OK guys, exciting exciting stuff!
So I've been putting off amygdala tickling for the last few weeks while I focus on hypnosis.
You can read about it more here, I started the thread today: https://www.longecit...-success-story/
Anyway my plan was to get good at self hypnosis/trance, and then work on small problems. Small problems to me, are anything other than popping my frontal lobes/amygdala tickling. So smoking, diet, exercise, insomnia, waking up early, etc... Basically "normal" problems people have.
Anyway after I get good at self hypnosis and fixing small problems, I can start working on the experimental stuff with the amygdala!
The reason I'm doing it this way, is to prove to myself I'm getting into hypnosis, and the best way to prove I'm getting into hypnosis, is fix "small" problems hypnosis is very known to be effective for. So once I start waking up at 6.30 everyday, eating less and more healthy, hitting the gym daily, stop smoking, stop weed, fall asleep easily yada yada yada... I'll be 100% sure I'm doing hypnosis and able to talk/program my subconscious mind successfully.
Once I've knocked these small problems out of the way one by one, I can get to the experimental stuff with the amygdalas!
Now I have a few ideas for the amygdala experiments:
1. Because hypnosis is meant to be a highly aware and focused state of mind, I'd love to see what happens when you direct the subconscious to stimulate the fronts of the amygdalas, and then amplify that stimulation and the feelings associated with it. I've already created the script & file for this, where you're directed to locate your amygdalas, and then stimulate the front, and then the voice will count 1 to 100, and with every number increase that stimulation. So looking forward to this once I get good at trancing/hypnosis even more,
2. Trauma release through dreams. Program/direct my subconscious that any traumas that are holding back my amygdala/frontal lobes pop, can be safely discharged through my dreams. So basically I'll probably end up getting more nightmares lol. But my experience when you tickle a lot consciously, is you'll get non scary nightmares, I wrote about it previously in this thread.
3. Setting a waking anchor/trigger. Not sure which the correct word is, but hypnosis is very well known for its ability to create associations. For example take stage hypnosis. Every time you hear the sound of a bell, you will moo like a cow and you won't even realize it. Now while stage hypnosis is temporary, if you reinforced that anchor/trigger often enough with a willing person, eventually it will become a part of their mind and everyday life when they hear a bell. Or a simpler example would be every time you exercise you feel pleasure, happiness, love, etc... Then every time the person exercises these feelings/emotions appear. You get my point. So I would create an anchor where doing something will stimulate the fronts my amygdalas, without me needing to visualize stimulating them. Infact I've already created this in the same file as point 1, where simply counting out loud 1 upwards will stimulate the fronts of the amygdalas. But like I said, can't test that file or this anchor/trigger, until I get good at hypnosis first.
4. Now this is the simplest and most straight forward one, and is bound to work 100% because we know how well hypnosis is at changing behaviours and thoughts. But simply tell your subconscious that whenever you have free time and it is safe to do so, the only thing you want to do is visualize those amygdalas and tickle the fronts of them, and that's what you do do, because it feels so pleasurable and wonderful, and you are fully confident in your ability to stimulate the fronts of your amygdalas with your imagination yada yada... You get the point.
5. Regress back to my mini pop in 2011. Now I'm sure this really is a last resort. But hypnosis is well known for age regression, and regressing back to memories. If for some reason all the other methods failed, we could regress back to the mini pop, and try and recreate the experience using the memory. Really regression I would think would have to be done with a hypnotist rather than self hypnosis.
Just going into trance/hypnosis automatically stimulated the fronts of my amygdalas!
I wrote this in my new hypnosis thread, but boy is exciting, especially discovering the feeling method has physical muscle contractions with it, even when it does it automatically. I've quoted an excerpt from that thread.
3. My amygdala's definitely activated during going into hypnosis. I've stopped amygdala tickling these last few weeks, as my interest in hypnosis has come back, and I was worried my amygdala tickling might interfere with my trance training, because I read somewhere amygdalas are less active during hypnosis. Anyway, and this happened a few times while listening to hypnosis, but on the 27th July when listening, I could feel my brain pushing forward, and my muscles around my temples and eyebrows scrunching up naturally. Now it's funny, I used this "method", the amygdala tickling "feeling" method as opposed to "visualization" method in the past. In fact I believe it was this method I was using for a month in 2011 when I had my mini pop. However I always questioned the method, because of the physical muscle activations that came with it, i.e. was I really clicking my amygdalas, or was my muscles just tensing up; I also asked Neil Slade about it ages ago and he only recommended the visualization method, hence why I dropped it. So anyway when I go into hypnosis, these physical muscle activations happen automatically, but the question is, was I clicking? Well the rest of the day I was in a damn good mood, felt a bit silly, and the music sounded great. And then would you believe, there was a little bit of stress later on with my wife and my mother which I found myself in the middle of trying to diffuse the situation, anyway after it was sorted, I was very emotional, on the verge of crying (I held it together, but I should of let it out to discharge that trauma or whatever). All sure signs of my experiences with amygdala tickling! So yes, the feeling method does work without needing the visualization technique, and, going into trance/hypnosis, you may experience you amygdalas click hard forward automatically! In fact I should note amygdala stimulation is one thing I want to test within hypnosis, but it was the last on my hypnosis goal list, so by then I had sufficient training in trance, and proof the hypnosis was working (quit smoking, wake up early, exercise more, etc...). Good things to come!