Future-Focused Hypnosis is for everyone!

I get it, you are curious what’s in it for you, the professional hypnotist.

I promise, this isn’t simply a successful marketing hack to increase your relevance in today’s marketplace. This isn’t just an SEO trick to refresh your website. There is science at play within this increasingly popular hypnotic mindset.

Remember, the end result of the work our clients’ signup for is to succeed. They aren’t paying for an experience. Clients pay for a tangible solution to their problems. They pay for an end result. They pay to lose weight, to gain purpose, to stop smoking, to start exercising, to stop feeling sad or angry all the time, to start recognizing who they see in the mirror each morning, because there is some transformation they desperately desire in their life. And they are willing to pay you to make their dream into a reality.

In theatre this is known as “the dream ending” and each character is playing their role as if they are going to succeed. In fact, each character must believe in their dream ending’s success so resolutely, whenever something does not work for them, they simply change their tactics with a renewed assumption of success – every single time.

There’s a lovely metaphor there relating to the work we facilitate with our clients.

The more connected your clients are to the successful version of who they become after working with you, the more they are likely to succeed. No matter the hypnotic techniques you choose during their sessions.

Future-Focused Hypnosis is as much about the mindset of what you do with your clients as it is about any specific hypnotic techniques. In fact, I would almost guarantee you that any technique you currently love enough to use with practically every client, provided under the framework of being future-focused, will begin connecting your clients with the futures they dream of living. Because that’s how effectively the mindset works as a stand-alone.

In the book, Be Your Future Self Now, Dr. Benjamin Hardy details the science and psychology validating this mindset shift’s benefit keeping people more present in the here and now. And that, my friends, is the whole point. Our clients need to become more present in their now, to recognize the changes that have already occurred. It provides the grace of self-forgiveness while continuously progressing toward their “even better.” By becoming more present in the now, our clients recognize their success as it occurs. In the moment of the change, they recognize their mindset shift and the differences it crystalizes into meaning.

The future self is a resource state for our clients to lean into and create the life they love living in the here and now. In the same way that the youngest and most innocent versions of our clients visited during age regression are a resource state more than a fact of history.

Wait!

Let me stop for a moment and check in. You understand that age regression is not a factual retelling of the client’s past – don’t you? You understand it is an hallucinogenic response within the brain based on hearing your suggestions? There are as many facts in the fantasies our clients bring us from the past as there are in the fantasies of their future.

Let me say that again. There are as many facts in the reimagined fantasies our clients bring to us from the past as there are in the fantasies they dream into being for their futures. Because our brains are predictive machines that manifest based on belief.

I’m not invalidating the memories of the past in that statement. I am empowering the understanding we already know about what our clients are doing. The more they believe they cannot do something the less likely they can accomplish it. The opposite is also true.

Our clients have been hypnotizing themselves “into a trance of disempowerment.” Just as Milton Erickson taught us. We can reverse engineer that equation the same way we proved our math solutions in elementary school.

The more clients believe in their empowered capacity to achieve whatever they set their minds to, the more they are determining their own future self. Each day the future we have waiting for us is created by the actions we engage with, and the decisions we walk away from. Literally, everything you are doing today determines how your tomorrow goes – even the uncontrollables in your life are magnified or diminished based on the connection to the future self you believe in today.

Just for a moment, imagine yourself 20 years from today. Imagine that nothing changes in how you are taking care of yourself, how you behave, and how you enjoy the life you are currently living. The only difference is that you are 20 years older. 20 years later than now, and those 20 years bring more of what you are surrounding yourself with today. The habits and behaviors filling your life today, they magnify over 7, 300 days of continuous repetition. 7, 300 days you could chose to focus a little more on your health, or your family, how about your finances, or your connections, what about your purpose? In 20 years, what’s lacking if nothing improves any from right now?

We never need to fear the future. We can joyfully anticipate the life we are creating for ourselves, each day we choose to connect with the wisest and most healed version of who we someday become. A future-focus in hypnosis truly roots clients’ mindsets within Émile Coué’s autosuggestion, “every day in every way we are getting better and better.” Then, it lovingly offers the current self grace through all they are growing through, today.

The future and the past are not enemies at the crossroads, they are both valuable inner resources we gift clients hoping to heal. Lean into new resources for your clients by leaning into the future of what hypnosis has always offered them.