One of the techniques which I regularly use in Hypnotherapy is the Control Room. It can be used successfully for a whole range of issues including weight loss, fears and phobias, insomnia etc and is particularly effective for dealing with panic attacks.
Under hypnosis I will ask the client to walk down a flight of steps and enter their own control room - the place where all of the systems controlling thoughts and feelings are housed. Everyone has their own version of this room so I encourage the client, still under hypnosis, to give feedback, initially using a nodding of the head and then supplying answers to my questions about the various controls within their room.
Controls take many guises but I have always found that the client is able to describe some sort of measure of activity whether they use dials, levers, gauges, colours or arrows etc
I ask the client to describe each control and where they are at on that range at that point.
Imagination is a powerful tool and it is up to the client how they make that control work more efficiently eg dust and polish; WD40 etc
When they are satisfied that the control is working efficiently I ask them to adjust it to a more effective level and having done this, they fix the control at the new point perhaps by wedging or gluing. They then remove all of the scale so that the level cannot move backwards and attach a signed and dated sticky label to the control ( as an electrician would following a PAT test).
In the course of a session we may work on 3or 4 controls and revisit these on the subsequent sessions.
The final element of the Control Room technique is for the client to fling open the windows of the room to blow away all of the cobwebs and as they leave the room they hit a boost button which gives a surge of energy through the room.
As the control room becomes more efficient in future sessions the boost button is then put on to an automatic timer so that it is no longer necessary to visit the room.
A very simple but effective technique.
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