After learning a LOT from some of the other work on this site, here is another much more sophisticated offering for an effective workout trance.

Recommended Use:

1. At the gym, ideally you should start in a stretching area and in front of a mirror. This is designed to bring you into a trance state while you are stretching, and then encourage you to begin a resistance training workout as a "moving meditation".

2. This file will bring you into a light hypnotic state where you will be focused on your workout form and motivated to improve the precision of each movement and maximize each repetition.

3. This file is intended to have cumulative effects with regular use. This is intended to cause the listener to become addicted to both listening to the file and working out (as a combined activity).

4. Please note this file is mostly the induction, with only about 3.5 minutes of actual workout motivation. It should therefore be the first in a playlist, with the appropriate number of copies of "Gym Mantra 4.2 - LOOP" stacked afterwards, in order to last throughout your planned workout. I highly recommend specifically planning the time for your workout and calibrating your total playlist length accordingly.

5. In my files I do not solicit or attempt to influence the listener to make donations/purchases or leave comments, etc. When I hear that in other files, it tends to raise my hackles, break trust, and bring me right out of trance. So, please take the trouble to leave feedback if you do like the file (especially if there are any suggestions for the next project or the next iteration of this project).

Effects:

1. (During): Increased confidence in and awareness of your body. May give rise to narcissistic levels of appreciation for your own physical form and strength.

2. (During): Greater focus on the movements and attention to the sensations in your body during resistance training.

3. (During): Increased intensity of workout, you will be encouraged to challenge yourself and push your limits.

4. (During): Remapping of the muscle burn and fatigue sensations typical of heavy resistance training to be perceived as a form of pleasure, which may be sexualized.

5. (After): Reoccurring preoccupation with the sensations of muscle soreness and sense memories of the actual workout process, potentially including sexual response to either the soreness or the thought of working out.

6. (After): Increased interest in and habit formation for resistance training.

7. (After): Periodic urges to flex and/or admire yourself in the mirror.

8. (After): Motivation to eat healthy food, to set and manage caloric intake goals (focused on gaining, but language is generalized enough to be compatible with loss goals as well).

9. (After): Increased desire to listen to this file while working out. It is intended to be both addictive itself and to make working out while listening to it an addiction.

Style/Techniques:

1. The base layer borrows technique from some great storytelling-type tracks by Smfx that I've been enjoying lately. However, this story is a suggestive instructional set in the third person (i.e., "once upon a time there was a young man", describing the listener's ideal responses as he listens to the track.

2. I have introduced a binaural beat into the base layer by splitting it to stereo and shifting the pitch of one side, for a chorus effect. The difference between the two pitches starts at an average of 30hz (alpha waves) and gradually decreases through beta to an average of 6hz (theta waves). No idea if this will have the intended effect, but it sounds cool anyways and who knows maybe it will work.

3. I also added three additional layers slipping in and out of hearing, and for these I've borrowed heavily from Major Pixel's extremely effective technique in his (powerful, but not quite sexually compatible, for me) files. As such, these pan rapidly from left to right so that they seem to rotate position around the listener as they throw comments on top of each other. I'm a very analytical listener myself, so this technique seems to be effective for overload the active processing functions (in order to slip past involuntary mental defenses).

NOTE: For help developing trust, which I believe is pretty important in this area, I've included a full script. This is what I read from, but the lines from the different tracks and the narration alternate here and may not quite line up, timing-wise, with how I ended up putting it together after recording them. But...all the content is in there for review. I don't think reading it beforehand will negatively impact the effectiveness of the file itself..