"Before we begin, I'd like to describe the goals we're going to be working to achieve with today's session. If these goals don't interest you, or if you don't feel safe and comfortable with them, you can simply make the choice to stop listening and find a different experience to enjoy. You are always in control of your trance state, and any suggestions you hear will only apply if you feel safe and comfortable accepting them.
"The goal of today's trance is to train you to limit your own intelligence, reducing both the speed and complexity of your thought process. This is not tied to any humiliation or degradation regarding your simplified mental state; although there is often a societal bias against people with slow or simple minds, you do not need to take on any of that stigma unless it's something you enjoy. There are no specific hypnotic triggers I'm asking you to accept--we're going to teach your mind to recognize situations that are invitations to limit your intellect, and to enjoy those experiences when they occur. This is more flexible and open-ended than a trigger, and may result in you having difficulties thinking unexpectedly... although, again, only when it is safe and comfortable for you to do so.
"Although there are points in this session where you may be encouraged to pay less conscious attention to the hypnotist, there are no direct amnesia suggestions incorporated into this session, and no suggestions or triggers that are intended to be forgotten after the session is over. Even so, spontaneous amnesia does happen to some people during hypnosis, so you may find yourself experiencing difficulty recalling details of the trance experience. If you enjoy forgetting your trances, your mind is going to work to make that happen. You have permission to remember or to forget as much of this session as you want--again, within the boundaries of what is safe and comfortable for you.
"This session contains permissive language directing you to disrobe and touch yourself. If you believe you will have difficulty resisting these instructions, please wait until you have some privacy to begin. If you do not feel safe or comfortable following any of the described suggestions or instructions, this would be a good place for you to stop. Otherwise, please get comfortable for me so that we can begin.
"Now that you're comfortable, we can begin with a nice simple induction. That's what we're here for, after all; we want to make your mind nice and small and simple, and so we'll begin with something that even the smallest mind can handle. Let's picture the two of us together inside an elevator, one of those big freight elevators that can hold lots of boxes and carts and people. Because your brain is in a waking state right now, that elevator probably feels a little bit crowded with thoughts, but you can picture me pushing the button to close the doors so that nothing can get in, and then we can begin to descend. We'll go down ten floors together, and at the bottom it'll feel much more comfortable.
"And as we begin to descend, you can picture that number changing from ten down to nine, and already you're beginning to feel a little more relaxed as you find yourself letting go of some of those thoughts you were carrying along with you. Perhaps you can imagine us stopping on that floor, going just a little bit deeper down and letting some of those thoughts out. Giving you more space to feel relaxed and comfortable. The doors don't open quite as wide as they did on the floor above, so the thoughts that flow into your mind when you're deeper down like this are smaller and less complex. All the big ideas you had are gone now, and the ones that remain are a little bit simpler, a little bit slower to wriggle their way into your head.
"And when the doors close again, your eyes go back up to the number as it drops from nine to eight, sinking a little deeper down, stopping again to let those thoughts release themselves from your mind again to leave it a little bit more empty, a little bit more open. And once again, you see that the gap between the doors is a little bit smaller, a little bit narrower, and the thoughts that try to crowd their way back into your relaxed and peaceful mind are simply too big to fit. The deeper down you go, the smaller and simpler those thoughts have to be to squeeze through the gap and the longer it takes them to get inside. That makes it more comfortable in here, doesn't it? Of course it does. It's so nice to have more room to stretch out and relax.