Hypnosis Script for Living in a State of Gratitude
By Mona Morgan, CHP
Begin by taking a nice deep breath and letting it out slowly… Take another nice deep breath and feel your mind and body relaxing completely… As you take another nice deep breath, feel the relaxation moving slowly down over your scalp… across your forehead… down over your eyes… and feel your eyes relaxing completely…
Facial muscles relaxing… jaws relaxing … and allow your jaws to part slightly as they completely relax… Now feel your entire head so relaxed and peaceful…. Feel that relaxation moving down your neck, so all the muscles of your neck let go and relax completely…completely letting go…
Allow that beautiful feeling of relaxation to flow down over your shoulders… down both arms… relaxing the upper arms… elbows…forearms…wrists… hands… and fingers… and allow any tension to drift out through the tips of your fingers… Arms now completely relaxed… so calm…feeling wonderful… And begin to feel that relaxation move down your back… from the base of your neck… down each vertebra… Feel each vertebra letting go and all the muscles relaxing completely… Feeling so good… peaceful… calm.
Gently, the relaxation now flows down from the front of your neck… down over your chest… feel your chest relaxing completely… With each breath your relaxation becomes deeper and deeper… Abdomen now relaxing… letting go… feeling the sensation of everything being calm… peaceful… Allow the relaxation to move down over your hip area. Feel yourself sink deeper into the cushion… relaxing… letting go of any tightness… completely relaxing your entire hip and seat area…
Relaxation now moving down both legs… Feel the muscles relaxing as the relaxation moves slowly down from the hips… thighs… knees… calves… ankles… feet… and into your toes… As the relaxation moves through your feet, all tension drifts out completely through the tips of your toes…. Legs now completely relaxed… calm… Feel you entire body totally, deeply relaxed and peaceful… With every breath allow yourself to relax even more deeply.
Imagine yourself outside on a lovely mountain. And imagine now that a beautiful, fluffy, soft cloud descends near you … See yourself gently stepping onto the cloud and allow yourself to lie down and feel the softness, yet support of this lovely cloud. This cloud will transport you safely to where you will experience dwelling in a state of gratitude…
Sink in and feel the cloud gently starting to drift. Floating…drifting… taking you to the most beautiful place in nature that you can imagine… As the cloud drifts, I will count down from 10 to 1… and with each number you will allow yourself to relax even deeper. 10… peaceful calm…9 … going deeper, deeper relaxed… 8 feeling wonderful, peaceful… deeper… 7 going deeper, feeling calm, confident, totally relaxed… 6… deeper… and 5… even deeper… 4 enjoying this beautiful… peaceful sensation… totally trusting… totally secure…3 deeper… relaxing deeper… 2 … calm, in harmony with everything… and 1 deeply, deeply relaxed and at ease.
Your cloud gently touches down in an incredibly beautiful, peaceful place in nature. As you step gently off your cloud, you feel an overwhelming connection to this place… it’s beauty… it’s peacefulness… you are filled with a sense of gratitude for all you are experiencing. Take in the sights… the colors… the sound… the energy of all life around you… Experience using all your senses to appreciate this beauty… the warm of the sunlight… the coolness of a breeze… the softness of a petal or a butterfly… the rush of water, or perhaps the gentle flow of water… the steady support of a rock… the beauty of a bird’s song. And for all this, you say, “ I am very grateful for this gift.” As you bask in the feeling of gratitude, you also think of things in your life that you are grateful for, perhaps a person… perhaps your health… your abilities (I would vary this based on what I know of the person).
Each time you say, “I am very grateful for this gift,” you remember the beautiful environment you saw as you traveled on your special cloud and the joy and peacefulness you experienced. You know you can create the same feeling wherever you are… You have identified (name of color, we’ll use green) as the color you feel represents a sense of gratitude. Each time you see the color green, it will remind you to think of something you are grateful for and you will say, “I am grateful for the gift of…” naming what has come to mind…
If any stress comes into your life, you will remind yourself to be grateful for some good that is also in your life, again saying, “I am grateful for the gift of …. “ And now, I will be quiet for a few minutes, while you think of two or three things in your life you are grateful for, and say in your mind, “I am grateful for the gift of …” naming each one… and feeling the joy that come with being grateful.
(I wait about 2 minutes)
And now, taking the inspiration and deep feelings of joy and gratitude from this experience, you can again step onto your soft, beautiful cloud as we prepare to return to this room… Take a moment to feel yourself filled with joy and gratitude.
I am now going to count up from 1 to 5 and with each number your cloud will gently rise and bring you back on the count of 5. With each number you will feel more energy.. but your sense of calmness will remain. 1… feeling good, feeling sensations in your body… 2 … drifting up, noticing your breath, 3 … being more aware of sounds in the room, 4 … feeling your energy level rising, feeling peaceful, but inspired and filled with gratitude and energy, and 5 (snap fingers) feeling great, wide awake.