Advanced Training
Workshops at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention on "WORKING INTERACTIVELY IN THE ESDAILE STATE AND BEYOND"
These workshops have continued to grow each year Ines now does a one day training for already certified hypnotists. Please contact Ines if you would like to host one of these workshops in your area.
ADVANCED HYPNOSIS
AND TRAINING INSTITUTE
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WORKING INTERACTIVELY IN THE ESDAILE STATE AND BEYOND
The reason I started to experiment with working in this deep level of hypnosis was totally selfish and self motivated. I have always been a very analytical person and I could easily get clients and students to achieve regressions but I myself had some difficulties in that area. I surmised that if I could bypass my conscious mind more this would become easier for me. So I experimented. I worked with other hypnotists and even a shaman friend of mind and this started to formulate.
I had so much fun presenting this concept the last few years at the annual convention and had such great feedback that now a one-day course is available.
The method for inducing the esdaile state was initially taught by Dave Elman to doctors and dentists, and it certainly works well for us as hypnotists too. As Gerry Kein jokes, we have our ways of getting the information.
Elman writes up the method in his book Hypnotherapy and explains to the doctors how to use this state for the work they do.
James Esdaile was the first man to discover mental anesthesia and its benefits. Esdaile did work in an Indian jail hospital in 1845 and decided to employ mesmerism as the operations he was performing created a lot of pain for the patient. The method he used required a very long preparation time, sometimes taking ten to twelve days to condition the person to go to what we call the Esdaile State today.
This state has not been used for therapeutic or change work in the past as it was thought the client was in a euphoric state with no motivation for change work. With this technique that all changes, and change happens quickly. The state is still great for the past uses, which was to create an absence of pain.
Some people enter the esdaile state naturally and stage hypnotists could't emerge them quickly on cue. Elman as a stage hypnotist needed to know how to emerge people from that deep state, and he started to investigate people's reactions etc. He continued his experimentation and devised both the initial faster method of inducing this state and some uses for this great natural anesthesia.
In the esdaile state the conscious mind is still always present. In the past some people believed that the esdaile state allowed the conscious mind to be totally bypassed, this is not the case. People have many misconceptions about what happens to the conscious mind in these deeper levels of hypnosis. If you question people who have been in the esdaile state (as Elman did), you'll find that all of them are totally present, and some of them may even feel like they followed your directions to move their limbs even when they haven't budged. Many of us feel that conscious mind is our enemy, but it does have its function. It's our guard at the gate of the entry to our mind. So it isn't about making it disappear. It's about it allowing suggestions in and answers out.
I tend to trust answers coming from someone in the coma state somewhat more than when the answers come from a person in lighter states due to fact that the conscious mind can't be bothered to respond. If need be though, in emergency or when motivation is high enough, the conscious will step back in and the person's conscious state will elevate.
This deep coma method of interactive work with the client is an exciting new area that needs to be explored by more hypnotists.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
- Certified hypnotherapist/consulting hypnotist
- Trained in regression
- Have a good understanding of hypnosis
COURSE OUTLINE:
- HOW THIS METHOD DEVELOPED
- HOW TO DO THE PROTOCOL
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- HYPNOSIS PRETALK AND CONSULTATION
- INDUCTIONS
- THE ELMAN INDUCTION
- RAPID INDUCTIONS
- ABOUT IDEOMOTOR RESPONSES
- DOING THIS TECHNIQUE IN SOMNABULISM
- DOING THE TECHNIQUE IN THE ESDAILE STATE AND BEYOND
- CHECKING THAT THE ISSUE IS CLEARED
- EXPERIENTIAL EXPERIENCES AND PRACTISE