Triggers and Sleight Triggers
Brian David Phillips
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Triggers and sleight triggers for eliciting conditioned responses without using the triggers interests me. That is, many of you are aware of my interest in post-hypnotic triggers, anchored, and conditioned responses . . . particularly those of you who use my DRTRC MP3 files (Deep Relaxation Trigger Response Conditioning) at http://phillips.personal.nccu.edu.tw/drtrc/index.html or some of my experimental hypnosis files.
You may also be aware of my interest in online hypnosis and how language can be used both in aural and visual fashion, spoken and printed words, to facilitate trance and hypnotic experiences.
One place folks can play around with trance language is the EHypnosis group and its affiliated chat room . . . albeit, it has been quite some time since I have participated in any formal trancing there. One of the activities at that group is a little something called the Hypnotist Collector Game – see a brief summary at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypnosisTechniqueExchange/message/1631 – which is periodically played there. In short, various contestants and hypnotists who register to participate then compete within an allotted time frame (say a couple weeks or even a holiday weekend, depending upon the setup rules). The hypnotists compete to have successful online trance sessions with as many subject participants as possible while the subjects attempt to have sessions with as many different hypnotists as possible. The game is in good fun but give subjects a wide variety of hypnotic experiences and the hypnotists a chance to work with a variety of folks in a playful environment. While there are several other rules, a couple key ones are that all trances must be consensual with no drive-bye trance jockies, that there may not be erotic suggestions or imagery in the trances (although outside of the game, many of the players do use such imagery in their trance sessions with one another, it is considered bad form to jump into such things with folks you do not know or in a game context that is not intended as an erotic exploration), and that the hypnotists may not use trigger words to induce a subject (it is considered cheating a bit).
One thing I find interesting is that last bit. The one where you cannot use a trigger with a subject who is conditioned to respond to one. You see, I believe that once a person is conditioned to respond hypnotically (that is, to interact imaginatively in a trance context to a set condition), then the actual trigger no longer becomes important. We can take advantage of pre-existing conditioning via the use of a sleight trigger . . . that is, we use the trigger response without actually using the original trigger. We need only engage the person imaginatively to the idea of responding as if by a trigger, and that is enough.
At one time or another, there has been some discussion of this at EHypnosis and since we have recently had a small amount of discussion about email hypnosis, it is relevant to post some of my responses and thoughts here. Please do note that the language used here is rather straightforward and most certainly adults-only . . . so, if you would rather not read frank discussion of sexual material with rather blunt and colorful language, do me and yourself a favor by stop reading now. Only continue reading if you are interested in graphic sexual description in the context of conditioned trance or hypnotic responses. Perhaps, with an eye on your own experiences and responses. Either way, as long as your mind remains open I am always interested in your take and your responses.
remember… can’t use triggers ‘ya know ‘ya know…gotta’ do it the fair way…
Yes, by all means . . . play fair . . . but I really think the game is a bit of a misnomer . . . or, at least a double entendre . . . it isn’t really the hypnotists who are competing here, it’s the subjects who are competing to see how many hypnotists they can collect.
In most cases, it really isn’t a competition among the hypnotists in terms of skill or ability . . . certainly not . . . it is more of a race to see who can rack up the highest number of subjects or hypnotists. In hypnotic terms, most of the folks who have volunteered as subjects already do have triggers . . . and . . . whether they are used or not, legal or illegal, appropriate or not . . . they are still there . . . folks who respond well to triggers and who actively seek out hypnotists are very likely to be highly suggestible, my guess is most are probably in that significant percentage of humanity who are natural somnambulists . . . at least highly trained responsive individuals.
So, even if we do not use triggers, the fact that you have already learned to respond really well through your triggers will help you to respond very well . . . regardless of the hypnotist . . . regardless of the words being used . . . as the context is one mutual play and fun and as they consent to trance . . . you allow yourselves to respond as the unspoken uninitiated trigger is there and helps to create a response that feels the same . . . or . . . and . . . even better.
I know . . . I certainly intend to play the game fair and square . . . and I certainly intend not to use any triggers I know . . . most of the folks playing don’t have experience being my trance subject anyway . . . not a real subject . . . live and in person at both ends of the trance rather than that relaxing feeling of letting go and listening to a CD, an MP3, or other recording of an actual session . . . but the real deal . . . where you just let go and surrender to the hear and the now surrendering to the moment and just letting yourself float and be free.
However, while I won’t be using a trigger . . . not that I know anyone’s triggers anyway . . . you can’t help but become aware of your responses anyway. For instance . . . when I tell you to breathe in and breathe out and let go and surrender just let yourself go . . . you may remember what it feels like for you in your body when your favorite trance trigger is used . . . how you notice your breathing becoming deep, deeper, deeply relaxed . . . and how your mind just lets go and surrenders to the moment in that same kind of warm, tingling, wonderful, floating feeling that comes over you when your trigger is used, that same emptiness, that same loving surrender just like now.
Certainly triggers can be interesting. I know what you mean . . . it’s kind of neat how that can affect you . . . that way . . . isn’t it? How, without even saying it, a word, a simple trigger, can create a state . . . heck, you don’t even have to think of the word for it to cause a reaction . . . you could just be thinking about thinking about the word and then that wonderful feeling just kind of washes over you deep deeper deeply within those soft secret sacred places, that warmth, that longing, that need, that desire . . . soon . . . the word becomes more of a supplement to an automatic warm wet wonderful reaction that lingers more and more within you . . . affecting your body, your mind, your emotions, in such wonderful, perhaps erotic ways, but since this is not an erotic game, I won’t be suggesting anything erotic when I trance you . . . no, not me . . . you can have those feelings all by yourself as they grow gently within you in those deep soft places and flow over and through you, building into a wonderful wave of pleasure . . . no, I won’t tell you have to have those feelings . . . you can have them yourself, like right now . . . as the wave from almost thinking about almost feeling your trigger response washes over you . . . like right now . . . or deep deeper deeply within you . . . now or later . . . or sooner . . . it’s up to you . . . noticing how your body just lets go and your mind just opens up to these feelings . . . the mindset . . . only to wash through you again, first lower and then higher but definitely deep deeper deeply within you with each and every breath you take . . . of course, just thinking about the trigger, that special word, and its effect on you can be delicious but that’s just the prelude as you give in to yourself and let yourself go and just allow yourself to breathe in and breathe out and . . . explode . . . you know what I mean?
Of course, when we play the game . . . I would never use a trigger . . . not really, like right now . . . you really don’t need to. Just hang on to the idea of the trigger if you like, if that is your preference. You don’t need to . . . you could just let the response happen, washing through you and within you. If you like . . . I wonder what it feels like, when you allow yourself to do that . . . to let go and let your trigger empty into you? The warmth, the floating, the freedom of surrender? Right. Now, you know, the trigger word one uses is actually a very complex trigger. If you’ve had a chance to listen to various trigger conditioning recordings several times, like mine, or someone else’s, or if you have worked with someone for real life trigger installation and conditioning . . . like me, or someone else . . . then . . . and . . . now . . . you will have noticed they play on one another. Since individual reactions are different, when doing trance, erotic or otherwise, I let folks respond in a way that is appropriate for them, increasing their surrender states within the context of their trance experience as they let go and enjoy themselves, floating peacefully and wonderfully. How does that feel for you? When you let go into your trigger? What does that feel like . . . when you do it . . . as you float . . . now . . . later . . . sooner . . . now? If we were trancing, right now, and I asked you to remember the last time you went very deep with a trigger . . . no need to think of the trigger itself . . . that would be cheating . . . just think of your response to the trigger . . . and let me know how it feels when you surrender to it right now in your body, your mind, and your spirit . . . deep deeper deeply within yourself. How does that feel?
Of course, a remembered trigger response is not the only way to approach this sort of thing. One interesting thing some folks don’t realize about all this stuff is that you don’t even have to use the trigger more than a couple times to get a response. In fact, for me, perhaps for you, I have sent letters to some folks without even using their conditioned trigger phrase because they have had specific questions about hypnosis and the trigger response and how they can respond also to show them the difference between immediate and slow surrender to their trance experience, to elicit a trigger response without the trigger . . . this is more of a demonstration to you to show you that, yes indeed you are obviously responding to the trigger . . . as you let go . . . and . . . surrender . . . without thinking of your trigger . . . right now . . . try not to think about how it feels when your trigger washes over you . . . just try to focus on the trigger hear not there within you washing through you right now . . .
Now, some folks respond even more vividly to trance because they can really let go, and when they do so, they can allow their triggered conditioned response to wash through them whether we use the trigger right now or not. They can really let themselves go with the flow, allowing themselves to just run with it, go with the flow, enjoy the sensations as if the trigger is used, without thinking of the trigger and how it affects them, deep, deeper, deeply within, letting every breath relax them deeper and deeper, sending them deeper and deeper into their wonderful playful selves, loving every moment of these precious floating trance feelings, experiences, joyful and loving feelings as they feel themselves drifting further and further into a wonderful sweet sensual state, not sexual, never erotic, unless that is what you want to feel as it washes over you and through you in those deep, deeper, deeply sensual places . . . right now. For instance, when I ask them think of the word and to just relax, that’s right, just relax, breathing in and breathing out, and relaxing wayyyyy down . . . in fact, letting the world just fade away, concentrating on the feeling of surrender and only my words, and perhaps on the feeling of relaxing deeper and deeeper with every breath in and doubling that relaxation with each and every breath out, as surrender surrounds and comforts them, and when you drift . . . and . . . surrender . . . deep . . . deeper . . . deeply into yourself . . . when that wonderful feeling wafts over you and through you and you feel that familiar purple feeling creep slowly and deliciously into the deep, deeper, deeply secret parts of you . . . down down down . . . perhaps within your chest or perhaps between your thighs . . . letting go and opening up . . . sensual and sweet . . . surrender . . . and . . . you just let yourself let go . . . further . . . deeper . . . surrender . . . surrounding and enfolding you . . . and my words . . . penetrate you . . . deep . . . deeper . . . deeply within . . . and as the feeling drips within and upon and around and through you like a thick violet honey of sensual or erotic or simple delight . . . and you open your body . . . wide and inviting . . . and you open your mind . . . wide and surrendering . . . and you open your heart . . . wide and loving . . . loving . . . loving . . . and . . . alive . . . feeling that glow . . . feel the feeling . . . deep, deeper, deeply within you . . . and around you . . . surrender . . . and as you surrender . . . and let yourself let go . . . deeper . . . and . . sensual . . . and you place your hand upon your throat . . . imagining your trigger washing through you . . . and you feel . . . the feeling . . . explodes throughout you . . . in mind, in body, in spirit, and in soul . . . explodes . . . within you . . . and as you feel the glow . . . of love . . . of joy . . . of passion . . . of desire . . . and the words just wrap you . . . and caress you . . . and bring you closer to the joy that is yourself . . . surrender . . . and know love . . .EXPLODING . . . NOW . . .
Perhaps . . . now . . . or later . . . or sooner . . . or . . . now . . . how does that feel?
Oh, yes. Obviously, working the triggers and adding sensory input is better but it is possible – when conditioned to automatic response . . . like now . . . just as with some people . . . most people . . . you . . . who can be in a normal everyday state while we’re sitting watching TV or our shopping and when my finger travels to an earlobe and gently strokes it, you can feel a powerful wave of raw sensual erotic power come over you and through you . . . or in some other context as you imagine and remember a time when you responded that way and feel the feelings anew like right now . . . or, as other . . .
A friend of mine taught me a technique he used to use for couples swinging conventions in workshops he would teach before he passed away . . . a simple method that works great for parties too . . . it’s based upon hypnosis but can be used with women who have never been hypnotized . . . within five minutes – usually faster – he can talk a woman through to an incredibly powerful orgasm, without touching, without any sexual contact at all . . . just words . . . not even a preconditioned trigger word . . . obviously, he was quite the hit at parties in his day . . . http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HypnosisTechniqueExchange/message/108 . . . I’ve used the same method – with my own tweaks – and it still works wonderfully . . . you know what I mean?
Words are very powerful indeed . . . as are triggers . . . whether you use them or not.
I look forward to your take on the phenomenon of sleight triggers or eliciting conditioned responses without using the triggers and how you would apply it to various contexts.
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