ABSTRACT
Erickson: All right You can go ahead. You can go to sleep. You can close your eyes and go way, deep, sound asleep. You can go to sleep feeling comfortable. You can go to sleep feeling comfortable and you can enjoy your sleep, so that you are very comfortable. Relax and feel comforta~ ble all over. Relax till you are comfortable and sleeping deeply, deeply, and soundly. Easy. deep, sound sleep. And sleep deeply and soundly. And to let me know you are sleeping soundly, your left hand will slowly rise. When you are sleeping soundly, but not until you are easily, deeply, soundly asleep. And to let me understand that you will sleep continuously and deeply, that you will sleep continuously and deeply, as I suggest to you, your right hand will lift up. And now your left hand has lifted up to let me know that you are sleeping deeply and soundly. And your right hand is lifting to let me know that you will sleep continuously. And that's right. is it not? And you are comfortable about that? All right. From now on you can feel your arms relax. Relax and be comfortable. And I can talk to myself or anybody else without it meaning anything to you, can I not? I Subject nods. Erickson now outlines the subject's actions to Dr. Fink.1 Left hand raised first. and then right hand raised. The suggestion was given that it could lower. Left hand having raised first. lowered first: and then the right hand lowered. I Back to subjectl Was I speaking to anyone?
