Hypnosis Homework - Weight Loss Protocol - November 14, 2008 - John Hawkins

My homework is to create a protocol for the hypnotic treatment of weight loss. Of course, this raises many, many issues. Only a few of the most salient of which can be addressed here.

The basic plan is to use Krasner’s lovely process, including the Benefits Approach right up front for developing SMART suggestions with the client. If it seems appropriate, we can use age regression for the therapy.

Desensitizing the ISE and then engaging the Informed Child to help release the emotional energy blocked up in opposing the event. The plan is to open up new choices for the client in their nows that are much more in harmony with their preferences.

Simply guiding the client’s attention to hitherto blocked areas of normal human perception is enormously balancing and healing because the natural energetic signature of our Ego Construction zeros and neutralizes any system it enters. [this is part of Energetics 101, whenever you energize a new system, or one that has come online after a long interval, you naturally zap everything to make sure all systems are ‘go’.]

Using established finger signals - or better yet - vocal response, we ask the client in light to medium trance to aid us in divining an understanding of the issues. Did it happen before or after...? Are we ready to release the problem? Is it done now or will it take a few moments?

Then the Informed Child revisits the original traumatizing event, bringing a new, broader perspective. Who knew we create our own lives? Who knew our physical bodies and the very events of our lives are an outward expression of our own thoughts, feelings and actions?

As adroitly as possible at this point, we insert the client’s own SMART suggestions from the Benefits Approach done earlier. We may also add some helpful suggestions of our own about valuing and empowering self, being curious and expressive about our experiences - not to mention our unlimited potential!

When the client comes out of trance, to the count of 3 for instance, we welcome them and give them some few minutes to gather and reconnoiter themselves in this new configuration. We may find ourselves welcoming this few moments as well, giving us an opening to pause and reconsider the whole affair, and even reorient ourselves in the most favorable context to our own emerging intentions and preferences.

Eventually though, we find ourselves asking them to revisit the issue. Are they are ready and eager to express their new selves? Then we test them as best we can. Are they still triggered in the same way by the issue of ‘weight loss’ and are they still discontent with their present bodily configuration?

Only by acknowledging and acting on our present understanding, does our perception widen. We cannot fool ourselves anymore, or pretend that such-and-such is not so-and-so. We are past all that. [The writing is blazing across the walls all around us, and it’s all we can do to keep up!]