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Hypnotic Journaling
- 1. Hypnotic Journaling Sophie Nicholls This is an abridged version of the talk and workshop delivered to the UKGHE Annual Conference 2010.
- 8. So what is Hypnotic Journaling? A way of remembering, (re)connecting with felt self writing as self-hypnosis
- 11. Exercises for Letting Go: something beginning with…
- 12. free-writing write anything, however it comes, without editing or pausing…
- 13. speed-dating for hypnotherapists! five minutes of free-writing, circle five words, use these as starting-point for next five minutes of free-writing… … and so on…
- 14. other ideas: dialoguing (with a feeling,a part of the body, a person) using hypnosis/self-hypnosis to allow a beginning word, metaphor or image to coalesce… …and then free-writing from that
- 15. contexts for practice: James Pennebaker and Expressive Writing psychoneuroimmunology Gendlin and focusing
- 17. Making, Being Remade… (Hypnotic Journaling ebook guides you through these stages of the process in five days.)
Editor's Notes
- Rather than gallop through all the theory… I just want to give you a small flavour… to get you thinking about this fascinating topic…
- This is the model that I came up with… although even the work model implies something perhaps too formulaic for my purpose here… It’s almost as if we need a POETIC IMAGE, a metaphor for this process… But we need a way of talking about it that is useful and so that it can be put into practice… My suggestion is that writing can behelpful as a process because it can help us to LET GO of more conceptual ideas of the self, some of the unhelpful narratives that we have formed about ourselves.. .it can help us to get out of endless analytical thinking and into the body, into the felt and bodily.. Rhythm, metaphor… MAKING: Once we have done this, it is easier for us Make something new. Writing also consists of making objects… finding a form for our felt experience which is the right ‘fit, ’ which feels right to us… And in so doing, this made object - a word, a phrase, a poem, a short story, a novel - acts as a kind of lever, a fulcrum ( I am borrowing this from the philosopher, Elaine Scarry) which works back upon us and transforms, RENEWS, our understanding of ourselves.
- This is the model that I came up with… although even the work model implies something perhaps too formulaic for my purpose here… It’s almost as if we need a POETIC IMAGE, a metaphor for this process… But we need a way of talking about it that is useful and so that it can be put into practice… My suggestion is that writing can behelpful as a process because it can help us to LET GO of more conceptual ideas of the self, some of the unhelpful narratives that we have formed about ourselves.. .it can help us to get out of endless analytical thinking and into the body, into the felt and bodily.. Rhythm, metaphor… MAKING: Once we have done this, it is easier for us Make something new. Writing also consists of making objects… finding a form for our felt experience which is the right ‘fit, ’ which feels right to us… And in so doing, this made object - a word, a phrase, a poem, a short story, a novel - acts as a kind of lever, a fulcrum ( I am borrowing this from the philosopher, Elaine Scarry) which works back upon us and transforms, RENEWS, our understanding of ourselves.