Use the Be Internally Motivated Hypnosis Script to Help Your Client Connect with Their Inner Authority

While there's no problem with enjoying being rewarded for our work, it's important that we also have a sense of intrinsic motivation – doing things because it helps us learn and improve, or because it fits with our personal values.

The Be Internally Motivated Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients connect with their core values and find motivation in the things that matter to them.

The pre-talk accepts and embraces the idea that there is benefit to be gained from external encouragement, praise, and incentives, and reassures the client that increasing internal motivation is not about eliminating external motivation. However, it explores the problems that can arise from an overreliance on external rewards and the personal betterment that can be achieved when we learn to be more intrinsically motivated.

The induction encourages the client to simply be themselves in the present moment, noticing all their thoughts, feelings, sensations, and imaginings. Their awareness is described as "effortlessly present" as they are guided into a place of "pure beingness." They are prompted to feel a deepening relaxation moving through the body with each out-breath, while each in-breath is an "opportunity to take in the new."

The trancework now begins as the client is asked to drift outside themselves and soar like a bird to a mountaintop, where they can gain a clear perspective on themselves and their tendency to focus on external rewards. This tendency is not painted as a failing, yet it is suggested that external motivation is no substitute for "your own inner compass."

The fable of the fox and the crow, where the wily fox compliments the crow's singing voice in order to get her to drop her cheese by opening her mouth to sing, is used to demonstrate the potential downfall of being led by others' praise. This concept is extended to that of looking to others for guidance, suggesting that to do so is to deny your own authority and cede power over your own life.

Now, from the mountaintop, the client is encouraged to relax even deeper as they look out across the landscape all the way to the horizon. This provides a metaphor for a widening of perspective as they allow their mind to digest and process things in new ways.

The client is now gently guided to connect with their intention to discover their own inner authority. The process of becoming more in touch with this inner authority is likened to a child learning to ride their bike without training wheels, enjoying the exhilaraton of riding free and choosing their own path.

The client is encouraged to notice here the intrinsic reward that comes along with overcoming challenges. As they do, they are invited to feel their inner authority "awakening" and to welcome it as an important part of who they are. In this way, they can become "the monarch of [their] own domain," choosing their path based on their own values and goals rather than external incentives.

We return once more to the mountaintop, where the client again embodies their observing self to see this shift in themselves now and into the future. It is suggested that in this new state, more in tune with who they really are, they will also be able to consider and respond to other people's opinions with calm clarity. They are compared to "a mountain with deep, deep foundations," witnessing change but remaining unmoved by it.

The client is now encouraged to merge with their future self and feel what it's like to be in touch with their inner authority and driven by a genuine desire for self-betterment. They are guided to experience what it will be like to bring this attitude to future activities, honouring their inner authority and core values in the way they choose to spend their time and energy.

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