Sometimes real life interrupts, and sometimes I just end up losing interest, but now it's time to come back because frankly this is still fun, and I still like talking about this. So, without further ado, to the business at hand
so for all of you wondering where this curious hypnotist has been, well, hypnotizing of course! and I have a new little name there on the right to show for it, (to those unsure Heather is the new one)
Heather is one of my newest subjects, she is smart, kinesthetic (focused on physical sensations) and will be writing a few of her more interesting experiences from her own point of view over here in the blog.
She Contacted me, curious about the nature of the experience, and agreed to go under, this would be about 3 weeks ago, and since then I can say that she has had quite a bit of fun, and also learned quite a lot and experienced a lot more.
so one of the reasons I delayed so much talking about the second trance here is that I was hoping to get permission from my friend Coco to use her trance here. Now that I have it, here goes.
This trance was going to be one that's mostly just standard, Coco is a fellow "curious" very much into the subject but never having explored it, and I agreed to let her experience trance. This as usual started pretty simply, I used a fairly interesting text induction, and coco goes down fairly smoothly. The induction required quite a bit of typing on her side, (which lets me keep tabs on just how tired she is based on speed/typos).
Half way through however the reactions began to appear unusual, she complained of her hands locking up, and I let her stop typing as I went to a normal induction method. Again a few minutes pass and she goes deeper but begins to appear incoherent, right up until the point where I give her a re-entry trigger for trance... all hell breaks loose. She simply types "hello" and appears completely awake, but disoriented, and begins to tell me I am manipulating the situation, and other things like that. Now, if you've ever woken up someone from a strong dream you know the kind of reactions I was getting from her, something was going on in her mind and I had to gently lead her back to awakening...
At this point I could have quit and called it a day, but talking about the trance I got the impression that something was there under the surface. Something that every good hypnotist should learn is how to explore someone else's associations and mental imagery, and I gave that a try asking her and delving into what her subjective experience was. Now by this point I had known my friend here was very much stressed and had something on her mind, something she was blocking from the surface. What I found is that going into hypnosis often allows those thoughts that are suppressed to just rise to the surface, and while with some people that leads to less inhibition, in someone like Coco, it caused a lot of ideas that she wasn't thinking about before to bubble up and make her feel very disturbed...
before long though she asks to try again and go back into the trance, and I reluctantly agree, again starting with a simple induction, however mid-way through the second induction again, the reactions come out...
[23:11] sharky: and take another deep wonderful breath
[23:12] sharky: and sigh and feel your stomach and chest relax
[23:12] coconut: but what if there is something that occupies my mind
[23:12] coconut: ignore it?
[23:12] coconut: focus on breath
[23:12] sharky: and what is it that occupies your mind
[23:12] coconut: a person
things however only got more interesting from there, I begin to explore where these feelings are kinesthetically (where do you feel X, can you pinpoint it), as well as exploring it in time / experience...
[23:13] sharky: and can you look at this person ?
[23:13] coconut: yes
[23:14] coconut: im imagining him in front of me right now
[23:14] coconut: looking down on me
[23:14] sharky: and move away from him
[23:14] coconut: while im laying in the bed
[23:14] sharky: look at yourself now
[23:14] coconut: he got me trapped
[23:14] sharky: look at the both of you on the bed
[23:14] coconut: ok.
[23:14] coconut: he has my hands locked in the bed
[23:14] coconut: and i like that i resist
[23:15] coconut: im looking at yself
[23:15] coconut: and him
[23:15] coconut: from afar
[23:15] sharky: and is this a good image?
[23:15] coconut: it's an enjoyable image
I cant say that I've ever helped someone through a drug trip, but I would say that is what it would seem like. The key to my efforts is just trying to ask leading questions to maintain some sort of peace in her mind. Now my own observation is probably that this is some kind of repressed thoughts that bubble up as soon as she was too relaxed to repress it any longer, and the only thing I could do was either push it down even stronger, or try to pull it out into the open and find a way for the person to deal with it in a positive way.
what actually ended up happening by the end of the trance, was that Coco had worked through her issues regarding this event / person in her life, she had come to realize all the thoughts that were going on in the background and was able to deal with them more openly. This wasnt something I intended to do going in, but I was very glad to be able to help out.
The key idea I think, is to never bail out on somone who is in trance, when they are under for you, you are their guide, and it is the responsibility of the hypnotist to either lead them back out, or lead them through a trance. That at least is my view, and what I would like to go by.
Finally, to Liz, from Hypnofantastico, a happy birthday, another year closer to death!
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