Hypnotism Techniques for the The Relaxation Suggestion -- Going Down?

A hypnotism session usually begins with a relaxation suggestion.

With this relaxation technique, you create ease and draw the focus inward. You want to concentrate on relaxing all limbs and muscles, shutting out all outside distractions.

You will use words such as relax, calm, warmth, peace.

These types of hypnotic suggestions create a basis for further deepening suggestions to enhance your hypnotic state.

The relaxation techniques used in the relaxation suggestion may involve counting backwards from 10 to 1 or 5 to 1, counting as you go down the steps to your special secret place.

Or you may concentrate on feeling warmth flow through all the veins and arteries in your body.

Another relaxation suggestion may have you concentrate on a beam of sunlight focused on the top of your head, feeling the warmth travel the length of your body, through all your muscles and limbs and out your toes.

Or it could be a warm liquid beginning in your toes and working its way upward through your limbs to your head.

The importance of these relaxation techniques is that you feel the warmth and the muscles and joints begin to relax and begin to focus inward. Sometimes you can feel so relaxed that you feel like you are floating, but everyone's experience is unique to them.

Your breathing should slow and you will begin to feel limp.

This relaxation technique in hypnotism in the first step in the hypnotic induction. The relaxation suggestion takes you down to the subconscious level, where your goal suggestions will become effective.