| Every hypnotist and hypnotherapist wants to provide | | | | you are hungry." The suggestions given at the end of |
| consistent high quality service. I would like you to | | | | the session work to develop new beliefs and |
| consider a five-phase approach. We have used it to | | | | behaviors based on the insights gained. |
| help thousands of clients at our Center and have | | | | Phase III: Forgiveness of Others |
| adopted it as a universal approach to working with our | | | | Phase III: Forgiveness of Others (FOO) consists of |
| clients. | | | | having your client: |
| By using a five-phase system you can help virtually | | | | 1. Hallucinate being with the person who hurt her, |
| every client: | | | | 2. Express how she feels about what was done to |
| 1. Reach somnambulism, | | | | her, |
| 2. Know that they were hypnotized, | | | | 3. Hallucinate being the person who hurt her and asks |
| 3. Experience true age regression, | | | | for forgiveness, |
| 4. Remove anger and guilt, | | | | 4. Forgives the person who hurt her, and |
| 5. Accept suggestions more powerfully, | | | | 5. Then receives suggestions for change. |
| 6. Overcome secondary gain issues. | | | | Looking at the above outline shows why FOO is |
| This approach is called 5-PATH®® which is the | | | | Phase III. The AR process uncovers who needs to be |
| acronym for Five-Phase Advanced Transformational | | | | forgiven. AR also provides both you and your client |
| Hypnosis. | | | | with a great deal of insight about the events that are |
| Here is an overview of the process: | | | | associated with the problem (the Initial Sensitizing Even |
| Phase I: Direct Suggestion (DS) | | | | and Subsequent Sensitizing Events, which also aids in |
| Phase II: Age Regression (AR) | | | | the forgiveness process). (See, The Ten Keys To |
| Phase III: Forgiveness of Others (FOO) | | | | Forgiveness, for more on forgiveness). |
| Phase IV: Forgiveness of Self (FOS) | | | | In this phase of treatment the therapist works as a |
| Phase V: Parts Mediation Therapy (PMT) | | | | mediator/counselor between the two (client and |
| We have found this to be the combination to use for | | | | offender) so that the offender can come to a point of |
| maximum success. This is because the techniques in | | | | asking for forgiveness and helping the client to forgive |
| each phase prepares the therapist and client for | | | | the offender. This releases feelings of anger and |
| success in the next phase. Notice that this process | | | | attachment to the old behaviors generated by it (i.e., |
| consists of five phases not five sessions. On average | | | | habits, addictions and anger issues). |
| the experienced 5-PATH® hypnotherapist will | | | | Phase IV: Forgiveness of Self |
| complete each phase in one session, given that each | | | | Phase IV: Forgiveness of Self (FOS) consists of a |
| session consist of about 20 minutes (typical of a DS | | | | very similar process as was done in the previous |
| session) to 40 minutes of hypnosis (typical of an AR, | | | | phase, but with some important differences. In this |
| FOO, FOS or PMT session). But, sometimes two or | | | | process your client: |
| even three sessions may be required to complete a | | | | 1. Is divided into two different parts or selves, one |
| phase. | | | | called the Self and the other called the Mistake-Making |
| Phase I: Direct Suggestions with Convincers | | | | Part, who represents her contribution to the pain in her |
| Phase I: Direct Suggestion (DS) consists of: | | | | life, |
| 1. Preparing your client for hypnosis, including your | | | | 2. Is encouraged to express her feelings about what |
| pre-talk and pre-hypnosis interview (or other intake | | | | the Mistake-Making Part has done, |
| process) | | | | 3. Is then encouraged to speak from the |
| 2. Assessing client's readiness for the session, | | | | Mistake-Making Parts perspective so that insights can |
| 3. The hypnosis session, which should include an | | | | be gained about the cause of such painful behavior, |
| effective induction (usually an instant or rapid induction) | | | | 4. The Mistake-Making Part is better understood and |
| with a covert test for depth of hypnosis, preferably | | | | renamed as a result of this new information as the |
| somnambulism, and a couple of convincers, such as | | | | Protective Part, |
| eye catalepsy and time distortion. And, of course | | | | 5. The two Parts are encouraged to forgive each |
| hypnotic suggestions are given for the client's issue. | | | | other in the light of their new understanding, and finally, |
| Structuring your sessions this way allows your client to | | | | 6. Receives suggestions for reinforcing the new |
| become the ideal hypnotic subject. The ideal client | | | | behaviors that will help her reach her goals. |
| feels comfortable with you and hypnosis. She is | | | | FOS follows FOO because forgiving other people, |
| confident that she can be hypnotized because of the | | | | especially the ones that contributed to your client's |
| convincers. And, she received the suggestions that she | | | | problem creates a better mental environment for your |
| came in to receive. When she comes in to see you | | | | client to truly forgive herself. Some clients will even ask |
| again the probability that she will go deeply into | | | | you, after forgiving others (FOO), "What about me? I |
| hypnotic somnambulism is very high, even if she was | | | | need to be forgiven too." Also FOS comes after FOO |
| not able to do so in the first session. | | | | because it is more difficult to forgive yourself when |
| As hypnotherapists we know that the main reason | | | | you are still harboring ill feelings such as anger toward |
| some people will not go into hypnosis deeply, or not at | | | | others. |
| all, is fear. It could be fear of hypnosis, fear of the | | | | Phase V: Parts Mediation Therapy |
| hypnotist or fear of what they might do in hypnosis. A | | | | Phase V: Parts Mediation Therapy (PMT) is a phase |
| good pre-talk is designed to remove these fears, but | | | | that often goes unused because the previous four |
| there is one fear that no pre-talk can remove, the fear | | | | phases, when done correctly are so powerful and |
| that the some clients have that they may fail to go into | | | | complete that it is unusual to have to go any further. |
| hypnosis. Phase I takes care of all of these issues. | | | | However there is a special situation where additional |
| Phase II: Age Regression | | | | work may be needed. This is when Secondary Gain is |
| Phase II: Age Regression (AR), as a minimum consists | | | | an issue. The term "Secondary"Gain? describes |
| of: | | | | situations in which a behavior or issue continues |
| 1. Re-induction and deepening of hypnosis, | | | | because there is something going on in the client's |
| 2. Age Regression, usually using the Affect Bridge | | | | present environment that either reinforces it or |
| Technique, | | | | demands it, even though the cause of the problem no |
| 3. The Informed Child Technique, and | | | | longer exists. |
| 4. Direct Suggestion related to success for the issue | | | | Some examples of Secondary Gain are psychogenic |
| that brought your client in. | | | | pain (where a client may experience pain after the |
| In my view, AR is the Royal High Road of All | | | | cause has been eliminated) and alcohol or drug |
| Therapies! It is certainly one of the most powerful tools | | | | addiction (where an individual goes back to using the |
| available to the hypnotherapist. However, I have talked | | | | drug or alcohol because of her desire to continue to |
| with many hypnotherapists who have given up on its | | | | associate with her old friends). |
| use because they could not reliably get their clients to | | | | PMT is based on a couple of influences such as the |
| experience true age regression (revivification). Good | | | | Parts Therapies taught by Charles Tebbetts and |
| technique and use of Phase I to prepare clients will | | | | Gerald Kein as well as the techniques used in conflict |
| overcome this problem and greatly increase success | | | | resolution where mediators work with parties in conflict |
| in using AR. | | | | to reach win-win agreements. |
| With 5-PATH® your client comes in for Phase II, | | | | Basically PMT consist of: |
| (usually the second session) looking forward to it. She | | | | 1. The therapist taking on the role of mediator, |
| is comfortable and in a positive frame of mind, | | | | 2. The client being divided into the parts that are in |
| expecting to do well. This positive mental state is best | | | | conflict, |
| for achieving the deep hypnosis required for the | | | | 3. The need, wants or desires being fulfilled by the old |
| coming phases of work. | | | | behavior are uncovered, |
| The well-trained hypnotherapists understands that her | | | | 4. New solutions are generated and agreed upon that |
| client may have many false beliefs about how the | | | | will fulfill those needs, wants and desires, |
| problem started, or have no conscious awareness of | | | | 5. The parts are reintegrated, and |
| when or how it started. This is why the Affect Bridge | | | | 6. Suggestions are given to reinforce the win-win |
| Age Regression Technique is the technique of choice | | | | behaviors that were agreed upon. |
| when doing AR. You can use the affect or emotion | | | | Since the reasons for continuing in the old behavior are |
| associated with the problem as a "bridge" back to | | | | uncovered, this too is an insight therapy, which causes |
| when it started. | | | | your client to become very suggestible, so direct |
| AR is an uncovering and insight therapy. It brings | | | | suggestion is used to end the session. |
| knowledge and understanding about the issue into the | | | | This has been a very brief discussion of a process |
| conscious mind. This insight also does something else | | | | that has proved itself time and time again. It is designed |
| which is profound; it causes the subconscious and | | | | to give you an approach that you can use for most if |
| unconscious levels of the mind to go into a state of | | | | not all of your client's issues. It is especially effective in |
| reorganization, making your client highly receptive to | | | | dealing with motivation, habits, psychogenic illness, |
| suggestions that are consistent to the insights just | | | | anxiety, compulsions, fears and phobias, relationship |
| experienced. | | | | issues and more. |
| This is why insight therapies such as AR, FOO and | | | | 5-PATH® is currently being used by |
| FOS are so powerful. As children we are highly | | | | hypnotherapists in 22 countries. |
| suggestible; our minds are not yet made up about the | | | | 5-PATH® was inspired by the work of, Dave |
| world, and it is much like soft clay. But by the time we | | | | Elman, Gerald Kein, Charles Tebbetts and Richard |
| reach our teenage years our view of the world and | | | | Harte. Dave Elman's book, Hypnotherapy, encouraged |
| ourselves sets into place, the clay hardens, our beliefs | | | | me to utilize instant and rapids inductions so that I can |
| and personality become set. Insight therapies open our | | | | work with our clients in somnambulism and to use |
| minds to suggestion for a short period of time | | | | hypnotic age regression. Gerald Kein continues to |
| increasing our suggestibility. We want to utilize this | | | | encourage us to do so in his videos, courses and in the |
| highly suggestible state by inserting important | | | | book we co-authored together. It was Mr. Kein who |
| suggestions at the end of each session. The mind will | | | | introduced me to a system he calls Universal |
| quickly return to its more solid state. We want it to | | | | Hypnotherapy, consisting of using age regression and |
| reorganize around these experiences and suggestions. | | | | forgiveness together, which is the foundation of |
| For example, a weight loss client experiences an AR | | | | 5-PATH®. Dr. Richard Harte convinced me to test |
| session and finds that she was eating to comfort | | | | clients to establish their level of hypnosis, and then I |
| herself, using food to cope with uncomfortable feelings | | | | began to use those tests as "convincers." (See, Use |
| from her past. This insight causes her to look at food | | | | Hidden Tests and Convincers To Improve Success |
| differently, and is now readily able to accept | | | | and Receive More Referrals, in the Hypno-Gram for |
| suggestions consistent with her experience. The | | | | more on convincers.) Charles Tibbetts work along with |
| session is completed by giving her suggestions that | | | | my own study of mediation theory contributed to the |
| "From now on food is only fuel and you only eat when | | | | development of Parts Mediation Therapy. |