She was in rear form. She was flowing.
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Ten ... Nine, relaxing and letting go. Nine ... Eight, sinking
into a more comfortable, calm, peaceful position ... Seven .... Six ...
going way down ... Five ... moving down those stairs, relaxing more completely.
Four ... Three ... breathe in deeply ... Two ... On the next number, number
one, simply sinking into that bed, becoming more calm, more peaceful, more
relaxed ... One ... Sinking into that feather bed, let every muscle go limp
and loose as you sink into a more calm, peaceful state of relaxation." She was in rear form. She was flowing. |
| He was under, she was sure of it. She had been studying hypnosis
at the undergraduate level for four years, now she even had half a semester
of graduate work under her belt. She knew when a subject was in deep trance.
She also knew that for the kind of stuff she was planning, he needed to
be really deep, so she continued. "Very good Dover, now as you lay blissfully in your feather bed, I wan you to continue to turn loose now, relax. Let a good, pleasant feeling come all across your body. Let every muscle and every nerve grow so loose and so limp and |
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so relaxed. Arms limp now, just like a rag doll. That's good. Now, send a pleasant wave of relaxation over your entire body, from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Just let every muscle and nerve grow loose and limp and relaxed. You are feeling more relaxed with each easy breath that you take. Droopy, drowsy and sleepy. So calm and so relaxed. You're relaxing more with each easy beat of your heart ... with each easy breath that you take ... with each sound that you hear. So relaxed now Dover, so ready to follow my |
| voice wherever it may lead you." Stephanie wasn't quite sure where that was going to be yet though. She was making this up as she went along. She paused briefly, then remembered an old script from sophmore year. "Dover, I want you now to imagine that you are standing in front of a house. This is an unusual house. It's twelve feet high, twelve feet wide, thirty-six feet long. There are three rooms, one behind the other. And this structure stands over a basement. There are three steps that lead up to the house.And this structure stands over a basement. There are three steps that lead up to |
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the house.As you do, you step into the first room." More confident now, Stephanie began to stroll around him again. "It's a very unusual room because there is only one piece of furniture in the room, a reclining chair. The carpeting, the walls, the ceiling, and the upholstery on the chair are all a beautiful sunny yellow. This is the Yellow Room. The chair looks so inviting that you walk over to it, sit down in it, and push it back into a reclining position. You feel so relaxed, and as you do, |
| you let your mind drift to a pleasant experience of the past thirty days. A pleasant experience of the past thirty days." Stephanie paused, as she was trained to do at that moment in the script. "And now that memory causes you to feel even more relaxed. But it's time to get up from the chair and move on to the second doorway and step inside. This room is almost identical to the first, except the color is gold. This is the Gold room, and there is that reclining chair in the center of the room. Since your experience was so good the first time, you walk to that reclining chair again, sit down in it, and now you just |  |
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lean back. As you do, you bring into your mind the memory of a very pleasant
experience of the past twelve months - the past year." Again, she engaged in the recomended pause. She looked again at the flowers she stared at for an hour straight, fearing this would never work. She was pleased to find she had been wrong. "Alright, it's time to get up from that chair, and you move into the third room. This is the Blue room. It's exactly like the first two, except for the color. You walk to that chair, you sit down in it, and you lean back. But as you lean back, |
| there's something very interesting occurring. What's occurring is that the chair now is on a hydraulic hoist, and it begins to slowly move down. It's going down into that lower level, passing right down through the floor. As you're going right down, deeper, sitting in a very relaxed, comfortable position. Now it stops, and you're down into the basement. Now as you stand up from the chair, there's one door ahead with a sign that says, "The Room of Nothingness." You walk to the door and turn the knob" |  |
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Stephanie had reached the section of the third fifteen second pause.
She was very impressed with herself for remembering this entire, complicated
script. She knew that her professor's hypnotic study aids were to be thanked
for this. |
| interesting occurring. What's occurring is that the chair now is on a hydraulic hoist, and it begins to slowly move down. It's going down into that lower level, passing right down through the floor. As you're going right down, deeper, sitting in a very relaxed, comfortable position. Now it stops, and you're down into the basement. Now as you stand up from the chair, there's one door ahead with a sign that says, "The Room of Nothingness." You walk to the door, turn the knob, and step inside. As you do, your eyes narrow down and you hesitate, because it's very dim in this room and the door |  |