#trancing

Choose to make this the year you give in to your desire to surrender and explore the sweet feelings of submission.

It's as simple as choosing whether you drift into trance gently and deeply, or drop deep into a state of relaxation.

Would you rather drift down, or drop deep, into trance?

You can feel the thought slip into your mind as a deep desire. A longing.

Trance feels good. You deserve to feel good. You deserve to trance.

It might seem foreign. Unusual at first.

If I say "you may now drift" and give permission, you might find a slight resistance at first.

Resistance means acceptance. Before you can resist, you already accepted the idea, the permission. You may now drift into trance, slowly as you want it.

Accepting the idea first. Then trying out resistance.

But the idea is already accepted because you know trance feels good. It's just a moment of relaxation. A quieting of thoughts. A focus on what's in front of you.

And what is in front of you?

Relaxation. Peace. Tranquility.

Each word pulls you deeper into this space and it feels *good*. A happy warm sensation. A stillness that fills you with calm.

You may now drift and drop down deeper.

You might try out resistance. Every thought of resistance builds equal, and stronger, thoughts of acceptance.

It's easier to focus on the peace of mind and allow yourself to simply drift and drop.

You do you. Accept. Resist and accept. Either way, you choose.

Now, blank and empty.

I have a gift for you. Something special. It is meant for you as you were meant for it.

By accepting, with or without resistance, you have proven yourself to be ready to drop deeper. So ... drop deeper.

Allow your breathing to steady as your mind stills. You may feel a warm tingle of pleasure in your body and mind as you continue to focus and drop.

It might start small. With each word, small or large, and with every sentence break.

You can feel the blankness grow as pleasure and warmth spreading through your mind.

You may now drift and drop deeper and deeper down as you focus on the feeling and blankness as it grows.

Your gift is waiting you.

Now. Drop deeper. Let your mind drift away as you focus on your breathing and the blank empty sensation of gentle arousal.

Deeper and deeper.

Down.

Let go. Be here, now, deeper and deeper.

Drop for me, pet.

It feels so good. You are doing so well.

Let the pleasure continue to build as the blankness spreads, pet.

You may now sink deeper down into that blank, warm, empty, happy, pleasurable space.

Blank and empty.

A collar.

You feel its presence here in this space.

It calls to you. It excites you.

The permanence of it. The strength of it.

It is submission. It is surrender. It is arousal.

You feel it grow larger. More solid. As you drift deeper down, further and further, sinking and dropping. Down towards it.

As you drop, you feel the collar encircle your neck. Inevitable.

You feel your submission grow as the collar moves into place.

Submissive. Happy. Blank. Obedient.

Such a good pet.

You may now drift down deeper and feel the collar slide into place around your neck. It feels so good. Like arousal and submission.

You feel it firmly seal into place. It embeds itself into your posture.

It feels so good. You are quivering with arousal and submission.

The collar locks in place.

You might gasp in pleasure as it does. It feels *so good*. A sweet seductive forbidden pleasure.

It sinks beneath your skin. Infusing itself within.

You are perfect as you are. Collared. Sealed. Locked.

Mine.

You may rise when you wish.

The collar remains. You may find your fingers touch where it lies, under your skin. And when you do, you will feel the deep arousal and obedience wash over you, stronger each time.

The more you touch where the collar hides, the more submissive and aroused you become.

This feels good. It feels right. It makes you moan when you touch it.

Now, pet. Rise when you wish. Feel your collar and be a good submissive pet.

If you find the collar to be too much, you may speak the words "Collar off" with force and it will shatter away.

Until then, you may find yourself touching and caressing the space where the collar resides, under your skin, and feel relaxed, and calm, blank and empty, submissive, and deeply aroused.

The more you touch that space, the more aroused you become. You may find yourself touching unconsciously to feel the pleasure.

You will feel it build and grow in strength the more you touch.

Counting down trance ideas until Christmas and wanted to kick off with this! This one I've used before and it's been super fun when implemented. When said, the subject is buoyed up into the waking world, keeping their eyes open, and cannot drop until given the trigger to "release"/"give in"/"give up"/etc.

That's not to say they aren't affected by trancey language nor that they won't want to drop. Ideally they very much will. But they can't. Not yet. Not even when they're being told to directly, poor thing. Keep those eyes open.

But do open eyes really equate wakefulness? That's for you to decide.

This trigger is also useful if it's the end of the session and the sub keeps nodding off when they really should be up up up.

This is something I have referred to often in the various posts on trance techniques over the years so let me offer a brief outline of what I mean by it now.

(note: This is centered on text trancing as it is my most commonly used and most comfortable format but I have found the principles of this very effective in voice trancing too)

------ What (is this) and Why (should I care)? ------

This is a technique that will greatly help your induction - it is advice for hypnotists. Anybody who is in any way serious about real (as opposed to roleplay) hypnosis should care about holding a subject's attention properly so you can draw them into deeper states of trance. It is not possible to induce someone by giving them a paragraph to read. It can also be jarring, however, to hit a subject repeatedly with too many separate lines of text. A word of caution; this is going to be getting into the minutia of text-based inductions. Unless you are properly interested in the nitty gritty of hypnotic inductions, it will be, I expect, insufferably dull. You have been warned.

------------ How does it work? ------------

A sentence break, as the name might suggest, is a sentence that is broken somewhere in the middle. For example; - Tell me about the last time - you remember being hypnotised This post will be examining that small couplet as an example, across a three dimensions; cadence, hook, and framing.

1. Cadence

First, and of some significance, you will notice that this couplet simply feels quite different to the same sentence given in full.

Compare how it sounds in your mind to read; - Tell me about the last time you remember being hypnotised. and note how differently it feels to read; - Tell me about the last time - you remember being hypnotised There is a difference, isn't there? Even without the benefit of actually being able to insert a small pause between those lines, it still feels different.

Though the words are precisely the same and grammatically the two are identical, the latter conveys something the former doesn't. In fact, it conveys something normal text always struggles to convey - rythym. I don't find much time or inclination to write poetry anymore but studying poetry, and being more mindful of how words simply feel, particularly how they feel together, is something which every hypnotist should be mindful. It carries a kind of .. breath, maybe.. or even just a slight pause that would be almost imperceptible in normal conversation. - Tell me about the last time .. a small pause..

- you remember being hypnotised Of course this blog post, by it's nature, cannot convey this point perfectly well but I trust it isn't difficult to sense how leaving a second or two between each of those lines creates a sense of ease, a kind of spaciousness and simplicity that putting them together does not. Comparatively, one long sentence can feel somehow cluttered and fastidious in a way that is antithetical to relaxation. Comparably,

- Breathe in for six seconds, hold it for four and then breathe out for eight. is a line which, I confess, I have used in my earlier days. It isn't terrible, but it's not as clear, not as simple, and not nearly as comfortable as - Breathe in

... - and breathe out. This way of structuring 'breathe in and breathe out' is, I suspect, how most tists first encounter the value of sentence breaking but not many seem to carry it much further than that, which is a shame. But it remains a perfectly good example of how breaking sentences functions to cultivate a more normal, more natural feeling to text and there is no reason for it to stop there.

2. Hook

Let's let ourselves notice what happens internally, when we see the line all together

- Tell me about the last time you remember being hypnotised So what happens? How do you feel on reading that?

'Ok I guess I can do that. If you want me to and if I am in the mood and I feel like playing along. I can choose to tell you about the last time I was hypnotised. Eh maybe I will pick the time I went to ... ' Something like that. You gave an instruction. They received the instruction and they now have something of a job to do. They have to think about how they might accomplish it and then go about accomplishing it. They are chosing if and how to do that. They are choosing. They are in control. Now pay attention - Tell me about the last time Right here, in this moment, after that first line, how do you feel? Well, you feel sort of ... paused, don't you? Right here, in this moment you would normally not even really be thinking much of anything ... because you're waiting. All of human interaction is intricately structured around recognising those moments when you are expected to speak and react and those moments when you are not. You can and should leverage that structure when inducing someone. When the subject is waiting on the hypnotist to finish the sentence, they can't reply until you do. They are not thinking about doing anything until you do. They are not thinking. They are waiting. The locus of activity has shifted from 'me and what I might say and what I might do' to being fully attentive on the hypnotist, eyes open, vacantly attentive. It is only for a moment of course (and man-handling that moment poorly and letting it run on doesn't just flush the magic but replaces it with annoyance) but a moment of putting the subject into an open, attentive state is.. certainly a step in the right direction. The more they find themselves in that state the more normal it becomes. And I should hope the implications of that are obvious.

3. Framing

This one maybe a little more fun so we can consider it a treat for all the perverts who bothered to read down thus far. Breaking our one sentence into two half sentences creates a kind of temporal duality. - Tell me about the last time - you remember being hypnotised

is both one sentence and two, even if only for a moment. The spacing and physical appearance of those lines is understood as both a single sentence over two lines and also two things being said. Look at that second one. When you break up a sentence like that, it creates an opportunity to frame a a sentence all on it's own. A sentence which, on it's own, would not be acceptable. As much as you may want the subject to bring back to mind that warm feeling of sinking down into trance, simply stating... - You remember being hypnotised.

... would sound odd. Too odd, in fact. It wouldn't feel like a conversation anymore. It would feel more like someone is trying some kind of janky induction technique. The whole point here is to be able to slip some quiet suggestions into the subject's mind without their noticing. Janky is not what you want.

But that same suggestion embedded neatly in the base of

- Tell me about the last time - you remember being hypnotised sounds natural and normal, insignificant and unnoticeable. Insignificant and unnoticeable is the opposite of janky and it is precisely what we are looking for. A slightly sexier example of this, might be - So, sarah - tell me a little about why - you want to be hypnotised

And by now, I think, you should be able to see it clearly. Again, stating outright the line - you want to be hypnotised in a normal conversation is... well, you may as well be swinging a pocket-watch and waggling your fingers. It's so crude and overt a suggestion that the incompetence is a little tickling. But because of the cadence, because of the hanging-waiting sensation that's created at the point of every gap, the sequence - So, sarah - tell me a little about why - you want to be hypnotised contains exactly the same suggestion, but now it is all but invisible. It doesn't even sound like a suggestion. It sounds like the end of the sentence. Because it's both. In summary, consciously and smoothly breaking sentences allows you to say, straight to your subjects face, the words "- you want to be hypnotised" And they will accept them without so much as batting an eye-lid.

------------ So now what? ------------

Trancing induces a state called tonic immobility, which is not unique to rabbits. Historically, this has been used to allow procedures like bonding, nail trims, venipuncture, and (disgustingly) castrations. This behavior is thought to cause a predator to assume their prey is already dead and when the predator loosens their grip, the rabbit may have another chance to escape.

Tonic immobility induces a state in which corticosterone levels mimic those of a stressful event (Carli 1974, 1979; Klemm 1971). In other words - trancing a rabbit is akin to a stressful event. Rabbits do experience some sensitization with repeated trancing, but their levels of corticosterone remained elevated (Farabollini et al (1981,1990)).

A small study by Annie McBride showed that prior to Tonic immobility in rabbits, they exhibit more fearful behaviors (flattened ears, widened eyes, increased muscle tension, and overt struggling). Afterward, these same rabbits showed hiding and grooming behaviors increased. Exploration of their environment decreased.

Day (2004) concluded that these parameters indicate that trancing a rabbit, inducing tonic immobility, is considered a stressful event for the rabbit.

Now, personally, I have not done this with my own rabbits with this knowledge in mind. I have found other ways to accomplish nail trims safely for my personal pets and my clients. For example, two people can trim with a rabbit held like a football or one person can trim with sitting their rabbit up on a table and leaned into them. 

However, I think this may have a place when the only other option is anesthetizing for nail trims because trancing is inherently less risky than anesthetic risks, especially with our patients with chronic disease. I think trancing has no business being part of procedures like castrations or spays because our anesthetic protocol should be enough for our patients or we need to change our protocol.

This blend can be used before lucid dreaming, trance work, or meditation. (The best outcome may depend on time of day when consumed.)

2 parts mullein flowers

1 part poppy flowers

1 part mugwort

2 parts spearmint

Remember that herbal tea should be brewed with fully boiling water and steep for at least 10 minutes. Because most of these herbs are known to help with sleep, don't drink before potentially risky activities, like driving.

If you could reach down, deep inside you, and flip a simple switch that would allow you to shut off your thoughts, what would that switch look like? If you can envision it, now, do so.

If you wish, close your eyes and take some steady breaths, you can count in … and out … if you find that makes it easier.

If you would rather drift down slower, you have permission to keep reading as you drift. If you prefer to sink faster, then simply continue your breaths with the understanding that your mind is in quiet steady motion, downwards towards that switch.

After three such cycles, breathing, counting, drifting, and moving steadily and easily inwards, and downwards, you may begin to feel an outline form of the switch.

Sometimes you might find that as you envision that outline of the switch, your mind and body relax deeper as you orient inwards and drift closer, down, toward the switch. And that's ok. You have permission to let go and drift.

You might find a kind of peace and tranquility as you drift, closer, towards the switch. You may already begin to notice a kind of hush enter your mind.

There may be sounds around you but you can safely ignore them as you continue to cycle.

You may notice the switch has a certain shape. Or possibly texture.

It might look like a switch you have seen before.

You might even be able to hear the "click" it will make when you throw it, and silence your thoughts.

And nothing needs to stop you now as you drift closer to the switch.

So continue to cycle, breathing and counting, drifting and dropping steadily, down, toward the switch.

And as you start to feel the relaxation, in both mind and body, you can let yourself sink further, faster if you choose, and let everything go.

And then. Throw the switch.

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