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dr. j's head-cleaners hypnosis tapes & hypnosis CDs therapists - take note |
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Head-cleaners tapes and hypnosis CDs can be a very useful adjunct to therapy. I have been using them as a helpful aid in my practice for over two decades. Trancescripts are designed using Ericksonian indirect and strategic hypnotic wordplays and imageries that result in the listener being able to individualize his or her listening experience based on the issues at hand. There are no specific directives to do this or that, just indirect and/or permissive suggestions (e.g., "can you imagine letting your muscles relax...?") The underlying modality of suggestions for change are strategic and cognitive-behavioral. Positive attitudes and positive, healing reframes are peppered throughout each recording.
My experience is that patients find having the recordings very helpful as they work on issues - providing them a homework -type task that they can utilize when they feel a need for therapeutic distraction from psychological discomfort. They can be a very nice help in getting to sleep and leaving one's mind on a track that often results in positive dreaming during the night and waking up much more refreshed and in surprisingly positive frame of mind. Patients typically stop using the recordings at some point but then find the idea of listening to them again coming to mind at some later date. Many patients have contacted me years after therapy ended to ask for another copy of a hypnosis recording that they had been using off and on until it wore out. Developmentally, they seem to advance with respect to dealing with emotional issues and challenges, plateau and then at some later time begin working on further advances.
I also find that - having worked with patients using both in vivo hypnosis and recorded hypnosis - I very much prefer to use recordings. Though I haven't seen any research on this specific issue, I find that survivors of severe, repeated trauma, especially, are less likely to develop problems with dependency or dissociation when I use recorded hypnosis as an aid to the therapy, rather than employing any in vivo hypnotic interventions. Many client/patients like it better, too, because it involves less of a sense of giving up control when they can listen whenever they want, whereever they want and they don't need to ever feel like they are putting themselves into the hands of another authority figure (as most people do with in vivo hypnosis). Rather than a long, prolonged battle with resistance, the hypnotherapeutic interventions can be handed to the client/patient and she or he can make use of them wheneve it seems like a good idea.
This all assumes that one is not interested in hypnotherapy interventions beyond ego enhancement, self esteem boosting, fostering a sense of safety and a reduction of anxiety, fostering hopefulness, interrupting negative cyclical behavior and thinking - and such other fairly general, generic goals. Personally, as a therapist, I believe these are the best uses of hypnosis, anyway. Excerpts and samples from some example head-cleaners recordings are on the sample page.
Full trancescripts of any head-cleaners recording can be easily made available to therapists at no charge by email request. In response you will receive a url to any or all recordings.
Also note that there is a very liberal ©opying policy and reduced prices for multiple tape/CD purchases.
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