Intro­duc­tion: B.E.S.T. slave train­ing views the process of slave train­ing as the reed­u­ca­tion and re-socialization of the slave.

Re-socialization is defined as cre­at­ing a social unit of two, (the Mas­ter and his slave). The slave has to be taught (reed­u­cated) how she is expected to serve, obey, and please her Mas­ter. The Mas­ter estab­lishes goals for the slave to meet dur­ing train­ing. Moti­va­tion is the key ele­ment that is nec­es­sary in order for her to suc­cess­fully com­plete these goals. Moti­va­tion is con­sid­ered a prod­uct of thoughts and emo­tions (atti­tude). Dur­ing train­ing, the slave’s behav­ior, emo­tions, self-image and thoughts (B.E.S.T.) are eval­u­ated and, if nec­es­sary, changed to reflect her slav­ery. It is a mold­ing process.

Hyp­no­sis, by no means, should be con­sid­ered the pri­mary train­ing tool used in this mold­ing process. It is only one tool that a Mas­ter can employ dur­ing train­ing. In fact, I con­sider it sec­ondary to cus­tom­ary train­ing meth­ods. Listed below are exam­ples of how hyp­no­sis can be used in slave train­ing. It is NOT a com­plete list. Goals and Moti­va­tion: It is nec­es­sary that the slave accept the goals of her Mas­ter and they become impor­tant to her. If they are accepted and impor­tant she will be moti­vated to accom­plish the goals.

Hyp­no­sis can be used to:

1) Help the slave visu­al­ize the com­ple­tion of the goal.

2) Exam­ine any emo­tional resis­tance to accept­ing a goal.

3) Rein­force moti­va­tion with direct or indi­rect suggestions.

Behav­ior: Con­trol­ling a slave’s behav­ior is defined as con­trol­ling her space, time, phys­i­cal actions, pri­vacy, and rela­tion­ships with others.

Hyp­no­sis can be used to:

1) visu­al­ize each of the above listed areas then ana­lyze how she is owned or not owned by her Master.

2) Rein­force goals set for each area with direct suggestions.

3) Allow the slave to imag­ine the dis­plea­sure her Mas­ter will have if she does not put all her efforts into chang­ing her behav­ior and imag­ine how pleased he will be with her if she does change her behavior.

4) Exam­ine old habits.

Emo­tions: If the Mas­ter is suf­fi­ciently trainied in the use of hyp­no­sis, this is prob­a­bly the most use­ful area that hyp­no­sis can be used for in slave train­ing. Hyp­no­sis can be used to:

1) Exam­ine root causes of emo­tional reac­tions to training.

2) Exam­ine past trauma, through the use of tech­niques like regres­sion or parts ther­apy and offer relief.

3) Give direct sug­ges­tions to change atti­tudes. Self-Image:

Self-image is defined as the way in which we view our­selves. No Master/slave rela­tion­ship can exist (long-term) with­out the slave hav­ing a pos­i­tive self-image of her slav­ery. Self-image is a prod­uct of our emo­tions and thoughts. In order to improve self-image it is often nec­es­sary to exam­ine core beliefs and the asso­ci­ated emo­tions that relate to self-image.

Hyp­no­sis can be used to:

1) Offer encour­age­ment with direct suggestions.

2) Pic­ture pos­i­tive image of self.

3) Dis­pel neg­a­tive images.

4) Exam­ine unre­al­is­tic self-expectations that weaken self-image.

Thoughts:  Thoughts often spring from learned atti­tudes that are deep within our sub­con­scious mind. What we think about an event causes how we feel about it. Chang­ing core beliefs also changes emo­tions. Faulty think­ing can be divided into two areas. They are how the slave per­ceives a stim­uli and how she val­ues it. Either one or both may be wrong and cause the wrong emo­tion to be applied to the stimuli.

Hyp­no­sis can be used to exam­ine core beliefs and ideas about sub­jects and events that occur dur­ing train­ing, dis­pute the faulty think­ing, then offer dif­fer­ent ways of per­ceiv­ing and valu­ing it. Pho­bias, fears, stress and depres­sion: In addi­tion to the above dis­cussed ways hyp­no­sis can be used in slave train­ing, it can be used in the more clas­si­cal ways to improve the qual­ity of your slave’s life. This would include exam­in­ing the causes of pho­bias, fears, stress, headaches and depres­sion. Then the Mas­ter devel­ops meth­ods of reduc­ing them by using stan­dard hyp­no­sis tech­niques. Often “regres­sion to cause” is necessary.

Myths and Fears About Hypnosis

1. Myth of the weak mind: It’s believed by many that only weak minded or gullible peo­ple can be hyp­no­tized. Actu­ally, quite the oppo­site is true. Peo­ple that have an above aver­age intel­li­gence or an active vivid imag­i­na­tion make the best subjects.

2. Myth that you can reveal some secrets that you don’t want any­one to know: You will NOT reveal any infor­ma­tion you don’t want to. You are aware of what is going on around you and what is being said to you. Your aware­ness is actu­ally greater in hyp­no­sis than when you are awake; it is your body that is relaxed, not the mind. Because of this aware­ness you are in con­trol of what you reveal to the hypnotist.

3. Fear of look­ing fool­ish or being made to act fool­ish: This myth comes from hyp­no­tism stage shows. The peo­ple who vol­un­teer are gen­er­ally unin­hib­ited, fun lov­ing peo­ple, ready to put on a show. The hyp­no­tist knows who to look for to enhance his performance.

4. Fear of loss of con­trol: You don’t lose con­trol in hyp­no­sis. A hyp­no­tized sub­ject is always in full con­trol and aware of what is going on around them. If the per­son hears a sug­ges­tion from the hyp­no­tist that they don’t like, they reject it.

5. Fear of not reach­ing the right state of hyp­no­sis: Most peo­ple expect to reach a state of uncon­scious­ness or sleep, which is NOT true. They expect some­thing mys­te­ri­ous to hap­pen instead of nat­ural feel­ings. In most cases, you should feel com­pletely relaxed and aware of what is going on.

6. The fear of not wak­ing up:  There is NO known case of a per­son that never wakes up from hyp­no­sis. In fact, you are not asleep or uncon­scious, there­fore their is no dan­ger of not wak­ing up.

Three lev­els of Hypnosis

Hyp­no­sis level (depth) can be deter­mined by a mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ent meth­ods. Some of the meth­ods have over 20 defined lev­els. Unless you are using it for med­ical research pur­poses, you need be only con­cerned with three levels.

Level one (light): This is a great level for relax­ation. Breath­ing becomes slower. You may feel heav­i­ness or light­ness in the body and you feel less inclined to move, speak or think.

Level Two (mid­dle): This level is defined by the accep­tance of a sug­ges­tion of illu­sion. You can see some­thing that is not real or fail to see some­thing that is real. Other indi­ca­tions are a com­plete mus­cu­lar inhi­bi­tion upon sug­ges­tion and par­tial amnesia.

Level three (Deep): This level is referred to as som­nam­bu­lism. Indi­ca­tions that the sub­ject has reached som­nam­bu­lism are the abil­ity to open eyes with­out affect­ing trance, REM (rapid eye move­ment), a pro­found sen­sa­tion of light­ness or float­ing, com­plete amne­sia may occur.

Gen­eral Rules of the Mind: Below are listed gen­eral rules that apply the sub­con­scious mind.

1: Every thought, idea, or core belief causes emo­tional and phys­i­cal reac­tion. How we per­ceive and value things causes feel­ings and reac­tions. A headache can be caused by stress. Stress can be caused by how we per­ceive and value an event or action. It’s the old idea that “first we think, then we feel, then we act”. When an event hap­pens, it’s what we think about it, con­sciously or sub­con­sciously that gov­erns our feel­ings and phys­i­cal reaction.

2: When deal­ing with the sub­con­scious mind, imag­i­na­tion is more pow­er­ful than knowl­edge. This is a gen­eral state­ment, which is often use­ful. How­ever, it is not an 100 per­cent rule. Often the log­i­cal dis­pute of a faulty belief is more use­ful. How­ever, it can be use­ful in com­pos­ing suggestions.

3: Once a belief has been accepted by the sub­con­scious mind, it remains until it is replaced by dif­fer­ent one.

4: The longer a belief remains in the sub­con­scious mind, the harder it is to replace it with a new belief. This is why log­i­cal dis­pute is also help­ful in chang­ing an idea or belief. Also affect­ing this rule is how well it is sup­ported by other ideas and beliefs. Some beliefs require that you also believe in some­thing else for it to remain powerful.

5: Emo­tions can cause symp­toms (headaches, fears, upset stom­ach) and can lead to an organic change over an extended period. Willpower and Imagination:

6: Imag­i­na­tion can be directed.

7: If willpower and imag­i­na­tion are in in agree­ment, one does not just add to the other but is mul­ti­plied by the other. This is the most pow­er­ful force for change.

8: If willpower is in con­flict with imagination:

a) imag­i­na­tion is stronger.

b) if willpower grows stronger, imag­i­na­tion grows stronger as well.

Gen­eral Laws of Sug­ges­tion: (intro­duced by Charles Bau­doin in 1921) I will call them laws because that is what they are com­monly called, how­ever the first three have many excep­tions to the rules.

They are more like gen­eral go-bys.

1: The law of con­cen­trated atten­tion: When a person’s atten­tion is con­cen­trated on an idea, that idea tends to be expressed phys­i­cally or mentally.

2: The law of reverse effect: When a per­son thinks he can­not do some­thing and then tries, the harder he tries, the less able he is to do it.

3: The law of aux­il­iary emo­tions: Attach­ing a strong emo­tion to a sug­ges­tion will make the sug­ges­tion more effec­tive and will dom­i­nate other sug­ges­tions in the mind. Three addi­tional Laws of sug­ges­tions, pro­posed by Andre’ M Weitzenhoffer.

4: The law of tem­po­ral prece­dence: All things being equal, the sug­ges­tion given first will have prece­dence over the other suggestions.

5: The law of impres­sion­able prece­dence: All things being equal, the sug­ges­tion being impressed the most has precedence.

6: The law of depth prece­dence: All things being equal, the sug­ges­tion given in the great­est depth of hyp­no­sis (hyp­notic sug­gestibil­ity) will have prece­dence over the oth­ers. Other Gen­eral laws of Suggestions:

7: The law of accep­tance: Each sug­ges­tion that is accepted and com­pleted tends to reduce oppo­si­tion to any suc­ces­sive suggestions.

8: The law of expectancy:

1) If the sub­jects expects that in hyp­no­sis, he will accept sug­ges­tions and change atti­tudes, it tends to hap­pen more easily.

2) Also, if one expects to be hyp­no­tized and allows them­selves to be hyp­no­tized they will be hypnotized.

Hyp­no­sis, Sub-Space, and the Sub­mis­sive Soul

by Clanbear’s becca

In this arti­cle I will not be going over the tech­ni­cal ways in which to use hyp­no­sis on a sub­mis­sive or even how to drop a sub­mis­sive into sub­space. Cuff­s­mas­ter has already cov­ered these things quite capa­bly. What I will be talk­ing about are the effects these things have upon the sub­mis­sive mind from the per­spec­tive of I.E. and spir­i­tu­al­ity. As a Cer­ti­fied Tarot Con­sul­tant, an Eclec­tic Pagan, and a sub­mis­sive female in an I.E. rela­tion­ship, sep­a­rat­ing the effects on the mind from the mental/psychological and the spir­i­tual are quite frankly impos­si­ble. I know for some this may negate my under­stand­ing. But, I thank Cuff­s­mas­ter for request­ing that I write this article.

First, imag­ine if you will, that you are in a relaxed frame of mind. Float­ing within your self and with­out at the same time. A voice out­side of your­self is speak­ing to you and you know it is that of the Dom­i­nant with whom you are scen­ing, but the mind begins to won­der if it truly is or if it is the voice in your own head say­ing let go and give con­trol over to me. You begin to sense an energy surge as this voice grows louder that makes your entire body tin­gle with the words of the voice. That tin­gle begins to vibrate within you mov­ing slowly through your body. You open your eyes and in a hazy state you see what appears to be a faint light con­nect­ing you to the per­son who owns the voice. As he speaks you feel and see the light rotat­ing between the two of you. Real­iz­ing it is your energy stream join­ing with his you begin to change your breath­ing pat­terns in hopes of retain­ing your con­trol on your own energy. But, the power of the voice is to strong. It pulls you back under blend­ing the two energy streams together and push­ing them through your body from feet to head and back into the head of the Dom­i­nant and through his feet. This rota­tion con­nects you in such a way that he doesn’t have to touch you for your body to feel his touch. He doesn’t have to do any­thing but speak. The more inter­twined the two energy streams become the less you can tell who is con­trol­ling who. With­out that abil­ity to deci­pher the truth your mind stops resist­ing the pull toward con­trol of self and moves more toward the need to have such a deep and abid­ing con­nec­tion with another. You find your­self doing as the voice says not ques­tion­ing why until the order is some­thing that pushes the edge of what you might let your­self do if you were in con­trol. You attempt to wake your­self up enough to say no. But, you can’t find your voice it no longer is your own to speak with. Your body con­tin­ues what it was told and you find that you don’t mind so much. The fear of the unknown has been absorbed by the cycling energy and all is well within your­self. You find safety that in this type of con­nec­tion. The only way the Dom­i­nant could cause you true harm would be to harm him­self. Know­ing that human nature wont allow for such a sit­u­a­tion you relax back into your ser­vice fol­low­ing orders and mov­ing about in a some­what clouded state of bliss.

Even­tu­ally the actions of the Dom­i­nant in cor­re­spon­dence with the actions of your own body lead to a crescendo that opens the mind and allows one to feel as though per­haps they are fly­ing, or the view­ing of a place one has never been or the under­stand­ing of some­thing the sub­mis­sive has been try­ing to under­stand for some time. With the new visions and answers at hand the scene begins to wind down and she finds the voice speak­ing to her in a fash­ion that starts peel­ing away the lay­ers of that foggy bliss until she finds her­self fully in con­trol once more, feel­ing com­pletely con­nected to the one who owns her as well as hav­ing in her grasp the knowl­edge that she found.

This is a demon­stra­tion of the effects of what in essence could be called hyp­no­sis within a scene. And though Hyp­notic tech­niques are used it would not qual­ify as hyp­no­sis. The cir­cu­la­tion of energy that is seen in this sce­nario is not a part of hyp­no­sis. Hyp­no­sis sep­a­rates the Dom­i­nate and sub­mis­sive putting them in their sep­a­rate places as two beings one con­trol­ling the other. The above was the access­ing of sub-space through hyp­notic tech­niques. So what sep­a­rates sub –space from the hyp­notic state; the exchange of energy between the sub­mis­sive and the Dom­i­nant. And though the same effect of visions and con­trol can hap­pen in a hyp­notic state the con­nec­tion of two minds and two souls becom­ing one inter­twined entity in two bod­ies can­not. For that, one needs to reach into sub-space through an exchange of per­sonal energy.

This exchange can be accom­plished with­out the vocal meth­ods of Hyp­no­sis. Those meth­ods are most com­monly the induc­ing of pain upon the sub­mis­sive and extended peri­ods of bondage. I can­not speak upon these meth­ods with any great author­ity. My Mas­ter has found that extended peri­ods of bondage are not con­gru­ent with my phys­i­cal health as I have arthri­tis. Though I do enjoy the inflic­tion of pain it tends to make me more con­nected to my body than less con­nected. The few times have been able to change the state of my mind through pain it wasn’t to reach sub-space but a com­plete shut down of my acknowl­edg­ment of what was going on. Basi­cally I hid within my own mind from the pain. In essence that is the exact oppo­site of the effect a Dom­i­nant wishes to have upon his sub­mis­sive. So all scen­ing for us con­sists of at least a few moments in time being used to help me reach the upper lev­els of sub-space through ver­bal stimulation.

By doing so phys­i­cal bondage is no longer nec­es­sary If I’m told that I am bound to the bed then I believe I am bound to the bed. Word­ing here is impor­tant though. Just telling me not to move wouldn’t work. I would have to move just because I was told not to. I know, not very sub­mis­sive, but the urge for me to move becomes unde­ni­able much like telling a child they can­not use the vac­uum. The more they are told no, the more they want to do just that. So for me the words “your arms are now tied above your head or to the head­board” are very impor­tant. From there pain can be inflicted or I can be left on my own for short peri­ods of time to pon­der my fate. It is impor­tant to note that men­tal bondage needs a steady stream of atten­tion in order not to come out of that state of mind that allows one to believe one is bound.

Pro­ceed­ing with the flog­ging in this state one can allow one’s self to con­tinue the slip into the sub-space instead of run­ning from the pain that is being inflicted. But, ulti­mately the best method for encour­ag­ing the con­nec­tion between the Mas­ter and his slave in order to cre­ate the one mind, one soul in two bod­ies would be the first method. It isn’t nec­es­sary to do it every day. An act as sim­ple as a kiss can help to bal­ance the streams and keep them con­nected even after a long day of work­ing or deal­ing with chil­dren. But, it is impor­tant that the Dom­i­nant be able to rec­og­nize signs of indi­vid­u­al­iz­ing the energy so that when stresses of every­day life do begin to wear away at the con­nec­tion it can be regained quickly with­out any true separation.

This would require some seri­ous energy work and for any­one inter­ested in this type of con­nec­tion I would rec­om­mend they read Don­ald Michael, Kraig’s Mod­ern Mag­ick and Mod­ern Sex Mag­ick. In doing so, you will learn tech­niques for cir­cling energy. But, sim­i­lar tech­niques can be found within the East­ern Tantric tra­di­tions and in the group energy works of the Wic­can faith. With a lit­tle study and a prac­tice the Dom­i­nant and sub­mis­sive reach­ing for the I. E. rela­tion­ship can develop the skills that allow for a close­ness of being that some submissive’s need.

For me keep­ing our life posi­tions sep­a­rate just makes for a ravine to cross when the time comes to par­tic­i­pate with each other. The closer I feel to the Dom­i­nant the eas­ier it is to let go. The old issue of equal­ity among the sexes should not be an issue. One can­not truly com­pare apples and oranges. Based upon the same idea one can­not com­pare Dom­i­nants and sub­mis­sives. If the ulti­mate goal is the giv­ing over of con­trol of one per­son to another then that con­trol of energy needs to hap­pen with­out the dis­turb­ing the integrity of the tal­ents and ego of the sub­mis­sive. The best way in which to do this that I have found is to allow the sub­mis­sive to live within the dom­i­nant in a spir­i­tual sense. The way to accom­plish this is through the energy exchange that takes two ener­gies and makes them one. No one energy less than the other just the direc­tion of that energy con­trolled by one so the fight and strug­gle of which path is cor­rect isn’t com­pli­cated by two voices.

I wish you luck upon your jour­ney through this form of devel­op­ment and may the God­dess hold her lantern high­light­ing the path you fol­low clearly so that you may see where your choices take you.