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SHAMELESS

What if you could let go of your shame
and just be what you wanted to be?

"What If?" is a pair of words
with an almost magical power.
When you hear the words "what if..."
you automatically suspend your judgement
and consider the possibility
that another solution might work,
follow the logic of that idea
and see where it goes.

If it works out, you find a solution
and otherwise, ideas are free
and you can throw it away
and go on believing
whatever you believed before.
So you might as well just try it
as you have nothing to lose but your shame.

So let's try it now:
What if... you embrace the radical notion
that shame is a thing of YOUR mind,
nothing more than a feeling inside your head
subject to your own mind's control?
What would that mean to you?
Would it change anything?

It means that shame stops being external
and becomes subject to your control.
Other people can TRY to shame you,
but if they have to try to do it
then clearly it's possible for them to fail.
And if you can find a way to make it happen,
then you can be free from the need
to conform to other people's expectations
in order to avoid shame.



It means that you can be free to be
whatever it is that you choose to be,
and other people can just have their opinion
while you enjoy the freedom to be yourself.

It's YOUR sense of OK now and
the only way that anyone can take it away
is if you choose to let them take it away.
and the other guy is powerless to make you
feel anything other than what you want to feel.

Those are some pretty powerful words, huh?
Those two little words "what if"
just opened your mind to a whole world
of possibilities you might have otherwise missed.
The first inkling of a solution
that might just change your life.



Let's try it again:
What if... you embrace the radical notion
that you have the power to just let it be OK?
That you can say "So what?"
to the other guy's opinion and life goes on,
and things still work out just fine
the world just goes on turning
just like it always has
and you still get the full panoply of life
with the whole rainbow of emotions
and all of the experiences you want to have.

Nothing about the world has changed,
with the singular exception that you are now free.
Freed from the burden of guilt and shame.
Free to persue all your interests in peace,
and free to let others do the same.

But, is it true?
Can it really be that simple?
Trust me, my friend, it is.
I've lived that way for many years
and it works just fine for me.

All you have to do is accept the world
just the way it is and let it be OK
for you to be you and me to be me
and accept that other people will do
whatever they're going to do and
believe whatever they're going to believe
and the world will keep on turning
and things work out just fine.

And in the end, isn't it kinda silly
to worry about what other people think?
When, most of the time,
they're so wrapped up in their own problems
that they've simply failed to notice you
and lack any reason to think of you at all.
Other people think about themselves
just like you think about yourself.
So why waste your time projecting emotions
that the other person likely isn't feeling
when you could use that time persuing
the dreams that you want to persue.

If you choose to
you can wear your acceptance
like a suit of armor.
And on those rare occasions
when someone disapproves
that's his problem, not yours.
You just say "So what?"
and the words harmlessly roll off
like water off a duck's back.
And everybody goes on with their life
and it's a whole lot healthier all around.

Acceptance is the answer
that will lead to a happier life.
Acceptance of self, others, and the world.
because things will be OK
just as long as you let them be OK.
And acceptance is the answer
that will help you let it be OK.

And if you were looking
for someone's permission
you have mine.
I believe in you, dear listener.
Maybe more than you believe in yourself.
I believe that you
have the right to be happy,
just the way you are
if that's what you want to be.

And I believe that you
have the right to change
into whatever it is
that would most please you,
if THAT is what you want to be.

And I will still accept you regardless,
just as long as you accept me.

And if it makes it easier for you,
to give me the credit or the blame:
feel free. It's OK. I can take it.
But know in your heart of hearts
that the power was yours all along
and I just showed you how to find it.

Go in peace, dear listener, and be free.
Free from the fear of the judgement of others.
Free from the worry about what they think.
Free from shame about being who you are.
Free to become what you really want to be.

Construction Worker Masculinity

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There’s something about construction workers
That make them prime specimens of manhood.
Real men who ain’t afraid to work hard
and get dirty doing it.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could be as manly
As the guys you see on the construction site?
Walk and talk and dress like one of them?

I bet you already have an image in your mind
Of yourself as a macho construction worker.
And, if you let it, your own subconscious mind
Can use this file to transform you, simply and naturally
Into exactly the kind of manliness that’s right for you.

All you have to do is
just trust your inner hypnotist
And your own suconscious mind
Will transform you
Into whatever you want to be.

[TRUST YOUR INNER HYPNOTIST]

Every good transformation
Begins with a fantasy.
When you think of yourself
On a jobsite, what do you see?

Maybe you’re up on the roof,
Swinging a hammer with your shirt off,
Muscles rippling, dripping with sweat
As you bake in the hot sun.


Or maybe you’re the grunt
In the sweaty, dirty tank top,
And the dusty, ripped up jeans
Lugging heavy equipment all day.

Or maybe you’re the guy
In the muddy hi-viz raincoat,
Digging mud in a storm.

Or maybe you’re the guy in the hardhat,
Who drives the big ol bulldozer
That could smash your house flat in 5 minutes.

Or maybe you’re gonna be so manly
That you can boss all those macho fuckers around.

You chose to listen to this file
And become a manly construction worker.
And your subconscious mind
Already knows what you want,
And it knows what you want
even better than you do.
So just trust your inner hypnotist
To make all the changes needed
To turn you into your perfect vision
Of construction worker masculinity.

Probably the first thing you notice
As the trance begins to affect you
Is that you keep thinking about it:

What is it about construction workers
That makes them an archetype of masculinity?

Is it the way they smell:
like beer and sweat and dirt?

Or is it the macho attitude:
the way they strut around the jobsite
Whistling at women,
working shirtless in the summer,
Proud of the hard, manly body that
their hard work has earned them.
Scratching their balls in public
without a second thought.

Or is it the way they talk:
without pretense of education.
In the broadest thickest version
of the local dialect: The lower-class argot
of the working man in the street.


Or maybe it’s the gear for you:
steel toed boots and hard hats,
Tool belts with dangling hammers
Dragging down those dirty jeans…

Or maybe it’s some combination
Of some or all of these things.
Just trust that your own subconscious mind
Already knows exactly what you find manly
And your own internal hypnotist
Will use this file for inspitation
To give you all the attributes of masculinity
That you associate with construction workers
In just the way that works best for you.

And the more you listen to this file,
The clearer your vision of yourself
As a manly construction worker becomes,
And the clearer that vision becomes
The more you want to listen to this file
Over and over again
Until your subconscious mind transforms you
Completely and totally
Into the perfect vision of a macho,
 manly construction worker.
Just like you wanted all along.

And every time you think about the things
That make construction workers so manly,
You find yourself getting sexually aroused
Thinking about yourself looking and acting
Like the macho construction worker type
That you really want to be.

The idea is so sexually arousing for you
That pretty soon it’s taking over
Your sexual fantasy life completely and totally.
So that your fantasies begin to revolve
Around the sexual possibilities of that life:
fucking after hours on the jobsite,
And cruising the portable toilets at lunch
Looking for someone to suck your cock.
Yeah that’s a hot fantasy.
And every time you masturbate
To construction worker fantasies
The fantasy arouses you more and more
Making you want to listen to this file
Over and over again until it transforms you
So that you can become the thing you desire.
And every time you listen to this file
You get more and more addicted
To the rush of masculinity you feel
Every time you think of a better fantasy.


Like a construction worker and jack off?


It won’t take long before your subconscious
Starts to make the fantasy come true.
Just as soon as you have a clear vision
Of what you want to be
Your hypnotic mind begins to find a way
To make that vision come true in the real world.

It’s time now, time for a change
In the way you express your masculinity.
From now on you are becoming
As macho as a construction worker on a jobsite.
And every time you listen to this file
You find yourself becoming more and more
The manly construction worker type
That you have always wanted to be.

Construction workers are the paragon of manhood.
Real men who ain’t afraid to work hard and get dirty.
You want to be as manly as they are.
You want to walk, talk, dress, and act
Like a hardworking tradesmen on a jobsite.

And the more you listen to this file
The more that fantasy begins to come true.
And every time you find yourself
Acting out the suggestions in this file
You feel masculine and sexy and turned on
More and more by the idea of transformation.
Which is why you’ll listen to this file
Over and over again until it transforms you
Completely and totally.
Until you exhibit every single trait
Of construction worker masculinity
That is specified in this file.

Now relax and let your mind drift
Deeper and deeper into a
Nice, deep, comfortable trance.
Growing more and more suggestible
With every word that you hear.

You want to dress like a tradesman,
From your hard hat on your head,
To the muddy steel toed boots on your feet.
Construction gear turns you on.
You get sexually aroused every time
You put on a piece of working man’s clothes.
Whether it’s a tool belt with a swinging hammer,
Or a dirty pair of paint-stained jeans,
Or a muddy hi-vis raincoat,
Every piece of construction worker gear
Makes you more and more turned on
More and more sexually aroused at the prospect
Of dressing like a manly construction worker
And being as butch as the guys on the jobsite.

And when you dress like a real man,
Just like magic, your subconscious mind
Makes you act the part.
And you find yourself slipping into the role,
Taking on the accent of the working man,
Free from the pretense of class or education.
Free to whistle at women as they walk by,
To use all the most crass and colorful expressions.
Free to scratch your balls in public
without a second thought.
And free to do all the other macho things
that construction workers do at work.

And every time you find yourself,
Dressing, talking, walking or acting
Like a manly construction worker,
You get that wonderful rush or masculinity.
It feels so good to be free from pretension.
It feels so good to just act like a Real Man.
It feels so natural and right and perfect for you
That you want to be that way
All the time, each and every day.
So you listen to this file over and over,
Until it transforms you completely and totally,

Because it makes you feel so manly
To dress up like a construction worker,
And to be helpless to resist acting like one.
That you get more and more addicted
To the rush of masculinity you get that way.
That it begins to change your whole sense of fashion.
Until your whole way of dressing begins to
Revolve around making sure you get that fix
‘Cuz you feel like a sissy dressing any other way.

Making More Effective Binaurals

Making More Effective Binaurals

Many hypnotists use binaural beats to enhance the effectiveness of their hypnotic materials.  However, most of us fail to use these tools as effectively as we might either through laziness or lack of knowledge.  In this blog post, I will be exploring some ways to make your use of binaural beats in file hypnosis more effective than the methods you may have been using so far.

What Are Binaural Beats?

In 1839 Heinrich William Dove discovered that two tuning forks of almost the same frequency presented to opposite ears could produce an auditory illusion of a beat at the frequency difference between the two tones.  For example, a tuning fork at 100Hz paired with one at 105Hz would produce the auditory illusion of a beat in the center of the subject's head happening 5 times per second (5Hz).  Over the course of the 19th and early 20th century this was regarded as an interesting, if not particularly useful, perceptual phenomenon. Learn more about the history of Binaural Beats research at BinauralBrains.com



In 1973 when Gerald Oster wrote “Auditory Beats in the Brain” there had been very little research into the effect of binaural beats on the brain. Working with EEG machines, Oster tested the hypothesis that binaural beats could produce a widespread neural entrainment at a particular frequency, and thereby produce a change in consciousness.  Modern research has confirmed with 99% certainty that Binaural Beats do in fact lead to brainwave entrainment and perceptual variation including altered states of consciousness like a hypnotic trance.

Though the exact mechanisim by which binaural beats produce entrainment is not as well known as we might like, the general idea is that when the brain combines the signals from both ears to produce a perception of sound direction, the two wave-forms interfere with each other in their neural representation just like they would in air producing a perceived beat which the neurons in the brain entrain to, coming over time to fire in synchronization with the interference.

How Do I Make a Binaural?

Binaural Beats are actually amazingly easy to make even with very limited analog technology.  All you really need are two sine waves with a known frequency difference that's suitable for hypnosis.  In the old days, this was often done with a pair of analog oscilators and an osciloscope; thouch you can easily accomplish the same thing with a midi synthesizer set to produce a sine wave at a pair of frequencies.

There are a number of common computer and cell phone based programs that can produce various kinds and qualities of binaural beats.  You can find a good free cell phone app to try binaurals for yourself at Binaural Beats Therapy on Google Play; if you want to make your own royalty-free binaural tracks for hypnosis files you can use the free (general public liscence) Gnaural program  which allows you to set up a variation in frequency over time.

Gnaural for Windows in action,

Gnaural can be a bit intimidating at first, but once you read the official tutorial  and get through the learning curve, it's actually pretty powerful.  Double click anywhere on the line to make a new inflection point and then use your mouse to drag the point to wherever you want it to be on the graph.  You can then right-click and fine-tune your point so that it falls on exactly the right frequency and timing.  There's also a good online tutorial from BinauralBrains and a few videos on YouTube to teach you the software.

MyNoise.net Binaural Generator

There is also an online binaural generator at MyNoise.net which is very powerful, letting you manipulate several different bands of brainwave frequency at the same time. This makes a musical sounding binaural which can be played like an instrument with sliders. However, though this website is wonderfully intuitive and is very easy to use, they claim copyright on all of their sounds and have been known to file DMCA takedowns on people who use their site to make files, so use at your own risk.

The Naive Hypnotic Use

Most hypnotists make a very crude sort of use of binaural beats, typically using only either a constant entrainment at a fixed frequency, or a slow decline to a particular frequency followed by a flat line at this frequency with a rapid increase at the awakener at the end of the file.

Fixed frequency at a common trance-state level like 7Hz is not at all uncommon and can enhance the effectiveness of trances somewhat, because the brain naturally slowly drifts towards the frequency of the binaural beat and then stays there once entrained.  However, this method provides little or no control over the subject's mental state by the hypnotist and can result in the subject going deeper into trance sooner than the hypnotist intended or not coming out of trance correctly to the awakener.

For clarity I have colored the falling sections in red and the rising ones in blue throughout this blog.

A more effective simple use of binaurals is to provide a ramp down through the induction followed by a flat line at a suitable hypnotic frequency (somewhere between 4.5-7hz depending on how deep you want your subject to go) followed by a more rapid ramp up through the awakener.  This can provide an effective means of controling the user's brainwave frequency without too much effort on the hypnotist's part.

More Advanced Methods

Stairsteps

If you are willing to put slightly more work into your binaural, you can improve its effectiveness by taking advantage of the fact that the brain actually takes a little time to entrain to a binaural at a particular frequency, so if you stairstep down by leting the brain entrain at a particular frequency plateau for a little while (30 seconds to a minute) and then dip down to another frequency and then stay there for a while, repeating until the desired brain frequency is reached.  This makes your binaural somewhat easier on the subject's brain and gives you an even closer control over the entrainment during particular parts of the trance.

The Sawtooth

Download the Gnaural file for the Sawtooth here

Another more advanced pattern is the sawtooth, where instead of all the steps on the staircase being flat, some of the steps actually slope upwards, followed by an even steeper descent.  This is usually used in conjunction with a tense-and-relax induction, where the tensing phases are acompanied by a very slight rise in the frequency followed by a steep drop.

The theory behind the sawtooth pattern is that by raising the brainwave frequency somewhat during the tense phase induces a faster drop through the relaxation phase, this gets your subject deeper into trance faster than simply stairstepping down directly.

Script Based Binaurals

Up to this point we have been talking about simple patterns that can be minimally connected to the content of the script and still work.  That's useful if you want to make a single file that can go under a number of trances.  However, for the most effective possible use of binaurals,the best thing to do is to record your script and time it out such that the plateaus of the stairsteps correspond with bits of the patter where you're not particularly pushing the subject further into trance, the sawtooths correspond with the places where you're bringing the subject up a little to take them further down, and the slopes correspond to the parts where you are directly suggesting that the subject go deeper into trance with the slope of the line corresponding roughly to how far and fast you want them to drop.

Once you've gotten to the part of the file where the suggestions are, you can choose to just leave your subject at a plateau through the suggestions (typical of a suggestion part with no deepeners or other hypnotic tricks) or, if your script has a reinduction or deepener, you can go down to a high plateau (I have found 6.8Hz works great for the upper plateau) where your subject is suggestible but still conscious through the first set of suggestions, then have a downslope or stairstep down through the reinduction to a lower plateau at something like 4.5Hz, where your subject is minimally able to consciously engage but isn't quite likely to fall asleep.

So, What Frequencies should I use?

There's a lot of hooey going around about various frequencies of binaural beats.  The "spiritual" community has long lists of supposed correlations which you can use for reference.  For hypnotic purposes, the exact frequency is seldom as impotant as the general frequency range and the slope of the change in frequency over time.

Some common plateau frequencies useful for various  hypnotic tasks:

1. 11.0 - 10.6Hz Relaxed but alert, a good frequency range for pre-talk.
2. 9.5 - 8.6Hz  Low alpha, a good range to sweep through in early induction, pausing on 8.6 leaves the user able to visualize intensively while feeling relaxed and de-stressed.
3. 7.5 - 7.0Hz Maximum creativity in visualization, highly suggestible.  Spiritual feeling.
4. 6.8 Hz The Schuman Resonance, not far from the middle of the Theta range at 6.5Hz, maximum conscious suggestibility is roughly here.  
5. 5.5Hz Inner Guidance A frequency at which the subject is still conscious, but their mind is starting to disengage, subject is usually unable to maintain a mental monologue below here. A very good frequency for change work suggestions. 
6. 4.5Hz Deepest Meditation frequency, this is where Bhuddist Monks go when they meditate; basically no conscious thought and roughly the minimum frequency for remaining conscious with your mind turned off on a sustained basis.
7. 3.7 Hz - Genital Buzz: This is where the hands-free orgasm is.
8. 2.5 Hz - Pain and Insomnia relief. These frequencies can kill pain and induce a deep sleep, in the context of a hypnotic induction this is usually for when you want to take your subject so deep they black out.  

Case Study: "Failing to Resist Trance Trainer"

Download the Gnaural file for Failing to Resist here 

Above you can see the chart for my Failing to Resist Trance Trainer file, which I will explain for you here.  The file starts with a couple of minutes of synchronization at 12Hz which corresponds to the patter at the front of the file before the induction proper starts, this is followed by a long slow slide at approx. 1Hz/min through the early part of the induction with a faster drop to a plateau at 8.6Hz after the first major trance suggestion where it stays for almost a minute so that the subject's brain can be assured to have synchronized before we proceed down again for two more steps.

Then we get to the resistance part of the script and you see a set of 3 sawtooths as the subject is instructed to open and close their eyes, having more and more difficulty each time.  Notice the particularly rapid drops in frequency on the back side of the sawtooths, especially the long, steep drop at the end of the third sawtooth that corresponds with the subject being told that further resistance of this kind is futile.  The slope gets less rapid over time until it stabilizes again at about 4.5Hz for the early part of the first set of suggestions until the deepener, where it briefly sawtooths up and slides down to 3.4Hz (where there happens to be a nice genital sensation) for a while as I go on about how erotic hypnosis is; followed by another trigger-based deepener where the subject is intructed to "go so deep you black out" and the brainwaves are allowed to plateau there for a while so that the subject can be well and truly blacked out; then allowed to slowly rise again through the safety part of the first part of the trance and then a steep rise through the count-up to the first awakening.

This is a trance trainer file, so the first awakening is followed by a trigger back into trance which is accompanied by a steep drop on the binaural to a plateau at 4.5Hz, which is the frequency at which the trigger was set and so is the frequency that I want to train my subject to get back to (this is roughly the frequency at thich Tibetan monks meditate, and is also about as deeply entranced as I can keep a subject for a prolonged period without him going to sleep.) So I leave it on that plateau for about 4 minutes through the setting of a new set of triggers, then use those triggers to make the subject go blackout deep again before I bring him up a second time and test whether my subject can resist the trance, followed by a new trigger, a second set of suggestions, a deepener, more suggestions and a rapid slope up through the count up at the last awakener.