My wife and I are new to Hypnosis. We are presently doing the Omni
home course. We had our first client, a dear friend of ours that has
a problem with pain in her legs. We believe that we will be primarily
doing the regression to cause once we finish our course and are
pretty excited about our future in hypnotherapy.
Before we started the session I gave her a pre talk and then
proceeded to use the Elman induction. Everything seemed to be going
good until I got to willing the numbers away. The first time I told
her that after the number 98 she would forget but she went right on
counting 98,97,96,95 in her regular voice. I then did the arm drop
method and told her when her arm drops she would go twice as deep
into relaxation and then some refractioning and then went back to the
numbers and she still could not will them away. At this point I
emerged her and decided to do a quick induction followered by a 10 to
1 deepening count with eye testing and arm drop which seemed to work
fine. I went back to the numbers and she just kept on counting after
the number that I set for her. I emerged her again and we talked
about what had happen. I then proceeded with another rapid induction
but she was anticipating everything I was going to say. We ended the
session and I told her I would see her next week in the mean time do
some research as to what I could have done better. Not telling her
that she did anything wrong. Actually we figured for our education it
would be better to have a tough case first.
What I think happen is that she just would not or could not listen or
follow what I was saying. Especially when I gave her the last rapid
induction having her push down on my hand while I pushed up and also
having her stare at the point between my eyes, well she was going
into trance before I said sleep and not pushing up on my hand even
though I was constantly telling her to push down she was defiantly
anticipating my moves. Any feed back would be great, thanking you all
in advance.