Hypnosis realerting
At the end of the hypnosis session you need to realert your client. One of the concerns that people have about hypnosis is what will happen if they cannot be "woken up." It is important to explain that they are not asleep but in a trance and if say the hypnotherapist dies the hypnotic rapport would be broken and either the client would return to full waking state or drop into a wonderful peaceful natural sleep.
Knowing this should give you the operator (hypnotherapist) full confidence that realerting is easy. The point is to do it efficiently and usefully from a therapeutic point of view.
In this phase you increase the volume and tempo of your voice (talk louder and faster). You use the opposite strategy to deepening. Since I count down for deepening I count up for realerting.
By the way I find intermixing the most important suggestions with the realerting is very powerful. Thus I may say to an actress who is preparing for a very important audition the next day:
- One coming back into this room - full of self confidence...
- Two feeling is returning to your extremities, finger tips, toes - knowing that you are going to do brilliantly tomorrow in the audition....
- Three eyelids begriming to flicker - knowing that you are not the target.... Felling very good, very safe, very secure....
- Four very happy now that you know you are becoming a better actress with every day....
- Five eyes wide open - remembering to thank Dr. Jay when you win that Oscar.... Fully awake.... Fully alert... Glad to be alive in such a wonderful day.
Sometimes your client is having so much fun in the trance that she does not want to open her eyes. I typically give her a little time and then repeat quite loudly:
"Eyes wide open.... eyes wide open.... fully awake feeling very good very safe... totally in control as you allow you conscious and unconscious communicate better and better and better...."