Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
TO HYPNOTHERAPY
What Do You
Know About Hypnosis?
Common Applications of Hypnosis
Answers to Quiz (From Page 17)
The Power of the Subconscious Mind
Mental Scotoma (a.k.a. Negative
Hallucination)
Hypnotizability and Suggestibility
Hypnosis from an Evolutionary Perspective
By: Baruch Elitzur, Ph.D. Clinical
Psychologist.
CHAPTER 2: FIRST SESSION WITH A NEW CLIENT
Keys to a Successful Hypnosis Session
Pre-Talk - Explaining Hypnosis to
Client
How to Conduct Suggestibility Tests
Exercise 1: Chevreul’s Pendulum
Exercise 2: Arms Rising and Falling
CHAPTER 3: INDUCINT HYPNOSIS AND TESTING FOR
DEPTH
Stage Two: Inducing the Hypnotic State
Progressive Relaxation Induction
1. Eye Catalepsy (temporary
paralysis):
Emerging From the Hypnotic State
CHAPTER 4: The Language of the Subconscious mind and
Covert Hypnosis - The Language of the Subconscious Mind
Rules of the Mind & the Laws of Suggestion
The Law of Concentrated Attention:
The Law of Association (Anchoring):
The Law of Delayed Action
(Post-Hypnotic Suggestion):
The Law of Compounding (or
Pyramiding):
Watch Your Internal Dialogue or Self
Talk.
The Driving Forces at Play in
Effective Goal Achievement
How to Formulate Suggestions / Affirmations
Do it with S.M.A.R.T.I.P.P.P.S.
Phase 2) Reaching the Hypnotic State:
Phase 3) Installing suggestion by
repeating affirmation: