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AmHypnotic -> RE: Hypnosis and bdsm (4/7/2010 4:36:21 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousPuppy
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ORIGINAL: Justme696
Just wondering..a while ago every profile seemed to mention hypnosis.
Is it so easy to do...can all people who say they can do it...really do it?
Or is it..just wishfull thinking to many..a mindset they think is "beeing under hypnosis"?
You can make a table with some wood and simple tools fairly easily, that doesn't mean that anyone who has wood and can use some simple tools can make a table. Hypnosis is the same way... not especially difficult, but of course not everyone who says they can do it are honest about their ability to actually do it. Much like the table example, some people will be more skilled than others.
It's easy as hell to induce a trance. People initially think this would be the most difficult part, but actually the challenge comes in with being responsible and knowing what you're doing with your suggestions. Wording things so they will only interpret your suggestion the way you intend (misinterpretations will still happen, have fun with them as long as they don't cause trouble), so they are as effective as possible, and so they're not counter-productive. Knowing how to handle abreactions, or as I like to call them, "land mines." Knowing where to draw the line, in the beginning, hypnotists likely will get a little bit of a high off of the experience, keep your head and be good, and avoid addictive language, I cringe when I hear things like "You're addicted to hypnosis." Knowing that, just like with any scene, renegotiating mid-scene is a BAD THING, but the temptation is likely more there than it is with any other kind of scene, because you'll get someone who you can honestly go "You want me to bite you?" "YES!" "How would your normal, conscious mind feel about this?" "It would freak the fuck out." "Ok, we'll talk about this ANOTHER time, ok?" "Yes sir." The challenge truly comes in after they're already in trance.
I'll steal a quote from a friend, and I wish I knew where he got the quote from, "Your first time using a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I've met people who, their first time using hypnosis successfully, thought they'd be able to handle anything and everything, including (permanent) behavior modification (just don't do it unless you have a lot of support and have a shitload of training, ok?), therapy, and so on.
One of which had a subject cry on him mid trance, and he panicked like crazy on the inside, but stayed calm enough to bring her to a safe place and bring her out of trance. He did the not-so-good move of asking about it immediately after, but after she cried a bit more, she openly told him what happened. She cried was because she imagined her mother talking to her based on a suggestion he had given her, and her mother was dead for over a decade. It wasn't a bad thing that had happened, but he wasn't prepared for an abreaction, or an unexpected and potentially negative reaction.
As I am a lay hypnotist, anything I feel borders on therapy, I avoid like the plague. This includes "simple" things like stopping smoking or helping someone lose weight, as there's more to it than saying to stop doing bad things. If I took classes on therapy, this might be another story, but I haven't done so yet.
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