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Post-hypnotic suggestions

This article contains one or more scripts intended to be used with a hypnotised subject. Before using these scripts make sure that you have a good understanding of how to hypnotise someone, how to wake them up from a trance, and how to give AND how to cancel post-hypnotic suggestions. You can learn these things from a number of sources. One is my own book, Look Into My Eyes, which was specially written both to be a practical guide to hypnotising your partner and to be about combining hypnosis with sex. Other books which may be of assistance can be found in book stores and on-line. You may also wish to check out the books which appear in the "suggested reading" box above. If you are particularly enthusiastic about learning hypnosis you can study hypnosis and hypnotherapy in courses run by your local hypnotherapist's professional society.

Post-hypnotic suggestions are instructions or commands given to a person in a hypnotic trance, which they are intended to follow after that have woken up.

How effective they are will depend on a number of factors, including:

• How deeply hypnotised they were when they received the commands, and
• How confronting the commands would be if they followed them. For example, a post-hypnotic suggestion to remove their clothes and dance naked at work is likely to be resisted more than a post-hypnotic suggestion to make a telephone call. Of course, not all people will have a problem with stripping at work. Professional strip-tease dancers, for example, will probably have no difficulty at all.

Because of potential resistance, not all post-hypnotic suggestions go as planned. Sometimes the person who has been hypnotised will try to follow the command while still conforming to their own values and beliefs. For example, a person who has received the strip-and-dance-at-work post-hypnotic suggestion may actually follow it but go to the bathroom first and do it there. Thus they still follow the command, but manage to do so in a way that is perhaps uncomfortable, rather than confronting.

If you use post-hypnotic suggestions with your partner, remember to be sensible with them. This means making sure they will trigger only when you want them to. For example, telling your partner to feel horny when they hear a certain song, and then playing that song from time to time in the comfort of your shared accommodation can be jolly good. But they may quickly find that they end up feeling horny all over the place, such as in shopping centres when that song plays, or when they hear the song on the radio when driving or at work. This can be distracting or even dangerous.

So, here are a couple of quick scripts for post-hypnotic suggestions with built-in safety limitations. I have underlined some important words and phrases:

Post-hypnotic suggestions which you want to trigger more than once, such as the second example above, will work best if reinforced a number of times over different hypnosis sessions.

See also

• Getting the most out of Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
• The Disappearing Underwear Trick