5-PATH®: Five Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis® Overview

5-PATH® is an acronym for the true name of the process,
Five-Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis®.

In it I blend the best of psychology and hypnosis.

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The roots of 5-PATH® can be traced back to the best known in psychology, medicine and professional hypnotism, including its earliest influences, the "Father of Hypnotism", Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, as well as one of the greatest pioneers in the science of psychology such as Dr. Ivan Pavlov. In more modern times we have the psychological scientist, Dr. B. F. Skinner, as well as the renowned hypnotists, Dave Elman, Harry Arons, Gil Boyne, Charles Tebbits, Gerald F. Kein, and others, the former all well known in the science of psychology, and the latter in the profession of hypnotism.

Up until recently, the use of hypnosis for helping people attain their goals was divided among two camps, those in the medical/psychological professions, and those who specialized in hypnosis. I started out in the first group and now live more productively in the second. Now after conducting thousands of sessions, and supervising those who have conducted thousands more, I am confident in saying that 5-PATH® is the most advanced system of hypnotism for personal change in the world.

5-PATH® is special because it incorporates the most powerful tools available to the modern hypnosis professional and arranges them in such a way as to increase the effectiveness of each component of the system. It is an optimization of what works, and it is criteria based. That is, the hypnotist using the system is able to apply these advanced hypnotic techniques to a wide variety of issues. This increases both the effectiveness of the hypnotic tool, and also its reliability.

This means that each client is able to get more results more quickly than any other system. In fact, as far as I know, there is no other recognized system of hypnosis.

5-PATH® is the only system of hypnotism ever recognized by the National Guild of Hypnotists, and has been officially installed as a Special Interest Group by that world-wide organization of over 10,000 members.

Since this is a system, and can be taught, supervised, evaluated, and contributed to by others, it is an ever improving system, which has been tested and the results validated. Literally thousands of people around the world have benefited by working with 5-PATH® Certified Hypnotists. These highly trained hypnosis professionals are among the most highly trained and qualified hypnotists in the world.

No hypnotist who has ever trained in 5-PATH® would ever settle for anything less than 5-PATH® when seeking hypnosis services for either him or herself, or a member of their families. They know that 5-PATH® trained hypnotists get results when others do not.

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History

After conducting research into hypnotic techniques, I was struck by the need to develop a systematic and virtually universal approach.  I wanted to train the hypnotists at The Hypnosis Center, Inc, in a system that was relatively easy to learn, and easy to supervise.  And, foremost, it had to be a system that provided good consistent results.

I was most impressed with the techniques that I learned from Gerald Kein at The Omni Hypnosis Training Center, in Deland, Florida.  

Among the most important ideas and techniques that I learned were:

These techniques and ideas were then organized into a systematic procedure that enhances each of the procedures as a whole, thus improving the outcome.

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Basically, Here Is How It Works

The hypnotist will take the client through the following phases, each improving the success of the the subsequent phase (called a phase because more than one session may be necessary for procedure):

How this is done is briefly outlined and explained below.

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Before the Hypnosis Session

The hypnotist needs to be aware of the principles of waking suggestion, and how the client's degree of success is in part determined by events that occur before the "hypnosis session" begins.  The client's success is greatly increased if you are mindful of how the client is handled prior to the session.  All of the following have an effect on the work you will be doing with the client.

1. Everything she has ever heard about hypnosis and you.
2. Your appearance and your office's appearance.
3. Any statements that you make about hypnosis or expected outcome.

Because of this you will need to make statements suggesting an expectation of a positive outcome.  You and your office must be consistent with the message you intend to send (i.e., professional).  You must do a good pre-hypnosis presentation, including a pre-talk and intake.

Then begins the five phases.

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Phase I - Preparation, Testing and Convincing

The focus of this phase of hypnosis is to have the client have a successful session.  To accomplish this, the 5-PATH® system consists of the following in Phase I:

1. Proper induction -- usually an instant or rapid induction.
2. Use of a hidden test for somnambulism.
3. Deepening.
4. Use of convincers--so that the client knows that she was hypnotized (i.e., eye lock).
5. Installation of suggestions for future success when doing hypnosis (i.e., post-hypnotic suggestion for rapid re-induction of hypnosis in future sessions).
6. Use of Direct Suggestion techniques, including giving some suggestions that were checked out with the client a head of time, in the pre-hypnosis interview (this puts the client at ease), giving suggestions appropriate to the issue, including the use of Compounding and Direct Drive techniques.
7. Making additional suggestions during the emerging process for post hypnotic suggestion (more convincers), such as time distortion and sensitivity to a color such as red.

Running a first session this way is done for the following reasons:

1. Using all of the above will improve the probability of a successful Direct Suggestion session.
2. Instill confidence in the client that she can use hypnosis for the issue she wants to work on.
3. Instill confidence in the client that she has selected a good hypnotist.
4. And, even more importantly perhaps, you have turned this person into an ideal client that will be great to work with in the future.  This client, having gone through this procedure, will almost certainly experience a true Age Regression session (Phase II) with revivification.

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Phase II - Age Regression

Every problem that our clients come to see us about, have an origin, a beginning.  The use of Age Regression Work is probably the most powerful tool available to a properly trained hypnotist.  It is an essential part of 5-PATH®.  In addition to uncovering information from the past that might have become unavailable to the conscious mind, regression allows the hypnotist to "undo" the effects of the incident or incidents that have formed the problem.  It is so important, that much of what was done in Phase I, was done so that we can have a successful Age Regression Session nearly every time.

It would go like this:

The 5-PATH® practitioner is encouraged to focus on the use of suggestion here.  Remember that after you have accomplished Age Regression and Informed Child, the subconscious mind has been forced into a state of reorganization.  Prior to this, the subconscious mind may have been resistant to suggestion, but now it is in a state of heightened suggestibility beyond what can be accomplished where Direct Suggestion techniques alone could accomplish.

Age Regression has now, increased our probability of success, even further because it has probably uncovered new information and provided additional insight, that both the client and hypnotist can use, as we continue into Phase III.

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Phase III - Forgiveness of Others

The Age Regression session (Phase III) has provided us with great opportunities.  The impact of the clients ISEs and SSE have been removed or reduced.  You and the client have a much better understanding of the history of the problem/issue.  And, most importantly to this phase, we know who the players are.  We know about the people in our client's life that have been a part of the problem.  In addition to gaining insight, and perhaps having been desensitized, the problem can be further healed by using forgiveness techniques.  This provides for a reduction in emotion regarding the problem and a more complete releasing of the past, including the problem/issue.

It would go like this:

This process of forgiveness may be repeated for additional players who contributed to the problem.  And, the client may be encouraged to continue to forgive less significant persons on her own for a period during the session.

Notice the use of suggestion at the end of the process.  Again, I want to remind the hypnotist that powerful techniques such as this force the subconscious mind into reorganization, and the client become exceptionally suggestible for suggestions that are consistent with the experience.  Don't overlook this opportunity!

This phase again set us up for increased success in the following phase.

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Phase IV - Self-Forgiveness

Most of my clients report that this phase of forgiving herself was the most important.  I often wish that I could just go here first.  But I believe that this phase is so successful because of the work done in the preceding phases.

It is essentially the same as Phase III, except this time the client take on two roles.  The first role will be that of the "Self" and the other is the "Mistake-Making-Part."  The Mistake-Making-Part, takes on the part of the offender in Phase III.  This approach allows the client to see herself in a more detached and objective way.

It goes like this:

This is usually a tremendous experience for the client.  By this time in the work, the problem has been completely resolved/healed.  The work is usually done at this point and no further work is required.  However, sometimes more work may be needed, because of a special circumstance.  This will be addressed in Phase V.

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Phase V - Parts Mediation Work

The vast majority of clients do not need this Phase of the work.  It is here for a special case.  This is the sticky case of the client that will not heal or completely respond to work.  This is usually because of Secondary Gain Issues.  It must be kept in mind by the enlightened hypnotist that even some of the most painful problems can have benefits!  Phase V, is specifically designed to get at this kind of problem.

It is patterned after two procedures, Parts Work and Mediation.  Together they become Parts Mediation Work.  It differs from Parts Work because it does not focus on descriptive characteristic of the individual such as the Joy Part, or Creative Part, etc.  In that kind of work, we are bringing up characteristics or abilities that have been suppressed, lie dormant, or are otherwise out of balance.

In Parts Mediation Work, we utilize the concepts of mediation, where we work toward building agreements between the parts of the self which are in conflict.  We uncover issues and focus on a win-win situation.  These new agreements include doing more beneficial or healthy behaviors in the future.

The process would go like this:

As usual, the process ends with appropriate suggestions for change.  Here we have uncovered the cause of the inability of the client to come to full resolution of the problem.  And, we have provided an alternative, but need fulfilling alternative behavior.  This is set up as an agreement between the parts.  If there is any reluctance between the parts in this intra-psychic mediation, then a trial period can be agreed upon, where a next session can be set up to evaluate the success of the agreement and make any further changes that may be need to encourage ongoing success.

Phase I, is done this way because it greatly increases the probability of success in Phase II, an Age Regression Session.

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Summary

This had been a quick overview of 5-PATH® a systematic approach to doing hypnosis, which is almost universally effective in the problems that our clients face.  It can be modified to suit the client and application by the hypnotist.  

I offer training in this system as part of our National Guild of Hypnotists certification course and also as an advanced training for practicing hypnotists.

If you have further questions about this process please contact me.

© Calvin D. Banyan, The Hypnosis Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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