Hello all,

I have a friend who has a real problem with late night driving.  He doesn't drink anything with caffeine so he often feels very sleepy and has had multiple near misses with his reduced attention.  Yes, he is a little bit irresponsible.

We will be meeting one evening this week and he will have a long drive home.  I was wondering if it might be possible to use hypnosis or nlp to help increase his attention levels for the drive home?  I envisaged maybe inducing a trance and telling my friend to feel refreshed and alert when he comes out of it, then telling him to remain alert and mentally focused until he gets home, at which time he would start to feel gradually more sleepy, go to bed and have a wonderful nights sleep, awaking refreshed for the new day.

Has anyone tried this sort of thing in the past?  Any general advice on trying to encourage mental alertness?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

I know this is probably too late for your meeting with your friend, but you could,

if he is willing, work with suggestion to keep him alert whilst driving, but install

a suggestion for it to happen everytime he drives, and elicit an experience he had

in the past when he was very alert and mentally focused, then link that thought to him

opening his car door, creating an anchor that should kick in everytime he drives.

Make sure you elicit a feel good state in him, and then amplify it and all should be

well.

How are things going since the course? I found myself naturally using the

language patterns, and I helped a friend out with something the other night, that she

wanted me to use NLP with, a client of hers, and she said it seemed very natural the

way I did it, and he'd changed state, to a more resourceful one, very quickly before he

realised what was going on.

Cheers,

John 

Hi John,

thanks for the suggestions.  I haven't seen my friend again (should be seeing him Friday) so I may give your suggestion a go if he is willing.

I have been watching all the political broadcasts with a new appreciateion of what is going on behind the scenes, and have been using NLP language paterns in some documents that I have been writing.  I haven't had the chance to work with someone yet using the submodalities or hypnotism.  I did try to hypnotise my wife on her asking me to, but she just kept laughing at me!  I'm trying to work out whether doesn't want hypnotising by me or she doesn't want it in general.

I have a friend with chronic discomfort problems, so I am hoping to get the chance to help her in the near future.

Cheers,

Dan

Good suggestion John. I might also suggest that you use the car as an anchor for that mentally alert state. You can test this by amplifying the state and anchoring it to the steering wheel (physically build the state and then step them inside the car and inside now, that mentally alert space).

I would also rehearse a couple of runs where the road becomes something fascinating and interesting at every level, compounded with "the more you drive, the more you feel yourself aware of the environment around your and outside the car" or similar.

Anchor ... that's the key to this type of change. Test the anchor and repeat several times because repeating several times helps the mind remember because it's been repeated several times ...

Good call - I had forgotten about that.

Dan