XLVIII - Some Dillon, Again.

Complete Relaxation Session (Text)
18th of Aug. 2014 | Stephanie Dillon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu4eAmugZ8M

Two sessions.

Saturday evening

In a cyber where about the second half of the time of the video I was disturbed by three men sitting down ....

Pretty much took me out of a beginning trance ....

To be clear : they did not sit down at the same time, they came at intervals and two or all three left and came back, so pretty much all of the second half was in disturbance.

Sunday at 11-ish AM

Other cyber, next day, with head phones.

Traces of "disbelief" from the experience of NOT getting into trance yesterday (see situation) did not totally destroy the trance this time.

By about 4 in the countdown, they were gone.

Before that, I worried a bit on what to write, and fortunately I got a fairly euphoric experience anyway, partly thanks to extra slow breathing at the beginning (though my breathing did speed up), and partly thanks to thinking of smiling before and up to wake up (credits to Grace Smith) and of moving my fingers and toes on three (credits to la Fairclough).

XLVII : If I Enjoy Hypnosis So Much - Why Don't I Go to Hypnotherapy?

I mainly use hypnosis for either a power nap in order to get refreshed from fatigue, or to deal with stress, of which I get more than my fair share, or to get to sleep (the latter in the form of autohypnosis, does not always work).

These things can usually be had with hypnosis videos and with autohypnosis, either based on own exercises, or on exercises learned on some videos, or around memories of videos.

Now, if I had a hypnotherapist instead, what would be different?

I might have to pay - but that might not be the main issue.

I might get involved in a somewhat more personal relation to a hypnotherapist, and I don't mean full blown sex, I mean emotional ties, and this could lead to blocking out the relation I would need.

And, the hypnotherapist might just want to go beyond my own issues outlined above. And the problem is, she (I wouldn't want a male one) and I may have different views on things.

And while the videos I chose do not contain (or seem to contain) anything contrary to the faith, some sessions actually could.

If you can make regression into "previous lives" and these do not exist, why would regressions into earlier ages of this life not also be imaginary and give false memories?

And how deep I go, I can't go very deep on the Aron scale in cybers or in the areas where I lie down, if I did go too deep, this could with some people around simply be dangerous.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Jerome
30.IX.2022

In Bethlehem Judae depositio sancti Hieronymi Presbyteri, Confessoris et Ecclesiae Doctoris, qui, omnium studia litterarum adeptus ac probatorum Monachorum imitator factus, multa haeresum monstra gladio suae doctrinae confodit; demum, cum ad decrepitam usque vixisset aetatem, in pace quievit, sepultusque est ad Praesepe Domini. Ejus corpus, postea Romam delatum, in Basilica sanctae Mariae Majoris conditum fuit.

XLVI - Related on Other Blog

Creation vs. Evolution : A Reflection on Glossolalia
https://creavsevolu.blogspot.com/2022/08/a-reflection-on-glossolalia.html

XLV Why Counting Down?

One could speculate, counting down is doing things backward, though, back when I thought hypnosis demonic, this was not one of my arguments.

There are two reasons which are in and of themselves not demonic.

First, entering the hypnotic state is scaling down attentions and tensions. And going to numbers that are fewer and fewer mirrors this.

The other is, whether you use hypnosis to get some relief from stress or fatigue, or you are trying a therapy to change your behaviour - or both combined - you will sooner or later have to try to do hypnosis with no external hypnotist, so called autohypnosis.

What does the counting downwards have to do with this?

There is one degree of confusion where you forget you were counting, and a somewhat lesser one, where you forget what number you were at ... and here it doesn't much matter which way you are counting. But at an even lesser one, you could be aware you are counting and aware where you are, and yet forget where you were supposed to stop. Counting from the total down to one helps with this.

Obviously, in the case of stress relief, the more confused you are (for the moments) the better, since the deeper hypnosis. But the confusion won't remain that deep, unless you do sth to get deeper or remain in trance, you will be gliding soon up from trance (sooner or later, depending on fatigue or prior habit), and this means, you will also be back at where you can do the counting.

In the case of hypnotic affirmations, it is obviously equally useful to start from the total number, if the number is anywhere important (like 21 times).

So, I'll stand against superstitious views (including my past own ones) of hypnosis as demonic, and consider it in and of itself as licit, provided the goal is licit.

The alternative would be to have a kind of rosary, as with the rosary prayer./HGL

XLIV Self Hypnosis Table

577		344		200		111		56		22		1
576		343		199		110		55		21
575		342		198		109		54		20
573		340		196		107		52		18
570		337		193		104		49		15
565		332		188		99		44		10
557		324		180		91		36		2
544		311		167		78		23
523		290		146		57
489		256		112
434		201
345

Follow the columns up to down, taking a deep breath between each number.

Use the text as long as necessary, when you know it by heart, you can close the eyes when you feel like it - or the eyelids can, when they feel like it./HGL

XLIII A Hypno Memory

I was teased and even bullied in seventh or eighth grade, but not by everyone.

There was a girl who didn't bully.

But one day, she considered a certain tease would be OK. A hypnotic one.

Here "look at my finger, follow my finger with your eye, answer me without thinking" ...

She posed question after question, sometimes pushing me back to answering quickly without thinking, and to following the finger, not looking at her but her finger as it waved back and forth as a metronome.

And last question, "what is one times one" while suddenly showing two fingers, waving like a metronome.

I automatically answered "two" - and she triumphantly said "you were hypnotised."