Overload in Hypnosis

There are many ways of producing confusion in order to depotentiate a clients conscious mind. The handshake technique is a classic, disorientation is another method, or one can use overload with a rapid pacing involved.

The induction below comes from Roger Allen's "Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy Volume II", and a link to the book will be listed below.

An induction for those clients who are extremely analytical, rigidly controlled.

Now I know how difficult it can seem to someone with your intelligence to recognize that it can make a pleasant change for me to have the privilege to work with someone of your intellectual ability … instead of some who come HERE and sit in that relaxation chair THERE and even they … with their eyes closed can be so small minded … always appearing mad at the world and never giving a moment for themselves … to relax … Those are the ones who just feel that they have no need at all to listen to what is said or not said … putting values that have no place … HERE … no value … THERE … as they refuse to learn anything that will help them to see the world in a different light … that will allow them to care … that they can care for themselves … and be comfortable too … It is so comforting too .. to know that you have capacity to use your ability in that way … to learn and to accept that it can be such a relaxing experience … to allow that drifting into a trance to occur … without concerning yourself … as you try to be aware of al that is said … the exact meaning of all the words … and of all those events that occur in your own thoughts … or awareness … You can know too that you can choose … to forge to choose to pay that attention to all that happens … HERE in your experience or not … THERE or what changes … or stays the same … and what about that man who set out to travel to a place where he needed to be? … He knew that he had been told the right way to go … keep to the left for the first part … that's right … so easy at first and then take that turn to the right … that's right … not the left because what is right is to take a right … then what is left cannot be right until the turn that is next that is left … the turn to the left what will be right that takes him straight to the next turn that is right … and if that turn is right then he would be turning left onto the right road … and then all that was left was to relax … and be totally unconcerned … because all that was left to do now was to continue … right … on down that road that went up the hill to the right of the white house on the left and then go right and then left … to be absolutely right … It really can seem to be too much effort at times to be so concerned about what is right … that can best be left to those who need to know that which may turn out to be that … or perhaps something else entirely … which could be right too … if that was all that was left … And I know that you will be only too pleased to remember that …. when you consider that so many things can be the same but different too … like one and one are two which can be also too … and then two and two are four … but then what for … if not to relax and begin to recognize that you really do not know what is no HERE and yes THERE … where to go … to where you can let go and allow those things to occur in their own time … as you let go while holding on to that new recognition … that what you know is that which is … that there is nothing that you require to do or not do as your ability allows you to be totally relaxed and comfortable … as you recognize that which I say can mean so many different things … It can be so easy to accept all those things and to be completely comfortable and relaxed with all that is so right … and be left with that train of thought that could allow you to stay on track … and recognize that too was not worth the effort … that takes so much effort as you try to remember so many things … and to understand NO need for understanding… The conscious of your mind can do anything … go any place it wishes to … without that need at all for you to be so concerned that your subconscious is concerned … to her all that is important to you … as you continue to listen to the sound of my voice that drifts down with you now … into that calm drifting … drifting of thoughts and of experience too … that can go so slow so quickly now … as that relaxation that is yours becomes more and more … as you can allow the subconscious of your mind to take too … the responsibility for guiding your thoughts and your experience into a quiet calmness that follows … when dreams can be turning within … as the wheel turns and the world turns … all on its own … nothing at all for you to do … or be concerned with at all as you drift effortlessly down into that drifting place where nothing is left … but only what is right for you … to where your own inner mind waits too with those wisdoms that are yours and those things needed too.