Super Induction Challenge

[rblake]

I was wondering what advice you might have for inducing a client like this one: he is supermegahyperanalytical, has a fear of people who are bossy and demanding, has a fear of messing up, and dissociates when animated by those fears.

I've tried Roy Hunter's confusional inductions, the use of frequent praise, and even progressive relaxation. The first session went okay--he got to a light/medium trance. But when it came time to do some age regression for that fear, those muscles tensed up and the critical faculty went into overdrive.

I would love to do a quick induction to bypass the critical faculty, but I'm afraid of barking the word "SLEEP" at a person who gets triggered by bossy people.

Any ideas?

Richard

[Poodle]

Cool question and I have met this type of person often. Do an "instant" and since I don't like the word "SLEEP" either, change it. How about TRANCE NOW or you can do a very nice cooperational Ericksonian induction on him and he will not know it's even coming. If you do not know how to do conversational inductions, perhaps you should learn. If you know NLP well, use Nested Loops.

There are many ways to induce a hypnotic trance.

Be well~Pood :)

[skip]

I would use nested loops and metaphor.

See the basis of the techniques you are attempting come from the 'authoritarian' model.

Why go against the resistance unless that is the only way you know?

skip

[Poodle]

"and dissociates when" -- what more do you want? Dissociation is "trance" so take it and work with it quickly. This only works again if you know NLP well.

A lot of NLP is hypnosis without the "official" induction.

Pood :)