Help Your Client Regain Confidence with the Bullied as a Child Hypnosis Script

Bullying is extremely common among children, and the resulting anxiety and self-doubt can last well into adulthood.

The Bullied as a Child Hypnosis Script from The Script Collection was put together to help clients clear the emotional charge from their memories of bullying so that they are no longer limited by them.

The pre-talk starts by affirming that many people who are bullied as children go on to be some of society's most important and successful people, demonstrating that bullying does not reflect or limit a person's worth. It also helps the client feel less alone by quoting a study showing that one in five children had been bullied in the previous year.

A discussion of the suffering many people feel well into adulthood as a result of bullying reassures the client that what they are feeling is normal, yet a description of how such people can and have been healed gives hope that it is possible to let go of those memories, recognize that the attacks weren't personal, and genuinely move on.

Attention is brought to the breath as the induction begins. The client is guided to take deep, slow breaths and to feel a deepening release with each exhalation. They are gently encouraged to notice the physical relaxation starting to spread through their face and shoulders.

Now the client is asked to imagine the "positive direction" they want to be moving in, "towards deeper confidence, ease, and trust in [themselves]." They are asked to get a sense of their future self having redeveloped the confidence and self-belief they once had, "before any of those events occurred." The metaphor of an old, deep-rooted tree with a "strong, resilient core" that has stayed strong through lush summers but also harsh winters suggests to the client that they can keep on growing and thriving even in the face of adversity.

Now the attention is drawn back to the pleasurable sensation of deep relaxation, as it is suggested that "the very air around you... begins to relax with you." A countdown begins, providing a framework for the client to "let go all the way down." With each number comes a new suggestion as to how the unconscious mind can help find new meanings, contexts, and possibilities to help the client become stronger, wiser, and more trusting in themselves.

Now a description of what was said during hypnosis to a man working on overcoming his childhood bullying allows the client to absorb these ideas without any sense of pressure. As the script continues, the man is forgotten as the client responds to suggestions of "future memories" of a self perfectly at ease, free of those painful old memories.

Now the client receives a command to "experience a deep compassion" for their younger self, and to travel back in time to take that self aside and reassure them that they will get through this. They are instructed to show that self a "powerful method" to free themselves from painful memories: by viewing such a memory on a TV screen and fast-forwarding the whole way through until it feels like nothing more than a distant old black-and-white video.

As the client's younger self "frees themselves from that experience," the client is invited to merge into that version of themselves and notice how calm they are now that the emotional charge has been totally removed from that memory. While they are imbued with calm, they are encouraged to glide into the end of the video and experience it in reverse, seeing everything flicker back to before it ever happened.

As the client glides back out of the screen, the client is asked to affirm to themselves that they will not be defined by that event any more. As they do, they can notice the event itself shrinking down and completely losing its hold. As they imagine themselves surrounded by positive presences from their life, they now see themselves on a much bigger screen, feeling at ease and full of self-belief. Just as the previous screen shrunk smaller and smaller, this one grows bigger and bigger, until it is life sized and ready for the client to merge into.

The trancework concludes by returning to the client who was bullied and observing the immediate change in him after his session. The client is reassured that their unconscious mind will undergo the same transformation as they integrate what they have learned.

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Bullied as a Child is also available as an MP3 download.