IMAGINATION Flashcards
WHAT’S IT LIKE WHEN_____
What’s it like when you go into hypnosis. When you think about what it is like when you are relaxing, your body starts to have the experience. And what is it like when you are deeply in trance? What does your body feel like in trance? What’s it like inside your mind when you go into a trance?
JUST PRETEND_____
Just pretend that you are great hypnotic subject. Act as if you are going into hypnosis and soon your mind forgets to pretend. Why not make believe you are going deeper and deeper into trance. As Erickson used to say “You can pretend anything and master it!” What, then, if you were to just pretend that you are deeply in trance NOW!
IMAGINE_____
Can you imagine going into trance? Imagine yourself drifting on a calm and beautiful river. Picture your muscles becoming lose and limp See yourself feeling completely relaxed. Then imagine enjoying the most exquisite trance experience. lf you don’t want to imagine that, you could always picture it, visualize it, envisage it or see it in your mind’s eye!
SUPPOSE_____
Suppose that your (you’re) unconscious mind could do almost anything you can imagine. Now suppose that you were going into trance. Just suppose that trance begins to deepen more and more. Then suppose you could simply let go of all the things that might be holding you back. I suppose that you would drift into a pleasant trance automatically.
IT’S AS IF_____
Your mind can make all kinds of connections. It’s as if your mind takes you on a journey inside. lt’s as if you are floating gently on a cloud. Can you feel a sense of comfort growing? It’s as if you enter the most peaceful scene. And that is just like when you go into a trance and let your unconscious do the learning for a change.
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF_____
What would it be like if you began to relax deeply? What would it be like if your mind could go into a trance state quite naturally and give you any experience you wanted or needed. Now what would it be like if you relax deeply into hypnosis. And if you could experience a deeper and more pleasant state of hypnosis, what would that be like??
AND YOU CAN EXPERIENCE_____ AS IF_____
And you can experience reading this as if you were floating on a cloud. Of course you can make sense of these words. In fact you can experience these words as if they are little bubbles of relaxation, popping into your mind, soothing your thoughts. Can you experience your thoughts changing as if you were a baby being rocked to sleep in your mother’s arms?
