Previously I have given the Six Step Reframe structure, (click here), and some of my readers and participants have asked that I tell them my way of delivering the process.
My first task is to gain rapport and trust with my client, and to establish what their needs or the outcome from the session to be.
An explanation as to the concept of parts is then covered, that there is a conscious and subconscious mind, a creative mind, and a critical mind.
The conscious mind is that mind that we are aware of, our thinking mind, the mind you are reading this article with, the questioning mind.
The subconscious mind, is that mind that we are unaware of, the mind that sits in the background controlling our behaviour, our automotive systems, the none questioning mind that is there to protect us, to do the best for us.
Then there is the creative mind, the mind that can think of new ways of doing things, that is looking methods.
Lastly for the Six Step Reframe, we think of the critical mind, that part of us that finds faults, the negative mind, criticises what we and others do.
To further place the client at ease, an explanation of relaxation, trance or hypnosis is required should the client be unfamiliar with such techniques.
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Hypnosis – Expectations
Place the client into a trance like state, and take them on a journey. My preferred method is to take them to a cinema, so that I can ask them to watch a film that shows “the good times, the happy times, times that they may have forgotten about“. This is to distract the conscious mind.
I will talk as if I am talking directly to the parts of the mind.
I then set-up some method that the subconscious mind may communicate with me. This could be with the hands resting on the legs, that the index finger of the left hand can lift from the leg for a “YES“, and the index finger of the right hand can lift for a “NO“.
Now that I have established communication with the subconscious mind, and the conscious mind is engaged with good memories, I can begin work.
Firstly I thank the subconscious mind for all that it has done for the client, and all it will be doing in the future, and ask if it has any objection in communicating with me. I wait until I receive an answer, which may or may not be via the finger signals.
As long as I have a signal, the client is communicating with me, which is catch 22.
“*” I ask that the subconscious mind now goes away and find three (3) new alternative ways, which will be positive and beneficial to replace the old way, habit or unwanted behaviour, and to give me a signal when those three new ways have been found.
Wait.
Once I have a signal that three new ways have been found, I then ask the subconscious mind to “take the best of those three ways, and to try it out“, and give a signal when that has been done.
Wait.
Once I have a signal, I ask “are there any objections in doing this new method?“
If there is any objection, I will return to asking the subconscious mind to find a way around that objection, and will loop around to “*” above, until I get a signal that there are no objections. In practice, it is very rare to get objections.
Upon receiving a no objection signal, I then ask the subconscious mind if it will carry out the new method for :-
“three days, three weeks, three months, and for the rest of their life“
and wait for a positive response.
As an added bonus to the client, I ask the subconscious mind if it will “give them something positive for them in the next twenty-four hours to show that this has worked“.
Wait for an appropriate signal.
I then speak to the subconscious mind, and thank it for all it has done and will be doing in the future, and ask to have back the conscious mind.
At this point, the Six Step Reframe concludes, but I like to add-on another step.
This additional step is to get the client to imagine themselves as a super hero, and to see themselves doing the new thing that they want in the new positive and beneficial way, being a future pace.
I hope that this explanation will help those who are interested in the Six Step Reframe and that now there has some structure to it.