200.00 - Pretalk Toolkit
Experienced hypnotists will tell you that the most important part of your session of your pre-talk. Intermediate hypnotists will parrot this advice and not know why - thinking it’s just about safety and consent in a recreational space.
In the spirit of enjoyable quickies - all these guides should be quick under-five-minute reads, and intend to give you a few tools you can use immediately.
Pretalk With Benefits
Here’s what you can get out of a good talk.
Safety:
- Avoid (most) abreactions. Do a vibe check, make sure their day was OK, don’t use a deepener involving water if they’re afraid of the ocean.
- Avoid unreasonable requests or weird emotional attachments.
- Make sure they’re into what you want to do, and vice versa.
- Check in with yourself. Make sure you’re up for this.
- Set up how you’d like your relationship to be after the session. You won’t accidentally make a pet or boygirltheyitfriend.
Avoid pitfalls:
- Make sure your subject doesn’t just treat you like an audio tape, and after 20 minutes you don’t hear “sorry I didn’t imagine anything when you asked me to imagine it.”
- Make sure the door’s closed, pets are fed, meds are taken, messengers are off, the phone is out of their pocket, the piss break taken, and if there’s something I forgot - you at least took care of everything else.
- If things don’t go as planned - or we don’t get as much response as we’d like, we can savor our successes instead of sulking in a stink.
Maximize response:
- Ask them questions about the suggestions you’ll be giving them - and find if there’s something they can relate to better.
- Ask them what’s worked for them in the past.
- Ask about their previous experiences - EG - if someone says they overthink during trance, you can suggest ways to work with it and accept it than have them be distracted trying to fight it the whole time.
TOC
Here’s the rest of the quickies in the list. You can feel free to jump around, or just read them in order. They’re all pretty short.