A hypnosis induction is not more than the ceremony taken place when hypnotizing someone. This ceremony is not even necessary in some cases, and the induction takes place even without the subject realizing it. This is more a kind of traditional hypnosis session. A typical induction takes place as follows:
1. The Pre-hypnosis
With the pre-hypnosis what we want to accomplish is to set up what is our objectives for the session. This is an important part of the process that we will use as we go deep into the hypnotic session. This goal must be something useful or good for the hypnotized. If this is one of your first sessions, you want to go for something easy. I’d suggest something like waking up with energy next morning, or something like that.
2. The breath
Breathing is something really powerful to make our minds to go into a relaxed state. A oxygenated brain has a deep psychological effect, because it affects our bodies and make them ready for the next stages.
3. The imagination
Now your subject mind needs to focus in something, and thing only on that. It needs to be something relaxing, and something that makes the mind to focus. Usually something that works really well is scanning our bodies, trying to see every part, feel every part, and relax every part. Go through every muscle group, and every part of their bodies. Tell them to visualize them, to feel them, and relax them totally.
4. The suggestion
Now it time for the suggestion. Here is when you tell them about the goal that you set previously. Tell them exactly what is going to happen, make them visualize it, make them focus on that. That will get recorded in their minds.
5. The awakening
The only part left is to wake them up from the hypnosis session. It doesn’t mean that they where sleeping. They where in a state of semi-awareness, but that state will finish now if you tell them, for example with a count down. They would wake up for themselves as well, but we don’t need to wait.
