Tips on Triggers

This was first written as a Tumblr post, but I think it's an alright, brief explanation of how I view trigger installation. Half horny, half instructional.

Bro, if you wanna learn a trigger it's eeeeasy. You've just gotta Pavlov yourself...

The trick is that at first, every trigger requires you to play into it a little bit. People don't want to admit that sometimes because it seems unsexy, but it's true. So the first time you listen to a file, say one that's meant to make you FLEX when you hear FLEX, you're going to need to make yourself do it when the hypnotist says it.

You might need to pay attention, listen closely, to make sure you don't miss any instance of it. It won't feel very robotic, but you'll still enjoy the obedience aspect of it if you're a fan of that.

Either way, by the time the file finishes, you'll have responded to that trigger maaaybe 50 or 60 times.

So you listen again a day or two later.

And again.

And again.

And eventually, a listen will come where you're paying a liiiittle bit less attention, and you'll notice that you still performed the trigger action... without having actually heard the word.

Or at least, consciously hearing the word.

When this happens, you'll second-guess yourself. Every subject does. You'll wonder if maybe you are mistaken and you were still listening closely and making yourself do it. You don't believe it happened just like that, without your conscious choice to obey. So you come back and listen again, to be safe, to check if it was a fluke, aaaand... the cycle repeats.

So what's actually happened here? Basically, with enough conscious response to a trigger phrase, you've conditioned your subconscious to perform that action for you by force of habit alone. Conditioning yourself, like Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to the sound of that bell. Giving the correct response automatically and without thought so that when you hear FLEX, your muscles FLEX in response, a 1-1 relationship, a simple input-output process...

And no matter what the trigger is, this same process can apply.

• 1. You begin by acting as if it's real, doing what you want the end result to be in response to the trigger.

• 2. There's a transition period here where, as the trigger becomes more automatic, you tug-of-war with yourself about whether it's really happening without conscious involvement or not. Progress can be up-and-down here depending on how in your head you get about it. Stay the course. Feed into it actively when you need to, let it happen organically when you can.

• 3. Eventually, the trigger will become powerful enough that you have no choice but to give in and recognize that yes, you have conditioned yourself to helplessness against that trigger you were so desperate to experience.

And the more triggers you pick up, the quicker you'll pick up the next ones... because your brain will get the message that you want it to take care of some shit automatically for you bro, and there's nothing wrong with that. It will take a different amount of time for different people, and for different triggers, but this rough process is always where I would recommend a sub start.

It just makes everything easier when you get your conscious mind outta the way.