ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issue of freedom and situations in which a person may have lost their liberty. Consideration is given to the different ways freedom can be lost from childhood through to later adulthood and where this might happen, the objective being that the hypnotherapist can be more prepared to work with some of these situations. Freedom will mean different things to people in a variety of situations, so when working with a client it is important to ascertain what freedom means to them. The discussion is followed by a general introduction to trance followed by three main scripts which work on: i) going in the right direction, ii) the feeling of being released from thoughts feelings and behaviours iii) exploration of freedom. There is a short additional script to work on fortitude and an additional visualisation to deal with feeling trapped and then escaping.
