Achieve longer relaxation results with the 1,000-year-view Technique

Hypnotherapists, if you know about the 100-year-view process (or 1,000-year-view process), then you already know how well it works for creating a calm that lasts days or weeks after the session. If you don't know about this adapted time line technique, here's a story about how I've used it to great success.

Jim (named changed for this post) came into my office after booking an appointment to reduce his hypertension. He'd just had a doctor tell him that his symptoms of ulcers, insomnia, irritability and difficulty concentrating at work were all related to one thing: hypertension.

I had told Jim on the phone that we could bring his body down a couple of notches on the relaxation scale immediately with an office session while teaching him how to do self-hypnosis on his own, so he could get relaxed and reduce tension anytime he needed.

Of course, relaxation and stress reduction is usually the first thing hypnotherapists learn to do, and it is a natural side effect of being hypnotized. Over the years, I had always been refining my methods for faster results, deeper relaxation and longer-lasting after-effects. The 100-year-view has been a big win.

In the pre-induction chat, I learned that Jim like the mountains as his most relaxing place, and that he was primary channel auditory. Together, we designed the wording of the suggestions that he felt would best express his desired state and result. I took Jim through a normal relaxation induction and went heavy on the auditory references.

After his journey and suggestions, his induction was nearly complete. I took him back to that mountain and the vision of him meditating and breathing with all of nature, sky and sun. I then had him extend his awareness all the way out to the plains, the towns, the cities, the oceans, and across the oceans, to cities and societies around the world; he could see, hear and sense it all from that mountain top. I then simply had day go into night, where he kept the connection and expanded his awareness to include Earth in relationship to the Sun and planets and motion in time.

I then just sped up day and night cycles until it went into months, then seasons, then years, him sensing and hearing everything passing through the time, becoming aware of the cycles of nature, cycles of societies, cycles of the planets. You can take this out to 100 years or 1000 years, noticing the ups and downs and cycles and repeats and panics and triumphs and wars and joys and economies etc.

From the 100 or 1000 year, see how the mountainside has shifted and how it is the same. Extend awareness out through time, back to when this mountain was young and thousands of years into the future. "Store this feeling, this perspective, this connection to the everything, able to access and recall, to restore and connect at any time you wish, easily and instantly."

For some clients, I put the white-light healing flow after this. Jim wasn't a white-light kind of guy, so I skipped that for him. I brought him out, gave him a moment and a cup of water, and asked him what part of his journey he liked best. We chatted a bit, checked him on his relaxation scale, and sent him on his way.

I saw him a week later, and he told me that the deep calm stayed with him for about three days, and he had the best nights of sleep he'd had in a while. His relaxation-tension scale remained lower than it had been, even after the three days. He said he could instantly bring his stress level down a notch or two just by recalling the 1000-year perspective for two seconds.

It's a suggestion pattern and scene that has worked well for me. If you haven't tried it, give it try and compare with other session results for long-term calm.

Techniques and methods discussed here are intended for trained hypnotherapists and are presented with the assumption that the reader has skills and training in hypnotherapy, hypnotic technique and trance management. Do not attempt these methods or techniques if you are not trained in hypnotherapy.