Gilipio

Opening up about myself enabled David to relax, I could see that he was feeling at ease. He seemed to be comfortable with me so I decided to put the focus back onto him. ‘When did you start smoking?’ David paused for a few seconds before answering. ‘It was about twelve years ago’. This brought out immediate confusion. ‘Only twelve...that’s quite recent don’t you think?’ He answered my question by telling me that he started smoking when he was forty three and hadn’t previously smoked before, but that he now smoked at least twenty five a day. I placed the note sheet on the table next to my chair. ‘David, in most cases which involve someone to quit smoking they usually started smoking in their youth. Normally between the ages of thirteen and twenty one. This tends to be because they are influenced from their peers and they are of an impressionable age. So most people, if they get past twenty one without having tried a cigarette, they would not normally start the habit. In cases where people start smoking after that point there tends to be some event that initially caused them to smoke. In your case you started extremely late, so there must have been some event that caused you to start. Now my normal process for someone to quit would be suggestion during the sessions, but in your case that won’t work. I need to go deeper in order to remove the need to smoke from your subconscious. I would like to know if you would be happy for me to use Hypno-analysis?’ David then responded. ‘What does that involve, and how does it differ from the hypnotherapy you normally do?’ I then explained. ‘Well it doesn’t differ at all because I will often use Hypno-analysis on clients that have deep rooted problems. Some issues that people have are just surface problems, however in many cases they go much deeper and in those situations Hypno-analysis is required as an addition to the hypnotherapy’. David then had an intrigued look on his face. ‘Yes, I am more than happy to proceed; I’m extremely interested to see how this will work’. I told David to go over to the couch and make himself comfortable. I started playing some relaxation music, just loud enough so he could still clearly hear my voice. I then selected the recording option on my tablet and began the hypnotherapy. ‘David, I want you to relax. Close your eyes. Feel your whole body start to relax. Everything around you will start to disappear as your relax’. I continued this for about four minutes until David was totally unconscious, which was where I wanted him, so I could communicate directly to his subconscious. ‘David I want you to take your mind back to when you first started smoking.’ As I asked him that question he laid there motionless, with just his eyelids flickering. ‘OK David that’s good, now I want you to tell me what you see...’ It was at that point David started screaming really desperately. ‘I’m burning, I’m burning’. I had to bring him back out straight away as he was in extreme discomfort. ‘When I count back from five you will regain consciousness’ As I said that he was rolling from left to right screaming in pain. ‘Five’ ‘Four’ During the count I wasn’t sure if the first attempt would bring him back. Sometimes when they are that deep, it can take two or three goes to bring them out, but he really needed to get back at the first try. I didn’t want him staying there for another second. ‘Three’ ‘Two’ ‘One’ ‘Open your eyes.’