Do you really need hypnosis music in the background while conducting therapy sessions or self-hypnosis? Many people would say that the music is only a nice-to-have addition that doesn’t really play any role besides creating a bit of ambiance. However, there are some really good arguments for giving hypnosis music a little more prominence in […]
Music for Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis – How to Choose the Best Ambient Background Sounds
Just because music says it’s suitable for hypnotherapy or hypnosis sessions doesn’t mean it actually is. It’s not enough to have some gentle new-age music going in the background and hope that your client is going to relax and go into a nice, healing trance. That melody that was so good to listen to while […]
Background Music for Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis – 3 Good Reasons to Use It
By Russel Brownlee Picture the scene… you’ve got a client in a nice state of trance and now you want to sit back for a moment and allow them the space to do some inner processing. The problem is, as soon as you stop talking there’s this long, uncomfortable silence. Wouldn’t it be great to […]
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Music – 4 Key Ingredients for the Best Ambient Background Music
By Russel Brownlee Just as ambient background music can enhance your hypnosis sessions, so too can it diminish them if you don’t use the right kind of music. So what is the best ambient background music to use for hypnosis and hypnotherapy? To begin with, the music must be pleasing to listen to while not […]
Using hypnotic language to increase your powers of persuasion
How to agree your way forward Have you ever been in a conversation that started something like ‘I think you are a great guy, but …’ and then the rest of the conversation is about how you can’t do anything right or no one likes you? The ‘but …’ sets you up to hear the […]
The 7 common causes of psychosomatic disorders
How to use LeCron’s 7 causes “keys” of psychosomatic disorders Psychologist and hypnotherapist Leslie LeCron is credited with identifying the 7 common issues that cause symptoms or discomfort. The list of causes, with their associated questions, can be used in hypnosis to rapidly get to the source of any physical or emotional symptom. This is […]
Book Review: Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis
A review of Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis by Dabney M. Ewin and Bruce N. Eimer This book is about using ideomotor signals for rapid hypnoanalysis of psychosomatic disorders. I bought it mainly because: I wanted to learn more about ideomotor signalling in hypnosis I wanted to find out how to use LeCron’s 7 common […]
Using hypnosis to find the causes of physical symptoms
How to identify and resolve the causes of physical conditions Suppose you have a client with a physical symptom such as psoriasis or a stomach ulcer. There’s no obvious emotion that you can easily regress on to arrive at the source of the issue – there’s just the symptom. So what do you do? Somehow […]
Self-hypnosis – perform your own regression
How to perform regression hypnotherapy on yourself using self-hypnosis Did you know that you can conduct a full hypnosis regression on yourself using self-hypnosis? The role of the therapist is taken by the conscious mind which asks the relevant questions, and the answers are given by the subconscious mind using ideomotor signals. I have found […]
Ideomotor signals in self-hypnosis
How to set up ideomotor signals for self-directed therapy Hypnotherapists often set up ideomotor signaling in their clients so that answers can be elicited from a deeper level of the mind than would be possible if responses remained verbal. But it’s not commonly known that you can set up ideomotor signals for yourself to enable […]