angelcraves wrote:I feel honoured to have replies to my thread from two of the favourite people I love reading posts from. Blink ...your good boy mp3 is amazing, truly unique.
Thanks for the kind words, angelcraves. You're a very good boy.
I should probably say something on-topic and worthwhile, eh? Luckily, this thread reminds me of a story.
One of the classic ways of inducing trance is with a metronome. The regular tick-tock of the machine coupled with the visual of the arm swinging back and forth, over and over, gives a good point of focus--it occupies the whole mind in an entrancing way. In the course of his research with various inductions, testing them all to find the best ways to go into trance, Dr. Erickson tried the metronome. Tried it and enjoyed success with it, too. He could start the tick-tock machinery in motion and subjects would drift into trance. It was very effective.
Effective, that is, until the day Dr. Erickson discovered that the metronome was broken.
Metronomes, so long ago, were mechanical things: clockwork and springs and pendulum arms. Modern metronomes are electronic and beep or chirp like a clock-radio alarm instead of ticking and tocking like a friendly old grandfather clock. The new metronomes are almost unbreakable, too, no longer subject to rusty gears or an over-wound mainspring. Of course, the cool timing circuits and sleek plastic cases don't produce the same warm, inviting, endearing, satisfying tock, either.
But Dr. Erickson, a man who'd learned to walk three times in his life, wasn't going to be stopped by a too-tight spring or a speck of rust. He simply had his subject relax and
imagine a metronome tick-tocking away as he carried on with his induction.
It worked
better.
Dr. Erickson, after repeating his work with the imaginary metronome many times, decided that the imagined equipment worked better than the real equipment because it left control of the speed, loudness, pitch--all of the sensory submodalities--of the metronome up to the subject. If having the metronome tick slower feels good, then it ticksslower. Not possible with a real metronome, but impossible not to do with an imagined one. Greater comfort leads to quicker, deeper trance. That's easy to understand, now, isn't it.
Where's your thread woven into this?
If you think the audio track you're trancing to would be more comfortable a little slower, then slow it down. If it would feel better a little faster, speed it up. You might even get a sense of it now by remembering the words of that induction you like and slowing the playback in your mind.
You might find... that just... imagining... the words... getting slower... and slower... can begin... to... have... ef... fects... now....
There are no wrong answers.
Some answers are more right.
Yours don't have to be the same. You have permission, now.
Enjoy.
-- Blink