Hello, and welcome to the lecture on when nothing happens. I've been doing hypnotherapy and Meditation Healing work for a long time now. And these sessions when nothing happens are to me the absolute worst case scenario. So keep in the back of your mind, you will get them from time to time, especially in the beginning for some reason. So typical session might go like this. So someone calls makes an appointment.

We're in the pre session interview, and I'll ask them, well, how can I help you? Why are you here today? And they'll say something like, Well, my wife told me I had to come. So okay, great. So you take him in to the relaxing part of the session, get them relaxed, and then take him into the deepening technique. And then you'll get to the end of the deepening technique, and you'll say something like, okay, what's happening now?

Do you feel relaxed and I'll say No, say, Well, can you imagine your sanctuary place? No. Well is, is can you anything happening at all? And say, No. And so what do you do when that happens? Well try and keep in the back of your mind that the worst thing you want for a client to experience when they leave your office is that they're relaxed.

And so continue to help them with the relaxing process, you know, read a story, you know, do another induction to make them more relaxed, or just say relaxing words over and over, you know, again, for an hour, it can be a very long session. And then when they leave, you know, they'll probably be an awkward ending to the session. And then when you follow up with them, and sending them the verification sheet. If they do respond, they'll say nothing happened. Chances are they won't respond, and it'll really likely not to reschedule and more than likely, you're just another checklist thing to check off on there. list or they can say something like, well, I even tried hypnotherapy.

And that didn't even work. And so when those sessions are over, I tend to feel pretty bad, you know, pretty self conscious, kind of inadequate. And there's three reasons why those situations occur. Reason number one is that there are layers to resistance are so thick, that you're not going to get through them no matter what. And so there's a timing component for everything. And the client just isn't ready.

Who knows why they came in. The second reason is that, in my experience, it seems like about 20% of the people on the planet just are not geared for this kind of stuff. They're not wired that way. There's about 20%, who are going to fly with this no matter what, and then everyone else is somewhere in between. So they just may not be wired for this and this isn't going to help them and most likely people like that are never going to come to you for a session anyway. And then the third reason is, which is the one I tend to not want to acknowledge is that maybe I'm just not the right person.

For them, so our two energies just didn't click, and maybe it'll work with them for somebody else. So, because I don't like these sessions so much, and because I'm very geared towards success in the work that I do, I try and screen these people out ahead of time and kind of steer them off if I don't think it's going to work. And so what that does is that it you know, it reduces the amount of people I see, of course, I don't get the money from it, but also increases my success rate. If I can screen those people that's not going to work for out in the beginning. So what I can do, in the free consultation that I give them, I can do a little diagnostic check if I don't think this stuff's gonna work for them. So I can have them close their eyes when they're on the phone or when we're chatting or whatever.

And I can ask them to imagine a flower just sitting there. And if they can, it's a good sign. Then I say, Well, can you actually feel the flowers presence in front of you? As if it was actually there? If they say yes, in that, go, this is great. And then take it even further say can you smelled actually smell the fragrance of the flower.

And if they say yes on that slam dunk, this is going to be great for them. So you can run that little diagnostic test. And then if they can't do any of those things, I might ask them, you know, you know, maybe this isn't the greatest thing for you, you might want to think it over and give me a call back in a couple days. And see if they do call back. And if they do call back, they're very interested. If they don't, then great.

So if this does happen to you, please try not to take it personal, okay. So it's kind of hard not to do but just realize that these things do happen from time to time. So that's kind of hit on the worst case scenario. So let's move on to the next lecture. See you there.