Help Reactive Clients Overcome Their Negative Emotions with the Stop Being Triggered Hypnosis Script

Emotional triggers—the words, actions, or events that give rise to instantaneous negative feelings—can severely affect clients' quality of life. They can derail days, sow discord into important relationships, and prevent growth and understanding around specific topics.

The Stop Being Triggered Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients mentally distance themselves from and better respond to emotionally offending stimuli.

At the outset, the script uses a detailed pre-talk to help the client understand the causes of their condition and how the session will help. The mind's ability to form instantaneous associations between stimuli and emotions is explained.

Negative emotional responses are also explained. The client learns that periods of distress, anxiety, or injustice can fuse to specific objects, conversation topics, people, or places that later cause intense negative feelings when encountered in day-to-day life.

The client is assured that hypnosis can help change their reactions to triggering stimuli by reprograming how their unconscious mind links these stimuli to negative emotions. The goal of the session is explained as getting the client to a place where they can "think calmly and clearly" in triggering situations and deal with triggers "in a way that's useful and appropriate."

The induction opens by asking the client to close their eyes and remember a specific time when they felt triggered and reacted in a way they would like to change. A countdown is used to move the client outside of themselves, allowing them to observe their reaction "from a calm distance."

Now, the client is guided to open their eyes and focus on a spot above the horizon while continuing to inhale deeply. They are directed to keep their attention in the current moment, taking note of the objects they see ahead of them and in their peripheral vision. A progressive relaxation calms the client's body one part at a time while their focus remains fixed. As they move toward a deeper relaxation, the client is guided to close their eyes again.

The client is asked to picture the scene they just witnessed with their eyes open at a different time of day or year, when the colors in the rooms are different. Embedded commands lead them deeper into a calming mindset.

Once in a trance state, the client is asked to imagine a person who is much like them, but is free from their triggering response. They are guided to use their inner mind to both observe and feel the reality of that existence and gain a deep understanding of what it would feel like to be that kind of person. Embedded commands tell the client they have the strength to be just like their imagined person.

The client is assured that they can replace their hot button, which causes a reaction, with a "cool button" that allows them to "handle situations confidently and effectively." An embedded command anchors this notion in the client's mind.

The client is directed to effect a change at the end of a countdown, and replace their trigger with a cool button that grants them the power to remain unaffected and in control during triggering events.

The script continues.

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Stop Being Triggered is also available as an MP3 download.