Recently, as I was working with a 12 year old girl who was having a lot of trouble in school and didn't feel very good about herself, I found myself creating a process (and script) off the top of my head, to help her read faster and remember more of what she reads. It took only that that one session to break through the reading problem. Another session with her helped her conquer her problem with writing, and another with her shyness in meeting other children. In each case, the problem was conquered with one session.
The request for copies of these sessions was overwhelming. Because of it, I decided to be more intentional about turning on my tape recorder whenever I had these "flights of fancy." Not long after, I was asked to be keynote speaker for a convention, the theme of which was "Hypnosis and Children." The combination of individual script requests and the convention deadline led to a script pull-together, which became Volume I of GREAT ESCAPES.
The scripts are eclectic. Some use visual language and others non-visual. Some are story-like and some are straight-forward hypnotic suggestions. Some are brief. Some are long. There are pages of affirmations, inductions, releasing methods, visualizations, post-hypnotic signals, and "prescriptions" for specific problems. The scripts are laid out in a way that allows therapists and others to slow down vocal speed, shorten content when desired, skip paragraphs and sections, adapt, and even take off on their own flights of imagination, with ease.
The books are designed for maximum flexibility by any therapist. They are in 3-ring form, making it easy to index according to individual preference; and allowing for additional scripts later. Each script stands alone, so it can be moved to other locations in the book, or to another notebook without resorting to a copier.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
What Others Say
A Young Girl's Testimony
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Using this Book of Scripts
Inductions Only:
The Star, the Tree, and the Garden
Blowing up Balloons: An Induction Using Focused Breathing
The Seashore
The Water Signal for Children
Pendulum Induction for Children
Prescriptions (Some of Which Include Induction):
Locating and Solving the Problem: Imprint Changing for Children
Burning the Ship: Getting Rid of a Child's Problems
Other Methods of "Dumping" the Past
Receiving Gifts: For Children's Self-Esteem and Confidence
Changing Labels: Creating a New Self-Story for Children
Being Animals: 6 Little Scripts for Self-esteem and Confidence
The Rainbow People: Making Friends
Improve Athletic Skills
The Reading Bubble in the Library of Learning
Meeting the Magician: Learning to Write Better
Getting Homework Done
The Memory Computer
Affirmations (Positive Suggestions):
Affirming a Child's Confidence
Affirming a Child's Health and Healing
Affirming a Child's Learning through Reading
Affirming a Good Sleep
Other:
Emerging a Child from an Altered State
Index:
Letter to a Friend: Dispelling the Concerns or Fears about Hypnosis, by Del Hunter Morrill
Children and Hypnosis, by Del Hunter Morrill
Letter from Australia
Problems of Children, which Can be Helped with the Use of Hypnosis, Visualization, and Additional Creative Imagination
Bibliography of Books, Scripts, and Stories Related to Imaginative Work with Children
About the Author
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