In my NGH certified hypnosis training courses in New York, I discourage students from using scripts that might distract their attention from their clients and their clients? responses. However, I do encourage them to pull ideas from them. This script covers most of the different representational systems, so feel free to use the pieces that will work for your individual client's preferences.
There are many ways to feel even more comfortable, more relaxed and free of any discomfort. I will give you a lot of different ways to feel better, to change and make more comfortable the places in your body that had pain. The latest research has proven that the mind can stop the pain signals from getting to the brain. It's easy for anyone to do. I have helped many people, like you, feel better, and learn to have comfort where they used to have a problem.
One way to easily change sensations is to imagine the area you choose to make feel better as a red spot. Now take a deep comforting breath in and imagine cool, almost icy, air going right to that spot and cooling it down, so it changes color, a lighter shade, like pink. With each breath in, you cool it down some more, changing it to a paler shade of pink, then cooler, to blue, while exhaling any discomfort right out of your body. That is one way that you can feel more comfort. Some people like to imagine seeing themselves in a mirror, getting more and more comfortable, as they notice when they look at themselves they can feel free of the discomfort they used to have.
Can you see or imagine yourself, over there, in that mirror, looking and feeling better than you have in a long time. I have helped a lot of people, like you, to change the pain they used to have into a sound. No matter how loud or distracting the sound, they could always turn the volume down. Some turned it down to a low noise that didn't bother them anymore, while many found it more comforting to just turn the sound off completely. I don't know what way will work better for you, that is up to you. Sometimes you might find it easier to take your mind to an amazing place. A place of comfort, like a vacation, somewhere where you can go, to get away and really relax. Maybe it's somewhere you have been, somewhere full of happy, pleasant feelings, soothing sounds, fresh scents, that bring you back, to a time, a place, where you felt so good, so free, no worries, no stress, just relaxation and comfort. Maybe you can go somewhere you have never been, imagining how good you can feel, how wonderful it is to be free, to feel totally relaxed in this new place, of comfort. I don't know where your mind can take you, but I know there has been a time when you felt really good. Your body can remember how it felt to feel really good, and you might have noticed that when the body remembers a really good feeling, that you can know where in your body that good feeling starts. Some people think it feels wonderful to move that good feeling in little circles, make it spin, and as it spins that good feeling throughout the body, your mind can begin to enjoy moving that spin faster, swirling it around. And as your body begins to remember every good sensation it has ever experienced, every sense of comfort, relaxation, that the body has ever felt, that spin becomes bigger and begins to swirl to those places that need it most. Just good feelings, smoothing over, comforting wherever it moves, because you know how to feel good.
Sometimes the mind may forget, but the body knows what comfort feels like.
Sometimes, you might feel even better, adding some laughter into that spin. I don't know when the last time you laughed, I mean really laughed, was, but I know that the mind can think of the time, a time you just had to laugh out loud. I don't know what you find funny, maybe a time when you just knew, no matter what you did, you had to let it out, couldn't help but laugh. Maybe it was at a movie, with a friend or maybe it was even inappropriate laughter. You know what that is, don't you? Inappropriate laughter, where you just couldn't control that laugh, that time, when it came out of nowhere and you had to just try to hold it back, but, the laughter came anyway, yes, that kind of laughter, that we all know on some level. They say that laughter heals, and you can feel how that's true, now, take that feeling, that giggly kind of feeling, and throw that into the spin. The spin that is swirling good feelings through your body, that's right, it's funny, when you think of it, when you realize how powerful you are and how easy you can change sensations in your body, with your mind, now. I know you can feel this good, whenever you need to, it's easy.
All you have to do, to feel this relaxation, is count, nice and slow, in your mind, from ten down to one, like this; ten, allowing my body to relax, nine, getting even more relaxed, eight, deeper relaxed with each number, seven every muscle feeling better, six, more and more relaxed, five, so nice, so comfortable, four, deeper and deeper relaxed, three, feeling good, two, feeling better, and one. It doesn't matter what you say to yourself as you count, just that you know you will feel more and more relaxed with each and every count, every breath will bring more and more comfort.
Free Self Hypnosis Script
The following free hypnosis script can be used to assist a client with pain management. Pain management should only be undertaken by a qualified hypnotist under a medical referral.
? Now that you are feeling more comfortable, I would like to show you how easily you can change sensations in your body by using your mind. In a moment?
? .I'll touch your hand. And as I touch your hand, you can let your focus on the sound of my voice, allow you to feel even more comfortable.
[begin touching lightly or tapping on the back of hand]
? Just notice, as I touch your hand, that all sensations begin to change?..
? Many people notice a slight tingling sensation on that hand??or elsewhere,
? maybe on your arm?..or your face??or somewhere else????
? But however you can experience this?..all the things I do here??on that hand
? ?..can allow you to feel even more comfort???
? You may be aware of my touch?? or not?.and it might seem to be?..over there
? ?.kind of at a distance???.
? Imagine if you will, that this area??from the wrist to the fingertips is in
? a comfortable glove????..
? Very comfortable?..custom made for you?..and the area within begins to feel
? even more relaxed???.more comfortable???
? You may think of this as your glove of relaxation?????.your glove of anesthesia???????..
? And you might remember what that sensation feels like??the novacain you might have had???in the past???
? And everywhere??in that glove??..can feel different???and my touch can
? make you feel even more relaxed???.all that I do here can cause you to feel
? more and more comfort?????.
? You may be aware of my touch??..but all that I do allows you to go deeper
? and deeper into comfort????????.
[begin to pinch the hand, above or in the area of the web between thumb and forefinger. Begin slowly and increase the pressure as you continue to speak in soothing tones]
? More and more comfortable?????.you may be aware of my touch .and you might
? be wondering what I'm doing?..as you go deeper into this comfort,. relaxing
? more and more??..
? Noticing the comfortable tingling??.perhaps aware of the changing sensations
? ?as you relax deeper?..
? Allowing that comfort to spread???? especially within your glove of
? comfort???.
? Glove of anesthesia???..of relaxation????.
[you can emerge from hypnosis or keep going to transfer feelings to the face]
? And you might want to allow that comfort to spread?..to anywhere you need
? that comfort????..knowing that you can move that glove????to anywhere you
? want to feel better???
? Notice what happens???.when I help you lift that glove to your face????
? how that sensation can spread????changing???that whole area?.can feel
? different??.more and more??..comfort spreading?..notice how easy???you can
? bring that comfort to where you need it?????..
? That's right???..more and more comfortable????deeper and deeper relaxed
??????.
[emerge slowly, allowing all sensations to return to normal or leaving