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A working lexicon of hypnosis: induction, suggestion, trance, consent, erotic hypnosis. Written by Mira Janssen. Adults only, 18+.
This is the working lexicon, not the books.
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Wiki · CoreSuggestionA suggestion is a proposal the nervous system is invited to act on — not an order, not a spell, and not a thought planted against someone's will. In…Wiki · CoreTranceTrance is a state of absorbed, narrowed attention in which suggestions land more easily — not sleep, not unconsciousness, and not a separate kind of mind.…Wiki · CoreSelf-hypnosisSelf-hypnosis is hypnosis without a second voice — you are speaker and listener at once. The state is the same trance. The suggestions are the same unit.…Wiki · CoreSuggestibilitySuggestibility is how readily a person takes a suggestion — a relatively stable, unevenly distributed trait, not a moral quality and not a switch.…
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Wiki · CraftInductionAn induction is the structured transition from ordinary, scattered attention into trance — a doorway, not the show, and not a separate kind of hypnosis.…Wiki · CraftDeepeningDeepening is whatever you do after the induction to make trance stable enough to work in — not a contest, and not a second, better hypnosis. The induction…Wiki · CraftEmergenceEmergence — also called reorientation, awakening, or, in German, Ausleitung — is the structured walk back from trance into ordinary waking, on purpose. It…Wiki · CraftFractionationFractionation is taking someone a little way into trance and a little way out, several times, so that each return tends to go further than the last. It is a…Wiki · CraftHypnotic triggerA hypnotic trigger is a cue — a word, a gesture, a context — coupled to a state or an action so that the cue can later call the coupling. It is the…
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Wiki · MiraErotic hypnosisErotic hypnosis is ordinary hypnosis whose content is erotic — the same trance, the same suggestions, pointed at sensation, attention, and play between…Wiki · MiraHypnokinkHypnokink is the scene name for erotic practices in which hypnosis or trance is central — often, not always, inside BDSM manners of negotiation, safewords,…
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Wiki · Phenomena
Wiki · PhenomenaPost-hypnotic suggestionA post-hypnotic suggestion is a suggestion set in trance that is meant to fire later — on a cue, at a time, or in a situation — after emergence. The trance…Wiki · PhenomenaCatalepsyCatalepsy, in hypnosis, is a held posture that stays — an arm that remains where it was placed, eyelids that will not open on the first try, a body that has…Wiki · PhenomenaIdeomotorThe ideomotor effect is movement begun by an idea — a thought, an image, an expectancy — without a felt decision to move. The Chevreul pendulum swinging…
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Wiki · SafetyAftercareAftercare is what you do with the person after emergence — water, time, orientation, and the lifting of anything you set — so the session ends in the body,…Wiki · SafetyConsentConsent in hypnosis is a waking, informed, reversible yes to a specific game — who leads, what may be suggested, how it stops, and how it ends — given…Wiki · SafetySafetyHypnosis is safe for consenting, sober adults when you sit people down, keep a stop, lift what you set, and do not use the state as medicine. The folklore…
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Wiki · SchoolsElman inductionThe Elman induction is a tested, stepwise induction associated with Dave Elman: a short formal descent with checkpoints — usually eye catalepsy, loosening…Wiki · SchoolsEricksonian hypnosisEricksonian hypnosis is the family of work that follows Milton H. Erickson: indirect suggestion, utilisation of whatever the person brings, metaphor, and…
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