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| nail biting |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 17-Mar-2010 13:23 |
| Hi Helen, nail biting usually needs one or sometimes two sessions to be fixed. Therefore it will cost whatever your therapist charges for two sessions. Dave |
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| nail biting |
| From: Helen Mathias in Dunedin 17-Mar-2010 12:09 |
| How much does hypnosis to stop nail biting cost? |
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| Fear of Dentists |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 13-Mar-2010 13:43 |
| Hi Kat, I do not have a script for fear of dentists because in most cases that is a simple phobia, just like every other phobia, and you treat it with the standard approach you were taught in training. Otherwise you would need to have hundreds of scripts for each type of fear. You do not need a script and in any case a script is not the best way of dealing with fear of dentists. There are many scripts and approaches you could adapt in the scripts collection quite easily. Dave |
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| Book of Hypnosis Scripts |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 13-Mar-2010 13:38 |
| FLEXIBILITY The collection of hypnosis scripts is not available in hard book form because I am constantly updating and adding to the scripts. A hard copy would not let me do that. A hard copy book of scripts also puts limitations on what you can do with the scripts. Hypnotherapy is all about flexibility so I decided to go with an electronic download of hypnosis scripts instead. THE eBOOK FORMAT The eBook is packaged as a .pdf file. This is the best way to make the scripts accessible. Pdfs work on every computer,and allow me to use color and include images. As a pdf all the scripts are indexed and cross referenced, and you can search among the scripts for a particular word or phrase. You can view the scripts on the screen in any size of font. USING THE SCRIPTS WITH CLIENTS You can print out individual scripts to use with clients, so you are not seen to be reading out of a book. Because it is electronic, you can cut bits from different scripts and paste them into your word processor. That means you can then use the sections as the basis of your own hypnotherapy script. All the scripts use the same layout so it is easy to mix and match them. KEEPING IT UP TO DATE As a purchaser of the eBook you get the right to upgrade to the latest version within a year of purchase. You couldn\'t get that with a printed book. |
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| Understand price now |
| From: katerina8@gmail.come in Colorado 13-Mar-2010 06:25 |
| I wrote earlier about the price being $40 instead of $27. I went back and found the price was not quoted in American dollars and that it will equal approximately $28. I would still like to know if there will be a forthcoming hard copy and if you have any scripts for fear of dentist? Thank you, Kat Stephenson |
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| price of ebook and hard copy? |
| From: katerina8@gmail.com in Colorado 13-Mar-2010 06:10 |
| Hi! I really like these scripts! I know you do not have a hard copy...or do you? I saw somewhere it mentioned the price was about $27 and when I went to purchase it was $40. Also, do you have a script for fear of the dentist? If I purchase it, does it come to my email address? Can I then download it from my mac to and e.reader? Thank you, Kat Stephenson 720.314.8684 |
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| Hypnosis Screed/script Personalised or non-personalised |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 24-Feb-2010 13:25 |
| All hypnosis scripts are personalised to some extent. It is just that some are more personalized than others. A script is a guide to what to do in a hypnosis session, it is not something you just read and hope for the best. The script has to be tailored to suit the exact problem the client has, and to take account of their background and life experience, their beliefs, their resources and expectations. The tailoring can be as little as substituting ‘he’ for ‘she’ or it can use none of the words in the script at all but follow the logic of the sections. A script can also be used selectively, using some sections and not others. I cannot think of any instance when you would not personalise a hypnosis script at all if you had the opportunity to. Sometimes of course the script will be used by someone you have never met, a spoken script on a CD for example, but the effect the script recorded on the CD would be that much greater if you were able to tailor it to the exact needs of the client. Dave |
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| Hypnosis Screed/script Personalised or non-personalised |
| From: mary Kent in Bristol 24-Feb-2010 06:00 |
| Question - In the majority of cases a Personalised Scripts are more effective but when would\'nt you use a personalised script? |
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| Updated Scripts |
| From: Phil Harrison in Perth Hypnosis Centre 18-Feb-2010 20:53 |
| Dear Dave I would appreciate it if you could email me the updated scripts as per your offer. I really can\'t begin to thank you again for your insight and the manner in which you willingly share your experience. If you\'re ever in Perth, the beer is on me. Cheers Phil Harrison |
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| Materiel en Francaise |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 08-Feb-2010 22:28 |
| Hi Graham, thank you for your comments. No, I don\'t know of any material in French. A colleague in Italy translated all my scripts into Italian and I will get around to posting them. I just never seem to have the time to do everything I want to. I wish you every success in your new venture. Dave |
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| Hello and thankyou |
| From: Graham Lawrence in Geneva, Switzerland 08-Feb-2010 21:43 |
| Hi Dave, First off thank you for your generous gift of material. I\'ve looked long and hard for quality scripts and non \"pseudo marketing materials\" and in my opinion you are the best. I\'m in training and will start taking clients in a few weeks (wish me luck). I\'m bilingual English-French but most of the time I can\'t find anything really useful in French do you know of any resources? I could go on at length about the quality of your material. It is really top-notch. I\'m particularly drawn to metaphor work though and I intend to use these techniques in my practice. I will be ordering your e-book later when I get home as I don\'t like to mix my day job with my new activity! Thanks again, Graham! |
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| Ryell |
| From: Mary in UK 30-Jan-2010 06:21 |
| Hi Dave, first of all let me thank you for your generosity with all the knowledge you provide to us. I am a great fan of you. I\'m going to ask you for a favor today. I am a newly qualified hypnotherapist and have a very analytical minded client. Would you please provide me with a induction script for such a client. He is really really analytical, and doesn\'t relax easily. I would really appreciate your help. Kindest regards Mary hypnosis2010@hotmail.co.uk |
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| Recently Qualified as Cognitive Hypnotherapist |
| From: Penelope Brown. Milton Keynes UK in England 23-Jan-2010 11:05 |
| Thanks so much again for your wonderful site, have now recently became a qualified Hypnotherapist(HPD dip) and reading some of your scripts have enabled me to write my own in a professional way. You have so much information on your site for someone like me just starting out. So i wish you a excellent 2010 and will definately continue to visit this site as often as i can, and i will recommend it to my colleagues. Thanks Penny. UK |
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| Recently Qualified as Cognitive Hypnotherapist |
| From: Penelope Brown. Milton Keynes UK in England 23-Jan-2010 11:04 |
| Thanks so much again for your wonderful site, have now recently became a qualified Hypnotherapist(HPD dip) and reading some of your scripts have enabled me to write my own in a professional way. You have so much information on your site for someone like me just starting out. So i wish you a excellent 2010 and will definately continue to visit this site as often as i can, and i will recommend it to my colleagues. Thanks Penny. UK |
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| Food Phobia |
| From: Dave Mason in NZ 11-Jan-2010 09:06 |
| Hi there, Your friend got this phobia by being trained into it by her mother. Her mother has told her over and over about the dangers of dirt in food, of how horrible it will be if she eats fruit that a fly has been on, about poisoned fish swimming in sewage and that there are other deadly dangers lurking unseen in food. The mother is trying to be helpful, to keep her child safe, but has instead drilled into her a fear of some terrible unseen danger. The child has thought about this, and urged on by an overprotective anxious mother has stopped eating some foods and the mother has allowed and encouraged that. So the child learns that some food will kill her, and her mother reinforces this. The child then starts to associate the imaginary danger in food with other real dangers, and soon the feelings from the real danger has been transferred to the food. Now when she thinks about food it triggers responses appropriate to life threatening situations. The link is formed and continues because it is reinforced by her mother. The more her mother goes along with the food avoidance behaviour, the more it gets fixed in place. This was not caused by some incident in childhood. This is a behavioural problem, there is no root fear to find. She has a learned association that has to be removed. Use standard hypnotherapy methods and she will gradually increase the number of foods she can eat. |
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| Food fears |
| From: Nicola in UK 11-Jan-2010 02:28 |
| Hi Dave, I have a friend i am trying to help who has a food phobia. She has had this as long as she can remember, from a baby. as she has had this fear from a baby how has this come about? I can understand that as she is now 40 that she can manifest her own opinions onto food but how has this started from a baby? How can i help if she has no recollection of being any other way? She now associates vegetables with dirt, fruit with bugs and insects and fish with sewage, which can be influenced by her own ideas and imagination and this i can help with, but do i need to get to the route of the problem before i can start? mMny thanks for your thoughts, Nicola |
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| Tourette's Syndrome |
| From: Dave Mason in Wellington 03-Jan-2010 17:08 |
| Hi Lee, I don\'t think I can help. I have worked with Tourettes, but only in one client and that was not to address the Tourettes directly. My understanding of it is very limited. I believe that it is set off by anxiety, but the exact mechanism is unclear. The hypnosis that is used in adults treats the anxiety. I personally do not deal with children. That is a specialised field that I leave to others. Might I suggest that you talk to Bill Huddlestone at http://www.huddlestonhypnotherapy.co.nz/ He specialises in treating children. He is in Wangarei but may be able to put you in touch with someone local to you. Give him a call and tell him I recommended that you speak to him. Dave |
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| Tourrettes Syndrome |
| From: Lee Jakeman in Upper Hutt 03-Jan-2010 16:49 |
| Hello, David (again) I didn\'t leave my email address. It\'s jakemanlee@yahoo.co.nz Cheers, Lee |
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| Tourrettes Syndrome |
| From: Lee Jakeman in Upper Hutt 03-Jan-2010 16:40 |
| Hello David, My son Matthew (7 years old - turning 8 in March) has Tourrettes Syndrome. This takes the form of various compulsive tics. Initially, it took the form of excessive coughing and throat clearing. Lately, it has taken the form of high pitched noises akin to screaming. This is much more difficult to deal with socially, as it instantly attracts attention (we have been approached by people with \"can you please ask your child to be quiet\" or \"can you please ask your child to stop that noise\"). At which point we have to try and explain to them that he \"can\'t help it\" etc. What I mainly wanted to ask you is whether you have any experience in dealing with this kind of thing. Also, is he too young to benefit from hypnotherapy? We have done quite a lot of research into it and have noticed that hypnotherapy was successful in some cases (mostly overseas cases and involving much older patients). Yours sincerely, Lee Jakeman |
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| Hpd |
| From: Janinamaria in Shropshire England 25-Nov-2009 08:13 |
| Hi David, I have been practising for one year and slowly building my Hypnotherapy business and learning a great deal along the way. Can I thank you once again for the use of your scripts, they have been wonderful and successful. I am currently completing my HPD VERY SLOWLY. Once again thanks for your web-site which I have found to be one of the best, Janina, Ivanavicius@janinamaria.fslife.co.uk |
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| HpD |
| From: Dave in NZ 26-Nov-09 10:34 |
| Good luck with your studies, we never stop learning. |
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