14: Assume that it is  natural for living beings to be inspired and instilled with a will to live and  a desire to move toward pleasure and away from pain
• Sabotage: Internal / Externa
• Dysfunctional Family  Rules
• Refusal to Own  Feelings
• Refusal to Own  Imperfect Past
• Wanting to Change  Someone Other Than Self
• Perfectionism
• Areas of Great  Conflict
• Weeding Out False  Information
• Rule of Thumb
• Fears and Phobias
• Uncovering
• Move Toward Pleasure  Suggestion
• Demands and  Preferences

• 214 - Time  Distortion
• Accelerating Therapy  (AT)
• AT #1  (Assess Value / Possible Secondary Gain)
• AT #2 (Pinpoint Method)
• AT #3 (Repetition to  Extract Meaning and Value)
• AT #4 (Pinpoint and  Whiteout Reversal to Color)
• Labor / Delivery  Suggestion
• Accelerating Healing  Suggestions
• Sports Performance
• Sport #1: Competition Ball
• Sport #2: Running / Endurance
• Sport #3: Best Game Ever

• 215 - Amnesia
• Amnesia and Trauma
• Memory Strengthening  Suggestions
• Detaching
• Remember to Forget
• Asking for  Subconscious Help
• When Amnesia Fails
• The Corridor of  Forgetfulness
• Using Audio / Video  Recording

• 216 - Forensic  Application

• 217 - Opening a  Practice

• 218 - Reading

• 219 – Vocabulary

• 220 - Independent  Study