The Beginning.
Standing there next to her at the bookstore, watching her move still turned him on although they had been together for almost ten years now. She is 5'3" tall with long, curly, auburn hair and a body with all of the right curves. Some would look at her and think she was a bit on the heavy side but I knew better. Under the loose fitting clothes was a wonderfully built, trim, athletic body of 125 pounds.
She handed me a book with "hypnosis" in the title and I wasn't particularly interested, but I started reading the back and caught the phrase "hypnotize your friends and family". Now that sounded interesting. I could hypnotize my wife. "I wonder what that would be like" I thought as I put the book back on the shelf.
Ten minutes later, we decided it was time to go. I hadn't thought too much about the book until Cathy asked if I was going to get the book on hypnosis.
"Sure," I replied as I headed back towards the shelf that housed the book.
We paid for our treasures and headed towards home.
Two weeks later, I finally got around to reading the book on hypnosis after a couple of the fiction titles that I picked up at the same time. It was interesting reading, especially the section on sexual disorders (i.e. impotency and frigidity). Reading through those sections made me wonder if I could help improve Cathy's libido a bit.
Cathy was always great when it came to sex, it was just that over the last 4 or 5 years with her career and our children, sex seemed to slip down the list quite a ways. In my opinion, it slipped down to the bottom of the list and was nowhere near as uninhibited as it had been the first couple of years of our marriage.
After having my interest piqued by that book, I decided to do some research online about hypnosis, its uses and if I could really learn how to do it.
After what seemed like hours of searching (most of it at work, under cover hoping that I wouldn't get caught online) I thought that I had read enough about it to maybe give it a try. So, the next question was with whom do I practice? Would Cathy let me practice on her?
Finally, a couple of days later I asked, "Cathy, you know that book I read about hypnosis?"
She responded in a somewhat nonchalant manner.
"Would you be interested in being hypnotized?" I asked.
She again responded nonchalantly, but positively. So, we set a time when the kid's wouldn't be interrupting us and decided that we would just work on relaxation to see if it really would work.
"Close your eyes and relax" I started, "feel yourself sink deeper and deeper into the bed, feel yourself becoming more and more relaxed" I read from the script I had downloaded off of the internet. "Know that you have nowhere else to be, nothing else to do, with no one wanting anything from you right now."
She laughed, how could she laugh?
"I'm sorry," she said apologetically "but I don't feel like no one wants anything from me, you want me to relax don't you?"
Well she had me there, but what a shot to the ego. I thought I had read and rehearsed enough that something like this wouldn't happen.
Back to the drawing board, I schemed.
I dug even deeper, read even more, bought videos of others being hypnotized and eventually found someone I could practice on that expected to go into trance so my confidence grew slowly, it continued to build up.
Then I came across a certification program. It wasn't very expensive and I could do it online and over the phone so I enrolled in it. I continued to learn more and more and my confidence grew even more as I got positive feedback from the instructor.
After about 6 months, I felt confident to try again and this time I wouldn't fail.
"Close your eyes and relax, breathe in relaxing feelings and breathe out all the stress and strain of the day. Now relax your eyes so much that you know they are too relaxed to open and when you know they are that relaxed, test them to make sure they just won't open" I began.
It was such a simple induction and took far less time than some of the progressive relaxation inductions and seemed to work well on the other people I had hypnotized.
"Very good, now take that relaxation to the top of your head and send it down to the tips of your toes, feel the muscles relax all the way down."
She tested her eyes, they hadn't opened and I could see her starting to relax, this was working and I knew it would only be a matter of time before she was deep into trance.
"Relax your eyes even further and again test them, very good, now send that deeper relaxation down your body, feel the sensations of relaxation as the muscles relax even further."
Her body and face looked even more relaxed and her breathing was becoming shallower, almost there, but I am taking no chances.
"I want you to imagine yourself at the top of a beautiful staircase with 10 stairs. I am going to start counting down from 10 to 1 and when I reach one, I want you to imagine yourself sinking into the softest bed you have ever been in with the most comfortable pillow and down comforter, can you do this?"
"Yes" she replied sleepily.
I am getting so close now, I am starting to get a bit aroused just thinking of the fun soon to follow.
"10 stepping down on the 1
st
step, going deeper into trance, 9 becoming more and more relaxed, 8 sinking deeper down with every step you take, 7 deeper and deeper into trance, 6 more relaxed, more comfortable, 5 further down into trance with every step down the staircase, 4 deeper and deeper, 3 more and more relaxed, 2 deeper into trance and 1 sinking into that soft comfortable bed, feeling the weight of the comforter on your body."
She sure looked like she was in a trance, shallow breathing, eyes moving behind the eyelids. Maybe I should test her? My confidence was still a bit shaky with her because you just never know. Is she just playing along or is she really in a trance? I know, I'll test by using fractionization.
"Cathy, at the count of 3, not before, you will open your eyes and look at me. When you hear me say the words "Good night Gracie", you will go back into a trance, deeper than before, do you understand me?"
A slight nod accompanied with a quiet "Yes" let me know that she was ready to give it a try.
"1, 2, 3"
She looked at me, and not before the count of 3, this must be working. I gave her the code phrase and down she went. I tried again, but this time I paused after the number 2 waiting to see if she was anticipating the 3, but nope, she just waited and after I said 3 she looked at me again.
This is so cool, I must be doing the right things, but I'll have to test just one more time. This time I paused after the 1 and hurried through the 2 and 3 and she did exactly as told. She sure must be in somnambulism!
I did it, now on to the 1
st
part of the plan.
I thought I would start out easy and work my way towards the fantasy that I'd had in my head almost from the day I finished that 1
st
book.
"Cathy, I want you to remember when we were 1
st
starting to date and how easy it was to get you sexually excited, can you remember that?"
"Uh-huh" was the reply.