by Jacara » June 2nd, 2006, 4:54 pm
The physical changes are, at best, very slow to take effect (for those that get anything at all out of those files). Some physical ones that continue what the body does anyway (like breast growth) work better than others, and do have many success stories.
With the mental ones, you keyed in on the main issue: People tend to choose files that they want to work, so it's hard to judge success of those by whether they changed anyone's mind.
I'll use my own experience as an example: I listened to a file that was partly supposed to freeze me (there were 2 parts to it, but the other part didn't work the one time I listened to it). When the file was over, I "woke up" like normal but my body was still as asleep as it usually is during trance. It wasn't frozen stiff, just... I *really* didn't want to move. I couldn't summon the will to move. Sure, you can say that it doesn't count since I wanted to be frozen to start with, but there was more to it than just choosing not to move. Even if I made the conscious choice to, my subconscious didn't want to. So the file "worked" in that way, for what it's worth.
If you're looking for some success stories of your own, I'd start with various inductions & deepeners to make sure you have a deeper level of trance, and then try some suggestions that have you imagine things or feel a sensation, like a tickling or itching or whatever. Those are a little easier than the Trigger ones, I think. (The trigger ones probably need a lot of repetition to be reliable)
I hope that helps.