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Comment by James Hammett on July 16, 2011 at 9:24am

]The way Igor had explained it during the training the brain assumes, if you are holding their hand and then shift the way you hold the hand, it should hold it in place, if you move the hand around and make it difficult to tell what your hand is doing eventually you can remove your hand and the brain will be a bit overload and assume the hand should still be kept in place

Comment by James Hammett on July 16, 2011 at 9:23am

Well, we have a little practice group that meets about 1x a week, size ranges from 3-8.  Usually we start off with Hypnotic Language Cards.  (The host has converted them into Dutch (and adjusted the phrasing), I don't think I'm too effective using them b/c my pronunciation of Dutch is pretty bad).   Afterwards we usually break into pairs and do an exercise of some type.

 

After we finished the exercise last night we rejoined another pair.  My partner did some examples inductions on Keri and I watched.

 

Afterwards she started talking with the new guy and discussing Hypnosis with him.  (Since it was in Dutch so wasn't able to really keep up).  Keri wasn't really paying attention to thier conversation, so I asked her if I could try something.  

 

I took her hand and was doing ambiguous touch on it.  In the demo I saw, in training, Igor had the person not really paying attention to their hand, but Keri was really paying attention and kept responding to my touches by turning her hand over.  (I probably should have paid less attention to the hand and more attention to talking to her, so she would have done the same).  Eventually her hand stopped moving and I decreased my touching and finally moved my hands away.  By this time I was talking directly too her and not paying attention to either hand. (Hers or mine).  Then I pointed out her hand was just standing in the air and cataleptic.

 

[i]The way Igor had explained it during the training the brain assumes, if you are holding their hand and then shift the way you hold the hand, it should hold it in place, if you move the hand around and make it difficult to tell what your hand is doing eventually you can remove your hand and the brain will be a bit overload and assume the hand should still be kept in place[/i]

 

Afterwards I pushed the hand down and told her to sleep and she dropped off.  (She was already pretty fractionated from the earlier stuff).  

Comment by Lisa on July 15, 2011 at 7:21am

How neat. I'd love to hear more about it. Would you elaborate on what you experienced, what others were working on, your expectations of the induction using ambiguous touch before you used it, anything that was different than what you had expected afterwards. What where some things you found cool about catalepsy? What format does the practice group follow or is there no format?

I have never been part of a practice group so no detail would be too small or uninteresting to me at all. Sounds very interesting.