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“I had to do it myself first”

“I had to do it myself first”. HYPNOSIS. The hypnotic experience is characterized by an ability to sustain a state of attentive, receptive, intense focal concentration with diminished peripheral awareness in response to a signal. (Spiegel) What does that feel like?. EXPERIENCE.

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“I had to do it myself first”

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  1. “I had to do it myself first”

  2. HYPNOSIS • The hypnotic experience is characterized by an ability to sustain a state of attentive, receptive, intense focal concentration with diminished peripheral awareness in response to a signal. (Spiegel) • What does that feel like?

  3. EXPERIENCE • Bringing all your attention to the toes on your right foot. • Allow all your awareness to rest on your toes wriggling up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. • And noticing your breath rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall. • What do you notice?

  4. THREE MAIN COMPONENTS • ABSORPTION deeply engrossed in experience • DISSOCIATION not here, instead there • SUGGESTIBILITY open, receptive and responsive

  5. PURPOSE OF PRACTICING SELF-HYPNOSIS • DEVELOPING SENSE OF MASTERY • HOLY COW!! THIS STUFF WORKS!!! • And I can teach it others!

  6. ANXIETYREDUCTION • MINDBODYCALMING, QUIETING • LIKE FLOATING • AROUSAL REDUCED

  7. PERFORMANCEENHANCEMENT • Mind Body experiencing the felt sense of knowing the skill of desired outcome, eg. public speaking, sports, test taking • Focused, relaxed absorption confidently connected to inner, intuitive place of knowing • Releasing the natural inner CREATIVITY

  8. PAIN MANAGEMENT • Mind chatter quieted • Selective coping strategy without the “extra” eg. distraction; displacement; mindfulness

  9. - REHEARSAL IN FANTASY • Vividly seeing, feeling, tasting, touching, hearing, desired outcome in heightened state of alert relaxation, again and again and again • Wide application eg. performance, interpersonal relating, intrapersonal relating, phobia elimination, habit elimination

  10. HOW DO YOU GET TO CARNEGIE HALL?PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE • Taking responsibility for the treatment outcome. “YES, I want to change.” • Re: In the psychotherapy of trauma and attachment disorders, the practice of self-hypnosis strengthens the connection between patient and therapist, supporting stabilization and opening to change

  11. PERSONAL USES • Utilizing soothing imagery during dental and medical procedures • Distraction eg. during an MRI • Intensify focus in performance, by eg.”bearing down on the gas pedal”, challenging circumstances eg strenuous hike • Flow states;in psychotherapy, deeply attuned and resonating

  12. Typical clinical examples • phobias eg. fear of flying • habit changes eg. smoking cessation, nailbiting, overeating • affect regulation techniques eg. affect dial to dial up or down the intensity of affect

  13. Clinical examples • containment strategies for traumatic, intrusive material; closed fist techniquesoothing imagery and objects, music • parts work eg. ego-state therapy, IFS

  14. RECORDING: THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING • Encourage frequent listening to tape. Daily practice with tape • 20 seconds, quick induction, state change, eg. floating, exit, for ratification and master • Chicago Paradigm Study (Fromm & Kahn) found that recordings increase the utilization of home practice

  15. HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE • Generalizing positive effects of hypnosis as life skill to strengthen self-agency, self-efficacy

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