How to Write an Hypnosis Script

"I can't look in his eyes," stated the Associated Students President as she introduced me before my Concert of Stage Hypnotism at a small Illinois college. This was my first college audience with many psychology students and even a psychology professor in attendance. I was thinking how strange it is to mention hypnosis with these learned men and women. These learned men and women are fearful and think I have some strange powers over people, with the use of my eyes. Why do people have this prejudice about hypnotism and eyes? Eyes have always been a significant part of the hypnosis process. What is the connection the eyes and hypnosis? The sense of "sight" acts as a metaphor for hypnosis.

At the count of three, look up from this book. Scan your eyes around the room, keeping a finger on your place in this book. Then focus your attention on one object on the other side of your room. Focus on this object for about ten seconds and then start reading the book again. All right, one, two, and three, look, scan and focus.

Well, that was fun. Did you notice as you scan around your room all the different objects? Did you notice different textures, sizes, shapes, form, mass, and colors? As you focused on one object did you notice what happened? Other objects, shapes, sizes, form, mass, and colors go out of focus. They recede into the background. They don't seem quite as distinct or as important anymore. This experience, the experience of sight is just like hypnosis.

With hypnosis you focus your attention so much on a central word, thought or idea that the rest of the world goes out of focus. You don't really notice or care that much about what else is going on around you. You know that people are talking or that things are happening but they aren't as important as the ideas your are concentrating on at the time. With hypnosis you don't need your eyes open at the beginning of the induction in order for it to work. Later in this article you will learn how to hypnotize yourself with an Eyes-Closed Induction. It will be fun!

The objective of this artivle 4 is to help you understand what to say to yourself during the hypnotic induction. This article will assist you in creating specific script to insert in the progressive relaxation induction. The script is designed to help your lover achieve his/her goals.

What Do You Say During The Induction?

What is an induction? What do you say during the induction? An induction is the formal ceremony with a goal to elicit a hypnotic response from the subject or hypnotee. The subject or hypnotee may carry out the formal ceremony normally presented by a hypnotist. Hypnosis can and does exist even without the formal ceremony or induction. This concept is hard for people to understand. But it is true. Once you accept this teaching self-hypnosis will become powerful and it will be fun to use, especially when you get to the exercise in more advanced articles.
The induction is a signal that hypnosis is coming. You had better get ready! This is when your belief system and your expectation of hypnosis come into clear focus.

What do you say during the induction? Anything you wish! I will list the basic parts of a typical induction or ceremony, for you. This will include what you do and what you say to your lover. The procedures used in this book will be at night before both of you go to sleep. However, you can administer these suggestions at any time during the day. Instead of counting down during the end of the induction and telling your lover to sleep a the "count of five," you will be telling your lover to awaken at the "count of five."

Tools For A Great Induction

Pre-hypnotize your lover. What does he/she wish to accomplish during this session. Remember that you told your partner that he/she will "relax deeply all night along and awaken tomorrow feeling full of energy," at the very beginning of the pre-hypnosis.

Deep breathing suggestions: Tell your partner to breathe deeply to enhance the relaxation response.

Imagination stimulation: Focus on relaxing your lover's muscle groups. If you wish to give your lover an induction without reading the book, you can cue yourself on what to say by just looking at his/her body. Look at her head, talk about relaxing the muscles of the head, face, and neck and continue down her body by looking at it. This makes it easy in case she doesn't want the light on while you read, or you wish to use a candle for a wonderful lighting effect. Post-hypnotic suggestion: Give your partner a suggestion during the induction that will predict and ask for a particular behavior, once she/he awakens from hypnosis. The behavior we are looking for in this book is the complete relaxation and stress reduction at night and the full awareness and high energy level during awakening. As you experiment on your own with your personal goals, you will develop many post-hypnotic suggestions.

Awakening: Give your lover a signal to come out of hypnosis. It may be a count, such as from one to five. It may also be a set amount of time. For example, you may tell yourself that you will concentrate in hypnosis for twenty minutes and then awaken on your own, feeling wide-awake and alert. In the exercises in this book the cue is always, "when you awaken tomorrow morning."

If your lover wants you to awaken before that time, use the time cue, in twenty minutes you will awaken, or a count, when I count form one to five you will awaken. By the time I reach the count of five you will wide, awake and alert just like you are in the morning after a long refreshing sleep.