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If this sort of thing interests you I strongly recommend this book. But be careful, the subject material can have a profound, transformative effect on your life and the lives of people around you. It is not for everyone.
Two things will greatly help improve your memory:
- Practicing mindfulness.
- Practicing mnemonic (memory) visualization techniques.
For the first, I highly recommend the book The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa (and the accompanying subreddit r/TheMindIlluminated). Practicing meditation in this way will develop extremely powerful mindfulness, allowing you to be very aware of what is happening in your experience at any given time. As a side-benefit, you also get enlightened, so that's nifty. :D
For the second, there are dozens of books on memory techniques. My favorite is The Manual. I haven't practiced it much, but to give you an idea, a basic memory trick beginners can learn is to memorize an entire deck of cards in order. These techniques are amazing for studying in school, especially for things like biology or language where there is a ton of memorization involved.
Also if you smoke a lot of marijuana, that will also not do you any favors. Reducing your consumption will help your memory a lot, as one of the effects of pot is loss of short-term memory, and what doesn't enter your short-term memory has no chance of entering your long-term memory.
There are also a number of supplements ("nootropics") that help with memory, the choline family especially (look up CDP Choline and Alpha GPC and experiment for yourself).
Not hypnosis directly, but it can be combined with hypnosis: Prometheus Rising is a book about self-programming the mind, by modelling the different parts of the mind and how they work, then putting all the pieces together in the end to allow one to change any part about their mind they wish.
Honestly, I found a combination of tools more effective for self-programming. Eg, mindfulness in mindfulness meditation raises awareness allowing one to see the smaller details of what parts of their mind they want to change (which is necessary if it is a small behavior or habit) and Prometheus Rising explaining how to do so once that awareness exists.
Hypnosis can be used as a short cut, but you still need to know the prerequisite material.
This 4 hour audiobook has some short self-hypnosis scripts in it. As to reputation, it's written by a famous hypnotist and the info is still relevant despite its age: https://librivox.org/a-practical-guide-to-self-hypnosis-by-melvin-powers/
Yes, meditation is good for improving your focus. That's useful in hypnosis and whenever you're studying something. With anything brain related, assume you'll see effects within 3 months. Many see effects much sooner, but don't despair if it takes you that long.
The full story of that anecdote is even more fascinating. The fact that the physician doing it at first didn't know that it "couldn't be done" with hypnosis. The boy was healed only on one arm (as a test) I believe, and then when the doctor's colleagues saw that the impossible happened, the original hypnotizor wasn't able to duplicate the results with the rest of the boys body or any other patient. He blamed his own lack of confidence, and that his patients could 'sense' that lack of confidence so they didn't readily accept the suggestions to heal the skin.
If I remember correctly that original physician felt quite guilty, he had people writing him from all over the world asking to be cured of their skin diseases, and he wasn't ever able to get consistent results even with his original 'success'.
That being said, I know a colleague of mine (a hypnotist) who controls his eczema through regular meditation. There is also that anecdote of piercing a needle through the skin of a hypnotically anesthetized subjects hand, and then commanding the body to bleed on one side, but not the other, and then vice versa.
I think eventually science will come to recognize the impact that thought has on the material world. Scientists are even starting to play with the idea that consciousness may be a state of matter. If that's the case, then perhaps the mind can affect a much wider array of things than originally thought.
Things that work in increasing hypnotisability:
Meditation
Nitrous oxide
Brainwave entrainment: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/isochronicBrainwaveGenerator.php?c=0&l=0000019949180000000000
Hypnotizing oneself to be more hypnotizable
Well, I'll tell you my story, perhaps you'll find something that can help you.
My first approach with hypnosis was with this book it is an old book my father bought (he is also interested in hypnosis although he has never learned to do it) so I started to read it, as it's an old book the inductions were somewhat outdated and kinda complicated.
After that I bought an hypnotherapy course in Udemy by Karen E. Wells, the inductions were kinda long as well, but much more simple, so in this ones I was actually able to begin to understand them.
After that I started to look at youtube videos on how to hypnotize, there are really good ones.
then I started to buy other books, at this point I had only practiced once with someone else, but still felt like I needed to read more books and watch more videos. it was at some point here that I noticed something, I was reading a new book, and in the inductions part, which is what I was more interested in, I started to notice that I already knew them, some I already knew the process, some others they were a different process but in essence they were something I've already knew, I wasn't learning anything new. and suddenly I remembered something Zach Pincince (the guy from the video) told: in one week he was already trying, I had an epiphany, I'm the kind of guy that doubts his skills a lot, to the point that a lot of projects I've had don't leave the planning phase.
I thought this last part may sound kinda familiar. So I wanted to share.
Agreed and her book is a great resource for easy to use techniques
https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Anxiety-Toolkit-Rapid-techniques-rewire/dp/1466451726
I started out as a text hypnotist in chat rooms. I talked here about some things a text hypnotist has to keep in mind, and techniques that can be used.
What you're talking about sounds a bit more like <em>Instant Self-Hypnosis</em>--scripts that you read that are meant to hypnotize you without another person being involved at all.
Hypnosis does work like this, but it's more difficult to get it to work. People typically respond best to live sessions with a hypnotist, either in-person or over a video call. When hypnotist and subject can't see and/or hear each other, that makes things more difficult. And when the session is recorded, and the hypnotist isn't able to adapt it to how well the subject is responding, that also makes it more difficult.
> I'm completely in agreement with Tripp (and many others) that phenomena absolutely have a place in therapy, as convincers but also to test and ensure that a person is actually responsive to suggestion.
Having no experience with therapy, I can't comment.
> Definitions: > > voluntariness - the sense that you are doing something with conscious volition > involuntariness - a sensation of movement, thought or experience without conscious volition > conscious will - the sensation of "doing"
Well, I'm glad you put "sensation" and "sense" on the front of that. In my experience, people assign agency for their actions in whatever way lines up best with their current self/world model. People who are clearly behaving compulsively will convince themselves that their behaviour is voluntary so that they don't have to stare at their problem. People will choose a selfish course of action and then convince themselves that they were "forced" to do so, so that they don't have to stare at their selfishness.
So in my model, a person's experience of agency or lack thereof is subject to all of the same factors that can modulate their experience of anything else. Thus, a hypnotist can modulate a subject's experience of agency as they can modulate the subject's experience of anything else, quite apart from the underlying realties of cause and effect.
It does look like the neurology I described might have some more-specific ways of dealing with assigning agency, though. Here is an interesting paper describing how one's sense of conscious self and agency can be described in terms of interoceptive predictive coding. Also, here is the book chapter that influenced much of my thinking on predictive coding and hypnosis.
There’s a good book that I enjoy that uses reading and writing as method for giving hypnotic suggestions to yourself. He has several books on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Self-Hypnosis-Hypnotize-Yourself-Your-ebook/dp/B00348UMQM
There is a book called "How to change your mind" by Michael Pollan. It's about psychedelics, not hypnosis, but I think it might be right up your alley. It was truly an eye opening book for me.
Perhaps this book can help you, it is one of the best I've read regarding inductions.
It will teach you how to hypnotise ethically and safely with great results. There is a bit on children from memory. A book aimed at hypnosis for children is
Integrative Hypnosis for Kids and Teens: Playing for Change by Amazon Learn more: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1534682163/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_e0aWFbVBMPMNS
There’s a link to an amazing book that covers a huge amount. If you have Audible you can get it there as well.
Sure. There are a lot of resources on the internet for little to no cost. The first response I gave on the thread labeled "Just did quick hypnosis tricks on myself" has plenty of free or very small investments ($10 at the most) that have a lot of information. Even the first book of the Rogue Hypnotist series, How to Hypnotize Anyone comes with the basic understanding behind hypnosis, an induction and two deepener scripts to get you started all for $1 and a Amazon Kindle device or app.
For me, This right here was my first exposure to hypnosis and started me on my journey back in 2010. I have had an on/off habit so while I don't have years of experience, I've been lurking around a while. Give it a listen and see where it takes you.
- Yes, it's possible, although it varies by person.
- Yes - almost any process that can be done by hypnosis can, at least in theory, be done through self-hypnosis.
- The mind is organic, complex, and unpredictable. This might even be structurally built into the study of cognition.
So... nothing is really engraved in a subconscious, because it's constantly changing and it's highly complex. There isn't a function. There's no deactivation switch, because there's no switch in the first place. The mind is not a machine and hypnotists aren't programmers.
Hypnotists are guides. They specialize in navigating some of this very poorly mapped territory. They're often quite good at it. In some cases - like smoking cessation or phobia reduction - they're reliably good at particular functions - so much so that it's published and statistically significant.
Don't let the reliability of some operations fool you, though. The mind isn't a series of mapped switches and mechanical functions, and IMO it never will be. As a result, the reliable answers in spaces like this will generally be frustratingly vague, just because no one can say "yup, I just slap that tear switch and call tech support if it doesn't work."
No, no, not even. :)
Also, there's a sequel of sorts, meant to convey the more complex aspects of NLP, by the same authors, forgot to mention it:
https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Introduction-NLP-Build-Successful/dp/B00B90MMD8/
Both are worthwhile reads, honestly. The people that offer reviews on Amazon don't have a clue, sadly, and were expecting something different with the first book let alone the second. Read, research, study, everything you can realistically get your hands on and then decide what information is useful to you and discard the rest.
Good luck...
One of the easiest to understand books about NLP is this one, written in a way unlike most any other, a story being told from the perspective of an individual learning about some of the basics of NLP and then progressing on to more later (this is not an affiliate link, just a direct link to the book on Amazon):
https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Charge-Your-Life-ebook/dp/B00FD98BLI/
It's not a major or massive work compared to so many other tomes on NLP but it is a great book for the layperson that's wanting to learn about that basic foundation of NLP and why things work the way they do. Highly recommended for people new to the field of study known as NLP which itself comes basically from research and studies done about Milton Erickson and how he worked with clients/subjects/patients long ago.
Good luck...
I'm going to school right now getting rid of my General Education stuff, but I'm working towards for Psychiatry M.D., and I know what you mean baconOclock.
The problem with the word "unconscious mind", from what I can I see is the definition of it. There's the New-Age nonsense of the 'unconscious', which Tom Vizzini (from the link provided by xekul) is pretty much speaking of, but Vizzini doesn't seem to understand the definition in psychology and neuroscience of the 'unconscious mind'.
From reading "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman, and "Free Will" by Sam Harris (As well as other psychology books), there is a part of the mind that does things automatically, is irrational, and uses heuristics dubbed the "unconscious mind" (type 1). There is the frontal lobe, the critical thinking part of the brain, which is deemed the "conscious mind" (type 2). In "Thinking, Fast and Slow", the conscious part of the brain (type 2), if lazy (sometimes lacking critical thinking), makes excuses for the believing the heuristics of superstitions and false correlation of the unconscious (type 1). If the conscious (type 2) part isn't lazy (understands critical thinking), then it can keeps the unconscious (type 1) mind in check from believing in false correlation, superstitions and etc.
Hope I make sense. It's midnight over here and I'm tired. But yeah, I want to learn hypnosis and possibly blend it in with cognitive behavioral therapy once I become a Psychiatrist.
I listen to Solfeggio tones (432Hz), at night, wearing this:
Sounds like you may have had a relationship with a sociopath. This book has helped others in that situation...
https://www.amazon.com/Puzzling-People-Psychopath-Thomas-Sheridan/dp/1905605285
I think my father got me into it, he has some books on the subject, but it was this one and the self-hipnosis one that really caught my attention. he also took us to Taurus do Brasil shows so I developed an interest into it. But the lack of information back then, me being a kid and specially an event that my mother saw of a person that got stuck into trance and started to choke, or at least that is how she perceived it made me forget about it for many years, until years later that I decided to rewatch the mentalist tv show that I decided to give it a try once again, I came here to ask about the incident that my mom witnessed, I asked my father to lend me those books again and now with the internet I was able to get more information and also buy more modern books and well, that's pretty much the story.
Every hypnotist has their own technique. I have proof demonstrating the effectiveness of reading from scripts to achieve self-hypnosis and positive outcomes. My personal formula comes from that author I mentioned originally Forbes Robbins Blair. You can view the table of contents for one of his books on Amazon and see that the entire book is basically 50 scripts for practically any use case you can think of. Forobes Blair has three volumes of books like this which are basically a list of different scripts. I get that your practice and technique is different, and that you improvise everything on the spot. I am just sharing my experience that it is possible to get self hypnosis to work using scripts. It is possible.
Do consider using one of the common licenses for free/libre productions on the scripts for which it is applicable. Having no or uncommon terms, even clear ones, put things in a legal gray area.
Since it is the scripts rather than software, a Creative Common license would likely work well: https://creativecommons.org/choose/
>https://librivox.org/a-practical-guide-to-self-hypnosis-by-melvin-powers/
I just joined the group and I have similar issues with starting a project and not completing it and moving on to another, and not completing and so on. If you would share your YouTube I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Here's a free, 4 hour audiobook about self-hypnosis written by a famous hypnotist. Despite it being an old book, it's still an excellent introduction to self-hypnosis: https://librivox.org/a-practical-guide-to-self-hypnosis-by-melvin-powers/
There's free text versions too if you don't want an audio copy, just search for the 'public domain' or 'libre' book websites and look on there.
There are also many youtube videos showing how to hypnotize someone, for example this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBiAWrpJaQ
As expert-hypnotist already said:
> Play nice, be safe, make it fun, and be creative.
there is also this book I like: https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Hypnosis-Rapid-Inductions-Guidebook-ebook/dp/B0951FLLCF/ref=sr_1_2?crid=CB9P25WLSP0E&keywords=hypnosis+rory+z&qid=1640710434&sprefix=hypnosis+rory+z%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-2
that mentions some safety measures a beginer should have.
About routines, you can always immitate what you see some hypnotist do, specially start with simple stress less stuff, for example feet stuck to the ground, sing instead of talk, laugh at some word, something becoming a phone, stuff like that. Scaring someone may be problematic if you don't know how to handle their reactions.
also don't attempt to do therapy, you'll need special training for that.
and have fun.
You might like Hypnosis with the Hard to Hypnotise, which is a book on working with people who process information differently. It's about $10 on Kindle and well worth it.
His approach is to recognize that as hypnosis consists of focus and disassociation, both tools that people with active, logical minds are very familiar with. Once the focus is switched to working with the mind rather than against it, then hypnosis is about finding ways to use the mind as a tool.
There are videos on Youtube that are not erotic, they're pretty easy to search for.
You might like <em>Instant Self-Hypnosis</em> by Forbes Blair. He focuses heavily on self-improvement and has a nice, straightforward method.
If anyone's interested in further reading on this sort of thing, Magic Words and Language Patterns: The Hypnotist's Essential Guide to Crafting Irresistible Suggestions by Karen Hand has been super helpful for me personally. Highly recommended.
The first two books I ever read on the subject were these two. They've been incredibly helpful for me and I've gone back to reread them both twice. I've read a couple other books as well, but these two are my bread and butter.
Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal is a great book on the subject, and explores hypnosis pretty extensively.
This is the model:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000JSDOMO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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They are perfectly adequate for the job: my next set will only have the one ear-piece. I should also point out that they are not intended for listening to music.
Just reading a book on how to treat chronic pain by Mark Jensen at the moment. Really interesting stuff on how different type of suggestions can alter pain expression by targeting different parts of the brain.
Truly a fascinating area and would love to know more, does anybody have other references that you would recommend? Thanks!
Good for you, although I don't really understand half of what you said. My advice is that you contact with people who are experienced in this for example try with the subreddit mentioned on the TL;DR rules on the right.
You can also try with the book mindplay.
I found this book very useful There are many but I felt this one hit a good balance between the technical psychology and basic hypnosis practice. https://www.amazon.com/Art-Hypnosis-Mastering-Basic-Techniques/dp/1845904397/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OQ999QAUZO6L&dchild=1&keywords=the+art+of+hypnosis+by+roy+hunter&qid=1617376964&sprefix=hypnosis+roy%2Caps%2C185&sr=8-1
One subset of literature that might help (and seems unmentioned elsewhere) is lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming techniques are:
-- fairly high percentage payoff
-- consistent with your overall purposes
-- consistent with your specific purpose
This is a very cheap and fairly credible book.
There's a lot of mysticism and weirdness around lucid dreaming, but the core techniques are pretty straightforward and empirically validated.
If you want a script on this, I'm happy to offer some of my own. Just DM because they're not approp for this sub.
Give My Voice Will Go With You a read. Fantastic introduction to Ericksonian hypnotherapy presented in a bunch of short stories, or "teaching tales"
You already go into trances, you're just not aware of it yet. What will help most is working with a skilled professional.
Or learning self-hypnosis. A good book on this is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Self-Hypnosis-Evidence-Hypnotise-Yourself/dp/0957566719
Physical relaxation is not a requirement to experience hypnosis or trance, but it does tend to be a happy side-effect of the experience.
Learning to physically relax is a very worthwhile goal and it can be quite difficult for some people, absolutely. The only true solution is practice, practice, practice. Those muscles in the back of the neck can be quite stubborn with respect to letting go of the tension they accumulate during waking hours, especially if you spend a great deal of time sitting and working with computers/keyboards or you have some kind of job that requires you to sit hunched over a desk most of the time as well.
It's a process, honestly, and again it takes a concerted effort and some practice to learn how to just disconnect and let the muscles relax. I highly recommend a classic work, "The Relaxation Response," which I've been preaching to people for a few decades now (this is not an affiliate link, just a plain old link for the record, I don't do affiliate crap, if you don't want to use the link go to Amazon and type the title of the book, you'll get the same link):
https://www.amazon.com/Relaxation-Response-Herbert-Benson/dp/0380006766
With that book, and the knowledge it contains, you can - with some practice - learn to let go of most every single consciously controlled muscle with just 3 proper deep breaths and about 40 seconds of your time. Seriously.
Been doing it for decades now, and in under a minute I can practically put myself into a damned near-coma state.
It just takes practice, and the willingness to let all that tension go, and of course, learning how to breathe properly. ;)
Good luck, and Happy Holidays to you and yours...
It's safe but stay clear of the youtube videos with spirals on them :) A good book to get you started with some fun experiments is:
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Self-Hypnosis-Evidence-Hypnotise-Yourself/dp/0957566719
Have you ever heard of Seabands ? Although I've never used them myself, my manager at work used to have terrible problems with motion sickness, but she has been able to conquer that problem using Seabands. They are a lot cheaper than $400, so I suggest trying them first.
Check out the book Revisiting Hypnosis by Graham Old. It is all about this specific thing. Currently $3.99 on Kindle (you don't need a Kindle device to read Kindle books either, just a free app on your phone or computer). Instead of his specific ritual, you can use a trigger word, or better yet a trigger word plus a snap to make it even more unique.
His way of doing it (called PHRIT for Post-Hypnotic Re-Induction Trigger) will basically always work, from what I've found.
Sorry, I was being unintentionally vague there. Freddy Jacquin, Anthony Jacquin's father. Nice guy, he's been doing this for a long time and is very knowledgeable. If you sign up for a free trial on Audible you get a free audio book. Anyway, his book Hypnotherapy: Methods, Techniques and Philosophies of Freddy Jacquin is available at the link below. https://www.audible.com/pd/Hypnotherapy-Methods-Techniques-and-Philosophies-of-Freddy-Jacquin-Audiobook/B07HHJCJ6X
As for low libido? There's not one way to handle that. One approach I might use would be eliciting what's happening in the client's view and working with that metaphorically, along side with eliciting how they want to be and revivifying (or imagining) what it will be like for them when they have increased libido. So the front end of that would be getting rid of any baggage or finding out if there was any trauma or emotional stuff that was causing the problem. The tail end is getting their mind to create solutions or rekindle their feelings of arousal. That can be anything as wild as creating heightened arousal and teaching them how to ramp that way up and perhaps anchoring that, up to hypnotically-induced pleasure or orgasms, or as relatively tame as reconnecting them with feelings of love and connection with their partner. So, like any other issue, it sort of depends, but it's still essentially going to be clearing any barriers and connecting them with the resources they need to increase their libido.
And of course erotic hypnosis can be used by both partners. Mark Wiseman's (a.k.a. Wiseguy) Mind Play is an excellent book for that. He has an excellent reputation, and there are some really good "vanilla" techniques and inductions/deepeners in it as well. So if one wanted to just explore that stuff with their partner, Mark's stuff would be an excellent resource. https://smile.amazon.com/Mind-Play-Guide-Erotic-Hypnosis/dp/1975987373/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1543153850
or maybe this one.
I've been in a trance like state with doing exercises in a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. They feel similar. Though when doing the drawing one speech is hardly a thing. Outside distraction can snap you out of it.
How many kinds of trances are there and how can I discover them? Google turns up music.
I think you can see the "critical factor" as your consciousness, your listening and validating what is being said all the time.
In "Thinking, Fast and Slow" Daniel Kahneman describes two ways of thinking:
- System 1: Fast, automatic, frequent, emotional, stereotypic, subconscious
- System 2: Slow, effortful, infrequent, logical, calculating, conscious
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
In a way with hypnosis you are trying to bypass system 2 to get to system 1.
Nope. It is nothing like being hypnotized.
Just pay attention to your sensations and thoughts and note them.
You can get a free pdf of the book "Mindfulness in Plain English." That'll provide you with a good start.
And you won't look like a fool because you do it when nobody's looking. Also, you can do it secretly even when people are looking. It is a mental ability.
You don't need Hypnosis. You need to develop your self-discipline. I understand exactly what you're dealing with, but the honest truth is that there is no quick once or twice fix and then you're done. You have to create triggers so that every day when you wake up, you do the thing that you have determined to be important. Even if you don't feel like it; especially if you don't feel like it. This is where discipline is key. Hypnosis can help, but no technique or person is going to help you follow through, you have to decide to do that every single day. It's a brand new battle every day and it will be that way until you die. The sooner you can truly and fully accept this fact, the sooner you realize you have to rededicate yourself every morning. Try reading Steven Pressfield's 'The War of Art'. Worth it's weight in gold.
Realistically? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hypnosis is a good place to start. Does not assume you know anything about psychology or have a background in academia.
What /u/RikiO6 said. The book is really good, thorough, and Jess Marion, Shawn Carson, and John Overdurf are all wonderful hypnotists and solid people in general. Below's the link: https://smile.amazon.com/Deep-Trance-Identification-Unconscious-Practitioners-ebook/dp/B00NYNNB38/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1508239452&sr=8-1&keywords=Deep+Trance+Identification
I've got the book, and got to take a class Jess taught on Erickson that heavily relied on DTI'ing as Milton Erickson. If you have any questions, I can tell you about my experiences. Yours may differ. For me, it was a lot like a heavily-informed pretend. To to it thoroughly you really research about the person so you can channel or create or imagine this version of the person in your mind, know how they work mentally and their drivers, even how they speak or move. You end up essentially having this pretty fully-realized version of the person living in your head, and learning to float into them to have their thoughts, abilities, and the things that let them get where they are based on their personal histories. It is not constant so much as it's like an entity there you can float into and out of. It is not all that dissimilar to pretending to be Superman as a kid, except you have his full history, intellect, mannerisms (Clark AND Kal-el), and inner-strength available to you. That is a bit of an over-simplification, however you probably get the point.
Not a file, but you might want to give this book a try - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-Mastery-Through-Conscious-Autosuggestion/dp/1406893927/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479502784&sr=8-1&keywords=emil+coue
There's a technique in NLP called the drug of choice technique. It's basically about getting a drug experience without taking the drug, and it's very effective when facilitated by a competent practitioner. Brian David Phillips also has a method called The Drinking Finger which is similar. Basically there are dozens of ways to access, amplify, associate, and apply any state that you have experienced before, or even to design new states. It's not just "theoretically possible," it's quite easy to do, given a willing subject.
Re: ADHD there is a book entitled Healing ADD : Simple Exercises That Will Change Your Daily Life which I believe uses NLP and Timeline therapy exercises (both which I call "hypnosis") to address ADHD.
All you need to achieve lucidity in the dream state is to do the exercises in this book, which you can purchase for 24 cents (plus shipping) on Amazon.
No. The main thing I used was a method called Core Transformation. It's quite a bit more involved than YouTube hypnosis videos.
Just go wild on Youtube, honestly. There's a lot of stuff. Maybe start with this one, he has good videos. That's one of the common inductions and effective on most people.
If you'd like a book, I like <em>Solution Oriented Hypnosis</em>. Very practical with a LOT of examples of inductions and hypnotic language in general
Speak Ericksonian by Richard Nongard will teach you Ericksonian hypnosis. http://www.amazon.com/Speak-Ericksonian-Mastering-Hypnotic-Erickson-ebook/dp/B00LDXU11Q/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422898329&sr=1-3&keywords=nongard&pebp=1422898331693&peasin=B00LDXU11Q
Found EXACTLY what I needed. This app, on my Galaxy tablet, combined with a bluetooth remote and I have complete control over my music and sound effects from across the stage. I installed and used it for two stage shows this weekend and I am hooked.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bestboy.soundcontrol