Inserting contact lenses can take some practice at first but can become second nature, except to those who cannot master the technique due to a persistent and irrational fear of inserting the contact lenses into their eyes.
Overcoming a Natural Resistance
There is a biological resistance to objects hovering in the peripheral vision, let alone a large index finger poking directly on the cornea of the eye.
Therefore, there is no wonder many people struggle in vain to wrestle this natural reaction down so that they can comfortably wear contact lenses.
For those in some careers or professional environments, glasses can be hazardous. Fighting fires, flying planes, and military combat are just a few of the situations in which eye glasses can pose a potential additional element of danger. For others, it is simply the inconvenience of glasses slipping or lenses fogging that inspire the desire for contacts.
Wearing contacts instead of glasses may be necessary for other reasons. We rarely see a Broadway musical chanteuse sporting real-life frames on stage. Try climbing Mount Everest with your lenses fogging and icing with every breath.
Overcoming Fear Using Hypnosis
Hypnotic World offers a hypnosis script designed to help hypnotherapists to resolve their clients' fear of inserting contacts. This script uses visualization, re-conditioning, positive and negative reinforcement, and progression to provide your clients with the most successful script for helping them to tame their fear of inserting contact lenses.
The first step in this effective fear of inserting contacts script activates multi-sensory visualization. By engaging many streams of sensory input simultaneously, this script fully engages the client in the process. The use of visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic cues helps clients to establish a 'safe place' retreat within.
After clients retreat to their safe place, this script uses the opportunity of direct communication with the subconscious to re-condition the client's natural blink response. The blink response can be thought of as semi-voluntary. The urge to protect the eye is not completely involuntary as we can also close our eyes as a voluntary response to stimuli. This script educates and informs the subconscious as to how the system works, how safe contacts are these days, and how simple and easy the process of wearing them can be.
Next, this fear of inserting contacts hypnosis script uses both positive and negative reinforcement. The positive reinforcement is focused on the benefits and freedom of wearing contact lenses. Positive suggestions that describe contacts as "so comfortable that once they are on your eyes it's easy to forget they're there." The negative reinforcement is aimed at the idea of glasses-wearing by considering the inconveniences of wearing glasses. "Glasses can pinch behind the ears or between the eyes." This combination then puts dual influences on the subconscious to reconsider the benefits and drawbacks of the two ideas.
Another element of this hypnosis script for a fear of inserting contact lenses is the opposite of age regression or age progression. The subconscious is not limited by time and space, and just as we can travel back to a specific pinpoint record of a childhood event in hypnosis, we can also envisage moving 'forward' in time.
By visualizing the progression of a change in habit, in how the client lives with their new ability, and how they feel about themselves, this script helps to build a desired change in habit moving forwards. How often have we wished that we could go back and explain something to our younger selves - tell a younger us to not take things so seriously, or not to seek so much approval? Age progression under hypnosis offers that opportunity. We connect with a 'future self' that is living with the issue resolved. The selective nature of the subconscious mind whilst under hypnosis allows for information to be written directly on the 'hard drive' of your mind's 'computer'.
This combination of powerful techniques has the potential to reduce the fear or resistance to inserting contact lenses quickly and efficiently. While any one of these approaches may be effective by itself, this script intertwines a number of hypnotic skills and approaches to offer your clients the greatest potential benefit.
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