Lesson 4: Adding to your hypnotic vocabulary

Goals

In the next lesson, we will show you how to make up your own inductions, customized to the tee. In preparation, in this class, we are going to experiment with the two new induction ingredients we talked about in the last class.

Consent

In this class we will practice hypnosis, and, as always, tees might get fractionated. You will specifically be able to experiment with fractionation inductions, focus control, and voluntary muscle relaxation. You will also need to negotiate consent for touch, and this time you need to be very specific about exactly where and how touch is wanted or not wanted, including the whole body and hair stroking. You will also be able to experiment with music as a focal point. Finally, we will introduce synchronous breathing as a connecting exercise. As always, you should read the whole class description first, if you want to practice opt-in consent (and we recommend using opt-in consent unless you understand very well what you’re doing and have meta-negotiated something else). Also, as always, keep in mind that check-ins are useful, and consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Opening ritual

It can be nice to establish a ritual between you and your partner to set the mood for hypnosis. You can think about the lighting in the room, and put on some light music, if you want to. Think about comfort and interruptions. Have you peed, do you have access to water? Is your phone on do-not-disturb? 

You could also light a candle or anything that helps you relax (as long as it doesn’t impair your attention and consent, of course). 

Then you can do a quick tuning-into-each-other exercise. We like to synchronize our breathing for a few minutes, for example, but it could also be doing a quick meditation together, a mirroring exercise, looking into each other’s eyes, using some domination and submission ritual that you like or talking about your day. If you’re doing anything hypnotic or keen to induce subspace, you should have done your negotiation first.

In the next sections, we’re going to experiment with a few more trance mechanisms. We will start with using them by themselves, just to give you a feel for them, and that might result in light trances, but we will combine them in the next lesson, for a deeper trance.

Focus

In this exercise, we’re going to explicitly play with focus. The goal is to experiment with a single point of focus, we’re going to start with hair stroking for this, but any sensation could work.

1. The tist strokes the tee’s hair

2. The tee intently focuses on the sensation of touch

3. Wake up

4. As always, you should experiment with variables, rhythms, type of touch, etc. 

5. As always, debrief and feedback

If you want a completely different focus point, you could try playing some music and intently focusing on the music instead. We also talked about music earlier as a way to set the scene. As with every scene-setting element, music can be a background element or a focus element. The tist decides to draw the tee’s focus towards elements, or to let them drift in the background.

Fractionation induction

The goal of this exercise is to experiment with fractionation as an induction. We’re going to teach you the fractionation part of the Elman induction. Beware that this can sometimes cause headache in sensitive people, because it has an eye-straining element. We find that element very effective for hypnosis, though. 

1. The tee closes their eyes

2. The tist positions their hand close to the tee’s face a bit above their eyes

3. The tist instructs the tee to open their eyes, focus on the tist’s hand and follow it with their eyes, without moving their face

4. The tist lowers their hand slowly until the tee closes their eyes

5. Repeat steps 3 to 4 a few times

6. Wake up

7. Variables to experiment with: speed, distance to face, number of times to do the cycle

8. Debrief and feedback

Arm drop induction

This is used as a deepener in the Elman induction. It can make an induction on its own, in our opinion. The goal is to let you experiment with another trance mechanism: voluntary muscle relaxation. This version has a repeated element to it, but we will expand on voluntary muscle relaxation next with another classic induction: the progressive muscle relaxation induction. The arm-drop is usually done while the tee sits down, with the tist dropping their hand on the tee’s lap, but it can also be done with the tee laying down.

1. The tist instructs the tee to close their eyes and to completely relax their arms

2. The tist gives the tee a bit of time to relax their arm

3. The tist instructs the tee to let them do all the work of lifting their arm

4. The tist picks up the tee’s hand by the wrist and gently wiggles it around, testing that the tee’s muscle are relaxed and that the hand feels heavy and floppy

5. If the muscles are not relaxed, that is, if the arm is not feeling heavy for the tist, the tist instructs the tee to relax them more

6. The tist instructs the tee to go into a deeper trance when their hand is dropped on their lap

7. The tist gently drops the tee’s hand on their lap (or the bed if laying down)

8. Repeat step 3 to step 7 a few times alternating arms

9. Wake up

10. Debrief and feedback

Some tips and variants:

• Experiment with different wiggling motions and speed

• Experiment with timing dropping the hand when the tee breathes out

• Experiment with timing the hand drop with seeing signs of trance. Feeling the muscles relaxed is an relatively easy one.

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Progressive muscle relaxation inductions are a famous class of inductions that expands on the arm drop we just did. The idea is the same, to ask the tee to consciously relax their muscles. It is sometimes unpopular in erotic hypnosis circles, which is completely unwarranted in our opinion, but has enjoyed a bit of a regain of popularity in recent years.

1. The tee sits in a position in which their body is supported or lays down (this induction is very prone to flopping)

2. The tist verbally instructs the tee to consciously relax parts of their body from head to toe. (E.g. Relax your forehead, your cheeks, your mouth, your shoulders, …, your toes). If you are doing this verbally, the tist should ask first about any vocabulary to use or avoid when talking about the tee’s body parts.

3. Alternatively, you can agree in advance that the tist will just touch a body part to instruct the tee to relax it

4. Give some time for the tee to relax the body part before going to the next

5. Wake up

6. Debrief and feedback

Some variations:

• Order in which you call/touch the body parts. We started with head to toe, but you can, for example, do toe to head as well.

• Degree of granularity (e.g. your head vs your forehead, your eyes, etc)

• Time in between the body parts/rhythm

That’s it, you now have experimented with 3 new induction ingredients: fractionation, focus control, and voluntary muscle relaxation. If you did thorough debriefing after the exercises you should now know a lot more about the tee’s specific preferences, and what works best for you folks. See you next lesson, where you’ll make your own induction, completely customized to the tee’s preferences.