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Igor: Gary, you talked to us about what you had going on in the back of your head and so because of the accident you had as a kid. Where is it right now in terms of the pain level?

Gary: It’s about four.

Igor: Can you describe the sensation for a moment?

Gary: It’s kind of a burning dull pain.

Igor: A burning dull pain. Could you just close your eyes for a moment please and pay attention to that sensation there. Tell me if it starts diminishing already, but pay attention to whatever is there and of course, he’s already wise to what’s going on here so either he’ll work one way with it or, if he’s smart his unconscious mind will start diminishing. Has it happened yet?

Gary: No, not really.

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: That’s right it hasn’t very good. What you do, where is it you like to go just

to relax is there some place you really enjoy?

Gary: Yes, to the beach.

Igor: What kind of beach?

Gary: Sandy beach.

Igor: So you’re there on that sandy beach and there’s the water over there, the temperature in the air and you can enjoy that kind of place right?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Now, if a really important person in your life were to come meet you on this beach to specifically and only to help you with the sensation you had on your head for some time now, who would that person be?

Gary: My wife.

Igor: Your wife, that’s a good choice. So your wife would be on that beach specifically to help you and that would be a good thing to have wouldn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Is she there yet?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Of course she is, right there. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but she has something for you, a cooling substance like a gel or ointment. Have you spotted what it is yet?

Gary: Yes.

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: What is it?

Gary: It’s a tube of ointment.

Igor: A tube of ointment. Did she make it herself, just for you?

Gary: I don’t know.

Igor: You don’t know do you? You really don’t know. I wonder what will happen if you take what’s in that tube and begin to apply it to the back of your head. Can you feel the soothing coolness there, like a minty sensation or possibly stronger than that, can you feel that happening now?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: What’s happening now, in terms of the sensation in the back of your head?

Gary: It’s cooling the back of my head.

Igor: It is cooling isn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: It is cooling and is that cooling process intensifying as you apply it?

Gary: No, it’s just on the surface.

Igor: It’s just on the surface right, so what level would the sensation in your head be right now? It’s dropped right has it not?

Gary: It’s still at a four.

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: So despite the reduction in burning you would still call it a four is that

what you’re saying?

Gary: Yes, the cooling is on the surface it’s not deep.

Igor: That’s right, so something is missing isn’t it, to allow that cooling sensation to enter, something to allow that cooling sensation to enter. You applied it on the top but it hasn’t quite reached the right spot yet has it?

Gary: Right.

Igor: That’s right. That’s why your wife is here. There you go, what’s she doing now?

Gary: She’s rubbing it in.

Igor: She’s rubbing it in. Can you feel that beginning to penetrate the skin?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Yes. Is that a relief?

Gary: It feels good.

Igor: It does feel good doesn’t it? Allow that to continue. Let her really rub in that ointment and feel the coolness that it brings. Is it bringing the numbers down yet?

Gary: No.

Igor: So what is happening?

Gary: It feels good and it’s relaxing everything around the area, but the nerve still hurts.

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Igor: The nerve still hurts, so this is preparing you for the healing, it’s opening

things up making the healing possible, but it hasn’t quite addressed the actual cause yet is that what you’re saying?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: But it feels good to be open and ready like this doesn’t it, like you’re ready for something? What’s that, what just happened? That was it. What is that? Let it go, drift it back, just let it drift. Let your mind drift way up and that experience be all the way over there. Let it drift Gary let it drift. That’s it much better, let it drift. Are you letting it drift, talk to me? You’re doing great. You’re doing a good job.

I know this is intense Gary, let it drift all the way, all the way, all the way good. Let those emotions out slowly, one bit at a time. That’s it. Is it a relief having those emotions come out? Yes, just a bit at a time. One bit at a time let it come out bit by bit not too much at once. Talk to me Gary, what’s happening now? You’re doing a great job. You’re really doing a good job. This is really good, just talk to me. What’s happening now?

Gary: I don’t know what that was all about.

Igor: You don’t need to know, just tell me what you experienced. It was intense wasn’t it? You still feel the aftermath a little bit right?

Gary: I got really hot.

Igor: I understand. You’re doing really good.

Gary: I just, I broke my own foot with the motion.

Igor: I understand. You’re doing a great job Gary, do you know why? Let that emotion drift off into the distance so only bits come in at a time, one little bit at a time. Are you doing that? Notice how with each wave it’s a little weaker, so it’s easier for you to manage. You’re getting more and more

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved control of that process. You’re doing a good job Gary. Let it continue but at your own rate and pace, there’s no speed required here.

There’s no time required here, because you know that I’m going to stay right here until you’re done. That’s it. You’re doing a really good job.

Slowly, one step at a time let it drift again. Let it drift. Take a pause when you need to. Take a pause. Let it drift off into the distance. Pause, breathe, breathe, you’re doing great. That’s quite something isn’t it?

Let me know if you want to continue or if you want to pause it for longer, it’s up to you. Which would you rather do, Gary?

Gary: Continue. I’m ready.

Igor: Again, let it come in just a bit at a time. Let it flow through you, clearing out because this has been damming up. It’s like the pressure of water in a dam over time isn’t it and you’re releasing it now, at last. You don’t have to carry that around anymore do you? It’s literally been in the back of your mind and back of your head for all these years and it’s time to let it go, one careful piece at a time.

You’re doing a good job Gary. You’re doing a really good job. Let it continue. Let it continue. There you go. Whoo! There’s a little more to come, but notice how it’s a little easier each time. Maybe a little music on the beach…How much of that emotion is left at this point, give me an indication?

Gary: A little bit.

Igor: Maybe like less than a fifth or an eighth. Just let it come. It’s easier this time because the first one was a bit shocking, I realize. It will drain all the way through and when it’s totally clear just let me know. Just breathe, do just what you’re doing. It’s quite something isn’t it? I expect it and understand. You’re doing a good job, a real good job.

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved A little bit more, just the last few pieces. You may as well do a thorough job because you came all this way and prepared yourself. The wife is there to help you, so you may as well do a thorough job. It’s fine not to know what everything is about, it’s just enough to know that it’s releasing isn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Very good. How far through are you now anything left or are we just recovering now?

Gary: Just a little bit.

Igor: Take your time. I’m not pushing I just need to know where you are that’s all. Take all the time you need. You may get to enjoy the last little bit as well because it’s kind of a weird thrill ride isn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Definitely an easing isn’t it? That’s it. It’s good to get it off your mind isn’t it? How are you doing right now Gary?

Gary: I’m okay.

Igor: You are okay aren’t you? You are okay? It was a surprising experience but aren’t you glad you’ve come through the other side of it now?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: How does your body feel? Is there a real sense of relief there?

Gary: There is. I got so hot it burned the pain almost all out.

Igor: That’s right. You got so hot the pain was almost burned out. What happens now? What’s going on in the back of your head right now?

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Gary: It feels much better.

Igor: Doesn’t it? The number has just come down for the first time since we started talking hasn’t it? It’s going to continue doing that because everything that was trapped inside has come out now hasn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: I’d like you to do something with your wife now, something pleasant on the beach. You don’t have to tell us what it is and if it’s that please definitely don’t tell me.

[Laughter]

Just spend some time as you continue to allow that healing to keep going.

There’s no hurry, because she came all the way here to this point in your life to help do something really important. So spend time with it and let the healing continue. What number is it right now?

Gary: One.

Igor: A one, did you expect that would happen?

Gary: No.

Igor: Yet there it is. Let it continue all the way and do something with your wife, something to show how much you care. It could be as simple as holding hands as you walk down the beach or whatever seems appropriate right now. As the sensation in the back of your head continues to heal until you no longer need it.

When you feel that process is completed, call my attention again and just talk to me at that point. I’ll talk elsewhere in the meantime, but please you have no need to pay any attention to that, no need to pay attention to any

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved of the sounds around you until you feel complete. Even though I’ll talk elsewhere you finish that until you are satisfied, but whatever just began has gone all the way through to completion. You understand what I mean by that don’t you? Just enjoy the company of your wife.

Does visualization not work? Saved the best till last didn’t we? Notice, I didn’t really bring the symbols on. I gave an option, an offer like a healing ointment or balm, he took it right? Did it work? No. He accepted the suggestion but in itself that particular symbol was my fish in his dream so what did he do? Only on the surface, she’s massaging it in and it’s cooling down but it’s still the same pain. So what did I have to do? I accepted his visualization, his symbolism.

What was he telling me? It feels ready for something, so I jumped on that.

That’s right it feels ready for something, now that needs to be healed and wasn’t that the point when all the emotion came out? Did I know that was going to happen? Not a clue. What’s happening now Gary, talk to me? Let the emotions fade again off in the distance, way in the distance, way in the distance that’s right, just like the other waves.

Are there more in the distance now Gary, more under control? Breathe, breathe, breathe…off in the distance, just one step at a time. What was that what just happened? Talk to me.

Gary: There’s a lot bottled up there.

Igor: There’s a lot bottled up there. Here’s a question I have for you Gary. You tell me what you want to do at this point. Whoa Gary, way in the distance, out there let it fade way out there. Gary talk to me…way out in the distance, way out…is it receding again? Breathe, fade it into the distance.

It will maintain a holding pattern in the distance away from you, can you do that now Gary.

You’re doing a good job… way in the distance and as I talk to you that will stay there Gary, in the distance. How old are you right now Gary, in this

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved room with me this year? Talk. Put it in the distance. I want the adult Gary in the room right now and those emotions in the distance where they belong for the moment, we can come back to them later. Send them off in the distance. You’re on this beach safely with your wife and with me. Deep breaths…off in the distance…you’re here with me on the beach and your wife.

We’ll put a little seal around them for now is that okay with you? Put a seal around them to leave them there for the moment because you have an important choice to make before we go anywhere near this. Is that okay with you Gary? Good. You can sense them off in the distance in a safe place is that correct?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: That’s where your unconscious mind needs to leave them for now. Clearly there is a lot of stuff going on there isn’t that right Gary? How old are you?

Gary: Fifty-five.

Igor: Okay and when is your birthday?

Gary: March 29th.

Igor: I’m sorry we missed it. That was very selfish of you not telling me. So we have all those things happening somewhere off in the distance in a safe place and we have some relation to the stuff that we’ve released, in order for the pain to go away isn’t that right. How is the back of your head feeling right now?

Gary: It’s much better.

Igor: It is isn’t it? You have a choice to make at this point. Of course, there’s a lot of stuff there that needs to come out and because of the time and

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved place you’re involved in and so on, can we make an agreement with your unconscious mind is that okay with you?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Here’s the agreement…over the period of the next few weeks you’re going to have some dreams. They will be very safe dreams Gary, very safe dreams and in each dream something will happen that feels a little intense. That’s going to release a little bit of that emotion and then the next night there will be another and another, but it will always only be a small enough amount that you can continue the rest of the night comfortably in restful sleep. You know what I mean by that don’t you?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Notice what’s happened already to that far off sense of emotions. Do you see how it’s getting to an even safer place now, preparing to work through your dreams with you, because you realize that sometimes when an elephant has been consumed over a period of time and this is one of them isn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: You didn’t realize there was that much stuff did you? What an experience.

Are you willing to work with your dreams in this way?

Gary: I am.

Igor: And to do it just one step at a time so that its only enough to release and feel that good feeling, but then it gets shot off again back in the safe place, so that the rest is for another night. You only see one bit at a time until it’s all gone. It doesn’t have to happen in one day or one night, you have an entire lifetime ahead of you. In the meantime, you know it’s happening because feel the sensation in the back of your head isn’t it almost miniscule now that pain?

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Hypnotic Pain Control ©Street Hypnosis All Rights Reserved Gary: It’s much smaller.

Igor: It’s actually very easy to live with that for the time being isn’t it?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: Now, I don’t know if that sensation will disappear entirely at the end of your healing process. I have a suspicion and I think you know what my suspicion is don’t you?

Gary: I do.

Igor: How could I possibly know or you possibly know? Here’s one thing I do know Gary, I’m going to put something in your hand in a moment just so you can wipe your face if you want to it’s up to you. Would you like to know what it is I absolutely know and you’ll recognize it when I tell you?

Gary: Okay.

Igor: Whether or not whatever is left of the sensation whatever pain you used to have in the past, whether that disappears entirely or not, is 100%

irrelevant at this point, because as soon as those emotions have gone either, you have the sensation and it won’t bother you or the sensation is gone, which won’t bother you. Either way you win don’t you?

Gary: Yes.

Igor: So the only thing left right now is the healing isn’t it? Are those emotions back in a safe place now?

Gary: They are.

Igor: You’re free from that for the time being right? And you’ve made the

Igor: You’re free from that for the time being right? And you’ve made the