10 components of Progressive Relaxation Induction

The easiest way to hypnotize someone is the progressive relaxation induction. It is often used when working with person who find relaxation difficult. The induction takes nearly half an hour. You can use it to reduce tension in different body areas.

Progressive Relaxation Induction may be divided into 10 components. They are listed below:

1. Pre-talk. You need pre-talk to enable your subject to trust you, remove all fears and doubts of hypnosis and to establish good rapport.

2. Verify subject wanna be hypnotized. You should ask such question as “May I hypnotize you?” before the induction.

3. Give your subject easy to follow instruction, e.g. “sit up straight, hand on lap, don`t interlace fingers, etc”. Performing this means that comply suggestions without perpending them.

4. Tell them “Close your eyes”. That will shut the almost all input the subject receives, so they can focus more on your words.

5. Tell your subject to take a deep breath, then hold it (nearly second) then release and start noticing some feeling of relaxation. Even if you are not going to enter your subject in trance, it will be a good relaxing thing for them. It will make easier for them to feel relaxation, that you are going to suggest them.

6. Make your subject relax more suggesting to “allow yourself to relax”. Let them discover the benefit. It will be easier for them to go in trance, if you tell them to do something simple, achievable and pleasant.

7. Progressive Relaxation Induction: suggest that the subject deeping more and more and notice the spreading of relaxation. Tell, that you are going to count down form 20,10, or 5 and with each number they will feel deeper and deeper relaxed. Tell each part of subject`s body is relaxing one at a time till the whole body will be relaxed. That will make subject to focus on hypnotist instructions, feel the effect of relaxation suggestions and guarantee success in going in trance.

8. Do a small suggestion that subject should respond to, e.g. eye catalepsy. That will give them evidence that they are in trance. Firming up this belief will enable subject to go deeper.

9. Deepen the trance with arm drop or a other similar technique. Physically metaphoric experience, the should emulate mentally dropping deeper in trance state.

10. Provide several demonstrable suggestions. This will show both subject and you that they are really in trance.

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