Dr. David Spiegel

And then I would come out very quickly by counting backwards from three to one.

On three, get ready.

Two, with your eyelids closed, roll up your eyes.

One, let your eyes open.

Hand float back down.

Make a fist open.

And that's the end of the exercise.

That's it.

That's it.

Absolutely.

It's no big deal.

You don't have to count upstairs and downstairs.

I differ with many of my colleagues about the concept of deepening.

You know, there are a lot of people feel you've got to talk for 10 or 15 minutes.

If you've got the ability, you can go there in a flash.

It's just a matter of having the structure for doing it.

What I do is I measure everybody's hypnotizability.

So the first five to six minutes of my intervention clinically is to give a structured test of your hypnotizability, instruct people that their hand, if they pull it down, it'll flow right back up to the upright position.

How much reinforcement do you have to give to get that?

Does the right hand feel as if it's not as much a part of the body as the left hand?