(27 Oct 2017, 13:41 )Like Ra Wrote: Interesting (if not scary) investigation:

Oxytocin as a moderator of hypnotizability https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21652150
Oxytocin enhances social persuasion during hypnosis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23577153
The association between the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and hypnotizability. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23562248
Oxytocin impedes the effect of the word blindness post-hypnotic suggestion on Stroop task performance. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23620599

In short. The more oxytocin, the less critical, the more suggestible, the more hypnotizable we are. The more aroused we are, the more oxytocin. See the  link? Lots of erotic hypnofiles state, that masturbation enhances the effect. And no wonder, that ad campaigns are so "erotisized".

• Brain imaging shows that being hypnotized to believe you are being controlled by a machine increases neural connectivity with areas that control your movements (i.e., makes it easier for other brain areas to control movement) (Deeley et al., 2014).
  
• Suggestion to make us not want stuff reduces activity in areas that represent the self and value (Ludwig et al., 2013). So maybe suggestion to increase our desire will work by increasing how much we value the thing we’re lusting over.
  
• Giving people real pain activates a network of brain structures associated with feeling stuff. Giving people hypnotic instructions to increase the pain intensity makes the pain worse and activates those brain regions more (Abrahamsen et al., 2010). Heh heh heh….
  
• Hypnotic suggestion to increase pain works, and increases activity in a brain area that does voluntary control of our thinking (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) (Raij, Numminen, Narvanen, Hiltunen, & Hari, 2009) suggesting that hypnosis makes us work hard to increase our own pain. Delicious.
  
• Hypnosis reduces skin conductance, a measure of sympathetic nervous system activity which is associated with arousal. So um, when you hypnotize people, they relax. Cool finding - it didn't matter whether you were technically high or low hypnotizable for this to work (Kekecs et al, 2016).
  
• Hypnosis to reduce pain during induced pain (e.g., a medical procedure) does seem to be effective. Multiple hypnosis sessions prior to the pain induction seems particularly helpful. (Kendrick et al, 2016)
  
• Hypnotizability appears to be oxytocin-mediated - giving oxytocin to low hypnotizable males increased their hypnotic susceptibility (Bryant et al, 2012).
  
• The decrease in P3b but preserved N2 ERP associated with hypnosis suggests that hypnosis is not affecting the earliest sensory processing, but rather, it is affecting what we do with that information, within 400ms - before we even know what we are doing with it.
  

• Abrahamsen, R., Dietz, M., Lodahl, S., Roepstorff, A., Zachariae, R., Ostergaard, L., et al. (2010). Effect of hypnotic pain modulation on brain activity in patients with temporomandibular disorder pain. Pain, 151(3), 825-833.
  
• Bryant RA, Hung L, Guastella AJ, Mitchell PB. (2012). Oxytocin as a moderator of hypnotizability. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 37(1):162-6. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.05.010. Epub 2011 Jun 8.
  
• Deeley, Q., Oakley, D. A., Walsh, E., Bell, V., Mehta, M. A., & Halligan, P. W. (2014). Modelling psychiatric and cultural possession phenomena with suggestion and fMRI. Cortex, 53, 107-119.
  
• Hoeft, F., Gabrieli, J. D., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., Haas, B. W., Bammer, R., Menon, V., et al. (2012). Functional brain basis of hypnotizability. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 69(10), 1064-1072.
  
• Kekecs, Z., Szekely, A., & Varga, K. (2016). Alterations in electrodermal activity and cardiac parasympathetic tone during hypnosis. Psychophysiology, 53(2), 268-277.
  
• Kendrick, C., Sliwinski, J., Yu, Y., Johnson, A., Fisher, W., Kekecs, Z., et al. (2016). Hypnosis for Acute Procedural Pain: A Critical Review. The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis, 64(1), 75-115.
  
• Ludwig, V. U., Stelzel, C., Krutiak, H., Magrabi, A., Steimke, R., Paschke, L. M., et al. (2013). The suggestible brain: posthypnotic effects on value-based decision-making. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
  
• Oakley, D. A., & Halligan, P. W. (2009). Hypnotic suggestion and cognitive neuroscience. Trends Cogn Sci, 13(6), 264-270.
  
• Raij, T. T., Numminen, J., Narvanen, S., Hiltunen, J., & Hari, R. (2009). Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain. Hum Brain Mapp, 30(9), 2890-2897.
  

(29 Oct 2017, 19:22 )krinlyc Wrote: My hypnotee has about 10 or so triggers - which do all work and she can't do anything against these triggers.