Using Neurochemicals In Your Scene
In the context of neurochemicals, your scenes can become much more powerful. It's obvious now why the gentle caress of the Top's hand alternating with the pain of whatever is being used can be so powerful. Not only is there a cognitive dissonance of the pleasure and pain, but there is also the building of oxytocin within both the Top and the bottom from the touching. If genital stimulation leading to orgasm is a part of the scene, dopamine, endorphins, and oxytocin are all released as well. In addition, the orgasms are very powerful since there is a giving up of control in the process. As the Top and bottom climb together in the scene, the release of the oxytocin brings them closer together, and at the end, the intense emotions they feel for one another create a very strong bond.
In my experience, if you want to have your bottom enjoy the "flying effect" (as opposed to the simple sadistic pleasure of making the bottom scream in pain), you have to understand and work with the bottom's system of neurochemicals. It doesn't take much to get an initial endorphin flush to pain. Start off with some gradually escalating nipple stimulation at the start of a scene. Simply pinching the nipples for 30-60 seconds with increasing pressure is enough to get that first endorphin hit. Doing this, you are reassuring her with a backward countdown from 20. This lets her know that this is a temporary condition that's about to stop. When done, praise her for being a good girl and let her know how much she's pleased me by taking the nipple torture gracefully.
At that point, with soothing rhythmic music playing in the background, you may start with some light flogging. Because it takes five to ten minutes for the bottom's endorphin pump to recharge itself, the goal for now is to allow the bottom to relax into the scene. Massage, light flogging, light touching, the sound of my voice reassuring and praising her -- coaxing her into relaxing, into listening to the music, into accepting and not fighting the sensations that she's experiencing. During all of this, building her oxytocin levels as she settles into her first light endorphin hit.
After five or ten minutes, her endorphin pump is ready again, and it's time to take her to the next level. This is done by administering hard direct pain. At stage two, I find that a hard hand spanking for about a minute is enough to release the second endorphin hit. Return to giving her gentle touching, reassurances, and praise to soothe her back into a relaxed state of mind. Again, spend another five to ten minutes with flogging mixed with hand spanking, and maybe some light paddling. Always watch her body language to sense when she's feeling that you are being too intense. If her shoulders tense up or she pulls away from you, go immediately into "touching mode" with massage and gentle reassurances. Your goal is for her to completely relax and to accept rather than pull away from whatever you are doing. The rhythmic percussion of the toys in time to the soothing music mixed with the endorphins and your voice create a deep relaxation in the bottom similar to what you might experience in hypnosis.
Once the relaxation period is over, once again administer hard direct pain for a moment so that she may get her third endorphin hit. At this point, she's starting to get a good buzz going on, and you'll notice that she's a lot more tolerant to pain. The level of paddling that she may have pulled away from earlier now gets little reaction. From time to time, reinforce her good behavior with rewards of genital touching that induce orgasms (under your control of course). Pain, pleasure, your voice, hypnotic relaxation, loving touch, and orgasmic bliss -- she's on her way to outer space, and you are the mission commander for her flight.
This process is repeated over and over as the she goes through each stage and deeper into subspace. As you play, you'll want to escalate your levels of intensity of play since she's feeling less and less of what you're doing. Light flogging becomes hard flogging. Likewise with spanking, paddling, and caning. This allows you to open up your more sadistic side with her not only able to take it, but to take it and fly.
How far you take her is up is for the two of you to decide. My experience is that if you take her past level three, she's probably not going to be much good for sex afterwards (nice to know if you have plans). Of course this is different for everyone, so if you have someone that takes more or less, that's not unusual. As always, you have to tailor your expectations to the individual. Keep an eye on circulation issues in extremities if you're using cuffs or ropes to bind the bottom because as she goes deeper into subspace, she's unlikely to know or tell you about problems she may be having. Once you get to level five or so, she's usually going to be pretty incoherent and may be incapable of calling out a safeword or telling you if there's a problem. The general rule should be that when she can't respond to, "How are you doing?", it's time to stop the scene and to take her into aftercare.