Ego-strengthening is an essential part of clinical hypnosis, and it can be very effective even when used alone as a treatment.

• Here is an example section of a script taken from Hartland’s Medical and Dental Hypnosis. It is a very old fashioned direct suggestion approach with a lot of authoritarian and negative language used. You will find many of these types of scripts being presented and used by poorly trained hypnosis practitioners.

“… you will continue to experience these same feelings … every day … just as strongly … just as surely … just as powerfully … when you are back home … or at work … as when you are with me in this room …”

“… during this deep sleep … you are going to feel physically stronger and fitter in every way … you will feel more alert … more wide awake … more energetic … you will become much less easily tired … much less easily fatigued … much less easily discouraged … much less easily depressed …every day … you will become so deeply interested in whatever you are doing … in whatever is going on around you … that your mind will become completely distracted away from yourself …”

“… you will no longer think nearly so much about yourself … you will no longer dwell nearly so much upon yourself and your difficulties … and you will become much less conscious of yourself … much less pre-occupied with yourself … and with your own feelings …”

“… every day … your nerves will become stronger and steadier … your mind calmer and clearer … more composed … more placid … more tranquil … you will become much less easily worried … much less easily agitated … much less easily fearful and apprehensive … much less easily upset …”

“… you will be able to think more clearly...”

Contraindications:

• Do not use with depressed clients.