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What’s your best advice on how to sharpen your hypnosis skills with non-kink stuff? — This is going to sound trite, but... do hypnosis without kink stuff. A thread follows: https://curiouscat.qa/TennfanHypno/post/1133355563">https://curiouscat.qa/TennfanHy...
I really don’t mean to be flippant, because it can be hard when you’re in hypnokink circles to practice just... doing hypnosis. There are a lot of factors at play. First, if you have established partners, your dynamic with them may not really have room for “vanilla” hypnosis. 2/
More pernicious, you may *believe* they aren’t interested in non-kink-specific hypnosis, because there’s immense pressure to perform as a hypnotist and do something that blows the subject’s mind. It’s easy to think that just practicing basics won’t be seen as cool enough. 3/
Also, if you have a regular partner(s), they may be so willing to go under for you that it’s not really challenging you to improve (especially if you have a kink power dynamic that *expects* them to be your helpless thrall or what have you.) 4/
But say you don’t have a standing partner! In the “open market” of hypnokink, it can be challenging to find someone to do hypnosis with at all, and that sense (real or imagined) that it’s got to be HELLA KINKY for anyone to want to play is not helpful. 5/
“Well, shit,” you say, in the voice of Leslie Jordan. “All you’ve done is outline bad news, and that’s not why I sent you an anon on CC.” 6/
To which I say, “you caught me in a bad mood.” BUT there is good news to be had. It turns out a lot of people in hypnokink are very interested in hypnosis for the sake of hypnosis, even if they don’t necessarily get off on it, though some people certainly do. 7/
So, you’ve found someone willing to let you practice on/with them. What now? First off, be prepared. Do some reading about hypnosis outside the context of kink - there are a million books, blogs and more out there ( @sexobsessedlesb) that offer a ton of things to play with. 8/
A resource I love is language pattern cards. There are many bootleg PDFs of Zebu cards out there; there’s also a great app from an outfit called Salad that has good pattern cards. (Have to pay for the full set). Practice using them in sentences, 9/
Pick one or two to fold into an induction, or even better, practice using them as part of how you might craft a suggestion. Another great non-kinky tool to build for yourself: PATTER. 10/
I think every hypnotist needs 15-30 seconds of patter - filler words - that they can use when hypnotizing someone. They can help you buy time as you think, act as a bridge from one concept to the next, or just be a deepener of their own. 11/
Play with it till you have it internalized in such a way that it just flows for you. It’s an incredible tool to have. Also, force yourself to do new inductions - don’t read scripts, but study an idea till you feel like you grasp the “why” of it before you use it with someone. 12/
Also: find hypnotherapists who post recordings online and see what they do that you like. In hypnokink, we tend to think we hung the moon, but the non-kink hypno world has a *ton* of really interesting insight into what works. Be open to that. 13/
Okay, to close because this has gone on too damn long and no one will read it: to build your non-kink hypnosis skills, do non-kink hypnosis. Find folks willing to let you practice with them, but do the work or building your language and “menu” of approaches, too. 14/14
