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A fairly unusual induction method which works well for almost anybody.
Standard 'settling down' introduction, then:
Now I'm going to ask you to concentrate on your breathing for a
few moments... but I wonder if you can imagine a very strange idea...
a very strange idea indeed... I wonder if you can imagine that you
can actually breathe... through your finger-tips... just imagine
that rather strange idea that you can actually breathe in through
your finger-tips... imagine that you can feel the air moving into
your hands... quite slowly at first... just with a faint tingling
sensation which you might feel on the back of your hands... or perhaps
in your palms... and then just imagine that feeling moving slowly
along your arms... through your elbows... just imagine that comforting
flow of air moving through your elbows into your upper arms... and
then into your shoulders... both arms... both shoulders... maybe
finding again that faint tingling sensation... perhaps in your elbows
or forearms this time... then moving down through the body... down
into your legs... and through the thighs... through the knees into
your shins and calves... and again, you might feel that faint tingling
sensation, just there, just below your knees... then down through
your ankles and into your feet... and out through the feet...
And you can find a great deal of calmness and easiness... in that
rather strange idea that you can breathe in through your fingers...
that you can actually feel the air moving through your whole body...
in one single, warming, comforting... unidirectional flow... and
because it is a unidirectional flow of air.... moving through your
whole body in one single comforting flow... the calmness and relaxation
you breathe in... simply doesn't get involved with the tensions
and stresses that you breathe away from yourself... the calmness
and relaxation that you breath in... simply doesn't get involved
with the tensions and anxieties that you breath away from yourself...
so that with each breath you take... with each word I speak... you
find yourself becoming steadily more and more... relaxed... with
each breath you take, with each word I speak... you become steadily
more and more... relaxed... beginning now, perhaps, to notice the
weight of your head against the back of the chair... wondering if
that weight might seem to gently increase as you relax even more...
the weight of your feet on the footrest... wondering if that weight,
too, might seem to gently increase... even as you think about it...
and some people can find that sensation of total relaxation... that
feels as if they are actually beginning to sink gently through the
chair... actually beginning to sink gently through the chair...
so that it seems almost as if the chair is beginning to envelop
you... you are so relaxed... a good feeling... a feeling of great
calmness and safety... great calmness... that increases with each
breath you take, with each word I speak... as you continue to breathe
in through your fingers... allowing that comforting, warming, relaxing
flow of air... to move through your whole body and out through your
feet...
And this is something you can do for yourself whenever you want
to... simply settle yourself into a comfortable position... with
your eyes closed... then simply imagine yourself breathing in through
your fingers.... imagine that flow of air comforting and relaxing
every part of your body.... then breathing out through your feet...
and each time you breathe out just say to yourself: "Relax...
now..."... just saying: "Relax... now..." to yourself
with each breath you breath... will act as a trigger to your subconscious
mind... and on the fourth time you say it... on the fourth time
you say it... you'll find yourself to be more relaxed... than you've
ever been before...
Now to a suitable deepener if necessary.
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