"Nine, just relax your leg muscles, knees, thighs, and shins. No longer worry about your feet. Just let all of the muscles in your legs get very loose and limp; very comfortable and very, very relaxed. Very relaxed. Let your thigh muscles relax. Let all the muscles in your shins get very loose. And this wonderful wave of relaxing pleasure runs down your legs, passed your knees, past your ankles, all the way down to your toes. Very relaxed, and very, very comfortable.

At eight, relax your neck, back, chest and stomach muscles. This is where my hands really come into
play. Take a deep breath...and as you exhale, feel how your body naturally relaxes. Its a good feeling. Let all the muscles in your neck feel really loose, as if my hands are kneading out the tension. Let your stomach muscles feel very relaxed. And this wonderful wave of relaxing pleasure splashes onto your neck, then runs down your back, passed your chest, past your waist, passed your knees, past your ankles, all the way down to your toes. Very relaxed, and very, very comfortable."
Eliza stopped for a moment to get a sense of where his breathing was. She knew all the signs.
Seven. Now relax your arms, hands, and all your fingers. Let all the muscles in your fingers relax. If something is bothering you, fix it and become more comfortable. Let all the muscles in your arms feel really comfortable. And this wonderful wave of relaxing pleasure comes in from your fingertips, pushing all of the stress and fatigue out of your body. It feels so good. It comes up your arms, splashing on your neck, running down your back, down your legs, all the way down to your toes. Very relaxed and very, very comfortable. My hands are soft, warm, caring ... they feel good.
Six. Now, you should notice something you've taken for granted your whole life. It feels like millions of cotton balls gently pressing down all over. Its gravity, and in your mind's eye, I want you to change it. I want you to imagine that you're floating down on a cloud. The farther down you float, the more relaxed you get. The more relaxed you get, the better you feel, and the better you feel causes you to float down even more. Always getting more relaxed. Always feeling better. Always floating farther and farther down."

"Five. Your feet and your legs feel great, just the way they are. Take a really deep breath."
James did so right on cue. He was already gone, she knew it. He was easy. She couldn't help but smile as he melted away.

"Four. As you exhale, relax. Your neck, back, chest, and stomach muscles feel really good. Your arms, hands and your fingers feel just fine, just the way they are."

"Three. And you are floating even farther down, always more relaxed."

"Two. Hearing only my voice. My voice is inside your mind. My words are your thoughts. I am guiding you. You will go where I lead you. You feel too good, too relaxed to resist."

"One. James, you are in a deep hypnotic sleep, do you understand?"
"mm", he muttered.
"James, I want you to answer me clearly. You will do what I want you do to, won't you James?", she asked. It was a little early for this, but what the hell.
"Yes.", James answered, clearly.
"Wonderful. Very good James, you are doing very well. It felt good to do what I wanted you to do, didn't it?"
"Yes"
"Excellent James, I am quite pleased, let's continue on our journey then. You are drifting deeper asleep with every breath you exhale deeper asleep... ever deeper asleep. Feel yourself sinking even deeper asleep... You are now at a level of trance we'll call level A. But as deep as that is, there's another level we'll call B,
that's twice as deep asleep as level A, and you can reach it easily. In a moment I'm going to count to three, and on the count of three, you will go from level A down to level B and be twice as deep asleep. One... two... three. You are now at level B, much deeper asleep than you were before. But as deep as level B is, there's another level, C, that is ten times deeper than level B, and you can go there very easily. I'm going to count once more from one to five, and when I reach five, you will go from level B down, down, down to level C and be ten times deeper asleep. One...two...three...four...
five. You are now at level C, ten times deeper asleep than you were before. So deeply asleep, yet you can still hear my voice and respond to me. Do you understand where you are in your trance James? "
"Yes", he replied. In most cases, Eliza stayed away from this deepener. It usually confused people. James was an engineering type though, he brain was better equipped to deal with things in equation form. Eliza could see he was eating it up. She had picked the perfect strategy. She quickly thought of more deepeners that worked will with
personalities like James.
"James, I want you to imagine there's a yardstick in front of you that measures the depth of your trance. You can see the yardstick quite clearly and vividly. If the top of the yardstick is 36 inches, and that represents full, waking consciousness, and the bottom of the yardstick at zero inches represents total unconsciousness, the depth of your trance will be somewhere on that yardstick. So see the yardstick very clearly and notice what number on it represents the depth of your trance. Now move the depth of your trance down one inch from where it was, and allow yourself to go
to that deeper level of trance.... Now move it down a couple of inches deeper, and go down to that deeper level of trance... One more time, move your yardstick gage down three inches, and go down to that even deeper level of trance... On this yardstick, any number below 10 is deep, deep asleep. So notice what number you are on the yardstick, and if it's more than 10, move down the scale to a number less than 10 and find yourself, deep, deep asleep. You are now in a very deep trance."

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