ANALYTICAL MIND SCRIPT

The technique begins by asking the client or participant(s) to stare at the object of their choice (wall, etc.). I ask the client to then take three deep breaths, following my simple instructions, and closing the eyes upon the third breath. Then, the instructions are: open your eyes on odd numbers, and close your eyes on even numbers.

100, just close your eyes, take a deep breath, and relax...99, open them, take another deep breath, and 98--eyes closed. Very good. Just imagine you're releasing all the cares of the day as easily as you release the air from your lungs. . . 97, find it's getting more difficult to even try to open your eyes. 96, eyes closed. Good. Just find yourself wanting to go deeper and deeper as you forget whether your eyes should be open or closed. . .95, easy to forget. 94, difficult to remember, whether they should be closed. . . and as soon as you forget, they stay closed and you can just relax even deeper. 93, good, 92. . . deeper and deeper relaxed. . . It's so easy to respond to my voice as I say 91, 90. . . and your eyes just want to stay closed now.Start speaking somewhat quicker and with more authority now.88, 86. Deeper and deeper. Easy to forget, difficult to remember, 84-82, whether they should be open or closed. 79, 75, 74. The numbers are skipping away so quickly now that you just find yourself wanting to go deeper as your eyes want to stay closed. And every time you forget to remember, or remember to forget, open or closed, odd or even, you just go deeper and deeper, or deeper and deeper. 60, 50. Eyes closed and going deeper. Forgetting to remember. Remembering to forget. 40, 30. Feeling good. Responding to my voice. Relaxing hypnosis. Deeper and deeper.Once your client leaves his/her eyes totally closed during an odd number, the moment of passivity has usually occurred. You may stop the counting if you wish and follow immediately with deepening suggestions (explained in Chapter 6), or continue on as part of the deepening.In the above technique, Charles Tebbetts taught that you may enhance the mental confusion with incomplete sentences, or by bringing unrelated sentences and meaningless statements into the sleep and relaxation suggestions. He gave Dr. Milton Erickson credit for this idea both in his class at Edmonds as well as in his book, MIRACLES ON DEMAND.https://www.hypnosis.org/free-hypnosis/hypnosis-hypnotherapy-scripts/hypnosis-scripts-for-everyone/mental-confusion-script.php