How to enter a trance state. Guide to self-hypnosis. Trance techniques What you can do in trance

Many people are interested in how to enter a trance, because trance helps to cope with stress and get the necessary rest. In addition, trance is recognized as a healing altered state of consciousness.

Why go into a trance state?

To receive mystical visions and the necessary paranormal information, as well as to reprogram their own state, ancient yogis and mystics used an altered state of consciousness or trance¹. At the same time, a person concentrates his consciousness to the utmost and goes “inside himself.”

Trance is a delightfully blissful state of relaxation, similar to immersing yourself in a nice warm physical/mental bath or mineral spring. In an altered state of consciousness, you can reprogram your subconscious² so that it does not slow down the process of self-development and personal growth.

How to enter a trance?

Performance technique

1. Lie down on a hard surface or bed.

2. Do not use pillows to keep your back straight.

3. You can also sit in a comfortable chair.

4. Unbutton tight clothing.

5. Relax completely!

Stage 1

1. While in a comfortable, relaxed position, you need to begin to monitor your breathing.

2. Do not control the breathing process, but simply monitor it.

3. As you inhale, repeat SO-O-O-O, and as you exhale, HAM-M-M-M.

4. Gradually monitoring your breathing, feel that it is happening on its own and there is no longer a need to say SO-HAM to yourself.

5. This means that you are in the first stage of trance. Thoughts and worries at this stage should disappear.

Stage 2

1. Now, continuing to breathe in your natural rhythm, through the efforts of your will you need to stop even the slightest movements of the body and muscles.

2. Start the relaxation phase.

3. Starting from the head, face and neck muscles, gradually reach the feet, relaxing each muscle. Go through each individual muscle with your attention and mentally say: “my eyelids relax, relax, my eyes relax, relax, my shoulders relax, relax, etc.”

4. So mentally go through the whole body from head to toe and relax.

5. Repeat the process three or four times. Go through the body again and again until you feel numbness and insensibility throughout the body.

6. You may feel like you are falling into an abyss.

If this state has arrived, it means that you are relaxed enough to move to the next stage.

Stage 3

1. When the breathing is balanced and the body is sufficiently relaxed, you need to repeat to yourself, Ommmmm, while counting: Om one, Om two, Om three and so on...

2. When the mind is established in the careful repetition of the mantra and any thoughts disappear, this means you have moved to the third stage of trance.

Stage 4

1. At the fourth stage, one should continue to repeat the mystical formula Om, and at the same time it is necessary to clearly imagine the shining disk of the sun in the area between the eyebrows.

2. Repeating the OM formula, visualize a bright solar disk, look at it until a clear image of the sun appears, as if you saw it in reality.

3. It may seem quite difficult at first, but with practice it will get better. Daily exercise before bed can greatly speed up this process.

How to use the trance state?

When the fourth stage is reached, you can imagine any person or object in the place of the Sun, and replace the formula with a question that interests you. By concentrating in this way, you will receive an answer in the form of sound, words or image. This technique is applicable to any research and questions. The subconscious knows everything!

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¹Trans is a series of altered states of consciousness (ASC), as well as a functional state of the psyche that connects and mediates the conscious and unconscious mental functioning of a person, in which, according to some cognitivist-oriented interpretations, the degree of conscious participation in information processing changes (

The mental state called trance is achieved through experience. Not every person is able to enter a trance without special training. Altered consciousness allows you to work with internal factors that influence a person’s life.

Many people call trance meditation, but this is not entirely true. During meditation, it is possible to enter a trance, but the entry itself will not necessarily be associated with meditation. Some practicing psychiatrists and yogis believe that the trance state is healing for the human body and its state of mind.

What is trance

One of the properties of the human psyche is falling into a trance, but not all people have access to it. A change in consciousness usually occurs consciously or with the participation of a specialist. Trance changes the activity of parts of the human brain, focusing attention on internal organization.

During a trance, a person becomes available to visions, memories, even deep ones, which in a normal state a person does not remember, as well as dreams embodied in real form.

Entering a trance on your own allows you to get rid of many problems, such as complexes, old experiences, past traumas, including childhood, depressive disorders. During a trance, the brain begins to filter information, process it and “sort it out.”

Failures in the functioning of the nervous system are easily eliminated by entering a trance state.

The many faces of trance

A set of states of human consciousness can be globally described in three words: sleep, wakefulness, trance. Trance is a special state of consciousness that differs from the usual state of wakefulness, and is not sleep.

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We can say that trance, on the one hand, is a borderline state of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. In it, the usual thought processes subside, and our deep processes and resources are activated, which are normally inaccessible for observation and use. At the same time, a person can continue to act in the real world, which is why trance is sometimes called a waking dream.

On the other hand, research shows that trance is not sleep, because in trance a person's brain activity does not correspond to that which is read by devices during sleep. In a trance state, certain areas of the brain, on the contrary, begin to work much more actively, which is visible on fMRI devices and various neurogadgets. Therefore, trance can also be called a state of hyper-wakefulness .

It is called this because if a person knows how to be in a trance and at the same time maintain awareness, he has access to greater psychic potential than in the usual waking state. This leads to the emergence of so-called stream states of consciousness, or states of flow, which Csikszentmihalyi wrote about in his books “Finding Flow.”

So sleep or hyper-wakefulness? Both of these states are trance, it all depends on where the attention is directed and focused.

The trance state is a special state of concentration and focus.

Depending on whether a person’s attention is on internal sensations, memories or images, or on external factors - sounds, objects of reality, internally oriented trance and externally oriented trance are distinguished.

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The benefits of trance states

Psychotherapists use hypnosis to treat many psychosomatic diseases. One type of hypnosis is Ericksonian hypnosis, but its implementation requires the participation of a specialist. But you can independently immerse a person in a trance without the help of a specialist.

While in a trance, the brain begins to activate activity processes in the body, processes information, helps eliminate deep-seated experiences and long-standing stress. During trance, the right hemisphere begins to work actively. The body directs all its resources to relaxation and solving problems at the physiological level, which in real life are not always possible to realize.

Trance allows you to work with long-term stressful conditions, due to which a person feels tired and depressed for a long time, but the roots of this problem are unknown to him.

During trance, a person often receives a solution to many of his problems, insight comes to him, problems are solved by themselves.

Types of hypnosis

Immersion in trance can be carried out both openly and covertly.

A person agrees to voluntarily succumb to the influence of hypnosis if he needs psychological help, wants to solve existing internal problems, and get rid of phobias.

In this case, therapy sessions are held under the strict supervision of a doctor who addresses the patient’s subconscious and works with his memories, emotions and experiences. This type of trance helps:

• cope with complexes;
• solve family problems;
• get rid of psychological trauma;
• cure harmful addictions.

Properly conducted hypnosis sessions help get rid of bad habits

Covert hypnosis is used on people without their consent. Fraudsters resort to this method of influence to force their victims to do as they need (give money and apartment keys, sign documents). This type of hypnosis causes harm to a person because it goes against his interests and will.

Psychotherapists divide introduction to trance into three separate categories.

1. With light hypnosis, the patient seems to be in a shallow sleep. It seems to him that he is watching a film from the outside in which he is the main character. The patient fully hears everything that is said and reacts to external factors.
2. Average hypnosis is being awake while asleep. In this state, the individual’s subconscious is open, and he is able to answer any questions from the doctor, while the body is constrained by muscle tension. In psychology, the term “waxy flexibility” is used to refer to this condition, when the patient shows miracles of physical endurance.
3. Deep hypnosis puts a person into a trance, the psychotherapist completely controls his subconscious. So a person can be inspired to do anything (make him kill, steal, convince him that white is black). After the patient who has been subjected to deep hypnosis comes to his senses, he will not remember anything.

You can put a person into a hypnotic state, both with the help of various sound (monotonous) signals, and by influencing his senses. Very often, psychotherapists use a metronome, shiny objects, and meditative music during sessions, which allow him to hold the patient’s attention and help gain control over him. Working with a person’s feelings, the doctor achieves the same result only by relaxing the body, regulating breathing, and closing the eyes.

How to prepare

In order to independently enter a trance state, you need to find a suitable place, but it should not be noisy or crowded. It is best that no one interferes with the process or enters the room. Often practicing trance people can enter this state, regardless of the place and time of the ritual, but for beginners it will be difficult at first even in complete solitude.

Before entering a trance, you need to satisfy your physiological needs so as not to be distracted by them in the future. There is no need to go into a trance hungry or vice versa on a full stomach. The condition should be comfortable. Also, you should not start entering while you are sick.

All irritating factors, such as sounds, noises, distracting luminous objects, must be eliminated. The body position should be comfortable and as relaxed as possible.

General symptoms

In a state of twilight disorder of consciousness, whatever type it may be, contact with the patient is impossible, since he is detached from the real world, does not perceive it partially or completely. His consciousness suddenly seems to turn off. He is disoriented to varying degrees in the situation, time, people, place. His thinking process is disrupted, his judgments are incoherent or completely absent.

It is difficult to distinguish a sick person from a healthy person by appearance, since he behaves quite normally and is capable of performing quite complex actions. However, as soon as you begin to communicate with him, it immediately becomes clear that the individual cannot say either his own name, the names of loved ones, or the date where exactly they are. Although his speech may be correct from a grammatical point of view, he cannot carry on a conversation, he talks to himself, does not answer questions and does not expect an answer to his own.

The behavior is usually aggressive and poses a danger to others.

After emerging from such a state, the patient remembers poorly or does not remember at all what happened to him and what he did.

Entry techniques

To enter a trance, there are some techniques that allow the body to adapt quickly and easily in a short period of time. However, they all require significant effort, since it may not work the first time. Entry must be practiced frequently.

1. The easiest technique to perform is. You can perform this either with a quick noisy exhalation or with slow and deep breathing. The number of breaths per minute should be at least 50 if you use the fast intermittent breathing technique. It is best to perform lying on a flat, flat surface, with dim light. During breathing exercises, the body is saturated with oxygen, which leads to a slight change in consciousness, as well as immersion in a trance.
2. One way to enter a trance is to use sound. You can use a mantra, which will need to be repeated monotonously, observing a certain tone. The concentration of sensations should be only on sound. Feeling the vibration of the vocal cords and the flow of oxygen into the lungs.
3. The technique of monotonous movements is often used. The easiest way is to sit on the floor and swing your body in different directions, slowly and monotonously. This method can be supplemented with the sound method.
4. Concentrate on one action or sound. It can be the sound of an hour or drops of water evenly dripping into the sink, for example. You can focus on your own body and try to listen to your heart.

While entering a trance, a person feels lightness and even some kind of floating. Some people feel leaving their body. Reality is blurred, consciousness is dulled. The state resembles a state of half-asleep, when you are not yet completely asleep, but at the same time you are no longer quite in reality. Self-hypnosis is achieved experimentally. The most popular techniques allow you to achieve a trance state after just a few workouts. Some manage to achieve the desired result already in the first session.

Conscious and unconscious in the human psyche

A girl meditates.
The human psyche can be divided into two layers: conscious, that is, a person’s consciousness, and unconscious . It is the unconscious that is the most mysterious in the psyche, since it is believed that such depths are hidden in the unconscious that a person himself is not aware of.

The unconscious has access to our resources that we ourselves do not know about.

Consciousness is a logical layer that allows an individual to interact with other people and the world around him, to find an explanation for everything that happens to him.

The state called “trance” connects consciousness and the unconscious. A person does not even suspect that he experiences this state every day, many times a day - for example, when after a hard day he completely relaxes, does not think about anything, or, on the contrary, when he concentrates on only one thought or one action.

Meditative music

You can enter a trance using various techniques. One of them is the use of meditative music. Meditative trance music is sold on audio media in specialized stores, it can be found on the Internet, or you can chant the mantra yourself, having previously studied the correct tonality and sound combination.

Music, not only for trance and meditation, in general allows a person to relax and put his feelings in order. It is not without reason that psychologists recommend listening to calm, relaxing music as often as possible, both for adults and children. Classical music has a significant impact on improving the health of the body, normalizing mental processes and balancing a person’s state of mind.

Meditative music is aimed at helping to enter a trance, but it can be used not only solo, but also in combination with other techniques for entering an altered consciousness.

Pros and cons of hypnosis

This treatment method can have both positive and negative effects on a person. Its main advantage is that, working with the subconscious, the doctor does without physical impact on the patient’s body. Medical induction into trance gives excellent results, effectively curing various diseases, fears and phobias.

The disadvantage of this treatment is that not all patients can be hypnotized. Many people are afraid of such interference in their subconscious, speaking out against such therapy. Hypnotic trance is one of the components of complex treatment, which is aimed at helping a person solve an existing psychological problem.

stimming

Monotonous body movements are called stimming. This is one of the techniques for entering a trance. This technique is considered the most popular and easiest to perform. To achieve an altered consciousness, it is necessary to take a comfortable body position and make monotonous repetitive movements of the body. You can sway from side to side or back and forth. In this case, all your attention should be focused on relaxing all the muscles of the body.

Often during this method additional influence is used on active points of the human body. They are stimulated with fairly strong pressure, and then, releasing, the meditation continues.

No additional help

It is possible to enter a trance on your own. Some skills are required, which can be obtained from specialized literature, a knowledgeable person, or after several independent attempts.

The gaze should not be focused, the body should be completely relaxed. All thoughts are turned off, you need to concentrate only on a specific action or sound. At first it will be difficult to turn off your thoughts, since their constant flow is familiar to a person, it seems impossible to stop it. However, this is not so, and after several attempts, entering a trance will become easy and accessible.

How to exit

The exit from the altered consciousness must take place gradually, just as the immersion was. Visually, you can imagine yourself swimming out of the depths, emerging from under the water, or going down the stairs.

Gradually, thoughts and feelings will come to consciousness, the brain will assimilate the new existing reality. Slow counting will help you come to your senses after falling into a trance. You can perform several relaxing, but toning, movements, like gentle stretching. After entering a trance, it is advisable to drink a glass of warm water and not begin your daily duties for some time so that the body can adapt and tune in to the desired wave.

Rules

If you decide to study and practice hypnosis on your own, there are certain rules that must be strictly followed.

1. You cannot use a hypnotic trance without the knowledge and permission of the person. Such an impact on consciousness should only carry a positive charge.
2. Do not overuse hypnosis sessions. There is no need to hold more meetings than are required for the patient to cope with his problem. Each hypnosis session is strictly regulated, otherwise the patient may feel unwell afterwards.
3. It is necessary to correctly remove the person from the state of hypnotic sleep. It is important that the individual slowly comes to his senses and regains his strength.

Is there any harm

Some scientists believe that going into a trance has only benefits, while others are inclined to believe that it is as harmful to the body as it is beneficial. However, each person should decide for himself whether a trance state will bring him benefit or harm.

First of all, it should be remembered that changes in consciousness affect the functioning of internal organs. The heartbeat slows down, nervous processes are suspended, emotions are suppressed and some numbness of consciousness occurs.

While entering a trance, a person can see some hallucinations or visions that are associated with his internal subconscious fears, which were deposited in early childhood in the subcortex of the brain, and since then the person has not remembered them. Unpleasant memories can cause depression, since a person is not always ready to accept that past reality again.

During a trance, oxygen starvation occurs as breathing slows down. A certain amount of endorphin, the hormone of joy, enters the blood, which causes enlightenment and a feeling of insight for a while. However, this feeling gradually passes, and is followed by a state of lethargy and apathy.

Relaxation

In order to enter a trance, it is necessary to completely relax the physical body and turn off all thought processes. Only by relaxing can a person plunge into an altered consciousness and experience the benefits of a trance state.

Relaxation may not occur immediately, but initially you need to physically try to relax all your muscles, including the muscles of your face, because people often forget about them. After the onset of complete relaxation, achieving an altered consciousness will occur easier and faster.

Freeing yourself from emotions and thoughts

One of the most difficult tasks when entering a trance is turning off the consciousness from the constant stream of thoughts. People are accustomed to conducting an internal monologue without interruption for a second. This constant flow of thoughts allows us to control our actions, concentrate our attention, and direct our movements and actions. However, when entering a trance or during meditation, it is necessary to completely turn off consciousness, relax and not think about anything. Only in this state will entry be possible.

Entering a trance is possible for almost every person. It must be remembered that for some diseases it is impossible to use sound effects or flashing signals, for example, for epilepsy. But otherwise, a person can fall into a trance quite easily.

Many composers and great writers have used trance to gain insight. Each of us can easily use this method to solve our everyday problems, or even children's fears that have accumulated over many years of life.

In fact, trance is a state that accompanies any yoga practice, be it performing asanas, pranayama, mudras... Of course, the greatest depth of trance is achieved during savasana or yoga nidra.

Many people view trance as something mysterious and difficult to achieve. It is sometimes called a “flow state” (enjoying the process of an activity) or a “peak experience” (inspiration from self-realization), as well as a state of awareness and presence. Meanwhile, we are talking about various natural states that arise, including spontaneously. In ordinary life, trance can appear when we are engaged in monotonous rhythmic activity that brings pleasure and absorbs all our attention and is performed at a calm, unhurried pace. For example, fishing, Nordic walking and even... the children's game of “silent speech” (by the way, an analogue of yogic meditative exercises).

Other parallels can be drawn between modern methods of achieving trance, often used in psychotherapy, and Eastern techniques. For example, the autogenic training method developed by the German psychotherapist Johann Schulz about a hundred years ago. It is known that he was interested in the systems of bodily and mental self-regulation of hatha and raja yoga. While practicing hypnotherapy, Schultz studied the sensations people experience in a state of hypnotic trance. At the same time, he discovered a commonality between the sensations that arise in people when immersed in a hypnotic state and those sensations that appear when independently performing a number of yoga exercises. This is primarily a feeling of heaviness associated with muscle relaxation, as well as a feeling of warmth accompanying the dilation of blood vessels. Based on these two sources - hypnosis and yoga, Schultz developed a method of self-regulation accepted throughout the world.

Indeed, with any method of achieving trance, there is one common result: the nervous system returns to its natural state, free from excessive intellectualization and socio-cultural stereotypes. Why does this happen? Firstly, the activity of the frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, which are responsible for the logical processing of information, decreases (they, as a rule, are initially in a more active and often “overexcited” state). Secondly, the “subconscious” parts of the brain, freed from this suppressive influence, become disinhibited. Thus, an altered state of consciousness occurs. Physiologically, it corresponds to the “right hemisphere” functional state of the cerebral cortex. He is characterized by intuitive processing of information, allowing for multiple solutions. This differs from the ordinary “left-hemisphere” state, which limits the decision-making process to the rigid framework of rational thinking. This opens up access to blocked (repressed, taboo) subconscious resources. In other words, during the trance process the brain returns to the “childish” state characteristic of the child’s brain. Thanks to trance, by rediscovering life, we regain the childhood joy of life, the fullness of experiences, integrity and a sense of harmony, unity with the world and the people around us. This most important psychophysical phenomenon is allegorically described by all spiritual traditions as “second birth”, “be like children”, etc.

This is the therapeutic effect of trance, which is actively used in modern psychotherapy. In a trance, the human psyche becomes adaptive, capable of resolving internal contradictions and conflicts by removing internal barriers and overcoming habitual behavior patterns. As a result, it becomes possible to reconstruct neural connections, synthesize non-standard solutions, form new patterns (as if to learn something again). Today, due to the unnatural way of life, trance techniques are needed like vitamins for the body and soul. This is not just relaxation as rest, but “switching on” in the body the universal healing reaction of relaxation, or self-healing of the body, mobilization of its protective forces. Activation of “repair” – restoration processes. All this helps to cope with stress, anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, and even physical pain. So with one patient we worked on the pain threshold as part of preparation for childbirth. Not long ago she sent a letter of gratitude, the process was painless.

You can learn to enter trance states on your own. One of the self-regulation techniques is simple breathing in the rhythm of the pulse - a modern modification of pranayama techniques (neuro-pranayama). The physiological basis of this exercise is the synchronization of the biorhythms of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, creating conditions for harmonization, fine tuning of the autonomic nervous system, balance of activity of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. So, at the beginning of savasana or meditation, watch your own pulse for a while (to do this, feel it on the inside of your wrist or on your neck near the carotid artery). Then start counting how many heartbeats there are during inhalation and how many during exhalation. Breathe relaxed with your stomach, observing your own breathing, without interfering with its rhythm at first. After several breathing cycles, lengthen the next exhalation by one pulse beat. Gradually lengthen the exhalation by another two pulse beats. Then lengthen your inhalation by one pulse beat. The optimal ratio of exhalation and inhalation in this technique is 2:1. Observe how sensations flow synchronously in different parts of the body - spontaneously, without your participation. Then move on to the main practice. If you are doing an exercise during the day and need to quickly return to an active state, at the end take a deep breath and exhale forcefully.

By the way, if you want to get a deeper trance, get a regular phonendoscope from the pharmacy and try counting your pulse with it. The result will impress you.

Enter an altered state of consciousness on your own

, or into
a hypnotic trance
, is not at all difficult.

You will definitely succeed.

1. Setting.

The best place to start is solitude. It's an intimate matter, why scare people away? Yes, and they will torture you with advice. Everything else depends on personal preferences and ideas about comfort.

So - a secluded, comfortable space to stay for about forty minutes. Preferably safe. A room or a forest clearing - it doesn’t make much difference.

2. Place in space.

After a few workouts, you can easily fall into a trance by jumping rope. Of course, if you can do it at all, jump rope for half an hour without stopping.

At first, it is better to sit or lie down. A stool on one leg is not an option yet. It is better to sit in an armchair, or on a chair with armrests. You can lie down on any mat, sofa, couch, bed. Your own bed is fine if you don't fall asleep in it instantly.

Ideally, though, a comfortable chair.

3. Body position.

Sitting cross-legged is not suitable. After a few minutes you will want to switch your legs. Usually we do this automatically, without even noticing. When immersed in a trance, this distracts your attention, which you will probably concentrate on something else.

It is better to take the simplest, most natural pose

. The feet rest completely on the floor, the hands and elbows rest freely on the armrests, the back rests on the backrest, and the seat rests on the seat. It is better to lie on your back, with your arms free along your body. Crossed feet don't bother me personally, but it's better to avoid it. Hands on the chest are not desirable, the associations are not the most pleasant. It can also be distracting.

The position should be relaxed, as comfortable as possible for a long stay.

4. Relaxation.

relaxed body position is suitable for trance.

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This is true, but you shouldn’t stress about relaxation. It will fit exactly as you feel comfortable
. There's no point in bothering with this. You should not deliberately relax or tense up.

The necessary relaxation will come on its own as you fall into a trance.

5. Concentration.

The most important thing begins. You need to concentrate your attention

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There are plenty of options. Let's look at one of the classic ones. The simplest and most comfortable thing is a memory or fantasy

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There is only one condition. It should be nice
. The rest makes no difference.

Pleasant, vivid memories, fantasies, dreams - creates images. The brighter and more emotional the image, the faster and more effectively the trance state

. There is no point in wondering what exactly to imagine or remember. In general, it’s better to turn off the “thinking” thing. Whatever comes is good.

A picture, or a kaleidoscope of pictures, a film, or a cartoon. It can be sounds or light, color or smell, taste, sensations

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It’s great if it’s a dynamic color image
filled with specific
sounds, light, smell
….
But, even if it’s only sound, color, light, taste or smell
, then so be it. Concentrate on this.

It makes no difference what to focus on. Bright, comfortable look.

6. Maintaining and deepening.

It's better not to even think about it. Just take my word for it. It makes no difference. For therapeutic work, communication with the unconscious

, relaxation and other uses of
the trance
- the depth and duration of the trance state
is chosen

the unconscious
itself .

It is pointless and even impossible to manage this process. How impossible it is to control the depth or duration of sleep. Leave this topic to the hypnosis theorists.

7. Trance state.

At first, you will not be able to capture the trance state.

. You can feel it only after you come out of a trance. The condition is like after sleep. A pleasant feeling of lightness and freshness. Very comfortable condition.

Don’t bother yourself with the question – was there a trance?

The very fact that this question arose confirms that you were in a trance state. Don’t let it bother you that you heard and felt everything. This is normal and natural. You didn't lose consciousness. And it didn’t turn off completely.

Yes, and fear is present at the beginning, hence the increased control. Don't worry. With a high probability, everything turned out in the best possible way. A few workouts - everything will be just fine. You will experience hypnotic phenomena, and you will notice signs of trance. There will be a lot of interesting things. A little bit later. Don't rush! Yours will not slip past you.

The trance state is so natural and comfortable that it is not recorded by consciousness.

8. Exit from trance.

There are two equivalent options here. During the first dives, there is often a spontaneous exit from trance.

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The eyes simply open, usually they close before entering a trance, and the normal state of consciousness
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You can do the same yourself
after completing the task set for the trance state. All you have to do is take a deep breath and open your eyes. Don't rush to get up right away. (Yes, it won’t even want to.) Usually there is a desire to stretch, as if after sleep. Don't deprive yourself of this pleasure.

A couple of minutes of calm will prolong and intensify the pleasant sensations. Do not rush. The post-hypnotic state is no less therapeutic.

To obtain mystical visions and the necessary paranormal information, as well as to reprogram their own state, ancient yogis and mystics used entering an altered state of consciousness or trans...

In this article we will look at the most common techniques for entering a trance.

Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)

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Altered states of consciousness (ASC).

Here is
a brief explanation
of what Altered States of Consciousness are.
Signs
of ASC.
Ways to change
perception
and
thinking, as well as simple
tests
with which you can assess your
ability to enter the ASC
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Obviously, broken limbs, burns, bruises, etc. lead to the fact that a person enters the ASC, but we will not consider here options for introducing a person into a trance due to strong (powerful, energetic) influences. 1. Signs of ASC (trance): 1.1 Subjective:
1.1.1 External signs:

- eye access signals (rapid eye movements - eyelid trembling - REM, fixed gaze, pupil width, shifting eyes, in somnambulists the pupil is not visible, because the eyes roll up, if a person lifts the eyelids, then only the white will be visible); — frequency and depth of breathing; - skin color; - posture; - activity-mobility (stationary, or very mobile, hyperactive); - muscle tone of the face and body; - speech (slow or fast, intelligible or not), etc. - frequency of swallowing saliva.

1.1.2 Internal (change

thinking
and
perception
):
- brightness of images; — intensity and valence of emotions; - change in perception of the duration and intensity of processes, space, etc. - transfer of the point of observation (attention), dissociation in relation to the present and association with another scenario (subject or object);

1.2 Objective:

1.2.1 Physiological and vegetative indicators:

- Body temperature; — HR (heart rate); — RR (frequency and depth of breathing); - pressure; — GSR (skin resistance); - chemical composition of blood (neuropeptide and hormonal background; it is important to know when analyzing topics: blood doping, withdrawal from alcohol intoxication and attacks of schizophrenia);

1.2.2 EEG indicators, tomography, etc.:

— spectral power; — coherence; - omega complexity.

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2. Methods of inducing trance (ways of changing perception and thinking):

2.1 Informational (weak, marker) influences, including hypnosis. Sensory deprivation.

Classification by types of information channels. Sudden and monotonous impact. Powerful information impacts. The role of complex neural networks. The role of the installation. The influence of significant (valuable information) for the individual. Simultaneous impact on both hemispheres. Sensory deprivation (submariners, speleologists, hermits). Sound chambers. Possibility of bypassing moral principles in altered states. Adjustment (physiological and verbal) and management. Mirroring (direct and model). Elimination of interfering factors. Auditory techniques that deepen trance: congruence of tone, tempo of speech and meaning of the message; eliminating “failure”; verbalization of what exists around in the partner’s current experience; “attachment” of naturally occurring states; smooth transitions and connecting words (while, as much as, even now, since, and now...); dissociation of consciousness and subconscious; dispersion of attention; truisms; assumptions; choice without choice; questions and statements aimed at attracting attention; inserted messages; storytelling.

2.2 Neurochemical method (changes in the neuropeptide composition of the blood).

Various breathing techniques. Highlands. Nutrition and fasting. Narcotic substances. Alcohol. Blood transfusion, etc. Physical activity. Sleep deprivation. Diagnostics of ASC: testing, tracking physiological reactions, analysis of neuropeptide blood composition. General and differences in the neuropeptide structure of the circulatory and central nervous system. The role of sleep and nutrition in the formation of a normal neuropeptide background in the body. Examples

2.3 Field method.

For translation of states, see “11 PI-RE” and “Fields to the left, fields to the right.” "Quantum entanglement between people." The role of emotions. Factors determining the power of field impact

. Setup. Factors that determine the accuracy of perception. Technique for changing submodal parameters. “Three principles of magic”: contact, sympathy, similarity. Changes in perception and thinking during sleep. Sleep deprivation.

3. Relationship between the ASC and the “11 PI-RE” formula.

There are a huge number of opinions regarding what ASC is. But, firstly, various ASC models practically do not consider the aspect of time. Secondly, the place in the Game Field and other components of the “11 PI-RE” formula. Let's assume that Consciousness is Knowledge of States

. One of the most important characteristics of States is Emotions (their “valence” - sign and magnitude) and, as a consequence, the depth of the “trace” that will remain in memory from passing through states (more about this in the topic “Where Faith Lives”). Psychologists, and not only them, sometimes use the expression: “Here and Now” (place and time). Three other expressions are used much less frequently:

- “Here, but not Now.”
- “Not here, but Now.” - “Not Here and Not Now.”
Brief explanations:

— "Here"

– means a place in the Game Field.
- “Now”
means present Time (real time).
- “not Here”
- i.e.
another place in the Game Field. - “not Now”
- not the Present tense, i.e. either the Past or the Future.

Past

You can remember, or you can construct.
The future
can be constructed (from elements of the past). Whether it is possible to remember the Future is a separate question and we will not consider it now. In the formula “11 PI-RE” these actions (remembering, or constructing) are called Dm (Model actions, thinking). Essentially, this is the ability to retrieve “traces” from memory and manipulate them.

When considering all of the above options, it is important to distinguish between: where the real physical body is located (by default, we will assume that it is always Here), and what your Consciousness is occupied with (what your Attention is directed to).

Let’s imagine that you are “Here and Now”, this means that your Body and Consciousness are here, i.e. Attention is directed to what is happening and your actions “Here and Now”. But “Here and now” you can direct your attention to the external, or you can direct your attention to the “internal”. External is what happens outside of you, i.e. the influence comes from outside. Internal means that attention is directed to what is happening inside you (for example, how you breathe, or how your heart beats, etc.), or you can remember something, and based on these memories,

construct (imagine).
For example, if you don’t want to be afraid, imagining yourself in the place of the characters in the video, then you don’t need to switch to fantasies
(“bad multivariance”)
:
what will happen if I suddenly slip and fall down and break, what it will look like and etc., etc.
You need to focus only on your actions, and you need to stop paying attention to the external, and I’ll emphasize again: there’s no need to fantasize.
“A tile bettor will become nervous when playing on a silver fastener and lose his mind when playing on a gold fastener. Art is the same, but as soon as something valuable appears in the external, attention will shift to the external. Attention to the external dulls attention to the internal.” Lao Tzu.

— "Here, but not Now"

those.
the body is Here, and Consciousness (attention) is either in the past or in the future: You either remember this Place, or imagine (construct, imagine) this place in the Future; - “Not Here, but Now”
, i.e.
the body is here, and Consciousness is somewhere else. The place can be real (this means that you remember it), or imagined, i.e. constructed), but all this happens at the same time when the body is Here; - “Not Here, and not Now”
, i.e. the body is Here, and Consciousness is in another place and at another time;

Note

: You can “construct” (imagine, model) not only a place in the Game Field, but also other components of the “11 PI-RE” formula: Df, Dm, Rules, etc., not only your own, but also other Participants, and, as a result, get a different result. Of course, invented, imaginary, constructed. Whether an invented Result can influence you is also a separate topic (“Where Vera Lives”, “Fields to the Left, Fields to the Right”, “Back to the Future”).

If your attention is directed inward (you remember or imagine-construct) so strongly that you stop, to one degree or another, noticing the external, then we can say that you are already in the ASC.

Until quite recently, when someone achieved unique Results, they did not pay any attention to the model component (Mod Actions). For example, N. Kulagina makes passes with her hands and under her influence the plastic becomes cloudy, or the compass needle begins to rotate (see the film “9 Years with Psychics”). Scientists who observed this experiment say, turning to N. Kulagina: “You have golden hands,” but I assure you that it’s not only “in the hands” (Physical actions, i.e. passes that the hands make), but and in what at this time “the head is doing (what our mind is busy with)”, i.e. in “Model Actions”

. You can construct new combinations of images, sensations, smells - all of these will be ASCs. Models can be created and calibrated to make optimal decisions under conditions of uncertainty, to counter stress effects (see “Test by Fire”).

4. Examples of using ISS (demo modes, fragments of practical exercises)

4.1. "Bat" 4.2. "Information trail" 4.3. "Test by Fire"

5. The simplest tests for assessing abilities (skills) to enter the ISS.

— Test: Association — Dissociation (AD)

Below are small tests with which you can test your imagination, memory, attention, or, in other words, your ability to model, or, in other words, your ability to enter the ASC.

You can remember (model) some past event from your life in two fundamentally different ways:

— remember everything as if you were watching a movie about yourself

.
It seems difficult, but in fact, each of us has real experience of dissociation: we acquire it by looking at ourselves in the mirror, at photographs of ourselves, or by watching ourselves in home videos. Even when there were no mirrors yet, people could look at their reflection in the water and gain the corresponding experience. Ultimately, some people can apply this experience to all events in their lives, while others cannot. But this can be fixed. - remember everything as if you were in this event again.
There has long been serious debate as to whether this is possible in principle.
Some neuropsychologists believe, and not without reason, that it is impossible to remember a past event exactly. But there is another point of view. We will look at it in more detail in the lecture “Where does Vera live?” Many people do not know how to remember events in their lives in either way. Based on our experience and knowledge, we are convinced that it is important to be able to remember past events in both ways. — Test: Dissociation with altered submodal parameters.
Try to watch the same past event again, but from a different distance, from a different angle.
If the “movie” was in color, now make it black and white (and vice versa), try changing the speed of the film (fast, slow), direction (in the opposite direction). — Test: Associated memory and modeling.
Let's say you are in a room where sunlight will not reach, i.e.
It's dark in the room. You want to feel warmth in some part of your body, for example, in the solar plexus. To do this, you need to remember some event from your life in which a ray of sunlight fell on your body
, and then you need to turn on your imagination and imagine how the sunspot moves across the body, for example, to the solar plexus.
As a result, it is possible that some of you will be able to feel warmth in your solar plexus.
The result depends on whether you can
forget
that you are in a room where it is dark and
whether you can concentrate on the memory, which means that the memory must be multimodal, i.e.
it must contain images, sensations, smells, etc. Of course, you could take from your memory any other event that has warmth.
It could be a fire, a hot bath, hot sand on the beach, etc., but in this case it is difficult to localize the image. — Test: Complex Modeling (coordinated in visual and kinesthetic modalities).
Remember the song about how: “... orange children sing orange”?
Try to remember (associated) some event from your life where you ate strawberries. Let’s say you brought home from the dacha a basket of strawberries, which was covered with something, and when you opened the basket, to your surprise you found purple strawberries in the basket . Take it in your hand, touch it, bring it to your face, smell it, put it in your mouth and feel its taste. Do the same with: - purple watermelon; - purple banana; - purple raspberries. Were you able to remember a real past event associated with these fruits (berries)?
Did you notice a difference in the smell, feel, taste or was everything “purple”? If you were able to complete at least one of the tests, then you have been to the ISS - congratulations!
You can be taught very, very interesting “skills” that may be useful to you in Life.
Of course, you can get into the ASC directly “Here and Now” without memories and construction.
It is enough for something unexpected to happen and that’s it. Someone quietly and unnoticed came up from behind, or suddenly there was a loud bang, etc., and you are in a trance. How to understand what state you are in?
If, as a result of any process occurring
“Here and Now,”
the sign of your emotions, or their magnitude, has changed
, we
can say that you are in the ASC relative to previous States.
Of course, this may change the indicators that were considered at the very beginning (see paragraphs 1.1 - 1.3). What benefit can there be from knowing this information?
I will definitely answer,
but not here and not now.
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Techniques for entering trance using visualization

1. Close your eyes and concentrate on your inner sensations for a minute or two. Take a break from your daily activities and be completely passive.
2. Concentrate on your breathing. It should be uniform and deep. Focus on exhaling.
3. Imagine that your mind has several layers. Consciousness is the highest level, the active state; the lowest level is deep sleep.
4. Move from level to level. Stay at the first level, relax, analyze your state. As you move to subsequent levels, notice the change in your state.
5. When you are ready, move on to the next level and study it. Stay on each level as long as you want. There is no rush, you should not explore more levels than you want.
6. In the future, either move to a new level gradually relaxing, or stay where you are most comfortable to get to know this level better.
7. When you are ready to come out of the trance, concentrate on inhaling and gradually rise through the levels until you reach the highest. Then open your eyes.

Different people have different ideas about these levels. They can be used to better understand yourself.

Summing up

I hope the topic of hypnosis and trance has become a little clearer for you. The world of trance states is so diverse that in one article it is impossible to really touch on its full depth and the enormous potential of working with trance. We will try to reveal for you different aspects of transformational work with others and relationships with ourselves in the following articles.

If you use trance in your profession, or want to get acquainted with hypnosis for yourself, we invite you to our training and practical courses on hypnosis and generative trance. We will teach you how to safely and resourcefully access the creative unconscious, and use its incredible power to realize your plans and ideas in life.

And of course, you will learn how to effectively and deeply carry out transformational work with clients.

Safe place and trance state

1. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.
2. Concentrate on exhaling, relaxing more and more with each exhalation.
3. When you feel ready, imagine a safe place - this could be somewhere familiar to you, somewhere you have been before or somewhere you would like to visit. You can imagine a real place or imagine something of your own choosing.
4. A safe place can be whatever you want it to be, it can be anything you want. It could be a room, a beach, a clearing, a house. You can be alone in it, or you can surround yourself with people. The only mandatory requirement is that you must feel completely safe and be absolutely sure of it.
5. Move to a safe place and enjoy the feeling of being completely safe. You can keep this feeling, or you can analyze some aspects of your life from the point of view of the security that the place you choose provides you.
6. While in a safe place, you should focus on the following feelings: safety, comfort, confidence and control.
7. Stay in a safe place for as long as you want. Remember that you can always recreate this place whenever you want.
8. When you feel ready, leave the safe place and return to the real world.

To create a safe place, you can use various parts of the body and, in particular, the heart. You can retire to the world you have constructed at any time you wish.

One of the main points of this exercise is to feel safe and confident, and not what you think is “right” or “should”. Although it may be different each time you fall into trance, the experience is entirely dependent on your desire and creativity.

Rolling your eyes to enter a trance

1. Sit or lie down with your head resting on something.
2. Raise your eyes upward, straining them a little.
3. Take a deep breath and hold your breath.
4. After 5 seconds, exhale slowly and lower your eyelids.
5. Hold the exhalation for 5 seconds, then inhale deeply again, open your eyes and lift them up.
6. Hold your inhalation for 5 seconds, then exhale, slowly closing your eyes a second time.
7. Again, hold the exhalation for 5 seconds, then inhale, open your eyes and raise them to the ceiling, holding the inhalation for 5 seconds.
8. Slowly close your eyes as you exhale and keep them closed while you concentrate on the exhalation.
9. Remain in a state of deep relaxation, becoming aware of the different sensations you will experience. You are plunged into a trance, completely surrendered to the flow of consciousness, thoughts come and go. The outside world is somewhere very far from you.

After 15-20 minutes, begin to concentrate on your breaths, gradually move into a conscious state, open your eyes.

This technique allows you to enter a trance very quickly. It was developed by Dr. Herbert Spiegel, an American psychiatrist who noticed that some suggestible patients rolled their eyes while entering a trance.

Brian Rote "The Language of Hypnosis"

In this section, we will consider a simple classical method of step-by-step entry into a trance state to extract information from the subconscious and foresee the future.

The key is managing your attention

Whatever the style and method of working in hypnosis, all forms of hypnosis have one thing in common - they use different methods to focus a person’s attention in the right place in the internal or external world.

This achieves a trance state and opens access to the unconscious. Hypnosis reorients and reconfigures the human psyche from the usual conscious perception to more ancient and deeper, or vice versa, more subtle and developed levels of consciousness, where effective work with the psyche and healing are possible.

Good to know

In the most modern areas of hypnosis, consciousness is not turned off or overloaded, but on the contrary , in various ways it is tuned to environmentally friendly general creative work with the unconscious . As a result, this gives significantly better results, which essentially the person creates himself, and not the hypnotist instills in him.

It’s not without reason that they say “where there is attention, there is energy.” Hypnosis uses attention control to allow the energy of the unconscious to work for the benefit of the client.

Technique for performing stepwise entry into trance:

Lie down on a hard surface or bed. Do not use pillows and try to keep your back straight. You can also sit in a comfortable chair. Loosen tight clothing.

Relax completely!

Entering trance - Stage 1

While in a comfortable, relaxed position, begin to monitor your breathing. Don't control the breathing process, just monitor it. As you inhale, repeat SO-O-O-O, and as you exhale, repeat HAM-M-M-M. Gradually monitoring your breathing, you will feel that breathing occurs on its own and you no longer need to say SO-HAM to yourself. This means that you are in the first stage of trance. Your thoughts and worries should disappear at this stage.

2nd stage of the technique of entering a trance

Now, continuing to breathe in your natural rhythm, use your will to stop even the slightest movements of your body and muscles. Begin the relaxation phase. Starting from the head, face and neck muscles and gradually to the feet, relax each muscle. Pass your attention over each individual muscle and mentally say: “my eyelids relax, relax, my eyes relax, relax, my shoulders relax, relax, etc.” So mentally go through your whole body from head to toe and relax your whole body.

Repeat the process three or four times. Go through the body again and again until you feel numbness and insensibility throughout the body. It is also possible that you will feel the state of falling into the abyss. Don’t be alarmed, if this comes, it means you are relaxed enough to move to the next level.

Stage 3

When you have balanced your breathing and are sufficiently relaxed, begin to repeat the mantra Ommmmm, Ommmmmm to yourself, while counting Om one, Om two, Om three and so on.

When your mind settles into the attentive repetition of the mantra and any thoughts disappear, this means you have entered the third stage of trance.