With this recording, listen to how I helped ensure clients went deep enough by starting with the Dr. Flowers induction for fractionation, to assign an ideomotor response (IMR) and to "mask" it under ensuring their comfort in the seats they are sitting in. You will hear towards the end of the hypnosis session that I use the IMR to "talk" to them to ensure that the change work will occur for them. NOTE: They all raised their yes finger. Also, in a one-on-one session, you might have the client establish their own yes and no and [sometimes] I don't know signal, but in a group, it is best that you direct that for consistency and ease on yourself. 

I chose to use the progressive muscle relaxation induction to be congruent with the environment that we were in -- a salt cave. This environment calls for relaxation, so the induction should match, in my opinion.

You will also notice that I did give a post-hypnotic suggestion. Since this was a group, I also gave a big variety of suggestions (i.e., control room, aversion technique with the suggestion of poison, I future paced them, and I gave direct suggestions with the affirmation of "nothing tastes as good as life." 

Lastly, when I brought them back into awareness after the Dr. Flowers induction, I shouldn't have said anything about "now when we start the actual hypnosis" because that wasn't necessary because I should have presupposed that they were already in hypnosis and they would now go deeper. See, we are ALL always learning and growing and every single client we see, group or one-on-one is a teacher for us. Always!