Provocative Hypnosis: The No Holds Barred Interventions of a Contrarian Change Artist

300 Pages·2008·8.72 MB·English

by  Jørgen Rasmussen

J0RGEN RASMUSSEN
PROVOCATIVE
HYPNOSIS
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Provocative Hypnosis is first published in Norway, 2008.
Copyright © 2008 by J0rgen Rasmussen
ISBN 978-82-997808-0-3
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FOREWORD
You reader are in for a treat - this is the stuff of genius. Take a young
man, unencumbered with theory, with excellent sensory acuity and
great flexibility and give him a set of patterns - some mix of the classic
and New Code NLP patterning - and set him loose. Oh yeah, it helps
enormously that he is fearless - that is, the issue off ailure is not part of
the baggage he brings to the game, and that he has a healthy disrespect
for conventional treatments.
His cases will provoke, inspire, confound, irritate and astonish you
- he will say in plain, simple English (some of) what it is that he pays
attention to, how he processes it, how he decides to act and what to do
when it doesn't work.
When the field of professional changework first came to my
attention some decades ago, I was astonished to discover that there was
prevalent among the practitioners of this work, an injunction -
Virginia Satir articulated this precisely - here it is in the form of a:
pseudo-syllogism (this phrase may be redundant):
• If you know (consciously) what you are doing in the
process of change, then you are manipulating
• Manipulation is bad
• Therefore you may NOT know what you are doing
(consciously) in the process of change
It is difficult for me to imagine an injunction that would retard
progress in any field of human endeavor more effectively than this one.
One of the explicit intentions of The Structure of Magic generated
by Bandler and myself was to create a vocabulary that would serve as a
descriptive base for an intelligent discussion of the patterning available
to practitioners of changework among actual practicing change agents.
I don't think that that has happened yet although the willingness to
discuss cases in relatively non-theoretical terms has begun.
We have (thankfully) moved beyond the injunction so precisely
articulated by 5atir.
In addition to a fascination with "impossibles", Jergen and I share a
fierce rejection of a certain type of professionalism - the kind of
professionalism that insists on standard treatments, that places a
priority (or any attention at all) on some insistence of intellectual
coherency - all independent of and to the detriment of the requirements
of the clients we work with. We especially, rail against the type of
professionalism that locks agents of change into tightly constrained
boxes of conventional interventions like understanding, empathy,
support for the client - all of these are choices but choices from a very
large set. Yes, of course, there are clients that require precisely these
transactions but they typically need one hell of lot more and what they
need is not contained in the conventional descriptions typically
available. So, when reading this book, note carefully where Jergen steps
over your own personal boundaries and consider a bit of self
application of the very patterns being demonstrated.
So, here it is, in all its glorious lack of tidiness - a series of
adventures to entertain and outrage you. Most importantly, Jergen
allows you, the reader, the privilege of accompanying him on these
adventures through the earthy, concrete and honest ongoing
monologue that composes this work.
Attend with care and then get out there and find out for yourself!
John Grinder
Bonny Doon, California, January, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENT
PRAiSE ............................................................................... 11
INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 15
CREATING THE CONTEXT AND FRAMES FOR CHANGE ... 21
TURNING BALLS INTO CATS IS THE KEY TO CHANGE
-THE MYTH OF CAUSE AND EFFECT .................................... 27
THE POWER OF JOYFUL SADiSM ........................................ 30
THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS .................................... 41
ABOUT CHEMICAL IMBALANCE ........................................... 45
GETTING "REAL" WITH A BIG KNIFE .................................... 48
LET'S GET ETHICAL! .......................................................... 56
I LOVE WELFARE ............................................................... 63
PLAYING THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE ...................................... 66
A CHARMING "SUICIDAL" ................................................... 69
How TO SCREW UP IN THE NAME OF GOOD INTENTIONS .... 71
FAILING TO SUCCEED ........................................................ 74
GOD BLESS BLASPHEMy ................................................... 76
USING MODELING TO CREATE CHANGE ...................... 79
USEFUL NUANCES ............................................................ 87
CAN You SPELL RELATIONSHiPS? .................................... 93
THE DOG INSIDE ............................................................... 95
COMMITMENT IS EVERyTHING ............................................ 97
QUICK SUMMARy ............................................................ 102
WORKING WITH THE LIVING DEAD .............................. 105
CASE ONE - FRANK THE MULTI PHOBIC ........................... 106
CASE Two - MARTIN THE HAND SHAKER ......................... 112
CASE THREE - CAROLINE THE ANOREXiC ......................... 114
CAROLINE'S SESSION ONE .............................................. 116
CAROLINE'S SESSION Two .............................................. 121
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CAROLINE'S SESSION THREE .......................................... 124
CAROLINE'S SESSION FOUR ............................................ 127
THE IDENTITY THREAT ..................................................... 133
MR. "I CAN'T PISS IN PUBLIC" ...................................... 141
THE PROFESSOR'S SESSION ONE ................................... 141
THE PROFESSOR'S SESSION Two ................................... 144
THE PROFESSOR'S SESSION THREE ................................ 145
WISDOM OF HINDSIGHT ................................................... 151
HARALD THE ASTHMATIC ............................................. 155
HARALD'S SESSION ONE ................................................. 155
HARALD'S SESSION Two ................................................. 157
HARALD'S SESSION THREE .............................................. 162
A CASE OF SEVERE TINNITUS ..................................... 163
WHEN NOTHING WORKS ............................................... 173
THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T CLOSE HER EyES .................. 173
GETTING DEEP HYPNOSIS WITH ANALY TICALS ....... 191
WHAT'S THE VALUE OF DEEP HYPNOSIS? ........................ 191
THE IMPORTANCE OF A SUPERB PRE-TALK ...................... 196
How TO Do A GOOD PRE-TALK ....................................... 199
A LOOK AT HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA ................................. 205
CONSCiOUS/UNCONSCIOUS DISASSOCIATION .................. 207
AN INDIRECT TEST FOR HYPNOTIC READINESS ................ 209
ESTABLISHING THE HYPNOTIC CONTRACT.. ...................... 211
My FAVORITE SPEED INDUCTION ..................................... 212
How TO Do THE HAND DROP INDUCTION ......................... 217
REAL LIFE REGRESSiONS ................................................ 225
PITY CRY VS. A SYMPTOMATIC TRANCE ........................... 227
How TO RECOGNIZE A SPONTANEOUS SYMPTOMATIC
TRANCE .......................................................................... 230
How TO CREATE INSTANT HYPNOSIS .............................. 231
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WHAT IF THEY DON'T GO INTO HYPNOSIS? .............. 235
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION ............................................. 242
THE SURPRISE HANDSHAKE INDUCTION ........................... 243
How ABOUT CONTROL FREAKS? .................................... 244
WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO REPRESS FEELINGS .............. 245
WHEN THE CLIENT IS TOTALLY EMOTIONALLY
REPRESSED .................................................................... 246
SOME PURE NEW CODE CASES .................................. 251
A CASE OF HEAVY GRIEF ................................................ 251
SOME LOVING SEX FOR You ........................................... 252
A SEVERE SNAKE PHOBIA ............................................... 253
A GROUP OF FIGHTERS ................................................... 254
GRINDERS NEW CODE CHANGE FORMAT ......................... 255
TIPS FROM AN INSIDER .................................................... 259
Jf2JRGEN'S FAVORITE FORMAT .................................... 263
WHAT IF THE EMOTIONS DON'T RELEASE? ...................... 269
ANGER ........................................................................... 270
FEAR .............................................................................. 271
SADNESS ........................................................................ 271
GUILT ............................................................................. 272
TESTING ......................................................................... 272
FUTURE PACING ............................................................. 272
THE HIGHLY HYPNOTIZABLE CLIENT ......................... 273
A DEPRESSED GUY NAMED TIM ...................................... 276
TAKING THINGS LITERALLy .............................................. 278
SUSY THE INSOMNIAC ..................................................... 279
A COOL WEIGHT Loss SOLUTION .................................... 280
USING HYPNOTIC CAPACITY TO CONNECT WITH
EXPERIENCE ................................................................... 281
MAKE SURE THE CLIENT INTERNALIZES AND OWNS THE
CHANGE ......................................................................... 285
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COMBINING HYPNOSIS AND ORDEAL THERAPY TO KEEP
IT REAL .......................................................................... 285
SUGGESTIBILITY AND COMPULSIVE COMPLIANCE ............. 291
EASY COME EASY Go ..................................................... 292
THE CLIENT NEEDS TO OWN THE CHANGE ....................... 295
RESPECT THE UNCONSCIOUS NEED FOR AMNESiA ........... 296
A CRITICAL MODIFICATION WHEN WORKING WITH THE
HIGHLY HyPNOTIZABLE ................................................... 298
TERMS AND DEFINITIONS ............................................. 301
DEDICATION .................................................................... 307
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