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Clients who are afraid, in pain or extremely nervous are already in the
early stages of a hypnotic trance and so induction can be very quick....
Stan was visibly shaking as he told me about his forthcoming operation. He was
due to have a hernia operation but was totally convinced that he would not come
out of it alive.
He told me that an ex-work colleague had died during an operation a few years
ago and wondered if that was the reason for his fear. He then went on to explain
that his colleague was in fact 78 years old (hadn’t worked for years) and had a
very weak heart.
Considering Stan’s fear had been with him for most of his life I said I thought
there could be some other reason for that fear and we would do some regression
work to find out.
Because of the excessive apprehension he was feeling at the prospect of his
forthcoming operation, Stan was already in an altered state of consciousness
whilst describing how he felt.
He took about 9 seconds to go into trance. I set up the finger signals and asked
his unconscious mind when his fear had begun.
He indicated the age of 5. I asked if he was alone, he said no, his mother was
there. I asked him to go back to that scene and review it, with an adult
perspective.
After a short while Stan opened his eyes.
“Well I know exactly what it was, and I’d completely forgotten about that
incident,” he went on to explain, “I was at the dentist with my mother, she was
having an extraction and she suddenly started screaming and screaming. I was
terrified.”
Stan laughed, “to think all these years that’s what’s been bothering me. I feel
so good now, I know I’ll be fine.”
I had Stan project his mind into the future and see himself recovering well
after his operation. I also asked him to phone me afterwards to let me know how
he’d got on, although we both already knew he’d have no problems whatsoever.
Sure enough, Stan phoned to tell me the good news a few days later. He’d enjoyed
being in hospital and getting all the attention and the operation went smoothly,
he felt he’d completely got over his fear, in just one session of hypnotherapy.
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