The Newbie Guide to Hypnosis

Language is a mighty lord, which by means of the finest and most invisible body effects the divinest works: it can stop fear and banish grief and create joy and nurture pity.
— Gorgias
Language is a Mighty Lord

You’re interested in hypnosis, and you want to hypnotize your partner, for many possible reasons. There’s lots of tips and blog posts, but nothing makes any sense and it’s all overwhelming and you’re terrified that you’ll try and fail.

It’s okay. You’re not alone. Everyone was where you are now. There is a plan. This guide will take you from being a newbie to being a hypnotist.

Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about hypnosis to begin with. After you go through this plan, you’ll be in a good place to do more, but this is all about getting familiar, getting comfortable, and having fun.

This guide is organized into several sections to teach you the basics of hypnosis.

To begin with, we’ll start with the overall stuff common to every hypnosis session: how to behave, how to bring up the topic with your partner, negotiation, and managing risks in hypnosis.

We’ll go through several stages of practice to build up your comfort level and expertise using different inductions and get familiar with a basic framework of hypnotic sessions.

Next up is a section on giving suggestions, organized around the concept of how perception works in the human brain and what it implies for how we construct our conception of reality.

There’s a section for hypnotizing neurodiverse people. Good news everyone: if your partner is ADHD or autistic, they can be hypnotized using these techniques!

By this point you’re educated and comfortable with hypnosis, so next there’s a broad discussion on tailoring inductions and branching out and experimenting more in sessions.

Finally, we’ll go into the theory of hypnosis, explaining some of the underlying psychological mechanisms and talking about how to make hypnosis more effective.

Don’t worry about understanding all of this at once. If you get a general sense of the components, that’s all you need for now, as you can follow the practical exercises without having to refer back to this page.

While this guide is safe for work, it does have links to material that may assume erotic hypnosis and/or kink. Please use your discretion, and do not read this if you are underage or in an inappropriate place or situation.

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