The Informed Child Technique consists of changing the effect of the ISE
The scene is set, our participants are the adult and the child, who now at the count of 3 back to 1, will go back together, before the ISE. Doing the Informed Child technique with your client is truly an amazing and transforming experience for the client. On the count of 1, they are there together. Your main goal is for an experience to occur that will transform your client by affecting the very root of her subconscious experience. The process, done right, will be one of the most profound...
The Informed Child Technique requires that you regress before the ISE
At this point, you have managed to locate the ISE and you have divided the client into two parts, child and adult. Now you can make the final preparations for doing the Informed Child technique. Talk to the grown-up client and inform her that we are about to have a talk with the child that she once was. But it is going to be the child that she was before this problem came up before she felt the fear, anger or guilt. So, this time you are going to regress the client one more time, but this time...
Ask your client how old she is when in the regressed state and then call her by
Once you have the client well into the age regression, communication during the session is best served by asking the client how old she is. Once her age has been established, call your age-regressed client by that age. Then when you need to switch from the adult client to the client age-regressed state of six years old, you can easily do this by saying, Now let me speak to Six. Or, Now I am speaking to Grown Up or 'adult' and fill in her name if that helps to keep things straight, e.g., 'Adult...
Keep a book of scripts and outlines
I've done so many sessions that I could just about get by without any patter scripts at all. But I still use them. Here is why. About 90 of the time, my first session with a client is going to be a session consisting of only Direct Suggestion. And, since this is the case, I want to deliver the very best I can. I have taken the time to create my own script for all the issues that I commonly work with. They have been polished and improved through thousands of hours of hypnosis. So I will often...
Dont let your clients fall asleep during the session Hypnosis is not sleep
To keep your clients from falling asleep on you, which is more of a problem in the afternoon than in the morning, use rapid or instant inductions and don't over-deepen the client. Letting a client sleep through a session is inexcusable and unethical. Hypnosis is not sleep. Sleep is a state of relative unconsciousness, while hypnosis is a state of focused or heightened consciousness. Bonus Tip If you suspect that your client has gone to sleep, maintain your cadence and level of speech and ask...
Have a tape recorder set up to do the Direct Drive technique
The second situation in which I suggest that you consider the use of tapes is for the Direct Drive technique, since the Direct Drive technique consists of you simply making the same suggestion over and over. Generally it is recommended that the suggestion be given a minimum of 15 times when doing the Direct Drive technique. I like to use the direct drive technique in my smoking cessation sessions. But believe me, if you utilize the Direct Drive technique often you will become bored with it and...