Liz: So a pain in my legs that started in one leg and traveled up and around and then settled in both legs, and its varying in intensity. Sometimes it’s very painful. Sometimes I have no pain.
Igor: A couple of quick questions. Let me pause right now. Number one where is it right now? Where is it at?
Liz: It’s kind of interesting. This morning because it’s in here and here which, is not that common.
Igor: One a scale of 1-10, let’s say 10 is like excruciating agony. You really can’t even bear it and one is like you know, it’s just not a big deal. Where are you right now?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: Two.Igor: Okay, that’s fine, and you’ve seen a doctor about this. I’ve got your form right here. What did they say?
Liz: They don’t know. They’ve tried everything. They said degenerating hip and arthritis and dah, dah, dah, something but none of that.
Igor: Basically, they don’t know what to do about it but you have the experience of it.
Liz: They check it out and nothing shows up.
Igor: Alright, so whatever they tested, whether it’s the hip or the nerves or whatever, all those seem clear yet you still have the experience. Is that correct?
Liz: Right.
Igor: Excellent. The final question is when you came in this morning, was it at the same level it’s at now or has it changed over the course of what we’re talking about?
Liz: No, it’s shifted.
Igor: Where were you this morning and where are you now?
Liz: This morning it was more like down here, which is where it is more often, and stiffer. Then as I was sitting in the chair and you were talking, I could feel like it seemed like a nerve sensation running through my leg, and then it stopped completely and then when I went to check out, I was really noticing it in here.
Igor: Okay, so at what level would it have been this morning in terms of intensity from 1-10?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: Probably four.Igor: And right now on the front it’s about a two. Is that right?
Liz: Two, yes.
Igor: Once again there is a great temptation, which I will resist for a moment because you can see how easy it would be to jump on what her unconscious mind’s already doing, right? It’s already started pain alleviation. You realize that, right?
We’re halfway through the process. I have to pause it. Hopefully I’ll be able to come back to it in order to be able to show you some things, but you can already clearly see that it’s already happened, can’t you, right? Because you realize this as well, don’t you?
You were at one point this morning and somehow something shifted, and the only thing you did was start to think differently, right?
Liz: Right.
Igor: Now I’m not going to suggest that you continue that because otherwise I’d have no demo subject. However, if you want to be selfish you can do it to spite me.
Liz: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Igor: Have a seat. Give them a round of applause, folks. Thank you very much.
We’re coming to the technique phase now. We’ve kind of done all this. Would it be fair to say you’ve seen all this happen at least twice with real clients?
a. The first time was with Russ where it was direct. In other words, we were talking in a direct conversation and it happened.
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved b. The second time was with Liz, only we didn’t have the directconversation.
In teaching you about these ideas, the same experiences were occurring. Does that make sense? And your experience would have been very similar. You experienced the sense of pain and so on beginning to leave it. Is that correct?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Because once you’ve taken care of the things, the primal causes of it all, it all naturally starts calming down. Can I just ask you where you are now in terms of the sensations you have?
Liz: Probably two.
Igor: Still a two like from before and so on?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: So the question I have for you is, is two good enough for you or is this something that you want to explore and see where it takes you?
Liz: I can explore and see where it takes me.
Igor: Sure. What are you experiencing right now in terms of the sensations?
Liz: It’s buzzy.
Igor: Buzzy.
Liz: And tight.
Igor: All right so it’s buzzy and a little tight. Is it unpleasant or is it just a sensation at this point?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: It’s an unpleasant sensation.Igor: It’s a sensation that happens to currently be unpleasant, is that correct?
Liz: Yes, currently it’s unpleasant.
Igor: Can you all hear okay by the way? Is the sound coming through okay? Let’s just pay a few moments’ attention in knowing what you’ve already experienced, realizing how quickly your body’s shifted and I also realize there are times when it has been more intense in the past than others, and times when it’s diminished almost to nothing, right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: So it’s important for you to realize that your unconscious mind has done all this for you, and one of the biggest ways is by changing your attitude, your stress levels and all these other things.
As you think about it like that, just notice the sensation in your legs and notice that your unconscious mind can already start doing something now. What is that exactly? What is that?
Liz: Releasing?
Igor: It’s a releasing, isn’t it? Did you expect it to be there?
Liz: No.
Igor: I have to thank your unconscious mind because I asked for it to pause earlier on if you’ll recall, and it did that and I’m very grateful that it did that because it’s easier for them to see stuff if I don’t do it sort of magically. Do you know what I mean?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: It’s releasing, isn’t it?Liz: It is.
Igor: And you’re kind of enjoying that, aren’t you?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: It’s a very pleasant sensation, isn’t it?
Liz: It is.
Igor: Isn’t that interesting?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: How quickly something unpleasant can flip, turn around and be more pleasant than you realize, right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Is it continuing?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: My feeling is it’s gone beyond zero now into the negative numbers, right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: So you’re starting to feel as good as you used to be bad before, right?
Liz: Right. No. I don’t know about that.
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: Yes.Igor: Interesting, isn’t it?
Liz: It is interesting.
Igor: How did you do that?
Liz: I don’t know.
Igor: That’s right. That is the correct answer. You have no idea, do you?
Liz: No.
Igor: Yet there it is. It’s happening, right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: And you’re pretty happy about it, aren’t you?
Liz: I’m very happy about it, yes.
Igor: See, the thing is the thing you’ve done for yourself and the thing I want to thank your unconscious mind for is you’ve taken a whole new attitude to everything. You’ve started listening and paying attention.
There are things going on and you realize from time to time you’ll have aches and pains like every other human being does, but the beauty here is as this is transforming right now, something inside you can start to just rewire. To have a completely different attitude shift because all your legs were trying to do is get your attention. They have that now, don’t they?
Liz: Yes, they do.
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: Right now, yes.Igor: That’s because they have your attention and it’s the right kind of attention, isn’t it?
Liz: It is.
Igor: Now my sense is that from time to time you may have something you need to learn. I don’t know if there is something else going on inside there that you need to learn from or if it’s all been resolved.
I don’t know if you have an instinct about that right now or if you really don’t know. Where would you say you are at this point?
Liz: I’d say I’m moving towards the resolve.
Igor: You’re at the point of almost resolving it. You can feel it happening almost in the background, right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Let that continue for a while because in the same way as you can feel it resolving, you’ll also know when you’re done and I want you to be convinced about this. I want you to really know that when you leave here, it’s not just like oh it happened for a few minutes.
When you leave here, it’s solid. It’s something that you can take forward in your life, and the only way to do that is to really learn something, even if you don’t know what it is that you’re learning.
Right now you’re learning many things. You’re breathing of course. That’s right. It’s good, isn’t it? And you can feel that happening, can’t you?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: And it’s all happening outside of your awareness and that’s where it should be and do you know why? It’s because that’s where the problem was in the first place. The very part of you that was responsible for running the problem is now responsible for giving you those happy legs. Isn’t that a comforting thought?Liz: That’s cool.
Igor: How are you doing right now?
Liz: Really good.
Igor: Has that resolving thing completed yet or is there still a little bit more? So you’re actually testing the experience right now?
Liz: Yes. It’s resolving.
Igor: It is resolving, isn’t it?
Liz: It’s resolving.
Igor: It is resolving and there’s no hurry for that to happen. The key thing is I don’t know exactly why your legs and your nervous system were getting your attention, and you don’t know exactly why either. It’s clearly working what’s happening right now.
From time to time it may need your attention again, so can we make an agreement with yourself that if it needs your attention, it need not do it in such a painful manner as it did in the past. It can get your attention in different ways and, provided you pay attention, you’ll never need to pay another way. Does that make sense to you?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: Have you got that part? I have a sense that it’s now completing more fully,right?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Exactly. How are you doing right now?
Liz: Good.
Igor: Are you sure?
Liz: Yes, I’m sure.
Igor: As you think about your future, were there some things that would set you off more than others – like maybe the weather changes or something like that, or did it feel more random to you? I don’t know.
Liz: No, more random but weather sometimes, more random.
Igor: Okay.
Liz: I never could quite…
Igor: Figure out a pattern for it?
Liz: No.
Igor: That’s fine. It’s often the case. It’s not a big deal. What’s more important really is the relationship you have now specifically to your legs, but also the whole cycle that you had before. Doesn’t it feel different now?
Liz: It does feel different.
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Liz: Excuse me while I check this out.Igor: I want to emphasize something here. Just like with Russ, his body was trying to heal something and it needed time to move in a certain way to allow that to happen, correct?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Doctors have checked you out and there’s nothing that they can find that’s wrong but as we have heard, there may or may not be other things your unconscious mind is trying to get attention for. So just because they haven’t found it doesn’t mean necessarily there’s nothing there, and just because it was there doesn’t necessarily mean that something is there to find. Do you see where I’m going with this?
I don’t really know if anything physical there needs your attention, but you now have a signal. In fact I’d like your unconscious mind to give you a very clear signal if it needs your attention there again, how it can do it so you know to pay attention. Whether that means to go to the doctor or something else or just to be more careful, just pay attention.
Do you feel that signal coming up now? Something different, something unambiguous, something you can clearly sense, and it may be there’s nothing there left. It could just be that the experience you had before was just like a phantom limb type thing. I don’t know but it’s good for you to be convinced that whatever happens going forward, you have everything that you need. Do you know what I mean?
Liz: I do.
Igor: Why don’t you just close your eyes for a few moments? You can put the mic down if you need and really pay full attention to everything going on inside, both the real pleasantness of having gone through this whole issue, and the rest of your body too.
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved So, you get a real sense of what’s going on inside there so that any time in the future should you need to pay attention and perhaps be more careful with your body, it will tell you and you will pay attention. And if for no apparent reason at all your legs start to get real happy to demonstrate to you that you do have an unconscious mind – that’s right – then you can have that too.You can feel those signals beginning to find their own rhythm, can you not, to manage them sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker, sometimes going in one direction and sometimes the other, correct?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Really pay attention to those things so that you learn to recognize them in the future. If you recognize them and pay attention in the way you’ve learned to do now, then there really is no more reason for a pain to ever return in that particular way again, right?
Liz: Right.
Igor: Just do that for as long as you need to and then come back whenever you’re ready.
This is a different way of doing the test cycle and to also make sure there are resources in place because there is no direct relationship between the sensation that she was having beforehand and there being some kind of physical problem.
It may be that was just like a phantom limb pain. The problem’s already gone but the neurology has forgotten to shut off, or it could be that something else is going on. I don’t know.
What this gives her is a mechanism for paying attention without having to go down the path of agony. Does that kind of make sense to you? It just makes it a lot easier, plus in doing it this way it also takes care of the potential for a concern – what if I leave here and it stops working?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Do you have any doubts about it stopping working after you leave here now?Liz: No. I don’t have any concern about it stopping?
Igor: Really? How come?
Liz: Because there’s more of a...
Igor: Do you see what she’s describing here? That’s the unconscious process at work. It’s difficult to put words onto it because she has no idea what she’s doing, but she’s doing it and she knows she is, but she has no clue what it is, right?
Liz: Right, that’s for sure. I have no clue what I’m doing.
Igor: But you know you can do it, right?
Liz: Right.
Igor: Here’s the thing. Just pause whatever that process is for a second – just for experimenting – and then start it again. You have no idea how you did that, do you? But you can. Isn’t that crazy? You can do something at will and have no idea what it is or how you’re doing it. What a bizarre world we live in, but it’s good to know that isn’t it?
Liz: It is.
Igor: And it’s good to have that confidence, isn’t it?
Liz: It is. Thank you.
Igor: Do you feel like you’re done?
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Hypnosis Pain Control Demonstrations ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: Really?Liz: Yes, really.
Igor: You’re not kidding me?
Liz: No, I’m not kidding you.
Igor: Are you absolutely sure? You’re not being nice to me here because we’ve got a camera and everything?
Liz: No.
Igor: Really?
Liz: Yes.
Igor: Don’t lie to me.
Liz: I’m not.
Igor: I don’t like to be lied to.
Liz: I don’t lie.
Igor: Okay, in that case I guess you’re done. Give her a round of applause. Thank you so much for that. Thank you very much.