II. Preparation
- Call attention to body parts sequentially
- Patient relaxes each body part when prompted
- Variations of relaxation
- Tense and release Muscle groups
- Imagine warmth (descending into warm bath)
- "Letting go" or experiencing "deep calm"
- Feedback
- Suggest that the patient is doing well
- Patient moving into nice state of relaxation
III. Technique
- Take a deep breath and relax into the surface beneath you as you exhale
- As I guide you through this Progressive Relaxation process
- You can allow yourself to enter a state of Hypnosis
- That will help you achieve the therapeutic outcomes we discussed
- Begin by paying attention to your toes, tense and release them
- Enjoy how you can let them feel comfortable
- Move your attention to all of your foot
- The delicate bones, the skin, the Muscles, and let them all feel very good
- Take your time, you are doing well
- Let your imagination become even more absorbed in your doing something good for yourself.
- As you do so, you not only relax but move into a therapeutic state of Hypnosis.
- Let all your Muscles relax, relax them completely,
- Moving up from your feet to your legs
- Let the Muscles be loose and limp. Relax them all
- Now your thighs, and your hips. Let them relax.
- Your Stomach and abdominal Muscles, now can relax too.
- Let those Muscle relax.
- Your Shoulders, your arms, and your hands. Relax them.
- Now your neck. Let it relax. Do not mind if your head bows forward or to the side.
- It will be perfectly comfortable.
- Your facial Muscles can relax, and particularly the eye Muscles and the lids.
- Relax now, completely.