Basics of the Hypnotic Process

The Induction
The Deeping
The Suggestion
The Awaking


For each of the above sections there are many, many subsections, but in its most simplistic form all the hypnosis programs follow these main sections. We will look at each so that the understanding is clear and you will be able to recognize them when you see them.

Let’s put this in a way that we all can understand:

1. The Induction
This is the freeway; remember that Hypnosis is the car; you have to have a road for the car to follow! So the Induction becomes the way for the car to run, in fact you are Talking someone to a dream state, of course it is with their consent. But they are looking for you to take them there. This must be done with great care, because without taking the correct freeway you will never end up where you want to go.

2. The Deeping
This is the mall; the location to which you must be for the next step to be effective. You have to make this location real! So real that the still active Critical mind, because it never really leaves, yes you are bypassing it but not getting rid of it and anything that it feels is not correct will end the process right there, that’s why no one is under the power of a hypnotist, the wording must be put in a way that can be accepted that this is not just a pretend place, but a very real place.

3. The Suggestion
This is the store; this is where the meat of the matter is done, due to the process of the Induction and the Deeping the client will be in the Alpha/Theta (or deeper state) of brain wave, this is where the input is given. These suggestions should have already been gone over with the client in the interview portion, so the client already has an idea as to what is being inputted, per his/her consent.

4. The Awaking
Welcome to the check out stand: this is the area that the final post-hypnotic suggestions are done, the awaking must be done slow and with care. Remembering to remove any feeling of heaviness or feeling of “being overly relaxed in the normal state”, the main point here is to return them to a normal state of the dominate beta brain wave. You want to leave them feeling refreshed and alert!

I will go into each of these sections in more depth , but for now this will give you a basic line of thinking, and you will see all the books you read really do follow this.