Vacations with Hypnosis
I want to talk about the idea of hypnosis just for fun, pleasure, and relaxation. I want to talk about the idea of giving our clients a hypnotic vacation. We have all heard it. Stress kills. I have read somewhere that 70% of all diseases are stress related or exacerbated. Most people have an agenda when they call us to book an appointment, but not all. Some people just want to be hypnotized. Some people want a vacation from their everyday lives. What could be less expensive than a trip to your friendly, neighborhood hypnotherapist for an hour of unwinding? With suggestions like, "You will feel as though you had a week-long vacation after this session," and "all of your cares, worries, and concerns will simply fall away, and you will feel renewed." we CAN give folks a vacation! A REAL vacation.
Just think! Your clients would not have to pack any bags (or forget their sunscreen), bring the kids (and forget their sunscreen, too), no hectic trips to the airport or to the dock, no frantic calls to baby sitters or loving friends (who might not feel so loving after baby sitting your children), no using up valuable accrued vacation time, no spending exorbitant amounts of money on silly touristy nick-knacks. No difficulties with speaking the language of the region. No problems with squeaky beds, or noisy neighbors in the next room frolicking like bunnies (you know what I mean - sly wink). No shots. No dysentery. No passports. No cranky kids with sticky hands asking repeatedly "are we there yet!?" None of that! Just one hour of pure pleasure - and none of the pain. And with the suggestion that the hour will seem like a week (time expansion), their vacation is complete. Of course, they won't have the nice tan, but they won't get skin cancer, either!
As therapists, it could seem weird to not have a therapeutic agenda like weight loss or smoking cessation. But (I feel this with all my heart), hypnosis in and of itself, can be the means to the end. We are stunningly blessed to be able to give people the gift of a vacation! Think about it, if you gave all of your clients a session with simple, uncomplicated, non-abreactive, comfortable, lovely hypnosis so they would feel as though they had been on a vacation, what an amazing, amazing treat.
And ultimately, who knows, you *could* be saving their lives by diverting the possibility of a stress-induced illness.
Come outside of your box and play! You'll help your clients save a lot of money on cruises.
Just think! Your clients would not have to pack any bags (or forget their sunscreen), bring the kids (and forget their sunscreen, too), no hectic trips to the airport or to the dock, no frantic calls to baby sitters or loving friends (who might not feel so loving after baby sitting your children), no using up valuable accrued vacation time, no spending exorbitant amounts of money on silly touristy nick-knacks. No difficulties with speaking the language of the region. No problems with squeaky beds, or noisy neighbors in the next room frolicking like bunnies (you know what I mean - sly wink). No shots. No dysentery. No passports. No cranky kids with sticky hands asking repeatedly "are we there yet!?" None of that! Just one hour of pure pleasure - and none of the pain. And with the suggestion that the hour will seem like a week (time expansion), their vacation is complete. Of course, they won't have the nice tan, but they won't get skin cancer, either!
As therapists, it could seem weird to not have a therapeutic agenda like weight loss or smoking cessation. But (I feel this with all my heart), hypnosis in and of itself, can be the means to the end. We are stunningly blessed to be able to give people the gift of a vacation! Think about it, if you gave all of your clients a session with simple, uncomplicated, non-abreactive, comfortable, lovely hypnosis so they would feel as though they had been on a vacation, what an amazing, amazing treat.
And ultimately, who knows, you *could* be saving their lives by diverting the possibility of a stress-induced illness.
Come outside of your box and play! You'll help your clients save a lot of money on cruises.
2 Comments:
I do "non-therapeutic" work all the time. There are quite a few folks who are just interested in simple relaxation or even recreational guided imagery. If you put in hyperacuity and/or hyperempiric intensity into the imagery, it can be quite exhilirating and very rewarding.
All the best,
Brian
http://www.briandavidphillips.com
Very cool. Will you go into more detail about what you do (i.e. hyperacuity and/or hyperemperic intensity) - they sound very sexy! But what the hell are they? Thanks, Steph
Stephanie, I am always talking about this. There are resources and quite a bit of discussion on this subject at the Hyperempiria, Hyperacuity, and Suggested Amplified Sensory Association resource page. At least one of the essays on hyperempria there lists a number of books by Dr. Don Gibbons who first described the process in an APA paper long ago. He has continued to develop and write on the subject. My own method for creating hyperempiria and hyperacutity is pretty much a take on suggestion to applify sensory association into an imager which can be used for therapy (for working through issues), skill improvement (I use it as part of my Vicarious Experience Machine method for improving physical skills through deep trance identification with target skillusers in video), or for recreational use . . . such as the more sexy topics you remarked upon. The context you use it for is up to you.
All the best,
Brian
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