However, there are some really good arguments for giving hypnosis music a little more prominence in your therapy or meditation sessions. Here are at least four good reasons for using appropriate background hypnosis music:

1. it acts as a trance inducer
2. it shifts people from a physiological stress response to a rest response
3. it creates a blanket of sound that gives the client privacy
4. it enables the therapist to relax while allowing the music to support the client

Let’s look at these points in a little more detail:

Music as a trance inducer

We all know how music can either excite or relax, but have we ever considered that these are actually hypnotic suggestions for certain moods? Good hypnosis music will contain harmonic progressions and rhythms that literally suggest relaxation and ease to the subconscious mind. The music itself acts as a kind of indirect suggestion to the client to relax and let go into deeper states of awareness.

Shifting from stress to rest

When we are stressed, our physiology is prompted to enter a state commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. When this happens, we are primed for action and feel alert and watchful. While there are benefits to this, the down-side is that we stop performing the important recuperative functions like digestion and healing. To really relax, we need to convince the mind that we are safe and that there is no need to be so alert and defensive. When this happens, we go into the rest-and-digest state, where true healing can happen.

Music, with its ability to instantly shift our moods and take us out of our problems, is an excellent way of prompting us out of the stress response and into rest-and-digest.

A sense of privacy

When a client is in a deep state of hypnosis, the last thing you want is for them to become aware of the silence and to become self-conscious. Some gentle ambient background music can put them at ease and create a blanket of sound that gives them the privacy necessary for deep inner work.

Relaxation for the therapist

When the client is in a trance, you need to make sure that they feel supported and that the ambiance is right so that they feel safe to go deeper into relaxation. Why not let the music do this work for you while you sit back and relax for a while?

Now that you know more about the very real benefits of background hypnosis music, you might want to try some in your next client session or self-hypnosis journey.

Russel Brownlee is a certified hypnotherapist and creator of the Ambient Therapy range of music for hypnotherapy, reiki and mind-body healing. Get your ambient therapy MP3 downloads and free hypnosis music track now at http://hypnosismusic.bandcamp.com.

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As a hypnotherapist, you need music that follows some very specific principles:

1. The melodies should be subtle and not too distracting

The aim is to create music that produces relaxation, expansiveness and healing — but to do so in a way that does not draw attention to itself and cause the person under hypnosis to lose focus and start paying conscious attention to the music. Bearing this in mind, any solo instruments should be muted so that they do not draw too much attention to themselves and thus distract the listener. Also, the focus for hypnosis music should be on the texture and ambience of the piece as a whole, rather than on specific instruments and melodies.

2. The music should be positive and gently uplifting

People are able to access more of their inner resources when they feel uplifted and positive, so good hypnosis music will encourage relaxation and a positive mindframe. The key word, as with any type of hypnosis, is ‘suggestion’. The music doesn’t cause relaxation… it subtly suggests it. The cues for deep relaxation are processed by the heart rather than the conscious mind, so the client relaxes naturally and without effort.

3. The music must be suitable for playing at low volume

Background music for hypnotherapy, reiki or any other healing modality is usually played at low volume, so the music shouldn’t have any significant drops in intensity that might result in stretches of silence when the track is played. On the other hand, you also don’t want any sudden increases in volume that might startle the client or draw their attention to the music. Good music for hypnosis will maintain interest using harmonic progressions rather than pronounced changes in volume or intensity.

4. Tracks should be of relatively long duration

One of the main considerations of hypnotherapy music is to avoid anything that will draw the client’s attention away from their process. Tracks that play for only a minute or two result in excessive periods of silence between them, which can cause the person in hypnosis to lose concentration. Ideally, hypnosis music tracks should be at least six or seven minutes long.

When we put these principles for ambient background music for hypnotherapy and hypnosis together, what we get is music that creates a sense of privacy and safety for the client, encouraging them to relax into deep states of transformation and healing. It can help the therapist as well, because they can let go a little and allow the music to carry the client to more heart-centred levels of being.

Russel Brownlee is a certified hypnotherapist and creator of the Ambient Therapy range of music for hypnotherapy, reiki and mind-body healing. Get your ambient therapy MP3 downloads and free hypnosis music track now at http://hypnosismusic.bandcamp.com.

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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 have some gentle music in the background to hold the space and create a sense of safety and privacy for the client?

Good hypnotherapy music can create a comfortable blanket of sound that lets the client know they can relax and focus their attention on their subconscious processes.

Why use hypnotherapy music?

Nobody can claim that using ambient background music is essential to a hypnotherapy session, but there are at least three good reasons why you might find this music a good partner and ally in your work:

1. it enables you, as the therapist, to relax and to rest when the client is in a state of trance
2. it creates a sense of privacy for the client to focus their attention on their inner processes
3. the positive resonance of the music acts as a hypnotic suggestion for the client to relax more deeply

When a client is in a deep state and is processing emotions, the last thing you want is for them to begin to feel self-conscious and awkward. Some gentle music in the background can help create a sense of privacy for them and encourage them to open up more.

The aim of hypnotherapy music is not necessarily to induce trance — rather it is to maintain and deepen existing states of relaxation and inward focus. The music actually acts as a kind of indirect hypnotic suggestion to the client to relax, and as hypnotherapists know — it’s those indirect suggestions that really get into the subconscious mind and create powerful change.

What music works best for hypnotherapy and hypnosis?

Once you’ve decided that some background music will be a great partner in your therapy sessions, the next step is to find the best type of music. But warned — just because music says it’s suitable for hypnosis or hypnotherapy doesn’t mean it actually is!

Hypnotherapists need music that has these important characteristics:

• It must be pleasing to listen to, but it must not draw attention to itself with distracting melodies
• It must be positive and gently uplifting
• It must be even-toned so that it is capable of being played at low volume without the quieter sections dropping below the audible range
• tracks should be of a decent length to cut down on the silences between tracks

Using good ambient music for hypnotherapy and other modalities like reiki and bodywork is a great way to allow both you and your client to relax more deeply and to open the mind and heart to positive and transformative states of being.

Russel Brownlee is a certified hypnotherapist and creator of the Ambient Therapy range of music for hypnotherapy, reiki and mind-body healing. Get your ambient therapy MP3 downloads and free hypnosis music track now at http://hypnosismusic.bandcamp.com.

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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 being distracting. The last thing you want in a therapy session or in self-hypnosis is for your mind to be distracted by a compelling melody or by sudden rises and falls in volume and intensity.

Solo instruments should be muted so there is not too much of a volume difference between them and the backing instruments. This will ensure that the solos do not distract, and it will also ensure that the backgrounds don’t fade into inaudibility when the music is played at low volume.

Speaking of which, the capacity of the music to be played at low volume without any dips that might result in stretches of silence is another factor you need to look for. As hypnosis music is usually played at low volume, this rules out a lot of music where the composers have used dramatic shifts in intensity to sustain interest.

Another important factor in choosing the best hypnosis music is that the music should be positive and gently uplifting. When listening to music in a normal setting it’s quite OK to have passages of drama and emotional intensity. However, in the context of hypnosis, you want to avoid anything that might prompt a negative response in the client. This means that hypnosis music needs to sacrifice some drama and intensity in favour of a gentle, positive consistency.

This doesn’t mean the music is going to be boring — it just means that the composer must take care to create an interesting piece using harmonic progressions and subtle melodies rather than the more dramatic devices.

To summarise, the best hypnosis and hypnotherapy music will have these four characteristics:

1. Melodies pleasing to listen to but not distracting
2. Solo instruments muted so as not to distract
3. Volume intensity consistent throughout to avoid dropping below the audible level when played at low volume
4. Positive and gently uplifting

Music based on these principles for ambient background music is able to create a sense of privacy and safety for the hypnosis client, encouraging them to relax into deep states of transformation and healing. It can also help your self-hypnosis or meditation sessions by gently guiding your awareness to more enlightening states of being. Make sure you choose hypnosis music that is created with your specific needs in mind.

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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 bad news!

We can show you how to utilise ‘but’ to get what you want. How?

Let’s look at some simple words to increase your powers of persuasion. We are going to look at small words such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’ and ‘yet’. The first three words allow you to add, delete and qualify different statements that don’t otherwise have to be connected, and the word ‘yet’ gives motion to stuck states. You may not see how this works just yet, but you will, and then you will be amazed at what you can do with a few words.

There are many ways of using these words, but we’re going to concentrate on the examples that give people feedback or criticism because it is an application that is easy to see and, by looking at the area, you will easily be able to think of your own applications.

Let us start with the word ‘but’. You have put huge effort into a report only to have your boss say. ‘I think it’s a great effort with some relevant points, but …’
How many times has this happened to you? It makes you feel rejected and hurt.
All that great work is gone with the way the wind blows. Even worse, how many times have you inflicted this ‘but’ onto your children, loved ones or colleagues?

With Hypnotic Persuasion it is easy to turn ‘but’ into positive power

The word ‘but’ acts as a delete button. It deletes what came before and sets people up for the bad news that is supposed to follow. So an easy way of using these words is to put the bad news first then delete it with ‘but’ and follow through with the good news. This is what it sounds like:

‘That report had lots of mistakes, but the overall sense of it is great.’

Or

‘No you can’t stay out past midnight tonight, but the weekend is a different issue.’

This is straightforward enough so let’s add ‘and’ to the mix. The word ‘and’ allows you to add a new thought and connect it to the first.

‘The report had a lot of mistakes, but the overall sense of it is great and how good are you going to feel when you have made all the corrections and everyone is telling you what a great job you have done.’

Or

‘No you can’t stay out past midnight tonight, but the weekend is a different issue and that is when you’re going to have the most fun isn’t it?

Here’s another persuasive pattern for you. In the last example, by making it a question you are focusing the subject’s mind in an entirely new direction, not so? And for you professional business negotiators it’s an automatic close!

‘Yet’ is a word that creates movement to stuck states. Just adding ‘yet’ to the end of the phrase ‘I can’t … yet’ creates an opening for change. As trainers and coaches we use this pattern a lot. Suppose a delegate on a course says something like this ‘I can’t understand this.’ I reply ‘that’s right, you don’t understand this yet …’

See how the ‘yet’ has created movement.

Creating win-win situations

So perhaps you want to persuade your child to do what is best for him, or you want to convert your boss to change his fixed ideas and look at your proposition, or maybe you want your partner just to say ‘yes’. This is where hypnotic persuasion gives you the power to bring about these changes and create a win/win situation. You can use these simple words to increase your influence over others.

I suspect that you’re getting a sense of how powerful words are because you are noticing just how much movement I can create in one sentence alone and how simple it is to connect different ideas.

You might not see or be convinced how this works just yet, but you will once you have trained further in this work and then you’ll be amazed at what you can do with the powerful nature of the few connecting words I am using. Just by using the connecting words of ‘but’, ‘and’, ‘because’ and ‘yet’, you can feel and see how easy it is to move ideas in and out of your subjects’ thoughts!

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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 by far one of the most powerful techniques I (editor) have ever used. It makes mincemeat of those tricky problems clients surprise you with. I’ve summarised the technique from one of the only books that explains it, and I’ve given details at the end of the article.

To use the 7 keys, induce hypnosis in the client and then set up ideomotor signalling. Once the yes, no and “I can’t say” yet fingers are installed, proceed to go through the keys one by one, explaining what each one means and then asking the relevant question.

The 7 keys of psychosomatic disorders.

You can use the acronym COMPISS to remember them: Conflict, Organ language, Motivation, Past experience, Identification, Self-punishment, Suggestion.
1. Conflict

Explain: A conflict occurs when you feel you want to do one thing, but you ought to do the opposite. You’re pulled in two directions, and that takes a lot of energy.

Question: Do you sense that you are being afflicted by a conflict? That you are being pulled in two directions?

The solution for a conflict is to guide the client to taking a decision (even if the decision is not to take a decision at this time).

2. Organ language

Explain: Symptoms can be caused by organ language – phrases in our everyday conversation that include mention of a body organ in a negative way. For example, we say things like, My boss is a pain in the neck.

Question: Do you sense that you are being affected by organ language?

Treatment: Let the patient find a better way of dealing with the stress.

3. Motivation

Explain: A person can be motivated to have a symptom because it seems to solve a problem. One of the causes of symptoms may be that they serve a subconscious purpose – for example children getting sick to avoid school.

Question: Do you sense that you are motivated to have this symptom? At a feeling level, do you sense you are having these … to help solve a problem?

Treatment: Find a better way to cope with the problem, or change the way the problem is perceived.

4. Past experience

Explain: One of the causes of symptoms is a very emotional episode that occurred in the past that is still affecting a person. It leaves an imprint in the mind and body.

Question: Do you feel that you are being affected by a past experience?

Treatment: Regression and reframe.

5. Identification

Explain: Identification occurs when there is a strong emotional attachment to another person who had or has the same symptom. Often, this person is dead or dying.

Question: Do you sense that you are identifying with someone who had the same or a similar symptom?

Treatment: Reinforce that the patient is a separate person who is not bound by the other’s problems. Find a more healthy way to keep the memory of the person.

6. Self-punishment

Explain: Sometimes a discomforting symptom can seem necessary to compensate for a feeling of guilt. The subconscious mind dispenses this as a form of self-punishment.

Question: Do you sense that this symptom is a form of self-punishment for real or imagined guilt?

If yes: “Would it be all right to know what you feel you shouldn’t have done?”

Treatment: Establish the patient’s innocence.

7. Suggestion

Explain: One of the things that causes symptoms is what we call a suggestion or imprint. It means that an idea has been accepted at a subconscious level. It is usually introduced at a highly emotional time and is from then on responded to automatically and uncritically.

Question: “Do you sense that you are being affected by a suggestion that some authoritative person gave you, or a suggestion you gave yourself?”

References

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Read my review of Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis.

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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 causes of psychosomatic disorders

Let me say that this was an incredibly good purchase. Firstly, the book is written by a medical doctor and a clinical psychologist, so you have the knowledge that the theory and techniques are aligned with medical standards and practice. Secondly, you’ll find material here that you won’t easily find elsewhere. I’ve been reading up on ideomotor work because I found this a bit of a gap in my own training, and I suspect it’s a gap in the curricula of most hypnotherapy schools. Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis gives instruction on how to set up ideomotor signalling. Then it outlines a protocol for employing it in any situation a client brings you. From emotional issues to chronic medical issues – every cause can be accessed elegantly and processed using ideomotor finger signals.

Here are some of the highlights of the book:

• Special intake questions – a set of questions that very cleverly gets to the bottom of a client’s issue before you even start hypnosis
• Setting up ideomotor signals – the “how to” of setting up ideomotor finger signals
• The protocal for rapid hypnoanalysis – an outline of a procedure to follow for any client with any problem
• Ideomotor regression techniques – specific techniques such as retrograde searches, chronological searches, and direct approaches
• LeCron’s 7 common causes of psychosomatic disorders
• How to work with persistent pain

I mentioned at the outset that LeCron’s 7 “keys” or common causes of psychosomatic illnesses was one of the main reasons I bought the book, so let me give a brief outline. Psychologist and hypnotherapist Leslie LeCron is credited with identifying the 7 common issues that cause symptoms or discomfort. Briefly, they are

C – Conflict

O – Organ langauge

M – Motivation

P – Past experience

I – Identification

S – Self-punishment

S – Suggestion

All you do is go through the list, briefly explaining to the client (in trance) what each one means, and asking them to indicate with their ideomotor fingers whether they feel this cause is at work. When you get a yes response, you follow that and locate the age at which the trauma, imprint or suggestion happened. Let me say that this technique is magic! I have used it several times already and it is astonishing. No hypnotherapist should be without it.

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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 you have to get to the unresolved thought or emotion behind the symptom. When the link between the thought/emotion and the symptom is made conscious, it can be resolved and the reason for keeping the symptom will fall away.

Here is a general outline on how to elicit the thought/emotion and how to resolve it. Note: The procedure described here doesn’t depend on the initial sensitizing event, or ISE, being found. It’s good if you can find it and resolve it, but not absolutely necessary.

Step 1 – Establish the conscious history of the problem

Begin by asking the client, in normal awareness, for a general history of the problem:

• When did it begin?
• When did it become a problem?
• What makes it worse?
• What makes it better?

The answers to these questions will already give some clues to what the symptom is about.

Step 2 – Find the common thread

Now review several symptom producing events (SPEs) in hypnosis. A symptom producing event is simply an event that triggers the symptom, or an incidence when the symptom flared up. It can be especially effective to work with ideomotor signals for this. Simply ask the client to go back to a recent time when the symptom was a problem. Review what they were doing, what they were feeling, what started it.

Proceed to go further back in time, reviewing several more SPEs. At this stage you’re not really concerned with finding the ISE – all you need to do is find the common thread of events and emotions that trigger the problem. For example, in the case of someone who has flare-ups of psoriasis, you might find that they all occur when the person feels angry about being taken for granted.

Note: if you do continue all the way back to the ISE, you can resolve it, and then continue with Step 3 which will simply reinforce the release already achieved.

Step 3 – Releasing the negative emotions

Now that you’ve identified the link between the emotions and the symptom, you go through each of the SPEs again and ask the client, “Is it all right to let go of [negative emotion] in this situation?” If yes, review the situation again, but get the client to see themselves functioning in a healthy way. “See yourself painlessly handling the situation that ordinarily would have caused a flare-up of this condition.”

The aim of this positive image rehearsal of the past events is to demonstrate to the subconscious mind that there is an alternative way of reacting to the situation. The effect is to desensitize and decondition the client to the stimulus that used to trigger the symptom.

Step 4 – Future pace

Guide the client to review future situations that would have triggered the symptom, and let them rehearse the events without the habitual emotional response. When the emotion does not arise, the symptom will not arise.

Conclusion

This process should be enough to clear the symptoms. For more detail on this method, see Hypnosis: The mind-body connection, by Peter Mutke, which is reviewed on this site. As an alternative method, you can pinpoint the exact cause, or ISE, of a symptom using The 7 Keys of Psychosomatic Symptoms (an article on this will appear soon..)

Resources

Hypnosis: The mind-body connection, by Peter Mutke.

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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 two writers who have produced books that give detailed instructions on how to do this.

1. The Courtroom of the Mind – Edgar A. Barnett

Barnett’s book, Unlock Your Mind and be Free, uses the extended metaphor of a Courtroom of the Mind to explain how childhood woundings become adult symptoms. The Child ego state is put on trial for some imagined crime and is pronounced guilty, eliciting a sentence (which becomes the symptom). Now, as an adult, you can go back to that trial and re-try it, using an adequate defense, and establish the innocence of the child.

Location of the critical experience

Barnett’s book is aimed at the person wanting to do this work using self-hypnosis. The following is a very simplified overview of the procedure:

1. Induce trance and establish ideomotor signals
2. Review the unconscious tensions. Ask your unconscious mind to review all your old, outdated unconscious tensions and to indicate when this has been accomplished by lifting the yes finger.
3. Ask your unconscious to determine the earliest of these tension and to indicate yes.
4. Ask the unconscious mind to review the earliest tension and experience and to indicate yes.
5. Ask your unconscious mind if it is all right for you to know about the experience responsible for your problem. If yes, direct the unconscious to bring the memory to light.
6. At this stage emotions may surface with the recovered memory.
7. Having become aware of the emotion underlying the symptom, ask your inner mind (using finger signals) to indicate whether, in the light of this new understanding, it’s necessary to hold on to those old tensions.
8. Ask your inner mind to find a way to release the tension, and when it has done so to signal yes.

Note how the inner causes of the symptom are phrased as “tensions”. It’s an internal tension, a conflict, between Parent and Child. Also note that for this form of analysis, you don’t need to start by identifying a strong troubling emotion – you simply begin with the symptom. The underlying emotion is located in the subconscious review.

2. Self-Awareness Therapy – Peter Mutke

Peter Mutke’s book Hypnosis: The mind-body connection, also addresses the lay person wanting to heal themselves using self-hypnosis. As with the Barnett method, this approach does not actively set out to find an initial sensitizing event (ISE). We simply find several symptom producing events (SPEs) and work with those. Essentially the process is as follows: orientate to SPEs, identify the common emotion, release the emotion, and rehearse normal behaviour in the same situations.

1. Induce hypnosis and set up ideomotor finger signals.
2. Ask yourself (using finger signals), “Is it all right to find out more about this condition?”
3. Orient back to a symptom producing event and then work either forward or backward in time, examining three or four events when that symptom was present.
4. Identify the common thread of emotions and thoughts involved – the thought-emotion complex.
5. Image rehearsal – return to the events and ask, “Is it all right to let go of in this situation?” If yes, review the situation again, but see yourself functioning in a healthy way.

Resources

Hypnosis: The mind-body connection, by Peter Mutke

Unlock Your Mind and be Free, by Edgar Barnett

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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 communication with your inner mind while you’re in a state of hypnosis.

To set up ideomotor signaling in self-hypnosis, proceed as follows:

1. Induce hypnosis using your favourite method. You don’t have to be too deep – the actual process of setting up the signals acts as its own induction.
2. Now just wonder which of your hands is going to be the hand that does the communicating. Tell yourself, “Let the communication hand move to let me know which one it is.” Even if it doesn’t move or twitch, you’ll get a sense of which it is.
3. Once the communicating hand is identified, we need to find the fingers on that hand that indicate “yes”, “no”, and “I’m not ready to answer yet.” So begin thinking the words yes, yes, yes, and tell yourself, “Let the yes finger move.”
4. Once the yes finger is identified, do the same for “no” and “I’m not ready to answer yet.”

At first you might need to help the fingers along just a little bit – you don’t want to be consciously involved, but there’s a subtle balance where you’re just helping the fingers move, but the selection is being done by the subconscious. Don’t be afraid to try it. Once the link between the subconscious mind and the fingers is established, you won’t need to do any helping, the fingers will just move by themselves.

Resources

Ways of using ideomotor signals in self-hypnosis are explained in detail in the following books, which are reviewed on this site:

Review – Hypnosis: The mind-body connection, by Peter Mutke

Review – Unlock Your Mind and be Free, by Edgar Barnett

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