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104 - Check-Ins and Breaks

A Short Break

Since you’ve done an induction (and possibly a deepener,) this where you’d traditionally start giving suggestions or plugging in a trigger. For now, depending on how zonked your subject looks, you can just give them a few more suggestions of noticing how relaxed they are, that their body can adjust itself to be comfortable, becoming aware of the space in between your words, or really anything else you can think of to give them an excuse to chill for a bit.

For the purposes of learning - you can try the following:

  • Ask your subject to give you a slow nod whenever they’re ready to come up. Observe your subject’s body language.
  • Ask your subject, when they’re ready, to say a number from 1 to 10 how deep they feel. The number doesn’t really matter right now - but this is for you to observe how they sound when responding. Did they respond rapidly? Was their speech slurred? Did they appear to strain to be able to speak?
  • Try an ideomotor suggestion. If your subject has an Index controller, and it looks like they’ll be able to move their hand unimpeded, suggest that their fingers can gently open or close around the handle. Watch their finger movements, and keep your suggestions soft, permissive, and slow.

You’ll need to modify your process and wording for this - but you can add ‘breaks’ when starting out.

  • Ask for compliance. Start your induction without highlighting that you’re going into an induction.
  • Ask them to come back up to the surface.
  • Check in, and see how their experience is so far.

Nobody has the expectation to be in a trance like state after this, but it’s fine to see what direction your subject is headed in, and pivot depending on their feedback.

Another note on taking breaks - in any length of a session, it’s perfectly fine to check in. If they come back up to the surface a bit to respond, it’s free fractionation. If it looks or sounds like you disturbed their vibe, just use that as an excuse to suggest them going back down, thanking them for the feedback.