John writes, ” When you said relax the muscles around your eyes to the point where you can’t open your eyelids, I couldn’t relax to that point in that particular part. I could relax everything else but not that. However, when I fell asleep and woke up, that’s when I noticed I couldn’t easily open my eyes, and that’s when I had to exert force of will to open my eyes. So I got up and discontinued the session.
So my questions are:
1. Is it natural for delayed responses to commands to take that long?
2. Is falling asleep during hypnosis a problem? If so what do I do?”
To answer your first question – Sure, the response will occur whenever you allow it to occur. Perhaps you were in a situation, like I believe everyone was at one time or another, when you are perplexed with a problem, and you may ponder it or try hard to solve it with your conscious mind, but nothing seems to be happening. And then at some point while relaxing, or gazing into a fire, or doing something totally unrelated, the solution just pops up into your conscious awareness. It was there all along, but you may have felt too focused on the problem to allow the solution to bubble up into your conscious awareness. In the case of your eyes, some part of you didn’t feel comfortable with allowing yourself to pretend that your eyes are so relaxed that you can’t open them, so your subconscious had to wait until the critical faculty of your mind was taking a break.
You don’t need to “exert force” to do anything in hypnosis – you only need to use your imagination. It is through the power of your imagination that you pretend that you cannot open your eyes and that that your eyelids are feeling glued, and likewise, it is then through your imagination that you can reverse the process. All you need to do is imagine the opposite of what you did to get into that state.
When I was a teenager, I found in one yoga book a relaxation experiment where I was to lay on the floor and imagine myself laying atop of a circle. Then I was to visualize different parts of my body becoming heavy, so heavy that they feel glued to the floor and at the same time paint the body part I relaxed with black color on that circle – until the entire circle was black. By the time I was done, to my horror, I found myself glued to the floor, unable to move. At first I panicked, but eventually a bright, or rather logical, idea occurred to me – to reverse the process – I decided to paint my body white, though it would’ve worked also if I imagined myself unglued.
In any event, I’d have to say “congratulations” – your imagination is working well which means that you should be able to accomplish a lot of great things using the power of your mind easily.
To answer your second question – if you tend to fall asleep while listening to hypnosis recordings, you can listen to them earlier in the day when you’re not asleep, and you can listen to recordings sitting up, instead of laying down. With some recordings it doesn’t matter whether you fall asleep, and of course it may be desirable if you’re working on stress reduction, deep relaxation, stress relief, and sometimes even with recordings related to healing, but if you’re working with recordings where the idea is that you practice using different techniques, like with Sex Magnetism set you’re working with, then you may be better off if at least half of the time you can consciously participate in the process. Ideal state for working with most hypnosis recordings is relaxed, but alert mental state. If you fall asleep, on the other hand it is possible that you may practice the techniques in your dream state, though some people tend to become unconscious in the middle of recordings, particularly if they are not used to accessing deeper levels of the mind and remaining conscious, but since the subconscious mind hear everything, they tend to wake up at the end of the recording.
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