Help Sensitive Clients Develop Emotional Armor and Accept Being Disliked

Even in an age when online hostilities and ad hominem attacks seem commonplace, many people struggle with feeling disliked. Instead of shrugging it off, they become fixated on their negative feelings.

The Accept Being Disliked Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients move past their obsessions with rejections and aversions. Some clients will want help with a particular incident, others will want to steel themselves against this tendency in general. The script offers ways to help both.

It opens with a pre-talk that contextualizes the client's feelings around being disliked. The evolutionary roots of cooperation are explained, and the client is reminded that there is no famous politician or artist who is universally adored.

Now, the goal of the session is established. The client is assured they will learn to let go of their "excessive preoccupation" with being liked and, in the process, find a wealth of time and energy that they can devote to more productive or enjoyable things. As an added bonus, the client may find that they become more likeable when they begin to live in accordance to their own desires, instead of trying to be liked by everyone.

The induction begins with asking the client to imagine someone who dislikes or has disliked them. They picture this person frowning at them and conveying a sense of deep loathing.

The client is guided to notice the feelings this mental image produces. They are reminded that it's uncomfortable for most people to experience dislike, and asked to take note as to if they're responding by tensing up or immediately strategizing ways to win this person over. In those cases, they are under the control of this person's feelings. The client is assured this session will help them free themselves from that control.

Now, the client is guided through a process to "shake off" their negative feelings and is returned to a calmer mental state through a prgoressive relaxation and embedded commands. They are asked to picture three "loving, supporting presences'' who have cared for them at various times. Each presence represents one epoch: the past, the present, and the future.

The client is taught they have the power to make anyone who dislikes them "recede into the distance" of their mind. Just as castle walls once prevented bad actors from gaining access to the king, so too can the right perspective keep the importance of other's opinions at bay.

The client is guided to use their new mental techniques to decrease their rating of discomfort in the presence of this person. They are assured there may come a time when that number reaches zero.

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