by Foxfuz » January 22nd, 2013, 10:54 pm
^ first of all, don't analyze or critique the hypnosis session. Continuously analyzing your depth of hypnosis is distracting you from the matter at hand. If you are questioning your depth then leave the questions about the session for after you have been woken from the trance.
To summarize that, leave all thoughts till after the hypnosis session, not during.
Also you need to listen to the hypnotist and follow all his suggestions to the best of your ability. Think of hypnosis like a guided meditation, when the hypnotist tells you, say..."feel the wind on your face," you have to visualize the feeling of the wind on your face. If he/she asks you to "feel yourself going deeper," then feel yourself going deeper.
The point I'm trying to make is that all the suggestions that the hypnotist is making, you need to follow them. Most of the time you don't realize your in a hypnotic trance.
I will tell you a little story of mine that might give you a better understanding to what I'm saying...
I have had a lot of failures in hypnosis. The reason I had these failures are because: 1) I had false expectations of what hypnosis was, 2) I analyzed the session way too much, 3) I keeped letting my mind wander off from the hypnotist. I understand now what I have to do to make hypnosis work.
When I did some self hypnosis sessions (which I rarely did) they seemed more successful than hetero-hypnosis (hypnotist and subject). Why? Because, when doing self hypnosis, I was concentrating on the suggestions I was giving myself and feeling them effect me. When I told myself to feel my feet relax, I made my feet relax. When I told myself to start feeling horny, I started to make myself horny. Using self hypnosis I also gave myself a trigger for latter and it worked wonderfully.
Allowed to hetero-hypnosis, triggers didn't seem to work. The reason was because I was getting too distracted and not exactly keeping myself awake due to my tendency to do hypnosis while laying down.
Also, think about if you where on stage with a stage hypnotist. What would you do? Your only option is to listen to the hypnotist an follow his or her directions to the best of your ability.
So what I suggest for you is to follow two rules. 1) don't let your mind distract you and leave your analysis for after the session. 2) Listen to the hypnotist and follow his suggestions to the best of your ability.
Because all hypnosis is self hypnosis, and these things you are doing to yourself. As you go deeper into trance, things become more automatic but still try not to get distracted because that would break the trance.
If you need more help or some excersizes That will help you understand hypnosis a little better, then just pm me with your questions.