Elman Induction
Posted on January 24, 2008
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The is one of the best known and most used inductions out there. Using this induction, you get the client to go straight into somnambulism. This induction has MANY variations that are used at different times and for different people. Don’t be afraid to switch up words and add in suggestions.
Some things to keep in mind while using this induction:
Keep It Short
Ideally, this induction should be under 4 minutes in length.
Word Choice
Avoid using words such as sleep and under. Don’t remind them of the word “numbers” after they start counting.
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Dave Elman Induction
Now, take a long deep breath and hold it for a few seconds. As you exhale this breath, allow your eyes to close and let go of the surface tension in your body. Just let your body relax as much as possible right now.
Now, place your awareness on your eye muscles and relax the muscles around your eyes to the point they just won’t work. When you’re sure they’re so relaxed that as long as you hold on to this relaxation, they just won’t work, hold on to that relaxation and test them to make sure THEY WON’T WORK. (Allow 3 or 4 seconds to test then say) Stop testing.
Now, this relaxation you have in your eyes is the same quality of relaxation that I want you to have throughout your whole body. So, just let this quality of relaxation flow through your whole body from the top of your head, to the tips of your toes.
Now, we can deepen this relaxation much more. In a moment, I’m going to have you open and close your eyes. When you close your eyes that’s your signal to let this feeling of relaxation become 10 times deeper. All you have to do is want it to happen and you can make it happen very easily. Ok, now, open your eyes…now close your eyes and feel that relaxation flowing through your entire body, taking you much deeper. Use your wonderful imagination and imagine your whole body is covered and wrapped in a warm blanket of relaxation.
Now, we can deepen this relaxation much more. In a moment, I’m going to have you open and close your eyes one more time. Again, when you close your eyes, double the relaxation you now have. Make it become twice as deep. Ok, now once more, open your eyes…close your eyes and double your relaxation…good. Let every muscle in your body become so relaxed that as long as you hold on to this quality of relaxation, every muscle of your body will not work.
In a moment, I’m going to have you open and close your eyes one more time. Again, when you close your eyes, double the relaxation you now have. Make it become twice as deep. Ok, now, once more, open your eyes….close your eyes and double your relaxation…good.
Let every muscle in your body become so relaxed that as long as you hold on to this quality of relaxation, every muscle of your body will not work.
In a moment, I’m going to lift your {right or left) hand by the wrist, just a few inches, and
drop it. If you have followed my instructions up to this point, that hand will be so relaxed it will be just as loose and limp as a wet cloth, and will simply plop down. Now don’t try to help me or you have to remove realization. Let me do all the lifting so that when I release it, it just plops down and you allow yourself to go much deeper. (If subject helps to lift hand say,) “No, no let me do all the lifting, don’t help me. Let it be heavy. Don’t help me. You’ll feel it when you have it.”
Now, that’s complete physical relaxation. I want you to know that there are two ways a person can relax. You can relax physically and you can relax mentally. You already proved that you can relax physically, now let me show you how to relax mentally.
In a moment, I’ll ask you to begin slowly counting backwards, out loud, from 100. Now, here’s the secret to mental relaxation, with each number you say, double your mental relaxation. With each number you say, let your mind become twice as relaxed. Now if you do this, by the time you reach the number 98, or maybe even sooner, your mind will have become so relaxed, you will have actually relaxed all the rest of the numbers that would have come after 98, right out of your mind, there just won’t be any more numbers. Now, you have to do this, I can’t do it for you.
Those numbers will leave if you will them away. Now start with the idea that you will make that happen and you can easily dispel them from your mind.
Now, say the first number, 100 and double your mental relaxation.
Client: 100
Hypnotist: Now double that mental relaxation, let those numbers already start to drift away.
Client: 99
Hypnotist: Double your mental relaxation. Start to make those numbers leave.
Client: 98
Hypnotist: Now, let them be gone. Dispel them. Banish them. Make it happen, you can do it, I can’t do it for you. Push them out. Make it happen! ARE THEY GONE?
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Here are some other variations of the Elman Induction:
Modified Dave Elman Induction - Steps and Explanation
Elman Induction Into Coma State
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Excellent Post and good information. The Elman induction is great because it builds testing right into the induction and the client never knows.
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