I mean both what you mention (‘include specific words and phrases’) and sometimes explicitly writing the trance together. In this way the client knows what will be said, word for word, and how come I, the hypnotherapist, uses those words and phrases in the trance.

When people have been abused or subject to extreme forms of control, language has been used to manipulate them. So I can offer this transparency and it does absolutely nothing to lessen the power of the trance. In some cases we choose to co-create a ’script’ that the client can record on a CD with their own voice, thus taking total control of the process.

Hope that is clearer now.

Thanks for the information!

Bryan

My experience is that many AD/HDers have such ‘busy minds’ that they prefer utilizing a CD vs self-hypnosis (although, one can say that “all hypnosis is self-hypnosis”, since hypno requires a willing person), but I would note that some clients prefer co-writing the trance – particularly those who have been subject to unfair control or abuse.

I hope that Nancy Irwin will continue to talk about her work utilizing hypno with AD/HD treatment and ‘entrance’ readers to use this wonderful tool, particularly when other interventions have not proved as useful as they might like.

One of my clients works with hypnonois treatments for many different topics and she was very interested in the peice and is going to study up the subject and start offering herself..

She is great so I am sure she will be able to take on this new venture.

Thanks for this piece..

Mindy