First, a note about hypnosis scripts…
The use of hypnosis scripts can be an effective way of learning structure for working in hypnosis. This can be especially true for people with a literal learning style. Once hypnotic structure is learned and internalized, the literal use of scripts can fade away as a person develops more flexibility and confidence in their own approach.
Hypnosis Script Collections
These collections include free hypnosis scripts.
- Banyan Hypnosis Center – Scripts by Calvin Banyan, MA, CI, CH: Stop Stuttering, The Ultimate And Virtually Universal Hypnosis Script For Change and Motivation-Take the High Road To Success, Patter For Erectile Dysfunction by Increasing Sensual Acuity (these individual scripts also listed in the next section). Scripts For Use By 5-PATH and 7th Path Trained Hypnotherapists Only: Weight Loss Script-Over Eating Rut Patter, Stop Smoking, Sleep Disturbance Script.
- Joseph Bennette – A good collection of scripts: Arthritis, Attachment, Book Burning Imagery, Center of Creation, Confidence, Creating, Ego Strengthener, Elman Instant Induction, Fear of what others think, Goal Achievement, Healing before surgery, Inner Advisor, Insomnia, Matrix Induction, Past Life Regression Technique, Procrastination, Purple Bag, Rainbow Garden, Sleep Easy, Snoring (these individual scripts also listed in the next section).
- Diviniti Publishing Limited – Scripts and inductions, including: Air is the Currency of Life, The Progressive Relaxation Induction, The Association Induction, The Awareness Induction, The Hand Breathing Induction, Yapko Relaxation Induction, Garden-Beach Induction Deepener, Confidence in Company Script, Forgetting Script, Healing Before Surgery Script, Healing White Light Script, Guilt Release Script, The Spark Script, Instructions For Life.
- Healing Scripts and Stories – The site of Chaplain Paul G. Durbin, Ph.D. A collection of scripts on a range of issues.
- Hypnogenesis: Magazine for Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy – Scripts: Finding Clues, Let Go and Fly, Balance, Accessing the Self A powerful Higher Self – Inner self Script, Permission to Trance A multi-purpose permissive Induction script.
- Hypnosis.com – A large number of scripts on a wide range of topics, as well as inductions and information on hypnosis.
- Hypnosis For Birth – Pat Sonnenstuhl’s site with a variety of scripts for childbirth and other uses.
- Hypnotic World – A large collection of both free scripts and scripts available by subscription.
- Craig R Lang, MS CHt – Interesting scripts and articles: Manage Visual Floaters, Manage Chronic Discomfort, Auric Healing and Protection (these individual scripts also listed in the next section).
- Metaphor Bank – Contribute at least one hypnotic metaphor to get membership and access to the metaphor bank.
- Free Hypnosis Scripts – An extensive collation of professional and curated free hypnosis scripts and links to script collections. There is also helpful information on how to make a self hypnosis recording.
- Wayne Perkins – Scripts including: Free Self-hypnosis Training, Stress Management Script, Free Self-hypnosis Session for Those Who Suffer From ADD, Free Hypnosis Weight Control, Communication with the Spirit World Script, How to Overcome Test Anxiety, Free Immune System Exercise (these individual scripts also listed in the next section).
- Terence Watts – A great collection of scripts including inductions, deepenings, therapies. Some of the titles: Confusional Technique, Body Conditioning, Awareness Induction, Progressive Relaxation, Deep Relaxation, Staircase, Stiff Arm, Rapid Method, Handbreathing, Seven Plus or Minus Two, Tropical Island, Magic Rainbow, Space, Fairground, Down Thro’ Consciousness, Time Capsule, Slimming By Self-Worth, Healing Before Surgery, Confidence in Company, Ego Strengthener, Permissive Quit Smoking Script, Fear of What Others Think, Guilt Release, Arthritic and Other Pain, Sleepeasy, Hypno Preparation, The Swish Technique, Forgetting, Construction of a script, Compounding, Useful Affirmations (some of these individual scripts also listed in the next section).
- Waking Dreams – Hypnosis Technique and Script Exchange – Yahoo group with a large collection of scripts among the postings. Also techniques for guided imagery and hypnosis (therapeutic, sales, sports, or other uses). Owned by Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., CH.
- Choose Hypnosis – A collection of over 250 free hypnosis scripts from Rev. Rene A. Bastarache, DM, CHT.
Free Individual Hypnosis Scripts
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- Actor’s Script: For Rapid Development of Character – by David I. Brager
- Affluence – from Hypnoticworld website
- Alcohol – from Hypnoticworld website
- Anesthesia, Dave Elman – from James R. Ramey’s Ultradepth Ultra Depth® International Website
- Anger Management Suggestions – by David I. Brager
- Anger / Temper – from hypnosis.com website
- Arthritis and Other Pain – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Asthma – from hypnosis.com website
- Attachment to an Ex-Partner, Releasing – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Self-Hypnosis – by Wayne Perkins
- Auric Healing – by Craig R. Lang MS, CHt
B
- Balance – by Collin Rosati
- Bedwetting (Enuresis) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Bedwetting – from hypnosis.com website
- Blushing – from Hypnoticworld website
- Body Temperature Control – from hypnosis.com website
- Book Burning Imagery – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Bruxism (Grinding Teeth) – from hypnosis.com website
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- Celebration – from Hypnoticworld website
- Center of Creation – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Cancer Script – by Marc T. Wolff
- Childbirth: Disassociation – from hypnosis.com website
- Childbirth: Time Distortion – from hypnosis.com website
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – by Maurice Kouguell, Ph.D
- Circulation – from hypnosis.com website
- Clues, Finding – by Collin Rosati
- Concentration – from hypnosis.com website
- Confidence – from Hypnoticworld website
- Confidence in Company – by Terence Watts
- Constipation – from hypnosis.com website
- Creating – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Creative Abilities – from hypnosis.com website
- Crystal/Rainbow Pattern – modelled from Stephen Gilligan, useable for a wide range of applications
- Curious Baby Self – from Hypnoticworld website
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- Dandelion Script – by Tim Barry
- Dave Elman Induction (Pure original form) – from Gerald F. Kein’s Omni Hypnosis Training Center
- Dave Elman Induction, Instant – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Dave Elman Induction, Rapid – by Donald Robertson
- Depression I – from hypnosis.com website
- Depression II – from hypnosis.com website
- Depression: That Was Yesterday – from hypnosis.com website
- Disease – from hypnosis.com website
- Drug Addiction, Sesssion I – from hypnosis.com website
- Drug Addiction, Session II – from hypnosis.com website
- Drugs – from hypnosis.com website
- Discomfort, Chronic – by Craig R. Lang, MS CHt
- Dream Preprogramming – by David Brager
E
- Easing Someone From Your Mind – from hypnosis.com website
- Ego Strengthening Technique, Hartland – from Donald Robertson
- Ego Strengthener – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Emile Coue, Original – from James R. Ramey’s Ultradepth Ultra Depth® International Website
- Emotional Attachment, Releasing – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Energy – from hypnosis.com website
- Erectile Dysfunction – Calvin Banyan, MA, CI, CH
- Exam Anxiety – from hypnosis.com website
- Examination Nerves – from Hypnoticworld website
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- Fear of What Others Think – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Fears and Burdens, Getting Rid of – By Del Hunter Morrill, M.S., C.C.H
- Fibromyalgia and Pain Management – by Darlene Cheek
- Fibromyalgia and Sleep Therapy – article and script by Darlene Cheek
- Flying Blanket (for Children) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Flying, Fear of – from Hypnoticworld website
- Forest Walk – from Hypnoticworld website
- Forgetting – from Terence Watts’ Hypnosense website
- Frigidity – from hypnosis.com website
G
- Getting Things Done – strategy & script by Dale Kirby
- Goal Achievement – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Going Places, Fear of – by Christine Davies, from Hypnoticworld website
- Guilt Release – by Terence Watts
H
- Healing Temple – from hypnosis.com website
- Health Improvement Imagery – several short selections: the Special Place, Inner Advisor, Imagine Yourself Well, Tension and Stress, Healing of Cuts and Injuries, Arteries and Heart Disease, Asthma and Lung Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Infections, Weak Immune System (Immune deficiency disorders: HIV, AIDS, and others), Overactive Immune System (Allergies, asthma, arthritis, etc.), Pain, Depression, Behavior Change
- Health Matters – from Hypnoticworld website
- Hearing Improvement – from hypnosis.com website
- Hidden Files (Regression) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Higher Consciousness – from Hypnoticworld website
- Higher Self, Accessing the – by Jack Elias, CHT
- Holiday Stroll– from Hypnoticworld website
- Home, Going (Regression) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Hypnotic Skills Development by Writing Scripts – from David Barron’s Changework site
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- Infertility (Christmas Tree Lights & Preparing for Pregnancy) – two scripts by Aisling Manning
- Inner Advisor – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Insomnia – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- I Would If I Could – from hypnosis.com website
J
- Jealousy – from Hypnoticworld website
- Jigsaw – from Hypnoticworld website
L
- Light Switch Self-Hypnosis Technique – by Gerald Kein
- Let Go and Fly Induction – by Collin Rosati
M
- Magic Fairground – by Terence Watts, also construction notes, showing the thinking behind this script
- Magical Television (for Children) – from Hypnoticworld
- Matrix Induction – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Memory Enhancement and Attention Span Modification – by David I. Brager
- Memory: Recall at Will – from hypnosis.com website
- Migraine Headaches – from hypnosis.com website
- Motivation and Change: Take the High Road To Success – Calvin Banyan, MA, CI, CH
- Mountain – from Hypnoticworld website
N
- Nail Biting – from hypnosis.com website
P
- Pain Control Using Hypnotic Regression – from David Barron’s Changework site
- Pain or Anxiety as the Object – from hypnosis.com website
- Partnership, Perfect – by Christine Davies, from Hypnoticworld website
- Performance, Peak (Stage Fright) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Permission To Trance: Multi-Purpose Permissive Script – by R.A.Neves, Ph.D., ABH (President)
- Picking and Scratching of Skin – from Hypnoticworld website
- Problem Solving (Three Step) – from hypnosis.com website
- Problem Resolution – by Dan Elliott, from Hypnoticworld website
- Procrastinating I – from hypnosis.com website
- Procrastination – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Procrastination II – from hypnosis.com website
- Prosperity I – from hypnosis.com website
- Prosperity II – from hypnosis.com website
- Protection, Psychic – from Hypnoticworld website
- Protective Shield – from hypnosis.com website
- Public Speaking – from hypnosis.com website
- Purple Bag – from Joseph Bennette’s website
R
- Rainbow Garden – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Reading Faster – from hypnosis.com website
- Relaxation, Progressive – by Donald Robertson
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- Sanctuary Exercise – by Dr. Bruce Goldberg
- Scriptnosis – an assortment of “Scriptnosis” scripts on a variety of topics
- Script Usage – from Steve Boyley
- Self-Confidence I – from hypnosis.com website
- Self-Confidence II – from hypnosis.com website
- Self-Confidence / Fear – from hypnosis.com website
- Self-Hypnosis – by Wayne Perkins
- Self-Hypnosis, Basic – by Donald Robertson
- Self-Hypnosis, Brief – by Donald Robertson
- Self-Hypnosis Induction Script – from the Hypnotica site by Charles E. Henderson, Ph.D
- Self-Mastery Scripts – Dale Kirby’s scripts based on a technique proposed by Stever Robbins
- Sexual Male – from hypnosis.com website
- Sleep Easy – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Smoking Cessation, Permissive – by Terence Watts
- Snoring – from Joseph Bennette’s website
- Spiders, Fear of (for Children) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Stage Fright, Elimination – by Dr. Bruce Goldberg
- Stress Management – by Wayne Perkins
- Study Habits – from hypnosis.com website
- Studying, Accelerated – from Hypnoticworld website
- Stuttering, Elimination – by Calvin Banyan, MA, CH, CI
- Surgery, Healing Before – from Joseph Bennette’s website
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- Test Anxiety – by Wayne Perkins
- Thirty-Second Conversational Trance Induction – from David Barron’s Changework site
- Timidity – from Hypnoticworld website.http://www.hypnoticworld.com/children_hypnosis/magic_television.asp
- Time Capsule – by Terence Watts
- Tree, Oak (for Children) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Tree of Life (Regression) – from Hypnoticworld website
- Tropical Island – by Terence Watts
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- Visual Floaters – by Craig R. Lang, MS CHt
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- Weight Control – from the Hypnotica site by Charles E. Henderson, Ph.D
- Weight Control – by Wayne Perkins
- Weight Reduction Script – from hypnosis.com website
- Writing Skills – from Hypnoticworld website
- Writer’s Block and Memory Recovery Script – by David I. Brager
Z
- Zoosh Healing Script – by Geoffrey Knight
Commercial Hypnosis Script Books & Collections
- Hypnotherapy Scripts: A Neo-Ericksonian Approach to Persuasive Healing by Ronald A. Havens, Catherine R. Walters; Hardcover, Brunner/Mazel; (November 1989); ISBN: 0876305478
- Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors by D. Corydon Hammond (Editor) Hardcover: 602 pages; Publisher: W W Norton & Company; (October 1990); ISBN: 039370095X
- Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnotherapy / NLP by Jack Elias Paperback: 300 pages ; Publisher: Inst for Therapeutic Learning; (July 1997); ISBN: 0965521001. Includes 18 original scripts
- Creative Scripts for Hypnotherapy by Marlene E. Hunter, Paperback: 220 pages ; Publisher: Brunner-Routledge; 2nd edition (June 1994) ISBN: 087630742X
- Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions by George Gafner, Sonja Benson; Hardcover: 208 pages; Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (April 2000); ISBN: 039370324X
- Hypnotherapy Scripts by Ronald A., Havens Phd, Catherine Walters; Hardcover: 208 pages; Publisher: Brunner-Routledge; 2nd edition (July 2002); ISBN: 1583913653
- The Thin Book : Hypnotherapy Trance Scripts for Weight Management by Hal Brickman, Daniel L. Araoz; Paperback: 108 pages ; Publisher: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc.; (December 1999) ISBN: 1891944096
- Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy, Volume 1 by Rodger P Allen; Paperback: 176 pages ; Publisher: Crown House Publishing; (February 2001) ISBN: 1899836462
- Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy, Volume 2 by Rodger P Allen Hardcover: 256 pages; Publisher: Crown House Publishing; (July 2001) ISBN: 1899836691
- Precision Therapy: A Professional Manual of Fast and Effective Hypnoanalysis Techniques by Duncan McColl; Paperback: 248 pages; Publisher: Crown House Publishing; (February 2001) ISBN: 1899836187
- Self Hypnosis for a Better Life, by William W. Hewitt; Paperback: 256 pages; Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; (December 1997) ISBN: 1567183581. Self hypnosis scripts
- Hypnosis for Change by Josie Hadley and Carol Staudacher; Paperback; Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 3rd edition (October 1996) ISBN: 1572240571. Contains chapters that deal with various conditions with scripts included
- Help Yourself to Heal With Self-Hypnosis by Linda Mackenzie; Paperback; 192 pages; Publisher: Sterling Publications; (December 2000) ISBN: 0806949694. Contains more than 100 scripts for a wide range of problems including allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, backaches, cancer and chemotherapy, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, fear and phobia, infertility, insomnia, osteoporosis, menopause, PMS, prostate diseases, ulcers, and other. Also includes homeopathic medicine charts with remedies focusing on attitude, foods and diet, vitamins and supplements, herbs, and aromatherapy
- The Joy of Visualization: 75 Creative Ways to Enhance Your Life by Valerie Wells; Paperback: 175 pages; Publisher: Chronicle Books; (November 1990) ISBN: 0877017654
- Hypnovision: The New Natural Way to Vision Improvement by Lisette Scholl, Debbie Bartmasser (Illustrator); Hardcover: 240 pages; Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; (June 1990) ASIN: 0805011331. Includes scripts and programs for myopia, presbyopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, and other vision problems
- Wordweaving: the Science of Suggestion: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Hypnotic Language by Trevor Silvester, Shaun Brookhouse; Paperback: 200 pages; Publisher: The Quest Institute; (March 2003) ISBN: 0954366409. Published as a book, a game, and an audio CD, more information is available at www.wordweaving.co.uk
- Hartland’s Medical and Dental Hypnosis by John Hartlan, David Waxman; Paperback: Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston; 3rd edition (November 1997) ASIN: 0702013234. Though the third edition is out of print, it has been recommended over the fourth edition
- The Therapists Script Book by Wendi Friesen. Imaginative and unusual inductions and scripts.17 inductions and 71 Scripts. 222 pages
- The Patter Script Book by Gerald Kein. Patter scripts for over 25 frequently encountered issues
- Great Escapes, Vols. I, II, III, IV – by Del Hunter Morrill, M.S., C.C.H. A wide range of scripts in four volumes. Learn more here
- DeepTranceNow.Com – Wide range of scripts by Dr. Laura De Giorgio
- Crucial! Amazing Inductions and Deepeners – 11 inductions and 11 deepeners calibrated to different personality types by Terence Watts. Includes a personality assessment guide to help you choose the right induction and the right deepener. £25.00 / US$40.00 including shipping
- Hypnosis Online – Several books of script collections. Also royalty free background music
- Trancetime.com – Several script books by Katherine Zimmerman on a range of issues
- Hyptalk.com – Script books by Victoria Wizell
- Atwood Institute for Research & Education, Inc. – A compilation of over 200 scripts used in different hypnosis settings – $45.00. To place an order, please call 623-853-9516 or toll free at 1-800-642-9339
- Hypnotic Scripts That Work – by Dr. John Cerbone. Featuring dozens of hypnotheraputic suggestions, technique suggestion scripts and complementary medical hypnotic suggestion techniques. $60 + $5 Shipping (Add $10 for international orders)
- Hypnotic World – Book of 70 hypnosis scripts
- Dr. Mike’s Hypnotic World – Book of scripts
- Hypnosis for Health Scripts by John Hudson
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