Learning hypnotherapy, weekend 10.1

Unfortunately I missed this day of the final weekend, but a lot of it was taken up with using hypnosis with children - which I don't expect I'll ever be doing, so it wasn't a big miss. Automatic writing was also covered on this day, which I was interested in. Thankfully, a couple of the other students took me though it. That's where you place a pen in someones hand while they're in a hypnotic state, and have them write/draw things without consciously choosing what to write or draw.

None of the results I saw from using this technique seemed to make much sense (although the people using it didn't really have any real problems to work with either). The idea is that it's supposed to make sense to the client (maybe not immediately, so it may take a few days to sink in), and that it'll help in some way with whatever problems they're trying to deal with. I doubt I'll use this technique in therapy myself, mostly because I don't really put much value in this one. But it's still an interesting idea, it just seems a bit of a strange way to go about things. There's always the chance I'll change my mind about this though, it wouldn't be the first time - and it definitely wont be the last.