Re: Decision Making Strategies
Hi Bernard,
Thanks for your welcome to this list.
I read your posting below regarding decision making strategies and
found it was very interesting. I add very little except a few
simple strategies I use with my clients that help them with their
auditory work.
I usually suggest they get a notebook and write in it daily. The
front of the book is used with headings or areas they want to
develop or change. Underneath these headings they write in the
first person present tense affirmations of what they want to feel,
think, see and know. They use the back of the book to write down
each day what they want to move away from. The time spent in
writing in the back of the book is limited to 5 mins per day, and
is done in a particular chair. They only sit in this chair to
write in this part of the book. This enables them to take stock
each day of unconscious influences in their life, it also allows
them to confine and control unwanted suggestions to this place too.
This process also brings into awareness the imagery of having or
wanting a drink. That awareness enables them to opportunity to
contradict or collapse that image and replace it with what they
would like to do instead which is written in the front of the book
(the writing in the front is not carried out in the same place or
time) One other part of this strategie involves using anchors
which can be fired and a simple use of an elastic band which is
worn around the wrist all the while. The elastic band is used to
distract the client from images of having a drink to a possible
anchor of happy sober states.
As a psychotherapist I would also be using individual analysis
during hypnosis with clients who experienced longstanding
difficulties.
I wish you well with the work you and Elizabeth are doing.
Take care,
Mair
One of the Partners of Llewellyn Consultancy
a Mixed Private Complementary Medicine Practice
in Tickhill, S Yorkshire, United Kingdom