Mitigating The Effects Of Mercury Retrogrades Options

It's some time after the end of Mercury's Retrograde, and I feel like I just put back together everything that fell apart, when someone says there are two more this year. The first retrograde seems to have shaved off 20 points from my IQ. Mercury rules my birth sign so I get hit rather hard. Mercury Retrogrades seems to be times where the mind misses things. What it misses relates to the sign its in at the time, they also bring things from the past back or just sends whatever you’re trying to do back to where it started.

Assuming others have had some trouble from Mercury in the past, what ways did you uses to counter these effects?

Planetary magick is a little out of my realm so I'm not even sure what kind of magick could counter its effects.


This post has been edited by fatherjhon: Apr 25 2013, 02:16 PM

Now if only I could find an excellent experimental hypnotherapist near me. I get along fine on my own, but I'm having to work very hard to condition myself to go under using audio recordings.

I've been having this same problem. May I ask how you've been getting around it? At the moment I'm thinking of altering the sound of my voice in the recordings, because that might change my perception of who the hypnotist is. What's been helpful to me is just using brainwave entrainment for a good while before the script begins, as that often puts me under without even using an induction. I think that the big problem is knowing what's in the script, as that leads to anticipation of what's going to be said.

(Sorry this is a bit off topic)

This post has been edited by Green Lantern: May 10 2013, 03:08 AM

I've been having this same problem. May I ask how you've been getting around it? At the moment I'm thinking of altering the sound of my voice in the recordings, because that might change my perception of who the hypnotist is. What's been helpful to me is just using brainwave entrainment for a good while before the script begins, as that often puts me under without even using an induction. I think that the big problem is knowing what's in the script, as that leads to anticipation of what's going to be said.

(Sorry this is a bit off topic)

The key to it is repetition. I made a track that includes a primer, and induction, a post hypnotic suggestion to re-hypnosis, and then about ten minutes of reactional conditioning to reinforce the suggestion. I listen to it every couple of days around the same time. At this point I can put myself deep enough that I experience significant time dilation and about 75% amnesia which is indicative of third stage somnambulism.

Other things that are helpful are to lead yourself into counting yourself down and up. So when you begin the count down, tell yourself, record the instructions that is, to count down out loud with you, including the trigger for rehypnosis, which for me is simply 'deep sleep'. It can be anything hypothetically, but ideally should be associated with going into hypnosis in some way. Then give yourself instructions to count yourself out as well.

This makes you more comfortable listening to your own suggestions because you're conditioning yourself to become suggestible to yourself. After a couple of weeks of solid, regular conditioning, you can create just about any hypnosis track you want, but of course the limitation inherent in it is that you can't ask yourself for feedback and navigate based on what you are experiencing. So, I put very little space in my recordings and always give myself the suggestion during quiet periods where something is intended to be accomplished that I can experience as much time as I need to in the next three minutes, five minutes, etc., to accomplish whatever task. You have to be pretty deep for it to work effectively, but when you tell yourself that you have this much time to take as much time as you need, at the right depth you'll experience all the time you need regardless of what time frame you actually have. Time dilation is a sign of second and third stage somnambulism, so you should have already conditioned yourself to get there.

Counting yourself out also allows you to take some control from within the experience if necessary. If a client goes into an emotional fit during hypnotherapy, I can always count them out if it looks like they are under too much stress so that we can go back in under safer conditions. Working on yourself, there's the possibility of actually encountering those rough patches but not being able to really identify that it is happening and come out of it. It's not that you can get stuck, and you can wake yourself up anytime just by not wanting to be in it anymore, but that will make it difficult to reach that depth again later on. So the best is to give yourself a kind of 'exit door' if you will, and this keeps everything nice and tidy upstairs.

peace