Hypnosis is not a panacaea. You tend to get out of it what you put into it, and being a subject (technical term for someone who goes into trance) is also a skill to be learned. Trance is a pleasant state, and it makes you more suggestible (and makes it easier to forge connections in your mind), but it does depend, to some degree, on what you want to get out of it. If you go into trance believing that it’s a load of nonsense, chances are good that the suggestions will just wash over your mind, get marked as “nonsense”, and discarded by your subconscious. If you fight the induction, you’ll never even make it into trance. And if a file tries to make you do something you wouldn’t be comfortable doing, your subconscious tends to reject the suggestion outright.
HypnoStory (who teaches courses at hypnosis conventions) put out a file recently, which is mostly safe for work (but I’m still going to bracket it here) that goes over some basics. Nothing sexual, just an explanation of how trance works, a deep trance, some safety tools, and some advice as to how to get the most out of hypnosis:
Another great introduction to these concepts is “Mind Play” by Mark Wiseman, which I have just started reading.
But you can take it for someone who’s been doing this for about a year, on both sides of the pocketwatch, as it were. This stuff works. I have submissives who have handed me documents they don’t remember writing and who will slap themselves in the face on command. I listened to a file the other day that makes you forget other relationships, and I still can’t put a name to the face of this one ex I used to be a little obsessed with (and I’m honestly quite happy about that). And trance state is a distinct mental state with some very interesting properties, as confirmed by various fMRI imaging studies.
But it’s certainly not for everyone.
Also, the file has been released on my Tumblr for anyone who would like to hear the finished version (SUPER NSFW!):
Any feedback or critique would be super welcome. 
