Being suggestive

The most basic variety of hypnotherapy treatment is called ‘direct suggestion’.
This is the starting point of all treatment by hypnotherapy. It simply entails hypnotizing the patient – coaxing them into a state of relaxation – and then bombarding them with suggestions for the desired behaviour. Recently I had a patient who needed to do her relaxation excercises at home. I simply hypnotized her; then suggested over and over again, for half an hour or so, that she did relaxation at home and enjoyed it too. It worked very well; It usually does. It is only when the patient has some inner conflict that they need more complicated treatment. For simple habit changing direct suggestion is the simplest and most effective form of hypnotherapy.