General introduction
Essentially the hypnotist guides the subject into a deeply relaxed trance like state. Once in this state, the subject becomes more open to suggestion, allowing the hypnotist to enhance sensations, create pleasurable fantasies, or encourage certain behaviors, all within agreed-upon boundaries. -- @PatternWARNING: I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
This guide is from experiences only
I don't think I have a definite way to teach hypno. It's both wayyy easier than you think and at the same time wayyy harder. The whole principle of hypno is to fluently suggests and give order to a person. In hypno, there are generally a few phases :
- The first step is to guide the person into a a deep meditation, making them feel good (70% of the hypnosis is HERE and it is THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP)
- Then you drop them into an induction (hypnosis trance/sleep), in which you can suggest things
- And finally you can woke them up from the induction slowly
All of that must be done FLUENTLY, which is the most important thing in hypno. You must have your partner in a nice deep relaxed feeling so that they are receptive to your suggestions. Background noises, awkward pause, discord notifications, grammar mistakes could cause them to wake up.
There's a few tricks, like repetition, clicks, breathing exercises and countdowns that you can use to help. My first advice would be to read some script to see what it should look like.Safety
First, IT CAN BE DANGEROUS. There are some nasty stories of if you aren't properly woken up you could get a headache for a few hours or a few days. Some other nasty stories include people with traumatisms, where in hypno a trauma reaction is started while you can't wake up. You need to TRUST DEEPLY your partner and absolutely tell them about traumatism that may get triggered by hypno. Finally, hypno can alter memories, meaning consent can be a very hard thing with hypno stuff. This is why you need to fix clear boundaries with it.
Secondly, you need to be able to adapt. Always check with them to see if they are fully awake. I advice to check during aftercare (a REQUIRED NECESSITY DESPITE WHAT THE OTHER TELLS YOU), a few minutes after and a few hours after. Ask if they fill awake, relieved, energic, is they don't have a headache. If so, you didn't woke them up correctly. Do a simple countdown to wake them up again. If they gets out of it in the middle, same thing, you need to be sure they are properly woken up.
Tricks and advices
The brain loves patterns. The more patterns you put the most "comfortable" it becomes, and the more comfortable it becomes the better it is as a meditation / trance state. That's why there are so many countdown, or why you can often hear "deeper and deeper" / "harder and harder" / "better and better".
Also using the hypnotee's imagination is welcome, as it will help them to be transported into a """different""" world where you can more easily suggest stuff. But avoid "maybe" expect to stimulate their imagination and avoid to assert thing when stimulating their imagination. Basically:
- 🚫 Maybe when you'll hear me say "cat" you will want to meow
- ✅ Every time you'll hear me say "cat" you will meow. It will be a uncontrollable force emitting from deep inside you that you won't be able to fight.
And do the opposite for simulating the imagination:
- 🚫 The balloons are red and there is 14 of them.
- ✅ Try to imagine a few balloons. What are their colors, shape, number? Maybe there is a big central one, maybe there is a special one of your favorite anime character.