Age Regression And Age Progression :: Dr. Joseph Mancini, CCHt :: Business Hypnosis

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Age Regression & Age Progression
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One of the most powerful of interventions for business success is Age Regression, going back while in hypnosis to a previous time of importance. This may be to a time when the leader or team felt most in charge and excited about a task they were doing, an undertaking similar to the one before them in the present moment. Doing so may allow the individual or team to bring that energy forward to the present task, increase morale, and possibly figure out from past success what is not going well in the present and how to fix it.

Age Regression is particularly powerful when an individual or team is in a slump and seemingly unable to experience themselves as competent and confident. In hypnosis, they would be invited to look in their history for “exceptions” to their current view of themselves and so see that they are in fact capable of increased productivity. Even if they cannot find in their work history such exceptions to their present malaise, in hypnosis, each person can look for exceptions in comparable, non-work areas of her or his life and thus can bridge that remembered competency to the work at hand.

Age Regression may be used also when a leader or team is suffering from a sense of failure for an uncompleted or seemingly useless or otherwise mismanaged project from the past. In such a case, age regression may allow the individual(s) to go back to image the correct path or other intervention and so bring the old task to a different outcome through imaginative restructuring. This process likewise can increase morale and allow “rehearsal” of the more appropriate way to accomplish a similar goal in the present and future.

Age Progression, looking ahead to the future while in hypnosis, allows an individual or team to imagine in great detail how a presentation, business meeting, product design collaboration, etc. will actually take place with an optimum outcome.

Variations of this intervention may include seeing oneself or members of a team actually accomplishing the future task as though it were being done in the present moment, experiencing a period in the future after the task has been successfully achieved when everyone is celebrating and commenting on the victory, and “looking back from the future” to see what concrete steps had been taken to achieve a satisfactory result.

Still another use of Age Progression is strategic-planning or scenario planning. One way of doing this is to have the planning team go into hypnosis and experience and experiment with at least three different future scenarios. For instance, one scenario might be the worst-case, based on known company weaknesses’ getting worse and the usual environmental threats’ developing exponentially. Another scenario would be looking at what would happen if the internal and external environments remained the same. Still another scenario might be based on imaging the outcome if all factors were extremely positive. Other kinds of scenarios could also be chosen.

The Business Hypnotist would invite participants to image these scenarios one year, five years, and ten years in the future. At the end of the hypnotic session, everyone would write notes about his or her experience and then engage in comparing those notes to gain the widest possible understanding of the pros and cons--the unseen potentials and the risks and blocks in any one scenario. Doing strategic planning while in hypnosis is a much more creative endeavor than doing it in ordinary consciousness. Moreover, the problem-solving abilities of group members are enhanced by the bypassing of the overly critical mind.