Methods of Deepening

1. PERIODS OF SILENCE... Suggest, "Until I again touch you on the shoulder, you will continue to go deeper and deeper relaxed. You will pay no attention to my voice." Do not leave the subject alone longer than 15 or 20 minutes, for some subjects tend to come out of hypnosis on their own or lapse into a normal sleep.

2. EXHALING...Suggest, "Each time you exhale, you will automatically sink deeper." / usually combine this suggestion with a period of silence.

3. COUNTING... Counting up or counting down from any number, i.e., 10-1. I prefer to count down because it lends to the feeling of sinking deeper.

4. HALLUCINATIONS.. .Walking steps, riding in a car or train, sailing, going in a tunnel or down a corridor, sliding, etc. Combine counting with hallucinations adds to the effect, i.e., riding down an elevator, going down one floor with each count.

5. IDEO-MOTOR SUGGESTIONS...Eye catalepsy, arm catalepsy, etc.

6. IDEO-SENSORY SUGGESTIONS.. .Hot and cold sensations, and those affecting the senses, sound, touch, smell and taste.

7. PYRAMIDING.. .Repeated inductions without awakening.

8. FRACTIONATION.. hypnotizing, de-hypnotizing and re-hypnotizing several times.

9. INDIRECT SUGGESTIONS.. .While the subject is hypnotized, direct your suggestions to someone else. Explain what is happening and what is going to happen. Thus, the subject indirectly receives the suggestions.

10. FEEDBACK...Sensations which the subject feels are fed back to him.

11. PLACEBO...Pill, drink, Harmless certain procedures, which the subject believes will affect him.

12. COMPOUNDING SUGGESTIONS...Suggest that every move they make and every suggestion you give sends them deeper relaxed.

13. POST-HYPNOTTC SUGGESTIONS...To respond to a signal, to go deeper each time they are hypnotized, etc.

14. REALIZATION...Bringing it to their attention that the effect is working and that they are responding.