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#  Seven Plus or Minus Two 
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#  Use this induction with analytical or intellectually orientated clients. 
#  It contains elements of confusion and since it is almost impossible to resist, 
#  it works particularly well with those who tend to find 'normal' relaxation inductions uncomfortable. 
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#  Use a 'standard' preparation to begin. 
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#  Modified by FollowTheWatch55
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<speak> All right, just allow yourself to be as lazy as you want to be... 
<speak> \pau=500\
<speak> listening quietly to the sound of my voice... \pau=500\
<speak> and while you're listening quietly to the sound of my voice concentrating for a few moments on your breathing... \pau=500\
<speak> breathing slowly and steadily, just as though you were sound asleep, or pretending to be sound asleep... \pau=500\
<speak> and imagining, perhaps, just how comfortable you might look while you're relaxing there in the chair... 
<speak> using the power of your mind to see yourself in your mind's eye... \pau=500\
<speak> and then using the power of your mind to do whatever has to happen to make you look even more relaxed...
<speak> and still thinking about your breathing, \pau=500\
<speak> making quite sure that each breath in lasts the same length of time as the last breath in... 
<speak> and each breath outwards lasts the same length of time as the last breath out... 
<speak> even though each breath in will probably be slightly shorter than each breath out... \pau=250\
<speak> and while you're thinking about your breathing, 
<speak> noticing, perhaps, the weight of your head against the back of the chair... 
<speak> and still listening quietly to the sound of my voice... 
<speak> \pau=500\
<speak> And while you're listening quietly to the sound of my voice, 
<speak> it maybe that you'll become aware that you've forgotten to think about your breathing... 
<speak> but that's all right, you can just simply start thinking about your breathing again while you're listening quietly to the sound of my voice
<speak> and what I'm saying to you here... \pau=500\
<speak> and in psychology, there's a rule called... seven plus or minus two... 
<speak> and that means that most people can think of seven things all at once... plus or minus two... \pau=250\
<speak> so you should be able to think of at least five things all at the same time...
<speak> the sound of my voice... \pau=250\
<speak> the steadiness of your breathing... \pau=250\
<speak> the weight of your head against the back of the chair... \pau=250\
<speak> and how you might look from the outside... \pau=250\
<speak> and that's four things... \pau=250\
<speak> so you can think of those four things while you're listening to the sound of the music I'm playing in the background... 
<speak> so that's five things, now... \pau=250\
<speak> and I wonder if you can think about those five things and then at the same time notice the way your feet feel on the footrest of the chair... \pau=250\
<speak> and perhaps how your arms feel... 
<speak> and that's seven things now... 
<speak> the sound of my voice... 
<speak> the weight of your head against the back of the chair... 
<speak> the music playing in the background... 
<speak> they way you look while you're relaxing... 
<speak> and your breathing... 
<speak> and your arms... 
<speak> and your feet on the footrest... 
<speak> and I wonder if you can now add an eighth thing into all of that... \pau=500\
<speak> I wonder if your mind is powerful enough to think of seven plus one things... 
<speak> adding in, perhaps, an awareness of the temperature of the room... 
<speak> and then just testing to see whether you can add yet another input to your senses... 
<speak> so that you're thinking of NINE things all at once... \pau=250\
<speak> that's seven plus two... \pau=500\
<speak> thinking about all those eight inputs to your senses and then maybe adding an awareness of the way your eyes feel while you're thinking about all those other things... 
<speak> the weight of your head... 
<speak> your breathing... 
<speak> the music in the background... 
<speak> how you look from the outside... 
<speak> the temperature of the room... 
<speak> your feet on the footrest... 
<speak> your arms... 
<speak> the sound of my voice... 
<speak> and how your eyes feel... 
<speak> \pau=250\
<speak> The weight of your head... 
<speak> your breathing... 
<speak> the music in the background... 
<speak> how you look from the outside... 
<speak> the temperature of the room... 
<speak> your feet on the footrest... 
<speak> your arms... 
<speak> the sound of my voice... 
<speak> and how your eyes feel... 
<speak> and of course, when anybody thinks of all these things, 
<speak> what they are really doing is scanning round them one after the other... 
<speak> very quickly... \pau=250\
<speak> so quickly, it feels as if you're thinking of them all at once... 
<speak> and in the world of computers, that would be called timesharing... 
<speak> sharing your available resources between the different tasks you are attempting to perform all at once... 
<speak> and that's why some people can think of only five things... 
<speak> because it's the limit of their memory... 
<speak> while others can actually think of nine things... 
<speak> and I wonder how well your memory is working as you struggle to remember those nine things... 
<speak> the weight of your head... 
<speak> your breathing... 
<speak> the music in the background... 
<speak> how you look from the outside... 
<speak> the temperature of the room... 
<speak> your feet on the footrest... 
<speak> your arms... 
<speak> the sound of my voice... 
<speak> and how your eyes feel... 
<speak> \pau=1000\
<speak> And now you can think how good it will feel... \pau=250\
<speak> when you simply allow yourself to think of only the most important thing of all... \pau=250\
<speak> concentrating all your energies onto that one most important thing of all... \pau=250\
<speak> which is going to be so easy to think of, now that you are going to allow yourself to think of only one thing instead of nine... \pau=250\
<speak> and that one thing is how good it feels to think of only one thing... 
<speak> thinking how relaxed you can be now... 
<speak> that you're only thinking of how relaxed you might like to be... \pau=500\
<speak> relaxing in your mind... \pau=500\
<speak> and in your body... \pau=500\
<speak> no need to think anything at all, really... \pau=500\
<speak> no need to do anything... \pau=500\
<speak> nobody wanting anything and nobody expecting anything... \pau=500\
<speak> and absolutely nothing whatsoever for you to do except to... \pau=1500\
<speak> relax.