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Twitching!

PostPosted: May 29th, 2006, 8:35 am
by Yourplaything
Last night listening to Curse Swimmers Body I felt my arms and legs begin to twitch during trance. Has this happend to anyone else?

PostPosted: May 29th, 2006, 9:23 am
by Jack
That's fine. It's your body releasing stored tension, and moving into an altered state.

Elegant resistance

PostPosted: May 29th, 2006, 10:38 am
by Blink
This is an interesting question for me. Maybe someone else with some RT experience can help.

I've got a subject with whom I work RT. She has the most elegant resistance I've seen: she itches.

It's entirely passive (aggressive), but as she begins to relax, she starts having itching sensations that require her attention. I've tried reframing the itching as a sign of increasing relaxation, but they become such an irritant that she can't proceed. When I stop trying to do a trance induction, the itching stops.

At the same time, she can do "waking" arm levitations (so quickly that observers think it's staged) when I do a double-talk induction. If I could successfully bridge between the arm-lev and the utilization, I'd be set. But guess what happens if I try.

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

-- Blink

PostPosted: May 29th, 2006, 7:50 pm
by Jack
Blink: Try utilizing it as if it were an ideomotor response. Have the itching sensation increase for yes, and decrease for no. Then play 20 questions.

PostPosted: May 29th, 2006, 8:23 pm
by Blink
[quote="Jack":3/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i234c44]Blink: Try utilizing it as if it were an ideomotor response. Have the itching sensation increase for yes, and decrease for no. Then play 2/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i questions.[/quote:3/\[url=(https?:\/\/[^\s\[]+):$uid\](.*?)\[\/url:$uid\]/i234c44]

Hmm.... I'll have to try that. I usually use a pendulum for ideomotor responses 'cause it amplifies motions to the point I can generally see them and it distracts subjects from the process of what's happening. (Instant magic with a zinc washer on a string.)

I had previously tried doing parts work with the itching part with only a very limited response. She's got some OCD traits, and I'm sure I'm banging into her set of subconscious rules.

Thanks for your response, Jack.

-- Blink

PostPosted: May 30th, 2006, 12:36 am
by whatthe75
I get the same - my legs always kick out when i am reaching the deep part of trance - now i know why thanks jack.