Trance techniques in the work of a psychologist - everyone can learn

• Classic hypnosis
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The effectiveness of trance techniques Who can learn hypnosis
When a person turns to a psychologist for help, he admits that he does not have the strength, resources, knowledge or experience to solve the problem on his own. Or the problems have turned into a vicious circle from which it is difficult to get out.

Using trance techniques, a psychologist helps the client calm down, look at the problem from the outside, impartially, look in his subconscious for answers to tormenting questions, and get out of a problematic situation. A person, entering a trance state, stops thinking logically, does not divide incoming information into good or bad (critical thinking is turned off), and the mechanism for executing commands for the unconscious is activated.

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.

Who can learn hypnosis

Any psychologist or psychotherapist can learn hypnosis and other trance techniques. This is confirmed by the fact that many specialists use them in their work.

It is not necessary to have any hypnotic gaze or low voice, the gift of suggestion, etc. It is enough to study these techniques, choose the one that suits you and successfully use it in your work. All comes with experience!

As an example, we can offer you one of the courses on trance techniques at our Academy.

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.

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.

Manifestation of transgender characteristics

As already mentioned, a person becomes transsexual from an early age. From the age of 3, a child may show the following signs:

• he openly declares that he does not belong to his gender;
• shows a fierce desire to be a representative of the opposite gender;
• tends to wear clothes that do not correspond to his gender characteristics. Girls flatly refuse to wear skirts and dresses, prefer to wear pants, shirts, T-shirts, and boys can try on their mother’s outfits;
• children develop a negative attitude towards their genitals;
• a desire arises, falling asleep in one body, to wake up in another.

The main symptom is a discrepancy between social roles. Boys choose girly games for themselves - dolls, cooking, daughter-mother, hairdresser, while taking on the female role. If children play at a hairdresser, then the boy does not take on the role of a client - a man who comes for a haircut, but he himself undertakes to model hairstyles. He cooks food, swaddles dolls, becomes a mother.

Girls mainly choose boy games and company. Interested in cars and weapons. They take part in aggressive games or those that require a display of strength and courage. But this situation should not be confused with the one that arises when a girl, by nature, is active, athletic and somewhat daredevil, plays “war games”, climbs trees. In this case, she is clearly aware of who she is and does not show pathological ideas about changing gender.

Teenagers and adults also express their transsexualism by dissatisfaction with their gender. This is a characteristic feature for any age. They want to get rid of their genitals, which irritate and terrify them. This intolerance especially flares up during puberty. Girls tighten their breasts and do not try to show off their figure. Boys do not tolerate stubble on the face and hair on other parts of the body, and do not show a desire to play sports so as not to build muscle mass, as they strive to maintain the grace of their figure.

Such people have a great desire to become a representative of the other sex, to acquire his genitals. Men wear women's clothes, grow their hair, and apply makeup. They are caring. They choose professions from the service sector or the arts.

Women usually have short hair and wear men's clothing. They engage in strenuous sports and strive to join the army. They prefer activities that require the manifestation of strength, endurance, and competition.

There are several types of condition:

1. Unstable transsexualism is a mild intolerance of one’s own gender. The image changes, but this does not cause emotional outbursts.
2. Nuclear transsexualism is a violent hatred of one's own gender. When you fail to match your opposite, discomfort, irritation appears, and your mood decreases. There is a desire to change gender surgically.
3. Transgender dysphoria – negative emotional reactions associated with inconsistency with one’s gender identity. They lead to depression and suicide.

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 holotropic breathing. 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.

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.

FFS

FFS is feminizing facial plastic surgery, another procedure to change one's appearance. It is used for men seeking to transform into a woman. Manipulation allows you to make your face more feminine and give it sophistication.

Hormone therapy, started at a later age, does not fully cope with coarsened facial features, “spoilt” by testosterone. As a rule, these are massive brow ridges, a large nose, an Adam's apple, and a large lower jaw. All this gives the facial oval relief and angularity.

FFS will help make your face softer and more pleasant to perceive. It is based on changes in the bone frame and facial muscles.

The choice of manipulation is individual for each person. It is assessed and set by a craniofacial surgeon. The operation can be considered successful when others have no doubts about the transsexual’s new gender.

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.

Transsexual transition

There are several ways to become a transgender woman or man and announce your identity to the world:

• coming out and social adaptation;
• hormone therapy;
• surgical intervention.

Coming out is an attempt by a transgender person to announce a new image to their environment, especially to close people. This is a very important stage for establishing your new “I”. Many people encounter misunderstandings, insults, and aggression from relatives.

As for social adaptation, a person changes his role in society to the opposite. He changes his name, talks about himself in a different way, begins to dress according to the new image, and changes his occupation. That is, he behaves completely like the other sex.

Some experts express the opinion that social transition should not require special efforts for such people: it is carried out intuitively. Otherwise, this person is not a “true” transsexual. But this is just one assumption.

Some reincarnated individuals, afraid of facing rejection of themselves by other people and their inappropriate behavior, seek to completely change their environment and move to another city or country.

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.

Hormone therapy

Hormone therapy is carried out according to 2 types of transformation:

• men to women, male to female (MtF);
• women to man, female to male (FtM).

The formation of a transsexual woman occurs by taking several types of hormones:

• antiandrogens - inhibit the production of male sex hormones, in particular testosterone;
• female sex hormones - estrogens and gastrogens.

There are forms of estrogens that are identical to natural hormones, and chemical analogues. The latter have a more pronounced effect than natural ones, but do not exhibit all the necessary properties. Therefore, it is rational to use both groups of drugs in combination.

Gastrogens are needed for the growth of mammary glands, as well as to eliminate the consequences of a lack of testosterone: depression, decreased performance, dry skin.

The ideal option is to start hormone replacement therapy before puberty. Then the body will develop more harmoniously and less problematically according to the new sex.

Under the influence of female sex hormones, a man's hairline decreases and the mammary glands begin to grow. He loses muscle mass, and fat is distributed in places typical for a woman. The structure of the skin changes: it becomes softer, more delicate, and sensitive. Body odor changes and sexual activity fades.

FtM - the transition is carried out through the introduction of the male hormone - testosterone. It is also present in the female body, but in negligible quantities. Therefore, it is necessary to increase it artificially.

Testosterone will increase libido and ensure the development of male characteristics: deepening of the voice, thick hair, stubble, and the Adam's apple will become more pronounced. During such therapy, the clitoris becomes enlarged, the likelihood of weight gain appears, and menstruation disappears.

Therapy with hormonal drugs requires strictly maintained doses and does not tolerate self-medication, as it threatens with serious complications. The first changes occur differently for each person. Some take 2 weeks, others take 3 months. Obvious transformation occurs within a year, and to consolidate the results it will take 3 years of continuous hormone therapy.