X Erickson Congress

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• Reviewing Classic
• Therapeutic Statements
• -Do not take a deep breath when you are
• experiencing a panic attack!
• -Express your anger
• -Face your fears
• -Live in the here and now
• -Be in touch with your feelings
• -The unconscious is always right
• Be generous and forgive
• When one find the trauma one is healed
• - Pace the client

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Reviewing Classic Therapeutic Statements

• With cases and anecdotes, this presentation
  shows how a therapist can question and review
  classic therapeutic statements and avoid giving
  the client suggestions which are difficult to
  achieve or are inappropriate.
• New and original ways of intervention are
  provided.

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Lets start with the first example

• Dont take a big breath if you are having a panic
  attack!

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What is anxiety?

• What starts an anxiety or panic attack is that
  the person feels an inappropriate response to a
  cause, and some times when there is no apparent
  cause.
• Often this mind-body response is a non specific
  one and without any logical explanation.

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What is anxiety?

• The person feels as if he is loosing the control
  of his body. To return the mind-body power, it
  would be good to give him adequate rational
  explanation in such a way that he would then
  understand the mechanism by which his body
  responds and then not panic when or if this next
  occurs.

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What is anxiety?

• Combining suggestions and explanations, and
  telling anecdotes as examples which are powerful
  metaphors, at the same time allowing the therapy
  to be less focussed on the problem itself and to
  be a more a relaxed conversation helping to
  de-dramatized the situation.

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Elements of the intervention

• A metaphor to blow the joke candle until the
  last part of fire disappears will be like
  extinguishing the anxiety attack so that it
  cannot restart.
• To give the person back power over his own body,
  and to give him a resource that he can use to
  blow instead of asking him to take a deep breath,
  which is something he can't do when he is feeling
  a panic attack.

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Elements of the intervention

• To make an external anchor the candle will be
  external to his body and the association made
  will be with a funny and pleasant moment
  (birthday/joke).
• Reminding the person that after all, the
  respiration was just the first thing he did when
  he arrived here and something he has never
  stopped doing since then.

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For panic attacks

• A person who suffers or has suffered panic
  attacks says they felt as if they were going to
  die.
• It is good to help them experience inhalation
  after emptying the lungs, making the person aware
  that this was like the first inhalation he
  experienced at birth. Doing it again he is
  renewing his deal with life.

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Give an explanation to the client of the
self-hypnotic process he develops when he starts
to develop an anxiety attack dissociation/associ
ation

• When someone dissociates, he then associates
  himself with something else and this is like
  traveling in time regression/ progression
• Example Do I want to eat this apple?

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Negative self hypnosis
present
past
future
to focus the attention, to dissociate/ to
associate and to do a regression/ and a
progression
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The good news the person who suffers anxiety
knows how to do self hypnosis

• What he needs is to understand what he is able
  and what he has to do to change the content
  Instead of anticipating his fear, he needs to
  reorient himself and be able to recognize where
  he is in the here and the now.
• 1º The here to look around and see himself in
  the place where he is now, looking for details,
  and being aware of distances between the objects
  and himself (using his visual access).

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To teach a person to be orientated in the here
and now

• 2º The now to find out where he is in time by
  listening to sounds. Sounds couldnt be developed
  without the dimension of time (audio access).
• 3º Himself to recognize how he is autonomic and
  how he is related to his environment, paying
  attention to the contact of his feet on the
  floor, the contact with his clothes, the
  temperature (external kinesthetic access)

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Fear is a self accomplished prophecy

• To motivate the client not to anticipate his
  fears, it is useful to explain how a fear is a
  self accomplished prophecy The fear is an
  emotion which comes directly from the amygdale.
  It jumps over the rational mind, and becomes the
  powerful new goal.

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• Example
• The golfers fear.

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We counted the balls which went onto the bunker
over a weekend.
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The following weekend we watered the bunker with
green water. A third of the balls went onto the
bunker when it was painted in green.
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To be have fear of fear, makes a person focus on
fear itself

• Because of the fear of not being able to reach
  the goal, this becomes the most dominant thought
  and starts to substitute the real goal, and
  becomes the principal one. It is then much more
  present and powerful than the initial goal.
• When someone is focussed on the fear his
  unconscious mind does everything necessary to
  accomplish this new goal, instilling the fear of
  failure.

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• The antidote
• To be able to create a future
• goal
• Future progression

• Example
• An exam.

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To avoid focussing on the fear

• It is good to give an explanation to the client
  in such way that the fact of anticipating the
  fear, and being scared by the fear of fear
  would be transformed or reframed as a self
  hypnosis process, content of which could be
  changed by doing two things
• Focussing on the present
• To be able to create a future project

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The hypnotic induction can be done but it is not
necessary

• The suggestions, post suggestions and metaphors
  used during the hypnotic session will be

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The hypnotic induction can be done but it is not
necessary

• To be aware of what he sees, listens and notice
  around in the context (scene) created for the
  induction. That will help him to be more focussed
  on the here and now.
• The image of exhaling and inhabiting represented
  by the movement of a wave.
• The use of any of the hobby of the client as a
  way of achieving a goal and enjoying the process
  as he has a clear idea of dreaming (good
  anticipation) of the success.

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Conclusion the hypnotic technique used

• The post hypnotic suggestion of exhaling instead
  of inhaling.
• The regression to the birthday.
• The candle metaphor.
• Anchor or conditioning of blowing the candle.
• Dissociation and Regression to the flavor of the
  apple
• Reframing of the anticipation of the fear , like
  a self hypnotic resource.
• Activation of the motivation.
• Proposal of doing a progression to a distant
  positive future.
• Giving tools to focus on the here and now.
• The use of anecdotes the golf, the exam and the
  lift and wave.

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And here you have some anxiolytics