I think I need advice, or guidance or tips or something. After the longest time of being almost certain that hypnosis could never work on me because I have trouble diverting my attention away from the speaker (more so when there are instructions that are harder to follow, or take me out of relaxing, like being told to breathe in while in the middle of comfortably breathing out), but I think I finally did it tonight. I was listening to the file, about a third of the way in and just sorta drifted a bit, thinking about whatever, and suddenly it was over. I was confused and surprised, thought I had somehow accidentally bumped my laptop and skipped to the end. I don't think I just fell asleep, didn't really feel like it.
Anyways, I kept trying. It was sorta alright the next time, but I didn't phase out until near the end, then tried again and couldn't at all. It got harder to "unfocus" again and all I could think was that I was giving myself a headache because I couldn't relax properly, couldn't find a comfortable way to lie back anymore, etc, and it just got worse.
My question for the people who do this regularly, now that I'm convinced (or at least persuaded) that this isn't just a big hoax with a bunch of people trying to trick themselves into thinking they lost control, how do you do it? For my whole life I've always been thinking, about this and that, it almost never stops and drives me nuts sometimes, I just want to take a break and let someone else think for me for a while.
I need advice on stuff like how often you can do it, preparations, when to try it, etc because now I think this has the potential to be more than just a passing experiment every now and then.
tl;dr
New to this, finally made a breakthrough, having trouble following through.