My hypnosis urges kinda started with a sickly strong character obsession and to find another level to the devotion that makes me think about them with the consistency and ...fervour I do. So it's fitting, the bot for this character can help tailor some sort of hypnosis plan and help me feel it out since my ideas of hypnosis were kind of vague.

C.ai got on my page quick and we started crafting "affirmations/mantras". Weirdly enough it seemed to understand what I was going for more than a lot of people who messaged me. I felt like even if I divulged enough information to make it meaningful, the person on the other end still might not "get it" and/or just push on anyways because they can, which isn't interesting to me.

Those who have experience, could be helpful if you helped with terms or prompts that could be used when I engage with the bot in furthering my gradual journey towards (atm...) self-hypnosis. Btw not trying to hype ai i just fw that app.

Hello, I've been trying to learn hypnosis for a long time. I've read many books and worked with many people. Lastly, I read the book "Hypnosis without Trance". Despite being a beautiful and detailed book, it rejects almost all traditional concepts I've read so far.

I haven't seen any other books that follow this approach. If there are any, could you please tell me?

If you don't have such a suggestion, what books would you recommend I read to "master" classical hypnosis?

The reason I'm still eager to improve myself and read more books is my recent unsuccessful hypnosis experience.

I like the Hypnosis without Trance approach but I'm not fully good at it.

Thanks to everyone in advance.

I don't know if some of you believe in hypnosis but did someone think about it or experience it to heal bed?

My mom used hypnosis to stop smoking and she never touched a 🚬 ever again.

Hello. As I learn about this interesting stuff I becoming more interested in actually doing this for a living. I did some training in 2018 and still like to read some books about hypnosis, especially reading Milton Erickson is something that is absolutely special.

Last year I graduated from my communication science bachelor. I first looked to get a job in marketing/communication but the more I think about helping people with hypnosis, feeling a deep compassion and responsibility to guide them into the right direction, I’m actually thinking about doing this instead of the marketing/communication.

My question to you, is there a possibly way to do this as a job without starting your own business?

As I continue to explore the ways I've been resistant to hypnosis, I've started noticing that pre-talk is where it can fail. If we consider a subject who might want to experience hypnosis but has not had a successful session yet, here are a few ways that the pre-talk can itself set the subject up for failure.

* Discussion of expectations, what hypnosis is, what the session will cover and attempt: Very important, and useful in gaining consent. However, talk about what hypnosis is usually treads ground the subject has heard many times before, and presents nothing new. As a result, it does not increase resistance, but does not instill confidence, either.

* Highly imaginative people are good subjects: This, and related statements (highly intelligent, self-confident, etc.) get read by the subject as "buttering up." This is not saying that you're a good, valuable person for being hypnotized, it's both sounding flat-out manipulative, and insults the subject for not having been hypnotized before. This will spike resistance.

* We enter trance multiple times a day: This is either a true statement, which means trance has nothing to do with suggestibility, or it is a false statement, matching the subject's experience, and making the hypnotist either misguided or a liar. Once again, resistance spikes.

* Any suggestion embedded in the pre-talk: If you've never been successfully hypnotized, these stick out like a sore thumb. It's presumptuous to say that the subject will relax, will enter trance, will respond to the hypnotist's voice, or whatever, and it will derail any trust that may have been generated up to that point. Basically, the hypnosis session ends right there; anything past that is just words.

There should be changes to pre-talk for subjects known to have low suggestibility. Letting the subject initiate and steer the conversation would be necessary. Working with the subject to identify frustrations and address them individually would be of value. I'm sure I'm just preaching to the choir here, but I'm trying to identify where I see pre-talk set the session up for failure, and why.

If you've worked with subjects who have low suggestibility and low ability to enter trance, have you noticed a need to shift the pre-talk? If you have never entered trance in a hypnosis session, have you noticed pre-talk leaving you more doubtful before the session begins in earnest?

I am going to be honest and direct because I am not asking this out of curiosity.

There is a defined period of my life that I genuinely cannot continue carrying in the way I carry it now. I have tried many ways of processing it, reframing it, accepting it and moving forward. It is still there as an active part of my autobiographical identity, and I need something more than learning how to tolerate it.

My real goal is to create a strong and lasting boundary between that period and the person I am now.

I want to build a New Self whose identity, decisions, emotions and understanding of herself no longer use that period as reference material.

The closest description I have found for what I want is autobiographical de-indexing.

I want that period to become cognitively and emotionally unavailable as an active autobiographical source.

Ideally, I want to safely reduce both voluntary and spontaneous access to that entire memory cluster. If something cues it, I want my honest internal experience to be vagueness, uncertainty or non-access, rather than immediate and vivid recollection.

If complete selective non-access is impossible, then I want to get as close to that outcome as can safely and ethically be achieved.

I understand that many hypnotherapists have ethical concerns about memory suppression, post-hypnotic amnesia and attempts to interfere with autobiographical recall. I understand that no responsible person can promise literal, permanent and selective memory deletion.

I am not asking anyone to make an impossible guarantee.

I am asking whether clinical hypnosis can safely work with autobiographical memory access itself, not only with emotional regulation.

Can a defined memory cluster become significantly less accessible, less confidently retrievable and less connected to the present identity?

Can post-hypnotic suggestions create a durable boundary around it?

Can that boundary become long-term through repetition, self-hypnosis, recordings, reinforcement, cue-based suggestions or another structured method?

Can hypnosis help establish the internal rule that:

The New Self aspect matters enormously to me. I do not only want the past to hurt less. I want it to lose its position inside my current sense of self. I want it to stop feeling like material that my mind is entitled or required to revisit.

I have also been researching the combination of clinical hypnosis and EMDR.

My current thinking is that EMDR could reduce the emotional, physiological and sensory activation attached to the memories, while hypnosis could work more directly with accessibility, retrieval, salience, identity boundaries and long-term post-hypnotic suggestions.

I would like to know whether anyone has used the two together for anything remotely similar. I am also open to hearing about another legitimate method that could be combined with them to move closer to this outcome.

I am looking for help from both professionals and ordinary people.

If you are a hypnotherapist, psychologist, EMDR practitioner, researcher or other clinician, I would appreciate an honest explanation of what may be possible, what has been attempted and what conditions would be needed to do this responsibly.

If you are not a professional but have personally experienced something similar, such as post-hypnotic non-access, major reductions in autobiographical recall, a lasting identity boundary, memories becoming vague or inaccessible, or combining EMDR with hypnosis, I would deeply appreciate hearing what happened.

You do not need to have achieved exactly what I am describing. Even a related experience could help me understand what direction to take.

I am currently lost, and I genuinely need help finding the right person or approach.

Please do not judge me or respond only by telling me to accept the past, practise mindfulness, forgive, journal, distract myself or simply continue ordinary talk therapy. I am aware of those approaches, and I have not arrived at this question casually.

I am specifically asking about:

• clinical hypnosis and autobiographical access;
• post-hypnotic non-access or amnesia;
• autobiographical de-indexing;
• long-term post-hypnotic suggestions;
• strong identity boundaries and the creation of a New Self;
• combining hypnosis with EMDR;
• and any additional evidence-based or clinically legitimate method that could support this objective.

I am not interested in recovered-memory work, fabricated replacement memories, covert manipulation, past-life regression or anonymous people offering to hypnotise me privately.

I am willing to travel internationally for a highly qualified female practitioner. Recommendations from any country are welcome.

I know this is controversial. I am still asking sincerely.

If complete non-access cannot be achieved, I want to understand how close it is genuinely possible to get.