PAIN TREATMENT WITH HYPNOSIS/AUTOGENIC TRAINING AND ‘RAG DOLLS’: WORK WITH ARM
‘Now work with the other arm. Use either your imagination or really lift it at first. It doesn’t matter. But mind now, don’t lift it too high — just enough to feel its heaviness. Now let it drop. Gently. Relaxed. Now do it in your imagination. Learn to do it more and more. And, when you breathe out again, drop it. Let it go soft. Let it go limp and feel it relaxed. Next, lift both arms together and allow them to drop. Simply relax them. Allow them to be limp and soft. Now, lift one leg. Lift it only a little. Just enough so you can feel its heaviness. Allow it to drop, to go limp and relaxed and soft. Always do this when you breathe out. Don’t lift your leg too high. It shouldn’t hit too hard. Better still, lift it only in your imagination. Do this a few times only in your imagination. Just let it become heavy and relaxed. . . . Now do the same with the other leg. Lift it a little and, while you breathe out, let it relax.
‘Let it go soft like a rag. Go ahead, let it drop like the leg of a giant rag doll. Feel free to move your legs, or any part of your body, to a more comfortable position any time you feel like. And, now both legs together. Lift them in your imagination. Now let them relax. Tell yourself how limp and soft they feel. Just like a giant rag doll or a big beanbag. Now finally, put all your limbs together. Both arms and legs. Breathe out and allow them to be limp and relaxed, heavy and comfortable. You are just like the giant rag doll you’re thinking about. Tell yourself how well supported you are by that chair, the sofa or floor. Next, imagine that you’ve put your rag doll into the sun. Let it be warmed by that beautiful sun. The giant rag doll is now lying very relaxed. Feel how the sun is shining on it. First feel it on one arm of the doll and then on the other. Make sure that the rag doll’s head is in the shade and kept cool. But all the limbs are sprawled out being warmed by the beautiful sun. Feel your own arm, warm and soft and relaxed. Now feel your other arm, also warm, soft and relaxed. Now let one leg to be gently warmed by the sun. Then the other leg, now nicely warmed, soft and relaxed. Remember that you’re the giant rag doll. It’s you lying there in the sun. All your limbs are wonderfully nice and warm now. But your head is lying in the shade and is comfortably cool. Now breathe into the palm of your hand and feel the warmth of your breath. Such warmth is within you all the time. Repeat it and put your hand down again and imagine. Imagine that you breathe this same kind of warmth into yourself. While you breathe out, imagine that you are breathing that warmth down into your throat, down into your chest, down into your abdomen. Just become nicely warm inside.
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