A personalised induction is the hypnotic induction that is tailored to suit individual people. It can be quite easy to fall into the trap of thinking that one screed will suit all however, it must be understood that everybody is different and when trying to induct them into a hypnotic state it means that the screed can be personalised to specific people. Clients can come in all ‘shapes and sizes’ and it is the job of the therapist to identify certain traits about them that they can help the construction of a personalised screed, people have different cultural backgrounds, different likes and dislikes, values, outlooks and perspectives. All these factors can give little clues to the therapist along with witnessing body language the way the person speaks and how they describe objects in their past. But to decide on whether a personalised induction is always going to be more effective will require a much more in depth view into exactly how a screed can be personalised whilst also answer the question of whether or not it will always be effective.
To be able to personalise a screed it is very important to understand the person who it is to be aimed at and one of the most imperative things for the therapist is identifying what type of learner they are. More commonly in hypnotherapy this is known as identifying the modality of the brain modalities have also been described as, ‘the language of the minds.’ Adapting the induction to suit the certain type of person, there are three main modalities that can be identified; kinaesthetic (feeling), visual (sight) and auditory (hearing). One of the most basic and indirect ways for the therapist to find which modality best suits the person I simply just to listen to the way they talk and the way they describe things. Even a simple thing such as asking the client how they usually tend to learn things could come up with the answers or if that fails then there are
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