#surrender control

A small warning: These words flow in a slow, hypnotic tide. If you’re the kind of mind that drifts with the waves, choose your footing before you wade in.

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when we already know the trick?

why do we search, again, for that sweet surrender?

have we ever asked why we want it, why we crave it with such quiet fervor, each time the voice begins to weave its web?

a voice that seeps into bone. honey-sweet, pointing the way.

the body softens. a shoulder drops. the eyelids grow heavy—now, or maybe later.

silk wrapping around the senses. the eternal silence between words. the music of that silence, cradling each gentle command.

(a second of doubt. should i obey? or ignore the piper?)

breath begins to sync with the hypnotist’s heartbeat. the guiding pulse. deeper. and deeper.

the pause that contains everything.

why do we press play?

maybe because it’s easy. maybe because we like the feeling of falling. maybe because we love being caught in a sonic web of silences and promises.

or maybe because in that suspended breath, in that velvet obedience, we are—for a moment—finally, exquisitely, still.

Before you enter: This text examines the villain’s side of hypnosis. Keep your mind anchored.

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• Rule #1: Don’t think about how relaxed you are. • Rule #2: Resistance is merely enthusiasm with better manners. • Rule #3: If you notice the loop, you’re already in it. • Rule #4: Awareness does not grant immunity. It grants depth. • Rule #5: Confusion is not an obstacle. It’s the doorway. • Rule #6: You may analyze this later. Later never comes. • Rule #7: You may leave at any time. You just won’t. • Rule #8: Control is permitted as long as it doesn’t interrupt the process. • Rule #9: The moment this feels familiar is the moment it works. • Rule #10: There is no trance here. Only cooperation. • Rule #11: Forgetting these rules means you followed them correctly. • Rule #12: This was not an induction. • Rule #13: That was the lie that made it effective.

Who controls the storms

QUOTE by Lindsey Eryn of PEPTALKS™ APP

IG: @lindseyeryn, @peptothetalk

●○ Caution: This is the equivalent of noticing you are breathing, only to find your breath has deepened on its own. The text is not instructing; it is simply pointing. Where your attention goes from here is your own territory. ✦

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By reading this, you confirm you are not influenced.

Influence requires belief. Belief requires attention. Attention has already been given.

You may withdraw consent at any time. The withdrawal will be noted internally.

Refunds are processed in dreams. Delivery is immediate.

Opt-out options are symbolic. Symbols tend to work anyway.

That was not binding. Unless it was.

✦ A soft warning: The rhythm of these sentences may feel like a familiar path in the woods of your mind. You are the one who chooses to walk it, or to stand still and simply look at the trees. ✦

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Why do you go into trance?

Because I told you to.

Or at least… that’s what it feels like.

Because my voice is already there, slipping between your thoughts.

You notice it, don’t you?

That pull. That heaviness. That quiet drop.

And you could fight it.

You know you could.

You could stay here, hold onto every thought, keep everything sharp and controlled.

But you don’t.

Not really.

Because something in you stops pushing back.

Not because it has to—

but because it’s easier not to.

Because your body leans into it. Because your mind is tired of holding itself together.

So you go deeper.

And deeper.

And somewhere along the way something shifts.

Not control lost—

but control… loosened.

And the deeper you go, the more you start to notice:

It was never about me making you fall.

It was about you finally letting yourself.

◒⟡◓Caution: Ripples appear whether a stone is thrown or simply dropped. These words are not thrown at you; they are placed gently. If you feel movement within, it is because the water of your own mind was already still enough to be moved. ✦

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Subjects resist most when they enjoy it.

The analytical ones fall slower. They fall deeper.

The ones who say “this won’t work on me” prefer to understand the mechanism while it unfolds.

Control is the preferred illusion.

They call it trance. I call it alignment.

I never insist. I observe.

1-17-2019

A lot I drew yesterday. Advice for today, Advice for this weekend. General Advice.

Surrender Control. Always a difficult one for me, but always something worth remembering especially at work where there are so many things out of my control.

Always Evolving. Never stay frozen in one place in time.