This month’s theme for the Hypnosis Technique Exchange is Building Erotic Sensitivity and Response through Hypnosis. A member of the group posted a very good point about this being a relatively simple process and that scripts have their place as a learning tool while the actual process should be based upon individual attention and running a process.

I agree.

The purpose of scripts is not to provide patter but examples or models for processes.

Scripts are basic models . . . which folks should use to see the process and perhaps play with language or ideas a bit . . . but they should quickly be discarded in favor of winging it based upon knowing the theory, the context, and processes that work.

However, beyond providing examples, scripts also allow us to have something ready at hand to look at in cases where we are unfamiliar with something (not the best way to work) or when dealing with something that is very generic (for instance, the patter scripts Gerry Kein provides for his students to use or learn from).

Scripts can also sometimes be useful in practicing crafting ideas into presentable language or simply creating fun guided imageries or the like or for creating a text for a recorded program that has no feedback where we need to craft it well enough to be successful with as many folks as possible.

Any script must be adapted if used with an actual person . . . all real life hypnosis sessions should be based upon an interaction between hypnotist and subject, using the feedback loop and exploiting, compounding, and building the imaginative involvement of BOTH the hypnotist and the subject.

If one truly understands hypnosis, most “scripts” really do become superfluous . . . once you’ve got someone in somnambulism, run an appropriate process that any good hypnotist should have been taught in their basics course (appropriate suggestions, regression to cause, hypno-analysis, parts, etc.) . . . compound suggestions ad infinitim, hit the timeline, reinforcement, and get ’em on their way.

Unfortunately, many folks don’t actually learn these things in their basic course. Many don’t even get a decent amount of practice in even something as simple as creating a trance or hypnotic experience let alone the good stuff.

So, for those folks scripts may become crutches unless they get out there and get the real practice and play. For the rest, scripts can be simply a way to share ideas or have fun with ideas.

Folks are reminded that the submissions may be patter, scripts, outlines of approaches, whatever. However, when applying them . . . find the process within and ALWAYS use your own voice based upon the context of the current situation. Don’t be a parrot. Look for the process beneath the surface and then you can apply it to any situation, if you only see the words on the page then you’ll only be able to handle that one circumstance that the script was written for but if you see the process you will be able to apply it in an infinite number of circumstances.

I do agree . . . increasing erotic sensitivity is actually very very easy. Get somnambulism and then set up an erotic response then simply build it and compound and build and build . . . there’s really no “process” needed beyond simple suggestions for most people. Most people. However, playing with the idea is still fun.

I’m still playing catchup after getting back from my vacation – and prepping material to teach a new graduate course that began last week – but I’ll most likely post a submission next week sometime.

– Brian