We’ll often import mindfulness and awareness into evocative imagery (imagery that ultimately evokes a set of automatic responses). By doing so, our patient learns to observe and understand their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours in response to different situations.
it can be used therapeutically within a range of techniques and approaches, but can also be used within assessment when a patient struggles to explain to the hypnotherapist what thoughts, feelings and behaviours they experience in those circumstances. Additionally, once those automated processes are pulled into awareness, a certain level of self-consciousness about them can interrupt and inhibit them going forward.