Well, this is going to be an interesting one with lots of hypnoeducational tidbits via the video links.
On fetlife, there was a question in one of the erotic hypnosis groups regarding what is the best hypnosis induction to use with someone who is lying down . . . specifically, for eroticatrance.
There are of course thousands of approaches to this sort of thing as my students know anything and everything can be an induction as long as one handles the context variables and creates the appropriate expectancy. Hypnotic inductions are less about specific processes as they are about creating a ritual context for trance to occur.
In any case, within the course of discussion, a variation of the classic hand drop hypnosis induction http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-64-hand-drop_122.html was mentioned that uses a few words which is a powerful and worthwhile induction. I’ve done the same bit as five, three, one, and no word variations just to show folks that number of words is not the magick formula but the engagement of the imagination. However, it is a very solid induction and works really really well.
I would more likely use an armpull induction in those contexts (particularly my own variation, the Phillips Armpull Induction which can be found at http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-60-phillips-armpull-induction_126.html as it has a bit of confusion thrown in for good measure) but for an erotic session I’d very likely just start with some eye fixation and eye catalepsy to start and then do an erotic variation of a progressive relaxation deepener (the magickal erotic touch version works really well, especially if you tie in actual touch to the suggestions).
Do keep in mind that for erotic sessions, it’s less about speed and more about building erotic response.
If I’ve worked with someone before, then I’d likely just start with the trigger and work from there . . . if no trigger has been installed then I’d simply drop tonality and let automatic response do its thing (yes, even when folks have no formal trigger they automatically trigger respones to you when you use tonality, touch, or even eye contact). Don’t believe me, take my courses and learn for yourself.
Erotic hypnosis is more about the sensuality of the beast than the raw power . . . even if you’re moving into edge materials . . . certainly catalepsy is a lot of fun (some folks have seen my demo where I stick someone to a wall via suggestion and then use imaginary feathers to do some interesting bits).
I love speed hypnosis . . . seriously, love the beasties and have taught specialty courses on the subject all over the planet . . . but it ain’t the speed that matters as much as the sensations that are created.
IMNSHO.
Since the discussion has been taking place on fetlife, where fetish lifestyles are freely expressed, a very good point was made about how some folks are less interested in a slow relaxing experience as something shocking that implies power exchange.
These are very very good points. Note that I suggested an eye catalepsy as part of the get-go as a means of gaining immediate trance and then the longer bit is a sensual deepener (some folks mistakenly think progressive relaxation, sensual or otherwise, is an induction only or useless but it’s actually a very worthwhile deepener after you’ve established experiential hypnosis – let’s not throw out the gold with the chaff and dross).
If it’s mostly about power then with a lying subject I would still likely do a variation of an arm pull. Hand drop would be okay as well, but honestly it would all depend upon context.
Here’s something you can do which is both about power and control and I’ve done it a few times. Take the classic stick-stuck-to-hand suggestibility effect http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-49-stick-stuck-to-hand_137.html or another catalepsy based effect (arm lock http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-30-arm-stiffening_156.html or leg catalepsy http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-43-leg-catalepsy_143.html or the impossible to sit or stand bits http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-50-impossible-to-sit_136.html or http://trancesociety.socialgo.com/videos/view/core-skills-51-impossible-to-stand_135.html come to mind or any of the others) and use it as a waking hypnosis induction. I tend to use it as part of a waking hypnosis suggestibility sequence that moves from physical catalepsy to kinesthetic and emotional effects such as https://briandavidphillips.net/2010/08/17/sticky-stick-waking-hypnosis/
Now, with that in mind, the idea of suggesting a person’s muscles or limbs are locked tight and cataleptic, imagine how you can use it in a power exchange erotic capacity . . . I mentioned pinning someone to a wall but you can pin them to a bed as well . . . with eyes open and even use tonality so that it implies you are in control of their limbs (and once their imaginative involvement is intensified then that control is actually transferred to you).
So, if I have you lay down on the bed or stand against the wall with your limbs akimbo (an X-cross, but without cross or ropes – hypnotists don’t need ropes to restrain folks), I then start the patter of you feeling your limbs becoming tighter and tighter so that you begin to feel them stretching tight as if invisible chains are pulling them tighter and tighter so that you are completely immobile and cannot move. In fact the more you try to move the tighter they become so that you are stuck tight within my power. As catalepsy is quickly established, I then move on to my invisible tickle feathers as above or get out my voodoo doll so that anything I do to the doll you feel https://briandavidphillips.net/2009/08/30/exotic-hypnosis-the-voodoo-doll/ of course, I hold the doll in special ways and use my finger to tickle “interesting” areas and even do some licking and kissing bits, perhaps taking out a vibrator or doing other things of interest.
That’s a quick pattern, completely with eyes-open (my own variation of what I call Hyp-No-Sleep in my courses on the subject to play with the idea of eyes open, no sleep or eye closure, waking trance hypnosis . . . by the way, it is still possible to register for my upcoming course on this very subject. See http://www.briandavidphillips.com/training/hypnosleep.html for details but register NOW or you may miss your chance.).
This can also play into both straightup regular vanilla erotictrance or the more alternative power exchange play very very easily.
Honestly, be creative, once you’ve got your core skills down, you can adapt them to just about any context you like.
Please note that many of the links above are to episodes of the free online core hypnosis skills video course at the Community at http://trancesociety.net/community – a complete video course in core skills of hypnosis with explanations and demonstrations of all of the basic skills required for basic member Hypnotist Certification with the Society of Experiential Trance (http://www.trancesociety.org). Membership in the Community is free.
I hope this has been helpful.
All the best,
Brian
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