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This is not a great presentation, coming across as a lecture, with a twee guy sitting in a chair with a big book for a prop and self testing flashes. But the information and graphics are great and accurate. For those who want to know the where, how and when of hypnosis, worth the watch.

Ecstatic Play – Energy

Energy = enthusiasm, motivation, excitement, presence, charisma, joy, fun.

Imagine being able to feel confident that you can read the emotional and physical state of people as easily as if they honestly told you who they are and what they want. You can do this through their presence, their energy, through your empathic sense of them. Some call it EQ “emotional quotient”, some spiritual sensitivity, the aura. When you play the game of life with people it is the most fun when shared. When you can see what is exciting them, when you can listen not just to their words but to their bodies, when you can feel what they feel, and know each other deeply, then you can share a journey to beauty. You’re exchanging power together so that no matter what roles you are playing in any part of your life you each feel your sense of choice, your power to make the destiny you want with the people you want to share it with. to live passionately.

As I said the very best sort of play is shared – based on trust, trust in yourself, trust in those around you. Trust in yourself is realistic self love; it is the confidence and strength to forgive yourself your human flaws and to step out of your own way to see, feel and listen to the people around you with clarity. Then you will know if they are right for you and you are right for them. What holds you back from making your life more playful, more energetic? We will spend 8 hours dancing, playing, following our curiosity to discover how Tantra, Status Dynamics, NLP, Hypnosis, Active and Interactive Mindfulness and meditation, Buddhist insight, empathy, sensitivity, spirituality and ritual will help you to get energy and play to crossover into everyday ‘normal’ life. When your intention, energy, and actions align with your curiosity, awareness then you gain the freedom to tread lightly brightly toward the relationships that make a full and complete life.

These stages are interactive, cooperative, we separate them merely for the sake of learning, for the distillation of empowerment

Stage 1: Play starts in a place, a background. We will start by setting the space, exploring our feelings and responses to strangers, strange situations, to the fears and history that limit us.

Stage 2: Play has reasons, motivations, goals, things you share and have in common. We will clarify what you want from life, the universe and everything.

Stage 3: Play has toys, abilities and skills what shape the games take will depend on what the reasons are for the interplay. You are more talented than anyone has ever let you believe, including you. We will prove that by discovering who you are and who and how you’d like to play with. If you already have play partners (lovers friends family) you like or must play with then how can you play together better and deeper?

Stage 4: Play is play. It is doing it, giving it your all, being totally involved. What actions will take you to your destiny and what holds you back from taking them? We will transmute them into fun. Fun is feeling good and effective moving towards your vision for yourself.

Stage 5: Fun is feel you are getting what you want from your play, from your actions. It is being sensitive enough to enjoy the moment, the immediate sensuous consequences of your actions with other people. It lets you be flexible, responsive and creative in your communications so you share yourself and destiny more deeply.

Stage 6: Play has/is a story. You have clear roles. You progress through the plot, you overcome challenges. While your actions, feelings, plans, vision build the big story of who you are, where you are going, what your values are, the psychic and social ecology of your life, relationships and environment. How do they all line up?

Stage 7: We play in a world that is bigger than us, than the games. How do they fit? Are you ready for and can you forgive your limitations? Can you allow for your ignorance, for what you couldn’t know or might know but didn’t give priority to? In a world of unexpected turns the most flexible and creative are the most powerful and fulfilled. Do you have reserve that gives you a platform to stand in your strength, a back up plan so you can go forward even if the luck isn’t with you?

Techniques and traditions we’ll draw on – Neurolinguistic Programing, hypnosis, Esoteric Tantra, Buddhist mindfulness, Western Ritual Traditions and psychotherapy the arts – writing, drawing, dancing, acting, imagination

Price: $150 Early Bird $125 but don’t let money stand in the way

What is Recreational Hypnosis?

General points

Trance is fun whatever way you get there. It is where the fun comes from in movies, TV, theatre, storytelling, play, computer and roleplaying games, some drug experiences (particularly cigarettes, grass, hallucinogens and opiates) massage, even good sex. It is how we judge the success of these art forms. Daydreaming and the process of going to sleep involves it. Hypnosis is about understanding and consciously using the spectrum of trance to deepen and make more powerful all these arts experiences. You can play with it in itself – mindfulness, meditation, contemplation focus on it. Ritual uses all the arts mentioned to target trance specifically rather than as a tool or side effect the way the other arts use it.

This 6 week course will be Experiential and Demonstration based with just enough theory to help you know what you are doing.

A lot of hypnotists run off scripts this works with limited effectiveness. I will provide script outlines that give you the structure and principles, but not word for word scripts. Hypnosis is at its most powerful when the focus is on the relationship and sensitivity to the connection shared. There are plenty of sources online and in books for word for word scripts and I’ll provide some of those. There are some in our main text. You will have to buy this $8.56 on Kindle and $US32.95 hard copy – Mind Play Study Guide by Mark Wiseman

NOTHING WILL HAPPEN WITHOUT YOUR CHOICES BEING RESPECTED

Basically recreational hypnosis is hypnosis for fun. It includes

• Explorations of altered states through trance
• For spiritual development meaning improving, deepening and you understanding of your experiences of your daily life no matter how good it might already be (as opposed to therapeutic and coaching uses to correcting problems)
• Exploring the power of mind in its broadest sense by stretching the limits of perceptions (also part of spiritual development)
• Performance hypnosis (but this course won’t be teaching you how to do that because it is very advanced)
• Fun with friends and lovers
• Linky play between lovers
• Role-playing fun
• Fantasies realised fun
• Discovering the superpowers your mind can give you – “you are far more capable than anyone has let you believe, including yourself.”
• Power storytelling
• De-trancing – if you know its mechanisms and how it feels and how to use it you’ll know how to wake up from the covert trances sales, advertise and other media try for. It plays a role in the ways individual seek to influence each other one on one in relationships and families.
• Trance for de-stressing
• Learning meditation and mindfulness
• Mechanisms of ritual

What Recreational Hypnosis is not?

It is not aimed at intentionally creating long term change for the people involved, improving them or their lives in any permanent way. The games and rituals are designed for temporary play with different states of mind, perception and experience. It lets us explore the spectrum of trance so we can enjoy it’s fun in itself and its power to enhance freedom and choice. However, all experiences no matter what type will change participants. Therapeutic hypnosis in conjunction with psychotherapy is using hypnosis to solve problems people feel about themselves, their emotions and their lives. Recreational Hypnosis can, in fact, is very likely to change your perception of yourself and be empowering which is the aim of most psychotherapy using hypnosis.The difference is that it is not the target of Recreational Hypnosis, it’s a side effect. For this reason we will be talking a lot about safety, consent and choice focusing on time bounded suggestions in our games/rituals.

In the version I do and teach we respect the people we play with. It is for use between consenting adults to explore subjective experience together. Performance hypnosis is recreational and can be respectful and empowering but it seems to me it is focused on audience experience rather than the experiences of the partners in trance.

The aim of this course.

Is to teach safe ways to use hypnosis with acquaintances, friends and lovers explore the power of the mind for fun.

Outline of the Course

We will cover consent and choice, safe ways of playing, keeping to limits, aftercare. It will be experiential – ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE HYPNOTISED.

Safety issues:

-Presentation methods

• Demonstration – group experiences
• Demonstration – with individual volunteers
• Observations and examples of the role trance plays in everyday life
• Group discussions sharing experiences
• Games for groups and couples exploring relationships and power exchange/dynamics
• Participation experiences – you’ll be hypnotising each other
• Demonstrating of power storytelling
• And you know it, the occasional lectures but I’ll keep these to a minimum.

-What is Hypnosis

• History
• Cross cultural uses uses of trance
• Theories
• Different styles
• Practices

-The Hypnosis Ritual

• Pre-induction – You will learn to negotiate the limits of the what will happen in the session it also sets up the trust that is foundational to the process.
• Induction – taking someone into trance you’ll learn a number of different types of inductions – some slower, some faster, some more sensual than others
• deepening or strengthening the trance
• well formed safe suggestions – including post-hypnotic suggestions
• the journey back
• Aftercare
• references sources for more learning

Details of course

Introduction

Course General structure and information

We will cover consent, safe ways of playing, keeping to limits, aftercare. Reiterating – It will be experiential – ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL BE HYPNOTISED.

Styles of Hypnotism – the spectrum from Permissive to Directive

• demonstration – group experience – permissive
• demonstration – with an individual volunteer

safety issues are central we’ll be talking about this all through

history of Hypnosis in the western and cross-cultural uses of trance
what is hypnosis

• different approaches
• uses
• non-trance versus trance/non-formal versus formal

• participation experiences – you’ll be hypnotising each other
• demonstrating of power hypnotic storytelling

The Formal Hypnosis Ritual Outline

• Pre-induction – You will learn to negotiate the limits of the what will happen in the session
• Induction – taking someone into trance you’ll learn a number of different types of inductions – some slower, some faster, some more sensual than others
• deepening or strengthening the trance
• well formed safe suggestions – including post-hypnotic suggestions
• the journey back
• Aftercare

Demonstration

safety issues

references sources for more learning

Pre-Inductions and Induction

Two Demonstrations of super powers of the mind

Pre-inducfion – Negotiating a Scene

NLP Theory

Eliciting Modes of thinking/feeling

practice partners whose lying

Discovering how does pleasure works for your partner.

partner practice with someone you don’t know

Dominance to surrender/submission spectrum

Permissive and directive styles – the spectrum to needs for Control to submissive/surrender

Considerations for what styles to use

Hypnotising for submissive/surrender types

Hypnotising Dominant/controlling/leadership types

Partner practices

Inductions

Group demo

2 individual volunteer demonstrations of 2 different inductions

principles

• permissive
• directive

guided relaxation

Elman

7 give or take 2

confusion

non-trance versus trance

Suggestion Games

Demonstrations

Well-formed suggestions

Partner play

Super Powers of the mind games experienced

The Return and Post hypnotic play – After care safety

Applications beyond trance and play

Self hypnosis

Social Influence

Power Storytelling

Demonstrations

Self Hypnosis

How to enhance your practice by exploring self control and change through auto-suggestion, that is self-hypnosis.

Mindfulness and Meditation

Personal Change