Best Practice
Meeting Feb 26th
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Supervision
Pain Management - Preparing the client for success
Pain Management - Glove Anesthesia and other techniques
We discussed:
Do not make yourself responsible for your client’s health –
do not come between your client and your client’s doctor or surgeon.
Doctors Letter Of Approval Every Time
Reasons why
Headaches – what if it is a brain tumour?
IBS – what if this is cancer?
Can you confirm that you will not be masking any pathology, that is later inoperable?
Assuming that you have a medical professional’s written permission to work with this client:
People naturally ignore advice once they feel better, who wants to not do things, that is why we have operations and such, so that we can remain active, young, and live our lives
Safety Guidance
people will not take care when they have no pain.
Leaving a signal pain, reminds your client to respect themselves.
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Start with self-hypnosis session:
If your client is not willing to self-care, you will be pushing water uphill, you will be the only one that gets wet.
Put your umbrella up and walk away.
Prescription for the client to practise, recording if possible, don’t make this too easy for your client.
If they do not have to do anything – they won’t.
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You will need to assess whether your client is capable of responding to direct suggestion or not:
Generally, I would:
Work with the client’s belief system first to create a sense of empowerment.
Pain disempowers people, reduces hope for the future, is depressing, psychologically be prepared to help people to have hope, however not by suggestion but by empowering tools that they can use.
Caveat:
Do not make promises.
“This can be managed by you but only if you practise what I teach you. If you do not develop the ability to self care and work with me, The Therapeutic Alliance, you will be wasting your time and your money – Sleep on it?”
“Sleep on it”
“I wont chase you, it must be your decision.”
Metaphor:
In dancing the leader has to prep the follow, for the follower to understand what the leader is about to do, leaders do that with body signals, positions and gestures for the dance to work, the follower has to respond to these cues for the sake of the dance.
The leader needs to understand the way that the music is moving, up and down beats, to understand their next move whilst positioning their follow to move with them whilst looking graceful, if not spectacularly amazing 😊
Understand your client, the rhythm that they respond to, prep them, move with them through their transition, allow them to be successful.
This is your success!
Pain requires a brain body connection, transmission of feelings from the body to the brain.
Analgesics work with the synaptic connects in the brain, not the body.
Analgesics and anaesthetics change how the brain perceives the signal from that area of the body.
The client becomes less aware of the feelings.
Alcohol does the same, it is the basis of addiction.
With addiction the client no longer feels pain, usually emotional pain.
Ok – I have prepped you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t forget to prep your client.
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Colour Therapy
Calibration – Calibration – Calibration – Calibration:
Reframe – Reframe – reframe
Your body has feelings to protect you.
Where are the feelings of protection in your body?
Explain them to me.
What colour are these feelings.
Does that have a shape, a sound, a motion, a smell.
Change the modality and you will change the feelings.
What would be a more comfortable colour?
Develop a way to change the colour, sound etc
What number comes to you now on the comfort scale, where 10 is totally comfortable?
Keep going – Keep going – Keep going
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Working with Calibration
Where are the feelings
What number comes to you that represents those feeling on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is totally comfortable.
What ever your client says ask them to turn the feelings up a whole number.
Anyone who has been in pain will understand how it might feel worse.
And much easier than it feeling better.
Also if they understood how to make it feel better, they would have?
Then turn them down half of a calibration.
Turn the calibration back up.
Turn the calibration down.
Keep going until the feelings are appropriate.
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We now need to consider the more traditionally brief strategic approaches
Hypnosis changes the feelings in the body.
How does your client naturally respond:
Light
Medium
Deep
Somnambulistic
Can you teach your client to go deeper.
Usually if the client commits to practising they will start to go deeper.
There is a Natural Anaesthetic in the body when you sleep, can this be enhanced?
Glove anaesthesia requires a medium depth trance however, hypno decapitation usually requires a deep level of trance at least.
If and when you are to use Glove Anaesthesia, carefully consider the whole approach, as you are required to with any of your appointments
Induction
Deepener
Post hypnotic suggestion.
Awakening Script.
Prescription
If we are to use the hands within the reduction of feelings, we are required to gain dissociation of feelings in the hand / hands.
Passing the numb / warm feeling onto an appropriate part of the body requires the hand to feel dissociated to begin with and then to experience the feelings to be passed on.
In which case:
Dissociative Inductions To Consider might be:
Hand Levitation as an induction
Hand Levitation Script:
Research has shown that if the practitioner assists the arm to rise it helps to get a levitation (Burkhard et al 2013).
This requires gaining permission to touch the client before trance is initiated.
… as you continue to look at that hand … it is perfectly natural … for your vision to distort … but what I really want you to pay attention to … are the feelings … the physical sensations in the hand …
in any part of the hand … you may notice a slight tremor in one of the fingers … or the thumb … there may be a slight movement of the whole hand … as an elbow muscle contracts … you may experience a numb … wooden sensation in the back of the hand … and it really doesn't matter just what feelings develop in the hand … the important thing for you to do … is to sense fully … whatever sensations develop …
and in a few moments’ time … I will ask your unconscious mind … to make your hand feel … very … very light … and … for your unconscious mind to lift that hand off your lap … and the hand will feel lighter and lighter all the time … and the lifting … will occur slowly … hesitantly … jerkily … the movement will be uncertain …
and I want you to notice … how with each breath you are taking … your hand is lifting … lifting just a little bit … lifting higher and higher … becoming lighter and lighter all the time … lifting … lifting …”
Always give suggestions for lifting and lightness on your client’s in-breath.
You can use imagery suggestions of balloons, air cushions, etc. to help the hand lift.
Keep repeating the suggestions for lifting until the hand has lifted all the way off your client’s lap, then continue.
Optional (if the hand is lifting well)
“… as your hand continues to lift … you will notice … that the hand … is beginning to move towards your face … lifting … lifting … (repeat as necessary) … and soon … your hand will touch your face … and then … your eyes will close … and you will go into a deep … very deep state of relaxation … but your hand … will not touch your face … before you are ready … lifting … lifting …
Repeat the suggestions for lifting until your client’s hand touches their face and their eyes close.
If the hand only lifts a little off of the lap, it is still a levitation and just continue with the deepening, lowering the hand.
If the hand does not appear to lift and you are out of time then you can either assist the lift (if you have permission to touch) or you can just continue with the deepening.
Deepening:
… and your hand can now slowly return to your lap … and with every centimetre it returns … you are going deeper and deeper … more and more relaxed … all the way deep
down relaxed …
and when your hand reaches your lap … it will rest there (use your client’s name here) … comfortably rest there …
You could use any additional deepening process to further deepen the trance if necessary.
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