Dave Elman Hypnotic Induction Script

Just begin by making yourself comfortable. Rest your feet flat on the floor and rest your hands on your lap, or by your side.

Now drop your head forward slightly and roll your eyes up and back as though you were looking toward a point in your forehead. That’s a bit of a strain but keep it up. Now, inhale deeply, filling your lungs all the way up as you continue to look up and back. Pause for a few seconds. Now keep looking up and allow your eyelids to grow heavy and close down… as you exhale slowly and patiently. Good, now send a huge wave of relaxation from the top of your head down to the tip of your toes. Let all of your muscles turn loose, and limp and wonderfully relaxed… just like a rag doll.

Now, rest your awareness on those eyelids once again. Even though the eyelids are closed down comfortably already, imagine they are closing down all over again, even more heavy and tired and lazy than before. Now relax those eyelids right down to the point where it feels as if they just don’t work anymore.
Now, I’m going to help you to relax even more deeply, and those is how I’m going to do it. In a moment I’ll count 1, 2, 3, when I reach the number three you can open your eyes for a second before I gesture and say the word “sleep.” When I say the word “sleep”, just allow your eyelids to close down and find you’re going back, even deeper into hypnosis than before. Beginning now, 1, 2, 3… opening those eyelids, ready now, “sleep”, relaxing much deeper than before, two times deeper… Good… Once again, 1, 2, 3, opening those eyelids, ready now, “sleep”, relaxing much deeper than before, two times deeper… Good… One more time now, 1, 2, 3, opening those eyelids, ready now, “sleep”, relaxing much deeper than before, two times deeper again… Good.

Now you’re relaxing the body very deeply, and as you relax the body you’re relaxing the mind. Now, I’m going to help you to relax the mind even more deeply and this is how I’m going to do it. In a moment I want you to begin counting down backwards from 100, just a few numbers and relaxing your voice more and more with each number, double the vocal relaxation with each number into a whisper and then into silence just like this.
You’ll find those numbers fading as voice relaxes until you can’t even find them anymore.
Begin now, facing your voice with each number into a whisper and then into silence… Start counting now, losing the numbers to relaxation as you count, beginning now…
That’s it. Good. Now relax even more deeply, and as you do so make an effort and try to locate those forgotten numbers and find that you’ve succeeded, they’ve faded completely from the mind.