The Most Unexpected Result During a Session

When I was still new to hypnosis, I collaborated with Life Force Wellness Center during their World Wellness Weekend event.

I volunteered to teach a class on hypnosis. In the class, I spent time covering the history of hypnosis in an attempt to demystify it for a cold audience. After the teaching, I demonstrated different techniques students could use to induce their own trances.

After that instruction, I invited individuals up to work on whatever they wanted help with. One student, Jess, volunteered to work on anxiety.

I led her through an exercise Mike Mandel refers to as ADAC. ADAC is an acronym meaning: Activate, Dissociate, Associate, Collapse.

Step one is to activate the anxious state. At the start, I asked Jess if she could push the anxiety up to the highest level she could. She managed to crank it up to a 7. Then, I asked her to push it even higher up to a 10.

She did. And what happened next amazed me.

Her physiology changed. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, closed her eyes tight, and seemed to shrink inward. I didn’t expect that, but it is something I calibrated by paying close attention to her body language.

After she pushed it up to ten, I asked her to imagine a dial in front of her. “Can you turn the anxious feeling down? Reach out with your physical hand and turn that dial down to a level that is comfortable to you.”

She did. Her body softened, she became relaxed and less constrained. I asked her what her anxiety level was, and she said, “2.”

At this point, I led her through Mike Mandel’s Six Step Tapping, also called Faster EFT based on Emotional Freedom Technique.

We ran the faster EFT tapping two times until we zeroed the anxiety out completely.

After my presentation at World Wellness Weekend, I was convinced hypnosis could do amazing things. I was merely scratching the surface at that time, and every time I worked with someone, I found that I learned something new. Now, two years later, I am still amazed when my work produces unexpected results. The thing I’m learning is no matter what the client presents with, they will always get the results they need, even if it has nothing to do with their initial complaint.

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