? Why Use STORIES and METAPHORS ? in THERAPY | Hypnotic Storytelling | Ericksonian Storytelling
In this video I share about why stories and metaphors can be helpful to use in therapy - and this is why I use stories and metaphors in my healing sleep stories for grownups here on YouTube. I share where I get my stories and metaphors ideas from when doing hypnotic storytelling, or when making therapeutic bedtime stories for grownups.
This is taken from my eCourse 'How to Tell Stories That Heal' (You can find my 'How to Tell Stories That Heal' eCourse on my website at: https://danjoneshypnosis.com/ecourses/
This is one of the main ways I do hypnotherapy and gives insight into what I am doing in my healing hypnotic sleep stories here on YouTube. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pTx0Klowd0
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Long Bedtime story for grown ups - Writing the Book of Knowledge is a therapeutic softly spoken adult bedtime story, sleep meditation by Dan Jones.
Like all of my bedtime stories for grown ups, this is created to help calm an overactive mind, reduce stress, worry and anxiety while helping you to fall asleep quickly, tackling insomnia.
This healing bedtime story for grown ups is about a man on a small sailing boat, resting on a towel on the front of the boat, enjoying the warmth of the sun and the gentle rocking of the boat. While resting there, he drifts into a reverie about relaxing under an oak tree in a park. He starts to play a hand drum. After playing a while, he packs the drum away and walks through the park and follows a footpath through countryside, to the most beautiful cottage. He enters his cottage, puts the drum in the living room and heads out into the back garden and sits on a bench around a tree at the end of his garden. He gets out an old typewriter and begins to type a story - the princess and the distant lights about a young princess who encounters an elderly lady who can do magic. The lady asks her to find a book, so the princess leaves the palace grounds in search of the book on the back of a unicorn. The girl and the unicorn arrive at the cliff along the coast, find a small cave, the girl heads into that small cave, in the cave, she discovers that it is completely mirrored, with a plinth in the centre of the chamber, with a book standing on it. She gets the book, heads back to the unicorn and they travel back to the palace. The girl gives the woman the book and is told that it is a book of all knowledge. As the woman starts to read the book, she seems to get younger. The woman then tells the girl to head into the palace. In the palace, the girl is told that she has a tutor coming to teach her. The tutor is the woman she has just met. The girl begins her lessons, as the author finishes typing for today, heads into his cottage and to bed. The man on the boat drifts out of his reverie and looks up to a night sky at a comet passing over head. After enjoying the night sky a while, the man heads into his sail boat to bed and drifts asleep recalling the reverie he had earlier about the man at the cottage writing a story about the princess.
All of my healing hypnotic sleep stories for grown ups use Ericksonian therapeutic storytelling to help you fall asleep while reducing stress, worry and anxiety. If you want to learn about what makes my sleep stories therapeutic and what I am doing you can find out in this video here: https://youtu.be/sd2q_GZlTHQ
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How to fall asleep fast? Try a guided sleep story for grownups deep sleep meditation.
An Ericksonian hypnosis storytelling guided sleep meditation bedtime story to help you sleep. This ericksonian hypnotic bedtime story guides you through the process of enjoying the wonder of being an astronaut going up into space, space-walking, and gazing down upon the Earth below.
You can also find over 100 sleep stories for grownups and over 20 sleep stories for children, plus hypnotherapy training videos, autism awareness and mental health videos, guided meditations and self hypnosis videos on my YouTube channel 'Dan Jones Hypnosis': http://www.youtube.com/danjoneshypnosis
You can also purchase my book 'Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups' which is a collection of 20 of my stories from my YouTube channel from Amazon and bookshops in paperback and on Amazon Kindle... Search Kindle, Amazon or bookshops for: Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Dan Jones (You can follow this link to be taken to the book/ebook on your local Amazon website: http://hyperurl.co/etygs5)
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How to fall asleep fast? Try a guided sleep story for grownups deep sleep meditation.
This guided sleep meditation healing deep sleep hypnosis bedtime story for adults is about someone drifting into a reverie and mind travelling somewhere to learn about harmony.
You can find this sleep story for grownups and over 100 others on my Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories Podcast to listen to as mp3's. Find out more here: https://danjoneshypnosis.podbean.com/. You can also find over 100 sleep stories for grownups and over 20 sleep stories for children, plus hypnotherapy training videos, autism awareness and mental health videos, guided meditations and self hypnosis videos on my YouTube channel 'Dan Jones Hypnosis': http://www.youtube.com/danjoneshypnosis
You can also purchase my book 'Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups' which is a collection of 20 of my stories from my YouTube channel from Amazon and bookshops in paperback and on Amazon Kindle... Search Kindle, Amazon or bookshops for: Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Dan Jones (You can follow this link to be taken to the book/ebook on your local Amazon website: http://hyperurl.co/etygs5)
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This is an Ericksonian Hypnosis Self hypnosis to help you stop biting your fingernails video. This videos to help you stop biting your nails using self hypnosis is best listened to at a time you can relax and pay it your full attention. It may not be best to listen at bedtime in case you fall asleep, and it is best to listen to this frequently, ideally daily as you absorb and implement the ideas and suggestions. For more free hypnosis tracks visit http://www.danjoneshypnosis.com
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'The Secret Garden' is an Ericksonian hypnosis story from the book 'Relaxing Tales for Children' (for ages 4-7) which is a collection of eleven hypnotic stories to help children relax.
In this story Polly the princess and her kitten discover a secret garden. Each story contains something educational or a positive moral message, as well as giving something for the child to focus on which can help them to relax.
The stories are most effective when they are read to the child face-to-face so that they can be read timed to the child's breathing and natural responses rather than at a generic pace as this story is here.
'Relaxing Tales for Children' is available from Amazon in Paperback and Kindle format here: http://www.apn.to/prod/B01N3S6TKO
Book Description:
Help children relax with this collection of eleven relaxing tales for children. Relaxing Tales for Children is the sequel to Sleepy Bedtime Tales, which introduced a revolutionary new approach to helping children to sleep, which Dan Jones had developed during his time working with children who struggled to fall asleep, and their parents and carers.
Relaxing Tales for Children uses these same techniques, but the stories are focused on helping children to relax, rather than helping them to fall asleep.
Each of the eleven stories follow the same characters who were in the stories in Sleepy Bedtime Tales as they taken on different adventures. These stories are ideal for reading to children at home to help them to relax, or to read to groups of children at 'story time'. The target age range for these stories is 4-7 year old's.
The stories have all been written to be read to children, rather than by children.
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Drift comfortably asleep to my latest hypnotic healing bedtime story video: "The Kitten's Dream: Long Hypnotic Bedtime Story"
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This is a bedtime story for grown ups with sound effects designed, like all my deep relaxation stories, to calm an overactive mind. This guided sleep meditation is to help you let go of thoughts and worries while helping you to fall asleep quickly, tackling insomnia.
This is a sleep meditation sleep story for grown ups from 2018. I am going through my back catalogue of sleep meditations to create these new versions. It is a very common request for me to add sounds and music to my meditations. I will still be releasing my usual new meditations without background music and sound effects, although the new meditations will have background effects versions released in the future.
This healing hypnosis sleep story for grownups is a guided sleep meditation bedtime story about a woman who finds herself in a fantasy land with floating land in the sky, dragons and forest. She goes in search of a wise person, walks through a forest, rows across a lake, climbs over a mountain range and eventually finds a wise person who talks in meaningful riddles. They share how to reach a palace she is trying to find and tell her what to do once there.
Find version without sound effects here: https://youtu.be/qe8HUBafuS8
If you want to learn about what makes my sleep stories therapeutic and what I am doing you can find out in this video here: https://youtu.be/sd2q_GZlTHQ
If you would like to support the continuing creation of regular bedtime stories for grown ups & other similar content, you can subscribe to my Slumberland Patreon page here, where you also get at least one Patreon-exclusive original bedtime story for grownups per month, get access to all my bedtime stories as audio files, ad-free, which can be listened to offline and in other podcast apps: https://www.patreon.com/slumberlanddan
Find Dan Jones Hypnosis Guided Sleep Meditations on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music and Google Play (you can find my meditations on many other services as well): https://www.songcastmusic.com/profiles/DanJones
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Dan Jones Sleep Stories Books: https://danjoneshypnosis.com/storytelling-books/
Dan Jones Autism & Mental Health Blog Posts: https://danjoneshypnosis.com/
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At the end of last year a new local radio station was setting up that was looking for funding, as part of supporting them financially they allowed me to create a radio advert to be played on the radio. As this is my full-time job, I created an advert for my Dan Jones Bedtime Stories for Grownups Audiobooks YouTube Channel. This is that advert. I thought I would share it here with you guys on YouTube, for those who may be interested...
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How to fall asleep fast? Try a guided sleep story for grown ups deep sleep meditation.
This is a deep sleep hypnosis, guided sleep meditation designed, like all my deep relaxation adult bedtime stories, to calm an overactive mind. This guided sleep meditation is to help you let go of thoughts and worries while helping you to fall asleep quickly, tackling insomnia.
This healing hypnosis sleep story for adults is a guided sleep meditation deep relaxation bedtime story for adults about a woman who is out running. She runs through woodland, up a hill and back down into the woods again. She does a few laps before heading home and showering. After showering, she reads a book about a character descending a mountain. The character is an explorer who searches for treasure. This person found a cave to search. They had to get to it first, so they used rock-climbing gear to get to the cave. Inside the cave, the explorer discovered a lake, they crossed the lake, climbed a rope ladder higher into the cave system where they found and accessed a treasure chest. In the chest was a gem. As they touched the gem they saw a projection of a person who gave them a message about a choice they had to make. They make their choice. After reading some of the book, the woman decides to drift into a brief meditation before continuing with her day. While meditating, she views a scene of some mice playing in a field, she notices other animals around the field, noticing birds, the way they take off and fly, noticing rabbits, she has a sense of transcending reality for a while, stepping outside of space and time and being able to view different moments here and now. She finds this meditation healing and something she is learning from. In the meditation, she notices a chessboard in space and learns from mentally playing chess where each move she makes, other pieces move. After the meditation she carries on with her day, before reaching the end of the day, going to bed and drifting comfortably asleep.
All of my healing hypnotic sleep stories for grownups use therapeutic storytelling to help you fall asleep while reducing stress, worry and anxiety. If you want to learn about what makes my sleep stories therapeutic and what I am doing you can find out in this video here: https://youtu.be/sd2q_GZlTHQ
Dan Jones Hypnosis Sleep Stories Podcast (Over 100 Sleep Stories - My alternative to Patreon for those who want to support my work - You can also find my guided sleep meditations on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play and many other locations): https://danjoneshypnosis.podbean.com/
Dan Jones Hypnosis YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/danjoneshypnosis
Dan Jones Sleep Stories Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/528405851039572/
Dan Jones Sleep Stories Books:
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How to fall asleep fast? Try a guided sleep story for grownups deep sleep meditation.
This Ericksonian hypnosis guided sleep meditation storytelling bedtime story is to help you fall asleep. This relaxing story is an Ericksonian hypnosis bedtime story about a helpful elf. The elf has to help Santa to deliver all of the Worlds Christmas presents on time.
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Drift comfortably asleep to my latest hypnotic healing bedtime story video: "The Kitten's Dream: Long Hypnotic Bedtime Story"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKcw0PTSLI
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