Take a Pebble Induction

(After initial rapport is established and eye-closure has been achieved)

Imagine being in a rowboat, out on a lake. And in your hand, I don’t know which hand you will choose, but in one of your hands, you hold a large, smooth, shiny pebble. Take a moment now to examine it. Give it a shape. Picture its colors. Feel the weight of it in your hand. Impress this pebble upon your mind. Remember it, …for now. Let your conscious mind make a connection with it, like you were tying it around the pebble as if it were a string. Now take that pebble and hold it over the side of the boat, over the smooth… calm… surface of the lake. I am going to count from 3 to 1. And when I count down and reach “1″, I want you… to let go… of that pebble… and let it drop… down into the lake.

Three, feel the weight of that pebble in your hand.

Two, your conscious mind tied around that pebble, hovering, just over the water’s surface.

One, open your hand and let it just plop! …into the lake.

And a person can forget a pebble or a stone as you let it DROP DOWN DEEPER until it fades from sight. And you can allow yourself to just experience the rhythmic pulse of the expanding ripples on the surface, each ripple bringing a wave of relaxation, one… after another… after another, wave… after wave… of expanding …relaxation… washing over you… from head… to toe.

And when you feel that stone gently come to rest at the bottom, …you will find yourself …going into the deepest… trance… you have ever… experienced.