Standardised Hypnosis in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. - Asociatia ...

DJrl( Hermes, Samer G. Hakim, Peter Sieglight up here everything so soft, so iighi. so pleasantly relaxed and the colours around you maybe a yellowrape seed field the orange of the roofs ur the green of the woods, which spread far. and fade into the blue ofheaven at the horizon and even further away into violet, beautiful And you do not have to listen to each of mywords take everything you hear as a pleasant background sound like the rush of a waterfall when you sleepin fresh air .... and somewhere in Ihe distance there is Ihe calming sound of the water .... whieh accompanies you andmakes you dream so pleasanily and beautifuly and you ean use everylhing, even touches, because they are meant tobe very kind, these soft touches and they serve a kind purpose, and they will help you to feel even belter andeverything you can smell and taste reminds you of pleasant ihings of a pleasant taste and a pleasanl smell .... yesand you can help to make ihe trealnieiil continue quickly and comfortably by simply relaxing your head, your neck, yourtnoulh make il very sofl.as soil as a cuddly toy Feel how ihe skin of your head becomes smooth and your foreheadlike ihe smooth surface of a lake whose shores you can imagine now yourself and you can make the plaee insideyour mouth, whieh is deali with, cool and furry by turning off the blood fiow. Somewhere there is a stop valve you cantighten, a big stop valve, you can pul in both hands and tighten step by step And wiih every turn you swiich off theblood flow a little more one two Ihree fourth lurn five turn off more six let everylhing becomecold .... seven, cold and insensitive, and you can imagine how you are lying in a wonderful, warm bath tub andyour body rests in Ihe warm water and you bear ihe w:iter drop, and you breathe m ibe humidity and thii warmib andwatch the drops as some fall from ibe tap fall into the bathwater and cause lillle waves which spread more and moreand maybe you pul in the warm water a nice bath essence, whose smell you can inhale and whose eare you ean feelon your skin and you can allow your lefl hand lo lift jusl slightly oul of the waler .... and hear tbe sound, whicharises, and feel, how these fine hairs tin your left hand lie flat as the water runs down Iheni and how fa.st the handbecomes eool. when il rises above ihe warm waler and enjoy ihe coolness of your left hand because you cantransfer ihis coolness on to your head, your forehead, your moulh now your fingers your thumb as a liitletickling shows the increasing numbness of the hand how uumbfhe hand ean become when it rises from the warmbath waler. And it can help you to really relax and unwind in this bath water, while your head and hand rise from thewaler and they feel pleasantly ctwl and more and more insensitive, furry and ealm yes And, while this ishappening, you can simply allow your hand to do what il would like todo and you really do nol have Io worry aboutit and afler a while you can briefly check, whal il is really doing Coneenirate fully on your other hand, on yourrighl hand and lei il become warmer and warmer while you hear this sound because il is siill in the waler andihe blmid in your hand is pulsating strongly so that the blood flow in ihc lell hand becomes less and less while theblood How in Ihe righl hand becomes more and more, more and more warm and sensible and you can imagine, thatyou can breathe oul through your righl hand everything that still bothers you .... and ihat Ihe left hand feels as though itis covered with an ic-y glove, completely insensitive il feels, as if it is completely strange, no longer belonging to you,and you can now transfer this feeling to your mouih because it ean learn from your hand and when you experiencethis feeling now very intensively, this difference between lefl and right, then you can make the differenee moreand more iniense cooler and cooler warmer and wanner more and more numb lighter and lighterheavier and heavier. And it is definitely an ania/ing experience to feel ibis difference more and more, and you can allowyour hand to find a comfortable place somewhere, where il feels completely well and meanwhile beeomes even moreinsensitive so thai the righl one can become even more warm because it is your lightning conductor, you canbreaihe oul everything thioiigh it. and the left one helps you to feel less and less and when you, later at home, wantlo cope with pain then note now very exaclly. how your body feels, and beg your body for a sign somewhere, afeeling, a litlle noise, an image whicb comes lo your eyes now and give [his .sign a name, so that al any lime, whenyou say this name inside, you ean relurn lo ihis lovely relaxation and make the difference belween left and right more andmore noiiceable by lying down and breaihing deeply into your siomach. And simply allow your body to become heavierand ihis difference appears and when you say the name and when you have the feeling again which you havenow then you can lei your left hand go to where you feel the pain and it will be as if the pain disappears into thinair. after you have taken note of il again and have shown it your respeet and reverence, simply let il How out wiih thehelp of your left hand by lying in a meadow on a lovely soft carpel and dream aboul heaven and let everylhing[!y upwards with ihe help of your left hand, while you smell Ihe fragranee of Ihe grass and bear all ihese littlenoises around you when a blade of grass brushes against another blade of grass and a liitle ladybird runs along ityes And you can piclure your meadow yourself what you can see there and also Ihe surroundings of themeadow and how you feel more and more comfortable wonderful enjoying the peace, which has spread inyour body and hanging on lo your dreams that come and go all on their own su ihat another piclure canappear And you can use the time and meanwhile forgel completely, huw time passes by And il can be that itall feels very short ihal you would have liked to dream longer because, as in a dream, yuu can, while you are suwonderfully relaxed, simply forget time and you ean make pleasant moments la.st longer and if you have toovercome sumething. let this time pass by quickly allow yuurself to really enjoy the pleasant muments and youcan take your lime during ibese times to forgei time by thinking of limes, lor which you normally du nol have ihelime and it can be before ihis time or after this time it can be in the past, or it can as easily be in the future andyou have all the freedom Time, yuu can use to think of really pleasant thoughts develop pleasant, positive things.revel in lovely old memories and simply enjoy having time."European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis: 2006 volume 6 - issue 4ii