Before we invited someone into hypnosis, we have already clarified with them what was missing for them, what it was that they were wanting, what they would be wanting to look for. And now we’ve invited a client into a focused, absorbed experience, experiencing something that they like, and we know that when someone’s doing something they like, they are very resourceful. So we can next simply invite a client, focused and absorbed in their experience, to look around and find whatever it is that is missing for them, to find whatever it is that they're looking for, to find whatever it is that they want that is going to make the difference to them and to their future. 

For example, if someone has a problem and we discover that what's missing for them is confidence, and if what they like doing is horse riding, we can assume that, when someone is riding a horse, they won't have any problem with confidence, not if they like it. They will have learnt about that. So we can invite someone to go for a ride, get focused, get absorbed and so on, and then, as they're in the experience of riding the horse, to notice how it is to feel confident riding a horse. We can expect, we can anticipate that this will happen. I found that it is always easy for such a client to find what they were looking for. 

We’re not talking about the problem yet. We’re just saying, “You're on the horse. Notice how it is to feel confident.”  That helps the client to connect with the experience of confidence in relation to what they like to do. We can then ask them, as they're riding the horse, as they're experiencing this confidence, to pay attention to their experience of feeling confident and to ask them, as they're spending time with this, as they're getting to know it, as they're becoming familiar with it, to have the experience as if they are actually learning this resource, this experience. So they're actually learning it. 

We can say “You can soak it up. You can marinade in it. You can sit with it. You can get to know it even better than you already do” . I have found it helpful to spend some time allowing someone to really be with this missing resource. Of course, if it’s something that they like, they're not going to complain about it. If someone likes riding a horse, they're not going to complain about having an experience with riding a horse. And if part of that is feeling confident, they're not going to have a problem feeling confident. 

We can then have an easy, agreeable, respectful opportunity for a client to have a direct experience within something that they like to do of precisely what is missing in their problem that, if they had it, they'd be okay. 

We’ve invited someone into an experience that they like. Within this experience that they like, we’ve invited them to look around and find exactly what it is that they're missing, that they're wanting that would be helpful to them, then help them to connect this resource that they have the experience of in their lives, to connect it with the problem. 

That’s the next step. 

Rob