A clear convention is just as essential to a successful guidance as a well-targeted objective. The convention is your key document for navigating with the Méthode Dolfino®. It sets the markers and frames your experience across the different techniques. Keep in mind that the convention is the planning of the trip’s details. It’s the “How” of getting to your destination.

The convention is meant to tell your Young Me, very precisely, what you expect of it.

The convention is a particularly effective written document, because it directs your unconscious precisely toward the desired result. It’s a foolproof way to bring the Young Me into coherence with itself: it likes to be right. Also, once the unconscious commits, through the convention, to having things unfold a certain way, it will activate its full potential to make that happen in reality.

- The guide’s convention, which sets out how you want the guidance to unfold as the guide.

The guided person’s convention, which sets markers as the person being guided.

The self-hypnosis convention, which sets the markers for a session one-on-one with yourself.

You can personalize your convention to include any qualities (speed of transmutation, humor, ease, effectiveness, etc.) you want to see come through during the guidance.

The convention is, in a way, a contract in which you align your three Selves to achieve your objectives. Like any contract, it needs to be well written to serve as an agreement among every aspect of yourself. When writing it, you must:

Since the guide’s convention concerns the moments when you accompany another person toward reaching their objective, this is where you specify, among other things:

Your need for an appropriate tone of voice and stimulating vocabulary.

Your intention to easily bring the guided person to exactly the right level of trance.

Here is what your guide’s convention could look like:

• The people I guide enter into trance easily and quickly.
• The depth of the trance is always perfectly suited to the situation and to the person being guided.
• The people I guide easily find the solution to their problem, with ease and simplicity.
• Outside elements enhance the quality of the trance.
• The people I guide return from trance quickly, perfectly focused and oriented.
• The people I guide imagine clearly and quickly.
• The length of the trance is perfectly suited to the time allotted for the session.
• All this happens for my greater good, the greater good of everyone, and better still.

The guided person’s convention is that of someone being accompanied. The following elements can be included and may be relevant:

Staying in the present moment so as not to relive any difficult moment.

Easily, joyfully and readily integrating surrounding sounds into those of the unconscious universe in order to stay aligned with the objective.

As time and your practice progress, you can amend your convention by adding elements that seem important to you.

Here is what a guided person’s convention might look like:

• Transformations happen quickly, effectively and lastingly.
• I have complete freedom to return from trance in great shape if I sense any manipulation on the guide’s part.
• I enter trance only with caring guides.
• I return from trance quickly, perfectly focused and oriented.

The self-hypnosis convention is meant to frame your one-on-one practice with your Young Me. As with the other conventions, you’re free to personalize it according to your objective, your needs or the way your unconscious mind works. However, it’s important to include the following precautions:

Determine the maximum duration of your session, generally between 5 and 10 minutes (the maximum duration for effectiveness in self-hypnosis).

Here is what your self-hypnosis convention might look like:

I have complete freedom to return from trance instantly and in great shape if an outside disruption or an emergency occurs.

I return from trance quickly, perfectly focused and oriented.

Trances are short and effective, lasting a maximum of 7 minutes.

All this happens for my greater good, the greater good of everyone, and better still

Conventions in everyday life Have fun including conventions in your daily life. Whether it’s to add some spice to your relationship as a couple, to honor your commitments to yourself, to create the exceptional dinner with friends you’ve been wanting for months, or to adjust your comments with your boss, writing conventions will greatly help you create fluidity in your life.