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The Art of Suggestions

Hypnosis is only a mental state, not a power that produce the changes. The suggestions cause the effect.  If you are a smoker and you want to become a non-smoker, a hypnotist will help you to become one with his powerful suggestions, not with hypnosis itself. The suggestions for quitting smoking make magic, not hypnosis.

You need to be hypnotized only for better believing that you will become a non-smoker. Hypnosis doesn’t make you a non-smoker, the hypnotist’s suggestions do! Some people don’t need hypnosis at all. Only suggestions.

The art of suggestions is a powerful tool for achieving your goals, doesn’t matter if this is Smoking Cessation or Weight Control, Stress Reduction or Self-Esteem. The suggestions work for you better when you are hypnotized. All hypnotic suggestions are custom-made by the hypnotists who are experts in what they do. There are no negative suggestions in the hypnotherapy field, only positive ones, and of course any suggestion can be rejected if you don’t like it, when you are under hypnosis.

What makes the suggestion effective for you? The positive suggestions given by a trustable hypnotist will do the changes you want. If you feel that your hypnotist 100% cares about you, the success of suggestions is your new reality.
What are the basic suggestions that we, consulting hypnotists, give to our clients? The basic suggestions are the sentences with positive words, repeated a couple of times for better embedding into a client’s mind.

Do your suggestions have to be complexed and well constructed? Not at all! The subconscious mind is a child’s mind and it will accept only the best part of the suggestions, which can be the most positive part or even the simplest one, not the super well written one. I mean you as a hypnotist can give your suggestions in a super easiest form or you can give it in a form of avant-garde poetry ( if it’s positive), what ever is easy for you and understandable to your clients.

Even one sentence repeated many times will cause the effect. Of course it should be given with a feeling of 100% success for a client, so the kind of monotone reading doesn’t do a good job.

Can be the suggestions be custom- made for a particular client? Yes, they should be custom- made for every client, because every client is unique. But creating such suggestions will take hypnotist’s precious time and energy, it’s up to your level of willingness  to help your client to serve better.

According to Dave Elman it’s advisable to the doctors and dentists not to use the word “Hypnosis” in their practice, replacing it by word “relaxation”. I guess that using the word “The suggestion” would help instead. Anyway, for some people the suggestions given in a waken state will work just as good as in a hypnotic state.

Sydney Flower in his book “Suggestive Therapeutics” published in 1898,  explains how the suggestions work and what can be done with its. He even suggest a new word for hypnotism- “Psychotism”. I like the fascinated name for our profession, we can’t not be called ourselves “Psychotists”, no way!

Someone can ask me how about James Braid’s Neurypnology? In 1843 James Braid didn’t give any suggestions to his patients, but most of them have been cured through hypnosis. So, hypnosis is the cure power itself? According to James Braid, yes, a hypnotic trance is very  theraputic and powerful. But of course it’s abvious that the suggestions were  still there: every patient who was hypnotized by doctor James Braid had already his own suggestion or a hope for a miracle to happen. James Braid was a doctor and his patients came to him  to be cured, they wanted to be cured.
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Same effect of self-suggestions have been found in mesmerism as well, but only after the stage hypnotists of XIX century the suggestions became the art. Of course, the hypnotherapists took the  credit of developing suggestions for hypnotherapy, not the stage hypnotists. Anyway, today the people give the suggestions to each other every day and nothing is wrong with this. But the problem is not every suggestion given by your friend or your parent or your spouse is a positive one. That’s why some  people are influenced by negativity and as a result they see only difficulties, they don’t feel good.

We, the consulting hypnotists, have to give only positive suggestion to our clients and of course we do that every day in our practice. We motivate our clients with positive words, we boost our clients self-confidence with proper suggestions, we do a lot of amazing things with a power of suggestions.

Can you  read your suggestions from the paper? I don’t see a reason why not. Cal Bayan advice to use plastic sheet protectors so it’s almost noiseless to touch your scripts.
Richard Nongard also advice that if you want to read off your script you can just say to your client that you will read it, because you want to make sure you cover everything your client need to succeed.

So yes, you can always read your scripts without any problems, just read it before a couple of times to make sure it’s readable to you ( because English is my 2nd language, I personally  check all some hard-to read-for-me english words,  then learn how to pronounce them and then practice to read it perfectly)

Should you use the tapes with recorded suggestions? I don’t know. To me it’s kind of fake session, the clients will be suspicious and besides there will be no your positive feeling given to your client, if the tapes used. I don’t mind to creat reinforcement audio and give it to your clients for practicing, but in your office you as a hypnotist who wants to be as successful as you want, have to give the suggestions live, and with feeling of 100% of success.

Can you create your own suggestions or you have to use only those by famous hypnotists? It’s up to you, but well created scripts help you better than your own ones, if you just started as a hypnotist. Later you can your specific scripts, but real scripts have been polished for years by successful hypnotists and why not to use those scripts.

What type of voice does a hypnotist have to have? I can only say that it’s really doesn’t matter if you have a voice like a great russian singer Ivan Shalyapin had; your voice has to sound clear and your english ( if you are like me ) has to be understandable of course. The hypnotized  clients subconscious mind hears everything and will only pick up what is good; if you say accidentally something wrong, it would be rejected instantly.

So, there is only one way to become a successful hypnotist in the field of hypnotherapy: you have to give to your clients only positive suggestions amplified by your positive feeling and said with your clear and confident voice. The clients have to feel that all suggestions given to them are 100% helpful and powerful.

By Alexander Ivlev, CH
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