The Newbie Guide to Hypnosis

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

To begin with, we’ll talk about getting started 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 inductions 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.

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

Finally, there are some recommendations for further reading and resources.

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.

This guide is geared towards hypnotists and how to hypnotize people. This guide also does not focus on hypnosis in theraputic or entertainment contexts. There is some talk of sex and kink, but it’s mostly incidental.

If you are looking for a guide on how to be hypnotized, I recommend Vreahli’s Subject’s Guide.

If you are looking for a guide on hypnokink, I recommend sleepingirl’s learnhypnokink.com and the Mind Play Study Guide.

If you are looking for a hypnotist for therapeutic purposes, look for a certified professional. Do not rely on other hypnotherapy certifications. Your hypnotist should have some of these books on the shelf.

If you are looking to practice hypnosis in a therapeutic context, I recommend training with someone from the certified organizations and reading through the recommendations.

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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