From netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!kevin@oc3s-emh1.army.mil Sat Jan 29 04:28:02 1994 Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!kevin@oc3s-emh1.army.mil From: Kevin Laws Subject: Jim Esparza's Stage Inductions, ASCII Message-ID: <1994Jan27.102703.7235@news.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: root@news.cs.indiana.edu (Operator) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 11:20:24 +0100 Lines: 575 STAGE INDUCTIONS DEEP RELAXATION INDUCTION (Chuck Milligan) (Transcribed From An Actual Show) Place your feet down on the floor. Place one hand on each leg with your palms down. Now look down on one of your hands, it doesn't matter which one, just look down at one of your hands. I want you to watch that hand. I want you to concentrate on your hand. Do not remove your eyes from your hand. Now notice the tightness of the skin on your hand. Notice the feel of the material that's underneath your hand, notice any rings and any jewelry that might be on your hand, just watch that hand, just concentrate on that hand and listen, listen to my voice only. Think of relaxation only, any sound about this room other than my voice, let drift into the background, any thoughts other than relaxation that come about, just let them come and pass. Just watch that hand, concentrate on that hand, experience everything that you can about that hand and soon, soon this pleasant drowsiness will come about, perhaps your eyes might begin to sting and burn, or perhaps they may begin to water. Do not deliberately close your eyes, but don't make any effort to keep your eyes open, Just let your eyes close whenever they want to, and you'll drift to a wonderful pleasant place of relaxation. Just let yourself go, as you watch your hand it might become dark. It might become blurry, it may even disappear from your sight altogether, do not refocus your eyes on your hand, just let your eyes close whenever they want to and you'll drift to this wonderful, pleasant place, just let yourself go, as we go along I want you to be aware of your breathing and each breath you take, each time that you exhale, let your neck relax and let your shoulders DROP, just let them go, it will feel wonderfully good, I'm going to count from one to three and when I reach three, if you haven't closed your eyes down, I want you to close your eyes at that time. Now you will always be able to open your eyes if you really want to, but leave them closed until I ask you to open them. One, two, and three, letting your eyes close, letting your neck relax, letting your shoulders drop, just let them go, as we go along you're going to find that your mind has a tendency to wander around to other thoughts and other places, any time you find your mind wandering about, simply bring it back and focus your attention on my voice, and you'll drift a little faster and a little more deeply relaxed than you were the moment before. To ensure that you're totally relaxed I'm going to mention several muscle groups of your body, as I mention these groups of muscles I want you to focus your attention there, I want you to concentrate, focus you attention and relax each group of muscles that I mention. Concentrate on your face now and let your face muscles relax, you've relaxed your face, now relax the tiny, tiny muscles around your eyes, you've relaxed your face and your eyes and now your neck, let your neck relax, you've relaxed your neck and now your shoulders, let your shoulders drop, just let them go. You've relaxed your shoulders, and now your arms and your hands are beginning to feel so heavy, so heavy as though lead weights were pulling down on them. Relax your arms and your hands and your fingers, you've relaxed your arms and your hands and your fingers, and now your chest, let your chest go, you've relaxed your chest, and now your stomach, you've relaxed your stomach and now your hips, your hips and your thighs, your thighs and your knees, your knees and your calves, your calves and your ankles, your ankles and your feet. Every nerve, every muscle, every fiber of your body is more relaxed right now than you've ever been in your entire life, and you're going to continue to relax even more as we go along. I'm going to count to three and when I reach three I want everyone to take a deep breath and hold it. One, two and three, a deep breath filling your lungs up and now exhale slowly, as you exhale slowly let all of your muscles relax, just let them go and melt down farther and farther and farther, just let them all relax and melt. Let's do that one more time, one, two and three, a deep breath, filling your lungs up with air and exhale slowly, as you exhale let all of your muscles melt right down farther and farther and farther. To ensure you're totally relaxed I'm gong to go through that relaxation of your body one more time, very quickly. Concentrate on your face now and let your face muscles relax, you've relaxed your face, relax the tiny, tiny muscles around your eyes. You've relaxed your face and your eyes and now your neck, let your neck relax, you've relaxed your neck and now your shoulders, let your shoulders drop, just let them go, you've relaxed your shoulders and now your arms and hands are feeling so heavy, so heavy as though those lead weights we're just pulling down on them, relax your arms and your hands and your fingers, you've relaxed your arms and your hands and your fingers and now your chest, letting your chest relax. As we go along I may come by and I may touch you lightly on the side of the neck or I might lay your head over on the shoulder of the person next to you like we did before, or I may adjust your entire body position. If I move you, if I touch you in any way, do not be alarmed, do not be intimidated by my touch, just let it be your signal to let go and relax and melt down farther and farther and farther as every nerve, every muscle, every fiber continues to melt and drop down deeper and deeper and deeper. As you relaxed your chest and now your stomach, I've relaxed your stomach and now your hips, your hips and your thighs, your thighs and your knees, your knees and your calves, your calves and your ankles, your ankles and your feet, every nerve, every muscle, every fiber just melting and dropping, it feels wonderfully good, it's going to feel even better, even better as we go along. At this point you're going to find it very, very easy to use your imagination. You're going to find it very easy to use your imagination, I want you to use your imagination now and I want you to imagine that its a pleasant summers day, its a pleasant summers day, just let go and relax and melt down farther and farther. I want you to imagine that its a pleasant summers day and you're lying in a hammock stretched between two trees, you can see the sunlight coming down through the leaves of the trees, and you can see the limbs of the trees as they sway back and forth in the gentle summer breeze. I'm going to count down from ten to one and on each number I count that hammock is going to sway back and forth, back and forth, and each time that hammock swings you're going to continue to relax and melt and drop down farther and deeper than you were a moment before. Even if you're in the audience I may come by and I may move you or touch you or adjust your body position, if I do, just let yourself go and drop way down, just letting go, relaxing and melting and dropping down farther and farther. You're in this hammock now and this hammock is beginning to swing in the breeze, Ten, and you've relaxed, 9, 8, 7, it feels warm and safe and comfortable, 7, 6, 5, 4, as the hammock goes B&F, B&F, just let yourself go, 4, 3, 2 and 1, all the way down. Now I want you to use your imagination just one more time. Now, use your imagination just one more time and this time I want you to imagine that you're in an office building, it's a twenty story office building and you are way up on the twentieth floor, you're going to ride the elevator from the twentieth floor down to the very first floor, and each floor that passes by, each floor that goes by, you're going to continue to drop and relax, down farther and deeper relaxed than the floor before. You're in the elevator now and the elevator is beginning to move. There goes the 19th floor, you've relaxed. There goes the 18th floor, There goes the 17th floor, just let yourself go and melt yourself down to the 16th floor. Down to the 16th floor. The 15th floor, the 14th floor, your whole body feels like a rag doll as you melt to the 14th floor, the 13th, the 12th, the 11th, the 10th, the 9th, the 8th floor, it feels as if there are magnets in the bottom of this elevator, those magnets are pulling down on your body, they're pulling you right down to the very carpet of the elevator. Just let go and relax down to the 7th floor, the 6th floor, the 5th, the 4th, the 3rd, the 2nd, as the sound of my voice, even the sound of my voice helps you to relax and helps you to drop down to the 3rd floor, the 2nd floor, and we're almost down to that very first floor, and as soon as I reach that number 1 floor your body is going to feel like a puppet, your body will feel like a puppet that has strings attached to your arms and your hands and your feet and your legs, and as soon as I reach that number 1 floor, it's going to feel like I cut all of your puppet strings at once, you won't even be able to support your body weight because all of your puppet strings would have been cut. Get ready to let go, get ready to let go completely, here it comes, 3, 2 and 1, down deeper and deeper just letting go, relaxing and melting and dropping. Now from this point on, from this point on, whenever I count to 3 everyone is going to sit up feeling great, fresh and wonderful, feeling really, really good. However if I say the word "SLEEP", if I say the word "SLEEP" or if I shake your hand, if I do either one of those two things you're going to go right back, you're going to go right back to the same wonderful place that you are right now. And each time you go back to this pleasant wonderful place you're going to go twice as quickly, twice as deeply relaxed as you were the time before. Now I'm going to count from 1 to 3, the lights will come on, the lights will not bother you at all, but this very first time, just this very first time you're going to feel so heavy, so drowsy, so sleepy and so tired, you're going to be waiting, your going to be waiting for me to say that word "SLEEP," or shake your hand so that you can go right back to the same wonderful relaxing place. One, 2, 3 ... [Move to instant induction] FRACTIONAL RELAXATION (Marshall Sylver) (Transcribed From An Actual Show) [DEEP BREATHING FOR A FEW MINUTES] [Hypnotist stands still slowly rising and lowering his arms from his side] In a moment I'm going to count from 1 to 3 On the count of three, open your eyes, look at me, do not look away, 1 ... 2 and 3 Open your eyes, look at me, do not look away Breathe in deeply, and now breath out Thats fine, your doing perfectly Breathe in deep relaxation, and breathe out all your tensions Breathe in peace and tranquility, and simply breathe out all your anxieties Open your eyes now, look at me, do not look away Open your eyes now wide awake Breathe in ... and breathe out In a moment I'm going to begin relaxing you step by step In a moment I'm going to begin counting backwards from 10 to 1 As I do your eyelids will begin to blink and close down Simply allow them to do so, you could resist anytime you wanted to, that is not why you're here As I count backwards from 10 to 1, your eyelids will begin to blink and close down As you continue to concentrate you will relax the muscles in your neck, in your body, and become as limp and loose as if you were made from a handfull of loose rubber bands Breathe in deeply, we begin On number 10 each and every easy breath you take relaxes your body more and more you're simply letting go 10, 9 breathe in deeply, eyelids beginning to blink now Beginning to blink and close down your you're concentrating perfectly 10, 9, 8 way down, 8, 7 way down, 7 eyelids closing down now, close your eyelids down tightly and concentrate on relaxing the muscles in your neck close your eyelids down tightly now let loose the muscles in your neck you're doing perfectly 10, 9, allow your eyelids to remain closed until I tell you to open them 10, 9, 8 way down, close your eyelids down relax the muscles in your arms you're doing perfectly 10, 9, 8, 7 way down, 7, 6, 5, 4 concentrate, 4, 3, 2 way down, 2 way down, 2 way down, 3, 2, and 1 way down, thats fine, you're doing perfectly (MOVE TO STAIRCASE RELAXATION) CLASP INDUCTION (Marshall Sylver) (Transcribed From An Actual Show) Look at me now ... do not look away In a moment Im going to continue relaxing you further (show subjects) In a moment Im going to tell you to extend you hands straight out in front of you The moment that you do you'll place your palms approximately 12 inches apart. After that I will tell you to close your eyes. The moment you close your eyes you'll feel as if there are magnets in your palms Your hands will begin pulling and tugging together The moment those fingers touch you will allow them to interlock and you'll clasp your hands down tightly Extend your hands in front of you now, palms 12 inches apart, fingers spread Your doing fine, your doing perfectly In a moment I'm going to tell you to close your eyes, the moment you close your eyes it will feel as if there are magnets in your palms As I count backwards from 3 to 1 the pull get stronger Close your eyes ... close your eyelids down tightly ... your hands become tugging and pulling [t & p] ... close your eyelids down tightly (t&p) (p&t) as if there were magnets in your palms your hands are being drawn together (t&p) (p&t) Just as a magnet gets stronger the closer it gets, the closer your hands get the stronger the pull (t&p) (p&t) locking down, sealed shut, fingers tightly together the moment they touch (t&p) (p&t) As I count backwards from 3 to 1 the pull gets stronger ... number 3 (t&p) (p&t), 3, 2 (t&p) (p&t), the next number, number 1 has lock down, sealed shut, clasp down tighter and tighter together. 3, 2, 1, locking down, sealing shut, clasping tighter and tighter together Thats fine, your doing perfectly In a moment I'm going to count backwards from 3 to 1 again. The moment I say the number 1 you will try to unclasp your hands. The moment you try to unclasp your hands you will find that there is nothing you can do, say or think that will allow your hands to separate. The moment I say the number 1 you'll try to unclasp your hands. The more you try to unclasp your hands the more securely locked down they become. On number 3 your hands are locking down, sealing shut, clasping tighter and tighter together. On number 2 it feels as if your hands are carved from a single block of wood. On the next number, number 1 you'll try to unclasp your hands, the more you try the more secure they become, number 1. Try to unclasp your hands, the more you try, the more secure they become, tighter and tighter. Thats fine, your doing perfectly. Stop trying to unclasp your hands, allow your hands to remain straight out in front of you. In a moment I'm going to touch your hands, the moment I touch your hands they will easily and readily unlock. In fact, the moment I touch your hands you will relax every muscle in your body and become limp and loose as if you were made from a handfull of loose rubberbands. The moment I touch your hands you will relax every muscle in your body and become limp and loose as if you were made from a handfull of loose rubberbands. When I touch your hands relax and let go. [The hypnotist goes from subject to subject pushing their clasped hands down into their laps and commanding "SLEEP") (MOVE TO STAIRCASE RELAXATION) STAIRCASE RELAXATION (Marshall Sylver) (Transcribed From An Actual Show) In a moment I'm going to begin relaxing your further In a moment I'm going to begin counting backwards from 10 to 1 again The moment I say the number 10, you will allow your eyelids to remain closed But the moment I say the number 10, you will in your minds eye see yourself at the top of a small set of stairs As I say say the number 9 and each additional number you will simply move down those stairs, relaxing more completely At the bottom of the stairs lies a very large feather bed and a very relaxing feather pillow The moment I say the number 1 you will sink down into that feather bed and rest your head on that feather pillow During this time if I touch you or move you this will only serve to relax you deeper Breathe in deeply, we begin # 10, at the top of the stairs, your relaxing and letting go, # 10 # 9, becomming more limp, more loose, more calm, # 9 8, sinking into a more comfortable, peaceful and relaxed position If I touch you or move you this will only serve to relax you deeper 10, 9, 8, 7 way down, 7, 6, 5 thats fine, your doing perfectly, moving toward that feather bed 4, 3, 2, If I touch you or move you this will only serve to relax you deeper 5, let loose those neck muscles, 4, 3, 2 way down, 3, 2 way down, 3, 2, On the next number # 1 simply sink into a more comfortable, calm, peaceful and relaxed position Let your body go more limp and more loose as if you were made from a handful of loose rubberbands 3, 2, and 1 way down thats fine, you're doing perfectly (MOVE TO HAND YARDSTICK TEST) HAND YARDSTICK TEST (Marshall Sylver) (Transcribed From An Actual Show) In a moment I'm going to tell you to begin concentrating on one of your hands. The moment that you do, you may concentrate either on your right hand or your left hand, it really doesnt matter which You will concentrate on a hand that is free and unencumbered [You will concentrate on a hand that is free of you and the person beside you] The moment you begin concentrating on that hand you will become aware of many things You will become aware of a [warm, relaxing,] peaceful sensation [flowing] going through your body The moment you begin concentrating on that hand, that hand will begin to feel light and relaxed In fact, the more you concentrate, the lighter that hand will seem until that hand and begins rising and lifting, lifting and rising, relaxing itself right toward the ceiling, as if there were a giant bouquet of helium ballons attached to your wrist Allow your eyelids to remain closed and begin concentrating now See that hand in your minds eye, and as you do you become aware of the feeling of the material beneath your fingertips As you concentrate on that hand you become aware of the feeling of the chair beneath your fingertips, of the floor beneath your fingertips and that hand begins to feel light and relaxed As you concentrate one of your fingers will move slightly It may be your index finger, your middle finger, your ring finger, your little finger or your thumb. One of your fingers will move slightly and your hand begins to relax and feel light If I touch your wrist it feels as if I am attaching another bouquet of ballons to your wrist Its now getting lighter still until it begins rising and lifting, lifting and rising beginning to relax itself right off of your lap, right off of the chair, right into the air Each and everytime I touch your wrist getting lighter still, `til now it begins rising and lifting, lifting and rising relaxing further and further up, your concentrating perfectly Rising and lifting, lifting and rising simply letting go As I count backwards from 3 to 1 it feels as if those ballons are filling with more helium and are moving right into the air on # 3 rising and lifting, lifting and rising ballons filling with more helium 3, 2, rising and lifting, lifting and rising relaxing further and further up on the next number, number 1 those ballons expand to 10 times their original size relaxing further and further into the air on the next number, number 1 those ballons expand to 10 times their original size moving further and further into the air 3, 2, and 1 rising and lifing, lifting and rising pulling your entire body along with it thats fine your concentrating perfectly leave it right there In a moment I'm going to count from 1 to 3, The moment I say the number 3 you will open your eyes, you will look at your hands and see just how well youve concentrated The moment I say the number 3 you will open your eyes, you will look at your hands and see just how well youve concentrated 1, 2 and 3