meatheadosis: bloofbloofbloof: Some hypnosis tips for people who can’t go into trance —&
meatheadosis: bloofbloofbloof: Some hypnosis tips for people who can’t go into trance —— Twitter / Youtube One objection to this springs to mind - they keep the talking about “using energy”, “using more energy to drop into trance”, and that’s not my experience at all. That brings to mind screwing your face into that grimace that media has taught us is the “concentration face”, sweating or trembling with effort, that kind of thing. Don’t. Don’t even try hard. It doesn’t take energy to drop into trance; in fact going into a trance doesn’t really use any energy at all - it’s effortless really. It’s a skill, but not one you master by focusing on every element to make sure you’re “doing it right”. I can’t speak for everyone, but for me it’s all about going with the flow. I like when (like this writer) ‘tists explicitly tell you it’s perfectly fine to shift your body, scratch, rub your nose, whatever makes you most comfortable - even if you need to readjust several times over the course of the session. Before someone told me that, I assumed “trying to relax completely” meant not moving a muscle, keeping perfectly still. I found it claustrophobic and uncomfortable and completely unnatural. Screw that. The idea is to put hardly any thought into anything besides what the hypnotist is telling you - and when other things do intrude, just take care of them and then release those thoughts. Try to do it quickly, but never stress about whether you’re doing it as quickly as possible - that’s just another distraction. Same thing for any other thoughts that pass through your mind: give them a moment’s attention then just let them pass on out. Maybe practice getting into the mindset that whatever thoughts happen, they aren’t as interesting as what the ‘tist is saying, and that you’re eager to get back to *that*. But that mindset should be a habit, not an effort or something you get down on yourself for not having. I spent so many years thinking I couldn’t get into trance because I had mistaken ideas about what it meant, and about how to try. For me, at least, the key ended up being not *how much* I concentrated on the ‘tist, but on *how little* attention I gave to anything else - and the understanding that other stuff *will* go through your head and that that’s normal. -- source link