The Confusion Method Of Induction And Deepening

Just close your eyes and let your mind drift to where it will. You are aware of everything, and yet, you are not aware. You are listening with your subconscious mind, while your conscious mind is resting and not listening. Your conscious mind drifts far away and is not listening. Your subconscious mind is alert, and listening, and hearing everything while your conscious mind remains relaxed and very peaceful. You can relax peacefully because your subconscious mind is taking charge, and when this happens, you close your eyes and let your subconscious mind do all the listening. Your subconscious mind knows, and because your subconscious mind knows, your conscious mind does not need to know and you can stay relaxed, and not mind while your subconscious mind stays alert.

You have much potential in your subconscious mind which you don't have in your conscious mind. You can remember everything that has happened with your subconscious mind, but you cannot remember everything with your conscious mind. You can forget so easily, and with forgetting certain things, you can remember other things. Remembering what you need to remember, and forgetting what you can forget. It does not matter if you forget, you need not remember. Your subconscious mind remembers everything you need to know, and you can let your subconscious mind listen and remember while your conscious mind relaxes and forgets. Keep your eyes closed and listen with your subconscious mind, and when you're listening very, very carefully, nod your head and say "yes."

And as you continue to listen to me with your subconscious mind, your conscious mind relaxes deeper and deeper, and deeper and deeper. Let your conscious mind stay deeply relaxed, and let your subconscious mind listen to me.

The basic message to this induction is conscious forgetting and subconscious knowing. This message is drawn out and repeated Separate directions for conscious mind, and separate directions for subconscious mind maintain the subconscious attention; while dismissing the conscious attention, both by the suggestions, the pauses and mental fatigue.

This method is especially effective with particularly difficult subjects, but is not practical when working with accountants, engineers, mathematicians, etc, because it would not be in keeping with their professions to be confused by figures.

The subject is told to concentrate on a spot on the ceiling lightly above eye level. He is then instructed to count out loud, backwards, from one hundred to zero. As the subject concentrates on the spot and counts, the hypnotist standing directly behind him, converses with him; usually suggestion relaxation to various parts of the body. Eye fatigue, the concentration required to count and the distraction of the hypnotist's voice, all tend to confuse the subject. As the subject counts, he may find himself omitting numbers as follows.

"87...86...85...83...81," or repeating numbers "87... 86...85...85." He may suffer long pauses as he tries to remember the last figure he quoted. The hypnotist listens for symptoms of confusion and the moment he detects it, he claps his hands loudly and commands his subject to "SLEEP!"

The hand clap and command have a very shocking effect on the subject who immediately stops counting and goes into a deep state of trance. If the count goes on too long without the generation of confusion, the hypnotist may help the situation by randomly uttering numbers. It is very important that after the "SLEEP!" command is given that the hypnotist keeps up his patter (talking). Deepening suggestions are recommended. A period of silence right after trance is obtained will cause the subject to emerge.

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