Terence Watts: Fantastic Inductions and Deepeners

Fantastic Inductions and Deepeners
for the Professional Hypnotherapist
Terence Watts
CRUCIAL!
Scripts from Terence Watts
INDEX
Personality Profiling 1
Inductions
Rag Doll 16
Magic 19
Swinging Watch 22
Seven Plus or Minus Two 24
Circles of the Mind 27
Body Confusion 30
Nervous Network 33
Smallest Parts 36
From Ceiling to Floor… 39
Central Core 42
Long Combo 44
Deepeners
Civilisation 55
Flying Free 58
Forest of Times 61
Journey Through the Universe 64
Evolution 65
Out of Body 71
Stalactite and Stalagmite 73
The Canyon 76
The Now Pyramid 79
The Secrets Room 82
Universal Mind 85
CRUCIAL! – scripts from Terence Watts 1
CRUCIAL!
Scripts from Terence Watts
Personality Profiling
If you accurately assess your client’s personality type, then you can choose an
induction and deepener which will achieve the best possible results. To aid you in this,
I have included part of my paper on Ancestral Memory in this book. The scripts
themselves also have guidelines as to which personality the best suit.
If you have no interest in discovering why we are the way we are, then simply skip
now to page 7, where you will find the personality assessments and how to easily
recognise each type.
A potted history of our kind
One hundred thousand years ago, the human race lived in groups of twenty-five to
fifty individuals, hunting and gathering their food from the land; they were already a
developed race, having probably been around for some three hundred thousand years at
least. But these were the first of the race that looked like us, and - in a primitive way -
behaved like us.
For thousands of years, their way of life scarcely changed, so that instincts and
response patterns were handed on from generation to generation, all within their own
group in what amounted to a genetically pure chain. They would have had no qualms
about incest or in-breeding – those concepts simply would not have entered the realms
of thought. There would obviously have been aggressive tribes and peaceful tribes; and
because their way of life was constant, the instincts to deal with that way of life became
inborn, so that each successive generation was steadily more adapted to the
environment in which they lived.
Tens of thousand of years passed… something like fifty times the passage of time
we have experienced as a ‘modern’ race since the days of Jesus Christ and the Roman
Empire. Then, something of extreme importance happened, something that was to
affect the whole of the human race for ever more.
The first settlements were formed.
A golden opportunity
It does not sound particularly important but the effect on the wandering tribes was
dramatic and polarising. For the peace-loving tribes it would have been an ideal
situation; no need any more to wander the land in search of food – simply farm your
own crops and livestock and share the work within the community. Instead of fighting
the land, adapt to it and tame it, and use its resources for survival and comfort. They
became the Settlers and discovered their evolutionary destiny.
For others, those who had always simply taken whatever they wanted, this
presented a golden opportunity of a different sort. They could wait until that settlement
was formed and everything was nicely under control, then simply move in and take
over. Any of the original occupants who protested too much could be either killed or
kicked out, and the rest, observing this, would simply continue to maintain the place for
the benefit of the newcomers. These Warrior types now had something REALLY worth
fighting for, some of them taking over several settlements and controlling quite large
areas of land as a result.
For yet others, all this would be too much. They had never had the stomach for
fighting, nor any wish to do loads of hard work for the benefit of somebody else. And
now they had no desire whatsoever to stand around getting caught up in the crossfire
between the Settlers and a bunch of club-wielding roughnecks wearing strings of
animal teeth about their person. So they retained the instinctive Nomadic urges of their
earliest forefathers – keep on the move, do not get involved, and constantly look for
someplace new and interesting. They also eventually developed skills like thieving,
bartering and entertaining, since this was an effective way to earn their keep ‘on the
road’.
Civilisation
This was the origin of what we now know as Civilisation and our inheritance is the
in-built instincts of those early people. There has been much interbreeding ever since
and there are no longer any pure specimens of any one tribe. But there were some
ninety-thousand years at least of wandering savage, against relatively few years of
civilisation, and evolution moves very slowly indeed. The original instincts still run
high.
We each carry, as our parents did and their parents and grand-parents before them,
the genes from each of those three major tribes of mankind; but one set will usually be
dominant, giving rise to a behaviour pattern which governs how we are, where and how
we will be successful, the way we conduct our lives… or would, if our way of being
were not ‘modified’ by our early experiences. Because, since genetic selection appears
to be a random process, so that, for example, Settler parents can produce child Nomads,
it is more than likely that you could have been brought up by parents or others who
may have a completely different set of values. And this is important, for it would
obviously have a clouding effect upon your real personality, upon what is inherently
right for you, diluting your inherited strengths and attributes.
Just imagine, for a moment, the implications of this. Let us assume that you have
inherited a dominant set of Warrior genes, but both your parents are Settlers… They
will try to teach you to be tolerant of others and adapt to situations, to ‘go with the
flow’ and roll with the punch. They might even suggest that you attempt to make a
friend of any adversary and always try to see the point of view of others. They will,
perhaps, teach you that you should always give others the benefit of the doubt… But
your every subconscious instinct insists that you should be dealing with life in a
forthright, ‘hands on’ and extremely direct manner! That you should be leading, not
following; giving the orders, not taking them.
Under those circumstances, there would be a continual conflict in the subconscious that
might well lead to all sorts of frustrations and complexes. It certainly would not be
conducive to success - and if you managed to over-ride that ‘programming’ eventually,
you still may not be able to fully enjoy any success you found, because of an
underlying feeling that you had achieved your aims in a way that was somehow not
quite right, that did not match what you had been taught was the ‘proper’ way to do
things.
We have all come across the circumstance where a child appears to be totally
different from his/her parents, or brothers and sisters. The parents will perhaps say
things like: “He probably takes after his great-grandfather…” Well, maybe that child
has inherited the same set of dominant genes that powered great-grandfather but they
would have powered a whole host of far more ancient ancestors first!
Reactions, not events
Ancestral memories would not be of actual events - don’t get it confused with the
idea of past life or reincarnation - but of instinctive behaviour patterns brought about by
the environment of those early tribes whose main way of life was subservience,
aggression, nomadic urges, famine fear, etc. These environmental circumstances, via
the process of natural selection, ensured that each generation became progressively
more inclined to the predominating characteristic of their particular tribe. It seems
likely that these Warriors, Nomads and Settlers are the origins of the quite well-known
Anal, Hysteric and Oral personality groups. It makes a deal more sense if you look at
the way each tribe would have been.
Obviously the Warrior tribes would have been physically powerful, but there was
more to these people than brute force. The best amongst them became expert planners
who prepared for every possibility, quick and perceptive thinkers who could foresee
every pitfall and every danger to their plans and schemes. Their need to control and
conquer others meant that they had little or no time for compassion or emotion; there
was no room for compassion if you wanted to come out tops on the battlefield. In fact
they would have been capable of being totally ruthless, completely unconcerned about
the feelings of others. Self was what mattered, and what self wanted.
Sensitivity was not in the frame for these people, nor were any ‘airy fairy’ ideas;
no-nonsense practicalities were what they needed – tools, plans, method, fool-proof
strategy. A means to an end and as quick and forthright as possible. In the earliest days,
they were true savages, but savages with a shrewd intelligence, who could be devious
and manipulative when necessary.
The Settler types were a different kettle of fish altogether. These were peace-loving
people who wanted nothing more than to be left to their own devices, to tend their land
and rear their families to help them continue their calm existence. They were
community-minded, recognising the worth of sharing tasks and keeping harmony
within their group, so they developed an understanding of others and a high degree of
tolerance to the differing opinions of those who shared their space. They were also
adaptable and resourceful, using whatever nature provided them with to survive, and
would use aggression only as a last resort, and then mainly in defence.
It is impossible to hurry the forces of nature, and this fact led to a patient approach
to life and living, with an ability to tolerate discomfort in the knowledge that there were
better times ahead. This discovery and the observation that if you performed a
particular task, a particular event tended to happen led to them being optimists who
enjoyed what was without worrying too much about what might have been.
The Nomads were following the very earliest instincts of the species. The whole
race had been nomadic originally and when the first settlements started being formed,
these individuals preferred to remain that way. Not for them the emotional attachments
that the Settlers formed, or the hard work and disappointment involved in learning to
tame the land; not for them, either, the meticulous planning of the Warrior. They did
not want the risks of battle, or the necessity to constantly be on your guard lest those
whom you had vanquished should suddenly rise up against you. And any who wavered
soon made up their minds when the Warriors started making their presence felt.
Where the Warriors and Settlers were always in large groups, the Nomads would
have travelled in much smaller bands, even sometimes as individuals. They would have
been light-hearted people with little or no need to put down roots, enjoying wandering
from one place to another, leaving behind any problems or difficulties that might
accrue wherever they stopped for a while. Eventually, they became wandering
minstrels, entertainers, tinkers and the like, always difficult to pin down, never staying
in one guise or situation long enough to be saddled with responsibility. Relying on their
wits to survive, they were probably far more independent and charismatic than the
other two groups put together.
The modern versions of these tribes bear most of their characteristics still, even
though social requirements and our ‘civilised’ environment leads to much of their
indigenous behaviour patterns being muted, or sublimated.

It is important to remember that almost nobody will be a ‘pure’ type; most people
will exhibit characteristics from each group. In any one individual, the emotional
responses tend to come from their Settler self, aggression from the Warrior, and
personal presentation skills from the Nomad side of their personality. It is the degree of
each which governs their overall ‘way of being’. BUT both Warriors and Nomads will
frequently adopt a Settler approach because it’s what is required for them to integrate
socially. The Nomad will act it; the Warrior will use it.
Although I often refer to these character groups as Warriors, Settlers and Nomads
when talking to clients, I sometimes prefer what might be seen as the professional titles
of (in order): Resolute/Organisational (or RO); Intuitive/Adaptable (IA);
Charismatic/Evidential (CE)
Now we will have a look at a detailed description of each personality group. A
‘quick recognition guide’ is also given.
THE RESOLUTE ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTER
Personality Profile:
Forceful: Can always make their presence felt.
Resolute: High levels of tenacity and determination.
Organisational: Able to plan well and bring those plans to fruition.
Achilles heel: The need to always be in control.
Areas of conflict: Concerned with issues of loss of respect/dignity/integrity or any sort
of ‘attack’ – being frightened, picked on, humiliated, bullied, excessively punished, etc.
Symptoms: Usually based around phobic response patterns or control issues – body or
mind. There are often physical manifestations of the digestive tract, including ulcers,
IBS, constipation, etc.

Abreaction type: Sometimes almost invisible – any tears are likely to be sparse,
though s/he will feel as if they have been laid totally bare. The approach of abreaction
will often be indicated by fear or anger.
Personality: The RO personality tends to have a reputation for firmness and a no-
nonsense attitude to life. Psychologically stronger than either the IA or CE personality
types, they find no difficulty in taking charge of things and easily attain the respect of
others. They are cautious yet rapid thinkers who are unsurpassed at finding and
exploiting the flaw in any argument. On the negative side, there can sometimes be a
problem with cynicism and jealousy and there is not the immediately friendly response
generally found in the IA. Indeed, there will sometimes be a significant pause before
answering any question that is put to them and even then, the answer will often be
carefully phrased in such a way to leave as many options open as possible.
Physical traits: This type is the least physically animated of the three groups. There
are few changes of face expression during conversation, and few changes of body
position. The angle of the head, in particular, may remain unchanged for longish
periods making them reminiscent of an excellent card player, giving away absolutely
nothing about inner thought processes. They appear to be – and indeed are – watchful
and perceptive, with a steady gaze which may be away from their conversation partner
if they are nervous. Any tension or anxiety will show in a taut body shape and a set
facial expression leaning towards irritability or hostility.
Positive attributes: Determined and tenacious; methodical and organisational;
perceptive and easily able to spot the pitfalls in a plan/situation; sound but not
necessarily fast decision making abilities; natural team leader and co-ordinator; quick
thinker in discussion or argument, able to easily see and exploit loopholes or
advantages; practical and logical; good at recalling/using facts and figures.

Negative attributes: As with the other two groups, these traits are only possible
tendencies and are not necessarily evident in any one individual - indeed, it is unlikely
that any one individual will show all these traits. The positive traits in this group are
very decisive and specific, and this forthright attitude tends to also be reflected in the
negative traits.
The RO character is inclined to force rather than subtlety and in negative mode
is usually pedantic, domineering and impatient, and can appear rude and sarcastic. They
have a driving need to be in control and can sometimes be quite ruthless in their
determination to be so, being very good at manipulating people and events to their
advantage – this, of course, may be viewed as positive trait under some circumstances.
The two things they hate most are: not getting their own way, and having to admit that
they are wrong. Underneath all these attempts to maintain power and control, there are
often secret feelings of self-doubt, leading to cynicism and jealousy. They are prone to
phobias, hypochondria and/or obsessive thought or behaviour patterns and sometimes
actually take a considerable amount of actual pleasure in being bad-tempered or
unreasonable.
THE INTUITIVE ADAPTABLE PERSONALITY
Sociable: Gets on well with almost anybody
Intuitive: A high level of instinct and general awareness.
Adaptable: Able to make the best of any situation.
Achilles heel: The need to be liked.
Areas of conflict: Concerned with emotional states, predominantly guilt, shame, and
injustice issues.
Symptoms: Usually concerned with feelings – inadequacy, depression, inferiority, low
self-esteem, fear of what others think, excessive regard for authority, guilt, shame, etc.
Abreaction type: Usually tearful and childlike. The approach of abreactive states will
often be indicated by sudden quietness and an increase in hypnotic flush. A hand may
be raised to the mouth, which may tremble or straighten. Within the abreaction, tears
and weeping can be copious.
Personality: The IA personality, being able to fit in with almost any situation, is
necessarily a kind of psychological chameleon. The most obvious traits are a pleasant
and responsive attitude to others but sometimes with a tendency towards mood swings
from happy to miserable – or the other way round – at the slightest provocation, the
smallest event. There is also often an ‘all or nothing’ tendency, in which if they cannot
have absolutely what they want, they will simply refuse to have any part of it at all and
will ‘cut off their nose to spite their face’. Excellent talkers and communicators, they
are unrivalled when it comes to having an instinctive grasp of all that is going on
around them. They are usually reliable and come over as ‘nice’ people, which they
usually are.
Physical traits: Easy to recognise from their physiology, they are responsive during
conversation, with active but not excessive body/head movements, nodding when they
should, smiling when they should, any disagreement being expressed politely and
tactfully. Their face expressions are reactive to the conversation and there is a tendency
to smile often unless they are depressed. Any tension/anxiety present tends to speed up
body movements and speech, and increases the visibility of any lines on the face, and
there will then be a leaning towards a worried/anxious expression.
Positive attributes: Instinctive understanding of others; caring and compassionate;
excellent communication skills; generally optimistic, cheerful and polite; tolerant and
easy-going; powerful instinctive responses (it can seem as though they possess a
genuine sixth-sense of the unadmitted attitudes or mood-shifts of others); flexible
approach to the plans of others.
Negative attributes: There are many IA individuals who appear to show none – or
very few – of the following traits. They are only tendencies and not necessarily present.
The complexity of this character can be exasperating to others if they once get into
a negative mode of operation. They can be just on the brink of success when they will
suddenly give up, claiming that they simply have not got what it takes, even if other
people think they have; feelings of inferiority and inadequacy can lead to problems
with decision making and displays of under-confidence or unassertiveness; and they
can seem to take far too much notice of the opinions of others, an excessive need to be
liked sometimes leading to difficulty in saying “No” when necessary. There are often
feelings of failure or of being in some way fraudulent. They are prone to shyness,
depression and/or bouts of debilitating melancholia/depression.
THE CHARISMATIC EVIDENTIAL PERSONALITY
Restless: Must always have something ‘going on’.
Charismatic: Naturally outgoing.
Evidential: What-you-see-is-what-you-get.
Achilles Heel: The need for constant stimulation.
Areas of conflict: Concerned with image issues and loss of freedom or things that they
really did not want to do/face. These can seem to be quite minor events.
Symptoms: Anything dramatic. Hysterical blindness, paralysis, ‘massive’ panic
attacks, spontaneous vomiting, ‘phantom’ illnesses of all kinds from ‘blackouts’ to
crippling or catastrophic conditions.
Abreaction type: Noisy and often may include screaming and shouting, as well as
thrashing arms and legs. Anything that dramatically illustrates how bad they are
feeling. The approach of abreaction is usually rapid and almost indeterminable from the
abreaction itself.
Personality: The CE personality in its purest form tends towards extremes in many
things. They enjoy life to the full and can give much pleasure to a great many people
along the way – except for the occasions when they get carried away with frivolity and
excitement, loving to shock others with loud and embarrassing behaviour and being
amazed when someone complains about their excesses. This exuberance tends to show
itself quite often and can be quite exhausting/tiresome for their companions. Most of
the time, though, this personality is tempered by more sensible traits from the other two
groups, not unusually producing an individual who can quite often uplift others with
their irrepressible sense of fun and enthusiasm.
Physical traits: Animated behaviour is the most obvious trait here but, as with most
things in this group, it tends to be exaggerated. There are excessive movements of the
head and face, the body, and especially the hands, and they can liven up any gathering
with sparkling wit - as long as not too much serious stuff is expected from them. Often
quite generous and outgoing, and almost exclusively extroverts, they are always on the
search for something new and exciting to do. They adore telling jokes and stories with
lots of noise and action and always do it well. Under any sort of pressure, they tend to
become louder and more expansive in their gestures and movements.
Positive attributes: Enthusiasm for new projects; lively approach to life and work;
inspirational in outlook and communication; exceptionally confident and outgoing;

uninhibited in all areas of life; quick eye for creating an image; uncomplicated
personality – what you see is what you get; good presentation skills; ready wit,
especially in response to others.
Negative attributes: As with the IA and RO personalities, these negative traits will not
necessarily be apparent.
The biggest problem for the CE personality is in maintaining application of effort
and as a result they can appear unreliable or fickle. They themselves are unconcerned
about this, however, relying on sheer force of personality/charisma to see them through
and usually getting away with it; they may even boast about it. There is a childish need
for instant gratification – they cannot abide waiting about for things to happen – and a
distinct tendency to flamboyantly exaggerate their successes. Their relationships are
usually distinctly one-sided and they are masters of tactlessness and bad taste. Under
pressure, they are prone to dramatic illnesses like paralysis, apparent blindness, ‘black-
outs’, memory-loss, etc., which may or may not be genuine.
QUICK RECOGNITION GUIDE
Now, here is a quick recognition guide for each group which, while it is not as
accurate as the questionnaire, will give you a good idea of where anybody ‘fits’, just by
watching them for a moment or two.
Intuitive adaptable
Physiology: Responsive body and head movements. Frequent smiles.
Positive: Caring, cheerful, pleasant, talkative and tolerant. ‘People’ people.
Negative: Depressive, indecisive, underconfident. Prone to mood swings.
Dress: Conservative, ‘sensible’, with a tendency to co-ordinating colours.

Resolute organisational
Physiology: Fairly straight-faced, few body response patterns, steady gaze.
Positive: Practical, tenacious, self-sufficient. Quick thinkers. Often personable.
Negative: Suspicious, dictatorial, manipulative. Cannot easily admit mistakes.
Dress: Plain, sometimes austere, sometimes tends towards dark-ish colours.
Charismatic evidential
Physiology: Often expansive in gestures. Can be animated/noisy. Laughs easily.
Positive: Fun-loving, enthusiastic, outgoing. Inspiring and optimistic.
Negative: Unreliable, childish, boastful. Prone to exaggerate mild success.
Dress: Individualistic, either ‘designer’ or deliberately downbeat. May be ‘showy’ with
accessories.
Rag Doll
Nothing special about this one, but this book would not be complete without some sort
of relaxation script, so here we are… the imagery is good though and it often produces
a deeper state than the rather more clinical versions that we all learn in the beginning.
It is particularly good for the IA personality.
Just take a single deep breath… and let every muscle in your body just let go as you
breath out… that’s good…. now I’d like you to imagine that you can see yourself,
relaxing in that chair… or maybe just pretend that you can see yourself… your
breathing already so easy and steady… and becoming steadier still, even as you think
about it… as though you were sound asleep… or pretending to be sound asleep…
pretending so well that you are sound asleep… that you would convince anybody who
could see you… that you were pleasantly sleeping… and while you pretend to be
absolutely sound asleep… you can imagine that you have a dream… a dream where
you are more relaxed than you have ever been at any time… in your entire life… more
relaxed than you ever thought it was possible to be… a dream where you’re just like a
rag doll… laying lazily on a beach somewhere… your head comfortably shaded by the
soft shadows from fronds of palm trees… fronds of palm trees that are moving, just
slightly… in the gentlest of breezes… with your body beautifully warmed by the rays
of the sun… and you just drifting deeper and deeper… your body becoming even more
relaxed with each breath you take, each word that I speak… even more relaxed than
that rag doll on the beach… every ounce of tension just drifting away from you… so
that your arms and legs begin to feel wonderfully devoid of all tensions… your entire
body beautifully free from all your cares and all your anxieties… so that you can just
simply… relax… floating deeper now… so that you might even begin to lose touch
with your hands and feet… with your arms and legs… and sometimes, people can
become so relaxed… that they can lose touch with their whole body… so that they
become, just for a while, just their thoughts… a lazy, easy, calm sort of feeling where
nobody wants anything and nobody expects anything… and there’s absolutely nothing
whatsoever for you to do except to simply… relax… it’s as if you’ve been able to
temporarily… switch off… all those muscles while you relax there… just like that rag
doll on that warm beach… thinking about your left arm now… if you can be bothered
to find it… and just letting the last tiny traces of tension float away… and your right
arm, too… just letting every muscle, every nerve, every fibre… let go… and allowing
that same beautifully easy feeling flow across your shoulders… and down into your
body… into your legs, just vaguely aware of your thigh muscles just letting go… and
your calves, too… and it’s as if even your bones are relaxing now…a wonderful
sensation of the deepest relaxation you have ever experienced just gently sweeping
over and through your whole body… into every fibre, every cell… every pore… so that
you can experience that very special sort of relaxation that some people manage to find
with hypnosis… and you can always find this feeling for yourself, whenever you want
to… this exact same feeling of the most profound sense of relaxation… where nothing
matters… where there is just this sense of calm… a quiet sort of feeling… where you
have to think of nobody but you… you can always find this feeling, simply by
remembering that rag doll… warming herself in the sun… with her head shaded by
those fronds of beautifully elegant palm trees… and whenever you think of that rag
doll… you’ll be able to instantly find this very same deep relaxation that you have at
this very moment… and whenever you enter this special state of deep relaxation, your
body’s self-healing processes can work more efficiently and much faster than usual…
faster even than during the deepest sleep… these processes work more powerfully, re-
energising your entire body… helping to create a sense of real inner comfort and
calm… and this sense of inner comfort steadily creates an inner strength, an inner
strength that helps you to be fitter and healthier in every way…during this special
relaxation, your whole body system works more steadily and easily than at any other
time… allowing your body’s natural rejuvenating processes to work more effectively
than ever… each fibre, each tiny cell, being checked… repaired… replaced where
necessary… in each and every organ in your body… so you can start to feel good about
yourself… start to feel really good within yourself… developing an inner strength that
helps you to achieve your hopes and desires… to fulfil your ambitions and goals… and
so feelings of an inner strength and resolve… of a complete determination to succeed,
whatever success means to you… become deeper and more profound every time you
experience hypnosis… and you can be aware that, within their channels in the body,
your nerves are just resting and relaxing too… resting and relaxing, and becoming
stronger and steadier with each and every passing day…

Magic
This one is good for just about anybody, as long as they have a little imagination – it
has elements that work well for all personality types. To get the best out of it, you will
need to be a bit of an actor and sound as if you truly believe in…Magic!
I wonder how long it is since you believed in magic… if it was way back when you
were just small… just a child… or maybe you still do… believe in magic… like me… I
see it every day, it’s all around and you only have to look… there’s even magic in the
way that you can be so quiet… so still… looking as if you are sound asleep… and yet
amazingly alert and aware, behind those closed eyelids… of course, it’s not the stillness
and quietness that is magical… nor is it the closed eyelids… it’s that amazing
awareness… nobody can even begin to properly explain what that is… or how it
works… even though we all know what it feels like… we all know how to send our
thoughts to anywhere we want to… a part of our own body… the big toe, perhaps… or
the very top of our head… but our thoughts don’t have to stay where our body is…
because in an instant, in a dazzling flash… we can be thinking about something that
happened years ago… or something that hasn’t even happened yet… and that’s a
magical thing… how we can be in one place one moment… in our thoughts… then
thousands of miles and many years away in the very next split second… our thoughts
moving faster even than the speed of light… faster than time itself… as if time did not
exist… and we can even imagine something that nobody has ever experienced… just
something that we can think of… like swimming in a silken sea of golden mist on a
distant planet… where we are so light that we float in the atmosphere… like a feather
floating on the breeze… or imagine staring into a crystal until you find a whole
universe there… a universe where there are other lives and other beings with their own
magical thoughts… and it’s a sort of magic that lets you hear your name whispered
quietly… in a room full of people and noise and music… when you weren’t even
paying attention… and there’s a magic that is part of your body, too… the magic that
lets you see or hear something that isn’t there… or that lets you stay alive without even
trying… without even having to try… your body does that so well… and the most
brilliant scientist in the world cannot make even the most primitive form of life… and
yet… two very ordinary people can create the most complex form of life that ever
existed… in this world, on this planet… and that happens millions of times a day…
every day… and that is definitely a sort of magic… and every single cell in the human
body carries that very same magic… and carries the message for that same magic to be
repeated… it’s almost like a magic spell… because each cell knows that it has to
reproduce another cell that is exactly the same as itself… so a hair cell creates another
hair cell… while a nail cell creates another nail cell… and a skin cell creates more
skin… and all of this happens all the time… every split second of every day of your
life… and has been happening for millions upon millions of years… in every human
being that ever existed… and everybody is fascinated by magic… which is why there
are so many stories about magical beings… men who can fly faster than a speeding
bullet and see through brick walls… creatures with wings and claws and fiery breath…
or perhaps with the head of an animal and the body of a man… mythical ancient
creatures who live in the silent depths of the sea… or on the slopes of a mountain in a
remote corner of our world… and there’s Merlin, with his magician’s hat and his
magical cape with the stars and the moon… weaving spells and casting them around
him in a dazzling display of light and colour… all these things are magic… and yet…
still the most magical thing is your own subconscious… that deep part of your mind…
deeper than the deepest ocean… even more magical than Merlin… that part of your
mind that can actually make the most amazing things happen for you… if you want it
to… and you only have to tell it exactly what you want to happen… and that powerful
subconscious of yours will work its magical spell… as long as you tell it what you want
to happen and not what you’re afraid might happen instead… once your subconscious
mind knows what you want to happen… then it can set about making those things
reality… and we can help that along… with another sort of magic… called hypnosis…
you can’t see it… you can’t touch it… and most of the time you certainly can’t feel it
and won’t even know that it’s there… but it works… like magic…
Swinging Watch Induction
If you’ve never tried the old fashioned induction with a swinging watch or other
pendulum then you really should! It always surprises with its effectiveness and it is
possible to purchase a ‘costume jewellery’ pocket watch for a very reasonable price,
either from jewellers or via the Internet.
Gently swing the watch, standing slightly to the side of your client; you need the
pendulum to be about twenty four inches or so from your client’s face. Your client
should be sitting, rather than laying down. You may well not get to the double bind at
the end of the script before client closes his/her eyes, in which case you would just
continue into any deepener work.
All right, just settle yourself comfortably and take a deep breath, then breathe out
slowly and relax… and look at the watch… as it swings from side to side… just
following the movement with your eyes and allowing your head to remain still… just
following the movement of the watch with just your eyes… from side to side… side to
side… and you can notice how your eyes start to feel so pleasantly relaxed… as you
follow… the movement of the watch… from side to side… and you can notice your
eyes begin to feel pleasantly tired… as they move… and whenever you want to, you
can just allow them to close… and that feels good… because following the swinging of
this watch… is tiring… to the little muscles that move your eyes… so as you watch…
the watch… gently swinging from side to side… you can feel your eyes becoming tired
enough that you can let them close… and comfortably relax… whenever you want to…
and if you choose to keep them open, that’s fine… and you’ll notice that your eyes
want to… keep on following the movement of the watch… for a while…
Some people are not able to… keep their eyes focussed… on the watch for very
long… because their mind is less focussed… so they can’t go so deeply… but you
can… and the longer you keep on following… the movement of the watch… then the
deeper… and more profoundly… you can enter the state of hypnosis… the longer you
are able to stare at the watch… the deeper the state of hypnosis that you can find… the
longer you can stare at the swinging movement of the watch… the deeper you can go
into hypnosis… until it starts to become difficult to follow… to keep your eyes
focussed… and then you will know… that you are as deep as you can go… and you can
allow your eyes to close…
By now, all but the most stubborn of individuals will have their eyes closed. Those who
have kept them open will usually be bloodshot. You can repeat the second paragraph if
necessary, after which it is quite permissible to say, if necessary: “Excellent…the very
best… now just close your eyes so we can get to work…”

Seven Plus or Minus two
This is an excellent induction for the RO or logical/analytical personality type.
Focussing on sensory input, it is almost impossible to resist. It has long been a
favourite of mine.
All right, just allow yourself to be as lazy as you want to be... listening quietly to the
sound of my voice... and while you’re listening quietly to the sound of my voice
concentrating for a few moments on your breathing... breathing slowly and steadily,
just as though you were sound asleep, or pretending to be sound asleep... and
imagining, perhaps, just how comfortable you might look while you’re relaxing there in
the chair... using the power of your mind to see yourself in your mind’s eye... and then
using the power of your mind to do whatever has to happen to make you look even
more relaxed... and still thinking about your breathing, making quite sure that each
breath in lasts the same length of time as the last breath in... and each breath outwards
lasts the same length of time as the last breath out... even though each breath in will
probably be slightly shorter than each breath out... and while you’re thinking about
your breathing, noticing, perhaps, the weight of your head against the back of the
chair... and still listening quietly to the sound of my voice... and while you’re listening
quietly to the sound of my voice, it maybe that you’ll become aware that you’ve
forgotten to think about your breathing... but that’s all right, you can just simply start
thinking about your breathing again while you’re listening quietly to the sound of my
voice and what I’m saying to you here... and in psychology, there’s a rule called...
seven plus or minus two... and that means that most people can think of seven things all
at once... plus or minus two... so you should be able to think of at least five things all at
the same time... the sound of my voice... the steadiness of your breathing... the weight
of your head against the back of the chair... and how you might look from the outside...
and that’s four things... so you can think of those four things while you’re listening to
the sound of the music I’m playing in the background... so that’s five things, now... and
I wonder if you can think about those five things and then at the same time notice the
way your feet feel on the footrest of the chair... and perhaps how your arms feel... and
that’s seven things now... the sound of my voice... the weight of your head against the
back of the chair... the music playing in the background... they way you look while
you’re relaxing... and your breathing... and your arms... and your feet on the footrest...
and I wonder if you can now add an eighth thing into all of that... I wonder if your mind
is powerful enough to think of seven plus one things... adding in, perhaps, an awareness
of the temperature of the room... and then just testing to see whether you can add yet
another input to your senses... so that you’re thinking of NINE things all at once...
that’s seven plus two... thinking about all those eight inputs to your senses and then
maybe adding an awareness of the way your eyes feel while you’re thinking about all
those other things... the weight of your head... your breathing... the music in the
background... how you look from the outside... the temperature of the room... your feet
on the footrest... your arms... the sound of my voice... and how your eyes feel... the
weight of your head... your breathing... the music in the background... how you look
from the outside... the temperature of the room... your feet on the footrest... your arms...
the sound of my voice... and how your eyes feel... and of course, when anybody thinks
of all these things, what they are really doing is scanning round them one after the
other... very quickly... so quickly, it feels as if you’re thinking of them all at once... and
in the world of computers, that would be called timesharing... sharing your available
resources between the different tasks you are attempting to perform all at once... and
that’s why some people can think of only five things... because it’s the limit of their
memory... while others can actually think of nine things... and I wonder how well your
memory is working as you struggle to remember those nine things... the weight of your
head... your breathing... the music in the background... how you look from the outside...
the temperature of the room... your feet on the footrest... your arms... the sound of my
voice... and how your eyes feel... and now you can think how good it will feel... when
you simply allow yourself to think of only the most important thing of all...
concentrating all your energies onto that one most important thing of all... which is
going to be so easy to think of, now that you are going to allow yourself to think of
only one thing instead of nine... and that one thing is how good it feels to think of only
one thing... thinking how relaxed you can be now... that you’re only thinking of how
relaxed you might like to be... relaxing in your mind... and in your body... no need to
think anything at all, really... no need to do anything... nobody wanting anything and
nobody expecting anything... and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to do except
to... relax.
Circles of the mind
This is especially effective for the very visual individual and works very well as a
‘primer’ for confidence boosting and ego-strengthening. It is good for both the CE and
IA personality types, not so good for the analytical RO.
I wonder if you can imagine looking down on a rough map of the circles of your
mind… so rough, in fact that there’s hardly any detail there… it’s a bit like a plan of a
building… that shows no furniture in the rooms… no fittings… nothing other than the
walls and maybe the floors… stairs, perhaps… and as you look down on the map of
your mind… or sense it in any way you like to… at first, you can see nothing more than
a series of concentric circles… one inside the other… and you can become aware that
each circle is a special and separate part of your mind… and as you drift down into it…
you become aware that the part that you’re in, that outer circle, holds every bit of
information about you and your life that you can easily think of… where you live… the
things you do… your immediate plans and hopes… and that outer circle of your mind
begins to take on more detail as you suddenly realise the amount of information there…
a torrent of realisation of the amount of information that is held in this part of your
mind… absolutely everything that you need to know and use on a daily basis… where
you live, telephone numbers, the way you go to work, the places you like to eat, the
people and situations you seek to avoid… newspapers, television programmes, clothes,
things to be done, things to remember, things you’d like to forget, perhaps… and no
sooner do you begin to grasp the full realisation of everything that is there, than you
discover a doorway, an opening… and you instinctively know that this is a doorway to
the next part of your mind… that next circle of your mind… and you move through that
doorway… and you feel yourself letting go of the hurly-burly of that outer self… and
everything seems quiet and peaceful… and you gradually become aware that this part
of your mind is different… this is where feelings live… and you can sense the
connections that exist between some parts of this circle and that outer circle… from
where you came… and also sense the connections to another circle… deeper in your
mind, that you are not yet fully aware of… and in this circle of your feelings you
become aware of those special thoughts and feelings you have for those closest to
you… and maybe unspoken things, too… and you can sense things that momentarily
seem less comfortable, yet in that same instant you realise that they have just as much
right to be there… that they are just as much a valid part of your life… are just as much
a valid part of you, an honest part of you, because your feelings are honest and never
lie to you… and as you realise this, everything suddenly seems easier… and you begin
to feel so much more comfortable and relaxed within yourself… and you realise that
you are somehow drifting through from that circle of your mind into the next… without
making any effort at all… just drifting through into a place where memories are
stored… memories and experiences… and you find a comforting awareness that
everything here is just experience and memory… that there are threads that lead
through to an even deeper part of you… and also to that part of your mind where you
were just now, where the feelings live… and there is a momentary awareness that lasts
for the tiniest of split seconds… that you can somehow manipulate those threads… to
find joy in your life… a momentary awareness that becomes elusive… like a dream…
but you know that it’s real, that you’ve discovered something of great importance that
you don’t actually need to remember, that it will work anyway… now that you’ve
experienced that awareness… that you can manipulate those threads of all your
experience to find joy… and you realise, too, that every single thing in this circle of
experience is just an experience… that you can draw what you truly need from this
place… and as you realise that, you discover a knowledge that you’ve arrived in the
deepest part of your mind… that inner circle… where your true self lives… the part of
you that knows just what to do and just how to do it… and in this place you are
supremely confident… this is the very centre of yourself… where everything comes
together so beautifully… the awareness of all that is you… your experiences, your
feelings, all the things that you know how to do… this part of you can perform the most
glorious task of sifting all those things… everything you can do… everything that you
can’t do… everything that you should or should not do… to find success… whatever
success means to you… in this special part of your mind, no conscious thought is
needed to make things happen, no conscious effort… because this part of your mind is
the most powerful and creative part of you… the part of you that can make things
happen just the way you want them to…

Body Confusion
This one works particularly well for the quick-minded, intelligently analytical
personality type, especially if he or she is typically RO. Paced well, it will produce an
intense focus.
Good… now I’m going to ask you to just direct your thoughts to different parts of your
body… maybe to the very tip of the little finger on your right hand, for instance… and I
wonder if you will be able to concentrate all your thoughts to whatever part I
mention… or if you’ll decide to give only a part of your thoughts to that part… or
maybe you will decide to always think about a different part altogether… to whatever I
am saying… but then, of course, you will have had to think about the part I mention…
that tip of the little finger on your right hand, for instance… in order to know that you
are going to think about another part instead… and that’s ok… because it means you
will be able to use that powerful mind of yours… to think in exactly the way you want
to think… whether it is to concentrate on the part I talk about… or on a totally different
part… and it may be that you will be able to tune your mind into mine… so that you
can guess the part I’m going to talk about next… or perhaps the part I am not going to
mention next… and then it might feel, if you thought the same thing, as if you were
already thinking about the part I mentioned… or did not mention… and you could
wonder whether you had read my thoughts… or I had read yours… or if maybe we had
just both thought the same thing at the same time through nothing more than
coincidence… or if it was because of some mysterious connection to a great pool of
unconscious knowledge… as you begin to be able to focus your mind in that special
way… that special way that the strongest and most focussed of minds can do so well,
so certainly… as they discover and tap into the state of hypnosis… so that it may seem
to you that you can anticipate every word I say… and either think the same thing in a
kind of harmony… or think a different thought… your own thought… that allows you
to become even more focussed as my voice just fades into the background…and
thinking about the top of your head now, wondering if you can be aware, with the super
awareness that comes with hypnosis, of every single little hair follicle… every single
square millimetre of your scalp… or perhaps thinking of your feet… both feet… at the
same instant… but of course, you may not have heard any of this because you might
have been thinking of your left ear instead, or the bridge of your nose, or perhaps the
sensation, maybe a faint tingling sensation, in your fingers and thumbs… because as we
think about a body part, so it is nearly impossible to not notice the sensations associated
with that part… or not associated with the part I mention but with a totally different
part… so that if you think of your hand, you might be aware of the way it rests in your
lap… and if you think about your knees, you can notice the sensation at the back of
your knees… a sensation that you would not easily be aware of… in the normal way…
and as you begin to wonder if you can sense what I am going to say next, it might seem
to you that your awareness of your entire body has intensified… so that it is as if you
can think of every part of your body all at once… all at the same time… your head and
your hands… your face and your shoulders…your feet, your knees, your left side, your
right side, the top of your head, the middle of your back, the long muscles on either
side of the spine, the short muscles around your heels and ankles… the sole of each
foot, the arch of each foot… and it’s an amazing thing that we can do… directing our
thoughts to the body map that we hold in our mind and brain… where each tiny part of
the body is mapped in minute detail… every cell, every fibre, every pore... and it may
even be that very same body map that the subconscious uses to check every minute part
of the body… thousands of times a second… for every day of your life… but the
conscious mind is slow and can really only think of one part at a time… so that until
I’ve finished this sentence… you may not have been aware of the sensation on the soles
of your feet… but now that I’ve mentioned it… of course, you can be aware of that
sensation… but in so doing, you’ve probably forgotten to think about the very tip of the
little finger on your right hand… but now you are so beautifully focussed… so sharply
aware of your thoughts… that it is so easy for you subconscious mind to accept ideas
and suggestion that are beneficial to you and your well-being… so that these ideas and
suggestions can really take root in that most powerful part of your mind… your
subconscious… so that it can use those ideas and concepts to ensure your future
success… in every thing you do, every task you undertake…

Nervous Network
This script works particularly well for the CE personality type. It is not so good for RO
or IA types, who may well find it somewhat irritating. It is essentially a form of
relaxation, but coupled with novelty to entrain and sustain interest.
Now, while you’re lying there… just letting the world go by, nobody wanting anything,
nobody expecting anything… I wonder if you can notice how, within their channels in
the body, your nerves are beginning to rest and relax… resting, relaxing, and becoming
calmer and steadier with each word I speak and each easy breath that you take… those
nerves are like a magical network… a magical network that carries sensations and
information to each and every part of your mind and body… right now, already
beginning to carry the deepest ever relaxation you have ever experienced… into your
whole being… into every fibre, every pore, every tiny little cell of your entire body…
and as relaxed as you are at this very moment… you can go even deeper, become even
more… relaxed… and you might feel that special relaxation starting in the tips of the
toes… and spreading gently along the arch of each foot, the sole of each foot, that
magical network carrying that special sensation of deep relaxation around your heels
and ankles… and then up into the shins and calves on each leg… allowing a special
sort of warmth and calmness to gently spread throughout all those muscles… up into
the knees now, all around your knees, so that you can feel the back of your knees
relaxing too…
…and you become aware that this magical network is like a map of the nervous
system of your entire body… and even as you realise that fascinating thought, you can
feel your main thigh muscles becoming beautifully at ease… and it is as if that special
relaxation is becoming a continuous flowing sensation… flowing continuously along

all those nerve paths in your legs and feet… moving up into your body now, into the
muscles of the hips and stomach, the muscles of your chest and back… so that you can
feel that flow of special relaxation beginning to create a wonderful calmness within and
around you… a wonderful calmness and quietness that flows steadily and easily into
each part of you… as you go deeper and deeper now… and you become aware of your
shoulders relaxing too… and your neck… and all the muscles of your face… even the
tiny little muscles of your scalp… because even those tiny little muscles on the top of
your head… are part of that nervous system map of your body… a part that most
people don’t even notice…
…and to you it begins to seem that this continuous flow of relaxation is made
up of tiny little atoms… tiny little atoms following each other around that nervous
system map… each minute atom carrying its own special charge of relaxation… and
sometimes those atoms seem to gather together in a place where there was some
tension left… tension that you hadn’t even noticed was there until it was gone… then
you can feel those atoms just spreading out again and following different nerve paths to
create a kind of cloak of calmness, and quietness… a cloak of comfort that seems to
envelop your whole being, your whole body… a cocoon of warmth and comfort that
relaxes you still more… and you feel yourself just floating and drifting deeper… and
deeper… still deeper… into a special place where you are more relaxed, more
comfortable than you have ever been before… and you realise, with a sense of joy and
wonderment, that these tiny little atoms of comfort and relaxation… are beginning to
perform a different task now… different and even more important than the last…
because each atom has its own programme, its own plan of action, especially designed
to help you achieve every aim and every hope… and each atom understands its own
task perfectly… working quietly in the background in every part of your mind and
body… for every tiny split second of every minute, of every hour, of every day of your
life… creating a sense of wellness and completeness, a sense of wellness and
completeness that will allow you to fulfil your goals and desires easily, successfully…
and inevitably.
Smallest Parts
This is another one that is particularly good for the ‘hypno-resistant’ personality,
although it will work well with all groups – RO, IA, and CE – since it has something to
fascinate every type of thought process.
I wonder you’ve ever thought… how interesting it is… that some of the smallest parts
of the body perform the most important tasks… your hands and fingers for instance…
the muscles there so small and yet… able to grasp with great strength… from the very
moment we are born… instinctively, just as if there’s a knowledge that later in life…
those very same muscles are going to perform some enormously important tasks… a
greeting to somebody new… a reassuring touch for somebody who needs it… maybe
creating an instant vice-like grip that saves a life one day... and yet those same hands
and fingers can convey the most delicate of sensations to our whole being… the feel of
finest silk, the warmth of skin… and other textures and feelings that simply cannot be
experienced in any other way… those hands and fingers can even work almost without
us trying… just by some instinct sometimes… without even being aware of how it
happens… so that we catch a ball or a falling object… without even knowing how…
without conscious effort…
And the tiny muscles of our feet are special too, in a quite different way… a
way that has to be learnt and practiced… so that they can keep us perfectly balanced…
just making thousands of tiny movements… without our conscious mind even being
aware… so that we can walk and run… and jump and kick… and dance and skip and
climb upstairs… without even a moment’s thought as to how we will actually perform
those tasks… without having to know the work that those little muscles do, the tasks
they perform… so constantly and perfectly… allowing us to walk for miles and
miles… to move safely from one place to another… to be with people that we want to
be with, perhaps… or to go to places that we want to travel to… so it’s a fact that those
little muscles of the feet and toes are very important… and yet… we cannot even be
fully aware of all of our toes… because while you can think of the big toe on either
foot… and you can think of the little toe on either foot… when you try to think of the
three that you know are in between… there’s the darndest sensation that… there’s only
one… or perhaps, for some people… none at all… even though you know there are
definitely three toes there… even though you know that you can use some of those little
muscles in your feet to actually move those three toes when you want to…
And there’s another group of tiny muscles in the body that are even more
important than either the hands and fingers… or the feet and toes… a set of muscles
that we use in a very special way… in which the tiniest of movements can make the
most amazing difference to our world… and the world of others around us… and these
are the muscles of the face… those muscles that so easily show how we feel from one
moment to the next… the most exquisite of communications… that show the most
fleeting of feelings… so clearly… and also the most powerful of feelings that we can
experience… so that our whole face might light up with joy… or surprise… and the
muscles that make a smile say so much… and yet those same muscles can make an
expression that might say something completely different… and those muscles of the
face, the expression muscles, are just like the muscles of the hands and feet in a very
special way… because they often work without us knowing that they are doing it… as
if driven by an instinct of some sort or another… so that we show somebody how we
feel… in the blinking of an eye… sometimes when we didn’t mean to… and sometimes
we might see something on another’s face… fleeting pleasure maybe… or some other
emotion that changes our own face expression without us even thinking about it…
moves the muscles of our own face in a very special way… and all of those muscles
I’ve talked about here today… can also convey something very special to the
subconscious mind, in a very special way… so that when we relax the feet… those
muscles that let us walk and run and jump… and those muscles of the hands… that let
us grip or squeeze or touch… and those muscles of the face that express the way we are
feeling… when we relax all those muscles, just let them let go… the subconscious
knows that we are in a place of total safety… because there is an awareness that we
have no need to express our thoughts… no need to run or climb… no need to grip or
hold on… so it’s safe to completely… let go… just for the time being… safe to
completely… relax… and be totally at ease inside ourselves… and as the subconscious
mind becomes aware that there is no need to monitor those important small parts of the
body… so you may even find… that you begin to lose physical touch with them… so
that your whole body begins to feel totally at ease, totally relaxed… and when that
happens… you can become just your thoughts… being so scarcely aware of the body…
that you can become just your thoughts… just for a while… and when you become just
your thoughts… you can really be anywhere in your mind… nobody wanting
anything… nobody expecting anything… and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to
do but to simply… just be…

From ceiling to floor… and more…
This one works best for the CE individual, since it requires an active imagination and
the ability to easily visualise something which has never happened.
I want you to imagine, as vividly as you can… that you’re floating effortlessly and
comfortably… somewhere high up in a tall, elegant room… near a beautiful painted
ceiling… a beautiful and ornate vaulted ceiling in a tall elegant room… and you’re so
close to it that you cannot actually see details yet… but you can be aware of gold leaf
and brilliant reds and blues… of swathes of green and maybe some other more muted
colours… that your mind knows exactly how to imagine… so that it’s as if you can see
them right now… as you just float there… and you gradually become aware that you’re
actually floating very gently downwards… and you lazily turn to look beneath you…
and realise that you’re drifting down towards the softest, most comfortable floor that
you are ever able to imagine… and even as you realise this, you turn again and gaze at
the ceiling once more… and you can see just a little more of it now… some of the
detail of the design that the artist had so lovingly created… and you begin to recognise
that this design forms a picture… that seems to be somehow important to you… and as
you drift very gently downwards… you catch sight of the walls… and you smile with
pleasure as you realise that they echo the theme of the ceiling… so well… that they
might almost be a part of it… as if that wonderfully ornate ceiling extends down into
the walls of this magnificent room… and it all starts to make sense to you… even
though you know that it might not make such sense to anybody else… and in that same
moment, you realise that anybody else’s room would be different… because this room
is part of your mind… and the design on this wonderful ceiling is part of your
thoughts… and you can see more of it now… as you continue to drift very gently
downwards… some of the colours becoming brighter and clearer… some parts of the
design becoming more distinct… while other parts begin to seem less important…
more vague… comfortably softened… and it dawns on you that things can only
become truly clear as we begin to get a more distant perspective upon them… so that
we might see the colours and textures more evenly… might understand the design a
little more when we are less involved with it… in that way that we are always so
involved with something that is new and fresh… with an intensity and a closeness that
allows us only to see one part of the design… and you feel a relaxed warmth spreading
through your body… a sort of inner smile that seems to reach into every pore of your
entire being… as you slowly float down and down and down… almost weightless
now… almost suspended… so that you can think about that design on the ceiling that
you can now observe so easily… that begins to make so much sense… finding an inner
calmness and quietness… that allows you to just drift… and you find yourself
wondering about the way… that the walls seems to carry part of the design of that
ceiling… down towards the floor… and in almost the same instant you realise that it’s
nothing more than a theme being continued… into other parts of your life… and you
wonder idly if that theme can be changed in the places that you need to change it… and
still you drift and float deeper and deeper towards the floor of that room… a floor that
suddenly begins to seem so invitingly comfortable… as soft as any cloud… and you
find yourself relaxing into it… it’s like settling into a beautifully soft, billowing
warmth… a warmth that you soon find spreading through your entire body and
thoughts… as you just enjoy the feeling of relaxing on this comfortable, cloud-like
floor of your conscious mind… observing and appreciating that beautifully ornate
ceiling that is now so high above you… as you relax… and you become aware that you
can float even further downwards… that you can float on down through this
wonderfully soft, cloud-like floor of your consciousness… into a very special part of
your mind… there’s a kind of mistiness at first… so that you can barely make out
whether it’s light or dark… but it feels almost magical as you float gently down…
without a single care in the world… floating down into a place where you can make
wonderful things happen for yourself, almost without conscious thought… a place that
is neither light nor dark… a place where that beautiful ceiling ceases to be of such
importance… a place where the real you has always been and will always be… the real
you that understands the true value of everything… in your own special way… this
place is your own subconscious… that part of your mind that can help you to achieve
all that you want to achieve…

Central Core
This is an excellent, fairly brief induction that works particularly well for the CE
personality type and/or for those with some previous experience of entering the state of
hypnosis.
Be aware of yourself for a few moments… and let that awareness gradually increase…
notice your breathing… and the way that you are already beginning to find a stillness…
a quiet and calm sort of a feeling… and just imagine, for a moment… that you can send
your mind to the very centre of your body… and imagine, too, that when you send your
mind to the very centre of your body… that you can find a central core… that runs
from the very top of your head… to somewhere just around the waist… and that central
core might be wider at the top and narrower at the bottom… like a sort of cone shape…
or maybe just like a cylinder… or another sort of shape that seems just right for you…
and it might be made of purest gold… or of some other precious metal… or perhaps it’s
like the most brilliant crystal, or some sort of electricity or other magical power…
maybe it’s like a waterfall… or perhaps just a radiant glow… that might be blue or
green… or any other colour that seems to feel just right… or perhaps it might seem like
a cloud or a misty vapour… or maybe it’s something very special that only you can
understand… that only you needs to understand… and I’d like you tell me, by nodding
your head, when you have found that central core of you…
Wait for client’s affirmation
Good… and this is the centre core in which that part of you that you call ‘you’, ‘me’ or
‘I’ lives… the part that some people might call the spirit or psyche… the very essence
of that vital part of you… in the core which is in the absolute centre of your body…
this an almost magical part of you, of your mind… in the absolute centre of your
body… and the absolute centre of your entire world… your entire universe… and you
might have been taught once, a long time ago… that the world doesn’t revolve around
you… but, you know… it actually does… your world does… whatever you may have
been told in the past, it’s fine for your world to revolve around you… in fact, since it is
your world, it could scarcely revolve around anybody else… you are the most
important person in your world… because you’re the one who will never let you
down… you’re the one who will always have your best interests at heart… you’re the
one whose feelings will never lie to you… the one who will look after you… so that
you can actually look after others around you… and as you allow yourself to focus
upon that core that is the very centre of you… and the very centre of your entire
world… you can become very aware of every single facet of you… and find a delight
in that awareness… you can become very aware of all that is vital and alive in that
central core… finding, perhaps… the part that thinks and reasons, when reasoning and
thought is needed… the part that feels when feelings and intuition are needed… the part
that loves… the part that laughs and finds fun… the part that just somehow knows
things without necessarily understanding how… this is where that part of you that
knows just what to do and just how to do it lives… the part that heals… when healing
is needed… and as you concentrate your thoughts upon that centre core… you can
become very aware of a growing energy… a growing energy that can help you to
achieve all that you need in life… because that core, that inner part of the real self, can
generate lines of energy… lines of energy that lead to all the vital organs… so that you
can feel stronger… and healthier… more alive and more vital… so that you can get the
very best out of life… those lines of energy can even inspire your creative thoughts…
your most powerful imaginative senses…

Long Combo Relaxation
This is a very long combination of a brief induction routine and some of my favourite
deepeners that are not given elsewhere in this book. It works well for all personality
groups and lasts for getting on for 30 minutes at least.
Just settle yourself comfortably and take a slow deep breath… holding it for a
moment… then breathing out slowly… and allow yourself to be as relaxed as you want
to be… allow your eyes to close whenever you want to… and let all the muscles in
your face become so lazy… that you can actually feel them settling and smoothing
out… that’s a good feeling, when your allow your face muscles to relax like that…
because it tells your subconscious that you’re in a place of total safety… that it’s all
right for your whole body to be as relaxed as you want it to be… no more and no less…
and it maybe that you’ll be able to relax more than ever before… and that’s good… and
if you only relax just a little… that’s fine too… and whatever you choose… you’ll soon
be aware of a sense of well-being and calmness… and you can let any troubles, any
cares… just drift away from you, as you allow yourself simply to drift… to a special
place where there are no troubles and cares… a special place where there is only
calmness… and comfort… and easiness… that can fill every pore, every fibre, every
cell of your entire body…
…and you can scan your mind through your body… and every time you find a
trace of tension… just let it go… let it go and replace it with an easy calm… in your
neck and shoulders… in your arms and hands, right down to the very tip of each finger
and the tip of each thumb… in the muscles of your body… in your legs… just allowing
relaxation to flow all around your ankles and heels… all the way down to the very tip
of each toe… so that very soon, you’ll find yourself to be as comfortable as you could
ever wish to be… just letting your thoughts drift… and maybe allowing your conscious
thoughts to just… stop… for one split second in time… just for one split second in
time, allowing your conscious thoughts to… just stop… so that your subconscious
mind can get on with the business of helping you to feel the best you can ever feel…
without conscious interference… because that subconscious of yours knows exactly the
way to help you feel as good as you can feel…
And now you’re so beautifully relaxed... nobody wanting anything, nobody
expecting anything, and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to do except to relax... I
want you just to let your mind and your imagination drift... feeling lazy, easy, and
comfortable... and I want you to imagine that you’re standing on the terrace of a lovely
old house... a house like a stately home or country mansion... you can feel the sun on
your head and shoulders... not too hot, just comfortable... and there’s a gentle breeze
playing against your skin... as you look around you, you notice an elegant marble flight
of steps... ten broad steps leading down into a beautiful sunken garden... a garden
where you sense peace, well-being and comfort... Make it really vivid in your mind... In
a moment I’m going to count down from ten down to zero and as I count all the way
down from ten, down to zero, I want you to imagine that each number is a step down
on this beautiful staircase... a step down towards this beautiful garden... and each step
you take... is another step down into deeper and even deeper levels of relaxation... so
that by the time I get to zero, you will be as deeply relaxed as you can ever imagine...
whilst still being able to hear and respond to the sound of my voice...
10... take the first step down now, relaxing and letting go...
9... feeling more and more relaxed... no need to hurry... plenty of time...
8... moving down easily now...
7... deeper and deeper...
6... deeper still, your breathing becoming slower and steadier...

5... really relaxing now... just... let go.
4... becoming calmer and calmer...
3... calmer still now...
2... more and more relaxed.
1... all the way down now to...
0...
And now you find yourself in this wonderful garden... you can feel the softness of the
newly cut grass beneath your feet... as the scent of masses upon masses of brightly
coloured flowers seems to envelope you... and there’s the gentle sound of birds
singing... echoing faintly in the stillness of the air... it’s almost a magical place,
stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see in all directions, with beautiful
shrubs, tall elegant trees... and an ornamental fountain which seems to feed in to a
gently trickling stream... this fascinates you and you wander to the edge of the stream
and gently lower yourself down onto the soft, grassy bank...and just sit for a while,
gazing into the cool clear water... marvelling at the sense of tranquillity that sweeps
over you... and listening to the faint sound of the fountain splashing into the pool that
feeds this gentle stream... after a little while you lay back on the grass and gaze up at
the clearest of blue skies... and as you relax more and more, your eyes begin to close
and you just drift off into a deep and relaxing sleep... and as you sleep, you have a
dream...
...you dream that your whole body is becoming lighter... lighter and lighter... so
light that you feel you must surely begin to float on air at any moment... and then you
feel yourself just floating and drifting, gently borne aloft and supported by the softest of
warm breezes... and you can somehow see, through your closed eyelids that you’re
floating in a sea of colour... a warm sea of colour that relaxes and comforts you as you
just drift... suspended in warmth and colour that seems somehow unreal and yet, at the
same time, has a comfortingly familiar feel to it... you’re aware of misty reds and
orange.. soft, muted yellow tones, gentle greens and blues that seem somehow like
clouds... and the deepest, softest indigos and violets that you could ever have
imagined... and it begins to dawn on you that you’re floating in a rainbow, a magical
rainbow... because in this rainbow, time and space doesn’t exist in the same way that
we usually know it... you might have floated there for just a moment... or for a hundred
years... maybe for a lifetime... or just perhaps for the blinking of an eye... you could
have floated forwards in time, to a time that could be far beyond our future... or maybe
back in time, back before your own lifetime... it gradually begins to seem to you that
you might even be able to float here for just as long as you wish... with this wonderful
relaxed feeling... just floating and drifting through this magical sea of gentle flowing
colours where time seems to be suddenly of so little importance...
You are still pondering on these thoughts, when you feel yourself beginning to
float gently downwards...lower and lower, softly sinking down, down through this
beautiful rainbow... becoming even more relaxed, even more lazy... until, eventually,
you realise that you’ve stopped floating downwards... and you find yourself on the
shore of a tranquil lake... a large tranquil lake, surrounded by softly rolling hills that are
shrouded in a gentle, silver mist... there are trees and sweetly scented flowering shrubs,
and grasses growing at the water’s edge... and everything is bathed in a beautiful
golden light... a golden light that seems to bathe everything in its warmth... and you
find yourself marvelling at the sense of deep calmness and comfort that seems to fill
your entire being, as you stroll lazily along the sandy shore of this wonderful lake...
noticing with a sort of lazy curiosity that it seems to be constantly changing colour...
subtle changes blending so smoothly... that it’s difficult for you to know exactly when
limpid blue has become a deep, soft violet... or when that deep violet became a
relaxing, translucent green... the changes of colour fascinate you, and you settle
yourself down onto a small smooth rock and just gaze out across the crystal clear
waters...
Every so often, something, a fish maybe... just something... just breaks the surface,
creating ripples that seem to flow gently and endlessly in all directions...ripples that
eventually lap against the edges of the rock that you’re sitting on,.. you smile and lean
forward to dabble your hand amongst them... and as you do so, you create yet more
ripples, ripples that shimmer in a kaleidoscope of different colours across the
lake...interacting with the others and making new, ever changing patterns... you realise
that this tranquil place is the pool of all knowledge... that while you are here, you are
part of everything and everything a part of you...and you find it easy, so very easy to
open your mind... to let go of any barriers to memory or learning...
…and as you consider this wonderful realisation, you realise that night has
fallen… and you realise you are surrounded by a soft, warm, velvet darkness that seems
to envelop you in a wonderful sense of warmth and comfort... when you look upwards,
you can see a million stars, glittering in the clearest of midnight skies... some of them
seeming so bright that it’s almost as if you can reach out and touch them, while others
seem so faint you are only just barely aware of their presence... and as you look around
you… and your eyes gradually become accustomed to the starlight… you find yourself
gazing into a beautiful wooded valley... and deep in the valley, away in the distance…
you can see a faint glimmer of light... a faint glimmer of light with a kind of blue tinge
that somehow seems to give it warmth, and life... the light seems to beckon you,
somehow seeming to offer comfort in some way that you don’t quite understand as
yet... and with a sense of wonderment and curiosity, you rise easily and effortlessly to
your feet and begin to make your way lazily along a gently sloping hillside… just
catching a faint and delicate tinkling sound that might be temple bells, somewhere in
the distance...
As you move, just following one lazy easy step with another, a sense of well-being
seems to fill your whole body, a sense of tranquillity and calmness that begins to
increase… as your tread becomes steadily lighter, until you can hardly feel your feet
touching the ground and it seems to you as if you must surely be floating on air...
eventually, you realise that you have left the slopes of the hillside… and you are
wandering lazily across a grassy plain... the faint tinkling sound that might be temple
bells coming from somewhere in front of you... and as you move closer to that faint
glimmer of light, that faint glimmer of light with a gentle blue tinge… it begins to
become more distinct and you realise that it seems to be coming from somewhere far
above you... coming from somewhere high in clearest of midnight skies and extending
in a column towards the ground... as you get closer you can see rays or atoms moving
throughout that gentle light and it maybe that you can see those rays moving
downwards, or perhaps they seem to be moving upwards, or they might even seem to
be moving in a random fashion... and your mind knows what feels best for you... that
powerful subconscious mind of yours knows exactly what is right for you, exactly what
feels right for you... and as you look up towards the top of that column of white light…
it maybe that you can see where it comes from, or if it just seems to gather somehow,
somewhere, in that clearest of midnight skies... and when you look down to where that
column of light meets the ground, it might seem to you that it forms a pool of light… or
perhaps it seems to simply disappear completely into the earth... and your mind knows
what is the best thing for you... that powerful subconscious mind of yours knows
exactly what right for you... and however that column of light seems to you, that’s
exactly the right way for it to be for you... and as you gaze in wonderment at the light,
you realise that the faint tinkling sound of temple bells seems to be coming from
somewhere inside it...
You lazily stretch out an arm, allowing the light to play around your fingertips...
there’s a warmth, a pleasant tingling sensation, a wonderful sense of well-being, and
you realise that this column of light has the power to heal, to rejuvenate, to re-
energise... and you drift lazily into it, marvelling at the sense of well-being and
calmness and completeness that surrounds you... inside this column of light, it’s almost
a magical place... because it seems to stretch into the distance in all directions as far as
the eye can see... it seems to you that you can see waterfalls and rock formations,
mountains and forests... there are fountains and ornamental trees, and far away in the
distance, a golden-domed temple, shimmering in a blue tinted haze... gradually, you
realise that the atoms and rays that surround you are accelerating your body’s natural
healing processes, your mind and body’s natural resources that allow you to find a
wonderful sense of an inner strength, an inner calm... you can actually feel those atoms
and rays giving you a sense of health, energy, and well-being... feel those atoms and
rays giving you something that is infinitely good... and taking from you all that which
is not so good… leaving you feeling totally relaxed, totally comfortable, and totally at
ease within yourself.
And it may be, while you’re there, that you find you can float up to the very top of
this column of light… to its very beginnings… to find a truth… or perhaps you can
float downwards towards the pool at its base, or maybe down into the very earth
itself… where your mind might find the answers to questions… or maybe rare sources
of healing… sources that your mind knows so well, so naturally, how to use… and
nobody needs to know what you’ll find there… or even where you will travel to while
you’re in this place… but whatever happens is absolutely the right thing for you… and
whatever you find is yours… especially for you… just for you… whatever you find
there is absolutely the right thing for you to find… because that powerful and all-
knowing subconscious of yours knows exactly the resources you need…
After a while, you realise that it’s time to leave this wonderful place and it’s
not long before you’re making your way back along the valley towards the
hillside, with an easy, lazy tread, that seems to carry you with hardly any effort
at all... so easily are you moving that you scarcely realise you are climbing the
hill until you almost at the very top... and after just a few more steps, you turn to
look around you... and it seems as if the whole world is spread out before you...
and you can see that faint glimmer of white light down there in the valley in the
distance... and you know you can always find it whenever you want to, whenever
you need to, simply by going down that hill into the valley in your mind, in that
soft velvet darkness... and as you look around you now from your position on the
top of the hill... you realise, with a sense of wonderment, that you are on the
very top of the world... you realise that you are... absolutely… on top of the
world… and you decide to rest for a while… just drinking in this wonderful
feeling…
…and after a while, you realise that the sun has risen… kissing the land with a
gentle golden glow… and you can see that you’re on the very top of a green hill on a
tropical island... you begin to feel the warmth of the sun on your head and shoulders
and can see the long grasses around you, moving slightly in the gentlest of breezes...
when you look down the hill you can see a narrow, winding path that disappears into a
small forest.. and beyond the forest you can see the ocean... with sunlight from the
clearest of blue skies glancing off the tops of the waves in the bay... so that the whole
ocean seems to shimmer and sparkle... you begin to move lazily and easily down the
path, with the ferns and grasses brushing gently against your legs as you pass... and you
just catch the faint smell of salt borne in on the breeze...

...and become aware of the distant sound of the ocean on the shore... maybe hear
seabirds calling faintly, from a long way off... you marvel at the deep sense of
calmness and tranquillity that sweeps over you, as you move on down and down
towards the forest... moving so easily, so effortlessly, you feel almost as though you’re
floating on air... and in no time at all you find yourself drifting through the trees, their
leaves closing overhead to form a canopy... their branches making an irregular pattern
against the clear blue of the sky... It’s pleasantly cool in the forest and the gentle sound
of birds singing, echoing faintly, and the scent of the trees and undergrowth relaxes you
still further... as you move easily into the inviting depths, becoming lazier and lazier
with each step you take... you can hear a stream somewhere, its gurgling sound
gradually mingling with the sound of the ocean... as you follow the winding path down
and down towards the beach that you know is in front of you, weaving through the trees
and brushing aside the occasional piece of foliage... until, quite suddenly... you feel the
warmth of the sun on your head and shoulders again and you find yourself on a
beautiful deserted beach... a beautiful golden shore line sweeping away in a gentle
curve in front of you, to a distant point where the trees seem to come right down to the
shoreline, so that their branches actually seem to overhang the ocean itself... you can
feel the sand warm between your toes as you stroll lazily across the broad beach to the
water’s edge... the sand becomes a darker golden colour when you get there… and you
enjoy the change to a moist, firm coolness beneath your feet as you wander along the
shore, leaving a lazy trail of footprints in the sand behind you... every so often a larger
than usual wave sends rivulets of water foaming around your feet...
...and as they recede, you notice how the sand is washed away from tiny coloured
pebbles, glinting like jewels in the sun... the smell of the ocean, the sunlight on the
waves, the sound of the water hissing over the sand... all these things seem to create a
sense of timelessness for some unknown reason... and you find yourself a comfortable
position, a grassy hollow maybe, to just sit and gaze out across the rolling depths to the
horizon... trickling warm, golden sand idly through your fingers... there’s a faint haze
which makes it difficult for you to see exactly where the sky stops and the ocean
starts... and as you try to fathom it out, you see a small white cloud appear from
somewhere near the horizon... it comes towards the island quite quickly, growing larger
as it approaches, until it’s immediately overhead... the largest, fluffiest, whitest cloud
you can ever remember... and you somehow know, just by instinct, that you can let all
your worries, all your cares, all your fears, just drift up towards this large white cloud...
you can actually see them drifting away from you in a long slow spiral... maybe like
wisps of smoke from a bonfire... just spiralling away from you towards this large white
cloud... the cloud absorbs all your worries into itself, swallowing up all your fears and
anxieties and becoming steadily darker all the time, until, just as it reaches its darkest,
just as the last part of that spiral of your worries and cares disappears inside it... the sun
bursts through!... dispelling every one of your worries, every one of your fears and
anxieties, to the edges of the universe... leaving you totally relaxed and perfectly at ease
with yourself, without a single care in the World... and now, all your troubles and cares
having floated away from you, you settle yourself down into a comfortable position and
just drift off into a deep and relaxing sleep...
…and while you sleep, you have a dream... you dream you’re walking down a long
corridor, stretching away in front of you in a long gentle curve... so long that you can’t
actually see the end of it... but you know that this corridor is in the very depths of your
subconscious mind... in the part of your mind that knows just what to do and just how
to do it... and as you begin to move along this beautiful corridor, becoming even more
relaxed, even more lazy, you realise that time and space are beginning to lose their
meaning... and slowly the walls of the corridor seem to dissolve, leaving you in a large
room... the room is full of a gentle golden light that relaxes you still further and you
suddenly realise, with a surge of inspiration and pleasure... that what you once saw as
limits are merely stepping stones to greater success... it suddenly dawns on you, with a
surge of joy and anticipation, that what once seemed to you to be the limits of your
personality, of your skills and abilities, are nothing more than stepping stones to even
greater success... and from this day forward, you’ll find yourself beginning to enjoy the
process of living more and more… just enjoying being alive, being you, and everything
that being you means…

Civilisation
This one is good for most personality types and works as a therapy in itself. It needs to
be delivered with a certain amount of ‘story-telling’ atmosphere and some drama at the
end. It is based around the ‘Warriors, Settlers & Nomads’ concept of one of my books
and takes the form of a success story/metaphor.
Now I want you just to drift in your thoughts and let your imagination follow the sound
of my voice… and it really doesn’t matter if your imagination takes over, so that the
sound of my voice fades into the background… because your subconscious mind will
still be listening… and I’d like you to imagine a scene from many years ago… before
there were ships on the oceans… or aeroplanes in the skies… or cars on the roads…
long before there were even roads, in fact… before writing… even before history
began… a time when a small tribe of wanderers, gentle people, living the simplest of
lives, happened upon a familiar part of their world… a part they had seen a few seasons
before…
This small band lived on the move, as all humanity did, in those days… living off
the land and the rivers and moving on when it suited them… and this particular place
was especially pleasing to them… whenever they came here, the grass was always lush,
and food was plentiful again… and one of their number began to recognise that this
land seemed to prepare itself with the passing of the suns and moons… and he thought
about this, though at first, he said nothing to the others… but after a while, he told them
what he had discovered and soon, they began to farm this land… and they discovered
how to make themselves shelters out of the natural resources they found there… and so
it was that they had formed the very first particle… just a tiny particle… of
civilisation… and their life was comfortable and their food plentiful, so that, after some
time had passed by, their earlier travels had become nothing more than a distant
memory…
But then, one day, their comfortable way of living changed, suddenly and
dramatically… as another band of wanderers arrived in their new world… individuals
who were stronger than them and not at all gentle… individuals whose entire way of
being was to dominate and control… and in no time at all they had claimed ownership
of this place and worse, they forced the gentle Settlers, those who had first farmed this
land, to do their every bidding… but the Settlers adapted and changed as the seasons
passed… learning how to share their life and their world with these newcomers… and
it wasn’t long before the newcomers changed as well… becoming more gentle and less
dominant… except for when they needed to repel the occasional onslaught from
another Warrior band… and the first Settlers realised, with some joy, that they were
being protected… that these Warriors with whom they shared their world were actually
helping them to survive… and they found a special sort of strength and unity… a
special strength and unity which they knew would endure through any challenge…
And many years passed, years in which some of them, both the Warrior and Settler
tribes, reverted to the earlier ways of their ancient ancestors and began to travel the
land… carrying all sorts of news far and wide to others and sometimes teaching them
how to create the same beginnings of civilisation… and centuries passed… and
generation after generation of these same people… people who are your ancient
relatives… your direct ancestors… all sharing the same strengths… and the hundreds
of years became thousands… thousands of years which saw earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions and massive storms and hurricanes that would decimate huge tracts of
lands… and the people travelled further and further… migrating into different worlds…
and sometimes joining in battles that would rage for years… and still the strength of
those first Settlers prevailed… being passed on from father to son… mother to
daughter… and there were many who sought to change things… and then came the
crusades… and famine and plague… witches, wizards and warlocks… tyrants and cruel
rulers, those who sought to control by creating fear and terror among their people…
and yet, still the strength of those early Settlers carried on, surviving every trial, every
test… never giving way… never giving in… never giving up… because they had a
deep and certain knowledge that their strength and unity would prevail… that they
would finally achieve their goals… and yet more time passed… and great inventions
were created… and industry began… and then there came railways and telephones…
and motor cars… and great ships which could carry people across the oceans to the four
corners of the world… and aeroplanes… and more battles, the like of which had never
been seen before… and still the strength of those early Settlers survived…
And then, not long ago in the great scheme of things… maybe only (AGE OF
YOUR CLIENT +2 OR SO) years or so ago, two of these people met… and became
one, and brought together their own individual streams of history which had been
handed down to them from their ancestors… and after a little while… a very special
individual was born, an individual who was directly related to that one who first
discovered how to farm… an individual who possesses the sum total of all of
humanity’s strengths and skills…
PAUSE
…and that person is you… for you have inherited the strengths and resources of all
those who have gone before you… strength and resources which will allow you to find
great successes in life…

Flying Free
This is good for the Nomad/CE personality type, embodying imagery from all senses
except taste. There is also a strong fantasy element to it which will entrain the
imagination of this personality group.
I wonder if you ever thought what a magical and powerful thing is your imagination…
your own ability to create images in your own particular style… and other people may
see those things differently… but what you create is absolutely perfect… for you…
however unusual they might be… however exciting or however unlikely you choose to
make them… so you might imagine relaxing in a garden somewhere, relaxing in the
sun in a garden and having a dream in which you could fly… a dream in which you are
following a bird somewhere, perhaps… a bird that is so agile that you can only just
keep up with it… as it soars up to the heavens and swoops down in a rush, skimming
the ground, twisting and turning… going faster and faster, then turning in a
hairsbreadth before soaring up into the heavens again… full of the joys of living… and
you can feel it too, that joy of living… with the feeling of the air rushing past you…
being able to see so clearly now for mile upon mile… and maybe following that bird as
it heads off towards a distant seashore and beyond… swooping and gliding effortlessly
on the breeze… catching the faint smell of salt as you swoop low over the water…
hearing the gentle sound of a calm sea… a sea that is so blue and so tranquil… with
just the merest hint of a wave here and there… the merest hint of white as a fish glides
just beneath the surface… and you can feel the warmth of the sun on your back… as
you glide on the air… just for the time being, without a single care in the world… and
as a gentle, velvety dusk falls… there’s a quietness and calmness that seems to fill
every pore of your being… and you find yourself just floating and drifting onwards…
… and it begins to dawn on you that this bird is leading you to a very special place,
a place where you’ve never been before… and there’s a faint feeling of being on a sort
of adventure… an adventure in which you are going to discover something new and
immensely valuable… and as dawn breaks you survey the most beautiful sunrise that
you have ever seen… a glorious dazzle of light and colour and a sense of a special day
just about to start… and you can see a small dot on the horizon… a small dot that
steadily becomes bigger as you approach it… until you can see that it is a small island,
green and hilly, with a sparkling waterfall tumbling noisily into the sea… glittering in
the early morning sunshine… and you somehow know that this is the place you have
been searching for… searching for for a long time, even before you knew you were
searching…
… you follow the magical bird to soar effortlessly over the waterfall and the green
hill beyond… and catch your breath in surprise as you survey the vista in front of
you… there are blue grey crags and lush valleys stretching as far as the eye can see…
and you soar and swoop amongst them for what seems like an age, with a feeling of
wonderment and joy… and then, suddenly, you realise that the bird has gone…
somehow, without you noticing, it had disappeared… but it doesn’t seem to matter,
because you can fly on your own now… and in that very moment of realisation you
notice a faint golden glow that seems to be coming from one of the valleys… and you
swoop down into it… skimming along just above the surface of the river that flows
quietly and gently within its depths… basking in that golden light…
…it’s not long before it seems to you that you are approaching a solid wall of
rock… as though you have reached the very end of the valley… and yet… there’s a
distinct feeling that there’s something more beyond… and even as that thought comes
into your mind, you notice the smallest of fissures… and it is from here that the golden
light emanates… in a trice, you turn yourself sideways and swoop between the narrow
walls in the face of the rock… all at once finding yourself bathed in a golden light that
is so intense that for a moment you can see nothing else… and time passes… and after
a while you gradually become aware that you have stopped flying… you’re just
somehow suspended motionless in front of a wise old man… an ancient who radiates a
feeling of peace and tranquillity about him… you are aware of him smiling and
extending his hands towards you… “I knew you were coming,” he says, “I have a
special gift for you… a wonderful gift that will allow you to find all that you seek.”
The ancient hands you a crystal and you take it wonderingly. “How – ” you begin,
looking up towards him… but the old man has gone, along with the golden light and
everything else that was there… and you realise that you’re just relaxing in the sun in a
garden somewhere… relaxing in the sun in a garden and dreaming a dream… but then
you become aware of the crystal in your hand and gently clasp your fingers around it as
you remember what the ancient told you… “I have a special gift for you… a wonderful
gift that will allow you to find all that you seek…”
The Forest of Times
Use this deepener script with caution – it can lead to spontaneous abreaction or
approach to abreaction…and that is actually its purpose, because it’s an ideal entry
into regression/analytical work. It might be useful to create a ‘safe place’ anchor first,
if you wish. To assist in this, there is a part written into the beginning of the script that
will allow you to do just that.
Now, while you’re laying there so relaxed… I want you just to imagine that you’re
going on a walk through a forest… and this is no ordinary forest but a very special one,
a forest which can answer many questions… a forest which can help you solve many
problems… and it’s a magical sort of place, with the wonderful scent of new
undergrowth and maybe the sound of a stream trickling somewhere in the distance…
and you can hear birds singing in the tops of the trees high above you… the sunlight
filtering through the leaves lays softly dappled shadows on the ground in front of you…
and before long, you find yourself following a path that seems somehow familiar,
though you can’t quite think why it should be so…
…and that sense of familiarity increases as you go deeper into the forest… then,
after a few more steps, you smile, smiling outwardly and inwardly, as you suddenly
find yourself recognising why this place is so familiar… as you become aware that one
of the happiest times you can ever remember is suddenly right there in front of you…
and I don’t have to know what that time is but you can see it as vividly as if it were
now… and your smile increases as the delightful feelings that are associated with that
time are suddenly there, in your mind and in your body… so that you feel really
good…
[OPTIONAL ANCHORING to ‘safe place’

And you can lock this special place into your mind for whenever you need a safe
and wonderful place to come to, whether that is during this session or at some other
time… just by gently touching your thumb to any other finger… on either hand… and
whenever you touch that thumb to that finger, you will instantly find yourself back in
this place with it’s safety and the happy feelings…]
And you gaze upon that happy scene for moment or two before continuing on your
way…
… it’s not long before you find yourself in a thoughtful mood as you begin to
realise, with a wonderful sense of exhilaration, that this forest contains many magical
moments of your life… some of them half-forgotten… others half-remembered… some
of them from recent times, times that happened while you were a grown up… and other
times from a long way off, from those days of your childhood… and no sooner do you
realise this fact than you find yourself observing a scene from many years ago… when
you were just a child… and this scene is different… this scene has something in it that
you never did quite understand… something in it that just didn’t seem to make sense
and left you feeling puzzled in some way… nothing worrying, nothing of concern…
just something that didn’t make sense and left you feeling that there was something
more to be had from that experience than you actually found… and then it hits you and
your adult mind makes connections at the speed of light so that you suddenly do
understand… and then it’s as if you had always understood… and you begin to
recognise the great truth that this forest really is a magical place… a magical place in
which the connectedness of everything that has ever happened in your life begins to
become apparent… and a whole cavalcade of scenes flow through your mind like…
with just the traces of the feelings that belong to them… and even as you observe them
you can feel the understanding happening, actually feel your mind making thousands of
adjustments as your conscious mind gains the understanding that has already lain in
your subconscious since the day you were born… the understanding that everything is
connected… and connected in the most magnificent way… bringing understanding and
acceptance where they are needed… along with a recognition of your own agelessness
in your subconscious mind… a recognition that that subconscious has no idea at all that
you are now an adult… because it never realised that you were a child in the first
place… and there is another thought just underneath that one that you can’t quite
grasp… but you know it’s important… you know that it has something to do with your
future happiness…
…as if to prove the point, there is suddenly an image of an uncomfortable time
from the past but no sooner do you see it than that new understanding somehow
changes it… and as the discomfort evaporates to be replaced by understanding and
easiness… you begin to wonder just how many things might be changed… just how
much joy you might discover… with that new awareness… that new awareness that life
and the universe actually does things for you and not to you…
Journey through the Universe
This is a good general purpose deepener that will work for almost anybody, though it is
biased towards the intellectually orientated RO. As with the Evolution script elsewhere
in this book, you will get a considerably better ‘performance’ with the application of
some drama.
And as you are relaxing there… just allowing your mind to wander where it will… you
might begin to imagine how it would be if you could begin a spectacular journey of
discovery… a discovery of self and the whole of everything that you could ever think
about… and that journey might begin with you just floating, as if you were on a cloud
somewhere, perhaps… just floating idly and observing… in an easy relaxed sort of
way… without trying to make sense of anything… just observing lazily as you float
higher and higher… becoming more and more relaxed… and after a while, you realise
you’re actually floating out past the moon… and you have no idea how you got there…
but you realise that this is just a fleeting visit, as you gaze down at the surface,
wondering at the fact that men have actually walked there… and you can see the earth
like a great blue and white globe, just poised in space… and you find an astonishingly
comfortable sensation about you… as you somehow recognise that you are a part of
this universe… a part of everything that you can see around you…
…and as you make that realisation, it’s as if your vision suddenly clears and you
can see for thousands upon thousands upon millions of miles… and you realise with a
surge of joy that you can look back through time… and forward through time, too, as
though time simply did not exist… and then you are swooping low along the canyons
of Mars… and it maybe that this is the Mars of aeons ago… or perhaps far into the
future… and no sooner do you try to work it out than you find yourself gliding past the
giant called Jupiter… with its swirling clouds of gas that have a kind of velvety quality,
yet so dense that they keep safe the secret of what is beneath them… and you drift on…
playing among the rings of Saturn, rings that seem to be composed of a million tiny
jewels, glinting in a magical light that comes from some unseen source… reflecting
colours that you have never seen before… and you realise that you are beginning to
accelerate now, travelling faster and faster… out past Uranus… then Neptune… and
tiny Pluto, the smallest planet in our system… and still you fly faster and faster, and yet
somehow seeming to just float… suspended in a delightful weightlessness… for what
might have been a million years or more… or perhaps just the blinking of an eye… and
there’s a sense of an important journey… a sense of discovery of a truth, of a great
truth that has lain hidden until now… anticipation fills your mind and body as you
continue on your journey and soon you are flying past Sirius… and you reflect that the
ancient Egyptians of Earth knew this star… thousands of years ago… and then you
realise that time here is irrelevant… that a thousand years might just be the tiniest
moment or the longest age…
…and it begins to dawn on you that you are travelling further than man has ever
even seen before… beyond the reaches of even the most powerful telescope that has
ever been invented… beyond the places that mankind can even imagine, except in his
dreams… dreams that might revolve around a great universal truth but which evaporate
like a silken mist as wakefulness approaches… and anticipation seems to fill every pore
of your entire being… a sense of something special about to happen… or already
happening… and it begins to seem to you that you can sense a gentle light coming from
somewhere… and even though you can’t yet see it… it’s as if you can feel it… sense it
with some part of you that has lain dormant until this moment… as if you are in touch
with the entire universe, in touch with everything that man has ever known or ever will
know… you can sense it on your skin… in the very depths of your mind… in every cell
and every pore of your entire body… and you realise that you are in the presence of…
the origin of all things living… of all thought, of all feelings… and for a few moments
you bask in the wonderment of recognition… that we are all one… that every living
thing… not just on earth, but in the entire cosmos… is all part of one beautiful,
wonderful, awe-inspiring force of life…
…and with this recognition, the light becomes stronger and brighter… stronger and
brighter… until it fills every part of you… and you know that where you are, right at
this moment, is the origin of all creation, of all things living… all things that have
lived… and all things that will ever live… and then, quite suddenly, it’s gone… and
you find yourself returning… but with a deep understanding that will allow you to
function more effectively, more confidently, than ever before… and as though you
have moved through a gateway in time and space, you realise that you are suddenly
drifting down towards Earth, with a wonderful feeling of completeness… and you bring
this feeling back to the here and now with you… to this room… today… bringing back
a knowledge and a confidence that will allow you to achieve your every goal, your
every wish…
Evolution
This is a great deepener for the analytical and logical personality, especially the one
who has little or no spiritual beliefs. It works well in conjunction with the ‘Body
Confusion’ induction elsewhere in this book. For information, this is an accurate
representation of the evolution of life on earth. To get the best from it, you will need to
convey the right atmosphere in parts that will be obvious as you read it.
And now I want you to just let your thoughts drift for a moment… before I ask you to
exert all your powers of concentration on what I’m going to talk about… and there
aren’t too many people who can focus upon this concept with total clarity… so you can
tell me if I’m getting too complicated… and I’m going to tell you a powerful story that
began a very long time ago… long before there were men on the earth… long before
there were even the most rudimentary creatures that could be recognised as creatures…
in fact, long before there was even the oxygen in our atmosphere that would support
creatures… because, three and a half billion years ago, the first life appeared on our
planet… a single cell of life… it’s a mystery where it came from, for there had been
nothing like it before… and it was just a single cell… but it was real life… and it was
the only life… for almost three billion years… and then, almost suddenly, there was a
different life… life that had many cells now… life that could almost be called
creatures… life that could move and react to stimuli… yet these were creatures that
existed even before plants and they were such simple creatures… that you could
wonder how on earth they managed to survive in the hostile environment that was this
planet in those days…
… and time passed slowly and inexorably… and all sorts of plants and vegetation
came into being… more than four hundred million years ago… grasses… mosses… the
earliest forms of the plant life that we still have today… and then there was some
magic, special magic that nobody can truly explain… magic from three hundred and
seventy million years ago that created the first real creatures… that lived in the sea, but
could live on land, too… and then came insects, and soon, there were creatures with
scales of armour that lived only on land, tough, powerful creatures that fought so
viciously that only the very fittest of them survived… and then… two hundred and
eighty million years ago… there came a moment of quiet, a moment of calm… when
almost all that new life just seemed to stop… to fade away… leaving a nearly empty
earth… that had been prepared by these early creatures… paving the way for the
fearsome creatures that shortly followed… two hundred and thirty million years ago…
some of the most awesome creatures that had ever walked the face of the earth… land
animals that were like nothing that had ever been seen before… that fought even more
ferociously than those that had gone before them… so that, once again, only the very
fittest survived, only those with the fastest body and the quickest brain could live… and
then… there were suddenly creatures that could fly, that could actually soar to the
heavens, then swoop to the ground and soar high into the sky once more… looking
down on this world that was once barren and yet was now teeming with life… with
creatures that could move, and react… that could fight and compete for survival… and
there were suddenly flowering plants with seeds that could spread so easily, so
abundantly… and soon there came the behemoths, great lumbering beasts that would
crush and smash all that stood in their way… the last of the dinosaurs… before, once
again, there was a moment of calm, a time of quiet, and once again… life just seemed
to almost fade away… almost… but not quite… sixty six and a half million years
ago… and then there came an age of ice… and yet, still new species developed…
creatures with warm blood and hair and fur about their bodies, to protect them from the
cold… and millions more years passed… until there was an animal like no other… an
animal like an ape, yet one that could walk on its hind legs, standing tall… quicker and
more clever than those who had gone before… and then there were more of these
creatures, becoming yet more clever with every mutation, with every stage of
evolution… and they discovered how to control fire, to make tools, to begin to work
with the natural resources around them… to make their life more secure and more
comfortable… and this species survived earthquakes and volcanic eruptions… bloody
and violent battles… plague, famine and pestilence… this species seemed to be able to
survive anything that befell them… and then one hundred and fifty thousand years ago
came the first of the new race… a woman in Africa, who was different… cleverer,
faster and stronger than her ancestors… and she began to create the tribe of modern
mankind… this race spread over the whole of the planet learning how to farm and
create great civilisations and understand their own history… and one day, not so very
long ago… two of these creatures were peering at a small piece of rock… studying,
through a microscope, the tiniest of imprints that lay there… and one said to the other:
“What is it?”… and the other replied: “It’s a fossil… a tiny fossil of a creature that
lived three and a half billion years ago… a creature that was just a single cell… ”
“Where did it come from?” the first one asked. “I don’t know,” came the reply, “But it
was life… it was real life…”
And you are descended from this earth… with all those resources that have gone
before you… resources for success that are born into us all… resources that you can
begin to use so effectively now, to help you…

Out of Body
This is a good deepener for the CE personality type, since it has many novel concepts
to hold the imagination and will even focus the scientific thinker who will be able to
anticipate certain parts of it. It works especially well as a prelude to motivational work.
I wonder if you can imagine… as you lay there so relaxed… that the middle core of
you, that part of you that is pure energy and knows everything about everything… can
just gradually drift the merest fraction out of the shell of your physical body… not
enough, just yet, to become completely free… but just enough to realise that that part of
you is very special… that part of you is the very essence of you… and it might be that
you can feel that ability to just move the merest fraction out from your physical body…
and I don’t know if it will seem to you that you somehow float upwards… or
sideways… or just in some direction that doesn’t seem totally clear… maybe it’s just a
feeling that you can become free… at any moment you choose… and knowing that
when you become free you will still be joined to that physical body by the finest of
threads of silver… a thread which will allow you to travel wherever you wish, even to a
different time, perhaps, yet still have you in touch with yourself… ready for later…
when you have finished your adventure… it might be that you will stay just within the
confines of this room, so that you may feel yourself hovering somewhere near the
ceiling… or perhaps discovering that you can actually move into a slightly different
dimension in some way… I cannot know how it will seem to you as you imagine that
possibility… I can only imagine…
…and of course, all things start with imagining… so you could imagine that all
at once you could find yourself as free as a bird, swooping and wheeling through the
air… soaring up to a mountain peak somewhere… high into the sunshine… feeling as
though you were on the very top of the world… or perhaps sending that energy that is
you way down into the deepest of oceans… to a place where man has never been
before… so that you can observe the creatures that live their life there… creatures that
will never know of the existence of the rest of the world… and yet, somehow, you
realise that you and they are connected in some way… and even though your physical
self is not there, they seem to be aware of your presence in their world… aware of the
connectedness of everything… just as you realise you are… and that awareness of the
connectedness of everything somehow seems to fill your whole being with a sense of
delight that soars inside you like a huge wave of exuberant energy…
…and this energy can allow you to move through time and space at the speed of
thought, faster even than the speed of light… so that no sooner do you think of a place
than you can find yourself there… anywhere that you have ever seen in your entire
life… anywhere that you can bring to mind… you can be there… and you find a sense
of freedom that somehow gives you energy… and then you realise the great truth that
you are energy yourself… a pure human energy with the ability to achieve all that you
set out to do… and it seems to you that if you could just have a fresh start in some way
that you could achieve absolutely anything that can be achieved… and you pause for
only the briefest, merest, sliver in the fabric of time before the idea comes to you… an
idea so perfect and so outrageous that you cannot wait to begin to pursue it…
You summon up an energy that only you know how to find, an energy for a very
special task… and suddenly you are flying through space moving faster than the speed
of light, faster than time itself… after a short while, you pause for a moment, hovering
in the darkness of space… looking at the earth… and you know that you are not yet
where you need to be… and still you go on travelling… travelling ever faster with
every second… until some deep knowledge tells you that this is the place… this is the
special place that you needed to find… this is a place that existed before the earth ever
did… and it’s because you have travelled faster than time itself that you have reached
this special place… and you settle down to wait for the event that you know is about to
happen… vaguely aware of the presence of another somewhere near… and then you
see what you have been waiting for… a sudden flash of light millions of miles away…
a flash of light that fills the heavens for a moment before subsiding… and you smile to
yourself as thoughts and words seem to fill your mind… thoughts and words that
emanated from that presence that you had felt earlier… “That’s the beginning of the
existence of the Sun… and around the Sun will soon spin the planet called Earth…”
And you know that it is time to begin the journey back, following that silver
thread… back to the Earth… and arriving at just the right moment in time for you to
begin to find the life that you deserve… so that you can achieve all that you want to
achieve…
Stalactite and Stalagmite
Another universally effective deepener, suitable for all groups, thanks to the fact that it
combines multi-dimensional imagery and includes visual, auditory and kinaesthetic
components. This one is quite brief and should be read steadily, with some ‘majesty’
now and again.
I wonder if you can imagine a cave, deep beneath the surface of the earth… many
millions of years ago, before there were men to discover it… a cave with walls of
delicately beautiful colours… glowing gently as though an unseen light was
illuminating them from some secret place… iridescent blues and greens, like the
colours of a dragon fly… deep purples and indigos, muted golden tones and subtle
shades of an almost translucent red… and there’s a sense of a supreme calmness and
tranquillity, where nothing disturbs the peace… save for the faintest sound of a drip of
water occasionally falling from the roof of the cave to splash gently onto the floor
below… it’s almost a musical sound, with a haunting beauty that creates within you a
feeling of well-being… a feeling that all is as it should be, that everything around you
fits perfectly into the natural order of things… and you gaze up at the ornately vaulted
roof of this cave, a roof that looks for all the world as if it has been crafted by some
master of form and subtle grandeur… and it’s as if you can become part of the natural
wonders in this place… and you realise that you have discovered the source of that
steadily dripping water… one drop at a time seeming almost to float down until it
splashes upon a rainbow-coloured rock… one drip at a time, with what might be an age
between them… or just moments perhaps…
…and it is as if your thoughts can span time, as though time itself simply does not
exist… so that you can move forward to when you realise that each droplet is forming
at the tip of the tiniest stalactite… and you stare in fascination, somehow recognising
that each droplet of water is leaving the merest layer of minerals… a deposit of the very
essence of the earth… around the hollow centre of that miniature stalactite… gradually
forming a hollow tube… and you let your mind drift forward many thousands of
years… and all at once, you see a beautiful structure in that vaulted roof… not just one
stalactite, but many… some just like delicate hollow straws… others like cones… and
yet others that form lace-like fronds, as delicate as any fern in a forest somewhere…
and there are the stalagmites, too, wonderfully majestic formations, some of them
towering above you… some delicately fluted, others as silkily smooth as marble… all
of them formed as those droplets of water fell… over thousands upon thousands of
years… forming solid structures like organ pipes sometimes, so that you can so easily
vividly imagine that you can hear heavenly music being played…
…and you begin to realise the power of this natural majesty… gazing in awe at the
proliferation of natural beauty, beauty and colour that has never before been observed
by any man… and still you let your mind drift forwards through time… to when some
of those stalactites have met their opposite stalagmites… massive structures joining at
the centre… joining in a delicate point almost as fine as a sewing needle… so that it is
difficult to be certain whether or not they actually touch… or if there is just, perhaps,
the most minute of gaps just waiting… waiting for the completion of a natural task that
has taken so many thousands of years… and it seems to you that, somehow, you have
observed something that will be taken for granted by many… that you have had a
special privilege to observe the earth at work within itself…
…and a faint sound comes from somewhere behind you and you glance around to
see a party of individuals being lead by a guide… who points out the features of this
magical place… they don’t see you at first and you listen with interest as the guide
explains how the stalactites and stalagmites were formed from the earth’s natural
minerals, over many hundreds of thousands of years… that stalactites are always
hollow and stalagmites never are… and then he suddenly notices you and gives you a
rather puzzled look…
“How long have you been here?” he asks.
“Oh,” you reply lazily, with the faintest of smiles, “Long enough, I think. Long
enough.” And in that moment you discover within you, the great truth that you have so
much knowledge, so much wisdom, so many resources that you have never fully
realised before...
The Canyon
This is one of my favourites. It is suitable for any personality type and the metaphor
embedded within makes it effective for those who are finding difficulty in achieving
some goal or other.
And you can imagine, with that powerful part of your mind that knows how to imagine
things… that you can fly, as free as a bird… sailing on a breeze and gazing down at the
landscape beneath you… noticing what looks like just a small gorge… that has a
magical sort of feel that seems to draw you closer… and you find yourself drifting
down and down, deeper and deeper... drifting down into a very special place... a
canyon... a canyon where the walls sparkle as if they are inset with gold or silver... or
precious gems... or perhaps quartz that reflects the rays of the sun... and on one wall of
this canyon there's a grassy ledge... and I don't know if this ledge is as big as a football
pitch or as small as this room... but your mind knows... and I know that somewhere on
this comfortable grassy ledge, there's a special place just for you to sit... and wonder at
the marvel of nature all around you... with the sun from the clearest of blue skies just
warming you... not too hot... just right... and as you look around you suddenly realise
that there are waterfalls... one of them so close, so majestic, you wonder why you
hadn't noticed it before... and there's a gentle silver mist that just floats in fronds
between the canyon walls... and in this silver mist there are rainbows... some of them
inverted, upside down... and one of them like a giant orb of colour, suspended, seeming
to just float there in the canyon... creating a wonderful sense of calm as you listen to the
waterfall tumbling over the rocks, and crashing and roaring its way to the floor of the
canyon...
…Every so often, a small droplet seems to separate itself and hang almost
motionless, spinning and sparkling like a liquid diamond... and reflecting the sunlight,
every colour of the spectrum... it seems to you that you could almost reach out and
grasp it, but in that same instant, you realise that it would become just colourless water
in your hand... and you watch in contentment as that diamond droplet gently finds its
way back to the tumbling waterfall... and you can smell the fresh, peaty scent of the
water... feel the silky gentleness of the mist against your skin... and you wonder at the
fact that this river has been flowing for millions of years... wonder at the fact that that
this river actually created the canyon in the first place... long before man walked the
face of the earth... and it will continue to flow for millions more years, maybe until man
no longer walks here... and you wonder how it would be to be like that bird again,
soaring and wheeling over this place... swooping down to the river, then soaring up into
the heavens, and with that sharp vision of a bird being able to look down on this
magical place... and see everything so clearly... and in its proper perspective... to see
the majesty of life...
…And you observe a huge fish… a salmon, the biggest salmon you have ever
seen… making its way towards the foot of the waterfall… and you gaze in wonderment
as this huge salmon begins to leap upward through that majestic torrent of water…
leaping, holding its position, its body just shimmying gently to hold its place in the
water while it gathers strength for the next leap… then another leap, and another, and
another… and you hold your breath in wonderment as you watch the fish slowly but
steadily approach the top of the fall… then you feel a surge of joy as it makes one last
final effort and leaps over the top of that massive waterfall, a surge of joy so strong that
you feel compelled to follow… and you find the salmon resting in a tranquil pool…
just drifting calmly and easily in a pool so tranquil, so serene, that you wonder how it
could possibly feed that roaring torrent… and you drift back down to your ledge, your
safe place… and realise that there are caves behind those waterfalls... caves that you
could visit in your mind to find answers to questions, solutions to problems... and as
you ponder on these almost magical thoughts... you realise that in the special place
where you're sitting.... there's a beautiful feeling of total tranquillity... an enchanting
serenity... that seems to flow through every pore, every cell, every fibre of your entire
body... as though you're cocooned in some way... in a special place that is yours and
yours alone... a special place you can always find whenever you want to… a special
place where you can make wonderful things happen for yourself, just by imagining
them... and as you imagine those things, it's as if you can see them reflected in the
waterfall... reflected in the waterfall so clearly, so distinctly, that you can see yourself
looking exactly the way you want to feel...

The Now Pyramid
Working extremely well for the intellectually orientated RO client, this one is
therapeutic in itself and works well when the client is seeking to make changes to
behaviour patterns that are rooted in long held belief structures. It has a noticeable
confusional element to it and it is advisable to read it through several times before
using it.
While you’re just relaxing there… I’m going to talk to you about something that is very
important… very important, right now… and it’s an interesting thing, the moment of
now… because even as I say it… it no longer exists… it’s a fact that that moment of
now, just now, that moment when I said I was going to talk to you about something
important… had already passed into history by the time I had said it… had become part
of the past… but you could so easily still act upon it… just as if that moment were still
here… still here with us and still active… because you truly understood that moment of
now… and every moment of now is exactly like that… passing into history and
becoming part of the past even as you think about it… and the only reason any of this
makes sense is because of the moment that was now when I started talking about it and
you started understanding it… and that moment only made sense because of the
previous moments of now that had brought you here today… and you can wonder how
many moments of now are interconnected at the start… or become interconnected as
we begin to make more sense of them when the very next moment of now unfolds…
and every moment of now is connected in some small way to every other moment of
now… that you have ever experienced… and every moment of now that you
experience… is always at the very top of a pyramid of nows… always at the top…
replacing the moment of now that was there but that has now become part of history…
part of our understanding… and because of this, that pyramid of nows is constantly
changing… and it can start to become exciting when you recognise the great truth…
that any moment of now that ever existed… can take on a totally different meaning as
the next moment of the now that is now unfolds… and you can find a greater
understanding… maybe seeing something that went unnoticed before… or perhaps
suddenly realising the full meaning of something that has seemed curiously vague in
the past… even a moment of now that was so long ago that you can scarcely recall it
can be like that… something that was a moment of now way back in the past can
suddenly take on a whole new meaning, a crystal clarity that is so enlightening… to
discover… and sometimes… time simply doesn’t matter… time simply doesn’t even
exist, as far as that powerful subconscious mind of yours is concerned… so that
something that you discovered many thousands of nows ago can suddenly take on a
whole new meaning… as a new understanding forms… a new tip of the pyramid… that
changes with every fraction of a second for every day of your life… and it can be an
awesome thought that any one moment of now can create a lightning flash of
realisation… a sudden clarity… that might happen at this very moment… or at some
point in the future… because of another moment of now that has yet to be… and that
powerful subconscious mind of yours knows just how to access any part of that
pyramid… maybe something right down in the lowest part… when you were finding
out and discovering all sorts of things about life… and making mistakes, natural
mistakes, during that learning that we all have to do… or perhaps remembering a
moment of now from somewhere near the middle of that pyramid… or right out on one
edge… or one that happened only yesterday or the day before, perhaps… or maybe last
week… or last month… or last year… and of course, all those moments of now contain
their own fragments of our entire being… and can’t be changed… and yet… we can
change the understanding of any of them… and change the understanding of how they
fit together… and change the understanding that we have about ourself because of
them… and it’s an interesting thing that just by thinking about that pyramid of now…
and directing your thoughts to any part of it… then we are carrying the moment of now
that exits right now, right at this moment… into those past moments of now that we
thought at the time that we had understood… and yet may not truly have done so… and
because of this… your subconscious can easily absorb ideas and concepts that are
beneficial to you and to your well-being… as the understanding that comes from this
very moment of now that exists right now… is carried into the deepest parts of your
being… into the very depths of that pyramid of nows… so that you can find a new
understanding about self… a new understanding that you can achieve the goals and
aims you set for yourself… a new understanding that you deserve to achieve the goals
and aims that you set for yourself… because it’s a fact that that powerful subconscious
of yours is in touch with every moment of now that has ever existed for you… and
because of this… if you can think of a goal… then your subconscious knows and
understands you can achieve it…

The Secrets Room
I often use this as a preliminary to regression/analytical work, after a standard
induction. With a little modification, the ‘secrets room’ can probably be used for
recovering lost/hidden items. It works well for almost everybody, but particularly for
the RO type.
And now you’re so wonderfully relaxed, nobody wanting anything, nobody expecting
anything, and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to do but to relax... I want you to
imagine that you’re just an observer of your own mind... drifting slowly down through
your levels of consciousness... in the upper level at first... the part that deals with the
hurly burly of every day life... where decisions have to be made and the full meaning of
things has to be considered and taken into account.... it’s like the sale floor of a busy
department store, at a peak shopping time... crowded full with shoppers and staff...
And you’re just an observer, quietly, softly, drifting down... lower and lower... and
lower... still in the subconscious mind, not yet in the subconscious... down to the level
where things are half heard, half remembered... partly realised... the part where things
are formed before they really begins to take shape... this is like a lower floor of that
same store... the floor, perhaps, where everything is unpacked and made ready for
sale... the place where things get the final polish before they are revealed to the
world…
And you just carry on, drifting deeper and deeper down...lower and lower... down
now into the upper reaches of the subconscious... this is the part of your mind that
colours your thoughts... that makes you like some things and dislike others... the part
where sudden ideas and inspirations spring from... sometimes catching you almost by
surprise... the part of your mind that is only just hidden from consciousness… so that
you are sometimes aware that there is something just beneath the surface… the floor
where all that store’s stock is kept…
And still you just drift lower and lower... softly, gently, down and down... to the
lower levels of your subconscious... as far down as you can go... to the part of your
mind that governs how you see the world... this is the floor that’s the most important of
all... where accounts are kept and campaigns are decided... and judgements are made…
the part that’s invisible and yet controls the way that everything works…
This is the part of your mind that controls how you feel... it’s the birthplace of
feelings like pride and anger... pleasure and envy... happiness and pain... and all the
other emotions that make you into the sort of person you are... this is also where secret
memories from a long time ago are stored... memories that are sometimes so secret that
even you have no conscious knowledge of them... but even without that conscious
awareness, they can colour your judgement and affect your feelings... sometimes
benign... but often causing all sorts of problems...
Now I want you, if you will, to use your imagination even more powerfully... I
want you to imagine yourself at the end of a long corridor... sweeping away in front of
you in a long gentle curve... so that you can’t actually see the end of it... but you know
instinctively that it’s completely empty... that there’s nobody here but you... and as you
move along it, you see that there are doors set in the walls at intervals... doors to
different parts of your mind... and eventually... eventually... you find yourself outside a
door with the legend: ‘Secrets’ inscribed boldly upon it... you can see that it’s locked,
with a large key... and you realise that this is the room where your secret memories are
kept...
This is the room where your secret memories are kept... things that have been
locked up here by your subconscious mind because they once upset you in some way...
things that hurt you... things perhaps that frightened you so badly you simply couldn’t
bear it... and maybe some things that you simply found so uncomfortable you had to
turn away from them... they’re all memories from a very long time ago... and they can’t
hurt you now... but your subconscious doesn’t know this... and it continues to take
responsibility for protecting you from them... and that responsibility weighs heavily in
your subconscious... and because your subconscious governs how you feel from day to
day... that weight affects you consciously…
But these memories are nothing more than thoughts now... they can’t hurt you any
more...and your subconscious can simply let them go... so you just turn the key in the
lock and slightly open the door... just leaving it ajar... and you’ll find, over the next few
days… that you’ll begin to recall some of these old memories from the past... some
during dreams... some while you’re awake... some of them perhaps just popping into
your head when you least expect it... and for every memory you recall, you’ll find
yourself feeling just that bit lighter, just that bit happier... just that bit more able to get
on with today’s task of living... and as you realise, with a sense of joy and
anticipation… that you can bring about the changes that you need in your life… bring
them about for yourself… you can actually become aware of an intensity of purpose, an
intensity of focus… in your subconscious mind…

Universal Mind
This is a good deepener for the intelligent RO individual who needs to employ thought
process to maintain concentration. It works especially well for those with a scientific
bent, not so well for the artistic soul.
Just letting your thoughts drift now… and I wonder if you’ve ever paused to think just
how your thoughts can drift… is it, perhaps, a voluntary process… or is it something
that is governed by some mysterious inner self… a deeper part of you that needs to
explore the mysteries of your mind… the deepest parts of your personality, where
established knowledge and accepted concepts exist alongside flights of imagination and
fantasy… where new ideas can spring from in the blinking of an eye… sometimes to be
lost almost as soon as they have been found… sometimes blossoming into something
wonderful, that inspires and enhances the lives of others… or maybe just provide a
passing moment of pleasure, a moment that you would not have missed for the world, a
moment that subtly changes your way of being… even though it passes and is gone
forever… and you can wonder about the maze of connections between all the thoughts
in your mind… and wonder if those thoughts are there all the time, just waiting for the
moment that you notice them, which might happen maybe only once in a lifetime… or
perhaps you’ll think them every day, many times over… perhaps that’s the way it is…
or it might be that those thoughts only exist as we think them, and for the rest of the
time simply are not anywhere…
…and sometimes it seems as if those thoughts are being shared by somebody
else… so that it’s difficult to know if you read their mind or they yours… or maybe
they came from outside… so that all the thoughts in the world are just waiting for
people to think them, so that there might be many people all thinking the same thought
at the same time… in many parts of the world… or even the Universe… and you could
think of your mind as a vast Universe in itself… a vast Universe around which you can
travel as you wish, visiting distant areas of thought where you have never been
before… then, in the very next split second, you can explore areas that are familiar,
everyday thoughts… and you can sometimes discover that some of those thoughts can
connect with each other, giving a whole different meaning to things that you thought
you knew well… and you can become aware that all the parts of that Universe of your
mind are all interconnected… intertwined in a glorious series of connections that can
allows us to achieve whatever we want to… and there are parts of that Universe of your
mind that are so distant… so unfamiliar to you, that you find yourself drawing into
yourself to consider them… to fully understand their meaning and the resources that
you might find there…
…but perhaps the most special part of that Universe is the part that we visit in
dreams… whether those dreams are while we are awake or while we sleep… because in
that special part of our mind we can make things happen just the way we want them to
happen… that special part of our mind draws on all those other parts to use the sum
total of all our experience… so we can allow our wildest dreams and flights of fancy to
take us to imaginary places where everything is as we want it to be… or we can create
new scenarios that are the answer to problems and difficulties… and sometimes… we
can discover, in those special parts of our mind, how to turn those thoughts and dreams
into a sort of reality… that might be even more rewarding, even more inspiring, than
the dream from whence it sprang… because another special part of our mind, the
learning part, the part that sometimes so quickly discovers how to solve problems,
doesn’t really mind where it learns from… from reality or fantasy… and if we can see
something clearly in our mind’s eye… and feel how it would be if it were real… if we
can hear it, and smell it, and see it and feel it… if we can truly sense it as if it were
real… then that learning part of the Universe of your mind can begin to work a very
special sort of magic… and all you have to do is… nothing at all… that’s right…
absolutely nothing at all… just allowing that learning part of your mind to do all the
right things to help you get exactly what you want from life… so as you’re relaxing
there in that chair… I want you to now allow yourself to discover… in that magical
part of your mind… exactly what you would like to happen in your life… sensing, in
that special part of you that knows just what to do and just how to do it… the very thing
that you truly want, truly need to create that special feeling you have when you just
know that your life is beginning to work out just the way you want it to…

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themselves also have guidelines as to which personality the best suit.

recognise each type.

A potted history of our kind

behaved like us.

environment in which they lived.

Empire. Then, something of extreme importance happened, something that was to

affect the whole of the human race for ever more.

The first settlements were formed.

became the Settlers and discovered their evolutionary destiny.

areas of land as a result.

between the Settlers and a bunch of club-wielding roughnecks wearing strings of

ninety-thousand years at least of wandering savage, against relatively few years of

right for you, diluting your inherited strengths and attributes.

following; giving the orders, not taking them.

conducive to success - and if you managed to over-ride that ‘programming’ eventually,

Reactions, not events

more inclined to the predominating characteristic of their particular tribe. It seems

the way each tribe would have been.

and manipulative when necessary.

community-minded, recognising the worth of sharing tasks and keeping harmony

other two groups put together.

indigenous behaviour patterns being muted, or sublimated.

of (in order): Resolute/Organisational (or RO); Intuitive/Adaptable (IA);

Now we will have a look at a detailed description of each personality group. A

‘quick recognition guide’ is also given.

THE RESOLUTE ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTER

Forceful: Can always make their presence felt.

Resolute: High levels of tenacity and determination.

Organisational: Able to plan well and bring those plans to fruition.

Achilles heel: The need to always be in control.

Areas of conflict: Concerned with issues of loss of respect/dignity/integrity or any sort

IBS, constipation, etc.

will often be indicated by fear or anger.

nonsense attitude to life. Psychologically stronger than either the IA or CE personality

carefully phrased in such a way to leave as many options open as possible.

facial expression leaning towards irritability or hostility.

Positive attributes: Determined and tenacious; methodical and organisational;

thinker in discussion or argument, able to easily see and exploit loopholes or

advantages; practical and logical; good at recalling/using facts and figures.

phobias, hypochondria and/or obsessive thought or behaviour patterns and sometimes

actually take a considerable amount of actual pleasure in being bad-tempered or

THE INTUITIVE ADAPTABLE PERSONALITY

Sociable: Gets on well with almost anybody

Intuitive: A high level of instinct and general awareness.

Adaptable: Able to make the best of any situation.

Achilles heel: The need to be liked.

Symptoms: Usually concerned with feelings – inadequacy, depression, inferiority, low

and weeping can be copious.

there will then be a leaning towards a worried/anxious expression.

Positive attributes: Instinctive understanding of others; caring and compassionate;

genuine sixth-sense of the unadmitted attitudes or mood-shifts of others); flexible

approach to the plans of others.

with decision making and displays of under-confidence or unassertiveness; and they

depression and/or bouts of debilitating melancholia/depression.

THE CHARISMATIC EVIDENTIAL PERSONALITY

Restless: Must always have something ‘going on’.

Charismatic: Naturally outgoing.

Achilles Heel: The need for constant stimulation.

Symptoms: Anything dramatic. Hysterical blindness, paralysis, ‘massive’ panic