hypnosis@globalnet.co.uk wrote...

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Which area is your meta4 useful in? Hair twisting.

Which country? UK

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Now that you have passed over to me the responsibilty of working with your subconscious, for as long as everything I say meets with your approval, I am going to ask the image part of your subconscious to go to a picture of you twisting your hair, just as you have been doing all these years.

How does it feel? I am now going to ask your subconscious to become a strand of the hair that you are twisting How does it feel? If that hair could think, what might it be thinking about the kind of person you are? Cruel? Vindictive? Might it not be thinking that you enjoy creating pain, torturing that hair, whereas all the hair really wants to do is to grow so that you have a lovely head of hair? Would that be fair comment?

Is that how you see yourself? No? Of course it isn't - you are a warm, lovable, caring lady, but isn't it time that you joined with me in telling the image part that you no longer wish to maintain this habit? Yes? Then why don't we do just that?

I would like you to tell your image part in your own words that you love your hair and from now on you are going to take care of it so that it can grow safely under your care. Is there any objecting part to that? No, So go ahead and while you are doing that, I will, with your permission, imprint in your subconscious that from now on you will have no interest in twisting or tugging your hair. You will also find that you will experience great pleasure in the power that you now have to enable you achieve this. Your hair will feel feel safe and secure under your care etc.

Alan Stevenson.

Ed's note: Thanks Alan! More of an induction/direct suggestion/script, rather than a metaphor, but I have posted it regardless, hoping for one thing...

That you can think how this behaviour might be viewed metaphorically: ie. how the elements of the problem could be replaced with different elements, thus allowing you to tell a tale apparently unconnected with the problem, but one which is taken up and understood by the clients unconscious.

An idea springs to mind how you might talk of a carpet weaver, who instead of following the traditional methods of making beautiful weaves, decided to experiment by twisting beautiful threads into knotted bundles, which while different, was mostly unsightly etc, rather than having a flowing, more pleasing weave... then offering a solution towards obtaining the best looking weave anyone ever saw,... perhaps finishing with a pleasing reward, such as..."and how easy and more attractive or beneficial the new design/method/weave really was".

This is the art of indirectness, allowing your client to have a part of them associate to the (similar) elements of your tale, but without forcing a change.