Help Ease Excessive Self-Doubt with the Overcome Fear You've Done Something Wrong Hypnosis Script

Checking for errors is a normal and important part of being human, but for some it can become an overwhelming and intrusive habit.

The Overcome Fear You've Done Something Wrong Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients take the emotional charge out of their doubts, and redirect their focus to more productive, purposeful action.

The pre-talk paints excessive self-doubt as a normal human behavior - error checking - in overdrive, and explores some of the ways it can manifest. It sympathizes with the associated feelings of guilt and obsessive need to seek reassurance, and suggests professional help for those who are suffering severe levels of intrusive thoughts.

It is suggested that overcoming the fear starts with externalizing it - recognizing it as the obsessive, imaginary doubt that it is - then soothing the guilt and unease, and finally focusing on something more useful. It clarifies that far from suppressing the unhelpful thoughts, this is about sitting comfortably with them knowing that they hold no power, "like calming a worried child who has just had a bad dream."

The induction asks the client to make their hands into fists, clenching tighter and tighter, then to release. Next, they are asked to leave their hands still but instead imagine doing the same thing - clenching, then releasing. They are encouraged to notice the difference between the two experiences, and then to repeat them both again.

This exercise deepens the client's relaxation with each release, real or imagined, but also helps them draw a distinction between real and imagined experience, setting the stage for them to find distance from imagined scenarios motivated by fear.

Now we return to a more traditional induction. The client is guided to feel a "wave of comfort" moving from the facial muscles down through the body as they let go deeper and deeper. This wave of comfort is compared to waves in the ocean, and the clearing mind to a clearing sky as calm imagery takes the client into a space of even deeper calm.

The client is encouraged now to drift into a "wonderfully enjoyable space" from a time in their past, enjoying all the sights, sounds, sensations, and scents. They are invited to notice the calm, peaceful expression on their face, before merging with their body and experiencing the profound sense of wellbeing all over again. A countdown extending into the negatives leads the client to an even deeper plane of relaxation.

Now a story begins of a meeting between the many different parts of the psyche to talk about how Doubt has been dominating and interfering, "talking over everyone." It is suggested that doubt needs to learn to be quiet and listen, to be part of the team, and to realise that it needn't take care of everything on its own.

Yet more stories reinforce that doubt can and should take a back seat much of the time. A man learns to take off the glasses of doubt, realizing he can set them aside when they're not needed and seeing the world more clearly as a result. A woman takes a break from her obsessive reading on parenting and finds that with a new sense of mental quiet and space, she is better able to connect with and help her child.

The client is directed to label their old worries as obsessive and out-of-date. Confusing language deepens the trance here, helping embed this new perspective on the old worries. The worries are compared to butterflies in the stomach - something that we can recognize but still relax with, that doesn't have to stop us from taking appropriate action.

The client is encouraged to recognize the deeper part of them that always understands what is real, and to see how that calm self can take on the role of supporting and soothing the part that still experiences those doubts - providing support and validating those feelings, yet not succumbing to them.

We return now to the meeting room, where we see that Doubt has taken on board everything the team has communicated. It has "resumed its proper role… as just one part of a bigger team."

Finally, future pacing allows the client to experience what it will be like to "already know" how to label an old doubt, and to be a calming, supportive presence for themselves. Embedded commands instruct the client to experience a calm inner confidence imbuing every part of them.

Add the Overcome Fear You've Done Something Wrong Hypnosis Script to your script library today.

Overcome Fear You've Done Something Wrong is also available as an MP3 download.