Hypnosis

Do you use (self-)hypnosis, autosuggestion or any similar techniques to shape your mind in any way you desire? There are some pretty good hypnosis videos on youtube, being in trance feels great, basically like having meditated for half an hour without having to put in that effort first. There are different types of videos with all sorts of suggestions you get there, most are simply for feeling more confident or happy or fall asleep, of course also stuff like quitting smoking or calming down before an exam. I personally would like to use hypnosis to change my mindset to love hard things, because I know that it is the things that aren't easy that get you to improve the most, no matter if it is fitness, studying or social situations. I have not yet found a prerecorded session for that though, therefore I'm trying to learn hypnosis on my own to record personal tapes.

I have a personal interest in reaching trance states and altered states of consciousness in general, however I often have intrusive thoughts, to the point where, during a prerecorded session, I would drift off on completely unrelated trains of thought for minutes, not even able to hear the session until I suddenly try to remember what I was doing before drifting (I suspect that getting closer to a trance state invigorates my intrusive thought challenge). If you haven't already heard of it, the book "Self Hypnosis" by Melvin Powers is a good guide, and I also recommend this video https://inv.cthd.icu/watch?v=KauLbsG0_rM for tips on writing good scripts.

>>55918 A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis by Melvin Powers https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/22814

>>55922 What do you use it for?

It has been my fetish for as long as I remember. Almost every time I get off, I'm fantasizing about hypnosis.

>>55924 Same Here. I just love loading up an erotic hypnosis video from YouTube (there are lots), and entering a trance-like state while I cum.

>>55925 Are there any you can recommend? And don't you fear that this is some sort of Psyop to place bad thoughts into your brain?

>>55926 >Are there any you can recommend? Well, there is this one channel that makes a lot of different fetish orientated videos, and the channel is not age restricted either, but I'm not sure if you would like it. You can look up "Silver Hypnosis" on youtube, it's just some "asexual" autistic guy making videos. It's for people with really strange fetishes, and it's also a dude, so idk if you'll like it. There's soykaf like "Pumpkin Transformation Hypnosis"; "Bimbo Cloud Hypnosis"; "Good Submissive Training Hypnosis"; "Fruit Gushers Hypnosis"; "Weight Gain Enthusiasm Hypnosis"; "Pig Transformation Hypnosis" >Psyop Isn't hypnosis just purely the power of suggestion, and you have power over which suggestions you adopt and don't adopt? I also doubt that some rando in his bedroom making whispering audio-tracks is going to actually "hack" someone's mind, and cause them to adopt "bad thoughts" (against their conscious will). Maybe it would be different if there were highest-trained government agents making subliminal audio tracks, and disseminating them onto a population, but this is nothing like that at all. Untrained, often untalented people alone in their bedrooms making videos for enjoyment and as a hobby.

https://ftp.lainon.org/files/books/ has "Trance-formations Neuro-linguistic Programming And The Structure Of Hypnosis" which I've found to be the best book on hypnosis. The last section covers self-hypnosis using Betty Erickson's technique - Betty being the wife of Milton Erickson, the famous hypnotist. I hope lains can get as much out of the book as I have.